• How did someone stop a bullet by being married?
How did a man survive a 500-foot fall onto concrete?
What you believe is up to you, but here are 10 real-life miracles that scientists have
no explanation for.
10 – Drowning Recovery • Generally speaking, CPR has a pretty limited
window where it can resuscitate someone.
It’s usually within only a few minutes, and isn’t especially reliable even on healthy
adults.
• That’s why doctors were stumped when CPR brought back a 22-month old boy after
an hour and 41 minutes.
• The boy had fallen into a stream, and by the time he was found, he had no pulse
and wasn’t breathing.
Rescuers tried CPR for 100 minutes with no luck.
In minute 101, he revived.
• Five days after the incident, he was back home, completely undamaged, like nothing ever
happened.
9 – Our Lady of Akita • Japan isn’t a particularly religious
country, but there are still some sects of Christianity throughout the nation.
• That’s what made a weeping statue at a Catholic church in Akita, Japan, so noteworthy.
The carved wood statue began crying tears of blood, one of the rare claims of this caught
on camera.
• This coincided with a nun’s claims that she had been visited by an apparition of the
Virgin Mary.
The local Catholic Church confirmed the event, but the Vatican has not… and the science
of the matter is dubious at best.
• Still, the weeping statue was caught on camera, and there isn’t much information
to explain how that happened.
8 – Healing through community prayer • Grayson Kirby was dead when he arrived
at the University of Virginia Medical Center.
• He had been thrown from a car, crushing his lungs and breaking countless bones in
his body.
• The doctors were able to get him on life support, but there was very little hope of
his recovery given his injuries.
• Grayson’s family, not knowing what else to do, started prayer groups and held fundraisers.
• 10 days later, Grayson opened his eyes, and started on the path to a full recovery.
And doctors have no idea why or how that happened.
7 – Guiding spirit’s voice • In 2015, a 25-year-old woman lost control
of her car and drove off the side of a bridge over the Spanish Fork River in Utah.
• The car landed on its roof, in the shallow water, and stayed there for 14 hours before
anyone found it.
• The officers at the scene all heard the same voice – a woman’s voice talking to
them, calling out for help from the direction of the car.
• But when they found the car, the woman was dead, and clearly had been since the crash.
What they did find was her 18-month old daughter in the back seat, safely strapped into her
car seat.
• But all the officers agree it was not a baby’s voice they heard, it was a woman’s
voice.
They just can’t explain where that voice came from.
6 – Miracles of Saint Brother André • Saint Andre of Montreal, Canada, was a
humble man who built a reputation for healing the sick throughout his life in the Catholic
church.
• Saint Andre was so sought for healing prayer, he eventually began collecting crutches
from the people that had recovered.
• Perhaps the most stunning example of this was a 9-year-old boy who had been hit by a
car and was in a coma.
After several days, and doctors’ assessment that he had no hope of recovery, the boy’s
parents agreed to remove him from life support.
• Rather than fade away, the boy began breathing on his own, and woke up from his coma three
weeks later, making a full recovery.
5 – Bulletproof wedding ring • Donnie Register was running his antique
shop one morning when he found himself being robbed at gunpoint.
• The robbers demanded money with a gun right in his face, and Donnie assumed they
were ready to shoot him.
• He was right.
As a reaction, he put his hand in front of his face just as the gun went off, and the
bullet ricocheted off his wedding ring.
• Part of the bullet lodged in his middle finger, the other part lodged in the muscle
of his neck, but neither were life-threatening.
4 – Childbirth Resurrection • During a routine C-section, things got
very much NOT routine for one 40-year-old Florida woman.
• As she was giving birth to her new baby, a rare complication popped up, which doctors
spent three hours trying to save her from.
• They appeared to be unable to save her, and those three hours ended with the woman
going 45 minutes without a pulse.
• They gathered the woman’s family to tell them there was nothing they could do,
and were preparing to announce the time of death, when they heard a blip on the heart
monitor.
• Not only was she still alive, but she managed to go 45 minutes without a pulse and
avoid any brain damage.
3 – Man survives 47-story fall • On December 7, 2008, Alcides Moreno was
working his job as a window washer when his scaffolding collapsed, sending him and his
brother on a 500-foot fall to the Manhattan streets below.
• His brother died instantly, but Alcides was admitted to the hospital with both legs
and his right arm broken in multiple places.
• His chest, spine, and abdomen all suffered extreme injuries, and there was severe internal
bleeding in his brain and throughout his body.
• After all that, he opened his eyes and started talking less than three weeks after
the fall.
About half of all people who suffer a fall from 50 feet die from it.
Alcides Moreno not only survived it a fall from five HUNDRED feet, but made a full recovery.
• Now the Ecuadorean immigrant drives his kids to school and does walk-a-thons for a
church food pantry. 2 – Saintly blood
• The Catholic Church takes the concept of miracles very seriously.
They have to be verified and approved by a panel of miracle experts.
• They’re so strict about what is and is not a miracle, that when the blood of a
fourth-century saint went from dry to liquified in the presence of Pope Francis, the church
deemed it a “half miracle.”
• Scientists have theories about what causes the blood in that vial to liquify, but obviously
the church hasn’t allowed any scientists access to study them.
1 – Miracles from beyond the grave • Luke Burgie, of Colorado Springs, Colorado,
came down with a terrible intestinal problem on his first day of preschool in 1998.
• The condition sent him to the hospital, where doctors were unable to even diagnose
the problem.
• Luke suffered with the problem for six months, having violent diarrhea 8 to 10 times
a day.
Doctors were at a total loss and were about to test for a tumor in his colon.
• But then one day, it just went away.
It was the same day two local nuns finished a nine-day prayer to Mother Theresia Bonzel,
to intercede on Luke’s behalf.
• Mother Bonzel was a German nun who died in 1905.
But since doctors had no explanation for the incident, Pope Francis approved the event
as a miracle, and Bonzel was canonized in the church as a saint – 108 years after
her death.