Satanic Panic: Mike Sold Satan

Cult Liter with Spencer Henry

Spencer Henry | Morbid Network

Society & Culture, Comedy, True Crime

4.9 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re taking a look at the life of Mike Warnke who rose to fame with the release of his autobiography ‘The Satan Seller’ and became a key figure during the rise of the Satanic Panic movement. Mike spent years building a career off of his sinister past as a High Priest in a Satanic Cult, however soon after his rise to fame, friends and family members began to surface with some serious doubts…do we have another Lauren Stratford on our hands? Tune in to find out! 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://welovegod.org/guide/selling_satan_michael_warnke/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Warnke https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/779610542/?terms=mike%20warnke&match=1 “Selling Satan” Cornerstone Mag “Satan Seller” Mike Warnke https://dangerousminds.net/comments/sex_lies_and_satanism_the_rise_and_fall_of_christian_comedian_mike_warnke http://www.mikewarnke.org

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0:50.6	Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader.
0:57.7	I'm your Cult Leader Spencer Henry and this week we're tiptoeing back into Satanic panic.
1:03.1	Took a little break there, but we're back and we're focusing on a man named Mike Warnke,
1:08.6	this week, who rose to prominence in the 1980s for his quote-unquote expertise on Satanism.
1:14.9	In fact, his book, The Satan Cellar, released in 1972, was one of the biggest contributions
1:20.8	to Satanic panic.
1:22.3	It was a little difficult trying to track down a copy, I'm not gonna lie, but don't
1:26.2	worry babes, I got my hands on one, I've read it, and oh boy, we've got a lot to talk
1:31.4	about.
1:32.4	I first became familiar with the name Mike Warnke when I was researching Laurel Wilson,
1:36.6	aka Lauren Stratford, the two of them appeared together on this Christian television show called
1:42.6	Fire by Night, that ran, I believe, from like the mid-early 80s through the 90s, and it
1:48.7	was a variety show of sorts produced by Willie George Ministries out of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
1:55.0	Sometimes they refer to it as a Christian version of Saturday Night Live, so you can only
1:59.7	imagine, very much after school special vibes, geared mainly towards teens and young adults.
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