What was claimed
An un-edited photo shows a skull-shaped cloud seen in California.
Our verdict
This image is fake and the skull comes from an Iron Maiden album cover.
That viral photo of a cloud that looks like a skull was taken from a heavy metal album cover
30 September 2019
A photo on Facebook shared over 140,000 times claims to show a “real picture taken in California” of an ominous-looking skull-shaped cloud.
The picture has been edited to include the skull from the cover of Iron Maiden’s 2000 album ‘Brave New World’.