Introducing: Hoaxed
Hoaxed
Tortoise Media
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2022
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
In 2014, two children told police a shocking story: that they were being abused by a Satanic cult; a cult headed by their father and by parents and teachers at their school in the wealthy London suburb of Hampstead.
The story was a lie. But on the internet, that didn't matter.
From the team who brought you Sweet Bobby, Hoaxed is an investigation into one of Britain's most serious-ever conspiracy theories. A story about a modern-day Satanic panic; about the victims whose lives were destroyed and about the conspiracists who spread the lie around the world.
Oh, and it's about our hunt for the perpetrators - the people who forced the kids to lie - the ones who started it all.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the story of a lie. |
| 0:03.0 | An incredibly disturbing video went viral over the weekend. |
| 0:06.0 | A lie started by two innocent children, which spread across the internet like wildfire. |
| 0:14.0 | The thing with the tattoos, those tattoos were in places a child should never see them. |
| 0:19.0 | A lie which brought the satanic panic back to our shores and destroyed the lives of its victims. |
| 0:25.6 | They said, I'm the leader of a satanic sex called a paedophile ring. |
| 0:33.3 | I'm Alexei Mostras, Investigations Editor at Tortus. |
| 0:37.6 | And this is my new podcast, hoaxed. |
| 0:41.3 | It's about the most serious British conspiracy theory in years, the people behind it. |
| 0:48.3 | I'm a system analyst. |
| 0:50.3 | I used to diagnose software at CERN in Geneva. |
| 0:53.6 | The place is's reached. |
| 0:55.2 | Be careful because the tentacles are this |
| 0:57.0 | go right to the heart of the British establishment. |
| 0:59.6 | And my hunt for the couple who started it all. |
| 1:04.0 | I have just got a message. |
| 1:07.6 | I think that she's on to us. |
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