Three months ago 20-year-old Michael Pruitt was electrocuted while assisting his stepfather with construction work on a woman's home

A bolt of electricity went from a power line into a ladder that he was holding, and for a while it looked like he wasn't going to make it.

Medical experts at Beaumont Hospital in Michigan where he was taken for treatment even thought he was dead when he arrived.

That's because for 20 whole minutes, Pruitt had no pulse.

Speaking to Today.com he recalled his freak accident and revealed why he thinks he was able to survive the whole ordeal.

Pruitt describes the feeling of being electrocuted as being similar to "a tase" but with "so much more electricity" and says before he knew what was happening "everything just shut off".

The next thing he knew he woke up in hospital and attempted to remove all the tubes and wires connected to his body.

"It took like six or seven people to hold me down," he admits. "I was just still going at it and the doctors were saying how happy they were because [if] he's putting up this much of a fight, he's got to be still there."

Pruitt goes on to discuss the reason he believes he woke up that fateful day, which was simply that "it wasn't [his] time to go".

Instead he thinks he's "destined to do greater things and help people" and as doctor's are calling his survival a "miracle", he just might be right.

"I definitely would call it a miracle," said Dr Angela Chudler, who helped care for Pruitt in hospital. "He had no vital signs, so we had this young boy who's dead coming in."

She added: "Luckily he went down at a nurse's home because the CPR… right away his heart was pumped, circulation was going through his body, through his brain, and without that you have no oxygen to your tissues, and he would've never been who he is today.

"Every week, there's probably a couple people we do bring back, but to go from completely dead, no heartbeat to fully functioning is very rare. I mean, it's really, really rare."

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