Anderson Couple Claims Jesus Appeared on their Walmart Receipt

A couple of rubes in the Bible Belt.  Go figure.

ANDERSON COUNTY, S.C. — An engaged couple in Anderson County says a shadowy image that turned up on a receipt from Walmart looks like the face of Jesus.

Jacob Simmons and his fiancee, Gentry Lee Sutherland, said they bought some pictures from Walmart on Sunday, June 12.

The following Wednesday, the couple had just come home from a church service when Simmons spotted the receipt on the floor of Sutherland’s apartment. He says the receipt had changed.

“I was leaving the kitchen and I just looked on the floor, and it was like it was looking at me,” Simmons said.

A dark gray mark on the receipt seems to show two eyes, a nose and a mouth in a thickly bearded face.

“Then the more you look at it, the more it looked like Jesus, and it was just shocking, breathtaking,” Simmons said.

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Looks more like Charlie Manson to me, but what ever.

The couple said the image seemed to answer a question they had just been asked at church.

“We had a message on knowing God, abiding in him,” Sutherland said. “(The preacher asked) ‘If you know God, would you recognize him if you saw him?’”

Why yes, he works at Walmart!

Simmons said he called the store to ask what could have made the mark.

“They said the only way you could really get it black was to put heat on it,” Simmons said.

The couple says they did nothing to make the face appear on the receipt.

Yes, heat.  This happens to my parking receipts all the time in uptown Charlotte when I drive into work.  I pay at the booth, I put the receipt on the dashboard so the parking attendants know I paid and when I get back to my car around 5 o’clock, the receipt has usually turned gray from sitting in the sun all day.  The sun probably hit this couple’s receipt while it was lying on the floor and those two naive boobs think it’s a divine calling from a supernatural being.

Maybe they can sell it on eBay along with the lady who saw the Virgin Mary in her toast.

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