Not because it teaches us that the impossible happens — it doesn’t.

The survival of Jean Hilliard was possible.

The science that explains it is real.

But it teaches us that the possible can be far more expansive than we intuitively believe, and that the body, given even the smallest margin of function to work with, can sometimes do remarkable things with it.

The Curiosity Gap That Science Cannot Fully Close

At the center of Jean Hilliard’s story, after all the science has been explained and all the context has been provided, there is still a space that the available evidence does not fill.

We know what happened in the hours before she collapsed — the drive, the ditch, the walk, the collapse.