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Dad's Being Crushed By A Car. Then His 8-Year-Old Son Says 'Angels' Gave Him Strength

March 9, 2017

An 8-year-old boy in Idaho says angels helped him lift a car off his father's body to save his life.

Stephen Parker and his two sons, Mason and J.T., were working on a car in their backyard.

"We were pulling the engine out of the car, and after we got it jacked up, I climbed under there to take the axels off," Stephen recalled. "The one axle came off pretty easily, but the other side wasn't coming off."

When he went to adjust the second axle and move the jack, the car fell on him. J.T. was the only one around as Mason, 17, had gone inside the house minutes earlier with a cut hand.

"I yelled to J.T. on the other side of the car, 'Jack it up quick! Jack it up quick!'" Stephen said. "I couldn't move at all. I was totally trapped, and then I passed out. It was all in his hands, and I thought, 'This is it. There's no way he can jack up this car because it took my 17-year-old son and I both to jack it up the first time."

Although it had taken both his father and older brother to lift the car, J.T. began jumping up and down on the jack.

Despite weighing only 50 pounds, after 15 minutes the car slowly started raising off his father.

"It was just a miracle," said Stephen, who was home two days after the accident.

After settling back at home, .J.T asked their son to jack up the car again – he couldn't do it.

"Angels," J.T. said when asked how he got his strength that day.