The BEST episodes of Mysterious Ways
Every episode of Mysterious Ways ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Mysterious Ways!
Declan Dunn has a fascination with mystical phenomena that began when he was buried under an avalanche and given up for dead. After he miraculously survived, he committed his life to investigating miracles and the absolute proof of their existence. Declan is proof that miracles happen. But how do they occur? How could an eleven-year-old child survive drowning in a freezing lake? How could a blind mother locate and rescue her unconscious baby from a flaming inferno? How is it that two seemingly identical twins are not related at all? Now a professor of Anthropology at a leading Oregon university, Declan has the training, support staff and the opportunity to study the uncanny, inexplicable phenomena people call "miracles". With the help of Peggy, a skeptical psychiatrist, and Miranda, a research student, the three embark on a quest to explain what science cannot. Mysterious Ways premiered on NBC on July 24, 2000, then moved to PAX on August 22, 2000 and was show
#1 - Lost Souls
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/4/2001
A boy hears a voice coming from a child's image in a mysterious painting. When Declan and Peggy investigate, they race against time to find the child's shocking true identity.
#2 - The Ties That Bind
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/11/2000
Declan's overwhelmed assistant Miranda starts to act strangely, and along with three other people, she finds herself drawn to a bridge in New Zealand. Though none of them know why they're there, all of them feel the urge to jump off this bridge. As the mystery unfolds, they discover that the bond they have between them is deeper than they ever imagined.
#3 - Twins
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/28/2000
When two students in Declan's anthropology class exhibit uncanny similarities, Declan becomes curious when both adopted young men turn out to share the same birth date, the same mannerisms, tastes, and test answers, but a blood test determines that they aren't related. When one of them becomes ill, the mystery of what brought them together intensifies. Meanwhile, Declan and Peggy discover they share a coincidence as well.
#4 - Do You See What I See?
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/6/2001
Declan's mentor, Rudy, becomes Declan's next miracle mystery, when the old anthropologist begins having bizarre visions, including tacky alien spaceships, circus clowns and even the Big Bad Wolf. Declan brings Rudy to see Peggy, who thinks these visions are the result of stress, but when she has him undergo a physical check-up, a brain tumor is discovered. The tumor is pressing on the part of the brain that houses memories, thus triggering these strange visions -- memories from Rudy's childhood. But one of the memories is of a young girl -- the childhood sweetheart Rudy let go. With Declan's help, Rudy is able to make contact with the woman, who just recently divorced... right about the same time Rudy started having these visions.
#5 - Crystal Clear
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/7/2000
A window washer falls from the side of a very tall building and crashes through the top of a parked convertible landing in the passenger's seat next to a very frightened driver. He is dazed but un-injured. Declan, Peggy and Miranda must investigate how this could happen and find a very interesting coincidence.
#6 - John Doe #28
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/1/2001
After dying in the ER, an man suffering from amnesia comes back to life with a new, more positive, demeanor. The resulting chain of events proves that what goes around really does come around.
#7 - Dead Dog Walking
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/22/2001
While Peggy treats a patient who suffers a near-death experience during surgery, Declan investigates a foreign cardiologist who's wooing her -- and discovers that the so-called doctor might be more of a killer than a healer. Fearing Peggy is being courted by this con man, Declan delves into his background and unearths the mysterious disappearance of the suitor's last romantic conquest.
#8 - Strike Two
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/15/2001
A man who lost his hearing twenty years ago when he was first struck by lightning, is again struck by lightning. Now he seems to not only have his hearing back, but also amazingly has the power to foretell future events using sound.
#9 - Handshake
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/21/2000
When Declan investigates an old woman with the miraculous gift of being able to predict future events by means of a mysterious handwriting, he discovers the woman to be amazingly accurate. But when she looks at him and writes the words ""Your sister is dying,"" it sends Declan on an emotional journey of reconnection with a sister he's alienated. As Declan struggles urgently to uncover the truth of the woman's prediction, he learns that before he can help to heal his sister, he must first heal himself.
#10 - Intentions
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/28/2000
Peggy struggles when she begins seeing the ghost of a patient who recently committed suicide, jeopardizing her career in the process. Meanwhile, Declan also finds his employment at risk when his pursuit of miraculous phenomena interferes with his classroom responsibilities.
#11 - Yesterday
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/8/2001
When a cop's partner is shot to death while investigating a break-in, the cop feels responsible. That night, the distraught cop says a silent prayer--if only he could have this day back. The cop wakes the next morning to discover he's gotten his wish--he's living yesterday all over again. But unfortunately, he's the only one who knows it. Through this investigation Declan and Peggy learn a lesson about altering the course of destiny.
#12 - Reasons to Cry
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/19/2000
As a funeral takes place in an inner city church from another gang related shooting, something unbelievable occurs – an image on a stained-glass window begins weeping tears of blood. In the midst of Declan's investigation, another miracle occurs within the community – the people, taking the icon's tears as a message to stop the violence, begin banding together, helping the gangs to resolve their differences. Declan is left with the moral dilemma of disproving this ‘miracle' to a community in desperate need of an answered prayer.
#13 - Spirit Junction
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/21/2000
Declan travels to the small town of East Gilmore to investigate a mysterious legend of protective spirits. There, he discovers more than just an eerie tale of children's ghosts pushing stalled cars off railway tracks, but a town full of pain, unable to recover from a horrible tragedy.
#14 - Phoenix
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/13/2001
A fireman engulfed in flames staggers out of a burning house and miraculously escapes without a single burn. When several other seemingly connected unbelievable coincidences occur, Declan investigates and witnesses what could be a miracle.
#15 - Spike
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/18/2001
Paramedics revive a high-strung man, who believes his imaginary childhood friend, Spike, made the strange 911 call that saved his life. As Declan tries to explain the call, Peggy helps the man confess a terrible secret.
#16 - Stranger in the Mirror
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/14/2000
A student see's a dead man when he look's into a mirror. Each time he see's the man it's from a deferent time in the man's life. This leads Declan to the cause of the man's death.
#17 - 19A
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/9/2001
Declan hears about a man who had a premonition of a recent plane crash. When Declan investigates whether or not the premonition was real or just a fabrication he makes a startling discovery, which could alter the lives of two families forever.
#18 - Something Fishy
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/14/2002
When a torrent of fish falls from the sky onto the former mining town of Kerwin's Landing, Declan can't resist investigating. What he discovers is a town in decline, facing tough economic times. To everyone's amazement, the falling fish are only the beginning of a strange series of downpours that help pave the way to a brighter future.
#19 - MUTI
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/30/2002
When Peggy's friend, Johanna, miraculously survives a motorcycle accident in Uganda she is accused of being a witch. Peggy, Declan and Miranda must go to Africa and help prove Johanna's innocence in time to save her from execution.
#20 - Friends in Need
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/19/2002
After repeatedly seeing visions of his old friend Mike, Declan pays him a long over-due visit. When these mysterious apparitions continue, and Mike's past is further revealed, Declan realizes that he must put aside old grudges in order to help his friend at a critical moment in his life.
#21 - Doctor in the House
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/27/2001
Declan investigates when an uneducated blue-collar worker is suddenly able to perform complicated emergency surgeries. But will the man's new medical skill help him stop his teenage son from making a tragic mistake?
#22 - A Time to Every Purpose
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/13/2001
A woman miraculously awakens from a 17-year coma, confused, but otherwise healthy. But she comes to believe that the dream-like world she remembers is an alternate plane of existence shared by other coma patients.
#23 - Pure of Heart
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/27/2001
Declan, Peggy and Miranda trek through the Indian wilderness to find a ""Holy Man"" who supposedly possesses remarkable healing power. But an incompetent guide and a series of strange accidents put their lives in jeopardy.
#24 - The Greater Good
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/1/2001
Declan uncovers a cloth in a 17th century tomb that they discover is the veil of Veronica, a religious relic with the power to heal. It is used to heal Cancer patients but soon starts to disintegrate. While looking for a method of preservation, the veil is sealed until Miranda is struck with a deadly virus and Declan is forced to make the decision whether to save his friend or save the veil for the good of mankind.
#25 - Demons
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/12/2000
Peggy is assigned to the case of an attempted suicide and piques Declan's interest when the girl claims she is haunted by demons. As Peggy struggles to help the tormented girl, Declan uncovers a terrible secret lurking behind the patient's disturbances.
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