September 11 Digital Archive

"Satan in the Smoke" Emails

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"Satan in the Smoke" Emails

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On the morning of September 11, immediately after two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in Manhattan, photojournalist Mark D. Phillips took a picture that would prove to be one of the most evocative and disputed images of that tragic day. Many peple later construed the image of the smoke in his photo of the burning buildings to compose the face of Satan. These e-mails related to this picture provide a revealing portal into Americans' responses to the attacks in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.

Items in the "Satan in the Smoke" Emails Collection

The picture of the tower in smoke you published must be a self portrait, for you to broadcast more fear into america.Pete kesselring

I was trying to look at your pictures but the Internet keeps saying there is an error in line 200.  So anyway I say yes I would like to continue and the message just keeps repeatedly interfering not allowing use to freely view your sight.  I thought…

My mother was watching a Spanish news station (Television 47) a few days after the attack. A Columbian gentlemen showed a picture taken in Columbia displaying Satan. Have you heard of it or seen the picture? I wonder if that too was taken the same…

-----Original Message-----From: Renee [mailto:holdher@prodigy.net] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 9:37 AM To: kusa@9news.comSubject: demons on the cloudsThis is to Mark Phillips. A lady from West Virgina sent me the photos that you can see by…

Good luck buddy - I dont believe anyone would actually make something like this up in a time like this ... I support you...

can not believe you are selling the pictures, and if you feel you must ALL of the proceeds should go the people and families of New York.    

Mark,   I can't believe that you would even give satan credit!  The smoke did not make this face, I believe that you somehow fixed it to look like that. If you look at the pic closer you would see, Elvis, or even Oz him self.However the only mark…

I appreciate how distressed you and the people of NY and USA are at this sad time and how it is difficult to focus what is important right now. I have therefore forwarded your e-mail to the FBI in the hope that it may be of some help. Take…

Dear Mr. Phillips,Before we had seen your picture, last week my husband's friend at work was on the CNN website and watched a video of the 2nd plane hitting the tower and he saw satan's face rise up out of the smoke and paused the picture at that…

Dear Mr. Phillips:   I have a friend in England who is Catholic, and told me that he felt that the Anti-Christ was behind the terror bombings, precisely because they were such enormous expressions of hate.  I told him about your picture which I had…

Dear Mr. Phillips:There is no doubt in my mind who is behind the dreadful attack on the World Trade Center, and no photo is necessary to demonstrate who that is. It simply attests to it.I grieve for NYC and all that is being endured there. ne

WED SEP 19thTo: Mark D. PhillipsMark;You should be ashamed to deny citizens a copy of this sobering picture of the WTC in flames showing Satan's(?) face. No doubt you would have made lots of money selling the other WTC pictures you have taken over…

Maybe the face carries a resemblance to the true organizer of this event (which ofcourse is satan, but I am meaning a live person here on earth besides satan).   As truth will be shouted from the rooftops the Bible tells us.  So, go over faces that…

Do you know that the Dayton Daily News (Dayton, Ohio) put your face image in a Special Edition, before anyone noticed...   -mitch

Hi:  I'm not really sure why I'm writing to you. I was looking at the picture of the face in the smoke but I keep seeing three faces there is a face on each side fo the face you have pointed out. Please let me know if you can see it too. God Bless…

Most people identified the devil, while I saw both he & Bin Laden in one - as if a testiment of whom was responsible  broadcast to all the world...   I am not frightened, time for that is over, I was not even surprised.  Just totally overwhelmed and…

Mark, I too saw a face, not the one you show. It was in smoke and I watched it as it rolled up out of sight. So shocked, I told my husband "look, there if a face" He too saw it. The face was pleasant. I have never gotten over seeing it. In the Bible,…

I liked your picture.  Can I ask you what kind of a digital camera you have??    Sandy

Hello Mark,I just want to thank you for that photo shot.Wether its been doctor or not,which I dont beleve it has.It relley maid a lot of people open there eyes,to realize we are living in the last days.Into accept "Jesus as our Lord & Savor".So when…

It appears that there may be a face behind the face just to the left, it seems to be peering out from behind. I was wondering if you had noticed it previously.?

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