Yeah, I’m running out of puns on that word.
But this time, people are seeing Jesus in a hospital lobby. Here’s one of the pictures:
While there is some vague resemblance to the way Jesus is portrayed by a lot of churches, if I saw that and thought it was real, I’d have nightmares for weeks. That’s like a cross between how Picasso and H.R. Giger would portray Charles Manson. Yikes.
But there you go. People, as usual, see what they want to see. I’ve probably watched too many History Channel specials.
April 16th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Yeah I saw the same thing but my take was that is was an angry constipated Jebus.
April 16th, 2008 at 8:11 am
Greys – out of focus …you can see a head near top right.
April 16th, 2008 at 8:11 am
It looks like Treebeard from “The Lord of the Rings” to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Treebeard.jpg
April 16th, 2008 at 8:12 am
Looks to me more like a pugilist sucking his thumb. Did I reveal some inner Frauding (intentional mis-spelling) secrets? I can look at a white textured wall and see faces, animals, and objects if I stare long enough. Active imagination is fun. About as much fun as having old age hearing. I sometimes hear the most non-seqeuter comments. Really funny stuff.
April 16th, 2008 at 8:12 am
Looks kind of like Osama bin Laden to me.
Whoever’s image it is – I think it’s at the hospital to have the damage to its nose fixed.
April 16th, 2008 at 8:18 am
I’m not seeing no jesus… what I do see however is a cross between Darth Vader and Cthulhu.
April 16th, 2008 at 8:20 am
Pretty scary… the reporter’s name is Charnel! Why do parents do these things to their children?
April 16th, 2008 at 8:25 am
Hey Phil,
April 16th, 2008 at 8:31 am
Hmm… apparently trying to tab in here is a bad idea.
Phil, did you catch the Discovery Channel’s new episodes of Deadliest Catch? Not only was there a lot of coverage of sea-going superstitions, there was an instance of pareidolia, when one crewman – possibly with tongue planted firmly in cheek – claimed to see Jesus in what appeared to be a stain of some sort on a post.
Howard
April 16th, 2008 at 8:32 am
As I Christian and a photographer, all I see is light and shadow. But then again, people see what they wish to see at the moment they see it. If I look hard enough, I can also see the Phantom of the Opera.
See, not all Christians are wacked!
April 16th, 2008 at 8:33 am
That’s not Jesus, that’s clearly Frank Zappa.
April 16th, 2008 at 8:34 am
“An unexplained image in a hospital prayer garden window ”
Looks like the reflection of a tree to me. I’d like to see a pic of the garden.
April 16th, 2008 at 8:38 am
Well, since this “face” seems to be missing its nose, I think it must be Lord Voldemort, wearing a beard as a disguise. What a nasty trick to play on all those poor gullible believers!
April 16th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Forget those other explanations. That is clearly, CLEARLY (and it must be true if I type it in all caps, right?) General Zod, our new lord and master. All hail Zod!
Obviously he is using that pane of glass to escape from the phantom zone, and when he does…
April 16th, 2008 at 8:50 am
I still maintain all these images of Jesus are actually of Billy Gibbons, lead singer of ZZ Top. It’s a sign from the Rock and Roll gods.
April 16th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Speaking as a Christian, I have to say that particular image looks more like a critter out of Doctor Who (or, less likely, out of H. P. Lovecraft) than Jesus.
April 16th, 2008 at 9:08 am
I rather see a wild beast/monster with two big teeth, mouth wide open, with its bright head near the top of the picture, a little right of the middle.
April 16th, 2008 at 9:15 am
I’m melting, I’m melting.
April 16th, 2008 at 9:22 am
My first reaction should have been “Somebody needs to find some Windex and clean that.” But being told there was an image there I saw the cover for the movie The Frighteners. Which is just an excellent thing to advertise in a hospital.
April 16th, 2008 at 9:30 am
My God. . .
Cthulu lives.
Or yes, maybe it’s an Ood.
Whatever it is, it doesn’t look happy.
April 16th, 2008 at 9:32 am
Are those stalactites growing from his eyebrows?
April 16th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Looks like the Burger King, just waiting to sneak up and hand someone a tasty burger.
April 16th, 2008 at 9:39 am
I too saw Lord Voldemort. It was the lack of a nose that did it for me. Sometimes I can understand the things people see, but this one is just bad.
April 16th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Either do as suggested, and clean the glass, or replace the light bulbs illuminating it (this help at a Tim Horton’s in Nova Scotia some years ago), and if it is still there, then clearly the Flying Spaghetti Monster has sent his pirate avatar to guide us to the promised treasure!
Arrr, arrr, me hearties!
April 16th, 2008 at 9:51 am
It’s definitely the son of god. He’s probably not happy that people are going to hospitals instead of praying for good health.
April 16th, 2008 at 9:52 am
I see the Swamp Thing. So when can we expect Alan Moore to write a
comicgraphic novel version of the New Testament?April 16th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Well, this isn’t pereidolia but it could be a classic example of UNintelligent design,,,
http://failblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/intelligent-design/
Also, I note that Dubya is really sucking up to the Nazi Pope,,,maybe he hopes for forgiveness? I wonder if he’s given the Pope his confession. Yeah, THAT should take a while.
GAry 7
April 16th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Looks like Captain Jack Sparrow!
April 16th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Jesus H. Christ
“Cruzada, who was one of several viewers to send an e-mail about the image to Local6.com, said his ex-wife was recently diagnosed with stage-3 cancer.”
Wouldn’t it be nice if Jesus actually did more than show up on some piece of glass. Like maybe heal the ex-wife?
April 16th, 2008 at 10:33 am
I’m incapable of seeing anything other than Dargo from Farscape.
April 16th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Looks like Xenu to me!
April 16th, 2008 at 10:35 am
I’m not even seeing a face. All I see is what looks like a blurred vending machine.
April 16th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Add a vote fro Treebeard.
April 16th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Other things of note:
In several pictures there is a color painting of Jesus holding a child in the background. Is this a religious hospital? If there’s a bunch of religious pictures in that hall, this could be a reflection from a glass covered painting onto the door.
How is this interfering with hospital care? Who isn’t getting their pacemaker implant on schedule or their $500.00 aspirin because Jesus is causing people to block the hallway?
Nobody there ever notices that it is always the same still pictures on these sacred apparitions: same poses, same angle, usually blurry, in other words a photograph. Funny how Jesus just doesn’t appear on HDTV or in person, interrupting Pat Robertson or the Pope and saying, “Oh shut up!”
In a parallel universe is there a Jesus who is seeing my reflection in a door?
April 16th, 2008 at 10:49 am
If Jesus were really going to go to the trouble of making himself seen… you’d think he’d make it far more obvious, don’t you?
Has anyone who’s ever claimed to have seen Jesus in a potato chip ever stopped to ask “what’s the point”?
April 16th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Phil: I wonder who this tall blond white guy is that so many people see in toast, chicken guts, etc. If Jesus existed he would have been short, dark haired with a swarthy complexion; after all, he was a Jew. There were very few vikings in the Levant of 2000 years ago!
April 16th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Yea… You have to wonder if Jesus was thinking… “That Pope Benedict XVI is getting too much attention this week! Wait, I know… I’ll create an obscure window smudge of my face on a piece of glass in a hospital in Orlando. That will create a nice distraction!”
April 16th, 2008 at 11:31 am
I’m with Moose – Frank has returned to lead us to the promised land…
April 16th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Florida Hospital Center is run by Adventist Health, an arm of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church.
Coincidence–or something more?
(Personally I think it looks like the cover or Peter Gabriel’s third album.)
April 16th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Oh, *now* I see it. Yea. Definately Treebeard.
April 16th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Phil, did you catch the Discovery Channel’s new episodes of Deadliest Catch? Not only was there a lot of coverage of sea-going superstitions, there was an instance of pareidolia, when one crewman – possibly with tongue planted firmly in cheek – claimed to see Jesus in what appeared to be a stain of some sort on a post.
Howard
I came in here to say just this. What was even funnier is when, 4 hours later, their ship was pounded by very rough waves and (I think) the number of crab they caught dropped.
(Lest anybody think I’m being mean, I’m not. That ship was the Northwestern, piloted by Sid Hanson; they are my favorites on that show and I’m glad nobody got hurt. They will probably, once again, bring in the most crab when all is said and done.)
April 16th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Or Sig.
(My kingdom for an edit button.)
April 16th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
On first blush, it looked to me like the guy on the package of Zig Zag cigarette paper. Does this mean that the J-man smokes a blunt now and then or am I reading a little too much into the image?
April 16th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
I always wanted to go to one of these, quickly wash the stain off, turn to the crowd and shout, “Where’s your God now! Ha ha haaaaa!”
And then I would run like the wind lest I be burned at a stake or stoned to death or something.
April 16th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
When I look at the small blurry picture you have posted here, I’m seeing Cthulhu.
I’d worry more about my ‘soul’ if I saw Cthulhu then I would if I saw a Jesus.
April 16th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
That is clearly Zur, head of the Kodan armada.
(with apologies to The Last Starfighter)
April 16th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Nonsense. It’s very obvious that’s Davey Jones.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/12/i_wanna_grow_up_to_be_just_lik.php
April 16th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Did they have to go through the great energy barrier at the centre of the galaxy to find said ER?
April 16th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
I can’t make sense of your picture, but the one in the article is actually pretty good.
April 16th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
I saw a much sharper version of it yesterday, and it was no hard trick to make a different figure appear: a blank-faced figure in a white jacket, black shirt, and white tie. What fun.
(Actually, both figures are easier to see on the linked site. Forehed=>Face, Nose=>Tie, Cheek=>Jacket shoulder.)
April 16th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
I, for one welcome our new weirdly semi-transparent fenestral overlords.
April 16th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Looks like an overly distorted jpg imo.
April 16th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Quiet_Desperation, I like the way you think!! I’ll shield you from the angry mob with someone else’s body.
April 16th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
I see a cheeseburger!
April 16th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Ahhh, what a cute puppy!
April 16th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
I see a Zombie…
Or Jesus. I’m not sure. I heard he’s a zombie too.
April 17th, 2008 at 2:42 am
All these people seeing Jesus, Mary, angels, etc. everywhere……..it’s PAREIDOLATRY, I tell you!
“the guy on the package of Zig Zag cigarette paper”
=LOL= The first time I saw the picture of the guy on the Zig Zag wrapper, it was without the rest of the label, and I thought it was a picture of the Big JC! But what did I know, I was a sweet little innocent Baptist Preacher’s Kid™ college freshman away from home for the first time……….
April 17th, 2008 at 2:45 am
……which, I suppose, begs the question:
What Would Jeeebus Smoke?
(sorry, hit the wrong button back there……)
April 17th, 2008 at 4:30 am
Nope! You’re all wrong. It’s Greg House having a larf…
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April 17th, 2008 at 6:34 am
I don’t like to make people look stoopid for seeing things like this (even if I think it is) because that will turn them away from seeing the use of this ability. Just look how Kekulé “discovered’ the shape of benzene. He was day dreaming about a snake biting its own tail. Yeah, I know he didn’t see it on a piece of toast but his imagination helped to figure it out.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:42 am
looks like my ass when I xeroxed it.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Why all this discussion of what is clearly a picture of Fidel Castro?
April 17th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Hey! Is that a picture of Kris Kristofferson?
April 18th, 2008 at 8:19 am
“An official said as long as the image makes people feel good, that is all that matters”
Why can’t more of us have that attitude?
April 24th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
I have a really cool discussion on http://www.iidb.org on an image like this..
I dont know how to post it here, but the link might work..
http://iidb.infidels.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=241635&page=2