If Penn & Teller’s Bullshit were still on the air, perhaps this would be the obvious next episode. But without their agnostic incredulity to right the human tendency of gravitating towards mystical malarkey, the recent discovery of a rather transcendental “Shroud of E.T.” is certainly ripe to inspire all manner of ethereal oohs and ahs.
And indeed, Billy Harley, proprietor of the Isle of Skye’s charmingly elegant Uig Hotel (pronounced Oo-ig, for you non Scotophiles), has found a startlingly scrupulous image of Spielberg’s hallowed little “phone home” space boy burned into a nearby tree stump. Now, should your natural skepticism cause you to point out that E.T. was, in fact, just a character in a movie, well…we’re perfectly happy to dismiss you from further immersion in this story.
But as for the rest of you…