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Mar 31, 2021 · Q’s conspiracy theory held that President Donald Trump was pretending to be incompetent so that he could more effectively apprehend the pedophiles in government around him — pedophiles who, in ...
- Aja Romano
- 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
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.
May 23, 2023 · Conspiracy theorists alleged that the performance was, in fact, a real, satanic ritual orchestrated by an elite cult of Hollywood satanists. Its supposed aim? To morally subvert society by...
Sep 2, 2024 · Over the last eight years, the spectre of Satan has haunted many online conspiracy theories. The most famous of these is associated with QAnon, a group premised on the belief that Donald Trump is secretly trying to save the world from a cabal of Satanic, vampiric elites.
Mar 31, 2021 · Early in the 1980s, baseless conspiracy theories about cults committing mass child abuse spread around the country. Talk shows and news programs fanned fears, and the authorities investigated ...
May 18, 2021 · NPR's Ari Shapiro reports on what factors contributed to the original "satanic panic" and what it can teach us about the conspiracy theories that attract followers today.
