My Quirky Find: Holy TV!

Diane Boettcher of Mount Shasta City claimed to have a flaming white angel on her television screen. The time was August 1987 during the first Harmonic Convergence on the slopes of Mount Shasta. Depending on estimates, up to 6,000 people attended the event, now an annual festival, to herald in a New Age of Spirituality, so the timing of the appearance of a flaming white angel was perfect for people seeking a supernatural “sign”.
She explained she had been watching a local news report on the Harmonic Convergence when suddenly the image of a white angel superimposed itself over the regular televised picture. She could change channels, even turn the television off and on, and the image remained.
“She’s really beautiful,” said Boettcher of the angel. “[She is] all rainbow colored. At times there is a golden halo and a white aura all around her.  She loves children.”
News of the angel caused a sensation. Thousands of people lined up to see Boettcher’s “holy television”. That there was a human-like shape on the screen was never questioned, but interpretations of the image varied. Some saw what Boettcher evidently saw, a flaming angel of love, while others saw Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and even an alien “being of light” from outer space. 
Her living room became a mecca where people knelt in front of the television to pray. As the line of pilgrims grew longer outside her home, countless newspaper and television reports followed, including a write-up in the Washington Post, speculating on what was causing the phenomenon and what it might mean. 
One of the visitors was Bob Wilson, owner of Shiloh Electronics in Mount Shasta City. He immediately recognized the image as the work of a faulty capacitor. “I didn’t say anything in the house because there were people praying in front of the television and I didn’t know how to break it to them.”
Back in his shop he installed a bad capacitor on a display television and sure enough, the flaming angel appeared. For $99.99 Wilson offered to transform any ordinary television into a “Holy TV”
He sold not a single one.
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