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.
6 claims
Sascha Roth, the first patient in a Memorial Sloan Kettering trial of the immunotherapy drug dostarlimab, was packing for radiation when her doctor called to say there was no cancer left to treat; every one of the 12 patients with a specific genetic subtype of rectal cancer reached a complete clinical response, a result one investigator called the first of its kind in the history of cancer — and the mechanism behind it is fully understood, which is exactly why the case belongs here.
Sascha Roth, the first patient in a Memorial Sloan Kettering trial of the immunotherapy drug dostarlimab, was packing for radiation when her doctor called to say there was no cancer left to treat; every one of the 12 patients with a specific genetic subtype of rectal cancer reached a complete clinical response, a result one investigator called the first of its kind in the history of cancer — and the mechanism behind it is fully understood, which is exactly why the case belongs here.
In the photograph that came to stand for the Lahaina fire — block after block burned to white ash — one red-roofed wooden house stood untouched; its owners, who had recently replaced the asphalt roof with commercial-grade metal and ringed the foundation with river stones, met the 'miracle' label with survivor's guilt and a documented fire-science mechanism, and turned the house into a base for rebuilding the street.
Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?
In the photograph that came to stand for the Lahaina fire — block after block burned to white ash — one red-roofed wooden house stood untouched; its owners, who had recently replaced the asphalt roof with commercial-grade metal and ringed the foundation with river stones, met the 'miracle' label with survivor's guilt and a documented fire-science mechanism, and turned the house into a base for rebuilding the street.
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 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.
Modern dermatology and psychiatry have identified several plausible mechanisms — psychogenic purpura, hematidrosis, Gardner-Diamond syndrome, and deliberate self-infliction — that can produce stigmata-like wounds without supernatural causation.
Modern dermatology and psychiatry have identified several plausible mechanisms — psychogenic purpura, hematidrosis, Gardner-Diamond syndrome, and deliberate self-infliction — that can produce stigmata-like wounds without supernatural causation.
In 1991, musician Pam Reynolds accurately described surgical instruments and procedures during a hypothermic cardiac standstill in which she was clinically brain-dead, making her case the most scrutinized veridical near-death experience in the medical literature.
In 1991, musician Pam Reynolds accurately described surgical instruments and procedures during a hypothermic cardiac standstill in which she was clinically brain-dead, making her case the most scrutinized veridical near-death experience in the medical literature.
The AWARE I and II studies (2008–2023) placed hidden visual targets in cardiac arrest bays across multiple hospitals and attempted to verify out-of-body perceptions — finding no confirmed hits despite 2,060 cardiac arrests studied.
The AWARE I and II studies (2008–2023) placed hidden visual targets in cardiac arrest bays across multiple hospitals and attempted to verify out-of-body perceptions — finding no confirmed hits despite 2,060 cardiac arrests studied.