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.
9 claims
When the San Jose mine collapsed on August 5, 2010, 33 men were sealed 700 meters underground with three days of food; they survived 17 days before a probe found them and 69 days before all 33 rode a rescue capsule to the surface — an outcome miners and nation alike credited to a '34th miner' who never left them.
Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?
When the San Jose mine collapsed on August 5, 2010, 33 men were sealed 700 meters underground with three days of food; they survived 17 days before a probe found them and 69 days before all 33 rode a rescue capsule to the surface — an outcome miners and nation alike credited to a '34th miner' who never left them.
Hundreds of Orthodox Christian icons have reportedly streamed myrrh-like oil since the late twentieth century, with clusters in Russia, North America, and Greece; scientific explanations include capillary action, oil condensation, and deliberate application, though none fully account for all reported cases.
Hundreds of Orthodox Christian icons have reportedly streamed myrrh-like oil since the late twentieth century, with clusters in Russia, North America, and Greece; scientific explanations include capillary action, oil condensation, and deliberate application, though none fully account for all reported cases.
A wooden statue of the Virgin Mary at the Institute of the Handmaids of the Eucharist in Akita, Japan wept on 101 documented occasions between 1973 and 1981, with tears and blood analyzed as human biological fluids; Bishop Ito approved veneration in 1984.
A wooden statue of the Virgin Mary at the Institute of the Handmaids of the Eucharist in Akita, Japan wept on 101 documented occasions between 1973 and 1981, with tears and blood analyzed as human biological fluids; Bishop Ito approved veneration in 1984.
A devotional image of the Virgin Mary is embedded in a rock face in the Guaitara River canyon in Colombia, reportedly appearing miraculously in 1754; geological analysis claims the pigment penetrates meters into the stone.
A devotional image of the Virgin Mary is embedded in a rock face in the Guaitara River canyon in Colombia, reportedly appearing miraculously in 1754; geological analysis claims the pigment penetrates meters into the stone.
In October 2007, a reproduction of the Iveron icon belonging to an Orthodox couple in Kailua, Hawaii began streaming fragrant oil and was recognized by the Russian Orthodox Church as miraculous the following year.
In October 2007, a reproduction of the Iveron icon belonging to an Orthodox couple in Kailua, Hawaii began streaming fragrant oil and was recognized by the Russian Orthodox Church as miraculous the following year.
Russia's most-traveled wonder-working icon, the 13th-century Kursk Root Icon of the Sign, survived a 1898 bomb blast that destroyed its iron canopy and marble pedestal while leaving the icon and its glass untouched.
Russia's most-traveled wonder-working icon, the 13th-century Kursk Root Icon of the Sign, survived a 1898 bomb blast that destroyed its iron canopy and marble pedestal while leaving the icon and its glass untouched.
A Byzantine Greek Catholic icon of the Virgin Mary in Máriapócs, Hungary wept visibly for eleven days in November–December 1696, witnessed by large crowds and authenticated by a mixed committee of Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish investigators; it wept again in 1715 and 1905.
A Byzantine Greek Catholic icon of the Virgin Mary in Máriapócs, Hungary wept visibly for eleven days in November–December 1696, witnessed by large crowds and authenticated by a mixed committee of Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish investigators; it wept again in 1715 and 1905.
A reproduction of the Iveron icon, entrusted to Chilean-Canadian Orthodox layman Jose Munoz-Cortes in Montreal in 1982, reportedly streamed fragrant myrrh almost continuously for 15 years until its guardian was murdered and the icon vanished.
A reproduction of the Iveron icon, entrusted to Chilean-Canadian Orthodox layman Jose Munoz-Cortes in Montreal in 1982, reportedly streamed fragrant myrrh almost continuously for 15 years until its guardian was murdered and the icon vanished.
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.
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.