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Just because we are not immediately aware of something in a given instance in time doesn't mean the information is not there,

On the other hand it doesn't mean that the information necessarily IS there. In this case it's pretty hard to envision how Maria would know of that shoe in detail. And there are other reports with similar improbability. So we don't know and cannot foreclose the possibility of some transcendent event, no matter how much we may wish to.

The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh

Which explains a lot.