The State - News from Aug. 20, 1987

Thousands of people have visited a house in the Northern California resort town of Mount Shasta to see what they think is the image of an angel appearing on a television set, but a TV repairman said it is just a bad capacitor. Diane Boettcher, who owns the set, said she was watching television Friday night and had switched to the news to “see about the harmonic convergence when a bright light came out (and) this image appeared. She is definitely an angel. . . . “ Boettcher, 40, a drug counselor turned writer, said about 5,000 people have come to the house to see the image. But Bob Wilson, owner of Shiloh Electronics in Mount Shasta, said he identified the problem easily--and has duplicated it in his shop for anyone who wants to see it. “The only reason I didn’t say anything in the house was because there were people praying in front of the TV, and I didn’t know how to break it to them,” he said.