What do you think about this?
On the morning of September 20, 1918, a young friar named Padre Pio was praying alone before a crucifix in a monastery in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy. When the other monks found him, his hands, his feet, and his side were bleeding from open wounds in the exact places where Christ was said to have been pierced on the cross. They are called the stigmata. And on Padre Pio, they did not go away.
For fifty years those wounds bled. Daily. Through two world wars, through decades of medical examinations, through investigations by the Vatican itself, which was deeply skeptical and twice restricted his ministry. They sent a respected physician, Amico Bignami, an avowed atheist chosen precisely because he had no reason to believe. Bignami examined the wounds and could not call them fraud. No bandage, no chemical, no self-inflicted injury ever explained them.
Then came the strangest part of all. In the hours before Padre Pio died in 1968, the wounds that had bled for half a century closed completely and vanished. They left no scars. The skin was smooth, as though they had never been there.
Is it possible the human body can be marked by something medicine has no name for?
Faith made flesh, or a mystery science simply has not cracked yet? What do you think happened to him?
What do you think about this? On January 20, 1996, three young women in Varginha, Brazil, saw a four foot creature with oily skin and red eyes crouched by a wall. The army was in town that morning. A policeman said to have handled it died a month later. Cover story, or Brazil’s Roswell?
What do you think about this? In 1800 settlers at Conneaut, Ohio, opened a four acre burial ground in rows and reported skeletons over seven feet, jaws that fit over a man’s face, double rows of teeth. The graves were plowed under within a generation. Tall tale, or a people buried twice?
What do you think about this? The Iron Pillar of Delhi is six tons of forged iron from around 400 AD. It has stood outside through 1,600 years of monsoons and never rusted, thanks to a protective film from phosphorus rich iron nobody made again. Lucky recipe, or knowledge lost on purpose?
What do you think about this? North Sea trawlers pull up mammoth teeth, flint tools and a carved harpoon from 120 feet deep. Until 8,000 years ago that seabed was Doggerland, a forested land the size of Britain, drowned by rising seas and a tsunami. The lost land of every old story?
What do you think about this? In 1974 a Florida family found a polished 22 pound steel ball in burned brush. It hummed when a guitar played, rolled across rooms on its own and changed direction. Navy X rays showed objects inside, origin unknown. Valve ball, or something that landed?
What do you think about this? The Whaley House in San Diego was built in 1857 where a man was slowly hanged five years earlier. A baby and a daughter later died inside. Visitors report footsteps in empty rooms and a pressure on the throat where the gallows stood. Old house, or long memory?
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