David Onysko is a well-known researcher, lecturer, and advocate on the Shroud of Turin, based in the greater Cleveland, Ohio area. He has been studying and presenting on the Shroud since the late 1980s, inspired by a 1980 National Geographic article. A former teacher with a Bachelor of Science (1983) and Master’s in Education (1991) from Cleveland State University, he now focuses full-time on sindonology (the study of the Shroud). He has attended numerous international conferences, viewed the Shroud privately in 1998 and publicly in 2000 during expositions in Turin, Italy, and given multimedia presentations to thousands, often titled things like “A Face to Face Encounter with Jesus?” or “Where Science Meets Faith.”Onysko believes the Shroud is authentic and uses it as an evangelical tool, arguing it’s the most studied artifact in history with evidence pointing to it being the burial cloth of Jesus. He founded or runs “The Man in the Shroud” initiative and has hosted exhibits with life-size replicas and Roman crucifixion artifacts. You can find his talks on YouTube (search “David Onysko Shroud of Turin”), his Academia.edu profile for papers, or older references to his site manintheshroud.org (though it may no longer be active). He’s frequently featured in local Cleveland media and pro-life/conservative Christian events.
