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Our latest collection of video features from our YouTube channel covers everything from banned books to Disney novelties.

The Satanic Panic Is Alive And Well In Utah

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The Mormon state takes a deep dive back into one of the more hysterical moral panics of the 1980s.

Satan Wants You: The Story Of Michelle Remembers And The Birth Of The Satanic Panic

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A new documentary exploring the origins and the ongoing effects of the biggest religious moral panic of the 1980s and beyond.

From Psychedelics To Satan: The Endless Lies Of Beatrice Sparks And Her Fictional Teen Diaries

The fraudulent author of 1970s misery memoirs and the birth of the Satanic Panic.

Dancing With The Devil – A Music Censorship Documentary From 1991

A Channel 4 exploration of Christian hysteria about the evils of rock music.

Teenage Satanism In The 1980s: VHS-Era Christian Hysteria

More moral panic and slanderous claims from the religious fundamentalist grifters of the Satanic Panic era.

Storm Warnings: The Strange World Of Quonspiracy

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Exploring the conspiracy-driven world of QAnon and the new book that explores the birth and development of the movement.

A Hysterical Christian Perspective On Halloween

Mike Warnke – the evangelical preacher who fraudulently claimed to have once been a Satanic High Priest and helped kick-start the Satanic Panic – warns of the dangers of Samhain.

Shudder Originals And The Great Reset In How We Consume Movies

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Examining a collection of Shudder Originals while pondering how the streaming revolution feels more like a return to the norm than a giant leap forward.