The brave Colorado toddler became an unexpected hero after taking the courage to “really dark” to save his great grandmother from a dangerous fall.
Three-year-old Bridger Peabody spent the night last month walking into a Strasburg house with his grandmother Sharon Lewis and hitting his head with a concrete step.
“We went to the backyard, the dark backyard,” Lewis, aka “GG.” 9Talking to News Tuesday. “We really did well. Then we got to the door where we were going to put out the key. Well, I must have just tripped over something thrust into it.”
Little Bridger recalled the moment in harsher words.
“She had a pedestrian and then she fell on our porch,” the boy said. “She broke her head and it opened!”
Lewis was bleeding severely from his forehead and did not wake up, but Bridger settled down, yelling at his neighbors.
However, no one could hear her and she had her phone in the car, so she told the bridge that she needed to bravely find it in the darkness of her driveway.
“I said, 'What do you know? You'll have to go out to the car and get my phone,” she told 9News. “He said, 'It's too dark, gg' I said, 'I know, but you must be brave. Jesus will help you.'
The perfectly adorable home security footage from Bridger's journey to the car captured him and whispered. To himself as he grabs the blanket, walks through the darkness and heads to the car, opens the driver's side door and screams in joy when it finds it.”
“Yeah! I did it!” he cried out to GG, putting her phone back in so that she could ask for help.
Lewis was immediately taken to a nearby hospital, where he was diagnosed with a concussion and was given 22 staples on his head.
She says she doesn't know what she did without Little Bridger – and while she considers him a hero, she says he still doesn't know what the words mean.
“I call him a hero. He goes, 'No I'm a bridger.” He's not really sure what the hero is, but I think he definitely is,” she said.
“He's just a blessing.”
