We were living on the 13 floor of an apartment building and had not given it a thought that our son would jump off our balcony.

The night of the jump our son was manic and by the end of the night he seemed to be in a euphoric state. In this euphoric state he was laughing, very happy, saying he was talking to angels and talking to the eye of God; this was nothing unusual, apart from the euphoric state he was in.

We went to bed at about 11pm that night and were woken by a knock on the door at 12:30am. I went to open the door by unlatching the dead bolt, unlocking the door and undoing the security chain; there stood two police officers. The police officers told me they had a naked man in an ambulance downstairs and that he had told them he lived here. In reply to the officers statement, I said, “I don’t think so, only I, my wife and son live here and the door has 3 locks, one being a safety chain that can only be locked from the inside”.

I decided to check our son’s bedroom and sure enough he was not there. I told the police that there are only two ways out of the apartment, one being the front door and the other the balcony; I decided to check the balcony. The balcony door was open and there was a set of footprints on the ground, and two hand prints in the snow on the balcony railing; at this point I realized that my son had jumped off the balcony (13 storeys up).

I asked the police officers if he was still alive, they replied, “he was walking around down there naked and some residents had called the police; we called an ambulance when he told us he had leapt of the balcony”. I then asked, “is he badly hurt”? They said “he looks ok to us”.

I then went down to the he court yard, where the ambulance was parked, with my son inside it. I asked the ambulance driver “why are you not rushing my son to hospital?” The driver said, “He is not badly injured, just a sprained finger”. I then told them, “You realize that he has just jumped from the 13 floor balcony”; I don’t think they believed me as they kept on filling out some paper work. The police officers came to the ambulance and confirmed that it looked like our son had jumped off the balcony. The ambulance drivers said they would take our son to the hospital and have him checked out.

When we arrived at the hospital, about half an hour later, our son was lying in bed conscious and saying the angels had asked him to take a leap of faith to save the World. I asked the doctors, “have you taken xrays?”, they replied, “no”. I explained to the doctors that our son had jumped off the 13 floor balcony and they really should xray and check him out.

After a few hours the doctor came back and told us that xrays had shown our son had a punctured lung, from what looked like a small tree branch wound, and apart from a sprained finger he looked ok. The doctors decided to commit our son to the psychiatric hospital due to the fact that he had tried to commit suicide. Our son was denying he was suicidal and was insisting the angels had said he did not have to take the leap of faith, but if he did they would protect him.

The next day we realized what had happened, our son had landed on a tree, but that was not the end of it; we visited our son in hospital, where another amazing event took place.

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(Video of apartment building and tree that saved our son's life)

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