Tucker Carlson Claims a Demon Attacked Him in His Sleep

In his continuing arc toward paranoid Christian conspiracies, Tucker Carlson alleged in a new interview that a demon attacked him in his sleep last year. The conservative pundit and UFO conspiracy theorist shares his bed with his wife and four dogs but says he cannot explain how he received scratches on his body while he slept. An evangelical Christian on his staff told him it had to be a demon. Carlson told the story on a Christian podcast hosted by John Heers:

HEERS: So it left physical marks?

CARLSON: Oh, they’re still there. Yeah, yeah, 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 around outside and then I walked in and my wife and dogs had not woken up. And they’re very light sleepers. And then I had these terrible pains on my rib cage and on my shoulder, and I was just in my boxer shorts and I went and flipped on the light in the bathroom, and I had four claw marks on either side underneath my arms and on my left shoulder. And they’re bleeding.

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

Carlson said that the experience gave him an intense desire to read the Bible, which has been a "transformational experience."

The timing of the alleged demon attack would place it a few months before the period last year when Carlson began claiming that flying saucers could be demonic entities and made several odd statements about "really, really, really dark" UFO secrets that had a "spiritual component." At the time, Carlson had suggested that the so-called "evidence" for the ancient astronaut theory implied that humanity was actually created by demons.