Likely how religions got started in the first place.
I read the thread title, and I wondered, “What the heck are Illinois Underpants?”
I’m tired. I can’t see clearly.
AskNott
Take a look at reply #2 in my previous Virgin Mary Sighting Thread:
Yeah he thought it said underpants too.
Am I to be subjected to this frivolity every time I post the news that the Virgin Mary has been observed in an Illinois underpass ?
Just kidding of course !!!
How close are you to the Bayside neighborhood of Queens?
Clearly I am not spending enough time scrutinizing my skid marks.
After I posted, it occured to me that Her underpants would be a holy pair, and the label would say BVM instead of BVD. They’d be clean, of course, in case She got into an accident. I don’t think we’re talking thong, French cut, or black lace, either.
AskNott
And I think we can rule out the idea that the Holy Mother would not be wearing anything from the Victoria’s Secret catalog.
BTW, Salt-Stain Mary is still alive and kicking under the Fullerton underpass. There are usually several candles and flowers left there when I pass by it each day.
Frostillicus
I thought the Salt Stain Mary image had been painted over or scrubbed away or something like that.
In spite of our attempts to erase her divine image, the Blessed Mother perserveres.
Wow it gives one pause doesn’t it?
Well, no it really doesn’t.
I lived in Bayside from 1983 to 1988, actually. I’m not saying there are no nuts in New York- just that they’re my kind. At least this woman had the courage to have visions inside her own head instead of going with salt and an underpass. 
Shit…er…goddam…er…
Wow.
I guess.
Follow the GOURD!
Seeing Virgin Mary in uderpasses,Jesus on waffles etc, Is Like an ink blot test people see what they want, Because it looks like it is a woman in a veil to them they feel it is the Virgin Mary. I can see a lot of Arabs in some of the paneling in one of my rooms, others can see it too but it is just the way the grain was formed in the paneling plus the stain.
People need something to strenghten their beliefs and they want it to be a sign. Strange but when my great grandson saw a picture Osama Bin Laden on TV he thought it was Jesus because he had long hair and a shawl over his head. Sometimes we want things to be so badly we believe things that are not necessarily true.
Monavis
There’s a word for this phenomenon – pareidolia.
Anyone who finds this really amusing should read Lucky You, by Carl Hiassen.
Au contraire, Wolf Meister. I counted a good 10 or so candles underneath Salt Stain Mary on my way to work today. She lives, I tells ya, she lives!
Turtles!
And what do you call *that *phenomenon?
Once I thought I saw the Virgin Mary floating before me, but it was just an eye-booger.