There's a scene in Alan Arkin's memoir about that. I discussed it as part of an essay last year. Arkin had seen footage of an untrained man performing surgeries with a pocket knife and without anesthesia that even a trained person could not perform.

He describes what happened when he showed it to friends:

"One night I showed it to a few friends, who reacted in awe, and afterwards, the wife of one of them said, 'Well, I refuse to believe this.'

'You refuse?' I (Arkin) asked with some incredulity.

'I refuse', she repeated. She had been shaken by the film — that was clear. Her voice and emotional state made it obvious that she had witnessed not a piece of theatrical manipulation but an event. But she refused to believe it.

'How can you refuse?' I asked. 'I don’t understand. Either what you saw seemed real or it didn’t'.

'No, I refuse to believe it', she repeated it again, but she went on. 'Because if I believe this I’m going to have to believe a lot of other things, and I refuse to do that.'”

That's not even the main point found in my https://medium.com/channspirations/this-vivid-dream-saved-esther-raabs-life-ed37b1637d23, subtitled "A magical tale of synchronicity from the life of a Holocaust survivor and an unshakable and humble belief in the power of the unknown," if you want to see the rest.