| Biglands Collects Tales of “Miracle Mile”
By the Adelaide Daily Newswire
Adelaide, Australia – And we thought the “Miracle Mile” was only a hiking tour out on the West Coast.
Not so, says the tourist board in Adelaide – where more than a dozen visitors from the United States, Europe and Japan claim they were partly or fully cured of serious illnesses after visits to the area.
Their stories, collected by the board last month, centre on a series of streets extending from Glen Osmond out to Glenelg in the Southern Suburbs –and correspond to a city bus line that is becoming increasingly popular.
“I feared I would be little more than a burden to my family on this trip,” said Oscar, 72, who suffered from lung cancer when he visited this spring. “And I really was a burden, until we travelled around a little suburb outside of Adelaide.
“By the last day I was going without oxygen and breathing deeply without any pain – and it's been getting better ever since.”
He says that his doctor in Oklahoma City, USA, has diagnosed his cancer as being in remission.
Other accounts are just as startling.
Kunishige of Osaka, Japan claims to have been cured of liver disease during a house exchange with a family in Clarence Gardens; Marguerite of Lyons, France says that her arthritis pain has diminished since returning home from Adelaide six weeks ago.
Other stories include unexplainable cures for Eczema, Mononucleosis and Asthma.
Tourist Board President Scott Biglands says that calls from locals finally prompted him to investigate these stories.
“I laughed when I first heard about it, figuring this was a pretty sad way to drum up business,” he admits.
“But then I visited a Danish woman who was weeping for joy in her hotel room. She apparently walked without pain for the first time in years and threw her medicine in the bin.
“That's not the kind of thing you easily forget.”
He interviewed the owners of area hotels, inns and restaurants until he discovered that most stories surrounded an area including Cross Road, Marion Road, Raglan Avenue, Cliff Street and Pier Street. Locals were already dubbing it “Miracle Mile.”
He suggests that there is real potential for local businesses to benefit from interest in the phenomenon.
As for explanations, they are all guesswork thus far – ranging from theories about Earth magnetics to aboriginal legends to religious hysteria.
“There's even a tale of a woman who had a vision of a man floating down a hillside,” Biglands says. “But so far we're pretty sure that was just dehydration.”
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