A dad was stunned when he noticed a bruise on his arm that looked like ‘Jesus’, joking that he could have mistaken it as a sign he’s the ‘next messiah’.
Jamie Hales, 37, glanced down at his left forearm on Monday night (13 December) and did a double take when he saw the son of God peering back at him, with a clearly defined head, eyes, moustache, beard and long hair.
Hales, a factory worker from Chesterfield in Derbyshire, said: "I'm not religious - if I was I'd be thinking it's a sign I'm the new messiah.
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"I was sat on the sofa watching The Unforgivable on Netflix a couple of nights ago and I looked down and thought 'Ooh, what's that?'
"I thought it looked like a face so I took a picture of it. I sat there studying it and then I sent it to friends and family and I kept getting different people seeing different things.
"It's like one of those things where a therapist will show you a picture of something and everybody sees something different.
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"It's the beard that caught me first - that's what drew the comparison to Charles Darwin.
"But then after I started sharing it everyone was saying it looks more like Jesus and then I started to see that."
Hales has no idea how he got the bruise, but suspects he may have inadvertently bashed his arm at work.
"I've got quite a manual job so I catch myself on things all the time and don't really notice," he explained.
His mum Pat Hales posted photos of the religious mark online, although not everyone thinks it looks like Jesus.
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"It's really entertained her reading all the comments," Hales said.
"Quite a lot of people in the comments are saying it looks like Jesus, Father Christmas and my mum told me that some had said it looks like Charles Manson.
"It took a slightly darker turn there, I hope it's not [him].
"The bruise was brown but it's now more of a yellow colour. It's not changed my mind about religion, it's just a light-hearted bit of fun."
Posting the snaps on Tuesday 14 December, his mum had written: "My son just sent me this photo of a bruise on his arm.
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"I think it looks like Jesus. He thinks it's Charles Darwin!"
One person commented: "Definitely Rasputin."
Another said: "Charles Manson."
Hales added: "It's nice to be semi-famous because I've had the son of God appear on my arm.
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"I think my mum has had more fun out of it than me though.
"She's retired and I sent it to her and she shared it online. It's really entertained her reading all the comments."
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