Satanic Panic: Part One

American Hysteria

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🗓️ 10 December 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This episode is part one of our two-part series on perhaps the most mystifying moral panic in US history, the 1980s and early 90s 'Satanic Panic.' For this episode, Chelsey covers the rise of organized Satanism beginning in the late 60s, as well as the adversarial countercultures of the hippies and the metalheads, and their apparent Satanic crimes that would be hailed as proof of their evil, as well as proof that teens, as well as children, were in serious moral peril. Satan was allegedly hypnotizing the youth with secret messages in backwards rock songs, teaching them occult magic in Saturday morning cartoons, and causing suicides through a popular role-playing game, all while helping religion blur into politics for good. For part two Chelsey will cover what came next, a serious investigation into an imagined network of Satanic cults ritually abusing children in daycare centers all over the country. Chelsey will try to understand this shocking decade in history, why it happened, and the cultural issues it was really about. Part two is coming after the holidays. American Hysteria is written, produced, and hosted by Chelsey Weber-Smith Produced and edited by Clear Commo Studios Show art by Roache Voice Acting by Will Rogers Become a Patron for extra episodes, interviews, and videos monthly! Follow American Hysteria on social media: Twitter: @AmerHysteria Instagram: @AmericanHysteriaPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On this season we'll be exploring the moral panics, urban legends, and conspiracy theories
0:14.2	that shape our psychology and culture and why he ended up believing them.
0:18.3	I'm your host, Chelsea Weber-Smith, and this is American hysteria.
0:23.9	There's power in safe and more more time.
0:25.9	There's the power in safe.
0:28.7	Parents were actually, saw their child summon a Dungeons and Dragons demons into his room before he killed himself.
0:35.3	Another scripture says that if you bring an abomination or an accursed thing into your house,
0:40.3	then you will be accursed like it is.
0:42.9	Would you say these toys are accursed to God?
0:45.1	Oh, I would guarantee it.
0:53.1	The original Hebrew translation of the word Satan refers to an adversary, or more directly,
1:04.5	one who throws something across one's path.
1:08.1	In the Bible, the word Satan can certainly refer to the Satan, the actual character of the devil himself,
1:14.9	but just as often also refers to A Satan, to whatever challenges you as you move through your life's journey.
1:22.1	The entity of Satan, often seen as the fallen angel Lucifer, one who rejected the authority of God,
1:28.3	has long been the symbol of the world's ultimate evil, the evil beyond humanity itself,
1:33.9	the pain, the suffering, the death, and the gravity, all made into a convenient villain that we can experience together.
1:42.1	The satanic panic of the 1980s and early 90s is truly one of the most mystifying things I've ever studied.
1:49.5	A serious and widespread belief was burning through the country, and not just among fundamentalists,
1:55.3	that a secret network of satanic cults was indoctrinating kids and teens through music, movies, and games,
2:01.7	hypnotizing them toward drug-fueled sex orgies and suicide, toward atrocious violent crimes,
2:08.1	including ritual murder in the name of their Dark Lord.
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