The claims

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.

Two major broadcast investigations — an HBO documentary in 2001 and repeated NBC Dateline reports — followed up on Benny Hinn's claimed miracle healings and found no medically verified cases among those tracked.

Nigerian pastor Daniel Ekechukwu, declared dead after a car accident on November 30, 2001 with a death certificate from St. Eunice Clinic, was reportedly resurrected two days later at a church during a Reinhard Bonnke crusade.

A 13th-century account describes a consecrated host stolen for a sorceress beginning to bleed, leading to its veneration in Santarém, Portugal, where it is still displayed in a crystal reliquary.

A Costa Rican lawyer diagnosed with an inoperable brain aneurysm recovered completely after praying to Blessed John Paul II during his beatification broadcast.

A hollow bronze Virgin Mary statue at Our Lady of Guadalupe parish in Hobbs, New Mexico, appeared to weep an olive-oil-like substance in 2018, prompting a formal Diocese investigation that confirmed the liquid was rose-scented olive oil.

A 2020 systematic review of 47 investigations of 38 long-term fasting claimants found no rigorously controlled case confirming anomalous survival without food or fluids, and established fraud in 10 cases.

A woman declared healed of spinal cancer at a Kuhlman service discarded her brace on stage, suffered spinal collapse the next day, and died four months later — the most-cited case in William Nolen MD's 1974 skeptical investigation.

French mystic Marthe Robin (1902–1981) reportedly lived without food or water for over fifty years, sustained only by the Eucharist, but declined all controlled medical testing and remains contested by Church investigators and historians.

Italian Capuchin friar Francesco Forgione (Padre Pio) bore visible wounds on his hands, feet, and side for approximately fifty years, examined by multiple physicians who reached contradictory conclusions.

Televangelist Peter Popoff was exposed using a concealed radio earpiece to receive congregants' personal details from his wife, then presenting this information as divine revelation during healing crusades.

Indian spiritual leader Sathya Sai Baba, who claimed to materialize objects from thin air as proof of divinity, was captured on multiple occasions apparently concealing and transferring objects using standard conjuring technique, and refused every request for controlled testing.

Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba (1926–2011) claimed to materialize objects — watches, jewelry, ash, lingams — from thin air before millions of followers, but multiple investigations documented sleight-of-hand, and footage from India's national broadcaster showed an assistant passing him a gold chain before 'materialization.'

In 1762, a supposed haunting at a lodging house on Cock Lane, London -- attributed to the spirit of a murdered woman -- was investigated by a committee including Samuel Johnson and exposed as a fraud perpetrated by a young girl and her father.

An Italian statue of the Virgin Mary reported to weep blood in 1995 was investigated by forensic scientists; the blood was typed as male, the statue's owner refused DNA testing, and a subsequent Italian trial established a church custodian had applied blood to a different statue using his own blood.

Bavarian mystic Therese Neumann (1898–1962) claimed to have lived without food or water from 1922 until her death, sustained only by the Eucharist, and bore visible stigmata from 1926; a 1927 medical observation produced ambiguous results she later refused to repeat.

The 2008 Florida Healing Outpouring drew massive crowds and claimed dozens of healings and twenty resurrections from the dead, but ABC Nightline found not a single claim independently verifiable, and World magazine reported several 'healed' individuals had since died of their conditions.

Self-described psychic Uri Geller was unable to demonstrate any paranormal ability when James Randi advised The Tonight Show to use props Geller had no prior access to, producing an on-air failure that established his method required advance access to objects.

Faith healer W.V. Grant was exposed by James Randi for faking leg-lengthening healings and using prayer-card cold reading, then convicted by the IRS in 1996 for failing to report $375,000 in taxable income.