Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson told Megyn Kelly during her “Megyn Kelly Live” show that he believes he was physically assaulted by a supernatural entity.
Carlson explained that he usually went to sleep at home with his wife and their dogs in bed. He said he woke up suddenly at 2:30 a.m. with no ability to breathe. “I wake up at 2:30 in the morning and I couldn’t breathe at all,” he said. “It wasn’t like I was apnea or strong as I could not breathe.”
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Carlson said he got out of bed and walked outside trying to regain oxygen. That is when he said physical pain struck him. “All of a sudden I have this horrible pain underneath my arms like on the side of my chest, like bad, I thought I’d been ripped with a knife or something. Very intense,” he said.
Tucker Carlson says he was violently attacked by a demon:
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“I couldn’t breathe. So I get up, I stand in the doorway of our bedroom, and I’m like, wow, I’m dying… I had this horrible pain underneath my arms, like on the side of my chest…I flip on the light, and I have claw marks… pic.twitter.com/jk84QZE283
When he turned the bedroom light on he said he saw literal claw marks carved into his ribs. Carlson described them as bleeding scratches. “I flip on the light, I have claw marks on right and left side of my ribs and they are bleeding. There literally claw marks, four, on either side” he said. He said he tried to check the marks himself. “I put fingers in them, [they] don’t fit” he said.
After that Carlson said something in his spirit shifted. “Then I have this crazy intense desire to read the Bible, so I read the Bible and I pass out in 2 minutes,” he said.
He claims the wounds were still there the next morning. “I woke next morning, man, did I have a wild dream. Then I saw blood on the sheets. I go to the bathroom, and I have these bloody marks,” he said. His wife told him she thought it was supernatural. “My wife goes ‘I think you were attacked by some supernatural being’” Carlson told Kelly.
Carlson said he tried to be rational about the encounter but had no other natural explanation. “I was like trying to be logical about it,” he said. He also said that when he mentioned it to a producer, he was shocked when the producer did not seem surprised.
Carlson’s story highlights a reality many Christians talk about but rarely hear high-profile people publicly acknowledge. Spiritual warfare is real.
The New Testament warns that unseen spiritual forces are at work and not every battle is physical. Carlson’s testimony describes not just a nightmare or a feeling but a physical manifestation of something he believes was demonic.
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Whether people believe him or not, his account raises the same core question that Scripture raises. If there is evil, if there are dark forces, and if they are active, then what is actually happening in the unseen realm around us?
James Lasher, a seasoned writer and editor at Charisma Media, combines faith and storytelling with a background in journalism from Otterbein University and ministry experience in Guatemala and the LA Dream Center. A Marine Corps and Air Force veteran, he is the author of The Revelation of Jesus: A Common Man’s Commentary and a contributor to Charisma magazine.
