When the Bible says Jesus will return out of the clouds with a sword coming out of his mouth, perhaps it was mistranslated and actually meant he will return in a frying pan with beacon grease on his brow.
Toby Elles, 22, made the discovery after burning the food when he fell asleep while cooking.
After lifting off the scorched bacon Mr Elles, from Salford, Lancs, could not believe his eyes when the Christlike image stared back at him.
The face is complete with eyes, nose, a beard and is framed by long flowing hair.
And of course, this event is accompanied by a gen-u-ine miracle from the big J himself:
“If it wasn’t for the smoke of the bacon burning this onto the pan it could have been a very bad situation, perhaps someone’s looking over me.
“My housemates and I had a few beers earlier in the evening I thought I would snack before going to bed and as it was cooking I decided to take a rest on the couch.
“When I woke up about an hour later the room was full of smoke.
“Luckily we have an electric hob so I just turned off the heat, but then I lifted up the bacon and there was JC looking back at me.
“I’m not going to scrub it clean though, just in case I get struck by lightning, it’s going to take pride of place on a wall instead. [...]
“I’m going to keep it for the rest of my life, perhaps it can watch over me.”
Yes, Toby, the grease pan will watch over you. Good luck with that.
Uhu – because I drunk student would never scrape a crappy picture of a hippy into the grease on a pan, would he? Incidentally, can somebody explain how it is that people think they know what Jesus looked like?
To me, it looks like Frank Zappa, guardian angel of teenagers who fry bacon when they get home drunk from a party.
Zappa was the first one I was thinking of, then I saw that I wasn’t the only one:))
Actually, I think it bears an uncanny resemblance to Mr. Elles himself or his sister. I agree with Custador. There are no contemporary descriptions or images that tell us what Jesus looked like. These claims for the face or image of Jesus or any other biblical character appearing in strange places are pure fantasy.
He’s gonna smother that girl in chocolate syrup and love her till the cows come home.
That’s the most detailed one I’ve seen. I’ve got a hunch that sometime in the future he’ll be admitting that he faked it just to get some fame.
I dunno, it seems pretty obvious from how he’s phrased his statements that it’s tongue-in-cheek. The detail with which he’s carefully grease-carved that face also speaks to the fact that he’s likely lampooning the credulous dolts who make “genuine” reports of this kind of pareidolia.
I agree with you two. And it’s a really well done fake, too — clear enough to be obvious but still looks like a scorched spot. If it turns out not to be a fake, it’s definitely the best Jesus pareidolia I’ve seen in quite a while.
Another day, another idiot lying for Jebus.
It is a sign from satan. Only he can put someone asleep when there is a prospect of bacon. Bacon is the holiest of all the meats and god would not let someone fall asleep when it is being prepared.
I once fell asleep while baking brownies, but those take a while and you don’t have to watch them. I don’t know how anyone could fall asleep while bacon is cooking, or how it takes an hour for the smoke to get to you. Not to mention, that pan is pretty clean for having burned bacon for an hour and then just had the bacon pried out. Another story from me is that I once left a saucepan to boil water, also a kettle once because I turned on the wrong burner. This is why I like take-out. Anyway, both those items turned black, and were heated for way less than an hour.
This is my bacon, given up for you.
LMAO….cut strait from Jesus’ back.
(was that too far?)
Much – it was obviously streaky
I saw a bunny rabbit in a cloud once. But it wasn’t a rabbit — it was a cloud. Oh well.
I’m betting on the misinterpretation of where J would be coming from. After all, I just found out today that the number of the beast is NOT “666″, but really “616″.
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/11134
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=39556
If we can misinterpret simply math, then it is certainly possible to misinterpret the quantum theory behind where J will reappear, and whether he will be carrying a sword or some ham hocks.
So the residents of the 616 area code in Michigan have problems, then.
Also, several years ago, our roof started to leak over our bathroom. It made a stain on the wall that could sort of be seen as a face of a bearded man with a huge ‘fro. Since it was right over the back of the toilet, we called it St. John.
I think it looks like Geddy Lee.
Greatest bass player of all time.
Everybody say, “Geddy Lee!”
Ahhhhahahahahahahaha! He needs Jeeeesus to save his ass if he’s going to do stupid tricks like falling asleep while cooking. Can’t Jesus just let him go and clean up the gene pool?
The “It Must Be Him” phenomenon is still at work, I see. An ancient nail just had to have been one they nailed up Jesus with, and that old death shroud in Turin just must be his.
Check it out. I think Frank Zappa may even have posed for his picture done in a black iron medium.
Duuuude… it’s Naveen Andrews! Truly the Dharma Initiative is looking out for this one.
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My biggest question: Who decides they need a SNACK and then cooks a bunch of bacon? I mean, how many people just sit around drinking beer, watching TV and snacking on copious amounts of bacon? Yes I love bacon, but with other food, like eggs and sausage. I’m not gluttonous enough to just sit around chomping on bacon. Am I the only one who was shocked that he went out of his way to cook bacon, because he needed a SNACK?
Yes.
A fried bacon sandwich is one of my snack favourites ….
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Oh, and RIGHT BEFORE GOING TO BED!! Talk about your unhealthy habits…
because jesus figures the perfect way to make believerers out of the masses is to make his face appear among burnt bacon in a greasy pan.
oh NOW i believe!!
That guy is obviously performing a prank. His comments give it away (and the über-detailed face).
Nobody seems to be picking up on the very real theological issue here – it was PORK FAT !! and Jesus is a good Jewish boy…….
He was in the middle of cooking and he laid down? Just how much is “a few” to this guy? I’m thinking a 24 pack.
Thats not Jesus, thats the crazy homeless man who live down the street from me.
The funniest thing on this page besides Toby hisself:
Funnier even than the Brad guy on “Political Interviews With the Gods” who apparently believes in a god because atheists aren’t exactly sure how the universe came into existence. Too infantile to have learned that none of us have certainty (besides death and taxes that is). Turn to your country’s most prevalent mythology and its god in a desperate but futile attempt at certainty. Yeah, good luck with that.
That is clearly not “JC.” It’s gotta be this guy: http://www.mcphee.com/saintanthonybacon.html