May 30, 2025 • 69 mins
In the late 1970s on into the 1990s what became known as Satanic Panic was gripping parts of the country. He was everywhere doing nasty things to innocent folks. It got to a point if it was bad the Devil was involved. Here is a brief stumble down memory lane.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Are you.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Are you coming to the tree where they strung up
a man who they say he murdered? True, strange things
have happened that now stranger would it be a friend
and mind in the hanging True?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Welcome to the show. I'm your host. Chris James seemed
to be getting over kind of a little bit of
a cold or something. So if I start coughing my
head off, I will try my best not to cough
into the mic. Who was going to do the show
on the Miami Aerospace Hatomy, but there just wasn't enough
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information out there to do an entire hour show, so
I kind of changed the subject matter to the big
panic of the nineteen eighties. If you live through it,
you should know what I'm talking about. And if you don't, well,
listen up and I'll tell you all about it. I
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have talked to people that say they don't drink coffee.
To me, this is like saying they don't breathe. A
coffee isn't just hot fruit juice. It's one of the
most essential oils out there. It makes the insides of
your body function. It is God's greatest gift to man.
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After that whole forbidden fruit fiasco. God thought man needed
something to get his head out of his all his backside,
all that moping around in the desert and not really
getting a whole lot done. He sent down an angel
I think his name was Cappuccino to scatter some coffee
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seeds around where folks would find them. Then somebody had
to have a vision about harvesting, floating, roasting, and grinding. Well,
that must have been one really weird dream. The next
thing we know, the Industrial Revolution gets kicked off, and
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well maybe the world didn't improve much, but boy did
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gift to man. How many of y'all remember the Satanic
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panic that swept the country back in the nineteen eighties.
It went from mysterious hooded figures doing rituals in remote
locations like the encounter. I had to just about every daycare, nursing, home,
you name it. They were all involved in performing human sacrifices.
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The press was having a field day, printing up all
manner of bizarre stories involving the dark One. The government
was quick to rush out a bunch of experts who
all said, there was nothing to see here, pay no
attention to the man behind the curtain. Just like that,
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anyone trying to say there was illicit activity going on
somewhere was suddenly laughed at. The greatest trick the devil
ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. Ask
the boys in the white lab coats, and unfortunately a
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few clergy, and they'll tell you there is no devil.
The modern world is simply too well educated to lay
heed to old superstitions. Back in the early nineteen eighties,
I was still working as a firefighter. Our station would
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also work as a dispatch for the ambulance. Oh this
was long before nine to one one, and sometimes we
would get phone calls from places that we couldn't respond to,
like the North side of the state. Nineteen eighty four,
we began getting ambulance calls for folks who had taken
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their own lives suicides. Now, granted, people have been offering
themselves since as far back as recorded time and maybe
even longer, this was different. All the calls were for
high school kids. It all started on a calm, normal day.
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The phone rang and it was somebody needing an ambulance. Yesterday,
a family had found their son hanging in the garage.
He was beyond help, but we dispatched the medics anyway.
They did what they could and then call for the
medical examiner. The crew were upset. Having a young life
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snuffed out like this has an effect on just about everyone.
To alleviate the psychological impact, we tended to use what
is known as gallows humor, make jokes about really unfunny things.
Those who never rode an ambulance or worked in the
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emergency department will think this as inhuman. I've seen a
lot of really good medics turn in their gear and
go away to do something else because the stress was
just too much. So we made weird little jokes about
the dead to make our minds ignore the tragedy. I'm
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sure Vick Harmanson can understand. He probably had some good
jokes back in the day. Well, the next day there
was another call. A young girl had taken an overdose.
The family was beyond consoling. She had been a promising
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young student, and they could think of no reason for
her actions. The third day, a third call, followed by
number four, and then five and six. It was happening
every day. Those of us answering the phone began to
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hesitate lifting the handset. You could see the hand shaking
as the firefighter tried to do his job. When you
did get the handset up to your mouth, you almost
couldn't say, fire department, what is your emergency? Every day
there was a young kid who would never see tomorrow.
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Questions were being asked that could never be answered. The
folks who pretended to have all the answers couldn't even
figure out what the questions were. They did say that
these deaths were all unrelated. No way did any of
these young folks know each other, other than maybe the
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fact that they all lived within about a five mile radius.
Weeks into this ordeal, the phone rang and I was
right next to it. And yes, my hand shook as
I lifted the handset. Yes, there was a young boy
who had tried to kill himself. However, the ambulance arrived
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and they managed to keep him breathing. They got him
to the ED and surprisingly enough, this time we won.
It kind of felt like we had won the battle.
Folks actually relaxed a bit. There was a collective sigh
of relief. Well, the next day, just to be funny,
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I said, Gee, I'll just bet we'll have two suicides today.
Everybody laughed. Nobody was laughing. That evening, two high school
students had killed themselves. The following day there was another,
and another. Finally, one day, we went the whole day
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without having to fill out that form, the one with
cause of death on it. The phone would ring, but
it was fun stuff like house fires and car accidents.
No more dead kids. The boy who lived was questioned,
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and the answers were not what the experts wanted to hear.
He said he knew all the other kids involved. They
had all made a pact with the devil to gain
some much sought after thing something I can't remember what
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it was, Or perhaps they just never said this would
be an exchange for their lives, he said. The day
that he did not succeed, the rest realized there had
been a price that needed to be paid, and so
the next day two kids had to off themselves. The
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experts declared the boy didn't know what he was talking about,
he was lying, or he was confused, something along those lines.
There was no such thing as a pact with the
Devil suicide cult. No way. These are modern times and
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people didn't do things like that. I had to do
a lot of research in order to find all the
dates and the numbers, and a lot of the parts
of this story that I just don't remember anymore, even
though I was kind of involved in it. My memory
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is a bit foggy, since this was all about forty
odd years ago. In one article it said there were
twenty students who all died. Another said there was only fourteen.
They were discounting a few because they didn't exactly fit
into the box like the others. The official story is
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still the these deaths were unrelated, just kids being kids.
They say it had nothing to do with Satanic panic
of the eighties. I must have read dozens of websites,
all with different ideas on what happened that year. The
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press was quick to jump on the suggestion that weird
things were going on all over the country. The person
reporting the crimes, didn't even need any proof, just a
really compelling story. For a few years there, it got
exciting as all those overly publicized stories were repeated. Detailed accounts,
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some with way too many details, were being aired on
the news as everybody tried to get in on the hype.
I seem to have lost a paragraph there somewhere. This
was before and after the incident that took place there
in the clear Lake area. As training for being a
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new law enforcement officer. Nick Whitney, he was our firearms instructor,
had convinced a bunch of us that we needed to
attend the street survival classes that were being held in
San Antonio. Sector refused to pay for it, saying we
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didn't need any more training than what they were providing,
and they wouldn't give us the time off to attend either.
We had to use our annual leave and we had
to pay our own way to get to the class.
It was well worth it. While there, I picked up
a bunch of books the average police officer or patrol
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agent would probably ignore. One was called The Satan Hunter
by time Thomas Wedge. In the book, he says, it
does not matter what we believe it's what they believe
that makes them dangerous. The guy in the Mademorris deak
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Ranch ran a checkpoint because he believed he was invisible.
There are magic ambulets that make you bulletproof, or at
least do you believe you are. Think about that for
a second. Some smuggler pulls a knife and he starts
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walking towards you. You pull your sidearm and you order
him to stop and drop the knife. If he believes
he's bulletproof, he's going to keep coming. You're going to
have to do the right thing and then live with it.
You're going to have to put up with the press
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yelling and screaming. You didn't have to shoot that guy
just because he was trying to stab you with a knife.
You should have shot him in the leg. You know
that kind of thing. The experts wild theories about ritual
sexual abuse, widespread occultism, and devil worship dominated news headlines
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and created a moral panic that led to unfounded accusations
and many un wrongful imprisonments. In the nineteen sixties and seventies,
space was the place to be, and a lot of
kids wanted to be the next Nil Armstrong or buzz Aldren.
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Nobody wanted to be the next Gus Grismah. I wonder why,
something to do with Apollo one. Maybe folks knew if
their kids were going to be become astronauts, they he
did the right kind of education. The best way to
get as good an education as possible was a live
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in academy. That way, the students were learning all day,
every day, and the parents didn't have to put up
with them. I tried to find the background of this school.
Let y'all know when it was founded and all that.
But all the folks talked about was what took place
in nineteen seventy nine. The academy was paramilitary. They wore
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uniforms to class, They marched around. They had strict rules
and regulations, and they enforced them with corporal punishment. If
you were caught violating the rules, you were told bend
over and grab your ankles. The butt was about to
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get beat. They used a cricket bat, and the guy
knew how to use it. I guess the idea was
if it worked for the big military schools, it should
work for Miami Aerospace. I also tried looking into the
academy's president, Avaristo Marina, but all I could find was
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snippets of information. He was born in Cuba and he
naturalized to the United States. The conspiracy side of my brain,
that would be the right side, and parts of the
left side, and maybe ninety percent of the gray matter,
the parts of my brain that keep me from believing
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anything said on the lamestream media. That part of the
brain anyway, any newspaper or magazine, most politicians. My brain
got me to wondering why the history of the academy,
as well as their president was so hard to track down.
Maybe if I flew to Miami, I'd be able to
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find something, But this is a one hour show. When
I hear hoofbeats, I think zebra. Did somebody want to
keep as much about the academy away from the light
of day? And if so, why, perhaps because of what happened,
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It doesn't really matter that much. The academy was there
and Marina was in charge. October twenty fifth, nineteen seventy nine,
students at the Miami Military Academy experienced a frightening outbreak
of sudden mass hysteria that began in the science class
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and spread throughout the entire school experts of the day
tried to explain things away without using words like demons
or devil worship or anything that sounded scary. The story
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people were trying to explain away was just about the
entire school, beginning at the science department went nuts and
tried to destroy the building. Kids were screaming and behaving
as if they were possessed by well demons. The day
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of madness began as the tenth graders at the academy
had been having an unusual lesson on hypnotism and the supernatural,
Space studies and the supernatural. Keep that in mind, it
will come up later. During the lesson, a few kids
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began to act up, followed by screaming and running from
the room. This activity soon spread from one end of
the building to the other, making three hundred students suddenly
become craved. The entire school was one big meltdown. Kids
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were screaming about seeing bloody Mary. There were demons in
the hallways. The devil was in one or several classrooms.
One girl ran into the bathroom, where she began to
levitate as she was screaming, the devil is inside me.
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The police department and fire department arrived at the scene,
and they did what they could to corral the rioting
students and bring order to cass. One student was seen
crashing through a second story window, head first, falling to
the ground. He jumped back to his feet and then
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tried to fight with the officers who had run to
help him. They said he displayed superhuman strength. There wasn't
a scratch on him once they managed to get him
calmed down, and there were no drugs or alcohol in
his system, and his questions were asked and eventually answered.
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Some students told of having used a Ouija board to
summon a demon that was causing most of the problems.
This was a class activity, it was October and Halloween
was coming up, but using a talking board in school
that just sounds like really bad idea Evaristo Marina. The
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students all referred to him as El Heneral or the
General was not to be found that day. Nobody knew
where he was or when he might be back. When
he did finally return, Marina told everyone that these students
had put up had been put up with this outburst
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in order to damage his bid that would be Marina's
bid for city council. They were all being paid to
destroy the school. The damage to the building was far
beyond what could be expected from a bunch of kids
running wild. Doors had been ripped off of their hinges,
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you know those great, big industrial doors that they put
in schools. There were holes knocked through walls, as if
somebody had driven a car through the building. This wasn't
the first of the last time the Aerospace Academy received
negative publicity. Indeed, in nineteen eighty five the school was
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under fire for much more serious reason. It turned out
the school was unaccredited, unlicensed, and pretty much unregulated. The
place was privately funded, but parents and some unmentioned donors
were the ones paying for everything. Four cadets got arrested
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on charges of sexually assaulting younger boys. A seventeen year
old girl said she had been impregnated by another cadet
who had forced his way into her dormitory in the
middle of the night. Some students as young as six
were telling of having to endure some very nasty things.
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None of the school's teachers or employees were implicated in
any of the sexual abuse, which owner of Everisto Marina
maintained were all untrue. Many folks say Marina was a
fraud and a power hungry disciplinarian, acting more like a
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demon than a school president. What does Satanism and outer
space have to do with each other? I have no
idea yet. Jack Parsons was big into the occult and
he performed Satanic rituals before each and every rocket test a.
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Jack Parsons, the founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratories, a
branch of NASA, was really into devil worship. At age twelve,
he tried to summon a demon in his bedroom. People
say there's no way he could have done such a thing,
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and yet Jack said that it worked, and it scared
the life out of him. He said he was never
going to try necromancy again, but he did. In the
nineteen forties, the military was so intent on having rocket
assist takeoff for their planes that they were willing to
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dance with the devil if need be. Remember, if you
dance with the devil, he gets to lead before any
tests of the JATO rockets. That's a jet assisted takeoff.
It's a type of assisted takeoff for helping overloaded aircraft
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into the air by providing additional thrust in the form
of small rockets. Rockets, not jets. Rockets. Jet Propulsion Laboratory
worked on rockets, not jets. It's one of those things.
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It's all in the name. Too many folks associated rockets
with buck Rogers and sci fi movies. The folks in college,
trying to act like they were all high and mighty,
used the word jet instead of rockets so they wouldn't
be associated with those movies. No where was I. Oh. Yes,
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before any test of a JATO rocket, a Jack would
perform a satanic ritual to draw the powers of the
dark Lord to help get his work accomplished. The military
brass would all turn a blind eye to what he
was doing. As for JPL, it officially opened its doors
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October thirty first, nineteen thirty six. Certain dates hold a
lot of power to certain people. For example, September eleventh,
sixteen eighty three was the last day of the Siege
of Vienna. The next morning, the Holy Roman Empire and
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the Polish Army arrived and they kicked. But this maybe
why September eleventh was chosen as the day to attack
the Twin Towers. Certain dates hold significance to certain people.
Jack managed to blow himself up. Well, that's the official story.
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Some say that he was helped along and maybe by
the government operatives or perhaps somebody with a grudge. Jack
was a very successful rocket scientist. Would somebody get the
wrong idea in order to be a good rocket scientist
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that in order to get things in outer space you
needed a little black magic in your pocket. Joan Dideon
remarked in the nineteen sixties ended when Charles Manson's followers
murdered Charontate in Four Others August nineteen sixty nine, one
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of the killers, Tex Watson, said, I am the devil,
and I have come to do the devil's work. The
world did change around this time. Back in the nineteen
thirties and forties, women stayed home and did what they
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needed to do to raise the family and run the
house while the men went off to work. The World
War Two kind of screwed everything up. Well. Suddenly women
had an urge to get jobs and make money. Instead
of being housewives, being a stay at home mother's a
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very real, very hard job. Society began to make it
more of an insult. Movies showed housewives as being somehow
less intelligent, less sophisticated than women who went out and worked,
earning a paycheck and paying income tax. It was pretty
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much how things were when I was young. Fathers went
to work and mothers raised the kids. The government had
to get by on only one taxable income per household.
I just think how much more cash could be siphoned
away from the family if both parents worked and paid taxes.
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Does this sound a bit like a conspiracy to all, Well,
I believe it is. And my cat will not leave
the microphone away alone. Oh well, you stop it. And
getting back to the subject of hand, mothers no longer
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wanted to be mothers. The title housewife was turned into
an insult. As more women moved into the workforce, somebody
had to be put in charge of raising the kids.
Well along comes these government agencies. Yeah, nobody should allow
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the government to raise their kids. But well, that's let
the government raise the kids. Put the little buggers in
daycare or after school activities, which are mostly being run
by government official. You can see them when you get home.
You know, quality time over quantity. What I find difficult
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to understand was that some families were spending so much
taking care of the kids. The extra income is all
being spent on daycare and the second car that the
wife needs to get to work, and things like that,
to a point where that second income is almost null
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and void. It's all so all going to income tax.
The bills were increasing faster than the income. As parents'
responsibilities to raise their kids was being moved to others.
The kids began to have less supervision and more time
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to look into getting in trouble. As the Satanic panic
was getting going, folks began to see and hear him everywhere.
McDonald's publicly announced that its semi founder, Ray Kroc, did
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not financially support the Church of Satan. McDonald's always seems
to forget about their real founders, the McDonald's brothers, but
that's another story. Proctor and Gamble became the target of
rumors that its thirteen starred logo, a reference to the
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thirteen original colonies, was the symbol of the devil. A
lot of really cool horror films came out showing the
interactions between humans and the devil. The Exorcist nineteen seventy three,
The Omen nineteen seventy six, the Amityville Horror all dealt
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with demonic themes. Snowball, you're being a pain, I don't
know what's gotten into her. H Nah, nah, that can't
be it. The book Michelle Remembers was released in nineteen eighty,
the day after Halloween. It was listed as nonfiction account
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written by a therapist, Lawrence Pasder and his patient, Michelle Smith.
Being nonfiction, the book read more like a fictional horror story.
The Smith had had a miscarriage and she was devastated
over it. To relieve her distress, she went to a therapist, Pasdor,
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in order to get to the real cause of her problems.
A Pasd used regression therapy. He put her under into
a deep hypnotics and then just kind of led her
through her memories until they became a total horror story.
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I know a lot of hypnotherapists, and they all have
rules about how leading the patient is wrong. There is
a right way and a wrong way to recover memories.
It would appear that Pasdar was using the wrong way.
The book flew off the shelves and Pasder and Smith
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started appearing on television as shocked audiences turned in tuned
in as Smith recounted the horrific things that had happened
to her in her childhood. Smith said that her mother
had given her away to a Satanic cult where she
was held captive, tortured, and abused. Smith said she had
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seen Satanic orgies in which one of the members got murdered.
She had been buried alive. One time. She said that
she had seen the devil appear after a Satanic Satanists
had performed a ritualistic ceremony. Almost from the minute Michelle
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Remembers publication, its claims and allegations were repeatedly and thoroughly debunked. However,
thanks to the widespread and credulous media attention, Pasder and
Smith were able to double down on the story. Pasder
became seen as an expert in the area of what
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could come to be called Satanic ritual abuse or sra HM.
The earliest of the wave of sra cases began in
Kern County, California, in nineteen eighty A Baker's Field social worker,
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after reading Michelle Remembers, learned of a local clandestine occult
sex ring from two children who had been coerced into
fabricating the claims by a relative. From nineteen eighty four
to nineteen eighty six, the investigation into these claims sent
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at least twenty six people to jail in interrelated convictions,
despite a complete lack of corroborating physical evidence for any
of the claims. Nearly all of these convictions have since
been overturned, including the man who served twenty years of
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a forty year sentence and two parents who were sentenced
to two hundred and forty years in prison after their
two sons who had been coached, accused them of abuse.
In the summer of nineteen eighty three, a woman named
Judy Johnson told the police that her two year old
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son had been diddled at his daycare, McMartin Preschool in
Manhattan Beach, California. She believed the teacher, Ray Bucky was responsible.
Nineteen ninety, Johnson went further, recounting an incident that included
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a goat man, a ritual type atmosphere, and a church
where another staff member had misbehaved towards the children in
their care. She said her son had been levitated from
the floor and he flew around the room. The press
ran with the story this was a cash cow for
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the newspaper. Accusations were repeated on the nightly news over
and over. Later, it came out that the mother was
diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Well that's what the authorities tell
us anyway. During the investigations, the police sent letters to
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two hundred parents of both current and former children seeking
information about the school. The letter read, please question your
children to see if he or she has been a
witness to any crime or if he or she has
been a victim. Our investigation indicates that possible criminal acts
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actions including sex, fondling, inappropriate touching, and other nastiness have
possibly been committed under the pretense of taking a child's temperature.
The letter, which may have influenced the investigation from the onset,
triggered widespread panic among the parents. They found they were
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ill equipped to question the children, and the professional investigators
weren't any better at it. The authorities asked the children
leading questions like can you remember looking at pictures of
naked people? The investigators told the children, your classmates have
already shared some really yucky secrets. Do you have any
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yucky secrets that you want to share? One child was
called a scaredy cat for denying that anything had happened. Well,
children like to do what adults want them to do,
so they began to describe things that happened. Teachers beat
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a horse to death with a baseball bat. They squeezed
the parakeet to death. They sacrificed the baby in the church,
and then they made all the children drink the blood.
There were secret tunnels underneath the school, and they played
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a game called Lookout, where the children would stand guard
while the cheaper while the teachers did nasty things to
their classmates. In the end, after years of trials, all
charges against Ray Bucky and the other teachers were dismissed.
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McMartin was just one preschool where educators were accused of
grievous acts against their students. Others also became casualties of
the Satanic panic, which spread fear about terrible things happening
in innocent places. As the hype went on getting piled
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higher and higher, even the song industry was pulled into it,
either through misunderstandings or unsavory business practices. Many musical groups
found themselves being scrutinized by the law. Was putting Anton
LaVey's picture on the cover of the Hotel California album
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somebody in marketing being cool? Or was there a record
industry brazen showing of the occult activities. From the late
nineteen sixties to the mid seventies, occult and witchcraft records
became a phenomena in the US and the UK. These
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were spoken word LPs that included narrations of ritual and
spells by witches and covens, accompanied by some rather bizarre
early electronic music records, such as the Art of Witchcraft
by Bob Att The Sexy Witch and Ian Richardson and
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Barbara Holdridge Malice Mauth Maleficarium. Yeah, that's the Hammer of
the Witch. Was that the Hammer of the Witch or
the Hammer of the Devil? Now the Malice Malificarium. That
was the book used during the the witch trials throughout Europe. Anyway,
this came out in nineteen seventy four. You might think
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these went out under obscure record labels, but the big
names were all involved, Capitol Records, A and M. Warner Brothers.
These all had occult records. As the idea of Satanism
became popular, it meant if you wanted to catch the
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title wave of publicity, you had to uncover some hidden
agenda somewhere. People began looking into and discovering satanic and
hidden messages were just about everywhere, especially on songs by
groups that they didn't like. All that backward masking and
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words that made no sense. People began to blame record
companies and especially the musicians for just about every crime
that was committed. Nineteen eighty five, two young men, Raymond
bell Nap and James Vance decided on a suicide pact
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that left bell Nap dead and Vance with some serious injuries.
Vance's parents sued the band Judas Pre because their song
contained hidden messages like do it and Let's be Dead.
The band was found and not liable. Games like Dungeons
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and Dragons, which contained magic spells and monsters, and the
fast faced accusations of Satanism as well. A grieving mother
whose son had died by suicide formed the organization called
Bothered About Dungeons and Dragons or Bad in nineteen eighty three.
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She claimed the game encouraged a devil worship and was
replete with demonology, Satanic type rituals, and more. Nineteen seventy two,
the publication of The Satan Seller, written by Christian evangelist
Mike Warnick. Warnke recounted his childhood and young adulthood, which
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he said he had spent in intense Satanic worship. Warnke
wrote he served as a Satanic high priest and was
engaged in ritualistic sex orgies. The whole thing turned out
to be fabricated memories, ultimately discredited. The publication of Anton
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Levy's Satanic Rituals also nineteen seventy two, reinforced the idea
that dark occult rituals had become a routine part of
life in many of American's households. In the seventies saw
the rise of other self proclaimed former Satanists who had
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become Evangelists instead. John Todd, Herschel Smith, David Hanson. All
four of these men grew up in southern California. All
of them claimed to have conversion experiences that led to
them becoming icons in certain religious groups. All of them
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were linked to the emerging fundamentalist Christian organizations. Todd was
supported by Christian tract maker Jack Chick, who used his
fabricated claims as a basis for numerous comic style pamphlets
protesting against Satanism. Warnkey spent over a decade posing as
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an expert in Satanism for the fundamentalist evangelical Christian community,
passing off much of his made up childhood as a
template for how real Satanism worked. Excuse me man. The
growing fascination with the occult also coincided with a number
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of extremely well publicized serial killer cases that took place
in the seventies. The Zodiac Killer, the Alphabet Killer, both
of whom used ritualistic patterns in their killings, neither of
whom were ever caught. Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, the
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Hillside Stranglers, David Berkowitz. They all sparked a mass panic
during the summer of nineteen seventy seven in New York.
Who not they? Son of Sam was in New York.
The Hillside Stranglers were at California. I forget where John
Wayne Gacy was, but yea, these were the serial killers
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I grew up here in about Many of these well
publicized serial killers maintained an image of having the upper
hand over the authorities. The Zodiac Killer in Berkowitz wrote
taunting letters to the press and the police. Bundy escaped
from prison and immediately began killing people again. Agacy had
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his evil under the most banial of disguises, a friendly
clown who performed for children as the brazen anarchy associated
with these kinds of high profile killings grew, so did
public fear through it all. Christian fundamentalism and the literal
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belief in angels and devils being on the rise. Fundamental
preachers like Jerry Folwell in his Moral Majority, which was
founded in nineteen seventy nine, gained prominence across the country,
passing along a literal fire and brimstone style of Christianity.
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Any of y'all remember the preacher from Cold Comfort Farm,
that kind of thing. Anti occult crusaders like Pat Pulling,
who believed that her son's death by suicide was a
result of the Dungeons and Dragon's curse, crusaded against role
playing games as dangerous and demonic, was backed by a
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cult fearmongering from Chick and his Chick tracts. The media
played a huge role in stoking the public fear and
fueling misconceptions surrounding occult practices. Nineteen eighty eight, HAROLDO. Rivera,
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he had a lured documentary called Devil Worship exposing Satan's underground,
became the highest rated television documentary to air up to
that point. Nineteen ninety one, the twenty twenty episode aired
an official Roman Catholic exorcism live on TV. The Exorcism
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the Things not even going to say, what might have
you know? The demon pops out of the victim and
right to the TV screen, But hey, it could happen anyway.
They had some really bizarre TV shows like Hell's Bells,
which attempted to tie rock and roll music to the occult.
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It was an exciting time to be live. The disastrous
McMartin trial remains the largest, longest and most expensive trial
in California history. In nineteen eighty three, one parent accused
one of the staff members at the McMartin Preschool in
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in Manhattan Beach, California of abuse. During the investigation, police
allowed an unlicensed psychotherapist named Key McFarland to conduct examinations
of four hundred children who had attended the daycare. McFarland
used his anatomically correct doll an a corursive interview process,
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resulting in a three hundred and twenty one counts of
child abuse being leveled against seven daycare staffers by forty
one children. The eyebrow raising claims included allegations that daycare
owners had built secret underground tunnels, tunnels that were never
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found that led to ritual ceremonies, had sacrificed a baby,
flushed children down toilets. I can't even get toilet paper
to get on the toilet, let alone a baby, and
they could turn into witches and fly. After six years
of investigation and litigation of a five year trial, the
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case ultimately evaporated due to a total lack of evidence.
One by one, all charges against the day care staff
were dropped. McMartin preschool building had been raised in the nineties.
In other words, the community got together and destroyed it
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out of fear. By the mid eighties, the wave of seminaries, tutorials,
and educational videos for authorities and evangelicals on the subject
of recognizing and fighting Satanic cults was sweeping US law enforcement.
In El Paso, they were sent to ritual crime seminars.
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These were classes aimed at law enforcement authorities and taught
mostly by other cops, therapists, preachers, and a few born
again Christian claiming to be former high priests or escapees
from unspeakable Satanic ritual torture cults. God. Some of these
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things are hard to say, just too many wild words
in them. The folks putting them out. Most of these
training sessions hadn't a clue on what they were saying.
The experts would ask somebody who had an agenda in
one regard or another. The rhetoric was slanted way to
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one side or the other. Either the subjects involved were
all crazy, lying or confused, or the authorities were dealing
with real demons and the world was about to end.
It was like that in the night Stalker, where Carl
Koleshak is trying to convince the folks in charge that
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they needed to issue crucifixes, stakes and hammers to all
law enforcement people in order to kill the vampire. And
it was a very There was very little middle ground.
The few were saying, it does not matter what you believe,
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it's what they believe that makes them dangerous. They were saying,
either these people are all crazy, or you're dealing with
honest to God demons. No middle ground was being taken.
We had supervisors that just laughed if you mentioned there
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was an old building that looked as if some satanic
actavity had been taken place. There was no way I
was ever going to mention running into those folks on
the River in the middle of the night. Then nineteen
ninety two, the Justice Department came out saying that they
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had debunked the myth of Satanic ritual abuse. Though accusations
and satanically motivated child abuse rituals had pretty much died
out in the mid nineties, law enforcement continued to treat
Satanism as a potential criminal indicator. If you had a pentagram, say,
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tattooed on your body, which I've seen, you were right
away a suspect of having done something nasty, probably in
the woodshed. Yeah, okay, it looks like I've pretty much
turned the whole Satanic panic into a nothing burger, right,
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and no need to worry all as well? Not really.
The problem with all the nineteen eighties hype was a
lot of it was being used to make other stories unbelievable.
Some folks will go with the idea if those folks
were wrong and lying, then they're probably all wrong or lying.
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Michael Angelo Achino was born October sixteenth, nineteen forty six.
He was an American political science and Satanist. He was
the founder and the high priest of the Temple of set.
Aquino was also a specialist in psychological warfare for the
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military intelligence, and he was an officer in the US Army.
Aquino had been an Eagle Scout. He graduated Santa Barbara
High School nineteen sixty four before enrolling in the nearby
University of California in Santa Barbara, where he received a
bachelor's degree in political science as an ROTC United States
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Army Distinguished Military Graduate nineteen sixty eight. Sixty nine, he
joined the Church of Satan, led by Anton Levy, and
he quickly rose through the ranks. Nineteen seventy one, A.
Kino had become appointed Magister Caverns. Caverns Caverns of the
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fourth degree. Caverns, Well, it's not cavern like cave, it's
something else. Anyway. He had become high up in the
church hierarchy, and he was the editor of the publication
of the Cloven Hoof. He sat on the governing Council
of nine, that's what it was called of. Following his
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commission in the Army, Akino served as a psychological warfare
specialist and he was deployed to Vietnam. He served with
the Green Beret and in the seventies and into the
early eighties he was part time NATO liaison officer in
several European countries. You know those folks that keep fighting
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between the Ukraine and Russia. Those guys, he was a
member of all that. While off duty one of his tours,
he visited Wowllsburg Castle, which was used by SS leader
Heinrich Himmler and the SS. He was said to have
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performed a Satanic ritual while he was there. The conflicts
arose over time between LeVay and Akino regarding the direction
of the group. Levy was heading in the direction of
atheism and materialism. If there was no God, there was
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no devil. A Keno was very much into believing the
Devil as well as God were both real, and he
had chosen the left hand path. When Levy started selling
positions in the Church of Satan for money, Akino left
of the group. After he left the Church of Satan,
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he started a ritual in which he asked Satan, excuse me.
He asked Satan for advice on what he should do.
Man Satan appeared to a Kino in the summer of
nineteen seventy five and revealed that he would like to
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be called Set, the name that his worshipers in ancient
Egypt had used. Akeino produced a religious tes the Book
of Coming Forth by Night, which he claims was revealed
to him by Set in the process of automatic writing
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the book. The book proclaimed a Keno magus of the
new eon of Set, an air to Levey's infernal mandate.
On this basis, he founded the Temple of Set, which
is dedicated to worshiping Set. In contrast to the to
Levey's approach, this group was an occult and hermetic orientation,
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a Keno orientation was strongly influenced by the works of
the British occultist Aleister Crowley. The group's aim was self deification,
which is pursued, which it pursued by performing rituals and
practicing black magic, amongst other things. Nineteen seven seventy five,
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the Temple of Set was registered as a non profit
church in California, and it received state and federal recognition
and tax exemption. Aquino remained the Temple's high priest until
seventy nine, when he handed over the role to Ronald
Keith Barrett, who, following disputes, also founded his own Satanic sect,
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the Temple of Anubis. A few years later, in November
nineteen eighty six, the San Francisco Police began investigating allegations
of sexual abuse in connection with the Army's Child of
Development Center at the Presidio in San Francisco. A girl
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came forward August nineteen eighty seven and identified a Keno
as the culprit. At least fifty eight of the one
hundred children who had attended Dave Care Center showed physical
and mental signs of abuse, leading to a lawsuit by
the parents for sixty million dollars in damages. An investigation
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against a Knot was launched, but it was closed after
insufficient evidence was found. Now I have to ask, was
there a lack of evidence or did certain folks in
positions of power intercede to make sure the whole thing
went away. Think of it like this. There you are
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some general with all the luxuries money and status can buy.
When one of your less noteworthy orders comes to light.
One of your underlings, who you promoted knowing he was
a Satanist, is now being scrutinized by the police. You
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placed this a cultist in a position where he could
do nasty things to young kids, and now your retirement
is looking shaky. Could this have been a cover up.
Probably John DeCamp, a politician and former member of the
Nebraska legislature, a linked to Kino to the Franklin child
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prostitution ring, but no charges wherever filed in A grand
jury finally dismissed the entire case in nineteen ninety. It's
amazing what you can do to evidence when you're in
a position of power. The latest thing going is the
adrenochrome story, and kids are abused and then they have
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their blood drained so that certain people can drink it
in order to stay young. We hear about things like Pizzagate,
only to be told there's nothing to see here. Three
hundred and twenty thousand children went missing thanks to the
mismanagement by those people along our southern border. Anybody want
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to guess why they all vanished and who may have benefited.
The funny thing about Alex Jones, whether you like him
or not, he has a much better rate of being
accurate than the lame stream media. I think he's batting
something like ninety percent accurate in his wild stories. And
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yet people look at Alex like, oh, that guy, he's
some kind of a nut because he comes out and
he talks about things that nobody wants to hear about
for years, and then all of a sudden, that's all
you hear about. Satanism is a very real thing. It's
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not what Hollywood tells us A speaking of Satanism and Hollywood,
did you watch the Grammys or do you have good taste?
Evil cells? Halloween is more popular than Christmas. You should
see my yard in October. There's a big difference between
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having fun with spooky things or bowing to the devil.
It looks more and more every day like the folks
in Hollywood are on their knees to the dark one.
Would you believe the After School Satan Club? I had
to look it up. There is such a thing. The
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After School Satan Club does not believe in introducing religion
into public schools and will only open a club if
other religious groups are operating on the campus. ASSC exists
to provide a safe and inclusive alternative to the religious
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clubs that use threats of eternal damnation to convert school
children to their belief system. Unlike our character parts who
publicly measure their success in young children's professions of faith,
the After School Satan Club program focuses on science, critical thinking,
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creative arts, good works for the community. While engaging in
all of these activities, we want clubgoers to have a
good time. The ASSC is located in Washington State, you
know where they have so many good time riots, The
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Green River Killer and Ted Bundy having fun with Satan.
Who the heck comes up with this stuff? Yep, the
after School Satan Club. A lot of actors are coming
out telling about the weird things going on in Hollywood.
Mel Gibson is probably the most vocal. I would go
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into what he said, but it would make the show
about two hours long. Just know that he has said
that Hollywood was filled with pedophiles who abuse kids and
drink their blood. There were no fact checkers until the
truth began to slip out. I had to dig through
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a lot of naysayers to find a lot of this information.
I could be wrong, or there might be something rotten
in our country. Just look around at some of the
things coming out of Hollywood or Washington or some of
the other places where those people gather and ask yourself,
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is there really a satanic panic still going on? Or
do we have something to worry about? Hope you enjoyed
tonight's show. I hope snowball playing with the microphone didn't
get too much, and hopefully my voice didn't sound too
bad there, or it's one of those things. No, I
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did not go see the doctor. No, I did not
take any medications stronger than aspirin and coffee. Coffee and
aspirin should clear up just about anything. If you enjoyed
the show, tell your neighbors, tell your friends, Tell people
you don't even like. They should be listening to Strange
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a man who they said he murdered. Three strange things
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met at midnight in the hanging tree
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Are you coming to the tree where they strung up
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Welcome to the show. I'm your host. Chris James seemed
to be getting over kind of a little bit of
a cold or something. So if I start coughing my
head off, I will try my best not to cough
into the mic. Who was going to do the show
on the Miami Aerospace Hatomy, but there just wasn't enough
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information out there to do an entire hour show, so
I kind of changed the subject matter to the big
panic of the nineteen eighties. If you live through it,
you should know what I'm talking about. And if you don't, well,
listen up and I'll tell you all about it. I
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have talked to people that say they don't drink coffee.
To me, this is like saying they don't breathe. A
coffee isn't just hot fruit juice. It's one of the
most essential oils out there. It makes the insides of
your body function. It is God's greatest gift to man.
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After that whole forbidden fruit fiasco. God thought man needed
something to get his head out of his all his backside,
all that moping around in the desert and not really
getting a whole lot done. He sent down an angel
I think his name was Cappuccino to scatter some coffee
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seeds around where folks would find them. Then somebody had
to have a vision about harvesting, floating, roasting, and grinding. Well,
that must have been one really weird dream. The next
thing we know, the Industrial Revolution gets kicked off, and
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well maybe the world didn't improve much, but boy did
things get done today. The best coffee in the universe
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and some of his nights finding new and wonderful things
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Shop and get a bag or two of God's ultimate
gift to man. How many of y'all remember the Satanic
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panic that swept the country back in the nineteen eighties.
It went from mysterious hooded figures doing rituals in remote
locations like the encounter. I had to just about every daycare, nursing, home,
you name it. They were all involved in performing human sacrifices.
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The press was having a field day, printing up all
manner of bizarre stories involving the dark One. The government
was quick to rush out a bunch of experts who
all said, there was nothing to see here, pay no
attention to the man behind the curtain. Just like that,
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anyone trying to say there was illicit activity going on
somewhere was suddenly laughed at. The greatest trick the devil
ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. Ask
the boys in the white lab coats, and unfortunately a
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few clergy, and they'll tell you there is no devil.
The modern world is simply too well educated to lay
heed to old superstitions. Back in the early nineteen eighties,
I was still working as a firefighter. Our station would
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also work as a dispatch for the ambulance. Oh this
was long before nine to one one, and sometimes we
would get phone calls from places that we couldn't respond to,
like the North side of the state. Nineteen eighty four,
we began getting ambulance calls for folks who had taken
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their own lives suicides. Now, granted, people have been offering
themselves since as far back as recorded time and maybe
even longer, this was different. All the calls were for
high school kids. It all started on a calm, normal day.
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The phone rang and it was somebody needing an ambulance. Yesterday,
a family had found their son hanging in the garage.
He was beyond help, but we dispatched the medics anyway.
They did what they could and then call for the
medical examiner. The crew were upset. Having a young life
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snuffed out like this has an effect on just about everyone.
To alleviate the psychological impact, we tended to use what
is known as gallows humor, make jokes about really unfunny things.
Those who never rode an ambulance or worked in the
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emergency department will think this as inhuman. I've seen a
lot of really good medics turn in their gear and
go away to do something else because the stress was
just too much. So we made weird little jokes about
the dead to make our minds ignore the tragedy. I'm
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sure Vick Harmanson can understand. He probably had some good
jokes back in the day. Well, the next day there
was another call. A young girl had taken an overdose.
The family was beyond consoling. She had been a promising
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young student, and they could think of no reason for
her actions. The third day, a third call, followed by
number four, and then five and six. It was happening
every day. Those of us answering the phone began to
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hesitate lifting the handset. You could see the hand shaking
as the firefighter tried to do his job. When you
did get the handset up to your mouth, you almost
couldn't say, fire department, what is your emergency? Every day
there was a young kid who would never see tomorrow.
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Questions were being asked that could never be answered. The
folks who pretended to have all the answers couldn't even
figure out what the questions were. They did say that
these deaths were all unrelated. No way did any of
these young folks know each other, other than maybe the
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fact that they all lived within about a five mile radius.
Weeks into this ordeal, the phone rang and I was
right next to it. And yes, my hand shook as
I lifted the handset. Yes, there was a young boy
who had tried to kill himself. However, the ambulance arrived
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and they managed to keep him breathing. They got him
to the ED and surprisingly enough, this time we won.
It kind of felt like we had won the battle.
Folks actually relaxed a bit. There was a collective sigh
of relief. Well, the next day, just to be funny,
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I said, Gee, I'll just bet we'll have two suicides today.
Everybody laughed. Nobody was laughing. That evening, two high school
students had killed themselves. The following day there was another,
and another. Finally, one day, we went the whole day
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without having to fill out that form, the one with
cause of death on it. The phone would ring, but
it was fun stuff like house fires and car accidents.
No more dead kids. The boy who lived was questioned,
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and the answers were not what the experts wanted to hear.
He said he knew all the other kids involved. They
had all made a pact with the devil to gain
some much sought after thing something I can't remember what
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it was, Or perhaps they just never said this would
be an exchange for their lives, he said. The day
that he did not succeed, the rest realized there had
been a price that needed to be paid, and so
the next day two kids had to off themselves. The
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experts declared the boy didn't know what he was talking about,
he was lying, or he was confused, something along those lines.
There was no such thing as a pact with the
Devil suicide cult. No way. These are modern times and
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people didn't do things like that. I had to do
a lot of research in order to find all the
dates and the numbers, and a lot of the parts
of this story that I just don't remember anymore, even
though I was kind of involved in it. My memory
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is a bit foggy, since this was all about forty
odd years ago. In one article it said there were
twenty students who all died. Another said there was only fourteen.
They were discounting a few because they didn't exactly fit
into the box like the others. The official story is
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still the these deaths were unrelated, just kids being kids.
They say it had nothing to do with Satanic panic
of the eighties. I must have read dozens of websites,
all with different ideas on what happened that year. The
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press was quick to jump on the suggestion that weird
things were going on all over the country. The person
reporting the crimes, didn't even need any proof, just a
really compelling story. For a few years there, it got
exciting as all those overly publicized stories were repeated. Detailed accounts,
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some with way too many details, were being aired on
the news as everybody tried to get in on the hype.
I seem to have lost a paragraph there somewhere. This
was before and after the incident that took place there
in the clear Lake area. As training for being a
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new law enforcement officer. Nick Whitney, he was our firearms instructor,
had convinced a bunch of us that we needed to
attend the street survival classes that were being held in
San Antonio. Sector refused to pay for it, saying we
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didn't need any more training than what they were providing,
and they wouldn't give us the time off to attend either.
We had to use our annual leave and we had
to pay our own way to get to the class.
It was well worth it. While there, I picked up
a bunch of books the average police officer or patrol
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agent would probably ignore. One was called The Satan Hunter
by time Thomas Wedge. In the book, he says, it
does not matter what we believe it's what they believe
that makes them dangerous. The guy in the Mademorris deak
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Ranch ran a checkpoint because he believed he was invisible.
There are magic ambulets that make you bulletproof, or at
least do you believe you are. Think about that for
a second. Some smuggler pulls a knife and he starts
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walking towards you. You pull your sidearm and you order
him to stop and drop the knife. If he believes
he's bulletproof, he's going to keep coming. You're going to
have to do the right thing and then live with it.
You're going to have to put up with the press
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yelling and screaming. You didn't have to shoot that guy
just because he was trying to stab you with a knife.
You should have shot him in the leg. You know
that kind of thing. The experts wild theories about ritual
sexual abuse, widespread occultism, and devil worship dominated news headlines
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and created a moral panic that led to unfounded accusations
and many un wrongful imprisonments. In the nineteen sixties and seventies,
space was the place to be, and a lot of
kids wanted to be the next Nil Armstrong or buzz Aldren.
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Nobody wanted to be the next Gus Grismah. I wonder why,
something to do with Apollo one. Maybe folks knew if
their kids were going to be become astronauts, they he
did the right kind of education. The best way to
get as good an education as possible was a live
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in academy. That way, the students were learning all day,
every day, and the parents didn't have to put up
with them. I tried to find the background of this school.
Let y'all know when it was founded and all that.
But all the folks talked about was what took place
in nineteen seventy nine. The academy was paramilitary. They wore
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uniforms to class, They marched around. They had strict rules
and regulations, and they enforced them with corporal punishment. If
you were caught violating the rules, you were told bend
over and grab your ankles. The butt was about to
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get beat. They used a cricket bat, and the guy
knew how to use it. I guess the idea was
if it worked for the big military schools, it should
work for Miami Aerospace. I also tried looking into the
academy's president, Avaristo Marina, but all I could find was
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snippets of information. He was born in Cuba and he
naturalized to the United States. The conspiracy side of my brain,
that would be the right side, and parts of the
left side, and maybe ninety percent of the gray matter,
the parts of my brain that keep me from believing
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anything said on the lamestream media. That part of the
brain anyway, any newspaper or magazine, most politicians. My brain
got me to wondering why the history of the academy,
as well as their president was so hard to track down.
Maybe if I flew to Miami, I'd be able to
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find something, But this is a one hour show. When
I hear hoofbeats, I think zebra. Did somebody want to
keep as much about the academy away from the light
of day? And if so, why, perhaps because of what happened,
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It doesn't really matter that much. The academy was there
and Marina was in charge. October twenty fifth, nineteen seventy nine,
students at the Miami Military Academy experienced a frightening outbreak
of sudden mass hysteria that began in the science class
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and spread throughout the entire school experts of the day
tried to explain things away without using words like demons
or devil worship or anything that sounded scary. The story
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people were trying to explain away was just about the
entire school, beginning at the science department went nuts and
tried to destroy the building. Kids were screaming and behaving
as if they were possessed by well demons. The day
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of madness began as the tenth graders at the academy
had been having an unusual lesson on hypnotism and the supernatural,
Space studies and the supernatural. Keep that in mind, it
will come up later. During the lesson, a few kids
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began to act up, followed by screaming and running from
the room. This activity soon spread from one end of
the building to the other, making three hundred students suddenly
become craved. The entire school was one big meltdown. Kids
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were screaming about seeing bloody Mary. There were demons in
the hallways. The devil was in one or several classrooms.
One girl ran into the bathroom, where she began to
levitate as she was screaming, the devil is inside me.
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The police department and fire department arrived at the scene,
and they did what they could to corral the rioting
students and bring order to cass. One student was seen
crashing through a second story window, head first, falling to
the ground. He jumped back to his feet and then
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tried to fight with the officers who had run to
help him. They said he displayed superhuman strength. There wasn't
a scratch on him once they managed to get him
calmed down, and there were no drugs or alcohol in
his system, and his questions were asked and eventually answered.
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Some students told of having used a Ouija board to
summon a demon that was causing most of the problems.
This was a class activity, it was October and Halloween
was coming up, but using a talking board in school
that just sounds like really bad idea Evaristo Marina. The
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students all referred to him as El Heneral or the
General was not to be found that day. Nobody knew
where he was or when he might be back. When
he did finally return, Marina told everyone that these students
had put up had been put up with this outburst
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in order to damage his bid that would be Marina's
bid for city council. They were all being paid to
destroy the school. The damage to the building was far
beyond what could be expected from a bunch of kids
running wild. Doors had been ripped off of their hinges,
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you know those great, big industrial doors that they put
in schools. There were holes knocked through walls, as if
somebody had driven a car through the building. This wasn't
the first of the last time the Aerospace Academy received
negative publicity. Indeed, in nineteen eighty five the school was
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under fire for much more serious reason. It turned out
the school was unaccredited, unlicensed, and pretty much unregulated. The
place was privately funded, but parents and some unmentioned donors
were the ones paying for everything. Four cadets got arrested
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on charges of sexually assaulting younger boys. A seventeen year
old girl said she had been impregnated by another cadet
who had forced his way into her dormitory in the
middle of the night. Some students as young as six
were telling of having to endure some very nasty things.
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None of the school's teachers or employees were implicated in
any of the sexual abuse, which owner of Everisto Marina
maintained were all untrue. Many folks say Marina was a
fraud and a power hungry disciplinarian, acting more like a
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demon than a school president. What does Satanism and outer
space have to do with each other? I have no
idea yet. Jack Parsons was big into the occult and
he performed Satanic rituals before each and every rocket test a.
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Jack Parsons, the founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratories, a
branch of NASA, was really into devil worship. At age twelve,
he tried to summon a demon in his bedroom. People
say there's no way he could have done such a thing,
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and yet Jack said that it worked, and it scared
the life out of him. He said he was never
going to try necromancy again, but he did. In the
nineteen forties, the military was so intent on having rocket
assist takeoff for their planes that they were willing to
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dance with the devil if need be. Remember, if you
dance with the devil, he gets to lead before any
tests of the JATO rockets. That's a jet assisted takeoff.
It's a type of assisted takeoff for helping overloaded aircraft
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into the air by providing additional thrust in the form
of small rockets. Rockets, not jets. Rockets. Jet Propulsion Laboratory
worked on rockets, not jets. It's one of those things.
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It's all in the name. Too many folks associated rockets
with buck Rogers and sci fi movies. The folks in college,
trying to act like they were all high and mighty,
used the word jet instead of rockets so they wouldn't
be associated with those movies. No where was I. Oh. Yes,
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before any test of a JATO rocket, a Jack would
perform a satanic ritual to draw the powers of the
dark Lord to help get his work accomplished. The military
brass would all turn a blind eye to what he
was doing. As for JPL, it officially opened its doors
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October thirty first, nineteen thirty six. Certain dates hold a
lot of power to certain people. For example, September eleventh,
sixteen eighty three was the last day of the Siege
of Vienna. The next morning, the Holy Roman Empire and
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the Polish Army arrived and they kicked. But this maybe
why September eleventh was chosen as the day to attack
the Twin Towers. Certain dates hold significance to certain people.
Jack managed to blow himself up. Well, that's the official story.
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Some say that he was helped along and maybe by
the government operatives or perhaps somebody with a grudge. Jack
was a very successful rocket scientist. Would somebody get the
wrong idea in order to be a good rocket scientist
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that in order to get things in outer space you
needed a little black magic in your pocket. Joan Dideon
remarked in the nineteen sixties ended when Charles Manson's followers
murdered Charontate in Four Others August nineteen sixty nine, one
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of the killers, Tex Watson, said, I am the devil,
and I have come to do the devil's work. The
world did change around this time. Back in the nineteen
thirties and forties, women stayed home and did what they
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needed to do to raise the family and run the
house while the men went off to work. The World
War Two kind of screwed everything up. Well. Suddenly women
had an urge to get jobs and make money. Instead
of being housewives, being a stay at home mother's a
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very real, very hard job. Society began to make it
more of an insult. Movies showed housewives as being somehow
less intelligent, less sophisticated than women who went out and worked,
earning a paycheck and paying income tax. It was pretty
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much how things were when I was young. Fathers went
to work and mothers raised the kids. The government had
to get by on only one taxable income per household.
I just think how much more cash could be siphoned
away from the family if both parents worked and paid taxes.
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Does this sound a bit like a conspiracy to all, Well,
I believe it is. And my cat will not leave
the microphone away alone. Oh well, you stop it. And
getting back to the subject of hand, mothers no longer
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wanted to be mothers. The title housewife was turned into
an insult. As more women moved into the workforce, somebody
had to be put in charge of raising the kids.
Well along comes these government agencies. Yeah, nobody should allow
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the government to raise their kids. But well, that's let
the government raise the kids. Put the little buggers in
daycare or after school activities, which are mostly being run
by government official. You can see them when you get home.
You know, quality time over quantity. What I find difficult
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to understand was that some families were spending so much
taking care of the kids. The extra income is all
being spent on daycare and the second car that the
wife needs to get to work, and things like that,
to a point where that second income is almost null
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and void. It's all so all going to income tax.
The bills were increasing faster than the income. As parents'
responsibilities to raise their kids was being moved to others.
The kids began to have less supervision and more time
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to look into getting in trouble. As the Satanic panic
was getting going, folks began to see and hear him everywhere.
McDonald's publicly announced that its semi founder, Ray Kroc, did
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not financially support the Church of Satan. McDonald's always seems
to forget about their real founders, the McDonald's brothers, but
that's another story. Proctor and Gamble became the target of
rumors that its thirteen starred logo, a reference to the
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thirteen original colonies, was the symbol of the devil. A
lot of really cool horror films came out showing the
interactions between humans and the devil. The Exorcist nineteen seventy three,
The Omen nineteen seventy six, the Amityville Horror all dealt
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with demonic themes. Snowball, you're being a pain, I don't
know what's gotten into her. H Nah, nah, that can't
be it. The book Michelle Remembers was released in nineteen eighty,
the day after Halloween. It was listed as nonfiction account
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written by a therapist, Lawrence Pasder and his patient, Michelle Smith.
Being nonfiction, the book read more like a fictional horror story.
The Smith had had a miscarriage and she was devastated
over it. To relieve her distress, she went to a therapist, Pasdor,
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in order to get to the real cause of her problems.
A Pasd used regression therapy. He put her under into
a deep hypnotics and then just kind of led her
through her memories until they became a total horror story.
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I know a lot of hypnotherapists, and they all have
rules about how leading the patient is wrong. There is
a right way and a wrong way to recover memories.
It would appear that Pasdar was using the wrong way.
The book flew off the shelves and Pasder and Smith
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started appearing on television as shocked audiences turned in tuned
in as Smith recounted the horrific things that had happened
to her in her childhood. Smith said that her mother
had given her away to a Satanic cult where she
was held captive, tortured, and abused. Smith said she had
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seen Satanic orgies in which one of the members got murdered.
She had been buried alive. One time. She said that
she had seen the devil appear after a Satanic Satanists
had performed a ritualistic ceremony. Almost from the minute Michelle
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Remembers publication, its claims and allegations were repeatedly and thoroughly debunked. However,
thanks to the widespread and credulous media attention, Pasder and
Smith were able to double down on the story. Pasder
became seen as an expert in the area of what
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could come to be called Satanic ritual abuse or sra HM.
The earliest of the wave of sra cases began in
Kern County, California, in nineteen eighty A Baker's Field social worker,
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after reading Michelle Remembers, learned of a local clandestine occult
sex ring from two children who had been coerced into
fabricating the claims by a relative. From nineteen eighty four
to nineteen eighty six, the investigation into these claims sent
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at least twenty six people to jail in interrelated convictions,
despite a complete lack of corroborating physical evidence for any
of the claims. Nearly all of these convictions have since
been overturned, including the man who served twenty years of
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a forty year sentence and two parents who were sentenced
to two hundred and forty years in prison after their
two sons who had been coached, accused them of abuse.
In the summer of nineteen eighty three, a woman named
Judy Johnson told the police that her two year old
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son had been diddled at his daycare, McMartin Preschool in
Manhattan Beach, California. She believed the teacher, Ray Bucky was responsible.
Nineteen ninety, Johnson went further, recounting an incident that included
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a goat man, a ritual type atmosphere, and a church
where another staff member had misbehaved towards the children in
their care. She said her son had been levitated from
the floor and he flew around the room. The press
ran with the story this was a cash cow for
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the newspaper. Accusations were repeated on the nightly news over
and over. Later, it came out that the mother was
diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Well that's what the authorities tell
us anyway. During the investigations, the police sent letters to
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two hundred parents of both current and former children seeking
information about the school. The letter read, please question your
children to see if he or she has been a
witness to any crime or if he or she has
been a victim. Our investigation indicates that possible criminal acts
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actions including sex, fondling, inappropriate touching, and other nastiness have
possibly been committed under the pretense of taking a child's temperature.
The letter, which may have influenced the investigation from the onset,
triggered widespread panic among the parents. They found they were
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ill equipped to question the children, and the professional investigators
weren't any better at it. The authorities asked the children
leading questions like can you remember looking at pictures of
naked people? The investigators told the children, your classmates have
already shared some really yucky secrets. Do you have any
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yucky secrets that you want to share? One child was
called a scaredy cat for denying that anything had happened. Well,
children like to do what adults want them to do,
so they began to describe things that happened. Teachers beat
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a horse to death with a baseball bat. They squeezed
the parakeet to death. They sacrificed the baby in the church,
and then they made all the children drink the blood.
There were secret tunnels underneath the school, and they played
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a game called Lookout, where the children would stand guard
while the cheaper while the teachers did nasty things to
their classmates. In the end, after years of trials, all
charges against Ray Bucky and the other teachers were dismissed.
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McMartin was just one preschool where educators were accused of
grievous acts against their students. Others also became casualties of
the Satanic panic, which spread fear about terrible things happening
in innocent places. As the hype went on getting piled
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higher and higher, even the song industry was pulled into it,
either through misunderstandings or unsavory business practices. Many musical groups
found themselves being scrutinized by the law. Was putting Anton
LaVey's picture on the cover of the Hotel California album
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somebody in marketing being cool? Or was there a record
industry brazen showing of the occult activities. From the late
nineteen sixties to the mid seventies, occult and witchcraft records
became a phenomena in the US and the UK. These
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were spoken word LPs that included narrations of ritual and
spells by witches and covens, accompanied by some rather bizarre
early electronic music records, such as the Art of Witchcraft
by Bob Att The Sexy Witch and Ian Richardson and
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Barbara Holdridge Malice Mauth Maleficarium. Yeah, that's the Hammer of
the Witch. Was that the Hammer of the Witch or
the Hammer of the Devil? Now the Malice Malificarium. That
was the book used during the the witch trials throughout Europe. Anyway,
this came out in nineteen seventy four. You might think
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these went out under obscure record labels, but the big
names were all involved, Capitol Records, A and M. Warner Brothers.
These all had occult records. As the idea of Satanism
became popular, it meant if you wanted to catch the
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title wave of publicity, you had to uncover some hidden
agenda somewhere. People began looking into and discovering satanic and
hidden messages were just about everywhere, especially on songs by
groups that they didn't like. All that backward masking and
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words that made no sense. People began to blame record
companies and especially the musicians for just about every crime
that was committed. Nineteen eighty five, two young men, Raymond
bell Nap and James Vance decided on a suicide pact
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that left bell Nap dead and Vance with some serious injuries.
Vance's parents sued the band Judas Pre because their song
contained hidden messages like do it and Let's be Dead.
The band was found and not liable. Games like Dungeons
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and Dragons, which contained magic spells and monsters, and the
fast faced accusations of Satanism as well. A grieving mother
whose son had died by suicide formed the organization called
Bothered About Dungeons and Dragons or Bad in nineteen eighty three.
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She claimed the game encouraged a devil worship and was
replete with demonology, Satanic type rituals, and more. Nineteen seventy two,
the publication of The Satan Seller, written by Christian evangelist
Mike Warnick. Warnke recounted his childhood and young adulthood, which
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he said he had spent in intense Satanic worship. Warnke
wrote he served as a Satanic high priest and was
engaged in ritualistic sex orgies. The whole thing turned out
to be fabricated memories, ultimately discredited. The publication of Anton
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Levy's Satanic Rituals also nineteen seventy two, reinforced the idea
that dark occult rituals had become a routine part of
life in many of American's households. In the seventies saw
the rise of other self proclaimed former Satanists who had
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become Evangelists instead. John Todd, Herschel Smith, David Hanson. All
four of these men grew up in southern California. All
of them claimed to have conversion experiences that led to
them becoming icons in certain religious groups. All of them
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were linked to the emerging fundamentalist Christian organizations. Todd was
supported by Christian tract maker Jack Chick, who used his
fabricated claims as a basis for numerous comic style pamphlets
protesting against Satanism. Warnkey spent over a decade posing as
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an expert in Satanism for the fundamentalist evangelical Christian community,
passing off much of his made up childhood as a
template for how real Satanism worked. Excuse me man. The
growing fascination with the occult also coincided with a number
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of extremely well publicized serial killer cases that took place
in the seventies. The Zodiac Killer, the Alphabet Killer, both
of whom used ritualistic patterns in their killings, neither of
whom were ever caught. Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, the
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Hillside Stranglers, David Berkowitz. They all sparked a mass panic
during the summer of nineteen seventy seven in New York.
Who not they? Son of Sam was in New York.
The Hillside Stranglers were at California. I forget where John
Wayne Gacy was, but yea, these were the serial killers
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I grew up here in about Many of these well
publicized serial killers maintained an image of having the upper
hand over the authorities. The Zodiac Killer in Berkowitz wrote
taunting letters to the press and the police. Bundy escaped
from prison and immediately began killing people again. Agacy had
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his evil under the most banial of disguises, a friendly
clown who performed for children as the brazen anarchy associated
with these kinds of high profile killings grew, so did
public fear through it all. Christian fundamentalism and the literal
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belief in angels and devils being on the rise. Fundamental
preachers like Jerry Folwell in his Moral Majority, which was
founded in nineteen seventy nine, gained prominence across the country,
passing along a literal fire and brimstone style of Christianity.
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Any of y'all remember the preacher from Cold Comfort Farm,
that kind of thing. Anti occult crusaders like Pat Pulling,
who believed that her son's death by suicide was a
result of the Dungeons and Dragon's curse, crusaded against role
playing games as dangerous and demonic, was backed by a
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cult fearmongering from Chick and his Chick tracts. The media
played a huge role in stoking the public fear and
fueling misconceptions surrounding occult practices. Nineteen eighty eight, HAROLDO. Rivera,
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he had a lured documentary called Devil Worship exposing Satan's underground,
became the highest rated television documentary to air up to
that point. Nineteen ninety one, the twenty twenty episode aired
an official Roman Catholic exorcism live on TV. The Exorcism
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the Things not even going to say, what might have
you know? The demon pops out of the victim and
right to the TV screen, But hey, it could happen anyway.
They had some really bizarre TV shows like Hell's Bells,
which attempted to tie rock and roll music to the occult.
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It was an exciting time to be live. The disastrous
McMartin trial remains the largest, longest and most expensive trial
in California history. In nineteen eighty three, one parent accused
one of the staff members at the McMartin Preschool in
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in Manhattan Beach, California of abuse. During the investigation, police
allowed an unlicensed psychotherapist named Key McFarland to conduct examinations
of four hundred children who had attended the daycare. McFarland
used his anatomically correct doll an a corursive interview process,
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resulting in a three hundred and twenty one counts of
child abuse being leveled against seven daycare staffers by forty
one children. The eyebrow raising claims included allegations that daycare
owners had built secret underground tunnels, tunnels that were never
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found that led to ritual ceremonies, had sacrificed a baby,
flushed children down toilets. I can't even get toilet paper
to get on the toilet, let alone a baby, and
they could turn into witches and fly. After six years
of investigation and litigation of a five year trial, the
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case ultimately evaporated due to a total lack of evidence.
One by one, all charges against the day care staff
were dropped. McMartin preschool building had been raised in the nineties.
In other words, the community got together and destroyed it
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out of fear. By the mid eighties, the wave of seminaries, tutorials,
and educational videos for authorities and evangelicals on the subject
of recognizing and fighting Satanic cults was sweeping US law enforcement.
In El Paso, they were sent to ritual crime seminars.
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These were classes aimed at law enforcement authorities and taught
mostly by other cops, therapists, preachers, and a few born
again Christian claiming to be former high priests or escapees
from unspeakable Satanic ritual torture cults. God. Some of these
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things are hard to say, just too many wild words
in them. The folks putting them out. Most of these
training sessions hadn't a clue on what they were saying.
The experts would ask somebody who had an agenda in
one regard or another. The rhetoric was slanted way to
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one side or the other. Either the subjects involved were
all crazy, lying or confused, or the authorities were dealing
with real demons and the world was about to end.
It was like that in the night Stalker, where Carl
Koleshak is trying to convince the folks in charge that
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they needed to issue crucifixes, stakes and hammers to all
law enforcement people in order to kill the vampire. And
it was a very There was very little middle ground.
The few were saying, it does not matter what you believe,
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it's what they believe that makes them dangerous. They were saying,
either these people are all crazy, or you're dealing with
honest to God demons. No middle ground was being taken.
We had supervisors that just laughed if you mentioned there
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was an old building that looked as if some satanic
actavity had been taken place. There was no way I
was ever going to mention running into those folks on
the River in the middle of the night. Then nineteen
ninety two, the Justice Department came out saying that they
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had debunked the myth of Satanic ritual abuse. Though accusations
and satanically motivated child abuse rituals had pretty much died
out in the mid nineties, law enforcement continued to treat
Satanism as a potential criminal indicator. If you had a pentagram, say,
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tattooed on your body, which I've seen, you were right
away a suspect of having done something nasty, probably in
the woodshed. Yeah, okay, it looks like I've pretty much
turned the whole Satanic panic into a nothing burger, right,
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and no need to worry all as well? Not really.
The problem with all the nineteen eighties hype was a
lot of it was being used to make other stories unbelievable.
Some folks will go with the idea if those folks
were wrong and lying, then they're probably all wrong or lying.
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Michael Angelo Achino was born October sixteenth, nineteen forty six.
He was an American political science and Satanist. He was
the founder and the high priest of the Temple of set.
Aquino was also a specialist in psychological warfare for the
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military intelligence, and he was an officer in the US Army.
Aquino had been an Eagle Scout. He graduated Santa Barbara
High School nineteen sixty four before enrolling in the nearby
University of California in Santa Barbara, where he received a
bachelor's degree in political science as an ROTC United States
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Army Distinguished Military Graduate nineteen sixty eight. Sixty nine, he
joined the Church of Satan, led by Anton Levy, and
he quickly rose through the ranks. Nineteen seventy one, A.
Kino had become appointed Magister Caverns. Caverns Caverns of the
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fourth degree. Caverns, Well, it's not cavern like cave, it's
something else. Anyway. He had become high up in the
church hierarchy, and he was the editor of the publication
of the Cloven Hoof. He sat on the governing Council
of nine, that's what it was called of. Following his
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commission in the Army, Akino served as a psychological warfare
specialist and he was deployed to Vietnam. He served with
the Green Beret and in the seventies and into the
early eighties he was part time NATO liaison officer in
several European countries. You know those folks that keep fighting
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between the Ukraine and Russia. Those guys, he was a
member of all that. While off duty one of his tours,
he visited Wowllsburg Castle, which was used by SS leader
Heinrich Himmler and the SS. He was said to have
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performed a Satanic ritual while he was there. The conflicts
arose over time between LeVay and Akino regarding the direction
of the group. Levy was heading in the direction of
atheism and materialism. If there was no God, there was
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no devil. A Keno was very much into believing the
Devil as well as God were both real, and he
had chosen the left hand path. When Levy started selling
positions in the Church of Satan for money, Akino left
of the group. After he left the Church of Satan,
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he started a ritual in which he asked Satan, excuse me.
He asked Satan for advice on what he should do.
Man Satan appeared to a Kino in the summer of
nineteen seventy five and revealed that he would like to
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be called Set, the name that his worshipers in ancient
Egypt had used. Akeino produced a religious tes the Book
of Coming Forth by Night, which he claims was revealed
to him by Set in the process of automatic writing
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the book. The book proclaimed a Keno magus of the
new eon of Set, an air to Levey's infernal mandate.
On this basis, he founded the Temple of Set, which
is dedicated to worshiping Set. In contrast to the to
Levey's approach, this group was an occult and hermetic orientation,
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a Keno orientation was strongly influenced by the works of
the British occultist Aleister Crowley. The group's aim was self deification,
which is pursued, which it pursued by performing rituals and
practicing black magic, amongst other things. Nineteen seven seventy five,
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the Temple of Set was registered as a non profit
church in California, and it received state and federal recognition
and tax exemption. Aquino remained the Temple's high priest until
seventy nine, when he handed over the role to Ronald
Keith Barrett, who, following disputes, also founded his own Satanic sect,
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the Temple of Anubis. A few years later, in November
nineteen eighty six, the San Francisco Police began investigating allegations
of sexual abuse in connection with the Army's Child of
Development Center at the Presidio in San Francisco. A girl
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came forward August nineteen eighty seven and identified a Keno
as the culprit. At least fifty eight of the one
hundred children who had attended Dave Care Center showed physical
and mental signs of abuse, leading to a lawsuit by
the parents for sixty million dollars in damages. An investigation
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against a Knot was launched, but it was closed after
insufficient evidence was found. Now I have to ask, was
there a lack of evidence or did certain folks in
positions of power intercede to make sure the whole thing
went away. Think of it like this. There you are
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some general with all the luxuries money and status can buy.
When one of your less noteworthy orders comes to light.
One of your underlings, who you promoted knowing he was
a Satanist, is now being scrutinized by the police. You
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placed this a cultist in a position where he could
do nasty things to young kids, and now your retirement
is looking shaky. Could this have been a cover up.
Probably John DeCamp, a politician and former member of the
Nebraska legislature, a linked to Kino to the Franklin child
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prostitution ring, but no charges wherever filed in A grand
jury finally dismissed the entire case in nineteen ninety. It's
amazing what you can do to evidence when you're in
a position of power. The latest thing going is the
adrenochrome story, and kids are abused and then they have
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their blood drained so that certain people can drink it
in order to stay young. We hear about things like Pizzagate,
only to be told there's nothing to see here. Three
hundred and twenty thousand children went missing thanks to the
mismanagement by those people along our southern border. Anybody want
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to guess why they all vanished and who may have benefited.
The funny thing about Alex Jones, whether you like him
or not, he has a much better rate of being
accurate than the lame stream media. I think he's batting
something like ninety percent accurate in his wild stories. And
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yet people look at Alex like, oh, that guy, he's
some kind of a nut because he comes out and
he talks about things that nobody wants to hear about
for years, and then all of a sudden, that's all
you hear about. Satanism is a very real thing. It's
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not what Hollywood tells us A speaking of Satanism and Hollywood,
did you watch the Grammys or do you have good taste?
Evil cells? Halloween is more popular than Christmas. You should
see my yard in October. There's a big difference between
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having fun with spooky things or bowing to the devil.
It looks more and more every day like the folks
in Hollywood are on their knees to the dark one.
Would you believe the After School Satan Club? I had
to look it up. There is such a thing. The
(01:05:45):
After School Satan Club does not believe in introducing religion
into public schools and will only open a club if
other religious groups are operating on the campus. ASSC exists
to provide a safe and inclusive alternative to the religious
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clubs that use threats of eternal damnation to convert school
children to their belief system. Unlike our character parts who
publicly measure their success in young children's professions of faith,
the After School Satan Club program focuses on science, critical thinking,
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creative arts, good works for the community. While engaging in
all of these activities, we want clubgoers to have a
good time. The ASSC is located in Washington State, you
know where they have so many good time riots, The
(01:06:57):
Green River Killer and Ted Bundy having fun with Satan.
Who the heck comes up with this stuff? Yep, the
after School Satan Club. A lot of actors are coming
out telling about the weird things going on in Hollywood.
Mel Gibson is probably the most vocal. I would go
(01:07:23):
into what he said, but it would make the show
about two hours long. Just know that he has said
that Hollywood was filled with pedophiles who abuse kids and
drink their blood. There were no fact checkers until the
truth began to slip out. I had to dig through
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a lot of naysayers to find a lot of this information.
I could be wrong, or there might be something rotten
in our country. Just look around at some of the
things coming out of Hollywood or Washington or some of
the other places where those people gather and ask yourself,
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is there really a satanic panic still going on? Or
do we have something to worry about? Hope you enjoyed
tonight's show. I hope snowball playing with the microphone didn't
get too much, and hopefully my voice didn't sound too
bad there, or it's one of those things. No, I
(01:08:29):
did not go see the doctor. No, I did not
take any medications stronger than aspirin and coffee. Coffee and
aspirin should clear up just about anything. If you enjoyed
the show, tell your neighbors, tell your friends, Tell people
you don't even like. They should be listening to Strange
Things with Chris James till next Saturday. Are you?
Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
Are you coming to the tree where they strung up
a man who they said he murdered. Three strange things
had happened there. No stranger would it be if we
met at midnight in the hanging tree
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