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.
2 claims
When flash floods and a glacial lake outburst destroyed the Himalayan town of Kedarnath on June 16 and 17, 2013, the centuries-old stone temple at its center survived; a large boulder carried down by the debris flow had lodged immediately behind the temple and split the flow around it. The 2013 North India floods killed 6,054 people by the official count, hundreds of them pilgrims and residents at Kedarnath itself, and the boulder is now venerated as the Bhim Shila, worshipped as the rock that protected the shrine.
Four stone stelae erected at the sanctuary of Asclepius at Epidaurus in the fourth century BCE record roughly seventy cures — blindness, paralysis, muteness, a five-year pregnancy — reported by pilgrims who slept in the sanctuary's dormitory and dreamed of the god. The inscriptions are the largest surviving body of healing claims from the ancient world, and they were composed and displayed by the sanctuary whose reputation they served.