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The Satanic panic is a moral panic consisting of over 12,000 unsubstantiated cases of Satanic ritual abuse (SRA, sometimes known as ritual abuse, ritualistic abuse, organized abuse, or sadistic ritual abuse) starting in the United States in the 1980s, spreading throughout many parts of the world by the late 1990s, and persisting today.
Mar 31, 2021 · Culture. Why Satanic Panic never really ended. The collective fears that consumed the US in the 1980s and ’90s are still alive and well — all the way through QAnon and beyond. by Aja Romano....
- Aja Romano
Mar 31, 2021 · As the United States shifted with the anxieties of the 1980s, baseless conspiracy theories about satanic cults committing mass abuse spread around the country.
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- Alan Yuhas
Jul 3, 2015 · The aftershocks of the Satanic Panic have faded, but clearly, Tipper Gore and her cronies still have much to answer for, even as the WM3’s Damien Echols walks free and King Diamond continues...
May 18, 2021 · In the 1980s, false accusations of satanic ritual abuse spread across the U.S. Now, QAnon has revived those fears, borrowing from the playbook of the Satanic Panic from decades prior.
- Noah Caldwell
Satanic panic was a phenomenon that swept North America, and at the height of the craze, you basically couldn’t open up the newspaper or turn on the news without hearing about subliminal...
Aug 5, 2022 · This is what happened in the 1980s, when a modern satanic panic surged in response to social and political transformations not all Americans agreed with.
