It’s a miracle! “Noel Edmonds’ face appeared in my lamp”
Chris Dodson, 59, got a fright when he spotted the bearded Deal Or No Deal star in his decade-old salt lamp which changes shape over the years.
Mr Dodson, of Haddenham, said: “It is really weird.
“I have had this lamp for more than 10 years and never noticed it before but I walked into the room and got a fright when I saw this old man staring back at me like he was watching me.
“It was horrible.
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Hide Ad“It looks a bit like the face of Santa Claus or if you are religious, which I am not, the face of Jesus.
“The face also does look a bit like Noel Edmonds in his younger days.
“When I looked over it looked like it he was watching me. I bought the lamp about 10 years ago at one of those mind, body and spirit fairs in Colchester.
“It is supposed to clear the air in the house but I don’t know if that’s true. It sort of changes shape over the years.”
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Hide AdSalt lamps are large crystal rocks, mined in Europe and Asia, with an incandescent light bulb or a candle inside. The lamps are often made from Himalayan salt and it is claimed they restore or preserve air quality.
But it is not the first time a famous face has appeared on unlikely objects in the area.
A mysterious ‘face’ appeared in a coffee pod - leading the finder to believe it could be the new pope, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis I.
Hugh Kellett, who was stunned to see the image in his coffee grounds, also speculated the “miraculous” appearance could be TV broadcaster Rory McGrath.