A nine-year-old little girl claims she sat in Jesus’ lap after going to heaven while unconscious after she plummeted headfirst 30-ft down the inside of a hollow tree.

Her mother, Christy Wilson Beam, has spoken of her amazement after her daughter Annabel, now 12, escaped the horrifying accident without any injury.

The 42-year-old even claimed her daughter woke miraculously cured of an illness she had suffered from throughout her childhood.

For the first time in her life, Annabel can eat solid food and her mom thinks her brush with the son of God is the reason why.

In December 2011, she was playing outside the family’s Texas home with her sisters Abigail, now 14 and Adelynn, now 10, when she slipped and fell inside a hollowed out cottonwood tree.

“She hit her head three times on the way down and this is consistent with the findings of an MRI scan,” Mrs. Wilson Beam said.

“With the facts in front of me now, I see it all with sickening clarity.

“Sometimes at night, it replays in my head – a dark twist on Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole.”

An emergency fire crew managed to harness Annabel to safety and she was rushed to Cook Children’s Hospital in Forth Worth in a helicopter.

Fearing the worst, medics prepped brain and spinal injury teams to stand by for Annabel’s arrival, but incredibly, she survived without even a scratch.

Doctors told her relieved parents: “I guess someone up there was looking out for her.”

After the accident, Annabel began to talk of religious visions she experienced while laying unconscious.

“I went to heaven when I was in that tree,” she told her parents. “I sat in Jesus’ lap.”

Mrs. Wilson Beam was concerned that Annabel was indicating a head injury, but MRI and CT scans revealed she had not sustained one.

“I saw in Anna’s eyes the conscious decision to confide in us,” Mrs. Wilson Beam said. “She described some of what she’d experienced while inside the tree, how the gates of Heaven are made of gold, how Jesus told her it wasn’t time.”

Additional tests also revealed Annabel had remarkably stopped displaying symptoms of pseudo-obstruction motility disorder, a rare incurable condition that had seen her in and out of hospital since 2008.

Doctors advised she could begin to come off the antibiotics she had been taking for years.

Instead of taking ten different types of medication throughout the day, she only needed three, and the painkillers that were prescribed “as and when she needed them” were not required at all.

Previously, Annabel’s medication meant she had to have a liquid diet or stick to soft, bland food, but after her accident, she could suddenly tuck into pizzas and McDonald’s happy meals.

The family have now gone over a year without a single visit to the doctor.

“I can’t explain what happened to her physically while she was in that tree,” Annabel’s dad said.

“But the proof is in the pudding. She wasn’t well before and now she is.

“All I know beyond that is that she believes she went to Heaven. And I believe her when she tells me she believes it.”

Annabel also claims she saw a “guardian angel” as she came to and believes that she has been miraculously cured by God.

The schoolgirl said: “I started to wake up in the tree and I could hear the fireman’s voices.

“And I saw an angel that looked very small, like a fairy.

“And then God winked at me through the body of the angel and what He was saying to me was, ‘I’m going to leave you now and everything is going to be okay.’

“And then the angel stayed with me the entire time, shining a light so I could see.

“We didn’t talk. We just sat together peacefully.”

When asked what Jesus looked like, Annabel replied: “He had a beautiful long white robe, dark skin and a big beard – kinda like Santa Claus, but not really.”

She also spoke of seeing Mimi, her great-grandmother who had passed away in 2010 after surgery on a blocked intestine.