The claims

Boden Allen and Buford — A Ranch Dog Walks a Toddler Home (2025)

Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?

A two-year-old who wandered from his home near Seligman, Arizona, on the evening of April 14, 2025, spent about 16 hours alone in high-desert country where searchers later noted two mountain lions, then turned up nearly seven miles away at a rancher's gate with the family's livestock-guardian dog, Buford, standing beside him; the boy was found with minor cuts and mild dehydration, and the dog's behavior fits exactly what its breed is raised to do.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Blessed Imelda Lambertini — The Child Who Died at First Communion

Imelda Lambertini died in 1333 at age 11, reportedly from an ecstatic episode immediately after receiving her first Eucharist; her body was found incorrupt and is displayed in a wax effigy in Bologna, though independent scientific examination is lacking.

Candela Giarda: Catastrophic Childhood Encephalopathy Resolved — John Paul I's Miracle

An eleven-year-old Buenos Aires girl in septic shock from refractory epileptic encephalopathy made a complete recovery after a priest proposed her family invoke John Paul I's intercession.

Delizia Cirolli: Ewing's Sarcoma Vanishes Months After Lourdes Visit

A 12-year-old Sicilian girl diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma of the knee — told she had six months to live — traveled to Lourdes in 1976 with no improvement, then recovered completely a few months later without treatment.

Miracle Baby — the story behind Miracles Jar

We were told we couldn't have children. Two strangers prayed over us at a coffee shop — and weeks later, an ocean away, a test in the 'Pharmacy of the Holy Spirit' said otherwise.

Our Lady of Banneux (Virgin of the Poor)

In January–March 1933, eleven-year-old Mariette Beco of Banneux, Belgium, reported eight apparitions of the Virgin Mary who identified herself as 'the Virgin of the Poor' and directed her to a spring 'for all nations.'

Our Lady of Beauraing (The Golden Heart)

Between November 1932 and January 1933, five Belgian children reported 33 apparitions of the Virgin Mary appearing above a hawthorn tree near a convent school in Beauraing, Belgium.

Our Lady of La Salette

On September 19, 1846, two young French shepherd children reported a weeping apparition on a mountain near La Salette who delivered a message of penance; the event was approved by the Church in 1851 but subsequently complicated by the visionaries' divergent later claims.

Our Lady of Pontmain

On January 17, 1871, four children in the French village of Pontmain reported seeing an apparition of a tall woman in the night sky surrounded by stars; adults present saw only a bright star, and a ceasefire followed within days.