Teen Nearly Dies After Religious Chain Electrocutes Him, Leaving Severe Burns

A teenage boy, Rayce, is lucky to be alive after a terrifying incident where his religious cross necklace electrocuted him, leaving burns down to his flesh.

According to his mother, Danielle Davis, the incident happened on the night of April 30. She was jolted awake by a loud noise, only to find her son in distress.

Rayce told her he had been electrocuted after his chain accidentally touched an exposed prong of a wall plug. The metal cross conducted the electricity, severely burning his skin and leaving behind the imprint of the chain.

Photos shared by the family show the shocking extent of the injury.

Rayce was quickly rushed to Integris Health Baptist Medical Center’s burn unit in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where he was admitted to the ICU for specialized treatment.

She said: “It was a normal night and we’d only been asleep for around an hour when we half heard a noise then heard yelling from Rayce’s room. We thought maybe he’s playing a video game and getting frustrated.

“Then I heard him shout ‘mom’ and my son was standing in the hallway. He said ‘I’ve been electrocuted. It was my necklace’. There were scorch necks around his neck.

“And the smell was awful. The whole house smelled like burnt hair and skins and electrical burns. We started calling 911 for an ambulance.

“He said he leaned out of the bed and when he did the cross necklace around his neck made contact with the prongs from the plug in an extension cord which were just barely exposed.

“He said he was completely conscious through the whole thing and was aware he was being electrocuted. Because everything was metal, it made a complete circuit around his neck. It was like a hot coil.

“And he has burns on his hands from trying to rip his chain around his neck.. It was a thick, heavy chain.

The crazy thing was during the electrocution, it welded part of his chain to the charger. And the cross pendant on the chain melted three inches into the mattress through the sheets of his bed.

“He said this all happened within a matter of seconds and he visibly saw sparks coming from his neck. He told me his whole body hurt and he thought he was going to die.’

“He’s got a lot of scars. They’re speaking about doing a skin graft but Rayce doesn’t want that unless it’s medically necessary.

“It’s almost his entire neck that’s covered in scars. It’s from his chin to his collarbone. The incident has definitely made Rayce a lot more self-aware. It was very eye-opening.

“We’re just so grateful he’s okay. He could’ve easily died that night. It was amazing he was still conscious and could still alert us. It would’ve been a different story.

“When it comes to your phone, there’s not a text message or notification that is important enough to have your phone on your bed. Anything can happen and Rayce is proof of that.

“Pay attention to your cords and I would recommend to anybody don’t use extension cords at all.”