Maybe [...] she saw the shoe on her way to her hospital room at some point. Maybe she floated her way into the hospital room? That's what would follow from the

Maybe [...] she saw the shoe on her way to her hospital room at some point. Maybe she floated her way into the hospital room? That's what would follow from the text you quoted. Your response seems like a good example of how we make up just-so stories to rationalize what we want to believe. First the emotions decide, then the brain comes up with reasons. I don't know if the provocative case studies in the article are as true as the author implies, but whether they're true or not is quite irrelevant to what most people, including most people called scientists, will say about it.