This is a CBC podcast.

Hey, I'm Sarah Marshall, and I host a show called You're Wrong About.

It's a podcast where I rethink events and characters from history.

I try to find the deeper meaning behind the popular version we think we understand.

And there's one story from the past that I've been circling around for years now.

It's swept through our culture and our communities.

It tore families apart and destroyed lives.

It's a story so big that it needs its own podcast. This is the devil you know.

As you know, Satanism seems to be on the rise here in the United States.

In every state in the nation, authorities are investigating some form of what they call

satanic activity. This eight-part series traces the hidden history of the satanic panic in North America.

And this is not the version you've heard before.

We'll connect the dots from Jaws to Patrick Swayze, from Victoria, BC, to the backroads of Kentucky.

I seen no evidence of any Satan worship or anything like that.

I didn't see anybody naked dancing around a fire at night or anything like that.

It's about how religious, cultural, and legal forces created a Tinderbox.

So when the match was struck,

a caulic symbols abound in MTV.

The singer floats in the air more demon than man. Madonna sings. match was struck. A caulic symbols abound in MTV.

The singer floats in the air more demon than man.

Madonna sings in front of burning crosses.

Nuclear assaults, demonic faces.

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