The claims

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.

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.

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.

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.

Daniel Ekechukwu: Claimed Resurrection at a Reinhard Bonnke Crusade, Nigeria 2001

Nigerian pastor Daniel Ekechukwu, declared dead after a car accident on November 30, 2001 with a death certificate from St. Eunice Clinic, was reportedly resurrected two days later at a church during a Reinhard Bonnke crusade.

Dybbuk Possession in Jewish Tradition

From the 16th to early 20th centuries, approximately 80 documented cases of alleged dybbuk possession were recorded in rabbinic literature, representing the primary Jewish tradition of spiritual possession and exorcism.

John Traynor: WWI Wounded Sailor Walks — The 71st Recognized Miracle

A Royal Marine severely disabled in the Gallipoli campaign — epileptic, partially paralyzed, right arm immobile — experienced sudden complete recovery at the 1923 Lourdes Eucharistic Procession, recognized as the 71st miracle in December 2024.

Smith Wigglesworth's Claimed Resurrections from the Dead (1900s-1940s)

British Pentecostal evangelist Smith Wigglesworth claimed to have raised between three and fourteen people from the dead across his ministry (sources vary wildly), but not one account was ever independently authenticated, and his own daughter remained deaf despite his healing ministry.

The 1995 Ganesha Milk Miracle

On September 21, 1995, Hindu devotees worldwide reported that statues of Ganesha and other deities were drinking milk offered by spoon — a mass phenomenon that lasted roughly 24 hours before stopping as abruptly as it began.

The AWARE Studies: Prospective NDE Testing

The AWARE I and II studies (2008–2023) placed hidden visual targets in cardiac arrest bays across multiple hospitals and attempted to verify out-of-body perceptions — finding no confirmed hits despite 2,060 cardiac arrests studied.

The Hemorrhoissa: Healing of the Woman with the Issue of Blood

The synoptic Gospels (Mark 5:24-34, Luke 8:42-48, Matthew 9:19-22) describe Jesus healing a woman who had hemorrhaged for twelve years by her touching the hem of his garment.

The Manchester 'Allah Fish': Arabic Writing on Animal Markings

In 2006 a pet-shop oscar fish in Greater Manchester was reported to bear the Arabic words 'Allah' and 'Muhammad' in its markings, sparking international media coverage and becoming one of the most documented cases of perceived divine Arabic script in natural objects.

The Panagia Soumela Icon — Exile, Concealment, and Recovery

The icon central to Pontic Greek Orthodox identity, attributed by tradition to St. Luke the Evangelist, was secretly buried by monks in 1923 at the time of the Lausanne population exchange and successfully recovered and transferred to Greece in 1931.