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''By [[Graham Llewellyn Grove]], December 2004, [http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddn4v5jr_64gdbg97 Original article]
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==Introduction==
A grilled cheese toasted sandwich was sold for US $28,000 in November, 2004, on the electronic auction site, ebay.com. The toast was said to bear an image of the [[Virgin Mary]] on it. Can you believe that?! The woman who sold the cheese toast claimed that she grilled it 10 years ago. She said that she was about to take a bite into it when she saw the face of the Virgin Mary looking up at her - so she kept the toast, and it hasn't gone mouldy in 10 years. She also claims that it has brought her good luck, and that she has won over US $70,000 at the casino casin o because of it. To me, something sounds awfully wrong about the whole story.
[[Visions]] of the Virgin Mary have been occurring for a long time now. A quick search on the internet will find that there are hundreds of sites dedicated to these apparitions. Search again for apparitions of other people or things, and suddenly the list of websites becomes very small. Almost all the websites are of so-called Christian visions and apparitions. There are a few websites dedicated to the phenomenon of seeing big dark animals, called "black dog apparitions". These apparitions have apparently been going on for centuries in England, but apart from these, there isn't much else out there being reported except by psychiatric patients. I couldn't find any literature of apparitions of [[Islam]]ic, [[Hindu]] or [[Buddhist]] origin, although I'd guess that visions to followers of these religions do occur from time to time.
