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The story of Jean Hilliard, a woman who made a full recovery after she was found frozen stiff in the snow in Minnesota, has been shared in various forms since it was first published in 1980. And with each reiteration the story has grown more astonishing. One of the first reports of the incident, published by the Montreal Gazette on 30 December 1980, explained that Hilliard collapsed on a 22-below-zero night as she tried to seek shelter after a minor car accident. The young woman was found frozen solid approximately six hours later and brought to a hospital: Most of the stories published about Jean Hilliard immediately after the incident credited electric heating pads and oxygen tanks for her recovery, but with each retelling the story became more miraculous. When Weekly World News (the same publication has brought audiences fantastically fictional stories about the half-bat, half-human Bat Boy and Hitler's UFO escape) published their version of the story in January 1981, quotes from Hilliard's parents were added that credited her recovery to the power of prayer. Guide Post Magazine took this theme a step further, claiming that a prayer chain saved Jean Hilliard's life: While some may consider Hilliard's recovery a miracle (the New York Times even quoted Dr. Sather's deeming the young woman's survival as such), her experience was not a rare one. In an article published by the Spartanburg Herald in January 1981, Dr. Richard Iseke said that it was not unusual for freezing victims to make full recoveries: Jean Hilliard's recovery was incredible — some may even say miraculous — but it is not an unsolved medical mystery:
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