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Satanic Panic in the 80’s

Posted on 11/23/22 at 4:47 pm
Posted by SaintlyTiger88
Louisiana
Member since Apr 2013
1975 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 4:47 pm
So I was born in 1988, so I don’t remember the 80’s first-hand, so I have a question for those who were around during the whole decade and can remember it. I’ve heard on multiple occasions that there was a widespread “Satanic Panic” during that era, where people feared that there were Satanic cults everywhere and it could very well be your next door neighbor who was a secret Satanist.

Parents feared that Ozzy Osbourne was the Antichrist and that heavy metal was the devil’s music. Televangelists like Jimmy Swaggart stirred up a lot of fear, especially against rock bands.

So, do you remember this happening during the 80’s? Did you ever experience anything related to Satanic Panic?
Posted by NotoriousFSU
Atlanta, GA
Member since Oct 2008
10208 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 4:47 pm to
So, shut the frick up.
Posted by Proximo
Member since Aug 2011
15552 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 4:49 pm to
There’s a documentary on David Berkowitz on Netflix. Cult killings, German shepherd sacrifices, links to Charles Manson, etc.

You’ll go down a rabbit hole if you want
Posted by Lakeboy7
New Orleans
Member since Jul 2011
23965 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 4:49 pm to
Check the Politics board, those guys were in their 40s and 50s in the 80s.
Posted by HempHead
Big Sky Country
Member since Mar 2011
55446 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 4:49 pm to
You were the result of a Satanic orgy.
Posted by Jimbeaux
Member since Sep 2003
20114 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 4:50 pm to
You just sprinkled SFP catnip all over the OT.
Posted by UndercoverBryologist
Member since Nov 2020
8077 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 4:50 pm to
“The Dungeons and Dragons death cult got ‘em” was the “the jab got ‘em” of its time.

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Posted by DownSouthCrawfish
Simcoe Strip - He/Him/Helicopter
Member since Oct 2011
36310 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 4:50 pm to
Smoking that devils lettuce while jamming devil music on the devils holiday.
Posted by BigAppleTiger
New York City
Member since Dec 2008
10381 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 4:53 pm to
There was a whole series of investigative reports on the news in New Orleans in the 80's with the journalist Bill Elder. There were animal carcasses found with ritualistic markings around Covington. I was in school at the time and remember the stories of my best friend's brother that worked at the logging camps north of Covington around Goodbee and Folsom. He said they used to hear chants during the night and supposedly a few of them came across a coven that was having a ritual. Most of these stories were hearsay, but there were some elements that did go unexplained.


Bill Elder was a boss and a great journalist.
This post was edited on 11/23/22 at 4:55 pm
Posted by Realityintheface
Member since May 2022
1784 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 4:56 pm to
The end of Frenchtown Road at night while buzzed will scare the frick out of you.
Posted by Proximo
Member since Aug 2011
15552 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 4:57 pm to

Yep, this book lays out most of the findings on it. But toward the end, people started to doubt Maury. Take it fwiw
Posted by slacker130
Your mom
Member since Jul 2010
8001 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 4:58 pm to
So, I do remember rumors of satanic cults specifically off Scenic HWY in P'cola in 1988 time frame.
This post was edited on 11/23/22 at 4:59 pm
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
22163 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 5:00 pm to
quote:

You were the result of a Satanic orgy.

Barbara Bush?

Mr. Crowley, what went on in your head?
Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora, Georgia
Member since Sep 2012
63965 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 5:02 pm to
It was real. As in the legends, not the actual satanists.

Every town had their own "witch's graveyard" where you don't go at night because of the satanists and their witchery. Lest ye be sacrificed to the dark prince.

It was teenagers vandalizing property and Karens (we called them Barbara's back then) flipping out.
Posted by Flashback
reading the chicken bones
Member since Apr 2008
8313 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 5:02 pm to
I've met the devil. He stinks, very powerful and will eat u.
Posted by Proximo
Member since Aug 2011
15552 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 5:05 pm to
They found hundreds of sacrificed dogs in New York so it was true to an extent
Posted by LEASTBAY
Member since Aug 2007
14285 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 5:06 pm to
There is a documentary on HBO where some kids were charged with murder because they wore black etc. I forget the name of it but they didn't seem to have much other evidence on them. Exactly the kind of stuff you're talking about.
Posted by furrydogs
USA
Member since Oct 2007
448 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 5:06 pm to
I remember a 20/20 episode that talked about playing Stairway to Heaven backwards and it would have some evil incantations.

For whatever reason I was flipping channels and remember the 700 Club with Pat Roberts talking about Ac/DC's Back in Black being supremely evil.
Posted by HempHead
Big Sky Country
Member since Mar 2011
55446 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 5:07 pm to
quote:

Mr. Crowley, what went on in your head?


In Robert Anton Wilson’s Illuminatus!, a Satanic orgy summoned the Devil…who came in the form of Billy Graham. One of the hardest laughs I’ve ever had from a novel.
This post was edited on 11/23/22 at 5:08 pm
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
124146 posts
Posted on 11/23/22 at 5:07 pm to
quote:

The Dungeons and Dragons death cult got ‘em” was the “the jab got ‘em” of its time.



Except Dungeons and Dragons never actually killed anyone
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