BABlogee (and Universe Today writer) Nancy Atkinson sent this latest sighting to me (link goes to non-embeddable video; when will the MSM learn?).
A family has seen Jesus in the wood grain in their kitchen cabinet. This one’s not too bad as pareidolia goes, but I think I know what it looks more like …
Revelation (6:2): "…and the full Moon became like blood." Coincidence?
Come to think of it, it looks more like Dr. Zaius, but I’ve spent too much time on this post already. 
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August 14th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Reminds me of one of the lecture halls I frequented in college. The walls were covered with woodgrain panels similar to these cabinets. I swear I could see the tortured souls of hapless undergrads who had failed midterms and finals in those panels. They looked like they were quite in agony….
August 14th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
It looks more like a sleeping grench who stole christmas.
August 14th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
So, let’s see here. God’s handwriting is absolute gibberish, and when he signs his eggplant, I picture Charlie Brown trying to draw a circle with his tongue sticking out of the corner of his mouth, and his son Jesus’ self-portrait looks a heck of a lot like a thoroughly baked Tommy Chong in the 70′s.
And, they actually expect people to worship this family? I think I’d rather worship a block of cheddar.
August 14th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Nonsense — it’s the creature from the black lagoon.
Clear as day: http://tinyurl.com/2lh5bu
August 14th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
It’s D’Argo!
August 14th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
Yeah, I see the Jesus. I see horns, too.
August 14th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
I think I see Poseidon. Or maybe a Cimmerian king, by Crom!
August 14th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Jerry Garcia lives!
August 14th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
Vlad Tepes
http://www.experttours.ro/mkportal/modules/gallery/album/a_369.jpg
August 14th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
I’m with uknesvuinng.
It’s Farscape’s D’Argo!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ka_D%27Argo.jpg
August 14th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Clearly, it’s Chewbacca. Perhaps Obi Wan is trying to communicate with us.
August 14th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Nah, I see Darth Vader.
August 14th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
Grain only becomes a god after it is malted and aged into a fine scotch.
August 14th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Looks more like Bert Lahr as the Cowardly Lion, wearing his crown as “King of the For-uh-uh-uh-uh-st.”
August 14th, 2007 at 10:49 pm
Does anyone else see Odin wearing a crown? Funny I should come home and find this today…earlier I took a photo of a marble counter top that has an image of a woman with a face, body, and flowing hair.
August 14th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
I see an aging hippy-looking dude, Woodstock-style.
Maybe George Harrison?
August 14th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
Might Favog – Odin was my first thougth also. However, I was looking for the hammer, because I really wanted it to be Thor.
August 15th, 2007 at 12:31 am
Rasputin beat me to it. It’s definitely Vlad Tepes ‘The Impaler’.
Or it could be Poseidon from the movie Jason and the Argonauts.
August 15th, 2007 at 1:02 am
I love Johnny Cash (this connects, I promise) but “Mercy Seat” was always ruined for me by the line “The Face of Jesus in my Soup.”
I can forgive, though. He didn’t write the song.
August 15th, 2007 at 1:40 am
Chewbacca!
August 15th, 2007 at 1:52 am
It looks like Santa Claus to me. Or is that Gandalf I might be seeing?
August 15th, 2007 at 2:44 am
Defenitely not Odin. He only had one eye, the thing in the panel seems to have two
. But somekind of wookie… though not chewbacca.
August 15th, 2007 at 4:25 am
A smiling wookie nonetheless…
Either people should stop looking for pareidolias or MSM should stop reporting about them. (The latter said in the way anyone would say “the White House should not interfere with Science when it opposes its political goals”).
August 15th, 2007 at 4:33 am
For the real handwriting of god please see the above web site. This is the most detailed example of pareidolia ever found, with 35 corresponding features in size, shape and placement. This is a photograph of a natural shadow- No photoshoping or dodging and burning. Thanks. fred ressler. (Much detail is lost over the web, plus anomalous details are added due to the nature of the web.)
August 15th, 2007 at 5:30 am
Clearly it’s BIGFOOT!!! This is where he’s been hiding all these years…
August 15th, 2007 at 6:07 am
It’s Albus Dumbledore! He’s still alive!!!!
August 15th, 2007 at 6:21 am
it looks like a Wookie to me.
August 15th, 2007 at 6:56 am
It looks like a wookie, with the Harry Potter hairstyle.
Wait… Never mind. It looks like the wood grain of a kitchen cabinet, now.
August 15th, 2007 at 7:23 am
Why is it that the media has to report on every one of these things that shows up? If this family had sent in a picture and said, “Look at this! Marilyn Manson appeared on our wood cabinet!” would it have made the news? Of course not. But the family “saw” Jesus Christ, so it must be special and more newsworthy than something else that happened in the world. I’m not sure what else, but that’s only because it wasn’t reported on because we just HAD to see that Jesus image.
August 15th, 2007 at 7:33 am
>Mighty Favogon 14 Aug 2007 at 10:49 pm
>Does anyone else see Odin wearing a crown?
My first thought was a viking, then I noticed one eye was a little different and thought of Odin.
August 15th, 2007 at 7:34 am
Definately a wookie.
August 15th, 2007 at 7:36 am
Rick said, “I see an aging hippy-looking dude.”
Actually, that’s me. It looks dead like me.
I always thought I might be a god. Now there’s incontrovertable proof.
August 15th, 2007 at 8:15 am
Kevin F beat me to it, so I second his vote for Dumbledore.
…somebody go get Harry!
August 15th, 2007 at 8:15 am
I dropped hot fudge on the kitchen floor. I swear it looks exactly like jesus waste by-product as depicted in the picture bible.
August 15th, 2007 at 8:27 am
I think it looks like Chewbacca.
August 15th, 2007 at 8:35 am
FYI, the Jesus Oil Smudge is up for auction again at eBay by the people who bought it, something like that.
Jesus is such a commodity!
August 15th, 2007 at 9:18 am
At first I thought Chewbacca, but now I’m thinking it’s the Cowardly Lion, here to bring a message from Oz. Just don’t look behind the curtain.
August 15th, 2007 at 9:29 am
I thought at first someone had snuck in and took a pic of me but then I realized, it is definitely Chewbacca. I wonder if George Lucas can sue them for displaying his creation w/o recompense?
GAry 7
August 15th, 2007 at 9:32 am
It’s obviously Treebeard; I mean, it is wood and all that!
August 15th, 2007 at 10:40 am
It is *clearly* God, exactly as He appeared to King Arthur in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
http://mydivx.lihoman.ru/order/direct/monty/gilliam.holy.grail2.jpg
August 15th, 2007 at 10:51 am
Looks a but like a cthulhu to me. Could this be a sign of their return?
August 15th, 2007 at 11:17 am
It’s obviously Chewbacca. Clearly this means that Jedi is the one true religion. Is the name Jediism or Jedism?
August 15th, 2007 at 11:37 am
RayCeeYa,
Cthulhu is like the Highlander (in the sense that there can be only one). At that, were Cthulhu to exist, it would be one too many! Speaking of which, I just ran across cthulhuthemovie.com. Looking at the cast, I suspect no good can come of this.
August 15th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
It looks like Poseidon to me.
August 15th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Looks like a woman to me. Jesus is a chick?
August 15th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
It’s Dargo from Farscape.
August 15th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
The only god involved in this picture is one of the gods of illustration and satirical portraits. This is clearly a portrait of a very high Duane Allman circa 1973 as drawn by Mad Magazine great George Woodbridge. No links, sorry, but look up his work and tell me it isn’t his! Of course, Woodbridge died in ’04, so depending on when this door was made, it could be his ghost.
August 16th, 2007 at 6:41 am
It’s Oppo Rancis from the Jedi Council! Pretend to understand the ways of the Force I do not.
August 16th, 2007 at 10:52 am
I see King Tut.
August 16th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Nah, it can’t be King Tut. Now, if the substrate had been made of stone-a instead of wood, then maybe…
August 16th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Several years ago, I was working security at a local McDonald’s. The floor was wood grain tiles. While wandering around in boredom, I noticed a tile pattern that looked like Budda. I called a regional newspaper. The staff was highly amused (this is the same part of the country that saw ‘Jesus on the screendoor’) but didn’t follow up. My hopes that the McD’s might become a world spiritual shrine were dashed when the building was destroyed by termites.
August 21st, 2007 at 12:25 pm
OmG! Now im really a beliver….some dude made a special wooden thingy that resembles a dude that lived over 2000 years ago, and its not even proven that he did live! ZOMG im gonna convert from the peacefull religion of buddha to the war believing religion of christ!Just because of this!