The claims

Each entry pairs a reported miracle with the documentary record and a tier rating, Gold standard through Disproven, showing how strongly the evidence resists a natural explanation.

3 claims

Unproven

By his own account, the Buddhist teacher Nichiren was taken from Kamakura to the execution ground at Tatsunokuchi in the pre-dawn hours of the twelfth day of the ninth month of 1271, and as the beheading was about to proceed, 'a brilliant orb as bright as the moon' shot across the sky from the direction of Enoshima; the executioner fell blinded and the soldiers panicked. The execution never took place — Nichiren was exiled to Sado Island instead — and the scene became the dramatic center of his tradition, though no record of the night survives outside his own letters.

providence·Tatsunokuchi execution grounds, near Kamakura, Japan

Nichiren at Tatsunokuchi — The Light Over the Execution Ground (1271)

Unproven

Philostratus's biography of Apollonius records him apparently restoring a recently deceased Roman senator's daughter to life in Rome -- a miracle explicitly paralleled to Gospel resurrection accounts by later commentators.

healing·Rome

Apollonius of Tyana: The Resurrection of a Roman Girl

Unproven

In the early 1980s, a cardiac arrest patient named Maria described seeing a worn blue tennis shoe on a specific third-floor window ledge of Harborview Hospital — a detail her social worker said she subsequently verified.

apparition·Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA

Maria's Shoe: The Tennis Shoe NDE

Full A–Z index (all 215 claims)