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Twenty Thousand Hertz

Satanic Panic: Backwards messages and '80s hysteria

Twenty Thousand Hertz

Dallas Taylor

Design, Music, Music Commentary, Arts

4.94.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

From the sixties to the nineties parents worried messages hidden in rock albums would make their children do drugs and worship the devil. The truth could only be revealed if these records were played backwards. Bryan Gardiner unveils the history behind the backmasking panic and Curiosity Daily’s Ashley Hamer explains why our brains hear hidden messages... even when they’re not there! Twenty Thousand Hertz is produced by Defacto Sound. Subscribe on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to see our video series. If you know what this week's mystery sound is, tell us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠mystery.20k.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Support the show and get ad-free episodes at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠20k.org/plus⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow Dallas on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠Facebook⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Join our community on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Reddit⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Check out Curiosity Daily Podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Episode transcript, music, and credits can be found here: https://www.20k.org/episodes/satanicpanic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, a quick heads up.

0:02.2

20,000 Hertz is usually ultra squeaky clean.

0:05.5

But due to the subject of this episode,

0:07.6

we couldn't get away from the acknowledgement of more serious things,

0:11.0

like drugs, death, devil stuff, and rock and roll.

0:14.4

It's actually 95% about rock and roll,

0:16.8

but the other stuff kind of comes along with the territory.

0:19.5

The episode is still clean.

0:20.8

There's no cursing or anything.

0:22.3

I just wanted to let you know just in case you'd like to avoid those subjects with the littlest ears.

0:26.8

Also, according to some sources, this episode may entice you to worship the devil.

0:31.4

You've been warned.

0:33.5

So here we go.

0:35.8

Sir, I see, no, the, it's the little y. Okay. So here we go. I want to say. I want to take you back to

0:43.3

I want to take you back to

0:47.3

1985.

0:49.3

Tragedy occurs in Reno, Nevada.

0:51.3

Two young men attempt to take their lives together.

0:53.3

One of them dies instantly.

0:55.7

And three years later, the other dies from complications related to the attempt. But their parents

1:00.5

aren't convinced the young men acted on their own. The night of the tragedy, they listened to this song.

1:13.6

This is the Judas Priest cover of the Spooky Tooth song,

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