Crowds flock to see human-like face on tree in Malaysian village: reports (no picture :(

Associated Press ^ | 09/12/06

[presidio9]

Scores of people are flocking to a village in northern Malaysia to see a betel nut tree which has sprouted a human-like face, reports said Tuesday.

Newspapers carried pictures of the green face on a frond of a seven-metre-high tree. The unexplained phenomenon has led villagers in Kampung Paya to dub it the "ghost tree," the News Straits Times reported.

The Star newspaper's website showed a picture of a tree with a face-like feature reminiscent of a Pacific island ritual mask.

Owner Miah Majid, 60, told the newspaper that she spotted the face last week and that it was the second time an unusual shape had appeared on the 10-year-old tree in her backyard. The first formation was in the shape of an eye, she said.

The frond will probably last another two weeks before it sheds, she added.

Superstitious village elders have advised onlookers not to make any comments when they pass the tree, reports said. Other enterprising villagers are selling photographs of the face for the equivalent of about 60 cents in Canadian money.

[presidio9]

This is a different tree face that I found on Google.

[shankbear]

Is it the 12th treemam?

[weegee]

Nothing to see here, move along.

It's just Al Gore...

[CougarGA7]

Found a picture.

[southern rock]

The unexplained phenomenon has led villagers in Kampung Paya to dub it the "ghost tree,"

Reason # 5892 I thank God I wasn't born in a 3rd world country.

[Lekker 1]

Helen Thomas photo posting countdown...starting NOW

[Catholic Canadian]

That bastard is starting to get fat and looks like Michael Moore now.

[presidio9]

[dighton]

[theDentist]

That's some bark, eh?

[pgyanke]

[Bean Counter]

Does this mean that the Ent Wives have finally been found??

[Lekker 1]

That's some bark, eh?

LOL....now if she would just make like a tree...and leave (rim shot)

[weegee]

And to Hell it can go!

[GOP_Party_Animal]

This is it, actually:

[ElkGroveDan]

This is the real one. I went to a Malaysian newspaper.

[M. Thatcher]

here you go, from here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/dmstandard/article.html?in_article_id=40483 0&in_page_id=1766 http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2006/09/ghosttreeAP120906_470x538.jpg

[presidio9]

[CougarGA7]

[Lil'freeper]

Teeheee.

(I sure hope ol' Albert runs again... that was sure fun.)