Tucker Carlson said he was “physically mutilated” by a demon a year and a half ago that left him bleeding and with scars still visible on his body from “claw marks” in a clip posted by “Christianities?” YouTube Channel Thursday.

Asked by his interlocutor, John Heers, if he thought that “the presence of evil causes men to wonder about good?” Carlson he replied “That happened to me”, before recounting the story.

“I had first-hand experience with him,” Carlson said.

“In the field of journalism?” Heers asked.

“No, in my bed at night,” Carlson replied. “And I was attacked while I was sleeping with my wife and four dogs and I was mutilated, physically mutilated.”

“In a spirit attack of a demon?” Heers asked.

“Yes, from a demon,” Carlson asserted. “Or by something unseen that left claw marks on my sides.”

The pair continued:

HEERS: So he left physical marks?

CARLSON: Oh, I’m still there. Yes, yes, a year and a half ago.

HEERS: Was your wife terrified? I know you were.

CARLSON: I wasn’t. I was totally confused, I woke up and I couldn’t breathe and I thought I was going to suffocate. And I walked outside and then I came in and my wife and the dogs hadn’t woken up. And they are very light sleepers. And then I had this terrible pain in my rib cage and my shoulder, and I was just in my boxers and I went and turned on the bathroom light and I had four claw marks on each side under my arms and on my left shoulder. And it bleeds.

HEERS: Wait, were they bleeding?

CARLSON: They were bleeding, yes — No, actual claw marks! And I sleep on my side, so I wasn’t squirming. I don’t have long nails and they didn’t fit my hands anyway. But yes, that happened.

Carlson went on to say that he consulted his assistant, an evangelical Christian, because he had “never heard of anything like this happening before” and that she told him, “This is what happens, people are attacked in their beds by demons.”

“What are you talking about!” Carlson exclaimed as he laughed and remembered the conversation.

The former Fox News host said that after the attack, he was “caught up with this very intense desire to read the Bible.” He said that reading it and then starting to reread it was a “transformative experience”.

“Do you think God allowed the demon?” Heers asked.

“I have no idea what happened,” Carlson replied. “No one has to believe me, I don’t care, but this happened to me.”

On X, former Twitter, conservative writer Rod Dreher TOGETHER Carlson’s story, saying he told Dreher about it “about a year ago.”

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