Former Fox News host told bizarre story in clip from upcoming documentary

Summary

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed he was “physically mauled” by a demon in his sleep, leaving claw marks on his body, which he says are still visible. Carlson described waking with intense pain, bleeding claw marks, and an overwhelming urge to read the Bible. He recounted the experience as confusing yet transformative, adding that while he doesn’t expect others to believe him, the incident profoundly impacted him.

  • irish_link@lemmy.world
    241·
    2 days ago

    If this is true, what did he do to deserve this. This doesn’t just happen to a good god fearing person. So I guess the real question is, what did he do to deserve this.

    This doesn’t just happen to a good god fearing person. Why would this happen if he DIDN’T deserve this. Clearly he lost favor with the good lord and has opened himself up to the devil to be possessed by a demon.

    • MellowSnow@lemmy.world
      17·
      2 days ago

      As someone who was raised in a very evangelical household: the (non)-answer is that it happened to him in order to tempt him or test him or some shit. If it happens to a non-god-fearing individual, it’s deserved, otherwise it’s God’s plan all along. Because moving the goal posts is just way too easy.

      The real answer is Tucker Carlson is either actually insane or hardcore grifting, but I’m probably preaching to the choir here going down that rabbit hole lol.

      • irish_link@lemmy.world
        31·
        2 days ago

        I figured my comment would be countered with “justification” as to why. Not you but your explanation and yea preaching my friend.

    • agnomeunknown@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 days ago

      No you see he is like Job in the Bible!!! He’s so righteous God is testing him with demons!!!

      -his fans probably

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        4·
        2 days ago

        Job has to be one of the more disgusting stories in the Bible… It was the one that I read/was taught about in church as a teen that first made me go “wait a second…”.

        From the first time I heard that story, it never sat well with me, and not a single adult was ever able to give me a satisfactory explanation for why it was OK for god to straight up destroy this poor man’s life (a man who was already super dedicated to this god), including literally killing his innocent family, over some petty bet with the actual devil.

        That really opened my eyes to what the OT god really was in that book, and I did not like what I saw.

      • irish_link@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 days ago

        True. I know there will always be a justification and it would be a hard fight to change the minds of those who are being grifted.

  • CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.netEnglish
    18·
    2 days ago

    This all obviously ridiculous but… I grew up with a family that 100% believed in spiritual warfare. My parents were more willing to believe my brother was possessed than to believe he needed psychiatric help. My Dad had the church elders pray over me when I had whooping cough, asking God to cast out the demon that had so obviously latched onto my 10 year old lungs. I regularly saw people at my church who would claim to have seen fantastical things.

    Tucker is simply appealing to his base. The mass groups of people who truly believe they are warriors for Christ engaged in a life and death struggle for the soul of the whole world. There are thousands of them and they believe you and I as unbelievers are at best, unwittingly helping the enemy and at worst, willful vessels of the literal devil.

    I wouldn’t be shocked if Tucker Carlson 100% believed what he’s saying. The groupthink in those circles is difficult to break out of.

  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
    364·
    4 days ago

    At the time, Carlson says, he was asleep in bed with his wife – and four dogs.

    I have an alternate theory about those claw marks…

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      92·
      4 days ago

      I watched that video, and had he just stuck to being suddenly awake and having claw marks I would have thought there was something odd. But he led with having four dogs in the bed, so when he said he had claw marks…dear lord, he’s either trying too hard to play to some niche audience, or he’s really that stupid. At least make the story sound plausible…we know you can lie, why didn’t you just leave off some details here to sell it better.

      • Billiam@lemmy.world
        871·
        4 days ago

        Ever since he got kicked off Fox, he’s been making the pivot to the hard right audience, which includes the narrative that they’re in a spiritual war against the literal devil.

        It’s the same conspiracy-laden bullshit that Alex Jones pushes.

        • Rhaedas@fedia.io
          62·
          4 days ago

          It’s Jon Stewart’s fault. Tucker never recovered from that jab about the bow tie.

          • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
            39·
            4 days ago

            And he never wore a bow tie after that. Lol.
            If anything, Tucker needs another sit-down with Jon

          • Billiam@lemmy.world
            529·
            4 days ago

            And we got Trump cause Obama roasted him so hard he was afraid no one would think he was white anymore.

            Maybe ridiculing fascists isn’t the best way to treat them.

            • luciferofastora@lemmy.zip
              6·
              2 days ago

              Right, Trump’s fragile ego voted him into office 🤨

              There are a lot of contributing factors. Obama making fun of him might have seen him run for office, but without all the enablers along the way carrying him on he would have collapsed a few steps in, fucked off to go eat a gourmet Happy Meal and told himself (and anyone in earshot) how brave and strong he is for running in the first place.

              Ridicule may have lit the fuse, but the powder was there long before.

              • newenlightened@lemmy.world
                3·
                2 days ago

                i don’t understand how lemmy works. this meme obviously suggest killing fascists, which is in fact, the correct answer. but if i say “we should kill fascists” they’ll delete my comment. WTF? say it in a meme, because that’s somehow, different?

              • Billiam@lemmy.world
                59·
                4 days ago

                Yeah, I don’t know when “Trump ran for president because he was so thoroughly emasculated by Obama” and “You can’t shame the shameless out of fascism” became such hot takes.

                • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
                  13·
                  3 days ago

                  You can shame them, just not for anything they should feel shamed about. Jabs about very facile facets of their masculinity? shamed. Dragged through the ringer because they are rapists? No shame.

            • theprogressivist @lemmy.world
              152·
              4 days ago

              Ridiculing Fascists is the best way to treat them. They’re fragile little snowflakes and can not handle being the butt of the joke. Why do you think aside from journalists and politicians, comedians also get censored or imprisoned first when fascists take over?

              • Billiam@lemmy.world
                112·
                4 days ago

                So the problem with Trump is that he’s not being ridiculed enough? The orange-skinned, diaper wearing, wispy-pube-haired, tiny hands, mushroom dick, broke-ass billionaire wanna-be, so cheap he won’t even bother to have his suits tailored, neck-gina, “dumbest goddamn student I ever had”, can’t drink water, nuke hurricanes, salutes North Korean generals, paper towel throwing, bleach-drinking, UV light up the asshole, bigliest, yugliest, covfefe bunker bitch will go away if we just make fun of him?

                If you think you can stop the fascist by calling him Mango Mussolini or Agolf Shitler more, fucking go for it. Comedians get imprisoned by fascists because they hurt their feelings- but that doesn’t stop fascism, or else they wouldn’t have ended up in prison.

        • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
          22·
          4 days ago

          Bowties are cool.

          The bowtie wasn’t the problem.

          It’s the person that makes it uncool.

          I’d argue that the fact that he stopped wearing the bowties when he was mocked for it says more about him than the bowties do.

      • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        4 days ago

        I bet it’s deliberate. Like a power play knowing his story is clearly bullshit but the morons he’s appealing to are believing it making him feel even more superior.

    • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
      10·
      4 days ago

      Dude, even small dogs can hog some serious space. 4 dogs? I’m surprised there’s any room left for the fucker and his wife. He probably got scratches falling out of bed.

    • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      4 days ago

      “I went to bed and woke up next to this unconscious woman… I was in my bed with the wife and dogs at the time, so she must’ve been a demon.”

    • itsJoelle@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 days ago

      I’m not sure if this was a literal invitation, but I’ll poke my head out.

      It depends on how you interpret scripture. I was raised in a “non-literalist” faith, and some of these beliefs have come to interpret references to “demons,” and what not, being misconstrued as mental illnesses. I believe Richard Dawkins coined the phrase “God of the Gaps” which is not too dissimilar to what is happening in this case.

      So the non-faithful, along with the faithful, could still be afflicted, technically, however I’m fairly confident mental health treatment may be better for them over “driving out the demon” so to speak. Though some denominations would call it heresy for me to say that. Lmao.

      As for Tucker… I’m skeptical he cares for the Word. He certainly doesn’t act as though he does, in my view.

        • itsJoelle@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 days ago

          Maybe — such a line of thinking confuses me, and I’ve seen some stuff online similar to that before. It’s simply not helpful nor Christlike. In my view, one’s faith shouldn’t be wielded self-righteously and or in judgment of others.

          Edit: and vs or.

    • m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world
      41·
      2 days ago

      Colombian here - as you might know, most people here are catholic.

      A bit of story.

      My mother says her eldest brother was like the evil on earth. He raped her younger sisters, used to beat up all of them – his younger brother grew up with serious mental issues because of that, and now we are having issues trying to get him into an asylum because, again, third world problems - stole the house and land of their parents (which wasn’t a lot, but left my mother and her sisters with nothing when their father died) and even treated violently my grandmother. I never got to know my grandparents because they died when my mother was young.

      So my mother says one night my grandmother was really ill and this person (I have never seen him, not even in pictures) arrived home and beat her up and went to sleep. Then allegedly “the spirits” (“las almas”) came when he was asleep and beat him up so hard he screamed and woke everyone up - like they could see how “the spirits” lifted him across the room and hit him violently, but never could see any of those “spirits”.

      A few weeks or months after that my grandmother died and all of my aunts had to get miserable jobs trying to survive and this bastard still showed up from time to time to steal the few bucks they could earn.

      Eventually all of them (except my uncle) got married and all of them but the elder sister never saw him ever again.

      Now I’m atheist and don’t believe in this kind of stuff, but the saying is that “the souls” do that kind of thing to really awful people. So if Carson’s incident is true (and if “the souls” exist and are able to do that), now you may have a possible explanation for that.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 days ago

    Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed he was “physically mauled” by a demon in his sleep, leaving claw marks on his body, which he says are still visible.

    next time he shouldn’t use teeth and make sure you cup the balls, Mr. Carlson.

  • BetaBlake@lemmy.world
    1121·
    3 days ago

    Tucker Carlson and JD Vance had rough normal gay guy sex and he’s getting ahead of any story and saying it was demon assault.

    I can also take part in conspiracies

  • jwt
    4·
    2 days ago

    I can’t believe I almost ate a non-existent onion.

  • rsuri@lemmy.world
    51·
    3 days ago

    People are saying it’s the dogs, but given that it’s Tucker Carlson I think it’s far more likely that he’s just flat out lying.

  • Dasus@lemmy.world
    67·
    3 days ago

    “I got attacked while I was asleep with my wife and four dogs and mauled, physically mauled.” … “I have no idea what happened.”

    lol

    • m0darn@lemmy.ca
      24·
      3 days ago

      This is the level of critical thinking that conservative pundits are exercising.

      • Good_morning@lemmynsfw.com
        2·
        2 days ago

        Knowing dogs, even if they were sleeping they’d be on their feet barking before he could fully get out of bed.

        Normal people - I bet my dog accidentally scratch me.

        Him- the devil sent his demons to scratch me!

        • Victor@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 days ago

          The way he explains this… I don’t know. There are a lot of details regarding how he explains this that makes me believe him. Believe, as in, I believe that he believes he’s telling the truth. He really believes what he is saying. He really doesn’t understand what has happened, and so forth.

          It’s all in the way he exposes this. It doesn’t seem like it’s his agenda to do so. He hasn’t tried to since it happened, and he didn’t force it in this interview, it just kind of “came up”. Among other details, e.g. “I don’t care who believes me”, etc.

          I don’t know, it’s very curious. Only God knows what happened. 😊

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
        8·
        3 days ago

        I’m actually a bit jealous of his sleeping situation. I don’t mind dogs being “dirty” and I’d prefer 4 dogs (and maybe a wife) to sleeping alone.

        • nomous@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 days ago

          Plus he’s rich so nbd to have a huge bed and have your dogs groomed every other day.