The claims

Antonis Mavropoulos — Two Minutes Late for Flight ET302 (2019)

Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?

A Greek engineer ran for his Addis Ababa connection and reached the gate two minutes after boarding closed; Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 took off without him and crashed six minutes later, killing all 157 aboard — a margin he first described as luck and then spent a sleepless night trying to comprehend.

Baby Aya — Born Beneath the Rubble of Jindires (2023)

Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?

Hours after the February 6, 2023 earthquake flattened her family's building in northern Syria, rescuers found a newborn girl alive under the debris, still attached by umbilical cord to her dead mother — the sole survivor of her household, named Aya, 'a sign from God,' by the hospital that saved her.

Baby Lily Groesbeck — The 'Help Me' Voice at the Spanish Fork River (2015)

Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?

Four police officers and two firefighters independently reported hearing an adult voice say 'Help me' from a wrecked car that held only a deceased mother and her unconscious 18-month-old daughter, who had survived 14 hours suspended over a freezing river.

Chris Gunderson — 16 Years of Feeding-Tube Dependence Resolved After Prayer (2011)

A young man fed exclusively by j-tube since infancy due to congenital gastroparesis reported an immediate ability to eat after intercessory prayer at a 2011 church service; a 2019 peer-reviewed case report documents the resolution and seven-plus symptom-free years.

Gardell Martin — 101 Minutes Without a Pulse, Full Recovery (2015)

A 22-month-old Pennsylvania boy swept into a 34-degree stream was pulseless through 101 minutes of continuous CPR, then recovered almost completely — a documented outcome physicians attribute to protective hypothermia.

Gen. Eric Smith — Cardiac Arrest, and a CPR Instructor on the Right Block (2023)

Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?

When the Commandant of the Marine Corps collapsed in sudden cardiac arrest on an evening run a block from his Washington home, the strangers who reached him included a certified CPR instructor visiting from Seattle, whose ten minutes of compressions carried the general to full recovery and return to duty.

Jahi McMath — A Family's Challenge to the Definition of Brain Death (2013–2018)

Declared brain-dead at 13 after catastrophic bleeding following airway surgery in Oakland, Jahi McMath was kept on support by her family in New Jersey for four and a half years — long enough for a senior neurologist to conclude she no longer met the criteria under which she had been declared dead — before dying of liver failure in 2018, in a case that has become the sharpest stress test the legal definition of brain death has ever received.

Jeni Stepien — Walked Down the Aisle by Her Father's Heart (2016)

Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?

When Jeni Stepien's father died in 2006, his donated heart went to a New Jersey man who had spent years on the transplant list; ten years later, that man traveled to Pittsburgh to walk her down the aisle — and the evening before the wedding, she felt her father's heartbeat for the first time in a decade.

John Smith — Heart Restarted After 15 Minutes Under a Frozen Lake (2015)

Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?

A 14-year-old submerged in an icy Missouri lake for over 15 minutes had no pulse for roughly 45 minutes of CPR; his heart restarted moments after his mother prayed aloud over him, and he recovered with normal brain function within weeks.

Katie Lentz and the 'Angel Priest' of Highway 19 — Resolved (2013)

Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?

A 19-year-old trapped in a crushed car, her vital signs dropping, asked rescuers to pray aloud; a priest appeared on a blocked rural highway, anointed her, and vanished — absent from every scene photograph — and a week of angel speculation ended when Fr. Patrick Dowling identified himself, having simply parked up the road after a Sunday Mass.

Lewis Roberts — Breathing Hours Before His Organs Were to Be Donated (2021)

Four days after being struck by a van, 18-year-old Lewis Roberts was declared brain-stem dead and his family consented to organ donation; hours before the retrieval surgery his sister saw breathing activity on his monitor, the declaration was reversed, and he went on to speak, walk miles, and live at home.

Los 33 — Sixty-Nine Days Under the Atacama and the '34th Miner' (2010)

Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?

When the San Jose mine collapsed on August 5, 2010, 33 men were sealed 700 meters underground with three days of food; they survived 17 days before a probe found them and 69 days before all 33 rode a rescue capsule to the surface — an outcome miners and nation alike credited to a '34th miner' who never left them.

Munira Abdulla — Speaking Again After 27 Years in a Minimally Conscious State (2018)

An Emirati woman left unresponsive by a 1991 car crash regained speech in June 2018 — calling her son's name from a German hospital bed — after 27 years in which her family never stopped caring for her or praying for her recovery.

Nurse Vilma Wong and Dr. Brandon Seminatore — The Preemie Who Came Back as Her Colleague (2018)

Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?

A Stanford NICU nurse checking in a new resident physician realized his name was familiar — he was the 2-pound, 29-week preemie she had been primary nurse for 28 years earlier, now a doctor caring for babies on the very unit that saved him.

Sha'Kyra Aughtry and Joey White — Heard Above the Blizzard (2022)

Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?

During Buffalo's deadly Christmas 2022 blizzard, Sha'Kyra Aughtry heard a man screaming over hurricane-force wind, had her boyfriend carry the severely frostbitten stranger inside, and kept him alive for two days while 911 could not reach them — a rescue his family calls an answered prayer.

Silkyara Tunnel Rescue — 41 Workers, 17 Days, and the Deity at the Door (2023)

Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?

When a Himalayan highway tunnel collapsed on 41 workers in November 2023, every high-tech rescue option failed in sequence — until hand-digging 'rat-hole' miners broke through; workers and officials publicly credited the local deity Baukh Nag, whose shrine had been removed before the collapse.

Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster — The Intact Body of Gower, Missouri (2019–2023)

Four years after burying their 95-year-old foundress unembalmed in a simple wooden coffin, the Benedictines of Mary exhumed Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster in April 2023 and found her body and habit largely intact; the diocese's commissioned pathology team called the condition 'highly atypical' for the interval and conditions, forensic anthropologists answered that natural mummification in coffin burials is well documented, and the Church itself has declared no miracle and opened no cause.

Tham Luang — Twelve Boys, a Meditating Coach, and a Rescue No One Believed In (2018)

Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?

Twelve young footballers and their coach survived nine days without food in a flooded Thai cave — found meditating in the dark — and all 13 were then extracted alive under ketamine sedation through kilometers of flooded passage, an outcome the lead anaesthetist himself believed had close to no chance of success.

The Bleeding Madonna of Trevignano Romano — DNA, a Negative Ruling, and a Fraud Trial (2016–2024)

For eight years, crowds gathered on a hillside above Lake Bracciano where Gisella Cardia said a statuette of the Virgin wept blood and delivered monthly messages; court-commissioned genetic testing found the traces on the statue matched Cardia's own DNA, the bishop ruled constat de non supernaturalitate in March 2024 with Vatican confirmation in June, and the Cardias were ordered to stand trial for fraud — while Cardia, through her lawyer, maintains her innocence.

The Lahaina 'Miracle House' — The Red Roof That Survived, Explained (2023)

Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?

In the photograph that came to stand for the Lahaina fire — block after block burned to white ash — one red-roofed wooden house stood untouched; its owners, who had recently replaced the asphalt roof with commercial-grade metal and ringed the foundation with river stones, met the 'miracle' label with survivor's guilt and a documented fire-science mechanism, and turned the house into a base for rebuilding the street.

The Mucutuy Children — Four Siblings Survive 40 Days in the Amazon (2023)

Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?

After a Cessna crash killed every adult aboard including their mother, four Indigenous Colombian children aged 11 months to 13 years survived 40 days in deep Amazon jungle before searchers found them alive — a rescue Colombia greeted as a national miracle.

Tim Shaddock and Bella — Months Adrift in the Pacific, Found by a Tuna Boat's Helicopter (2023)

Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?

An Australian sailor and a stray dog survived roughly two to three months adrift on a storm-crippled catamaran in the open Pacific, living on raw fish and rainwater, until a Mexican tuna fleet's helicopter spotted them about 1,200 miles from land — days ahead of an approaching hurricane.

Vishwash Kumar Ramesh — Seat 11A, the Sole Survivor of Air India Flight 171 (2025)

Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?

When Air India Flight 171 crashed thirty-two seconds after takeoff from Ahmedabad on June 12, 2025, killing all 241 others aboard and 19 people on the ground, the passenger in seat 11A walked out through a broken emergency exit; a year later, Vishwash Kumar Ramesh — who lost his brother rows away and carried his coffin six days after the crash — describes not a blessing but a weight, and the structural break-up of the forward fuselage remains the entire documented mechanism of his survival.

Youssef Ziadna — The Bedouin Driver Who Drove Back Into the Massacre (October 7, 2023)

Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?

When a regular customer called him at six in the morning as Hamas attacked the Nova festival, Bedouin minibus driver Youssef Ziadna drove toward the gunfire instead of away from it, packed thirty people into his fourteen-seat vehicle, and used his knowledge of the back tracks to carry them out alive — on a day when 378 people were murdered at the festival, his cousin was killed on a beach, and four members of his extended family were taken hostage.

Alice Couteault: Multiple Sclerosis Remission at Lourdes Baths

A 34-year-old French woman with clinically confirmed multiple sclerosis recovered completely after bathing at Lourdes in May 1952, with the cure recognized as miraculous in 1956 after a four-year follow-up confirmed no relapse.

Alice Wigglesworth: The Healer's Deaf Daughter Never Healed

Smith Wigglesworth's own daughter Alice, who assisted in his healing meetings for decades and was the person most accessible to his ministry, remained deaf throughout her life despite her father's claimed powers.

Amanda Paola: Unborn Baby Survives Against All Odds — Paul VI's Canonization Miracle

An Italian woman's premature placental rupture resolved after her family prayed to Blessed Paul VI, and the baby — given no chance of survival — was born healthy on Christmas Day 2014.

Angela of Foligno — Medieval Mystic, Questionable Preservation Claim

Angela of Foligno, the 13th-century Franciscan tertiary and mystic, died in 1309; her body is kept in the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta in Foligno, with incorruptibility claimed but no modern forensic verification available.

Ann O'Neill — Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia Remission (1952)

A four-year-old Baltimore girl diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia — then uniformly fatal — experienced complete remission in 1952, verified by a decade of bone marrow tests and accepted by the Vatican as a miracle for the canonization of Elizabeth Ann Seton.

Antonietta Raco: Primary Lateral Sclerosis Healed — The 72nd Recognized Miracle

An Italian woman with Primary Lateral Sclerosis — a rare, incurable, progressive motor neuron disease — recovered completely during a 2009 Lourdes pilgrimage, recognized as the 72nd Lourdes miracle on April 16, 2025.