Mark Hunt has a book that is slated to be released on September, and with that, the UFC heavyweight was recently asked about possibly sharing old tales from his past experiences. Instead of sharing details about his combat sports career, he decided tell a bizarre story about seeing what he thinks was the 'devil' or 'grim reaper' multiple times in his life.

"I’ve had a pretty chequered past, you know as a kid, as a troubled kid. I can share one story with you," Hunt said on a recent appearance on Submission Radio. My Dad, he was in the hospital. My mum had like seven strokes at the time, and she's had about 11 now I think, but she was in a wheelchair, my Dad was dying of cancer."

"He was all -- he was like the Cadbury man. He had really white hair, but he was all like brown and yellow in his face. So he was dying, and I walked my Mom in to see him in the hospital, and I walked in there to see my Dad and there was like a crazy-ass smell in the room. It was like ashes."

"Then as I faced my Mom, I faced my old man looking at him. And then out of the corner of my eye I saw this really crazy, this huge like 20 feet tall [thing]," he said. "I don’t even know what it was. I didn’t look at it, it was in my peripheral vision."

"So I saw the thing from the side and my mind goes 'what the hell is that thing?'. And it was huge, like 20 feet tall and it was hooded and it was holding something. And the feeling that I got from it the thing, I was like 'wow that thing's crazy. That thing's there is certainly here to collect this guy right here in front of me'. And I’ll never forget that."

"I think I’ve seen that thing about three or four times in my life. So when I said to myself 'that thing's evil, it's bad, it’s not good'. And if I looked at it I’ll be dead too, just like this guy is gonna be dead."

"That’s not a story, that’s just real," he states.

"I think it was a Grim Reaper. I think it was the Devil. It was 20 feet tall and I thought -- my mind goes 'do not…' and I got tingles, like I got tingles telling you now. It’s like, 'don’t look at that thing, that thing will kill you'. And I felt like the power emanating from that thing is just ridiculous. And if it opened its mouth, the whole place is gonna fall over."

"Like I said, I’ve seen that thing four times," he continued. "I thought to myself 'if that thing’s real, then God must be real'. So that’s something. I don’t like seeing that thing, but I’m lucky I haven’t seen it lately. It’s kind of crazy."

You can watch the full interview on the clip above. Apart from this grim reaper story, Hunt also spoke about trying to shed a significant amount of weight as bad cuts to 265 lbs have affected his performances as of late.