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?
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What do you think about this? The Abenaki spoke of something in Lake Champlain long before Europeans arrived, and Port Henry still keeps a sign counting sightings. In 1977 Sandra Mansi photographed a long neck and a dark hump, and no hoax was ever found in it. Log, or a real animal?
What do you think about this? In 1579 Francis Drake beached the Golden Hind somewhere on the northern California coast and claimed the land for England. Nobody can say which beach. A brass plate found in 1936 was celebrated for decades, then proved a hoax. Point Reyes, or somewhere else?
What do you think about this? Among the Dead Sea Scrolls, one is engraved on copper instead of parchment, and it is a treasure map. It lists 64 hiding places holding tons of gold and silver. Not one has ever been found. Real temple gold, or an ancient legend set in metal?
What do you think about this? On August 15, 1977, an Ohio telescope caught a 72 second burst from Sagittarius, 30 times stronger than background, right on the hydrogen frequency. The astronomer circled it and wrote Wow. It never came back. Fluke, or one word of a conversation?
What do you think about this? The Shroud of Turin carries a full length image of a man that behaves like a photographic negative, which nobody noticed until it was first photographed in 1898. Carbon dating said medieval. Nobody can explain how the image formed. Artwork, or something else?
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