Country star’s song revived unconscious teenager after car accident

There is a popular scientific theory that says music can have miraculous effects on the human brain.

After what happened to a South Carolina teenager after a car accident, it was a theory his family firmly believes in today.

Trae Ocheltree was left critically injured and unconscious in intensive care after he and his girlfriend were involved in a car accident. When the high school student was struck from the side by another vehicle, he was thrown from his truck, resulting in broken bones, lacerations and a severe brain injury.

The 17-year-old had to spend two days in hospital and was unresponsive. His family prayed desperately for a miracle.

It was only one of his friends – who knew that Ocheltree was a big fan of country singer Zach Bryan – who played Bryan’s song “Revival,” which can be found on his 2020 album “Elisabeth.”

This was what brought the severely injured teenager back to his senses and made him respond to the music.

Ocheltree squeezed his friend’s hand and tried to mime the lyrics of the song with his lips.

The family documented the miraculous interaction in a Facebook post.

Three days later, the teenager had his tubes removed and began interacting with family and friends.

He soon received a guitar as a gift from the Christopher Conner Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports healing through music.

The guitar replaced the guitar that was damaged in the car accident. It also happens to be the same model guitar that Bryan plays.

On June 4, Ocheltree was captured in a Facebook video post playing one of Bryan’s songs with the new six-string guitar in his hospital bed.

“Happy mommy tears and I’m sharing this moment so you can be happy with me,” Ocheltree’s mother wrote in the caption of the post.

She added that one of his friends helped him learn to play the guitar again and since then he has been practicing on his own.

“He played it a little bit last night and this morning by himself and the progression is amazing. Tonight was the first time he sang… Even when he couldn’t speak, he was mumbling the words of that song,” she said. “So, PLEASE SEE MY MIRACLE… ALL of us – all of you who have been praying for him, PLEASE WATCH and then BE STILL AND RECOGNIZE GOD’S POWER.”

Ocheltree was recently transferred to a location in Atlanta to continue his rehabilitation and recovery.