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A single home by the ocean fascinatingly survived the Maui wildfires – just like
a church in the same devastated historic town.

A two-story white house with a red roof appeared untouched and gleaming while
surrounded by scorched black terrain with homes burned to the ground and trees
stripped down to their skeletons.

Only some grass and shrubs around the red-roofed home were also spared.

Social media users have nicknamed the structure ‘The Red House That Survived
Hawaii Wild Fires’.

The house survived in the same manner that the Maria Lanakila Catholic Church,
also in Lahaina, stood unscathed by the wildfire that has so far killed 106
residents. Only five people had been identified as of Wednesday, as officials
said many of the remains were burned beyond recognition.

Aerial footage of Lahaina recorded by KITV showed the red-roofed house as a
bright spot, while blocks as far as the frame covered were completely burned
down.

A few other homes and structures and a large building that appeared to be a
hotel were also spared in other parts of the city. Some of them stood together
in sections that the deadly flames did not reach.




It was not immediately known why the red-roofed home and the church were
unharmed while the inferno wiped out nearly everything around them.





Pattie Tamura, whose family owns one of the only homes still intact in Lahaina,
said she believes their house survived due to its concrete walls that do not
catch on fire.

Tamura’s grandfather built the home using cement to help it withstand bugs and
dry rot.

‘I’m sure it survived because of his knowledge and his construction skills,’
Tamura told the San Francisco Chronicle on Monday.

Among the casualties was Maui’s famous banyan tree, which was the largest of its
species in the US. The massive tree that served as a symbol for the ancient
Hawaiian capital was mercilessly blackened by the flames.

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A few years ago, I went to Arches National Park. It’s surprisingly compact, and
readily accessible by car from the nearby resort town of Moab, Utah. It’s also
spectacular, with marvelous vistas and extraordinary rock formations that seem
almost magical in their size and shape.

But these visitors found something much stranger during their stay.





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In this video, a tourist to Arches National Park wonders if she caught something
far more unusual than a majestic and physics-defying rock formation. She shares
an early morning photo she took at one of the arches, in which a mysterious
figure seems to have appeared right behind her.



In the close up view, the figure appears to have two bulbous, coppery heads, and
a single pair of legs, with fearful ragged arms and no other notable features.
It is, as first glance, very scary.

But what is it?

In the comments, people question everything about this photo. She says she was
there very early, but the lack of shadows make it seem more like midday. And, as
a visitor to this park myself, I can say that there are tons of people out
there, even at sunrise, because it is the desert, and people like to come early,
before it gets hot. The chance that she got a picture with no one else around
is….unlikely.

It is, most likely, a blurred image of another hiker, which accounts for the
lack of features, extra limbs, and general weirdness of the photo. Another
possibility, based on how very small this “figure” is is that it’s not another
hiker at all, but rather, a smudge or imperfection on the camera lens. Our
brains like to see figures where none exist, to call things “heads” and “arms”
and “legs” when it’s nothing more than a bit or dirt or a bug on a lens, or a
blurry corner of a sunglass strap. The phenomenon is called pareidolia, and
accounts for many so-called sightings of cryptids or UFOs.

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