The Bleeding Madonna of Our Lady of Sorrows: 2006, St. Paul

In 2006, at the stroke of midnight on Halloween, the porcelain Madonna at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in St. Paul was found weeping a single line of fresh blood from her right eye. The red trail ran down her white cheek, pooling at the edge of her blue-painted robe, and every parishioner who witnessed it reported the same metallic tang lingering in the air. For weeks, skeptics searched for hidden tubes or paint, but the statue’s head was solid porcelain and undamaged. Every year since, only on Halloween, the bleeding returned-always starting at midnight, always from the same eye, and always stopping before dawn. Priests recorded the liquid, and every test confirmed it was real human blood, type AB negative, different from everyone who touched the statue. Finally, three Halloweens in, someone pried up the statue’s base-and found a faded rosary and the torn-down page of a diary, scrawled with the words: "She only cries when he returns."