July 7, 2025 • 24 mins
When Aimee McBroom set off for a relaxing girls’ trip in the woods of Pennsylvania, she never imagined she’d end up falling headfirst off a cliff. In this jaw-dropping episode of The Miracle Files, Aimee shares how a terrifying accident, a shattered shoulder, and a brush with death led to a chain of unbelievable miracles—from divine protection and angelic whispers to a chance meeting that would change her life forever. You’ll hear how a still, small voice guided her every step, how her ER training kicked in when she needed it most, and how one child’s chilling words may hold the most miraculous message of all. This is a story of survival, divine intervention, healing, and a mother’s destiny fulfilled.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Amy stood away from the edge of the cliff. It
looked much higher from up here.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I went to run and I slipped.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Amy didn't take a direct route over the front edge
and went over the side of the cliff instead, the
side where the water was only two to three feet deep.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And it was like long blinks. I remember trying to
grab its stuff and I kept thinking if I'm going
to get killed.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
This is the Miracle Files.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I'm Emily Jones and I'm Holly Worthington. We're two sisters
who love a captivating true story, but we're also seeking
more light in our lives.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
So we're on a mission to find and share unforgettable,
uplifting stories of God's miracles. We hope you'll join us
on this journey.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Welcome back to the Miracle Files. You know that we
like to mix things up and keep you guessing about
what kind of story is going to be coming next.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yes, we do, and this one is a little bit
different than our typical story. But something happens in the
end that is very interesting, and we would love to
hear thoughts on what you think, so leave us a
comment on any of our social media pages.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, like we've said in the past. Miracles do not
always make logical sense. And all we know is that
we are sharing the stories that you share with us,
and you guys have some crazy, amazing stories.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yes you do. But keep them coming and also stay
tuned until the end of the episode because we also
have an update on one of our previous guests.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Okay, let's get to the story.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Amy McBroom was a strong woman, but she wasn't a
strong swimmer. So this strong woman had to laugh as
she paddled across Tnesta Lake in a doughnut shaped flotation tube.
It was July and the sun warmed Amy's skin as
she floated across this beautiful forested lake in northern Pennsylvania.
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At thirty three, Amy was enjoying a much anticipated girl's
trip with some of her friends, including her best friend
Britta and her cousin Rachel. Her dad, who was a
worrier by nature, had warned her to be careful before leaving,
but Amy was unconcerned. While Rachel and most of her
friends relaxed on the beach, Amy followed her friend Britta
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across the lake. Britta, raised on a farm and a
lover of adventure, swam adeptly ahead of Amy. Finally, Amy
caught up with Britta on the far side of the lake. There,
Britta challenged Amy to climb up and jump off an
approximately thirty foot cliff that jutted out into the water.
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Here's Amy and.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I got to the other side of the lake where
there is sticking out into it. It's like a peninsula,
so at the end of it you jump out and
jump off. It's about fifteen to twenty feet deepump into.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Amy was deathly afraid of heights, but she felt an
exhilaration at the thought of jumping off of the cliff.
Ever since she turned thirty, she was all about overcoming
fears and taking on new challenges. This was a challenge
she would not pass up, even if she trembled with
fear at the thought. Britta climbed ahead of Amy, she
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leaped off the cliff into the water with a giant splash.
Amy stood away from the edge of the cliff. Her
stomach dropped as she watched Britta go over the edge.
It looked much higher from up here. Mustering all of
her courage, Amy decided to run to the edge of
the cliff and take the leap. Only that's not exactly
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what happened.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I went to run, and I don't know if it
was my coordination or I was just anxious because I'm
deathly afraid of heights, and I slipped or panicked, I'm
not sure which, and I stumbled over the side.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Amy didn't take a direct route over the front edge.
Somehow she stumbled and lost her footing and went over
the side of the cliff instead, the side that stood
over the shore, the side where the water was only
two to three feet deep and worse still. Amy plummeted
head first, and.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
It was like long blinks. I remember trying to grab
it stuff, and I kept thinking, if I grabbed something,
I can stop myself long enough to regroup, or at
least slow myself down and slide down the side, because
I'm going to get killed.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Time seemed to slow down as Amy fell. Her fingers
reached desperately and found nothing to hold on to, nothing
to slow her fall. Instead, all she could do was
brace for impact. Amy hit the bed of the lake hard.
She landed with a sickening thud, crashing into the water below.
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Pain shot through her shoulder. She gasped, trying to catch
her breath. Her arm and shoulder had taken the front
of the fall. Stunned and still reeling from what had
just happened, Amy stumbled to her feet. Her shoulder was
clearly dislocated, Her humorous bone jutted out in front of
her chest. Her shoulder socket looked flat and empty, But
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somehow that wasn't Amy's first concern. The impact of the
fall was so powerful that it tore off the bottoms
of her two piece swimming suit, and as strange as
it may seem, at first, that was all Amy could
think about. She felt incredibly embarrassed. She called to Brita
for help, and Brita quickly swam to her.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
My bomb was hanging out and I was so worried
about flashing people. So she said, what do you want
me to do? I said, I dislocated my shoulder. She said,
you want me to pop it back in old like
nut pull up my baby's who bottoms.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Britta was mortified by the state of Amy's shoulder, but
did as instructed and helped Amy pull up her bottoms.
Amy then instructed Britta to flag down a nearby pontoon
boat to help them. Something we haven't told you yet about,
Amy is that Amy is a nurse. In fact, she
had worked in the emergency room and the operating room.
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As Amy stood there waiting for Britta to get help,
a strange calm overcame her. She heard a voice telling
her exactly what she needed to do. She knew the
first thing she needed to do was stabilize her arm.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I had grabbed my arm and held it, and I
knew to stabilize a fracture, and I knew I was dislocated,
if not fractured, so I held it. My wrist was
really hurting, so I thought I broke my wrist for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Britta was able to yell to the drivers of the
pontoon boat, who immediately hurried to Amy.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
The boat comes over. The guys say, climb in, and
I was like, I can't. I only got one arm.
So these big like bodyboater guys jumped in the water
and they literally lift me onto the pontoon boat. And
it was like the guys and their wives and there
were kids. I said, I think I'm going to pass out.
I need something to drink, and she gave me red
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kool aid, and in the back of my head, I
thought I can't drink that because when I go to
surgery and they put down my NG two, they're going
to think I have a gi bleed and they're gonna
cut me open because I drank grant kool aid, so
I spit it out. My hand was really bleeding and
the blood's all over my stomach, all over the front
of my bathing suit bottoms, and it was dripping onto
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their boat. And I'm thinking, oh, this is like probably
one hundred thousand dollars boat and there's kool aid and
blood all over it. And I said, I can't drink red.
I need like, do you have water or ice? And
I made a makeshift ice pack with a beach towel
and Britta just I remember her saying, listen to her.
She's a nurse. She'll tell you what to do.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Amy knew if she passed out she couldn't tell anyone
how to help her. But as the pontoon raced toward
the boat dock, Amy felt an unusual peace enveloping her.
A voice inside her head comforted her and softly said,
hold your arm, You're going to be okay. As the
group neared the dock, one of the young men on
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the pontoon offered to drive Amy to the hospital, and.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I said, you don't have to. My cousin's going to
be there. When we get to the boat dock and
my cousin's going to be there, he's like, there's no way,
it's a hike up. Then she has to come down
the road like there's no way, and I said, she's
going to be there.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Somehow, Amy just knew her cousin, Rachel, would be there,
and amazingly, Amy was right. Rachel had seen the fall
from the other side of the lake and was at
the boat dock in a flash. By the time the
pontoon boat pulled up, Rachel was already backing her car
down the boat ramp.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
The pontoon boat was still moving. I stepped out onto
the dock and walked up and got in her car.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Amy reached the nearest hospital, a small rural clinic forty
five minutes away. She knew this wasn't the place she
wanted to have surgery. Her chances of healing fully from
this injury were small. She needed an experienced surgeon, so
instead she received a sling and an IV and then
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endured a two and a half hour ambulance ride to
the Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh, her former workplace, which she
lovingly calls Presby. On the way to Presby, Amy made
a call on a cell phone. The best surgeon she
knew just happened to owe her a favor from back
when she worked in the R.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I called the hospital. I used to work there, so
through the years, like you just get to know people.
And I called the main number and I said, hey,
is Ivan around? Can you page him in the operators
or are you a crazy patient? I said, no, one boxby.
So he answered, and he was in surgery.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
It was a Saturday, and.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
He said, Nick Brooke, what are you calling me for?
I said, I need to know who's on call. He
said Iron and I said, I'm your thirty three year
old trauma coming down. So I was insular relief because
I know he's really good at what he does. He
always said he owed me one from a prior situation.
So when we pulled up, the ambulance door opened and
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he's standing in their whole neo cup coffee and he's like,
you fell off rock McBroom. I'm like, it was a
big one. I'm so happy to see you.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Amy's shoulder had been shattered and displaced. If there was
any chance of saving it, she would need surgery immediately. Fortunately,
Ivan was ready in preparation for the surgery. Ivan warned
Amy that if her nerve was too damaged, she would
lose function in her arm. Amy hoped and prayed that
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wouldn't be the case. As the anesthesia kicked in, Amy
drifted into unconsciousness. Hours later, she awoke with no feeling
in her arm. She instantly worried about how the surgery
had gone. She noticed Ivan leaning casually against the wall,
coffee in hand, a satisfied smile on his face. He
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was surprised himself at how well the surgery had gone. Miraculously,
Amy's nerve had been saved. She felt overwhelmed with gratitude.
She remembered how the calming voice in her head had
told her exactly what to do from the moment the
accident happened. She had held her arm correctly, protecting it
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from irreparable damage. Now her shoulder was secured by thirty
one screws and plates. While her arm had been spared,
the road to recovery would be long and uncertain. It
was still unlikely that Amy's arm would ever fully function,
but at least there was a chance. Amy stayed at
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her grandmother's house over the next week. Though Amy was
grateful to be alive, she couldn't help but feel discouraged
by the limb imitations of having only one functioning arm.
Over the next few days, something strange and unexpected began
to unfold. Over and over again. Amy would catch the
flash of something going by in the hallway outside of
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her bedroom. At first, she thought she must be imagining it,
and then it happened again while her grandmother helped Amy bathe.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
So I'm standing in the shower and again Handy cried
since the night I had surgery. And I just start crying,
and she's like, what's wrong.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Amy explained how she felt humiliated and frustrated that she
couldn't even bathe herself, And then she explained that she
also kept seeing something in the hallway. Her grandmother didn't
skip a beat, and.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
She's nonchalant housing the off and she said, that's that's
your grandpap. She's not even looking at me. That's your grandpap.
And then I really start crying. He was passed away
in two thousand and two. So and then I really
start kind of like pats here or she goes he's
been here since any day you're accident.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Amy felt that incredible peace returned to her again as
her grandmother explained how much her grandpaps loved Amy. Amy
knew she was being watched over, and once again she
knew everything would be okay. In the weeks that followed,
Amy's friends and family repeatedly expressed their gratitude that she
had landed on her shoulder instead of her head or neck.
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Had the fall occurred even slightly differently, she could have
been easily paralyzed or worse. One of her friends expressed
to her that he believed angels had guided her fall. Meanwhile,
Amy worked hard on her recovery. Relearning how to move
her arm felt like an uphill climb, but she pushed
through the pain. The calming voice returned again. Just do
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what I tell you and you'll be fine. Over time,
Amy defied the odds and began to regain feeling and
function in her arm, and then her life took another
unexpected turn. A day came at physical therapy that would
forever change Amy's life.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
One day, I was walking down the hall and another
patient walks up and is talking to me. He's like,
we are you a form? Blah blah blah. I'm in
for my ACL and I was looking at him. I'm like, yeah, okay,
I'm done with men like y'all are making me nuts.
So a couple of weeks later, the therapist says to me, hey,
do you know Chad? And I'm like, no, no, no, dad,
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he said. The ACL guy said, oh, yeah, I know him.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
He walked back with me the one day.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
He's like, yeah, he Uh, what's your number?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
And as they say, the rest is history. Chad and
Amy hit it off on that very first date, and
about a year later, they were married. As Amy's shoulder healed,
her heart was also healing. But the miracles didn't stop there.
And if you've listened to the Miracle Files at all,
you know that miracles don't usually come without tragedy. First,
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Chad and Amy struggled with infertility. This brought them a
lot of sorrow, but then they realized it was God's
will for them to adopt. Soon, two precious babies became
available for adoption, a son and a daughter. Each child
was a testament to the miracles that had unfolded in
Amy's life. A reminder that even in the wake of tragedy,
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hope and joy could bloom. But again, the trials and
miracles in Amy's life didn't cease. One night, Amy received
a harrowing call that her husband had suffered a heart
attack while playing hockey. Panic searched through her as she
raced to the hospital, but amidst the fear, she prayed
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for her husband and heard the familiar voice of peace again.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
When I got on the freeway when my husband had
a heart attack and I heard God audible voice saying
I hear your prayer, it made everything click. Of all
of those times that's that they always say, that still
small voice, And I was like, I don't know what
that means, Like I don't know what that means, but
like I have been hearing it my whole life. He's
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always with me. God's always been next to me. And
it was that still small voice that told me grab
your arm, Amy, throw your body around, hold it. Those
men will lift you up. Get on the pontoon boat.
Rachel will be waiting for you. She knows what to do.
You're gonna call Presby. You're gonna make sure they don't
operate on you up here, like it was that still
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small voice of God guiding me that whole time, that
has been there my whole life, and I everything kind
of clicked.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
As Amy drove to the hospital, not knowing if her
husband would live or die, one thing she knew was
that God was in control and that he loved her.
Reflecting on her journey, Amy saw that connections of every event,
the fall that led to her miraculous recovery, her grandfather's presence,
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and the beautiful family she had built. Each moment, each miracle,
was a ripple in the greater story God was weaving
in her life. She realized that without the accident, she
would never have met her husband, adopted her children, nor
would she have come to understand the depth of her faith. Fortunately, gratefully,
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Amy's husband recovered from his heart attack, and Amy felt
as though the threads of her life were being weeped
together in a tapestry of divine intervention. It wasn't long
after that Chad, her husband, and their three year old son,
were sitting at the kitchen table when their son said
something that took Amy's breath away. He said something none
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of us have an explanation for. But if this doesn't
give you goosebumps. I don't know what will.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
My son was eating second dinner, we call it. My
husband came home late and was eating dinner, and my
son's sitting eating second dinner with my husband. He gets
in a trance and is staring at me and he said, Mommy,
remember when you fell? And we don't talk about it.
And I looked at my husband and I'm at the
sink and I look at my son and I go, yeah,
but I remember, Mommy remembers when she fell. He goes,
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I caught you and I said what. He goes, I
caught you, mummy. He said, I caught you because if
I didn't catch you, you wouldn't be my mummy. He said,
so I caught you. And I said, did you? And
he said yeah, So what did I hurt? And he
came over and touched my left arm. I hurt my arm?
He said, yeah, but it wasn't that one. He said,
it was this one, Mummy. It was the one you
had that booboo on. That's the one that you hurt.
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But I caught you so you could be my mummy.
Because I didn't catch you, weren't going to be my mummy.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Some miracles truly have no explanation. They don't always make
logical sense. But what Amy now understands fully is that
a terrible, painful fall, the most tremendou experience of her life,
has resulted in the greatest blessings and miracles of her life.
And knowing God has a plan and has been there
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for her all along has made all the difference. Wow.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I love this story so much. And like we said earlier,
we don't understand. We don't know why Amy's little boy
said what he said. Maybe it's a message from God
letting Amy know that he was aware of her the
whole time, or maybe somehow our little guy was her angel.
We don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
We don't know, we don't know, but I do think
it's really interesting how she said they don't really talk
about this ever, and so she didn't know where it
came from. But I do think, you know, it definitely
refirmed to her how blessed she was from this accident.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
And the thing I love the most about this story
is how clear it is that God is in the
details of Amy's life, And to me, it's really beautiful
how it all came together.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Yeah, yeah, I love the imagery of the tapestry and
how everything is weave together for our own good because
we don't always enjoy the things we have to go
through something really hard, but one day we'll be able
to look back and see how everything happened for our
good and it all fits together perfectly. And one person
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who we've had previously on our show who has seen
some good come out of his tragedy is Matt Reim.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Yes, and if you don't remember or haven't listened to
that episode yet, Matt Reem is the guy who was
trapped under a bridge for six days in his truck,
in his wrecked truck, and he had to have his
leg amputated as well.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Yeah, his experience was crazy and we were able to
catch up with Matt Reem.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Yeah, so update, he got a new haircut, he's learned
to raise, he does, learning to use his prosthetic leg
like a pro, and he's still going through a few
surgeries just trying to get his body to get back
to normal functioning.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah, it was just in Colorado actually getting a surgery
on his thumb. H He has been through so much,
but he is very inspiring to us. So here's what
Matt had to say.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
I was pinned in my truck by the engine under
a bridge for six days where nobody could see me,
nobody could hear me, and all I heard was hundreds
of thousands of people driving ten feet overhead. Every day.
I'm seeing all these people being inspired and motivated from
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something I had no intention of motivating or inspiring people from.
I mean, I went through it honestly, just trying to
fight for my life in the moment. Nothing I was
doing was trying to motivate other people. However, a lot
of the times when I was in my truck, I
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was simply just trying to motivate myself, and I guess
life has a weird way of working out to where
me motivating myself to make it through ended up motivating
other people to make it through their own their own problems,
their own issues, their own trauma that they're dealing with.
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And it kind of causes me to choke up whenever
I talk about it, because it's like I'm a nobody
and people from all over the world are seeing the
story and they're reaching out to me saying how inspired
they are that I was able to make it through that,
And over time that was weeding me to believe and
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cottena to think, oh, you know, maybe I should continue
doing this.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
So Matt has gone on to become a motivational speaker
and it's incredible. Like I follow him on social media,
it's so cool to see all the people that reach
out to him tell him how his experience has changed
their lives.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
If you want to hear more about Matt's story, well,
first of all, listen to episode ten of The Miracle Files.
I have this send it two thumbs up. But also
you can read his book. It's called Still Standing, and
it just kind of dives in deeper to some challenges
that he went through in his childhood and other parts
of his life. That is really interesting, So go check
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it out.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Yes, and thanks again for joining us. As always, subscribe, share, follow,
Let's flood the world with God's light and we're so
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Speaker 3 (23:56):
Join us next time as we discover more of God's miracles,
and don't forget to look for his light in your
own lives.
Amy stood away from the edge of the cliff. It
looked much higher from up here.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I went to run and I slipped.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Amy didn't take a direct route over the front edge
and went over the side of the cliff instead, the
side where the water was only two to three feet deep.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And it was like long blinks. I remember trying to
grab its stuff and I kept thinking if I'm going
to get killed.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
This is the Miracle Files.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I'm Emily Jones and I'm Holly Worthington. We're two sisters
who love a captivating true story, but we're also seeking
more light in our lives.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
So we're on a mission to find and share unforgettable,
uplifting stories of God's miracles. We hope you'll join us
on this journey.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Welcome back to the Miracle Files. You know that we
like to mix things up and keep you guessing about
what kind of story is going to be coming next.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yes, we do, and this one is a little bit
different than our typical story. But something happens in the
end that is very interesting, and we would love to
hear thoughts on what you think, so leave us a
comment on any of our social media pages.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, like we've said in the past. Miracles do not
always make logical sense. And all we know is that
we are sharing the stories that you share with us,
and you guys have some crazy, amazing stories.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yes you do. But keep them coming and also stay
tuned until the end of the episode because we also
have an update on one of our previous guests.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Okay, let's get to the story.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Amy McBroom was a strong woman, but she wasn't a
strong swimmer. So this strong woman had to laugh as
she paddled across Tnesta Lake in a doughnut shaped flotation tube.
It was July and the sun warmed Amy's skin as
she floated across this beautiful forested lake in northern Pennsylvania.
(02:01):
At thirty three, Amy was enjoying a much anticipated girl's
trip with some of her friends, including her best friend
Britta and her cousin Rachel. Her dad, who was a
worrier by nature, had warned her to be careful before leaving,
but Amy was unconcerned. While Rachel and most of her
friends relaxed on the beach, Amy followed her friend Britta
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across the lake. Britta, raised on a farm and a
lover of adventure, swam adeptly ahead of Amy. Finally, Amy
caught up with Britta on the far side of the lake. There,
Britta challenged Amy to climb up and jump off an
approximately thirty foot cliff that jutted out into the water.
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Here's Amy and.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I got to the other side of the lake where
there is sticking out into it. It's like a peninsula,
so at the end of it you jump out and
jump off. It's about fifteen to twenty feet deepump into.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Amy was deathly afraid of heights, but she felt an
exhilaration at the thought of jumping off of the cliff.
Ever since she turned thirty, she was all about overcoming
fears and taking on new challenges. This was a challenge
she would not pass up, even if she trembled with
fear at the thought. Britta climbed ahead of Amy, she
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leaped off the cliff into the water with a giant splash.
Amy stood away from the edge of the cliff. Her
stomach dropped as she watched Britta go over the edge.
It looked much higher from up here. Mustering all of
her courage, Amy decided to run to the edge of
the cliff and take the leap. Only that's not exactly
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what happened.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I went to run, and I don't know if it
was my coordination or I was just anxious because I'm
deathly afraid of heights, and I slipped or panicked, I'm
not sure which, and I stumbled over the side.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Amy didn't take a direct route over the front edge.
Somehow she stumbled and lost her footing and went over
the side of the cliff instead, the side that stood
over the shore, the side where the water was only
two to three feet deep and worse still. Amy plummeted
head first, and.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
It was like long blinks. I remember trying to grab
it stuff, and I kept thinking, if I grabbed something,
I can stop myself long enough to regroup, or at
least slow myself down and slide down the side, because
I'm going to get killed.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Time seemed to slow down as Amy fell. Her fingers
reached desperately and found nothing to hold on to, nothing
to slow her fall. Instead, all she could do was
brace for impact. Amy hit the bed of the lake hard.
She landed with a sickening thud, crashing into the water below.
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Pain shot through her shoulder. She gasped, trying to catch
her breath. Her arm and shoulder had taken the front
of the fall. Stunned and still reeling from what had
just happened, Amy stumbled to her feet. Her shoulder was
clearly dislocated, Her humorous bone jutted out in front of
her chest. Her shoulder socket looked flat and empty, But
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somehow that wasn't Amy's first concern. The impact of the
fall was so powerful that it tore off the bottoms
of her two piece swimming suit, and as strange as
it may seem, at first, that was all Amy could
think about. She felt incredibly embarrassed. She called to Brita
for help, and Brita quickly swam to her.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
My bomb was hanging out and I was so worried
about flashing people. So she said, what do you want
me to do? I said, I dislocated my shoulder. She said,
you want me to pop it back in old like
nut pull up my baby's who bottoms.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Britta was mortified by the state of Amy's shoulder, but
did as instructed and helped Amy pull up her bottoms.
Amy then instructed Britta to flag down a nearby pontoon
boat to help them. Something we haven't told you yet about,
Amy is that Amy is a nurse. In fact, she
had worked in the emergency room and the operating room.
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As Amy stood there waiting for Britta to get help,
a strange calm overcame her. She heard a voice telling
her exactly what she needed to do. She knew the
first thing she needed to do was stabilize her arm.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I had grabbed my arm and held it, and I
knew to stabilize a fracture, and I knew I was dislocated,
if not fractured, so I held it. My wrist was
really hurting, so I thought I broke my wrist for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Britta was able to yell to the drivers of the
pontoon boat, who immediately hurried to Amy.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
The boat comes over. The guys say, climb in, and
I was like, I can't. I only got one arm.
So these big like bodyboater guys jumped in the water
and they literally lift me onto the pontoon boat. And
it was like the guys and their wives and there
were kids. I said, I think I'm going to pass out.
I need something to drink, and she gave me red
(07:09):
kool aid, and in the back of my head, I
thought I can't drink that because when I go to
surgery and they put down my NG two, they're going
to think I have a gi bleed and they're gonna
cut me open because I drank grant kool aid, so
I spit it out. My hand was really bleeding and
the blood's all over my stomach, all over the front
of my bathing suit bottoms, and it was dripping onto
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their boat. And I'm thinking, oh, this is like probably
one hundred thousand dollars boat and there's kool aid and
blood all over it. And I said, I can't drink red.
I need like, do you have water or ice? And
I made a makeshift ice pack with a beach towel
and Britta just I remember her saying, listen to her.
She's a nurse. She'll tell you what to do.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Amy knew if she passed out she couldn't tell anyone
how to help her. But as the pontoon raced toward
the boat dock, Amy felt an unusual peace enveloping her.
A voice inside her head comforted her and softly said,
hold your arm, You're going to be okay. As the
group neared the dock, one of the young men on
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the pontoon offered to drive Amy to the hospital, and.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I said, you don't have to. My cousin's going to
be there. When we get to the boat dock and
my cousin's going to be there, he's like, there's no way,
it's a hike up. Then she has to come down
the road like there's no way, and I said, she's
going to be there.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Somehow, Amy just knew her cousin, Rachel, would be there,
and amazingly, Amy was right. Rachel had seen the fall
from the other side of the lake and was at
the boat dock in a flash. By the time the
pontoon boat pulled up, Rachel was already backing her car
down the boat ramp.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
The pontoon boat was still moving. I stepped out onto
the dock and walked up and got in her car.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Amy reached the nearest hospital, a small rural clinic forty
five minutes away. She knew this wasn't the place she
wanted to have surgery. Her chances of healing fully from
this injury were small. She needed an experienced surgeon, so
instead she received a sling and an IV and then
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endured a two and a half hour ambulance ride to
the Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh, her former workplace, which she
lovingly calls Presby. On the way to Presby, Amy made
a call on a cell phone. The best surgeon she
knew just happened to owe her a favor from back
when she worked in the R.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I called the hospital. I used to work there, so
through the years, like you just get to know people.
And I called the main number and I said, hey,
is Ivan around? Can you page him in the operators
or are you a crazy patient? I said, no, one boxby.
So he answered, and he was in surgery.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
It was a Saturday, and.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
He said, Nick Brooke, what are you calling me for?
I said, I need to know who's on call. He
said Iron and I said, I'm your thirty three year
old trauma coming down. So I was insular relief because
I know he's really good at what he does. He
always said he owed me one from a prior situation.
So when we pulled up, the ambulance door opened and
(10:16):
he's standing in their whole neo cup coffee and he's like,
you fell off rock McBroom. I'm like, it was a
big one. I'm so happy to see you.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Amy's shoulder had been shattered and displaced. If there was
any chance of saving it, she would need surgery immediately. Fortunately,
Ivan was ready in preparation for the surgery. Ivan warned
Amy that if her nerve was too damaged, she would
lose function in her arm. Amy hoped and prayed that
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wouldn't be the case. As the anesthesia kicked in, Amy
drifted into unconsciousness. Hours later, she awoke with no feeling
in her arm. She instantly worried about how the surgery
had gone. She noticed Ivan leaning casually against the wall,
coffee in hand, a satisfied smile on his face. He
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was surprised himself at how well the surgery had gone. Miraculously,
Amy's nerve had been saved. She felt overwhelmed with gratitude.
She remembered how the calming voice in her head had
told her exactly what to do from the moment the
accident happened. She had held her arm correctly, protecting it
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from irreparable damage. Now her shoulder was secured by thirty
one screws and plates. While her arm had been spared,
the road to recovery would be long and uncertain. It
was still unlikely that Amy's arm would ever fully function,
but at least there was a chance. Amy stayed at
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her grandmother's house over the next week. Though Amy was
grateful to be alive, she couldn't help but feel discouraged
by the limb imitations of having only one functioning arm.
Over the next few days, something strange and unexpected began
to unfold. Over and over again. Amy would catch the
flash of something going by in the hallway outside of
(12:14):
her bedroom. At first, she thought she must be imagining it,
and then it happened again while her grandmother helped Amy bathe.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
So I'm standing in the shower and again Handy cried
since the night I had surgery. And I just start crying,
and she's like, what's wrong.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Amy explained how she felt humiliated and frustrated that she
couldn't even bathe herself, And then she explained that she
also kept seeing something in the hallway. Her grandmother didn't
skip a beat, and.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
She's nonchalant housing the off and she said, that's that's
your grandpap. She's not even looking at me. That's your grandpap.
And then I really start crying. He was passed away
in two thousand and two. So and then I really
start kind of like pats here or she goes he's
been here since any day you're accident.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Amy felt that incredible peace returned to her again as
her grandmother explained how much her grandpaps loved Amy. Amy
knew she was being watched over, and once again she
knew everything would be okay. In the weeks that followed,
Amy's friends and family repeatedly expressed their gratitude that she
had landed on her shoulder instead of her head or neck.
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Had the fall occurred even slightly differently, she could have
been easily paralyzed or worse. One of her friends expressed
to her that he believed angels had guided her fall. Meanwhile,
Amy worked hard on her recovery. Relearning how to move
her arm felt like an uphill climb, but she pushed
through the pain. The calming voice returned again. Just do
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what I tell you and you'll be fine. Over time,
Amy defied the odds and began to regain feeling and
function in her arm, and then her life took another
unexpected turn. A day came at physical therapy that would
forever change Amy's life.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
One day, I was walking down the hall and another
patient walks up and is talking to me. He's like,
we are you a form? Blah blah blah. I'm in
for my ACL and I was looking at him. I'm like, yeah, okay,
I'm done with men like y'all are making me nuts.
So a couple of weeks later, the therapist says to me, hey,
do you know Chad? And I'm like, no, no, no, dad,
(14:33):
he said. The ACL guy said, oh, yeah, I know him.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
He walked back with me the one day.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
He's like, yeah, he Uh, what's your number?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
And as they say, the rest is history. Chad and
Amy hit it off on that very first date, and
about a year later, they were married. As Amy's shoulder healed,
her heart was also healing. But the miracles didn't stop there.
And if you've listened to the Miracle Files at all,
you know that miracles don't usually come without tragedy. First,
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Chad and Amy struggled with infertility. This brought them a
lot of sorrow, but then they realized it was God's
will for them to adopt. Soon, two precious babies became
available for adoption, a son and a daughter. Each child
was a testament to the miracles that had unfolded in
Amy's life. A reminder that even in the wake of tragedy,
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hope and joy could bloom. But again, the trials and
miracles in Amy's life didn't cease. One night, Amy received
a harrowing call that her husband had suffered a heart
attack while playing hockey. Panic searched through her as she
raced to the hospital, but amidst the fear, she prayed
(15:49):
for her husband and heard the familiar voice of peace again.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
When I got on the freeway when my husband had
a heart attack and I heard God audible voice saying
I hear your prayer, it made everything click. Of all
of those times that's that they always say, that still
small voice, And I was like, I don't know what
that means, Like I don't know what that means, but
like I have been hearing it my whole life. He's
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always with me. God's always been next to me. And
it was that still small voice that told me grab
your arm, Amy, throw your body around, hold it. Those
men will lift you up. Get on the pontoon boat.
Rachel will be waiting for you. She knows what to do.
You're gonna call Presby. You're gonna make sure they don't
operate on you up here, like it was that still
(16:36):
small voice of God guiding me that whole time, that
has been there my whole life, and I everything kind
of clicked.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
As Amy drove to the hospital, not knowing if her
husband would live or die, one thing she knew was
that God was in control and that he loved her.
Reflecting on her journey, Amy saw that connections of every event,
the fall that led to her miraculous recovery, her grandfather's presence,
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and the beautiful family she had built. Each moment, each miracle,
was a ripple in the greater story God was weaving
in her life. She realized that without the accident, she
would never have met her husband, adopted her children, nor
would she have come to understand the depth of her faith. Fortunately, gratefully,
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Amy's husband recovered from his heart attack, and Amy felt
as though the threads of her life were being weeped
together in a tapestry of divine intervention. It wasn't long
after that Chad, her husband, and their three year old son,
were sitting at the kitchen table when their son said
something that took Amy's breath away. He said something none
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of us have an explanation for. But if this doesn't
give you goosebumps. I don't know what will.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
My son was eating second dinner, we call it. My
husband came home late and was eating dinner, and my
son's sitting eating second dinner with my husband. He gets
in a trance and is staring at me and he said, Mommy,
remember when you fell? And we don't talk about it.
And I looked at my husband and I'm at the
sink and I look at my son and I go, yeah,
but I remember, Mommy remembers when she fell. He goes,
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I caught you and I said what. He goes, I
caught you, mummy. He said, I caught you because if
I didn't catch you, you wouldn't be my mummy. He said,
so I caught you. And I said, did you? And
he said yeah, So what did I hurt? And he
came over and touched my left arm. I hurt my arm?
He said, yeah, but it wasn't that one. He said,
it was this one, Mummy. It was the one you
had that booboo on. That's the one that you hurt.
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But I caught you so you could be my mummy.
Because I didn't catch you, weren't going to be my mummy.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Some miracles truly have no explanation. They don't always make
logical sense. But what Amy now understands fully is that
a terrible, painful fall, the most tremendou experience of her life,
has resulted in the greatest blessings and miracles of her life.
And knowing God has a plan and has been there
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for her all along has made all the difference. Wow.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I love this story so much. And like we said earlier,
we don't understand. We don't know why Amy's little boy
said what he said. Maybe it's a message from God
letting Amy know that he was aware of her the
whole time, or maybe somehow our little guy was her angel.
We don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
We don't know, we don't know, but I do think
it's really interesting how she said they don't really talk
about this ever, and so she didn't know where it
came from. But I do think, you know, it definitely
refirmed to her how blessed she was from this accident.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
And the thing I love the most about this story
is how clear it is that God is in the
details of Amy's life, And to me, it's really beautiful
how it all came together.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Yeah, yeah, I love the imagery of the tapestry and
how everything is weave together for our own good because
we don't always enjoy the things we have to go
through something really hard, but one day we'll be able
to look back and see how everything happened for our
good and it all fits together perfectly. And one person
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who we've had previously on our show who has seen
some good come out of his tragedy is Matt Reim.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Yes, and if you don't remember or haven't listened to
that episode yet, Matt Reem is the guy who was
trapped under a bridge for six days in his truck,
in his wrecked truck, and he had to have his
leg amputated as well.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Yeah, his experience was crazy and we were able to
catch up with Matt Reem.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Yeah, so update, he got a new haircut, he's learned
to raise, he does, learning to use his prosthetic leg
like a pro, and he's still going through a few
surgeries just trying to get his body to get back
to normal functioning.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah, it was just in Colorado actually getting a surgery
on his thumb. H He has been through so much,
but he is very inspiring to us. So here's what
Matt had to say.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
I was pinned in my truck by the engine under
a bridge for six days where nobody could see me,
nobody could hear me, and all I heard was hundreds
of thousands of people driving ten feet overhead. Every day.
I'm seeing all these people being inspired and motivated from
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something I had no intention of motivating or inspiring people from.
I mean, I went through it honestly, just trying to
fight for my life in the moment. Nothing I was
doing was trying to motivate other people. However, a lot
of the times when I was in my truck, I
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was simply just trying to motivate myself, and I guess
life has a weird way of working out to where
me motivating myself to make it through ended up motivating
other people to make it through their own their own problems,
their own issues, their own trauma that they're dealing with.
(22:23):
And it kind of causes me to choke up whenever
I talk about it, because it's like I'm a nobody
and people from all over the world are seeing the
story and they're reaching out to me saying how inspired
they are that I was able to make it through that,
And over time that was weeding me to believe and
(22:45):
cottena to think, oh, you know, maybe I should continue
doing this.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
So Matt has gone on to become a motivational speaker
and it's incredible. Like I follow him on social media,
it's so cool to see all the people that reach
out to him tell him how his experience has changed
their lives.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
If you want to hear more about Matt's story, well,
first of all, listen to episode ten of The Miracle Files.
I have this send it two thumbs up. But also
you can read his book. It's called Still Standing, and
it just kind of dives in deeper to some challenges
that he went through in his childhood and other parts
of his life. That is really interesting, So go check
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it out.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Yes, and thanks again for joining us. As always, subscribe, share, follow,
Let's flood the world with God's light and we're so
grateful for all of you who are helping us to
do that. Thank you for joining us. If you have
a miracle to share, contact us at the Miraclefiles dot
com or find us on Facebook.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
We're now releasing multiple episodes each month, so subscribe on
your favorite podcast platform and YouTube for amazing video content
as well.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Join us next time as we discover more of God's miracles,
and don't forget to look for his light in your
own lives.
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