Kathie Lee Gifford Tells Eerie Story About Encountering a 'Demon' in Church: 'It Confirmed Everything Jesus Ever Said'

Kathie Lee Gifford was not into the dark energy she experienced while visiting a church in Bethlehem as a teenager.

The NBC anchor, 72, opened up about her spooky encounter with a "demon" on the Wednesday, July 15, episode of the spiritual podcast "Blurry Creatures."

"Want to hear about the demons I've known?" Gifford said. She explained she went to Jerusalem with her mother when she was 17 and they took a bus trip to Bethlehem.

She described going into the cathedral and she saw people lighting candles.

She noted "there was a monk covered in a cloak who started to growl at us" as she was igniting one of the candles.

"We didn't know what it means and then we realized, 'Oh, people are putting money down,'" the Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee alum added.

"We left our purses on the bus and we didn't have any money," Gifford recalled.

"And all of a sudden, the cloak comes back and the monk [starts making an odd slurping noise and screams]," Gifford imitated as she made a scary face.

"[The monk] had orange teeth and blood-red eyes," she claimed. "You know it when you see it. It wasn't subtle." When asked if the experience changed her perception of the supernatural, Gifford said. "It confirmed it."

"It confirmed everything Jesus ever said," she stated.

Gifford, who is a strong Christian, opened up in February about being "anti-religion" in an interview with Fox News.

"The Bible talks about prayer without ceasing. Our life should be nonstop prayer, nonstop conversation, dialog, and walk with our Lord," the journalist said.

"It's not a religion. I am very anti-religion. Religion puts people in chains and Jesus takes them away. So I've always tried to be, and I am, the exact same person," she continued.

"I don't separate the secular from the spiritual. I don't say, 'Oh, I'm an actress. So that's my secular life.' And then I go, and I raise money for Childhelp," she said. Childhelp is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention of child abuse.

"No, it's all one life, lived in accordance with God's blessing, with His, I don't like to call them commandments, His teaching, His guidance. We live according to that," Gifford continued.

"People go, 'I can't believe how bold you are for your faith,'" she added. "I don't care what people think. I care what He thinks. And a few hands, like maybe two hands full of precious friends who love me. I care what they think."