It appears in only one frame of a strip of photos taken with a state-of-the-art Canon SLR digital camera with a super wide angle lens, Clontz said.
“I took dozens of pictures, but I can’t remember seeing anything like this face while I was taking them,” the 20-year-old freelancer told me exclusively.
”It just appeared in the picture group on the memory card in the camera. It’s the evilest face I’ve ever seen. The eyes and mouth glow with a strange and eerie light – like depictions of the fires of hell you see in the Bible.”
The photograph has already spread like wildfire over the Internet, and Christian true believers are hailing it as proof positive that the devil exists – and that it is he who causes all of the world’s disasters, including natural calamities such as Tropical Storm Fay – which has criss-crossed the Florida peninsula, wreaking havoc, three times with no letup in sight.
Clontz’s startling portrait of Satan was taken at about 1:30 a.m. on August 21 as huddled in a doorway of a sheriff’s sub-station near tiny Keystone Heights snapping pictures of the slow-moving storm.
He says he remembers that the wind strengthened for several minutes as he pointed his lens at the sky and pushed the camera’s shutter-button repeatedly in an attempt “to get a really good shot of the dark clouds.“
“The storm had been easing a little when all of a sudden there was a crack of tree falling and lightning in the sky and the wind seemed to go crazy,” recalled Clontz.
“I saw something else, too. I’m not sure, but it looked like a small tornado swirling around that never formed completely.
“I remember feeling sick to my stomach, and afraid – but of what, I don’t know. I do know that a little voice in my head said, ‘Get the hell out of here!‘
“And I did.
“Later, when I found the photo of Satan among the 35 exposures on my memory card, I knew instantly that it wasn’t some quirk of the lens. I knew I had recorded the image of an evil that lurks behind every bad thing that happens in the world. I realized I’d captured a picture of the Devil.”
The snarling, fiendish face of the devil can clearly be seen in the boiling clouds of the storm over wind-whipped Keystone Heights, Florida.
Ian obviously does not know his meterology ! This is a picture of a single THUNDERSTORM cloud not Tropical Storm Faye ! It is remotely possible that this cloud was associated with Faye,but if I had to guess this picture was likely taken somewhere in the midwest,not Florida nor anywhere else in hurricane alley.This is photographic journalism as bad as my spelling ! But then again I suppose it is fine for a laugh.
that waz so funny ,um you sure got it wrong..
Hillarious. Looks suspiciously like Tim Curry in a lot of makeup in the blockbuster flop “Legend”. (Way to get all the Bible thumpers all spun up!)
That picture of the supposed Satan is from a movie named, “Legend”, starring Tom Cruise. Not sure of the year it was made, but if you’ve ever seen the movie, you’ll know its the bad guy or Devil from the movie. Nice photoshopping though, lol.