This isn’t your parents’ Virgin Mary
The Virgin Mary continues to appear in odd places, this time in a grocery store freezer in Texas. There isn’t much more to this story. There is a long, cylindrical ice formation in the freezer that people claim looks like Mary. This particular Virgin Mary looks rather… urr.. phallic.
‘Virgin Mary’ Seen In Texas Grocery Store Freezer

Jesus: Making your Sheets White, and Fresh Smelling!
Like his mother, Jesus is also in the Lone Star State these days, in this case, visiting the laundry room floor of a Wild Peach resident. This Jesus is hanging from a cross, and is clad in a loin cloth. Who needs Calgon when you’ve got the Son of God to fight stains and odor.
Image of Christ appears on laundry room floor

Call the Fire Department: Jesus is stuck in a tree
A short article about another Jesus appearance, this time in a tree in Jacksonville, FL. A notable quote by the owner of this particular apparition, one Daryl Brown. Brown is quoted in the article as saying, “Jesus don’t just pop up like that. If you know the word of Jesus and you believe in Jesus, then there you go. He does exist.” Yep, so there you go. If you believe in it, it must be real. Jessica Alba should be showing up here any minute…
Jesus Sighting In Jacksonville Tree

Jesus Down Under
I guess it’s comforting to know that it’s not just Americans seeing Jesus in odd places. These two articles come from Australia, where some people claim to see the face of Jesus in some eroded paint on a subway platform. Others are not so sure. As one article notes, “One commuter is convinced the image is of Jesus. Others say it looks more like William Shakespeare.” Jesus… Shakespeare… it’s all the same. They both had beards.
‘Jesus’ appears on Sydney train platform
Image stops ‘em in their tracks

Jesus: the best friend of dog and man!
A couple in Portland, Maine were contemplating getting rid of their two dogs when they noticed the image of Jesus in their doggie door. They interpreted this as “a divine reprieve for the dogs,” and decided it must be a sign that they should keep them. Jesus has apparently expanded his business to animals now. Cute animals, anyway. I don’t think many aardvarks are going to be finding salvation any time soon.
Jesus’ Image in a Doggie Door?

The Flame of Hope: Burning witches since 1305
A township board in Flint Michigan voted to honor two teenagers with an award for their service to the community, only to cancel the first resolution due to a board member’s objection to the title of the award, “The Flame of Hope.” The board member’s objection was based on his/her belief that the title was connected to Web sites that support black magic. The author of the resolution agreed to rewrite it, and the two boys were given “Spirit of Community” Awards instead. In this case, I agree with the person who opposed the first award; not that I think the original title had any connection to witchcraft. That’s silly. I just think “The Flame of Hope” is a stupid name for an award.
Witchcraft fears aside, board conjures up honors for teens

One Woman’s Quest to Set the World Record for ‘Making an Ass of Oneself’
This is an update to an article we covered a few months ago: a suburban Atlanta mother has been fighting to get Harry Potter books banned from school libraries because she claims they are trying to indoctrinate children into witchcraft. She took her case to the School Board first – and lost. Then she took it to the State Board of Education – and lost. Now she says she will file an appeal in Superior Court. Anyone want to bet what the outcome will be?
Woman to Appeal Harry Potter Decision

Psychic’s spirit guide suspiciously absent during robbery
A psychic in South Africa, who claims to see the future “through a Red Indian guide,” did not have any warning that she was going to have her purse stolen by a mugger. The robber made off with two wallets, cash, bank cards, her telephone and ID books, two cellphones and her heart tablets in spite of her inside track to the future. Perhaps she ought to scrutinize the background of her “Red Indian” friend. Strange that he was conveniently gone while she was being robbed…
I didn’t see it, says mugged psychic

Lamest. Psychic. Ever.
A British woman who lost her 18-month-old parrot consulted with a psychic who has experience in tracking down pets. The psychic assured the woman that the bird was alive and well, and would return home soon. Pretty lame.
Psychic predicts parrot will return soon

Psychic aids Police investigation by finding abandoned house with no connection to missing person
The brother of a kidnapped woman in Trinidad & Tobago consulted a famous local psychic in his search for his missing sister. The psychic took him to an abandoned house 3 miles-deep in the woods, because she was “getting vibes.” The brother called the police, who came and searched the house, but found nothing.
Psychic joins Naipaul search

Sylvia Browne gets it wrong. Again.
In February of 2003, four months after 11-year-old Shawn Hornbeck disappeared, celebrity psychic Sylvia Browne appeared on the Montel show where she is frequently a guest and told the missing boy’s parents that their son was dead, even describing the place where his body would be found. Search teams responded to her “reading” by diverting people and resources to looking for areas that matched her description, but ultimately found nothing. Moreover, according to the parents, she later called and offered to continue providing them with her “services” for a substantial fee, a claim that Browne denies. As for her original prediction: for those not familiar with this case, Shawn Hornbeck was found a week ago, alive, not far from where his parents live. Browne’s response to all this?

“I think it’s just cruel to jump on this one case in which I was wrong,” she said. “I’ve said thousands of times I’m not God.”

Really! It is awfully cruel of everyone to jump on her like this. All she did was wrongly tell a couple of parents that their son was dead to further her career.
She told them boy was dead

Misleading headlines, and why it pays to read the whole article
When I first read this headline, ‘Turned over tip that led to murdered couple: psychic,’ I assumed it meant that a psychic successfully tipped off police on the whereabouts of a murder victim. For obvious reasons, I was rather intrigued. It turns out that a self-professed psychic did tip off the police, correctly, about the location of the bodies of a missing couple. However, another individual involved in the case claims that the suspect in the murder drove the psychic to the spot and showed her where the bodies were. The psychic acknowledges she knows the suspect, but refuses to confirm or deny whether she was taken to the body site. She is quoted as saying, “All I can tell you is that I felt that I located the right place this year and I turned the location over to Const. [Jim] Case, who instigated the full search, and the bodies were recovered.” In other words, she is trying to have her cake and eat it too — playing up her “psychic abilities”, but refusing to answer whether or not she was shown the bodies by the murderer.
Turned over tip that led to murdered couple: psychic

Freeze New Orleans from the comfort of your own home
Chicago-based psychic Sonia Choquette has a tip for all you Bears fans out there: write “Freeze New Orleans” on a piece of paper, and put it in your freezer. The psychic recommends this because, as she puts it, “Bears fans should put countermojo on the Saints by using the deep freeze. And we have the weather for that.” I’m not sure what the “deep freeze” is, or why putting a piece of paper in your refrigerator would cause it, but as someone who is rooting for the Saints to win, I have a plan of my own: I’m going to write “Thaw New Orleans” on a cake, then bake it in the oven. That way, I can make some counter-countermojo against the Bears, and also have a tasty snack for the game.
Psychic’s a freeze spirit

Renowned psychic investigator ‘a con-man’
Some good research by a curious writer has exposed a well-regarded paranormal investigator as a fraud and charlatan. Harry Price, a “psychic detective” who was one of Britain’s foremost paranormal authorities in the first half of the 20th century, turns out to have been a con-man who publicly portrayed himself as a man of science, but was really a performer and publicity hound.
Detective work on psychic conman