Satanic Panic
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Throughout the 1980s, Satanic cults were widely believed to be preying on children — torturing and terrorizing them as part of dark rituals. Across North America, there were hundreds of false allegations, scores of unjust criminal trials and countless lives torn apart. But never any real proof. By the early 90s, the panic reached the tiny Prairie town of Martensville, Saskatchewan. And nearly 30 years later, the people touched by it all are still picking up the pieces. So what happened? And why do so many still believe to this day? Uncover: Satanic Panic investigates. For the best in true crime from CBC, ad-free, visit apple.co/cbctruecrime.
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27/01/2023
Not just careful journalism but an amazingly pithy and comprehensive grasp of the entire psychosocial concept, in all its manifestations. The best distillation of this terrible phenomenon we’ve heard and very timely.
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07/07/2021
Really fascinating investigation zooming into one particular page of the satanic panic that I’d never heard of before. I really appreciated the way you compared the right wing Christian hysteria of the 80s to the actual systematic abuse that was going on at residential schools at the same time.
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