I know him!
Same shopping cart, same bridge. The running water has flipped it over and it’s waving its little wheels in the air.
When I posted about finding a fridge in the crick yesterday, it put me in mind of a news article from years ago – some old Tennessee redneck saw the face of Jesus in a dead fridge on his porch.
I went looking for it, and – holy geez! – the number of things people have seen the face of Jesus on are astonishing. Mold. Toast. Several refrigerators. A dent in the side of a truck. Bacon and eggs.
Toward the top of the list was this article from Popular Mechanics. It’s about how a forensic science team recreated the face of Jesus by examining contemporary skulls from near Jerusalem. I remember reading it in 2002.
Reading it through, I thought – “hey, I know that guy!” No, not Jesus. Richard Neave, the leading facial reconstructionist on the team. He’s a member of my little local art club. Retired down to the coast. He looks considerably older and frailer than that now.
One of my true crime books from the Eighties described him as the foremost facial reconstructionist in the world. He was tickled that I knew that.
If you do an image search on “face of Jesus” you’ll get mostly serious links. For the funny stuff, Google “face of jesus on the side of a refrigerator” and it will call up other stuff, too.
p.s. You do not want more information on the miraculous chunk of blue ice that fell from heaven and landed in Tennessee. It was what you think it was.
February 18, 2025 — 6:50 pm
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