The claims
Each entry pairs a reported miracle with the documentary record and an honest, confidence-labeled estimate of how likely it is that no natural explanation accounts for it.
Each entry pairs a reported miracle with the documentary record and an honest, confidence-labeled estimate of how likely it is that no natural explanation accounts for it.
8 claims
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.