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You're Wrong About

The Satanic Panic

You're Wrong About

Sarah Marshall

True Crime, Society & Culture, News, Culture, Politics, History

4.623K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The 1980s were real but the Satanists weren't. Sarah tells Mike about why America spent a decade worried about witches running daycare centers.

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0:00.0

And I'll finally give my Ted talk about Ted Bundy.

0:03.0

That's a very like Sarah Marshall Ted talk.

0:07.0

So, Satan-wise, start me off.

0:20.0

How did all of this begin?

0:23.0

Well, can you describe it to me?

0:25.0

What is the satanic panic?

0:27.0

My understanding is that in the 80s there was this thing where we thought that there were satanic cults that were murdering children.

0:39.0

And it was the parents that got together and they were worshiping Satan and they were sacrificing their kids.

0:47.0

And it was all very pagan and very...

0:53.0

I want to say true detective, but of course it was before it's your detective.

0:56.0

But it was this... it seemed like it was much bigger than what the actual...

1:01.0

I guess the act were very isolated.

1:03.0

But it kind of became this thing that the whole country was very concerned about.

1:08.0

You're right in the overarching description of it and then wrong onto interesting points.

1:14.0

And what hadn't struck me until you said that is that as far...

1:17.0

I can't think of any allegations that I've read about so far about actual child murder.

1:22.0

There were a lot of stories about animal sacrifice.

1:25.0

But what the accusations were mainly about were child sexual abuse.

1:30.0

So it was sexual abuse.

1:32.0

And then overwhelmingly it wasn't parents who were being accused of it.

1:36.0

But it was teachers and daycare workers and especially daycare employees.

1:42.0

The case that started this all off was the McMartan preschool case where there was a preschool in Manhattan Beach, California,

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