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.
2 claims
24% authentic
Likely a natural explanation
Between April 1968 and 1971, luminous phenomena appearing in the form of a robed female figure were reported repeatedly over St. Mary's Coptic Church in Zeitoun, Cairo, witnessed by hundreds of thousands including non-Christians.
Explainedapparition·St. Mary's Coptic Orthodox Church, Zeitoun, Cairo, Egypt
Our Lady of Zeitoun (Cairo Luminous Apparitions)
Between April 1968 and 1971, luminous phenomena appearing in the form of a robed female figure were reported repeatedly over St. Mary's Coptic Church in Zeitoun, Cairo, witnessed by hundreds of thousands including non-Christians.
2% authenticStrong natural explanation
Photographs of fairies taken by two Yorkshire cousins in 1917, which convinced Arthur Conan Doyle and leading spiritualists of fairy existence, were confessed by both subjects in 1983 to be cardboard cutouts supported on hatpins.
Disprovensigns·Cottingley, West Yorkshire, England
The Cottingley Fairies: A Photographic Hoax Confessed 65 Years Later
Photographs of fairies taken by two Yorkshire cousins in 1917, which convinced Arthur Conan Doyle and leading spiritualists of fairy existence, were confessed by both subjects in 1983 to be cardboard cutouts supported on hatpins.