Stories & evidence, weighed honestly
What really happened — and how likely is it that there's no natural explanation?
Miracles Jar collects reported miracles and pairs each one with a Snopes-style review of the documentation. For every claim we lay out the sources, weigh the evidence, and publish an explicit probability assessment: natural explanation vs. authentic miracle.
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- Operation Thunderbolt — The Entebbe RescueExplained
- Joan Ginther's Four Texas Lottery JackpotsExplained
- Vesna Vulović: Survival of JAT Flight 367Explained
- Anita Moorjani — The Coma, the Chemotherapy, and the Recovery (2006)Explained
- Annabel Beam — The Fall Into the Hollow Tree (2011)Explained
- Bahia Bakari — Sole Survivor of Yemenia Flight 626 (2009)Explained
- Bella Montoya — The Knock from the Coffin at Babahoyo (2023)Explained
- Boden Allen and Buford — A Ranch Dog Walks a Toddler Home (2025)Explained
- Carolina Wilga — Twelve Days Lost in the Western Australian Outback (2025)Explained
- Chris Dempsey and Heather Krueger — The Overheard Conversation and the Liver (2015)Explained
- Chris Trokey and Michael Shannon — The Premature Baby Who Cut the Doctor Free (2011)Explained
- DUDE 44 — The Two Airmen Pulled Out of Iran (2026)Explained
From the catalog
The most interesting cases to start with — well-documented and genuinely contested — followed by the newest.
Gold standardhealing · Peoria, Illinois, USA
James Fulton Engstrom: Stillborn 61 Minutes, Full Recovery — Fulton Sheen's Miracle
An Illinois newborn with no heartbeat for 61 minutes, given up for dead, suddenly revived with no lasting brain damage — proposed as the miracle for Archbishop Fulton Sheen's beatification.
Gold standardhealing · Lourdes, France (patient from Trento, Italy)
Vittorio Micheli: Pelvic Sarcoma Healed — Bone Reconstruction Documented by X-ray
An Italian soldier with an inoperable sarcoma destroying his pelvis and hip socket recovered completely after a 1963 Lourdes pilgrimage; follow-up X-rays showed the destroyed bone had reconstructed — a case published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Silver · promotablehealing · Calanda, Aragon, Spain
The Calanda Miracle: A Restored Leg
A young man's amputated right leg was, by sworn contemporary testimony, restored overnight in 1640 — two years after it had been cut off and buried.
Explainedsigns · San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
Padre Pio's Stigmata
Italian Capuchin friar Francesco Forgione (Padre Pio) bore visible wounds on his hands, feet, and side for approximately fifty years, examined by multiple physicians who reached contradictory conclusions.
Silver · promotablerelics · Turin, Italy
The Shroud of Turin
A ~14-foot linen cloth in Turin's cathedral bearing the faint front-and-back image of a crucified man. A 1988 radiocarbon test dated a corner to the Middle Ages; that date is now genuinely contested, and nobody has reproduced how the image formed.
Unprovenapparition · Tepeyac Hill, Mexico City, Mexico
Our Lady of Guadalupe (The Tilma of Juan Diego)
In 1531, a Marian image allegedly appeared miraculously on the cloak of indigenous convert Juan Diego in Mexico City, producing an artifact still venerated nearly 500 years later.
On 4 July 1976, Israeli commandos flew over 4,000 kilometres to Entebbe Airport, Uganda, stormed the terminal in under an hour, and rescued 102 hostages held at gunpoint by Palestinian and German hijackers — an outcome widely described as a miracle.
Operation Thunderbolt — The Entebbe Rescue
Between 1993 and 2010, Joan R. Ginther — a Stanford-trained mathematician born in Bishop, Texas — won four separate Texas lottery prizes totaling $20.4 million, a run of fortune so statistically extreme it prompted serious investigation into whether luck alone could explain it.
Joan Ginther's Four Texas Lottery Jackpots
On 26 January 1972, flight attendant Vesna Vulović survived when JAT Yugoslav Airlines Flight 367's DC-9 broke apart over Czechoslovakia — officially at 10,160 m (33,330 ft), earning the Guinness World Record for the highest fall survived without a parachute, though a 2009 journalistic investigation argues the aircraft was near 800 m when it disintegrated.
Vesna Vulović: Survival of JAT Flight 367
Anita Moorjani, a Hong Kong businesswoman who had refused conventional treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma for nearly four years, was admitted to Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital in early February 2006 in organ failure, weighing about 36 kilograms, and fell into a 30-hour coma during which she reports a near-death experience; her physicians drained her fluid-filled chest and began chemotherapy while she was comatose, her tumors shrank by well over half within days, and she left the hospital cancer-free in five weeks — a recovery her treating oncologist attributed to the chemotherapy and the emergency drainage, and her bestselling memoir attributes to the experience.
Anita Moorjani — The Coma, the Chemotherapy, and the Recovery (2006)
Annabel Beam, a Texas nine-year-old who had spent most of her childhood under specialist care for two incurable digestive motility disorders, fell about 30 feet headfirst into the hollow trunk of a cottonwood tree in December 2011 and was lifted out essentially uninjured five hours later. In the months that followed her symptoms were gone; Boston Children's Hospital eventually released her from gastroenterology care, her treating specialist confirmed the resolution on the record, and the story became the book and 2016 film Miracles from Heaven.
Annabel Beam — The Fall Into the Hollow Tree (2011)
Bahia Bakari, a 12-year-old from Évry, France, who could barely swim, was the only survivor among 153 people aboard Yemenia Flight 626 when it crashed into the Indian Ocean on night approach to Moroni, Comoros, on June 30, 2009; she clung to floating wreckage for at least nine hours in heavy seas until a sailor from the ferry Sima Com 2 jumped in to reach her, and thirteen years later she testified at the Paris trial that convicted the airline of involuntary manslaughter.
Bahia Bakari — Sole Survivor of Yemenia Flight 626 (2009)
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