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Woman who sees Christ in snack may put it on eBay

By Dan Koller
Posted: May 25, 2009.

Print: Preston Hollow People

imagePreston Hollow resident Sara Bell recently stopped by this newspaper’s office with a unique discovery: a Cheeto that she thinks looks like Jesus.

Bell came across the strange snack a few weeks ago while she and her husband, Dan, were driving home from Houston. He bought her a bag of Cheetos in Jersey Village, she said, and everything was normal until she was about a third of the way through it.

“Then Jesus appeared,” Bell said with a laugh.

Until she decides what to do with the Cheeto, Bell is keeping it safe, wrapped in tissue inside a box that once held a wristwatch.

“What I’ve been worried about is if I have it around my house, it’ll get eaten,” the retired teacher said. “If not by a person, then by an ant.”

Bell said she hadn’t shown the Cheeto to any ministers at her church (Highland Park United Methodist), but several friends have seen it, including Carolyn Matthews.

“I can’t imagine that anyone looks at their Cheeto closely enough to see that,” Matthews said. “I eat mine way too fast.”

Apparently, Bell isn’t the only person to eat Cheetos slowly enough for a divine experience. In the past 15 months, there have been media reports about similar finds by a Missouri woman and a Houston man.

“God is probably wherever you want to find God,” said the Rev. Diana Holbert, pastor of Grace United Methodist Church in Old East Dallas. “It seems like a little bit of a waste of time, but who am I to judge?”
Some friends have told Bell to put her Cheeto on eBay. Others told her to try to get it on Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show. But Matthews offered no such advice.
“I just told her I’m glad she’s found Jesus,” she said.

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Comments (14)

1. Kyle Batson

Looks more like a zombie Cheeto to me. Though, I guess since Christ was raised from the dead, it sorta works.

posted on May 25, 2009
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“It seems like a little bit of a waste of time, but who am I to judge?”

Indeed, you are wasting the majority of your life Rev. Holbert.

posted on May 25, 2009
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ha-ha

posted on May 25, 2009
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funny… cheesus saves

posted on May 25, 2009
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I want Jesus so bad right now *drool*

posted on May 25, 2009
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Jesus returns…  deep fried and lightly coated with MSG cheese powder.

posted on May 26, 2009
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IT’S JERRY GARCIA!!!!!

posted on May 26, 2009
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8. shellemush

With that yellow tint, looks like something from the Simpsons. Maybe Zombie Mo the Bartender. . . mostly just looks deeeeelicious.  More so than, say, a communion wafer (shrug)

posted on May 26, 2009
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Pretty flabby arms for a carpenter.  Plus Jesus probably had a neck. 

Nope, not Jesus…. I’d say Linda Hunt as Shadout Mapes in “Dune”.

posted on May 26, 2009
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Sara Bell needs to get out of the house more often!!

posted on May 27, 2009
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The sad part is someone more nuts than her will likely buy it from her.

posted on May 27, 2009
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12. daren niklerog

Actually, I’ve been sifting through some old yearbooks and I think this cheeto is a dead-ringer for Avram Ben Moshe. He was the son of a mason. He went to high school with Mary (rumor has it that he and Mary might have “done it”. So much for the virgin thing. But, you never know about high school rumors).

posted on May 28, 2009
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Um…... isn’t this the same as all religion are doing selling belives for profit.
But what do i know im just a Tennager

posted on June 4, 2009
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You could see anything you want in anything you want, if you try hard enough. sigh. Some people have that kind of time on their hands and wind up ‘gracing’ the covers of tabloids. Someone had mentioned previously that this is what religions do, well, religious authorities/officials, anyway; bilk money from believers! But, then, I’m not religious. I actually prefer to think for myself!


On a side note, I showed the pic to my mom, a Catholic who doesn’t go to church, and *she didn’t see Jesus *hmm*


Oh, gosh, looking at that pic is making me hungry for Cheetos! *drool*

posted on June 4, 2009
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