A miracle is an event that does not fit natural or scientific laws, which may seem almost supernatural. What happened to Alcides Moreno on December 7, 2007, certainly seems to fit that bill. The Ecuadorian, 49, fell from the 47th floor while cleaning the windows of the Solow Tower building in Manhattan’s Upper East side of New York City, US.
Mr Moreno revealed during Morgan Freeman’s “The Story of God” series how the terrifying ordeal played out.
He said in 2017: “I woke up in the morning took my car in and commuted from New Jersey.
“I got to the building and took the elevator all the way to the top – 47 storeys – and then climb onto the platform.
“We just began to lower the platform when one of the cables snapped.
“I just grabbed the scaffold and held on until another cable snapped.”
Mr Moreno then plunged 472ft ... Read even more
