Stunned locals have photographed an eerie face after it appeared on the cliffs of a Cornish beauty spot.
Louise Coe, from Truro in Cornwall, was hiking along the coastal path beside the Bedruthan Steps - which is near Padstow and Newquay - with her husband this morning when the couple spotted something strange in the stone.
The couple - who used to regularly walk the route - say they haven't been back for a year, partly due to recent landslides, Cornwall Live reports.
Mr Coe stopped his wife mid-walk on Sunday morning before pointing to the cliff, which appeared to have an eerie human visage etched into the cliff face.
Set into the rocks, as if someone had carved it by hand, the face which looks startlingly real. Mrs Coe said she thinks it was created by one of the landslides in an incredible natural occurrence.
She said: “We’ve gone there so many times before but never noticed. It’s quite different, looks like a recent landslide formed it - but it looks man-made.
"Obviously it can’t be, though, we haven’t heard anything because of where it is. We’ve lived here for many years and are National Trust members so go there quite often.”
She said it was a brilliant sight and one she didn’t expect on their walk. The pair snapped a few pictures as evidence and hope people won't think that it's a manipulated image.
Bedruthan Steps, just a few miles north of Mawgan Porth, started to become treacherous in December 2019, when a huge rockfall destabilised the cliff face.
Another large landslide happened on the afternoon of New Year’s Day 2021.
Cordons have been set up in the area, warning people to not approach some parts of the coast path.
Erosion and the risk of future landslides has rendered large parts of it a huge risk to human life.
Mrs Coe said signs remain up warning people of the dangers.
