The Man with the Upside Down Face

More sightings of the Man with the Upside-Down Face. A New Year's Eve party at an Air Force base in 1943 where a man was fatally injured, a car accident in 1948, and a disastrous train crash in 1951. I remember seeing him at the time. He's only in the photos after he's seen.

The Man with the Upside-Down Face, also known as the Upside-Down Man or simply The Man, is a monster and urban legend created by Canadian horror artist Trevor Henderson, and possibly the most evil entity in the Trevor Henderson mythos. He is a ruthless entity who delights in causing pain and death in order to feed off the negative emotions of others out of sadism.

As the name implies, The Man with the Upside-Down Face appears as an average-looking human male whose face is oriented upside-down on his head. In all of his appearances, the Man wears a dark suit and a sinister, sinister smile.

Photos of the Man dating back to the 1910s to the 1960s began to surface online when Trevor posted three old photos to his social media accounts, two of which depict car accidents. At first glance, the photos appear mundane, but upon closer inspection, the man with the upside-down face can be seen lurking in the background, always looking at the camera with his trademark evil grin.

In the first photo, a crowd of onlookers gathers around the scene of a car accident. The Man can be seen behind the car through the windows, looking out at the viewer. The second photo is another car accident, except the Man is inside the car, once again smiling directly at the photographer. The third photo appears to be a normal photo of a grocery store, except the Man is in the back, smiling. Looking closer at the third photo, one notices that the location of the image is Budapest, Hungary, suggesting a possible place of origin for the Upside-Down Man.

Because of the Man's nature of appearing at the scenes of tragic and violent deaths, it was first assumed that the Man was some form of The Grim Reaper. Further investigation revealed that this was not the case. Trevor later uploaded three more old photos of the Man, along with more information about him: The Man feeds on negative emotions such as sadness, terror, misery, and pain, and appears in places where tragic deaths and suffering occur in order to obtain his death fill, such as car accidents, fires, homicides, and even in places where other monsters, such as The Bridge Worms, have killed people. When "feeding", the Inverted-Faced Man becomes invisible to others, appearing only in photographs. He is almost never shown before a tragic event; only after the fact.

Recently, Trevor Henderson released two more photos of the Man with the Upside-Down Face, which were taken hours before a brutal fire. Interestingly, these are the first photos of the Man that are not in black and white, possibly suggesting that more recent sightings of the Man will be revealed soon.

The Man is an incredibly sadistic creature, feeding on negative emotions and silently influencing others to continue the cycle of suffering. As Henderson puts it: "His face is wrong because he loves to pervert expectations of how a human being is made. He loves sadness and the pain of road accidents, but any horrible feeling will do. He is a terrible parasite, like a leech or a lamprey... He is physically there, but we cannot see him."

Man is believed to be as bad or even worse than the infamous Cartoon Cat and he appears to be the most menacing evil in existence. Causing and feeding on pain, suffering and death without any remorse, he sucks the suffering out of his victims during his horrific and painful events, sucking the life out of them for his own twisted pleasure and satisfaction.

Trevor revealed more information about the Man with the Upside-Down Face that only reinforces his status as a sadistic and evil creature who loves torture. He is said to be timeless and Trevor said that his physical form exists solely to torment humanity, suggesting that he could be some sort of Lovecraftian horror who decided to manifest himself in a physical body just to feed off of humanity's suffering. This is further supported by Trevor stating that his upside-down body and face are "just for show."

Trevor has called the Man a sort of "bottom feeder" as he is drawn to tragic events but is usually unable to directly cause them. However, he can influence other factors to make these tragedies happen, such as turning ordinary arguments into violent fights and causing a normally sturdy tire to blow out on a car while he is in the back seat, helping the disastrous events unfold with pain and suffering soon to follow.

Trevor confirmed that of all his creatures, Man is "the meanest idiot of the bunch."

He was created by Trevor Henderson, who is known for making various bizarre creatures across the internet. His other creations include Siren Head, Cartoon Cat, Country Road Creature, Bridge Worms, Smile Room, Good Boy, Lamb, Man in the Red Room, Fetid King, the Giants, and Long Horse. It was based on the 1943 short story The Crowd, written by the late Ray Bradbury. On a "pain scale" of one to ten (ten being the worst) created by Henderson for his monsters, both the Upside-Down Man and Cartoon Cat are placed at a ten (if not the latter, possibly an 8 or 9), implying that both are possibly the most evil beings Trevor has created by far. However, unlike Cartoon Cat, the Upside-Down Man has much clearer moral agency and is far more evil than Cartoon Cat, being a clear sadist who loves to feed off of negative emotions caused by tragedies and indirectly causes the tragedies that lead to people dying while Cartoon Cat has not killed anyone (that we know of).

One Twitter user commented on a compilation of photos of the man, saying that he likes to think that the man with the upside-down face whistles, although it turns out to be a “resonant sound that you can barely hear out of the corner of your ear” that contains fuzzy bouncing sounds, like a “distant radio, coming out with the right tune but the wrong lyrics.” Trevor later accepted this little fact as canon. The man with his face upside down is not breathing. It is possible for meat to spoil quickly near the Upside-Down Man. Trevor has hinted that the Man with the Inverted Face is a masochist, making a small joke that he imagines the Man drinking a bowl of soup just by shoving the bowl into his face, even though it is scalding hot, and sucking as the hot soup pours into his eyes.

So far, the Man with the Inverted Face, alongside Cartoon Cat, are the only villainous creations of Trevor's that actually have moral agency and are not amoral. However, while Cartoon Cat is morally aware of what he does, Cartoon Cat is very enigmatic, with no clear personality, nor are his crimes (aside from stalking and breaking and entering) clear, the Man with the Inverted Face does everything just for fun, having a clear personality, causing tragedies that kill people and then feeding on their negative emotions for his own sick and twisted pleasure.