Thousands of people have flocked to a small village in northern Malaysia to look at what appears to be a human face that formed in a frond of a betel nut tree. Village elders believe that the face is a ghost and have urged villagers and sightseers not to talk to it, lest they anger the spirit.

Skeptics believe that enterprising locals have manipulated the pictures to make the form scary enough to draw more tourists to their otherwise obscure village.