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Headless security guard: Find the secret to this viral image that is baffling netizens

On social media, a disturbing image of an Indian security officer sitting in front of a shuttered store with no head is going viral. People are perplexed by a security guard in a photograph. Why? It demonstrates how the photograph's angle transformed an uninteresting scene into an intriguing optical illusion.

The description for the image that was posted on Reddit reads, "This sitting man." The guard can be seen in the photo sitting on a chair in front of what looks to be a closed shop. The image is intriguing since it seems as though the figure has no head. The image is an optical illusion, it turned out. More than 13,000 people voted it up, and there were a ton of comments. Some people were shocked, while others found it intriguing.

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