Straight answers
Is it a real miracle?
Real, fake, debunked, or explained? Here is the short answer for 215 claims — each weighed two ways: how extraordinary it would be if it truly happened, and how strong the evidence is. Pick one for the full case, the sources, and how we got there.
Gold
5 claimsExtraordinary if true — and strongly evidenced
Silver
12 claimsExtraordinary if true — a strong case, short of proof
- Is Barbara Cummiskey Snyder a real miracle?
- Is The Calanda Miracle a real miracle?
- Is Candela Giarda a real miracle?
- Is Sister Caterina Capitani a real miracle?
- Is Floribeth Mora Díaz a real miracle?
- Is Gabriel Gargam a real miracle?
- Is John Traynor a real miracle?
- Is Juan Gutiérrez a real miracle?
- Is Marcilio Haddad Andrino a real miracle?
- Is Marie Bailly a real miracle?
- Is Marie Bigot a real miracle?
- Is Melissa Villalobos a real miracle?
Bronze
14 claimsA genuinely contested case on a decent record
- Is The Newborn With No Pulse for 65 Minutes a real miracle?
- Is Chris Gunderson a real miracle?
- Is Ann O'Neill a real miracle?
- Is Delizia Cirolli a real miracle?
- Is Edeltraud Fulda a real miracle?
- Is Elisa Aloi a real miracle?
- Is Evasio Ganora a real miracle?
- Is Deacon Jack Sullivan a real miracle?
- Is Jake Finkbonner a real miracle?
- Is Jeanne Fretel a real miracle?
- Is Sister Marie Simon-Pierre a real miracle?
- Is Marolyn Ford a real miracle?
- Is Matteo Pio Colella a real miracle?
- Is Valeria Valverde a real miracle?
Explained
101 claimsIt happened — and nature accounts for it
- Is Baby KJ a real miracle?
- Is David Bennett a real miracle?
- Is Towana Looney a real miracle?
- Is The Dhammakaya 'Sun Miracle' a real miracle?
- Is Severe Aplastic Anemia Recovers With No Treatment a real miracle?
- Is Set to Be Taken Off Life Support, He Recovered Instead (2024) a real miracle?
- Is St. Gemma's Relic That Appeared to Move on Its Own (2025) a real miracle?
- Is A Lung Lymphoma That Vanished After Only a Biopsy (2025) a real miracle?
- Is Anna Bågenholm a real miracle?
- Is A Quran Found Untouched After a North Carolina Condo Fire a real miracle?
- Is Bageshwar Dham's 'Divya Darbar' a real miracle?
- Is The Ring That Came Back on a Carrot a real miracle?
- Is Stage IV Colon Cancer Vanishes After a Rheumatoid-Arthritis Drug Is Stopped a real miracle?
- Is The Dancing Plague of Strasbourg, 1518 a real miracle?
- Is The Dozulé Apparitions a real miracle?
- Is The Geneva Patient a real miracle?
- Is The Indiana "Bleeding Host" That Turned Out to Be Bacteria a real miracle?
- Is Joan Ginther's Four Texas Lottery Jackpots a real miracle?
- Is Miracle on the Hudson a real miracle?
- Is The Last Clear Hour a real miracle?
- Is The Leukemia That Kept Vanishing With Every Infection a real miracle?
- Is The Lethbridge Man Who Won the Lottery Three Times in Nine Months a real miracle?
- Is The Sudarium of Oviedo a real miracle?
- Is Tukdam a real miracle?
- Is A Soldier's Dog Tag, Returned After 82 Years in the Forest Mud a real miracle?
- Is The Welsh Couple Who Won £1 Million Twice a real miracle?
- Is Anita Moorjani a real miracle?
- Is Annabel Beam a real miracle?
- Is Bella Montoya a real miracle?
- Is Boden Allen and Buford a real miracle?
- Is Carolina Wilga a real miracle?
- Is Chris Dempsey and Heather Krueger a real miracle?
- Is Chris Trokey and Michael Shannon a real miracle?
- Is DUDE 44 a real miracle?
- Is Samantha Futerman and Anaïs Bordier a real miracle?
- Is The Dutch Healing-After-Prayer Study a real miracle?
- Is Marion Carroll a real miracle?
- Is Máximo Napa Castro a real miracle?
- Is The Rain Miracle of Marcus Aurelius a real miracle?
- Is Rob Howes and the Dolphins at Ocean Beach (2004) a real miracle?
- Is Sascha Roth and the Trial Where Every Tumor Vanished (2022) a real miracle?
- Is Sycamore Gap a real miracle?
- Is Todd Endris and the Ring of Dolphins (2007) a real miracle?
- Is Los 33 a real miracle?
- Is Gen. Eric Smith a real miracle?
- Is Gardell Martin a real miracle?
- Is Hillary Dawa Sherpa a real miracle?
- Is John Smith a real miracle?
- Is Katie Lentz and the 'Angel Priest' of Highway 19 a real miracle?
- Is Kehillat Israel a real miracle?
- Is Chain 357 a real miracle?
- Is Munira Abdulla a real miracle?
- Is Nan Hauser a real miracle?
- Is Rahul Sahu a real miracle?
- Is Silkyara Tunnel Rescue a real miracle?
- Is Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster a real miracle?
- Is Tim Shaddock and Bella a real miracle?
- Is TJ Hoover a real miracle?
- Is Nurse Vilma Wong and Dr. Brandon Seminatore a real miracle?
- Is The Incorrupt Relics of St. Alexander Svirsky a real miracle?
- Is Alice Couteault a real miracle?
- Is The Healing of Paulus and Palladia at Hippo (Augustine, City of God 22.8) a real miracle?
- Is The AWARE Studies a real miracle?
- Is Our Lady of Beauraing (The Golden Heart) a real miracle?
- Is The Incorruptibility of Bernadette Soubirous a real miracle?
- Is Buddhist Sarira a real miracle?
- Is Catherine Labouré a real miracle?
- Is Cecilia Maribel Flores a real miracle?
- Is Our Lady of Assiut a real miracle?
- Is The 1995 Ganesha Milk Miracle a real miracle?
- Is Gemma Galgani's Stigmata and Ecstasies a real miracle?
- Is Heidi Baker / Iris Global a real miracle?
- Is The Jansenist Convulsionnaires of Saint-Medard a real miracle?
- Is Our Lady of Knock a real miracle?
- Is The Kursk Root Icon of the Sign a real miracle?
- Is Eucharistic Miracle of Legnica, Poland (2013) a real miracle?
- Is Our Lady of Lourdes (Bernadette Soubirous) a real miracle?
- Is The Lourdes Cure of Jean-Pierre Bély a real miracle?
- Is The Máriapócs Weeping Icon a real miracle?
- Is The Medjugorje 'Miracle of the Sun' a real miracle?
- Is The Miracle of the Sun at Fátima a real miracle?
- Is Monica Besra a real miracle?
- Is The Weeping Crucifix of Mumbai a real miracle?
- Is Ornish et al. a real miracle?
- Is Our Lady of La Salette a real miracle?
- Is Our Lady of Zeitoun (Cairo Luminous Apparitions) a real miracle?
- Is Padre Pio's Stigmata a real miracle?
- Is Padre Pio a real miracle?
- Is Pam Reynolds a real miracle?
- Is Pope John XXIII a real miracle?
- Is Saint Zita of Lucca a real miracle?
- Is Serge Perrin a real miracle?
- Is Eucharistic Miracle of Sokółka, Poland (2008) a real miracle?
- Is Spontaneous Cancer Remission a real miracle?
- Is Spontaneous Remission of Small Cell Lung Cancer Without Treatment (2021 Case Report) a real miracle?
- Is The Incorrupt Relics of St. John Maximovitch of Shanghai and San Francisco a real miracle?
- Is STEP Study a real miracle?
- Is STEPP Study a real miracle?
- Is Valentine Greatrakes 'The Stroker' a real miracle?
- Is Vincent de Paul a real miracle?
- Is The Incorrupt Body of Francis Xavier in Goa a real miracle?
Unproven
63 claimsThe record can't carry the claim either way
- Is Eben Alexander a real miracle?
- Is The Naga Fireballs of the Mekong River a real miracle?
- Is The Parting of the Red Sea (Exodus 14) a real miracle?
- Is Joshua's "Sun Stood Still" at Gibeon a real miracle?
- Is The Ten Plagues of Egypt a real miracle?
- Is The Star of Bethlehem a real miracle?
- Is The Veil of Veronica and the Holy Face of Manoppello a real miracle?
- Is Nichiren at Tatsunokuchi a real miracle?
- Is Thomaston a real miracle?
- Is Amanda Paola a real miracle?
- Is Angela of Foligno a real miracle?
- Is The Miracles of Apollonius of Tyana a real miracle?
- Is Augustine's Catalogue of Miracles in City of God, Book 22 a real miracle?
- Is Our Lady of Banneux (Virgin of the Poor) a real miracle?
- Is Bede's Account of the Miracles of St. Cuthbert a real miracle?
- Is Benny Hinn a real miracle?
- Is Blessed Imelda Lambertini a real miracle?
- Is Eucharistic Miracle of Bolsena-Orvieto (1263) a real miracle?
- Is Reinhard Bonnke's Africa Crusade Healing Claims (General Pattern) a real miracle?
- Is Eucharistic Miracle of Buenos Aires (1996) a real miracle?
- Is Charbel Makhlouf a real miracle?
- Is Our Lady of Warraq a real miracle?
- Is Daniel Ekechukwu a real miracle?
- Is Delia Knox a real miracle?
- Is Dybbuk Possession in Jewish Tradition a real miracle?
- Is Stigmata of Francis of Assisi a real miracle?
- Is The Hawaiian Iveron Myrrh-Streaming Icon (2007) a real miracle?
- Is The Hemorrhoissa a real miracle?
- Is The Holy Fire of Jerusalem a real miracle?
- Is The Manchester 'Allah Fish' a real miracle?
- Is John Vianney (Curé d'Ars) a real miracle?
- Is Joseph of Cupertino's Levitations a real miracle?
- Is The Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano a real miracle?
- Is Louis Bouriette a real miracle?
- Is The Weeping Madonna of Civitavecchia a real miracle?
- Is Margaret of Cortona a real miracle?
- Is Maria's Shoe a real miracle?
- Is Marthe Robin's Fifty-Year Inedia a real miracle?
- Is Mary of Ágreda's Bilocation to the Americas a real miracle?
- Is Our Lady of Medjugorje (Ongoing Alleged Apparitions) a real miracle?
- Is Miracle Baby a real miracle?
- Is The Montreal Iveron Myrrh-Streaming Icon and Brother Jose Munoz-Cortes a real miracle?
- Is Myrrh-Streaming Orthodox Icons a real miracle?
- Is The Odor of Sanctity a real miracle?
- Is Our Lady of Akita a real miracle?
- Is Our Lady of Guadalupe (The Tilma of Juan Diego) a real miracle?
- Is Our Lady of Las Lajas (Miraculous Image in Stone) a real miracle?
- Is Our Lady of Pontmain a real miracle?
- Is Padre Pio's Bilocation a real miracle?
- Is The Panagia Soumela Icon a real miracle?
- Is The Resurrection of Jesus a real miracle?
- Is Saint Cecilia a real miracle?
- Is Eucharistic Miracle of Santarém a real miracle?
- Is The Shroud of Turin a real miracle?
- Is Eucharistic Miracle of Siena a real miracle?
- Is Smith Wigglesworth's Claimed Resurrections from the Dead (1900s-1940s) a real miracle?
- Is The Liquefaction of the Blood of St. Januarius, Naples a real miracle?
- Is St. Seraphim of Sarov a real miracle?
- Is Therese Neumann a real miracle?
- Is Thich Quang Duc's Unburnt Heart (1963) a real miracle?
- Is Eucharistic Miracle of Tixtla, Mexico (2006) a real miracle?
- Is Todd Bentley's Lakeland Revival Healing Claims (2008) a real miracle?
- Is Vespasian's Healing Miracles in Alexandria a real miracle?
Disproven
20 claimsPositively shown false — hoax, fraud, or refuted
- Is The Angels of Mons a real miracle?
- Is The Holy Lance (Spear of Longinus / "Spear of Destiny") a real miracle?
- Is The Epidaurus Cure Inscriptions a real miracle?
- Is The Bleeding Madonna of Trevignano Romano a real miracle?
- Is The Cock Lane Ghost a real miracle?
- Is The Cottingley Fairies a real miracle?
- Is The Delhi Monkey Man a real miracle?
- Is The Miracles of Francis Xavier and the Growth of His Legend a real miracle?
- Is Hobbs, New Mexico Weeping Virgin Mary (2018) a real miracle?
- Is Joan of Arc 'Relics' a real miracle?
- Is Kathryn Kuhlman's Spinal Cancer Healing (Nolen Follow-up) a real miracle?
- Is The Tilma's Eyes a real miracle?
- Is Peter Popoff's Radio Earpiece Fraud a real miracle?
- Is Pieter De Rudder a real miracle?
- Is Saint Rita of Cascia a real miracle?
- Is Saint Silvan a real miracle?
- Is Sathya Sai Baba's 'Materializations' a real miracle?
- Is Uri Geller Fails Controlled Test on The Tonight Show (1973) a real miracle?
- Is Bishop Climate Wiseman's 'Plague Protection Kit' a real miracle?
- Is W.V. Grant a real miracle?
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