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.
4 claims
A two-year-old who wandered from his home near Seligman, Arizona, on the evening of April 14, 2025, spent about 16 hours alone in high-desert country where searchers later noted two mountain lions, then turned up nearly seven miles away at a rancher's gate with the family's livestock-guardian dog, Buford, standing beside him; the boy was found with minor cuts and mild dehydration, and the dog's behavior fits exactly what its breed is raised to do.
England's most photographed tree, the sycamore standing in a dip of Hadrian's Wall for well over a century, was illegally felled with a chainsaw in the early morning of September 28, 2023; ten months later a National Park ranger found twelve new shoots growing from the base of the stump. The two men who cut it down were convicted of criminal damage in May 2025 and sentenced to four years and three months each, and the first seedling grown from the tree's seeds was presented to King Charles III.
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.
Between November 1932 and January 1933, five Belgian children reported 33 apparitions of the Virgin Mary appearing above a hawthorn tree near a convent school in Beauraing, Belgium.