This weird optical illusion will make you look twice

Wait, what?
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Sam Haysom
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Everyone loves a good optical illusion -- particularly the ones that make you look like you've got superpowers.

If you can count having one very, very long arm a superpower, that is.

On Monday, 18-year-old Eleanor Bailey from Leeds, UK, tweeted a photo of her sister. You don't have too look hard to spot what's wrong with it:

So what the hell is going on in that photo, anyway?

Well if you look closer, Bailey's sister's right arm is actually nowhere in sight -- it's behind the guy with the Whitney T-shirt on. Meanwhile his black T-shirt, the black top of the girl on his right and her right arm all combine to create the effect that her arm is super long.

Still, it's not nearly as confusing as this picture.

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Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.

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