"Do you think the presence of evil is kick-starting people to wonder about the good?" filmmaker Scooter Downey asks Carlson.

"That's what happened to me," Carlson says. "I had a direct experience with it."

Carlson recalls how he was asleep in his bed with his wife and four dogs when he was attacked.

"[I was] physically mauled ... by a demon," says Carlson. "Or by something unseen that left claw marks on my sides."

Carlson says these marks are still present today after the attack happened a year-and-a-half ago. Instead of being scared, he was confused by what exactly had just happened to him.

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"I woke up and I couldn't breathe, and I thought I was going to suffocate," he continues.

Carlson got up and walked around outside. When he went back in the house, his wife and dogs were still asleep, despite being light sleepers. It was then that he felt the agony creeping through his ribs and shoulder.

"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," he says.

This incident was far from anything Carlson had ever experienced. However, he instantly knew the root of what happened was spiritual.

"I'm not from a...faith tradition that talks about things like that or even acknowledges their existence, like there's nothing like that. I've never heard anybody say anything like that in my whole life," Carlson reveals.

The following morning, Carlson conjured up the thought that what had happened was a strange dream—until he saw the blood stains on his bed from the attack. He contacted his assistant, a Christian, and explained the scenario. She assured him that this kind of evil activity is real, and that people do find themselves in physical battles against a spiritual enemy.

After this experience, a fire was ignited inside of Carlson to study Scripture.

"Then I was seized with this very intense desire to read the Bible, which I then started without any study aids or anything. I bought a Bible that didn't have any; I'm not interested in editorializing in the Bible. I just want to read it and see what's in there myself," says Carlson.

Carlson says his lack of trust for pastors and a hunger to eliminate the opinions of others is one of the reasons why he wanted a Bible void of extra commentary in it.

"I spent a year-and-a-half reading it, and then I started re-reading it, and it was just a transformative experience for me," he says.

While Carlson still would not consider himself to be a theological expert and is still pondering about what exactly happened to him, it's clear that this encounter woke him up to seek after the Lord. Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

Abby Trivett is content development editor for Charisma Media.

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