Evidence: The Gathering

[Minimalist]

 The shroud of turin is not extremely distorted, therefore is was never wrapped around a body to achieve the end result.

Actually, that is not true The image is distorted and only recently was a team of forensic researchers able to use computer modeling to reconstruct it.

Chad look closely where the front and back of the head come together.

There are two images on the sheet, showing a man's back and front. That is because this burial shroud was apparently wrapped from the the man's toes, up the front of his body, over his head, and down his back to his heels. As seen at the top of the above digitally enhanced photograph, the front and back images of the head are separated by a gap of less than 1 cm (less than a half inch).
Some investigators have suggested that the image on the shroud was caused by some form of radiation emanating from the body, perhaps at about the time of death. This leads immediately to what might be called the "top of the head" problem.

If radiation from the head created the two two images on the shroud, then there seem to be only two possibilities:

1) There was similar radiation from the top of the head. It would have left an image of the top of the victim's head on the shroud. However, there is no such image. Only a tiny gap is seen.
2) There was no radiation from the top of the head. This would result in a dark gap of perhaps 12 cm (almost 5 inches) between the top of the front of the head and the top of the back of the head. No such gap is visible.

Thus the radiation theory seems to fail because it does not match the image.
That still leaves the possibility that the Shroud is some form of image intentionally created -- either as a painting by an artist or by some form of photographic technique.
This leaves two possibilities:

1) The shroud was created as a forgery that was to be "sold" to the public as Jesus' shroud. This seems improbable because the "top of the head" problem would immediately point out that this is not a real 1st century shroud.
2) The shroud was created by a human as a type of icon to be venerated. This seems to be the more likely possibility.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_shro2.htm

Relics were all over Europe like shit on a statue because superstitious fools demanded them.  That's what you have here.