Back in July 2008 MSNBC.com covered this angel image that appeared at night in the window of a carpet store in Porterville, California. Some people believed it was a sign from above. Others said it was merely the reflection of the lights from the gas station across the street. The gas station owner was annoyed because sightseers wanting to see the angel were blocking customers at his place of business. He tried turning off his lights to show visitors that the image was the result of reflections and glare from his nighttime lighting, but got so many threats he turned the lights back on. The store owners noted that since the angel's appearance vandalism in the area started to decease (and I guess, so did the threats to their neighbor when his lights came back on). Here's more.
I couldn't find any updated stories on the angel. Did it disappear?
Of course it disappeared when the gas station turned out the lights for good. It took a few days for the local crowd to fade away, but fade away they did.
I laugh each time I drive by there now, and you can bet it is one of the first places I take visitors so they can have a laugh in Porterville too.
There is no end to the length or breadth of what the majority of Portervillians will believe when it comes to anything religious. the only limit is common sense, and that seems to be in very short supply. This is hardly the only recent example.
- Porterville Skeptic
Posted by: Porterville Skeptic | February 26, 2010 at 07:10 PM
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Posted by: Chris | July 02, 2013 at 10:50 PM