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Ocean_islands
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09-07-2000
| Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 8:42 am
Boy and woman credit the appearance of an 'angel' for saving the woman's life Boy's Vision Of An 'Angel' Credited For Saving Woman's Life Boy Adamant That He Saw Girl A Glenwood Springs woman says she's alive today because someone is watching over her. During an afternoon of snowmobiling high in the Rockies, Terri Wood was brought to the lowest point of her life. She was riding alone in the mountains above Glenwood Springs, when her snowmobile flew off the trail. "It flew me over the handle bars and my back slammed into the side of the tree," Wood said. Wood and the snowmobile were buried in snow and branches. "I knew I was hurt because the first time I hollered for help it curdled my insides," she said. Her back was broken and she couldn't move. She repeatedly called for help to the snowmobilers on the trail above but with the noise of the engines they couldn't hear her. She was trapped so far down, they had no way of seeing her. "The sun was dropping and it was getting really cold ... I planned on dying on this mountain that night," Wood (pictured, right) said. And then a snowmobile zipped by, with a boy on the back seat. "I was pounding on his back (saying),' Dave, stop, stop,'" Keith Winkler said. Keith, 9, had seen something and it was not Wood. "The position I was in, there's no possible way (anybody) could see me," said Wood. Keith's father, Carroll Winkler, noticed the commotion. "I pulled over and asked, 'What's up?' Winkler said. "I told him that I saw a little girl," Keith said. "I kind of looked puzzled and I'm like, 'What?'" Winkler said. "She has like blonde hair, a blue coat, about the color of the snow machine, and pretty cute. I liked her, love at first sight," Keith told his father. "I very much asked Keith to clarify. 'Tell me, son, really, what did you see?'" Winkler asked. "I see a snowmobile and a girl comes running around and she's screaming 'Help, Help'" Keith told his father. "I asked everybody to turn their machines off," Winkler said. Do you believe in angels? Do you believe in angels? Thanks for taking our survey! Yes No I've never really thought about it. "As soon as they shut the engines off, I knew I had a chance," Wood said. "Immediately, I could hear a woman screaming," Winkler said. "I said, 'I'm hurt. Can you guys come and help me?'" Wood said. "All hope had played out until that moment." "I looked down off the side of the road and I saw her," Winkler said. "I started crying because I had already started saying my goodbyes on that mountain," Wood said. When help finally reached her, Keith was there, but he was troubled. "He stepped around the other side of the machine and he looked in there. And he goes, 'No, there's a little girl here, you know. She's got a blue coat,'" Winkler said. But there was no little girl. They looked for footprints but there were none. There was just one explanation for Wood. "I believe in blessings. I don't believe in luck. I believe this little boy was used through God's eyes," Wood said. It turns out that Keith was on the very last snowmobile down the mountain. "She would have frozen to death overnight," said Clem Lundbert of Sunlight Snowmobile Tours. "It could have just been a spirit, or God's way of letting me know that someone was down there," Keith said. "It must have been her guardian angel," Winkler said. Wood believes just that. "We all know that there are angels out there. I had one special angel that was looking after me," Wood said. Wood continues to recuperate from her injuries, and she's met Keith to thank him personally. Some people in the area say the description of the little girl is similar to that of a young girl killed in those same woods years ago on a snowmobiling outing. link to story about sighting
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Kaili
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08-31-2000
| Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 8:45 am
Weird...but interesting. You hear these stories now and then and they seem hard to believe, but hey- anything's possible. My best friend and I would both swear we saw a ghost at her house when we were younger, but as I get older I wonder if we just had really overactive imaginations.
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Faerygdds
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08-29-2000
| Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 10:25 am
Interesting story... got goosebumps at the end of it... weird!
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Twiggyish
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08-14-2000
| Saturday, February 21, 2004 - 11:26 pm
I think there are many unexplained things in this world.
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