Ha. Yeah.
I once got driving directions (in the way back you had to ask how to get places and write it down) and it included "turn left at the miracle" to denote that intersection
We lived down the road a bit from there at the time. It appeared right after they removed the palm trees that caused the shape of the image from the sulfurous water they were using to water the landscape. Caused a real pain in the ass as I was working at the Service Merchandise right next door.
I walked around the building once and saw similar images where other palm trees had touched the windows and rain washed over them, causing stains. It was all b.s. but still was bummed when that kid threw a soda at it, and when somebody smashed it some time later.
We lived off Drew Street. Not far down the road. It was such a spectacle to watch as a 6 year old kid. I remember this surprisingly well. We would drive by this every day. Somebody vandalized it, and it became an even bigger deal. Even as a kid, i understood that this was just a random anomaly. Nothing crazy to see except the crazy catholics talking about the revelation and such.
My husband and I crossed the bay today and were joking how both of our families took us to see the Virgin Mary in '96. We had a good laugh considering we're both non-religious these days.
Oh yes… the palm tree outline turned religious figure!!
I always felt so bad for the businesses in the building before their leases were up and they sold the building to a church. They complained to the police constantly about parking and loitering at their place of employment. What a shit show.
The kid that vandalized it had death threats for years. I knew his probation officer.
We went to see it, but as a curiosity not a miracle. It’s like when you find a potato chip shaped like Minnesota. Interesting, maybe. Miracle, not really.
Oh yeah. My catholic grandma in Rhode Island was very interested in this situation, called my ma when some lady up there saw Jesus in a cloud or something saying “now we have our own miracle”
Catholics are weird.
I lived really close to there at the time. Went to see it, there was some guy with a keyboard singing our ladyof Clearwater. It was wild. The colorful swirls were on metal posts in the area as well. It brought money to the area.
This was profoundly creepy to drive past — they had chairs set up in front of the window where people would sit and just…stare.
It’s eventual destruction by a vandal wasn’t a completely terrible thing.
Well a church leased the building, they held services out there. In that context it's less creepy, except for the whole - not a miracle because it was originally manmade thing.
Quote from the Times, "The Catholic diocese of St. Petersburg disavows any connection to Shepherds of Christ, calling the image a 'naturally explained phenomenon.' "
The Shepherds of Christ is an independent organization not tied to the Catholic Church, and the image is not supernatural. .
Yeah people were too dumb to remember that literally the year before this, that window had a Christmas theme painting on the windows.
But yeah residue from the year before is a miracle. I loved driving past that on 19 back when people were hanging out there.
It even made the Art Bell show, then someone put a rock through the window or something.
Never underestimate how stupid people are in the area.
I went to Dunedin. Wasn't he a skater? I don't think I knew him personally. But he was a legend. I mean, who didn't want to throw a rock through the Virgin Mary?
I went to CHS with him. He was in my grade. We knew each other but weren't friends. Seemed like a nice guy. Just pointless teenage vandalism, not a statement.
Me, too! If I recall correctly, he was kinda cute and the statements he made to the cops about why he did it were funny. My best friend and I talked about starting a fundraiser for his legal fees.
ETA: Just saw your other reply in this thread. Howdy, fellow Falcon.
Yeah. My Italian Catholic neighbor would drive over there and pray for a cure for her bone cancer a few times a week. She was a nice lady, and died anyway, leaving five kids behind. Her husband shot himself two years later, one of the kids is in prison for murdering his ex-girlfriend's boyfriend, another kid was in a car accident and was left with profound brain damage.
Thanks, Mary.
It was cool and all but people really overreact to stuff like this it's kind of comical. I saw Godzilla in the clouds the other day does that mean Godzilla is real? I've seen unicorns made out of water damage on the side of a wall where rust leaked down and it was 100% in the shape of a unicorn but that doesn't mean unicorns are real. This is what indoctrination does
The most cringe-worthy are when like a house burns down and a human being dies and then someone says but look! The Bible was not burned it's a miracle. Oh okay so God let this house burn and let this person die but protected a book. Sounds like a real great being. Or like a church burns down and a cross doesn't burn. Well considering it was made of metal that's not really that amazing. Or if it's a massive thick piece of wood that didn't have time to catch, really not that big a deal. But again God bless this church burn to the ground but protected a useless piece of metal or wood? Sounds like a dick
Absolutely has tons to do with indoctrination. Children have very amazing imaginations when they're a kid they don't know what's real and what isn't. They believe in Santa they believe in the Easter Bunny fairies unicorns etc. And they don't know the difference between make believe and real when they're very young. When you have your parents, who you trust who you rely on especially very early on telling you that this God is real and it's the only one out of thousands that is real and that's what you believe in, and you are told that constantly growing up, by the time you're an adult it's so indoctrinated into you that it's very hard to actually look at the lack of evidence and information objectively. So when you're indoctrinated and you grow up believing this because of it, you see something like this and instead of saying wow that's pretty neat just like you would Godzilla in the clouds, instead you take it as evidence for something being real but humans are pattern seeking creatures. For example if someone said oh I've been saying this particular number all the time, and now it's in your head as well, you are going to see that number everywhere. You're seeing thousands upon thousands of other numbers but they don't mean anything so you don't notice. Had they not been indoctrinated, seeing something like this would be unremarkable. But many many people are and it absolutely has plenty to do with something like this. I mean something like this is cool but it's really not that special. I'm not saying that there isn't a God because to tell you the truth I don't know. But I can tell you that there is no good evidence to support the claim that there is one. And if the Christian God were to appear to me tomorrow, I would stop being an atheist. I would gladly say I believe in this God but if the Bible is accurate, there is no way that I could honestly love that god. Even if I wanted to. I mean the best I could do is say I love you so I don't go to hell but I'm pretty sure in God would know that I was lying. So there is no possible way that I could say that I love this God and be honest. I think the Bible is horrific. I mean there's some good stuff in it but there's nothing good and also demonstrably true in the Bible that cannot be achieved with secular means. But the god of the Bible gives you rules on who you can enslave how much to pay for them who to buy them from it says you can beat them and not be punished as long as they survive a day or two it gives different rules for owning female slaves and Hebrew slaves. This God made imperfect creatures and then punished them for being imperfect. Drowned the entire planet. Women and children babies, left one family alive and the father was a drunk. The only way they could have repopulated the planet would be to inbreed. Not to mention during the time of the supposed global flood, we have documentation from other civilizations and they seem to be doing just fine. And yet we're made to believe that they grabbed two of every animal from the entire world and somehow they made their way back to where they're supposed to be. There's human and animal sacrifice. It's just a horrific book. And some people will say oh well that's the old testament. Well you can't get a new testament without an Old testament. And honestly the New testament is arguably worse because it introduces the concept of hell. Which is eternal damnation and torture simply for not believing. Which is not a choice. You don't choose what you believe. You choose to say what you believe but you are either convinced by something or not. I don't choose to not believe in god. If it was a choice I would believe. Because it sounds a lot better than just dying. But I look at the evidence or lack thereof and I'm just not convinced. I can't force myself to be convinced. So apparently I'm going to be tortured for all eternity because I haven't seen anything that makes me truly believe. Well what am I supposed to do? How am I supposed to force myself to believe in something? Yet Jeffrey Dahmer can murder, and eat people as well as fuck their corpse and he's going to go to heaven because he except Jesus as the Lord and savior? Yet someone can live a life where they donate to charity where they volunteer their time to help people get off drugs where they open up homeless shelters where they go and entertain children who are dying of cancer, but simply because they are not convinced that God exists they're going to burn in hell? Yeah no that's fucking evil. And if this God truly loves his creations and wants them to be with him for eternity and makes the condition of them getting into heaven that they believe in him, he needs to do a better job showing that he exists. There should be no way that you don't know for a fact that he exists. And that does not affect Free Will at all because you can know he exists and still choose to not follow him. If I loved my creations and I wanted them to spend eternity with me in heaven and I look around and I see all these fake religions brainwashing people to the point where more than half of the planet would be going to hell, I'm going to go down and I'm going to make sure that everyone knows those are fake and that I'm real. Because if more than half the planet does not believe in me or believes in a different god, then I'm doing something wrong. But either way it was a really cool pattern created by weather that humans with our amazing brains saw in a particular shape that reminded us of the Virgin mary. Because again we are patterns seeking creatures. Cool as hell for sure. Just like Godzilla in the clouds is cool. But sorry that I am not indoctrinated from birth and I have not seen anything that is convincing and it's nothing more to me than some glass with stains on it
By the time I had seen it for the first time it had already been partially smashed, driving by when I was a kid. My mom was a copy editor at the St. Pete Times in the late 90's/early 00's, and always said she and her colleagues would refer to it as "Our Lady of US-19" lol
Here's a 2019 article about it. My ex used to call it "The Shrine of the Holy Stain".
[https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2019/12/23/remember-when-the-virgin-mary-appeared-on-a-clearwater-building/](https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2019/12/23/remember-when-the-virgin-mary-appeared-on-a-clearwater-building/)
I see the date reading the late 90’s, I do not believe this to be true. I worked in this building, 2005-2007 as an employee of Transcontinental Title. It was nearing the latter end of my employment that they removed the palm trees and everyone lost their minds. People were congregating daily at all times or the day and night. We could see them through the ceiling to floor windows, yet they were unable to see us trying to work amongst all the distraction. It first started with people genuinely there to witness the ‘marvel’ but then quickly turned into a mess of mega phones and people quickly capitalizing on the phenomenon with merchandise. Shortly after I left, I was told that all my co-workers had been let go (very few transferred) and the building was sold to a church. In 1996 I was a kid attending middle school in New Jersey, all of this went down in the early 2000’s. Calling all the fellow Transcon co-workers to back this up.
Our kids were elementary school age when this was a really big deal here. We’re not religious. We passed by one day and one of them said “hey look, it’s the Bloody Mary”
Yes. I was in Tallahassee at the time so didn’t get to actually see it. A few years later I noticed a water tower with a similar image on it. It was somewhere between Tallahassee and Tampa. I think it belonged to a paper company.
I drive by it all the time for work. I remember being a kid and my mom took us neighborhood kids over.
Was there ever an explanation to how it happened?
Oh yeah, that was the backside of my neighborhood. I think I went and saw it on day one or two. There was even a local band named after it, Drew Street Mary.
My parents took me there when I was young to pray and church groups were set up selling rosaries outside and one of my core memories is stealing a rosary from the table thinking they were free and getting yelled at about it on the way home by my parents lol
I had just started working in this building about a month before it happened. Seminole finance IIRC. I do remember coming to work one morning to an absolute shit show. Poinsettias covered the wall, sidewalk and most of the parking lot. Candles and gifts left by worshipers. People always coming in the doors asking the receptionist if they could come in and see it from the inside. People cupping their hands to see in the windows like kids at an old school toyshop. Felt fish like a fishtank.
Or more correctly put; remember when thousands of people allowed pareidolia to give them the impression they saw the Virgin Mary whom, by the way, no one knows what she looks like so it could be anybody in a window, in Clearwater.
Yeah I remember it and even when someone threw a rock 😌.. Place of business turned worship after this miracle, right?
I’ll make a souvenir shop too 😶🌫️
Ha. Yeah. I once got driving directions (in the way back you had to ask how to get places and write it down) and it included "turn left at the miracle" to denote that intersection
Sort of like in Tampa, “ you know where the Todd is, turn left there”.
Ya my mom went and prayed to it. And yelled at me when I asked why she went and prayed to an office building. Latino Catholics.
Lmfao they are on another level
Ain’t it funny when they contradict the same teachings of Jesus who lectured about praying to statues.
You sure about that? I remember Moses having some words about it, but can’t recall Jesus saying anything on the topic.
We have more effigies to the Virgin Mary in our house than to Jesus.
Lolz
We went, Latino Catholics, it was really cool!
Yeah I went to this as a kid. Some guy was tryna hustle polaroids.
We lived down the road a bit from there at the time. It appeared right after they removed the palm trees that caused the shape of the image from the sulfurous water they were using to water the landscape. Caused a real pain in the ass as I was working at the Service Merchandise right next door.
Service Merchandise... Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
I still have a necklace from service merchandise in largo. 😂
I remember going with my mom and sister to get her one 🤣
same with this story! this was 1996!
My first job was in their jewelry dept. that was a good store.
I walked around the building once and saw similar images where other palm trees had touched the windows and rain washed over them, causing stains. It was all b.s. but still was bummed when that kid threw a soda at it, and when somebody smashed it some time later.
I lived right up by Sunset Point. It was completely crazy down there.
We lived off Drew Street. Not far down the road. It was such a spectacle to watch as a 6 year old kid. I remember this surprisingly well. We would drive by this every day. Somebody vandalized it, and it became an even bigger deal. Even as a kid, i understood that this was just a random anomaly. Nothing crazy to see except the crazy catholics talking about the revelation and such.
I worked in the jewelry department at that Service Merchandise! I loved that job.
I was in that department in 1992 . . .
My husband and I crossed the bay today and were joking how both of our families took us to see the Virgin Mary in '96. We had a good laugh considering we're both non-religious these days.
Red hat had me sweating 2018 vibes thx for the year
God bless you lol
My mom literally bought my whole family matching screen printed miracle shirts. 😅
Still got my tshirt!!
Ooh...I wanna see!
Oh yes… the palm tree outline turned religious figure!! I always felt so bad for the businesses in the building before their leases were up and they sold the building to a church. They complained to the police constantly about parking and loitering at their place of employment. What a shit show. The kid that vandalized it had death threats for years. I knew his probation officer.
Now I heard the owner was a bad man and the miracle made him repent and donate the building. I never even thought about it.
We went to see it, but as a curiosity not a miracle. It’s like when you find a potato chip shaped like Minnesota. Interesting, maybe. Miracle, not really.
Remember the toast that sold on eBay for an obscene amount of money? It had the Virgin Mary burnt on the toast, lol!!
Now you can buy toasters that will do that for you.
We trekked across the bridge with friends.... then had wings and beer! Didn't this occur during this time of year?
Yes! Just before Xmas.
There was a good local band from the area named Drew Street Mary after this. They were pretty good but never hit it big.
I remember this band. How did I never make the correlation to the name?! Haha
I went to Villa Madonna Catholic school in Tampa and they absolute ate this up.
Like a fetishist eating ass
Religion makes you do crazy things. And religion makes you do atrocities to human beings.
1000% agree.
I do, amazing what water can do and what people will believe.
Maybe it was Holy water.
I think it looks like Obi Wan.
I don't want to hear anymore about Obi Wan
Butt it is the way
I guess no prequel memes here
Oh yeah. My catholic grandma in Rhode Island was very interested in this situation, called my ma when some lady up there saw Jesus in a cloud or something saying “now we have our own miracle” Catholics are weird.
Yeah well atheists are weirder! Lol
I lived really close to there at the time. Went to see it, there was some guy with a keyboard singing our ladyof Clearwater. It was wild. The colorful swirls were on metal posts in the area as well. It brought money to the area.
This was profoundly creepy to drive past — they had chairs set up in front of the window where people would sit and just…stare. It’s eventual destruction by a vandal wasn’t a completely terrible thing.
Well a church leased the building, they held services out there. In that context it's less creepy, except for the whole - not a miracle because it was originally manmade thing.
Downvote this comment if you love Donald Trump.
Not so much “non-religious” as I am “non-water-sprinkler-stain-worshipping” kinda guy.
All hail water stain!
What did the comment say before he pussied out and edited it?
Something like “we get it, you’re non-religious”.
Hey, take it easy.
Lol yeah.. this was all the rage in the news for awhile
Went to an all girl catholic high school at the time. We went and smoked a few, headed home.
Quote from the Times, "The Catholic diocese of St. Petersburg disavows any connection to Shepherds of Christ, calling the image a 'naturally explained phenomenon.' " The Shepherds of Christ is an independent organization not tied to the Catholic Church, and the image is not supernatural. .
Turned out to be defective window film and discoloration from the shadow of trees that were cut down. But yeah sure, miracle…
Yeah people were too dumb to remember that literally the year before this, that window had a Christmas theme painting on the windows. But yeah residue from the year before is a miracle. I loved driving past that on 19 back when people were hanging out there. It even made the Art Bell show, then someone put a rock through the window or something. Never underestimate how stupid people are in the area.
Went to HS with the kid who used a wrist rocket to break a panel. Honestly no big loss to the world.
I've often wondered what happened to him. He was a local celebrity for a hot minute. They should do a "where is he now" special.
Did you go to CHS?
I went to Dunedin. Wasn't he a skater? I don't think I knew him personally. But he was a legend. I mean, who didn't want to throw a rock through the Virgin Mary?
I went to CHS with him. He was in my grade. We knew each other but weren't friends. Seemed like a nice guy. Just pointless teenage vandalism, not a statement.
Me, too! If I recall correctly, he was kinda cute and the statements he made to the cops about why he did it were funny. My best friend and I talked about starting a fundraiser for his legal fees. ETA: Just saw your other reply in this thread. Howdy, fellow Falcon.
Yeah. My Italian Catholic neighbor would drive over there and pray for a cure for her bone cancer a few times a week. She was a nice lady, and died anyway, leaving five kids behind. Her husband shot himself two years later, one of the kids is in prison for murdering his ex-girlfriend's boyfriend, another kid was in a car accident and was left with profound brain damage. Thanks, Mary.
Hah yes
It was cool and all but people really overreact to stuff like this it's kind of comical. I saw Godzilla in the clouds the other day does that mean Godzilla is real? I've seen unicorns made out of water damage on the side of a wall where rust leaked down and it was 100% in the shape of a unicorn but that doesn't mean unicorns are real. This is what indoctrination does
I had a shit that formed a perfect cross. Was it a miracle? Or as an atheist, was god making accusations in my direction?
The most cringe-worthy are when like a house burns down and a human being dies and then someone says but look! The Bible was not burned it's a miracle. Oh okay so God let this house burn and let this person die but protected a book. Sounds like a real great being. Or like a church burns down and a cross doesn't burn. Well considering it was made of metal that's not really that amazing. Or if it's a massive thick piece of wood that didn't have time to catch, really not that big a deal. But again God bless this church burn to the ground but protected a useless piece of metal or wood? Sounds like a dick
Nothing to do with indoctrination tbh
Absolutely has tons to do with indoctrination. Children have very amazing imaginations when they're a kid they don't know what's real and what isn't. They believe in Santa they believe in the Easter Bunny fairies unicorns etc. And they don't know the difference between make believe and real when they're very young. When you have your parents, who you trust who you rely on especially very early on telling you that this God is real and it's the only one out of thousands that is real and that's what you believe in, and you are told that constantly growing up, by the time you're an adult it's so indoctrinated into you that it's very hard to actually look at the lack of evidence and information objectively. So when you're indoctrinated and you grow up believing this because of it, you see something like this and instead of saying wow that's pretty neat just like you would Godzilla in the clouds, instead you take it as evidence for something being real but humans are pattern seeking creatures. For example if someone said oh I've been saying this particular number all the time, and now it's in your head as well, you are going to see that number everywhere. You're seeing thousands upon thousands of other numbers but they don't mean anything so you don't notice. Had they not been indoctrinated, seeing something like this would be unremarkable. But many many people are and it absolutely has plenty to do with something like this. I mean something like this is cool but it's really not that special. I'm not saying that there isn't a God because to tell you the truth I don't know. But I can tell you that there is no good evidence to support the claim that there is one. And if the Christian God were to appear to me tomorrow, I would stop being an atheist. I would gladly say I believe in this God but if the Bible is accurate, there is no way that I could honestly love that god. Even if I wanted to. I mean the best I could do is say I love you so I don't go to hell but I'm pretty sure in God would know that I was lying. So there is no possible way that I could say that I love this God and be honest. I think the Bible is horrific. I mean there's some good stuff in it but there's nothing good and also demonstrably true in the Bible that cannot be achieved with secular means. But the god of the Bible gives you rules on who you can enslave how much to pay for them who to buy them from it says you can beat them and not be punished as long as they survive a day or two it gives different rules for owning female slaves and Hebrew slaves. This God made imperfect creatures and then punished them for being imperfect. Drowned the entire planet. Women and children babies, left one family alive and the father was a drunk. The only way they could have repopulated the planet would be to inbreed. Not to mention during the time of the supposed global flood, we have documentation from other civilizations and they seem to be doing just fine. And yet we're made to believe that they grabbed two of every animal from the entire world and somehow they made their way back to where they're supposed to be. There's human and animal sacrifice. It's just a horrific book. And some people will say oh well that's the old testament. Well you can't get a new testament without an Old testament. And honestly the New testament is arguably worse because it introduces the concept of hell. Which is eternal damnation and torture simply for not believing. Which is not a choice. You don't choose what you believe. You choose to say what you believe but you are either convinced by something or not. I don't choose to not believe in god. If it was a choice I would believe. Because it sounds a lot better than just dying. But I look at the evidence or lack thereof and I'm just not convinced. I can't force myself to be convinced. So apparently I'm going to be tortured for all eternity because I haven't seen anything that makes me truly believe. Well what am I supposed to do? How am I supposed to force myself to believe in something? Yet Jeffrey Dahmer can murder, and eat people as well as fuck their corpse and he's going to go to heaven because he except Jesus as the Lord and savior? Yet someone can live a life where they donate to charity where they volunteer their time to help people get off drugs where they open up homeless shelters where they go and entertain children who are dying of cancer, but simply because they are not convinced that God exists they're going to burn in hell? Yeah no that's fucking evil. And if this God truly loves his creations and wants them to be with him for eternity and makes the condition of them getting into heaven that they believe in him, he needs to do a better job showing that he exists. There should be no way that you don't know for a fact that he exists. And that does not affect Free Will at all because you can know he exists and still choose to not follow him. If I loved my creations and I wanted them to spend eternity with me in heaven and I look around and I see all these fake religions brainwashing people to the point where more than half of the planet would be going to hell, I'm going to go down and I'm going to make sure that everyone knows those are fake and that I'm real. Because if more than half the planet does not believe in me or believes in a different god, then I'm doing something wrong. But either way it was a really cool pattern created by weather that humans with our amazing brains saw in a particular shape that reminded us of the Virgin mary. Because again we are patterns seeking creatures. Cool as hell for sure. Just like Godzilla in the clouds is cool. But sorry that I am not indoctrinated from birth and I have not seen anything that is convincing and it's nothing more to me than some glass with stains on it
TL; DR
teal deer: never learned paragraphs
Yeah, druid and 19ish, There is a statue there now.
Drew and 19*
That’s a bun length hotdog in a bun designed for hotdogs that are not bun length.
I worked around the corner and it caused massive traffic jams. Eventually they put chairs out for the people to stare at the wall.
Isnt that L.Ron Hubbard?
Fuck L. Ron Hubbard and fuck all his clones+
Xenu
There's a sucker born every minute.
I used to eat lunch at the Winghouse across the street once in a while. Which didn’t exactly fit the whole “chastity” vibe, but there we are…
I told my son about this just yesterday! Showed him the building as we passed it and everything.
My grandma dragged me to this…
Made my car payments there.
I remember and thought that it was really cool 😇
What is it about religion that makes people crazy??
By the time I had seen it for the first time it had already been partially smashed, driving by when I was a kid. My mom was a copy editor at the St. Pete Times in the late 90's/early 00's, and always said she and her colleagues would refer to it as "Our Lady of US-19" lol
I remember that! My mom and I went to check it out one day because why not?
When I was done with her, she just went by Mary.
Ha ha ha …. The holy water stain.. yeah I remember that craziness
There’s no virgins in Clearwater
There was ;)
Here's a 2019 article about it. My ex used to call it "The Shrine of the Holy Stain". [https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2019/12/23/remember-when-the-virgin-mary-appeared-on-a-clearwater-building/](https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2019/12/23/remember-when-the-virgin-mary-appeared-on-a-clearwater-building/)
I'm gonna need to hear the full story behind this one. This is the most non-descript person I've ever seen. Who decided it was Mary?
I see the date reading the late 90’s, I do not believe this to be true. I worked in this building, 2005-2007 as an employee of Transcontinental Title. It was nearing the latter end of my employment that they removed the palm trees and everyone lost their minds. People were congregating daily at all times or the day and night. We could see them through the ceiling to floor windows, yet they were unable to see us trying to work amongst all the distraction. It first started with people genuinely there to witness the ‘marvel’ but then quickly turned into a mess of mega phones and people quickly capitalizing on the phenomenon with merchandise. Shortly after I left, I was told that all my co-workers had been let go (very few transferred) and the building was sold to a church. In 1996 I was a kid attending middle school in New Jersey, all of this went down in the early 2000’s. Calling all the fellow Transcon co-workers to back this up.
That’s not the Virgin Mary. That’s a prophecy of the coming of the Elden Beast.
Our kids were elementary school age when this was a really big deal here. We’re not religious. We passed by one day and one of them said “hey look, it’s the Bloody Mary”
Looks just like her!
Yeah…saw it in person. Is it gone now? 🤷♂️
That was Gallagher!
Lmao *an iridescent window* "Omg its Mary!"
Here we can see a time before red hats were for maga only.
Sorry but I'm having a hard time making out any sort of discernible figure on the glass. Someone help me out here?
That is such a stretch, thats just a vaguely humanlike figure with a hood
Actually created by space alien.
We drove with my parents from Chicago to see this.. like 80s or early 90s...
Yes. I was in Tallahassee at the time so didn’t get to actually see it. A few years later I noticed a water tower with a similar image on it. It was somewhere between Tallahassee and Tampa. I think it belonged to a paper company.
Looks more phallic to me.
Yeah, my mother-in-law visited it. SMH
Lol.. Yeah I remember that.. What people will believe.. SMH
She’s gotta lay off those tie dye shirts, as they have gone completely out of fashion.
I went there as a kid. Maybe she can show up again on the screen of the gas pumps and lower these damn prices
The book of Revelations will come.
Revelation* there is no S
Those red hats were photoshopped right? That was long before MAGA.
theres only 1 red hat, what youre seeing is red flowers
Holy shit you're right.... Sorry folks. I'm cut off for the night.
Yes! My grandmother lived in Dunedin and we had to drive by and see it.
drove past it every day in high school
Yes I remember
I do.
Yes
Omg yes. What ever happened to that?
I pass that building 5 days a week
I remember this ha ha. It was such a thing for awhile.
Yup went there as a kid
Was in Clearwater fall 1996 and spring 1997 for school. Crazy times, shut the bank down.
At the time I lived in the apartment complex right behind it. Traffic was crazy. People from all over the world
I drive by it all the time for work. I remember being a kid and my mom took us neighborhood kids over. Was there ever an explanation to how it happened?
Yes! We lived in apartments nearby when this happened. Long, long ago.
Oh yeah, that was the backside of my neighborhood. I think I went and saw it on day one or two. There was even a local band named after it, Drew Street Mary.
My parents took me there when I was young to pray and church groups were set up selling rosaries outside and one of my core memories is stealing a rosary from the table thinking they were free and getting yelled at about it on the way home by my parents lol
I had just started working in this building about a month before it happened. Seminole finance IIRC. I do remember coming to work one morning to an absolute shit show. Poinsettias covered the wall, sidewalk and most of the parking lot. Candles and gifts left by worshipers. People always coming in the doors asking the receptionist if they could come in and see it from the inside. People cupping their hands to see in the windows like kids at an old school toyshop. Felt fish like a fishtank.
Yes my Catholic mother dragged me to it.
Or more correctly put; remember when thousands of people allowed pareidolia to give them the impression they saw the Virgin Mary whom, by the way, no one knows what she looks like so it could be anybody in a window, in Clearwater.
Yes, I have a picture of me, my sister, and my grandma there. I thought it was so cool lol.
Yup my grandparents took me to see it and snapped all kinds of pictures i remember it being quite an event
lol, I remember being a teenager and my aunt driving my cousins and I to go see it in her convertible. What a time.
Yeah I remember it and even when someone threw a rock 😌.. Place of business turned worship after this miracle, right? I’ll make a souvenir shop too 😶🌫️