Surprising Find in a Log

[Charlie Barnes]

Check out the image in this log cross section. It almost looks fake, but I hope it's a natural occurrence. The link doesn't have many details, but here it is anyway.

http://www.wlwt.com/news/national/Virgin-Mary-spotted-in-piece-of-wood/-/9837944/17327056/-/y5bpq1/-/index.html

[Mike Henderson]

Some people see pictures in clouds. Others see pictures in logs. Both are in the viewer's mind.

Mike

[Gary Hodgin]

Cross cut it and it'd probably go for $1000 a piece on ebay.

[harry hood]

I see a fiendish ghoul holding a large sea turtle. What do you see?

[Mike OMelia]

I see a fiendish ghoul holding a large sea turtle. What do you see?

Right, it looks like a medevil reprentation of what non-period people think Mary looked like

[Dan Phalen]

If I said what I think it looks like, I'd get kicked off the forum.

[Jim Matthews]

If I said what I think it looks like, I'd get kicked off the forum.

Well, depending on your speciality...
I thought it looked a great deal like a map of Palau.

[Matt Day]

Rotated 90° clockwise and it looks like a duck head to me.

[Mike Monroe]

Just more evidence of Ancient Aliens.

[Myk Rian]

People from the world over are going to be making pilgrimages to see it, at $10/per.

[Mel Fulks]

Anybody remember the old art school applications ? DRAW THIS GIRL! WE WILL TELL YOU IF YOU HAVE TALENT! They were often printed on match book covers. Well IMHO if you sent a drawing that looked like either picture , and a check you would be accepted !

[Larry Edgerton]

Tough crowd Charlie;)........

Larry

[George Gyulatyan]

I see a fiendish ghoul holding a large sea turtle. What do you see?
Hah! I thought I was the only one! For the fiendish ghoul, I see the masked character from the movie "Scream"!

Mike H has it right. We all see a face on the Moon too.

With anything, people like to see patterns, and most of the time they see what they are looking for. Same goes for all those Nostradamus predictions that are somehow coming "true".

Have you guys read about how the French had discovered N-rays, but it was only the French that could detect it?

[johnny means]

I'm seeing podiums in Catholic churches all over the world adorned with veneer from this tree.

[Kevin Bourque]

I cut into a burl 2 years ago that looked remarkably like Abe Lincoln wearing a sombrero.

[Mel Fulks]

Would really be nice on the dash panels of the new Popemobiles.

[Kevin Bourque]

Would really be nice on the dash panels of the new Popemobiles.


Or glued to a smart bomb hurtling towards a terrorist hideout.

[Richard McComas]

Kind of looks like the cross section of a tree to me.

[Bruce Page]

Kind of looks like the cross section of a tree to me.

:D Rich, that made me laugh!

[Gordon Eyre]

My first thought was the movie Scream.

[Jim Rimmer]

I thought it was the Mount Rushmore vector the guy in the Engraver;s forum is looking for.