Woman Sees Jesus In MRI Image

Aug 24, 2006 12:03 am US/Central

Woman Sees Jesus In MRI Image

(CBS) PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh now has its own case of a possible religious sighting in the form of an MRI.

Rhonda Hodge, of Duquesne, works for a neurologist at Allegheny General Hospital but she doesn't know how to explain it.

She's had a number of x-rays taken of her spine, because of a bulged disc, causing numbness in her neck, and left arm.

But, there's one picture that especially caught her attention, and that of her friends, and co-workers.

Hodge believes one image from an MRI shows a miraculous vision of Jesus, showing the Crucifixion.

"You can almost seen the thorns around the head and the nails... the nails through the feet," said Hodge.

Hodge doesn't know what to do next.

But, some of her friends have been offering her some suggestions.

"They've been trying to get me to sell the pictures on E-Bay," said Hodge. "It's been quite a few months, I haven't done it yet. I don't know. You could actually see the hands. They look like they're nailed on the cross. You can see the body. It's in a straight line and then you see his feet, they look like they're together, and the knees are bent."

Hodge says there's no doubt in her mind that the x-ray does, indeed, look like the Crucifixion.

But has it changed her life?

"I think I believe as much as I need to," said Hodge. "I can't be swayed by a picture. My neck does feel better. I don't know if that was Jesus or physical therapy."