Mysterious Cross Appears In Louisiana Home
[Original headline: Mysterious cross appears in Sabine Parish
Couple
believes image has been sent from God]
Pleasant Hill --
Dorothy Miller eagerly throws open the side door to three strangers who make
their way through the living room and into a dark back bedroom, where husband
Roy Miller exclaims, "You won’t believe it when you look at it."
Through the multipaned opaque glass seems to appear a bright, haloed white
cross, stretching across the back yard and reaching into the night sky. To the
right appear two to three smaller crosses, one of which takes on a reddish
glow.
"What do you think about that?" Roy Miller asks again and again.
"Oh, my God, I see it," gasps Zwolle resident Aline Whitaker. After
scrutinizing the image for more than 10 minutes, Whitaker said, "It’s just so
beautiful. You have to see it to believe it. It gives you a feeling that’s
hard to explain."
"It’s a mystery to me," said Zwolle Mayor Roger Lopez, who is among more
than 230 people who have made the trip to Adkins Road in this Sabine Parish
village to see the image. ‘I’ve got no answer for it. It’s not man-made, but
how it got there I don’t know."
The Millers said the cross suddenly appeared Oct. 12 as talk of a cult
spread throughout the parish.
"We stayed awake all night because we were unnerved about it," Dorothy
Miller said.
After guests see the cross from the inside, Dorothy Miller leads them to
the back yard to take a look through the other side of the window. With the
bathroom light on, the same cross image -- now smaller -- seems to appear
inside the room.
The Millers at first kept the mysterious cross to themselves. They soon
began telling family members and friends, many of whom were skeptical.
Some claim the cross merely is a reflection from street lights. But Roy
Miller said those street lights are at least a block away.
"We’ve been told we were crazy, but the electricity went out one night and
we still saw it," Dorothy Miller said. As news of the cross spread throughout
the community, more people have asked to see it. Dorothy Miller said the
visitor count shot up as the holidays drew closer. More than 20 showed up
Sunday night and nine Monday. "We’ve had people cry back there," Dorothy
Miller said. The Millers, whose religious backgrounds include Pentecostal and
Baptist beliefs, say they believe in miracles. "We didn’t make it. God had to
put it there, and he’ll have to be the one to take it away."
• Story originally published in
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Shreveport Times / LA | By Vickie Welborn - December 23
2000
