is it real?

I was intrigued by the discussion in class last week so I decided to look for the national geographic bit on stigmata (watch it here). I'm not sure it was the same one that people were referencing, but it's still pretty neat to watch.
I guess Descartes "inhabits" the producers at national geographic because they are always looking for a proper answer to everything. The fact that the show is titled "Is It Real?" and other episodes deal with Bigfoot, the Bermuda triangle, and UFOS kind of groups it with those unexplainable mysteries. This show basically questions the legitimacy of stigmata, and while they do suggest that it may be a true miracle from God, most of the time spent is reviewing cases, talking with scientists (a magician even makes an appearance), and thinking of logical reasons for why this may occur in some people. If reason is the center for all knowledge, if we can't find a logical reason for why this occurs, we can't make sense of it.
Another thing that I thought was interesting was that the Catholic church does not recognize any stigmatic cases as authentic and have only recorded one account as legitimate (st. Francis of assissi). Before knowing this, I would have thought that the church would accept this as a miracle but perhaps they share the same skeptisism as many, because there is no logical reasoning behind it.
I feel like a skeptical attitude toward stigmatism makes it simpler for us to understand. It is a lot easier to believe that people are faking it or that there is a psychological (mind over body or body over mind) reason for why this happens.