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1:04 pm
February 10, 2011


CrowTRobot

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Post edited 1:39 pm – February 10, 2011 by CrowTRobot


I've been watching this lately – it's on Oprah's new network, OWN. It's on Wednesday nights, but I believe is repeated through the week.

It involves two investigators: Randall Sullivan, who believes in miracles and Indre Viskontas who is a skeptic. They investigate claims of miracles, the last episode involving a little boy whose parents believe is the reincarnated soul of a WWII pilot .

I don't know if it's really a 'paranormal' show, there are no evps or shadows  – they don't even turn the lights off…

I was just curious if anyone else has seen it. If you haven't, it might be worth a viewing.

 

EDIT: Comcast has a few episodes onDemand.

I….I'm thinking.

6:34 pm
February 10, 2011


Axel Olrik

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I checked Comcast on Demand and the first 5 or so episodes are there…although the first will be gone after tonight.

"Miracle Dirt," huh?  Should be good…..Smile

3:38 am
February 11, 2011


Axel Olrik

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I watched the first episode and was curious about Randall Sullivan's cryptic reference to experiences in Bosnia that converted him to a believer.

Here is some background from a review of his book by the same title "Miracle Detectives." :

http://www.powells.com/review/2004_05_07

There are also videos on YouTube of the apparitions of angels and the Virgin Mary that are claimed to appear at the "Holy Love Ministries" compound in Ohio, the subject of one of the first episodes on "Miracle Detectives."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related

 

12:42 pm
February 11, 2011


HollyDolly

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I'll have to read the book again,they have it at my local library.If I recall,the Holy Love Ministries isn't really approved of by the local bishop.I'll have to look at EWTN or some other catholic site to check it's status.

The visions of Mary Ann van Hoof in Neddecah,Wisconsin still don't have  official approval of the Catholic church, though people still go there after all these years, think her visions happend back in the 1950s.

However, the vision of Adele Briese, who in the 1850s saw the Virgin Mary near Green Bay,Wisconsin only now have been approved by the local bishop. If you read about the lives of both women, the contrasts are startiling.

I bring all this up because in the book he talks about visions of the Virgin there at Medjugorie,and that is what is said to be happening in Ohio,which this show did a story of.

I believe in miracles, but i don't need visions of Mary for that.Just look at Congresswoman Gifford and the progress she's making recovering from the shooting, or other stories about ordinary people surviving terrible accidents without a scratch or other things.These are the real miracles.

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