Face of Jesus seen on drainpipe

An image of the face of Jesus has been discovered on the side of a drainpipe.

The likeness was spied outside a house in Coventry belonging to Alex Cotton, 38, and her partner.

Alex's friend Graham Morriss, 33, told the Coventry Telegraph: "We were just sitting around, having a good old chinwag at about 10pm and suddenly Alex's partner Nick said: 'there's Jesus on the drainpipe'.

"No one believed her and we all started crouching down around the drainpipe and having a look. I got quite excited anyway.

"We're all quite amazed about it really, although Alex says he's been there for quite some time."

Whether or not you trust the plausibility of this ostensibly divine encounter, sightings of Jesus or the Virgin Mary frequently make the headlines.

We've rounded up a few of them with the help of Bing, Microsoft's search engine.

- The kitchen utensil upon which a man in Salford detected the face of Jesus.

- The creature on whose back a man from Texas spied the face of Jesus.

- The tree trunk in which a man from New Mexico believed to have spotted a resemblance to the Virgin Mary.

- The piece of furniture in the Glasgow branch of Ikea upon which shoppers detected the face of Jesus.

- The bird droppings within which a Texas family claimed to have seen a likeness of the Virgin Mary.

- The heavenly body floating above western Sydney within which a photographer snapped the face of Jesus.

- The chunk of wood upon which someone believed to have glimpsed an image of the Virgin Mary.

- The computer image within which a couple thought they had seen a likeness of Jesus.

- The piece of street furniture on which people in Texas claimed to have spied the face of Jesus.