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Mar 31, 2021 · One of the most famous, prolonged mass media scares in history, Satanic Panic was characterized at its peak by fearful media depictions of godless teenagers and the deviant music and media...
- Aja Romano
Mar 20, 2024 · This steady tension between popular music and the church eventually resulted in the Satanic Panic. In this fear-induced movement, people were convinced those who listened to specific music were also being corrupted by it—an orchestra of sin with Satan himself as the conductor.
- Satanic Panic and Stranger Things
- What Is Satanic Panic?
- Satanic Panic and "Recovered-Memory Therapy"
- Ricky Kasso
- The Mcmartin Preschool Trial
- Biller and Mariani's Tweets
- Qanon, "Groomers" and Satanic Panic
In Stranger Things Season 4, Eddie Munson, played by Joseph Quinn, is at the center of a plot where members of the community accuse him of murder because of his love of metal bands like Metallica. The fictional community also casts aspersions on the kids playing Dungeons & Dragons. The community's reaction mirrors what was happening in real life du...
"Satanic panic" is the name given to a moral scare in the 1980s that devil worshipers were hiding in plain sight throughout American society, secretly indoctrinating children into the occult and ritually abusing them. The book Michelle Remembers by Michelle Smith and Lawrence Pazder, published in 1980, is often credited with starting the panic, as ...
Michelle Rememberswas presented as Smith's autobiography, and used "recovered-memory therapy" to discuss abuse she claimed to suffer as a child. Recovered-memory therapy is a technique where a therapist uses hypnosis and other techniques to make patients "remember" memories they had forgotten about, claiming that the subconscious will sometimes bur...
One of the earliest cases of satanic panic linked to a crime is with Ricky Kasso, who killed his friend, Gary Lauwers, in Northport, New York. Kasso had a passing interest in the occult, telling friends about Anton LaVey's The Satanic Bible. However, in the documentary The Acid King, Kasso's friends dismissed claims he had any deep interest or know...
In 1983, Judy Johnson told police her young son had been molested by both her estranged husband and by Ray Buckey, one of the teachers at McMartin Preschool in Los Angeles. Some reports say that Johnson's son confirmed that he had been abused by teachers, others say the young boy denied his mother's claims. Johnson also made a number of other accus...
In the last few days, Biller and Marianimade threads about the McMartin case, saying justice had not been done. Biller has since deleted her tweet thread. "Once I went down a deep Satanic Panic rabbit hole and I learned that the children/toddlers in the McMartin Daycare Center had STDs and genital scarring, there were really tunnels, etc. The perpe...
Though thoroughly debunked, satanic panic unfortunately never really went away. The far-right QAnon conspiracy theory posits a Satan-worshiping cabal of pedophilic elites who torture and kill children to harvest adrenochrome. Other QAnon adherents have accused figures like Hillary Clinton of suffering from a cannibalism-related disease due to the c...
- Matt Keeley
Salem Witch Trials are perhaps the most famous example of a Satanic rumor panic, even George Washington had to answer questions about Satanic cults during the Illuminati scares of the late 1700s and early 1800s.
The far-right conspiracy theory movement known as QAnon, which originated on 4chan in 2017, has adopted many of the tropes of SRA and Satanic Panic.
Dec 8, 2022 · There's a widely circulating new conspiracy theory involving the Beatles, and it connects back to an old one in which Paul McCartney prematurely died and was replaced in the lineup.
May 18, 2021 · In the 1980s, false accusations of satanic ritual abuse spread across the U.S. Now, QAnon has revived those fears, borrowing from the playbook of the Satanic Panic from decades prior.
