A courageous Colorado toddler is being hailed as a hero after overcoming his fear of the dark to help his great-grandmother following a dangerous fall.
Three-year-old Bridger Peabody was spending the night with his great-grandmother, Sharon Lewis, last month when she tripped while entering their house and hit her head on a concrete step.
“We made it through the dark backyard just fine,” Lewis, affectionately known as “GG,” told 9 News on Tuesday, March 11. “But when I reached the door to get my keys, I must have tripped over something.”
Bridger vividly recalled the scary moment.
“She had her walker, and then she fell on our porch,” he explained. “She bonked her head, and it popped open!”
Lewis was badly injured, bleeding heavily from her forehead, and unable to get up. With no neighbors nearby to hear her calls for help and her phone left in the car, she turned to her young great-grandson for assistance.
“I told him, ‘You’re going to have to go out to the car and get my phone,’” Lewis recalled.
At first, the little boy hesitated. “It’s too dark, GG,” he said. But Lewis reassured him, saying, “I know, but you have to be brave. Jesus will help you.”
Home security footage captured the heartwarming moment Bridger whispered words of encouragement to himself as he made his way through the dark driveway, clutching a blanket for comfort.
“Don’t be afraid. Don’t be afraid,” he murmured before reaching the car, opening the driver’s side door, and joyfully exclaiming, “Yay! I did it!”
He then rushed back to Lewis with the phone, allowing her to call for help.
Lewis was taken to a nearby hospital, where she was diagnosed with a concussion and received 22 staples in her head.
Reflecting on the ordeal, Lewis expressed immense gratitude for Bridger’s bravery.
“I don’t know what I would have done without him,” she said. “I call him a hero, but when I tell him that, he just says, ‘No, I’m Bridger.’ I don’t think he quite knows what a hero is yet—but he definitely is one.” “He’s just a blessing.”
