“It does look like him,” said Pete Surrette, 50, walking past with ketchup-stained pants and a Ziploc bag full of toiletries. “He’s got the outstretched arms and everything. I walk these tracks and never noticed it. It was just a bush to me.”
Posted on 09/01/2009 12:03:22 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
In the last few months, the ghostly image of Jesus has appeared on a half-eaten Kit Kat bar, a slice of cheese toast and the seat of a Las Vegas toilet.
But those miraculous manifestations were all about the size of a driver’s license photo, and even when the evening newscast zoomed in tight, you had to squint to see the savior’s beard.
In his latest showing, just off the Boylan Avenue Bridge in Raleigh, N.C., the Prince of Peace shows up 30 feet tall and green.
The Kudzu Jesus, Raleigh’s vegetative relic.
He snakes up a utility pole, forming a majestic trunk and a head seemingly bowed in prayer or agony. A pair of arms appears to spread along the wires in each direction, inviting the world into a leafy embrace.
From the rear, he looks like Christ the Redeemer, the 100-foot statue overlooking Rio de Janeiro from a pointed mountaintop.
Trains pass just below Raleigh’s Jesus vine, and homeless men pay silent tribute on their way to mattresses laid out beneath the bridge.
“It does look like him,” said Pete Surrette, 50, walking past with ketchup-stained pants and a Ziploc bag full of toiletries. “He’s got the outstretched arms and everything. I walk these tracks and never noticed it. It was just a bush to me.”
John Morris was standing on the bridge a few weeks ago, taking pictures of passing trains, when a few patrons of Boylan Bridge Brewpub wandered over and asked if he was snapping shots of the vine Christ. Before long, he posted an image on his Web site, www.goodnightraleigh.com, showing Jesus bathed in a golden light, lit by the Raleigh skyline.
“I was immediately interested, as the topic of pareidolia was the subject of a research paper and presentation I made for a
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“It does look like him,” said Pete Surrette, 50, walking past with ketchup-stained pants and a Ziploc bag full of toiletries. “He’s got the outstretched arms and everything. I walk these tracks and never noticed it. It was just a bush to me.”
bttt
It looks like a bull to me. Hook’um horns. Go Texas!
How soon before the ACLU sue to have it cut down, burned and the ground soaked in Round-up?
John 15:5 – “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.”
Doesn’t say anything about Kudzu....
It only took four minutes for someone to say it!
It's not a Bush, It's Saint "Fat Teddy" looking over the health care of all in Raleigh.
Flanders: Hey neighbor, I couldn’t help but notice that you took all the flowers out of my garden.
Homer: Can’t make a float without flowers.
Flanders: Fair enough; but did you have to salt the earth so nothing would ever grow again?
Homer: Hehehehe..... Yeaaaaahhhhhh....
:)
From back when The Simpsons was the best show ever.
A kudzu Jesus recently spotted in downtown Raleigh, N.C., inspired one Hall County resident to share about a kudzu Virgin Mary she saw off the side of Interstate 985....The kudzu Virgin Mary is located off the shoulder of I-985 south between exits 20 and 17.
Golfing.
Of course.
Kudzu Mechanical Bull Rider.
Yes. They have definitely lost something over the last few years. There is a really good episode once or twice a season, but the consistent, week-after-week, super-high quality has been absent for some time now.
He looks like he's swinging a driver to me.
That’s not Jesus ... it’s the Green Giant.
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