Satanic Panic: Devil in Disguise

Cult Liter with Spencer Henry

Spencer Henry | Morbid Network

Society & Culture, Comedy, True Crime

4.9 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re talking about the rise of the Satanic Panic phenomenon, focusing on the McMartin Preschool trials and taking a look at the life and times of a woman named Lauren Stratford who appeared on many talk shows in the mid to late 80’s to discuss her personal knowledge of Satanic Ritual Abuse. Write me: spencer@cultliter.com Spencer Henry PO Box 18149 Long Beach CA 90807 Follow along online: instagram.com/cultliterpodcast Join our patreon: Patreon.com/cultliter Check out my other show OBITCHUARY wherever you’re listening now! Sources: https://mds.marshall.edu/psychology_faculty/7/ https://www.vox.com/culture/22358153/satanic-panic-ritual-abuse-history-conspiracy-theories-explained https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/crime-history/5-facts-you-need-to-know-about-the-mcmartin-preschool-satanic-sex-abuse-trial https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.730.6487&rep=rep1&type=pdf ‘Satan’s Underground’ Lauren Stratford https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/009164719202000330

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0:17.1	On Cult Leader I strive for telling stories in a truthful matter, though press media and
0:20.6	other resources cannot always be verified, sources can be found in the show notes.
0:50.6	Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader.
0:56.0	I'm your Cult Leader Spencer Henry, and this is my show called Cult Leader, where we talk
1:01.3	about cults and all kinds of things.
1:04.4	This week's episode honestly sent me down a spiral from which I will never recover.
1:08.8	It was supposed to be a different story than it ended up being, well, both stories are
1:14.3	truthfully getting told.
1:15.8	I've been wanting to talk about Satanic Panic for such a long time on the show because
1:20.5	it's a phrase I feel like we hear a lot.
1:24.0	When I was doing research for Anton Leve and the Church of Satan episodes that we did
1:28.3	a few months back, I had watched a ton of television interviews from that time and a lot of them
1:33.0	were focused on Satanic Panic.
1:35.6	Back in the days shows like Oprah and Jenny Jones or Alder Rivera, they all had these segments
1:41.6	or specials that they would devote to Satanism, especially during the 80s and 90s.
1:46.7	Satanic cults in particular, which obviously instilled a lot of fear into their respective
1:52.5	audiences.
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