800 years ago at All Saints Church in Hereford, England, a skillful carpenter carved this gentleman high up in the dark roof where nobody could see him. Five years ago they built an extra floor with bright lights for a restaurant.

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  2. Poor fellow fell asleep while taking a dump after a long night out, becoming trapped as the carpenters laying the roof were too busy gossiping between themselves to notice him (“These churches are way too ornate and the Pope looks ridiculous in that hat, I wish someone would reform Catholicism!”). Scientists speculate that the cellulose in the wood and the water from the moisture may have kept him alive and conscious for years.

  13. In many ways they really were exactly the same as us back then.

    The fact that a worker would carve something like that in a church, does make me question exactly how strong the faith of ordinary people was back then.

    Of course, the vast majority of people would’ve completely bought into the message of the Catholic Church, just as most people do with government propaganda today. But it’s refreshing to think that there may also have been some free thinkers around.

  20. Captain here : In the common thinking from this Era, people were afraid of thé devil, daemon and such.

    Carpenter often carved obscene figures or monsters like the gargoyle in France, to make the daemon laugh.

    People was thinking that making the devil laugh was the best way to keep him away !

  21. god apparrently revealed to him there will be a restaurant and that the whole england will enter schism with church, so he left future generations a piece of his mind

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