Chyanna Richards saw Jesus in her bathroom.
Last month, Richards, who lives near Houston, told a local TV news station that she saw the image of Christ in a splotch of green mold on the wall above her tub. “People say, ‘Your house is blessed,'” Richards said.
Not that there is anything unique about what she saw. To the contrary, the Son of God seems to pop up in some very odd places.
A woman in Port St. Lucie, Fla., saw Him in a cellphone picture of her TV screen. A woman in Clermont, Fla., saw Him in a power meter. A Tampa Bay area man saw Him in a bathroom door. In Sullivan’s Island, S.C., a woman saw Him on the back of a dead stingray. In McLean, Va., a family saw Him in a tree in their front yard. A couple in Anderson County, S.C., saw Him on a Wal-Mart receipt.
The reader will doubtless note that these manifestations seem to concentrate in the South — the Bible Belt. They are not exclusive to that region but presumably, when people in relatively irreligious Philadelphia or Seattle see what appears to be a face on a banana peel, they are more apt to shrug it off.