Welcome to Air and Mankies, Captain of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable, and if history is an open book, all of these

amazing tales are right there on display, just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

In the 1980s, America fell under a dark spell.

I know, because I was there.

Neighbor accused neighbor of worshiping the devil while parents fredded over their children

playing such demonic games as Dungeons and Dragons.

The Satanic Panic, as it came to be called, was the result of faulty psychology and fears

of abuse allegedly being perpetrated by members of the occult.

That fear spread across the US, but it rooted itself deepest inside Ralph P. Forbes of London

Arkansas.

Now, it's fair to say that Ralph had a bit of a problematic past.

When he was younger and living in California, he registered as a member of the American

Nazi Party, founded by George Lincoln Rockwell.

Forbes had actually worked his way up fairly high in the operation as a rally organizer,

so much so that Rockwell himself had given him the task of establishing a Christian identity

group, the type of hate group with misguided notions about the Bible.

But that was the 1960s, a wild time for many Americans, even though Forbes had ignored

the flower power of the hippies, instead choosing the bigotry of the Nazi Party.

He eventually left Rockwell's group and started referring to himself as a former Nazi

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