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Couple find face of baby Jesus in wallpaper while decorating their kitchen

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

A couple decorating their home had the fear of God put into them after this image of the baby Jesus appeared – on their WALLPAPER.

Stunned Sheila and Richard Woolhouse were stripping old wallpaper from their kitchen when they spotted the religious incarnation.

The eerie damp marking appears to show a baby wrapped in linen – with eyes, nose, mouth and hair clearly defined.

Sheila, 63, of St Austell, Cornwall, says the image looks like the baby Messiah.

She said: ”It’s spooky – it looks like the baby Jesus. They way it looks like a child wrapped in swaddling – it really has got religious connotations.

”The more you look at it, the more real it becomes. A few of the neighbours and friends have been round and they have been surprised by it as well.”

Richard added: ”We’ve lived her fore 23 years but never noticed the image until we decided to take out a small wall in the kitchen area.

”I do believe in the after life and there have been a few strange goings-on in here over the years.”

Martin Winter

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  • B166ER

    Really? It's a smudge on a wall! Religious kooks will clutch at any straws to feel that their invisible sky daddy is in their life… doesn't change the fact that you have to be a Christian to see "Jesus" there.

  • B166ER

    Really? It's a smudge on a wall! Religious kooks will clutch at any straws to feel that their invisible sky daddy is in their life… doesn't change the fact that you have to be a Christian to see "Jesus" there.

  • Vern

    Why does baby Jesus have horns?

  • Vern

    Why does baby Jesus have horns?

  • Mike Boyce

    Shouldn't that headline be, more precisely:

    Couple uncover stain that people say reminds them of Western art's representation of the baby Jesus

    (Though, personally, I think the "face" looks more like an illustration of an 18th century romantic poet – or Billy Crystal.)

    They haven't actually "found the face" of anyone. And who would know what the baby Jesus (if he existed) looked like?

    Also, the way you say the image "appeared" gives the impression it suddenly came out of nowhere rather than being discovered as the paper was stripped off.

    (And is it actually on their WALLPAPER or on the wall that had been covered by the paper?)

    Whether the "image" is religious or not is open to debate, but I disagree with the use of the word "incarnation": if an actual flesh and blood baby had appeared, that would be an incarnation.

    Please present the facts as they are, without trying to sensationalize and spin the story into something it isn't. This is just another of the many cases of pareidolia [see Wikipedia] that are given more importance than they deserve by the media.

  • Mike Boyce

    Shouldn't that headline be, more precisely:

    Couple uncover stain that people say reminds them of Western art's representation of the baby Jesus

    (Though, personally, I think the "face" looks more like an illustration of an 18th century romantic poet – or Billy Crystal.)

    They haven't actually "found the face" of anyone. And who would know what the baby Jesus (if he existed) looked like?

    Also, the way you say the image "appeared" gives the impression it suddenly came out of nowhere rather than being discovered as the paper was stripped off.

    (And is it actually on their WALLPAPER or on the wall that had been covered by the paper?)

    Whether the "image" is religious or not is open to debate, but I disagree with the use of the word "incarnation": if an actual flesh and blood baby had appeared, that would be an incarnation.

    Please present the facts as they are, without trying to sensationalize and spin the story into something it isn't. This is just another of the many cases of pareidolia [see Wikipedia] that are given more importance than they deserve by the media.

  • Patty O'Heater

    You mean they found a nasty stain that has been badly embellished in the hope that some gullible reporter will put their picture in the paper.

  • Patty O'Heater

    You mean they found a nasty stain that has been badly embellished in the hope that some gullible reporter will put their picture in the paper.

  • chillwell

    Dang, that is one UGLY freakin' baby!! Well, I guess your god ain't pretty!

  • chillwell

    Dang, that is one UGLY freakin' baby!! Well, I guess your god ain't pretty!

  • LOL

    It looks like some kind of retarded dog or goat skeleton…

  • LOL

    It looks like some kind of retarded dog or goat skeleton…

  • Marqz

    Really? x)

    Its like the cloud, alot of weird things that look alike things, its not like jesus is floating above us in a cloud or something…

    or is it?

  • Marqz

    Really? x)

    Its like the cloud, alot of weird things that look alike things, its not like jesus is floating above us in a cloud or something…

    or is it?

  • Jean-Jacques Terreur

    WHY does it ALWAYS have to be Jesus?? isn't ANY baby "appearing" in a moldy wallpaper good enough?

  • Jean-Jacques Terreur

    WHY does it ALWAYS have to be Jesus?? isn't ANY baby "appearing" in a moldy wallpaper good enough?

  • Linn

    Looks more like a bowling pin to me…..

    Will these religious nuts EVER stop seeing Jesus everywhere?

  • Linn

    Looks more like a bowling pin to me…..

    Will these religious nuts EVER stop seeing Jesus everywhere?

  • That Dude

    Serrious, this is acctually blasfemi. Calling that an image of Jesus…

  • That Dude

    Serrious, this is acctually blasfemi. Calling that an image of Jesus…

  • http://sviddsjokoladekake.blogg.no Marita Christine – Z

    HAHA, people are strange and funny : D

  • http://sviddsjokoladekake.blogg.no Marita Christine – Z

    HAHA, people are strange and funny : D

  • Marion

    I almost think it looks more like St.Mary

  • Marion

    I almost think it looks more like St.Mary

  • http://lol greioaghp

    jesus is dead get over it-.-

    and god is just a myth-.-

  • me

    keep tearing i think MJ is beside him

  • me

    keep tearing i think MJ is beside him

  • SKrufxTRAstark

    How do we now that baby Jesus looks like that?

  • SKrufxTRAstark

    How do we now that baby Jesus looks like that?

  • franki

    lovein thecoment by the person nown as me it made me laugh lol great comment

  • franki

    lovein thecoment by the person nown as me it made me laugh lol great comment

  • Robert Tobin

    I am a bedraggled refugee from the "Holy" Roman Catholic Church, now Atheist, so I can say:: "Been there, done that".

    I could ask what those people had been drinking, but their problem is much worse that that. Their minds have been POISONED by Religion.

    'RELIGION POISONS EVERYTHING": Christopher Hitchens

    ps. Why did Mary & Joseph name their baby son after a swear word.

  • Robert Tobin

    I am a bedraggled refugee from the "Holy" Roman Catholic Church, now Atheist, so I can say:: "Been there, done that".

    I could ask what those people had been drinking, but their problem is much worse that that. Their minds have been POISONED by Religion.

    'RELIGION POISONS EVERYTHING": Christopher Hitchens

    ps. Why did Mary & Joseph name their baby son after a swear word.

  • Daniel.l.shelton

    Guys….please pay attention. Its a hoax. Ive seen this work before. Its a billion faces all inside each other. Dont believe me? Grab any two points on the “stain”, nothng sideways or upside down, and find the ace. Then zzom in and the entire thing ismade of THOUSANDS of faces. Point is – THIS IS NOT A RANDOM SCENARIO OR A HOLY ONE. This is the work of an artist

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