The Hindu Milk Miracle
On the morning of 21 September 1995 word went round Delhi that statues of Ganesha were drinking milk from a spoon. By midday milk was being offered to images all over India, and then in temples in Britain, Canada and Nepal; Delhi sold out of milk and the traffic stopped. That same day India's Ministry of Science and Technology sent a team to the temples, which showed that the milk leaves the spoon through surface tension and the capillary action of porous stone and marble, and then runs down the statue in a thin film. When food colouring was added to the milk the trace became visible over the whole figure. By the evening of the next day the phenomenon had stopped of itself.
The Michigan Relics
From 1890 copper tablets, clay bowls and slate slabs bearing cuneiform, Egyptian signs and biblical scenes were taken out of mounds all over Michigan — proof that the continent had been settled from the Holy Land. Some three thousand objects accumulated, and nearly every one was found by, or with the help of, the same man: a travelling sign-writer named James Scotford. Professor Francis Kelsey of the University of Michigan showed that the ancient inscriptions were a mixture of alphabets copied from a schoolbook, and that the copper had been cut with modern tools. In 1911 Scotford's stepdaughter's husband swore an affidavit describing how he made the objects and buried them the night before a dig.
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