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.
5 claims
7% authentic
Strong natural explanation
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.
Explainedhealing·Al Ain, UAE / Bad Aibling, Germany
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.
8% authentic
Strong natural explanation
The mysterious oil reported to exude from religious objects in the Worcester, Massachusetts, room of comatose Audrey Santo was chemically analyzed in 1998 and identified as approximately 80% corn and soybean oil combined with animal fat — commercial cooking oil components, not an unknown substance.
Unprovensigns·Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Audrey Santo's Weeping Oil: Laboratory Analysis Identifies Corn, Soybean, and Animal Fat
The mysterious oil reported to exude from religious objects in the Worcester, Massachusetts, room of comatose Audrey Santo was chemically analyzed in 1998 and identified as approximately 80% corn and soybean oil combined with animal fat — commercial cooking oil components, not an unknown substance.
48% authentic
Genuinely uncertain
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.
Bronze · contestedhealing·Lourdes, France (patient from Paternò, Sicily)
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.
46% authentic
Genuinely uncertain
A French woman who had undergone thirteen surgeries over eleven years for tubercular peritonitis, semi-comatose on arrival, awoke and recovered completely at a Lourdes procession in October 1948.
Bronze · contestedhealing·Lourdes, France (patient from Rennes region)
Jeanne Fretel: Eleven-Year Tubercular Peritonitis Resolved at Eucharistic Procession
A French woman who had undergone thirteen surgeries over eleven years for tubercular peritonitis, semi-comatose on arrival, awoke and recovered completely at a Lourdes procession in October 1948.
63% authenticResists a natural explanation
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.
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.