I believe in a God of miracles. As we look to the future, we will see many more. I love sharing the documented miracles that irrefutably show God’s ever-loving care in our lives. I will share three well-documented miracles in this blog post. But the last one of the three, The Great Alaska Race, touched me heart, as I recently learned about this amazing miraculous story.
The Cockville Miracle
The Cockville Miracle is an amazing and well-documented event showing the miraculous saving of all the elementary school children and their teachers.
On May 16, 1986, in Cokeville, Wyoming, a “crazy man” tried to collect an enormous ransom by threatening to blow up both teachers and children in the school if they didn’t comply with his demands. However, the homemade gasoline bomb blew up by mistake, and the man and his wife perished instead. All the children and teachers miraculously survived.
Many of the children and teachers later shared remarkable and consistent accounts of the event. Witnesses attributed the event to divine intervention. They reported that angels and bright glowing figures appeared. Some said the figures that came looked like their deceased relatives. They came to comfort and protect them. There is a well-made movie, Cokeville Miracle, documenting this miraculous story. It is one of the most striking modern-day accounts of divine intervention.
Scientific Confirmation
As a scientist, I was particularly intrigued by how they described the angels surrounding the explosion and focusing the destructive energy up and away from the children. For me, it was consistent with the diallel-field lines we documented in our unified field theory (UFT) research that the angels were able to use to protect the children. In our UFT research, we established the existence of diallel-field lines and some of their properties. And we showed the existence of a fifth dimension beyond Einstein’s four dimensions of relativity.
That fifth-dimension couples us into the Eternity Domain, where God and His angels do their marvelous work. Scientists use the five known human senses in their experimentation. The sixth sense moves us into the Eternity Domain, which is what we access when we pray. All the Cockville folks were praying, and the angels were there for them.
The Mary Owen Miracle
A second well-documented miracle is about our granddaughter, Mary Owen. Due to a falling accident, she spent six days and six nights in the snow on Mt. Hood in March 2013. She was found in direct answer to prayer and with unusual-angelic assistance to make her location known. Now, she and her husband, Ben Grimm, and their four beautiful children are missionaries for the Lord.
The Nome, Alaska Miracle
The third well-documented miracle is the Nome, Alaska Miracle. Nome is just 2 degrees below the Arctic Circle. It was basically locked in for the winter back when this miracle occurred. The amazing series of events happened in January 1925. There was a diphtheria outbreak in the community of Nome, Alaska.
They reached out immediately to cities along the Pacific coast for the needed anti-toxin serum. The best way to get the serum to Nome was from Anchorage, a thousand miles away. It is about 3,000 miles across the continental United States from ocean to ocean. Blizzard conditions made the delivery of a life-saving serum by airplane from Anchorage impossible.
They needed to keep the serum from freezing. As soon as they got the serum, they carried it by train, plowing through the deep snow on its way north 298 miles to Nenana.
Think of the details of doing the following across Alaska’s deep winter snows and storms.
They miraculously organized dog sled teams to take the serum west 674 miles the rest of the way to Nome. With no time to waste, they immediately found 20 strong men (Mushers) with dogsleds to accomplish this horrendous task, risking their lives because the temperatures dipped down to below -40 degrees F. This is in the middle of Alaska, with winter storms raging with blizzard and gale-force winds.
The serum was handed off seamlessly and miraculously all the way. 120 dogs were involved, and some of them died because of temperatures below -40o caused their lungs to freeze. The community of Nome was saved miraculously.
The dogsled part was done in 5 ½ days, averaging more than 120 miles per day in unfathomable conditions.
Remarkable Men
Here is a list of the remarkable men who became available along the rest of the 674 miles, who, risking their lives, volunteered to help save the community of Nome.
“Wild Bill” Shannon, 52 miles
Edgar Kallands (~31 miles)
George Nollner (~24 miles)
Charlie Evans (~30 miles)
Tommy Patsy (~36 miles)
Dave Corning (~30 miles)
Harry Pitka (~30 miles)
Sam Joseph (~40 miles)
Titus Nickolai (~34 miles)
Johnny Folger (~28 miles)
Sam Miller (~30 miles)
Henry Ivanoff (~25 miles)
Leonhard Seppala & his lead dog, Togo, took the serum for the most dangerous and longest single stretch. Distance of ~91 miles that day (part of a 264-mile round trip for Seppala, as he left from Nome, motivated to save the life of his young daughter)
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Charlie Olson (~25 miles)
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Gunnar Kaasen takes over for the final push. Kaasen & Balto run through the night in whiteout blizzard conditions. They covered 55 miles in the final dash to Nome—arriving February 2, 1925, 5:30 a.m.
A truly documented miracle. The faith and prayers of a lot of good people were answered, as our infinitely loving Lord does.
The movie, The Great Alaskan Race, tells the story of Seppala and Togo. Togo was the biggest hero but one of the smallest dogs, and at age 12 for a dog, he had given his all, and Togo’s sixth sense brought them to their destination and saved the day. There is a great book called TOGO, by Robert J. Blake, that tells Togo’s story.
Disney made a movie called Togo documenting this miracle, but they have taken it down. Why?
David W. Allan
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