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PORT NECHES - Pat Thompson hung up the phone and saw Jesus in her curtains.

"I kind of freaked out," the Port Neches woman recalled. "I saw it. I just started looking down the hall and there it was."

"I was praying for a sign, because I love to play bingo," Thompson said.

But she hasn't dotted her cards since the phenomenon; she's been too busy fielding visits. As word spreads, Thompson notices cars slowing on Johnson Avenue as they pass the duplex. Her ex-husband lives on the other side.

"If I'm in here, I don't mind them looking at it," Thompson said.

The "it" is an image of Jesus, arms outstretched gazing reverently to the left. If the light changes, he might move his head, she said.

"You can see his beard," Thompson said. "There were only two people that couldn't see it. One of them didn't believe in God. There's been a whole lot of kids. One kid took off running out of the room."

Thompson keeps her side of the duplex darkened. The hum of air conditioning was steady and soothing as she related the May morning she got off the phone with her granddaughter.

From her living room-kitchenette couch she had a straight-shot view to her back bedroom. The sun brilliantly illuminated the image of Jesus in the bottom right.

The curtain is actually a swirly, batik sort of comforter that Thompson had put up until she got new curtains.

"The closer you get to it, you can tell it's just an old blanket," she said.

She called the family to come over, and they "flipped out," but they saw.

Besides the excitement of neighbors and friends clamoring to photograph and film the blanket, Thompson said the vision has brought her blessings.

She'd been grieving a long-dead daughter and, after seeing Jesus, she felt the situation was "all shored up." She misses her, but the pain has eased.

"It kind of lifted. It was weird," she said.

By Darragh Doiron - The News staff writer Posted: 06/16/05 - 09:29:30 pm CDT Contact at ddoiron@panews.com.

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