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.
4 claims
2% authenticProvidence
Strong natural explanation
When Jeni Stepien's father died in 2006, his donated heart went to a New Jersey man who had spent years on the transplant list; ten years later, that man traveled to Pittsburgh to walk her down the aisle — and the evening before the wedding, she felt her father's heartbeat for the first time in a decade.
Explainedprovidence·St. Anselm Church, Swissvale, Pennsylvania, USA
Jeni Stepien — Walked Down the Aisle by Her Father's Heart (2016)
Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?
When Jeni Stepien's father died in 2006, his donated heart went to a New Jersey man who had spent years on the transplant list; ten years later, that man traveled to Pittsburgh to walk her down the aisle — and the evening before the wedding, she felt her father's heartbeat for the first time in a decade.
2% authenticProvidence
Strong natural explanation
When a regular customer called him at six in the morning as Hamas attacked the Nova festival, Bedouin minibus driver Youssef Ziadna drove toward the gunfire instead of away from it, packed thirty people into his fourteen-seat vehicle, and used his knowledge of the back tracks to carry them out alive — on a day when 378 people were murdered at the festival, his cousin was killed on a beach, and four members of his extended family were taken hostage.
Explainedprovidence·Nova festival grounds near Re'im, southern Israel
Youssef Ziadna — The Bedouin Driver Who Drove Back Into the Massacre (October 7, 2023)
Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?
When a regular customer called him at six in the morning as Hamas attacked the Nova festival, Bedouin minibus driver Youssef Ziadna drove toward the gunfire instead of away from it, packed thirty people into his fourteen-seat vehicle, and used his knowledge of the back tracks to carry them out alive — on a day when 378 people were murdered at the festival, his cousin was killed on a beach, and four members of his extended family were taken hostage.
2% authenticStrong natural explanation
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.
Disprovenapparition·Cock Lane, Smithfield, London, England
The Cock Lane Ghost
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.
13% authentic
Strong natural explanation
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.
Unprovensigns·Montreal, Canada; traveled worldwide 1982-1997
The Montreal Iveron Myrrh-Streaming Icon and Brother Jose Munoz-Cortes
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.