Satanic Panic
A timeline of the Satanic Panic in my lifetime. I noticed a spate of podcasts about it and wondered who was copying whom, and why the topic was popular again. Podcast dates are in bold.
- March 2020 - 20k Hertz - Satanic Panic - record backmasking
- January 2020 - Gimlet Media’s “Conviction” podcast: American Panic
- January 2020 - Lisa Bryn Rundle - CBC podcast “Uncover”, Season 6: “Satanic Panic” (Martensville, Saskatoon)
- October 2019 - Stuff You Should Know replays “Satanic Panic”
- September 2019 - Satanic Panic, the movie
- April 2019 - Cameron Styles and Hannah Waterbury “The Satanic Panic” podcast
- April 2019 - Penny Lane “Hail Satan”, documentary
- November 2018 - Chelsey Weber-Smith - “American Hysteria” podcast
- October 2017 - Q starts the Pizzagate conspiracy rumor
- August 2017 - Stuff You Should Know - “How Satanism Works”
- August 2017 - Sarah Hughes - “American Monsters: Tabloid Media and the Satanic Panic, 1970–2000”
- June 2017 - Bethania Palma - Couple Exonerated in ‘Satanic Panic’ Child Ritual Abuse Case
- June 2017 - Travis County District Attorney Margaret Moore files a motion to dismiss the Kellers case
- November 2016 - San Antonio Four exonerated
- October 2016 - Aja Romano- The history of Satanic Panic in the US — and why it’s not over yet
- September 2016 - “Exorcist” TV show, Fox
- 2016 - Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four
- January 2016 - Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant “Stuff You Should Know” podcast - they say they lived through this. - working off the Slate article
- September 2015 - Dan Shewan - Conviction of Things Not Seen: The Uniquely American Myth of Satanic Cults
- August 2015 - Richard Beck - We Believe the Children: A Moral Panic in the 1980s
- July 2015 - TIME - The Evolution of Modern Satanism in the United States
- June 2015 - Robert Lamb - “How Satanic Panic Worked”
- April 2015 - Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick - “Stuff To Blow Your Mind” podcast, “Satanic Panic”
- January 2015 - Cheryl Eddy (Gizmodo) - A Brief History of the “Satanic Panic” in the 1980s
- January 2014 - Maurice Chammah (Texas Observer) - The Mystery of the San Antonio Four
- January 2014 - Linda Rodriguez McRobbie - The Real Victims of Satanic Ritual Abuse
- December 2013 - Richard Noll - When Psychiatry Battled the Devil
- 2013 - PAUL: The Secret Story of Olympia’s Satanic Sheriff (Vimeo - Thurston County case
- March 2009 - Jordan Smith - “Believing the Children”, Austin Chronicle - Keller case
- December 2007 - first edit in Wikipedia
- 2001 - Debbie Nathan, Michael Snedeker - Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt
- December 1997 - Last issue of Dissociation
- 1997 - San Antonio Four case (4 convictions, 4 overturned in 2016)
- 1996 - Mike Snedeker gets cases overturned
- 1995 - “The Law Enforcement Guide to Satanic Cults”, training video
- 1994 - Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse
- 1994 - National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect report noting no evidence of SRA
- 1994 - DSM-IV removes the Multiple Personality Disorders, demoting it to dissociative identity disorder
- 1994 - Elizabeth Loftus and Katherine Ketcham, The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse
- 1993 - Ms “Elizabeth Rose” - “Surviving the Unbelievable” - Gloria Steinem worked to help convict the McMartin suspects
- 1993 - West Memphis Three case
- June 1993 - Vanity Fair - Leslie Bennetts - “Nightmares on Main Street”
- January 1993 - Satanic Cult Awareness - Gayland W. Hurst, Ph.D. and Robert L. Marsh
- October 1992 - Self “The Terrible Truth”
- 1992 - Keller case
- 1992 - Joan Baez - “Play Me Backwards”
- March 1992 - False Memory Syndrome Foundation
- 1991 - Laurel Rose Willson (Lauren Stratford) - Satan’s Underground - hoax, also witness in McMartin case
- 1991 - A Thousand Acres
- 1991 - 20/20 airs a live Roman Catholic exorcism (YouTube) (NY Times)
- 1990 - Judas Priest trial
- 1990 - Don’t Make Me Go Back, Mommy: A Child’s Book About Satanic Ritual Abuse, Multnomah Press
- October 1989 - preliminary report of an investigation by Supervisory Special Agent Ken Lanning from the FBI Behavioral Science Unit at Quantico
- July 1989 - “Cook Report: The Devil’s Work”
- 1989 - Sally Jesse Raphael has two shows on SRA
- 1989 - Oprah Winfrey hosts Laurel Rose Willson and Michelle Smith on her show
- 1989 - Unlocking the Secrets of Your Childhood Mind
- 1989 - Hell’s Bells: The Dangers of Rock ‘N’ Roll - documentary film by Eric Holmberg
- 1988 - The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (induced memories)
- 1988 - Thurston County ritual abuse case
- 1988 - Geraldo Rivera show, “Devil Worship: Exposing Satan’s Underground” (whole show) (Parts 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
- 1987 - DSM-III-R, with extensive revisions for dissociative disorders
- 1984-1990 - First Accusations in the McMartin Preschool case
- 1986 - SRA classes taught by International Society for the Study of Multiple Personality and Dissociation
- November 1986 - Mike Wallace, 60 Minutes - interviews on the McMartin case
- 1986 - The Devil Rides Out
- 1985 - Warnke on 20/20
- December 1983 - International Society for the Study of Multiple Personality and Dissociation Annual Conference
- June 1983 - Jacob Aranza - Backward Masking Unmasked: Backward Satanic Messages of Rock and Roll Exposed
- 1982 - Kern County case (36 convictions, 34 overturned) - prosecution and support used Michelle Remembers as training
- 1980 - DSM III includes “dissociative disorders”
- 1980 - Lawrence Pazder, Michelle Smith Michelle Remembers - first book on Satanic Ritualized Abuse (Pazder later marries his patient, Michelle) based on West African secret societies. Padzer works as a consultant on the McMartin PreSchool case.
- 1978 - Jonestown mass suicide
- 1977 - Son of Sam murders
- December 1973 - Exorcist, the movie
- June 19, 1972 - TIME Magazine - “The Occult Revival”, “A Substitute Religion”
- 1972 - LaVey publishes Satanic Rituals
- 1972 - Hal Lindsey - Satan Is Alive and Well On Planet Earth
- 1972 - Mike Warnke - The Satan Seller - hoax
- June 1971 - William Peter Blatty, Exorcist, the book
- 1969 - Manson murders
- 1969 - LaVey publishes The Satanic Bible
- 1968 - Rosemary’s Baby
- 1966 - Anton LaVey starts The Church of Satan (San Francisco)
Things of Dubious Connections
- “A Place Called Dagon” - H.P. Lovecraft
- Pamela Klein - trainer
- Jerry Simandl, Chicago Police - trainer
- Children’s Institute International
- Manhattan Ranch Pre-School
Other References
- “A Brief History of the Satanic Panic”
- List of satanic ritual abuse allegations
- Psychiatric Times retracts essay on “satanic ritual abuse”
- Little Rascals Daycare Case - Edenton Seven
- Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s
- 1932 Frederic Bartlett - Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology
- Law Enforcement Guide to Satanic Cults
- April 1995 - Gary Cartwright The Innocent and The Damned
- Babysitters Accused of Satanic Crimes Exonerated After 25 Years
- Satanic ritual abuse
- When Psychiatry Battled the Devil
- Satanic Abuse’ Disorder Pioneer Comes Under Fire
- Conviction of Things Not Seen: The Uniquely American Myth of Satanic Cults
- Mark Pendergrast - The Repressed Memory Epidemic: How It Happened and What We Need to Learn from It
- “Michelle Remembers”: The story of the literary hoax that started a tragic moral panic.
- “Why Satanic Panic never really ended”
- Chuckle-Worthy Video: Law Enforcement Guide to Satanic Cults
- “Law Enforcement Guide to Satanic Cults Part 2: Satanists Love Strolls Through the Park”