{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Gen X Archives","title":"The Devil Made Us Do It: Inside the Satanic Panic","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2044,"description":"The Devil Made Us Do It: Inside the Satanic Panic\nIf you grew up in the 1980s, there’s a good chance somebody thought something you liked was dangerous.\nHeavy metal supposedly contained hidden Satanic messages. Dungeons & Dragons could pull kids into the occult. Horror movies were corrupting young minds. Daycare centers became the center of extraordinary allegations involving secret rituals and underground cults.\n\nIn this episode of the Gen X Archives Podcast, Pitfall Gary looks back at the Satanic Panic and the very real fears that helped create it.\n\nWe cover Michelle Remembers, the McMartin Preschool case, recovered-memory therapy, Geraldo Rivera’s Devil Worship: Exposing Satan’s Underground, backmasking, heavy metal, Judas Priest, Dungeons & Dragons, Mazes and Monsters, Patricia Pulling and BADD, and what the panic meant for the Gen X kids caught in the middle.\nBecause underneath the backward records and twenty-sided dice was a bigger story about fear, media, authority, and what happens when people become convinced they already know what the evidence means.\n\nWe also talk briefly about suicide in this episode, a subject that is personal to me. If you or someone you know is struggling, you can call or text 988 in the United States, anytime, day or night.\nHave a Satanic Panic memory of your own? A banned album? A game you weren’t allowed to play? One of those church-basement presentations you never quite forgot?\n\n <----------->\nConnect with Gen X Archives\nHave a memory, question or episode idea?\nEmail podcast@genxarchives.com or call the Gen X Archives voicemail line at +1 720.722.1066\nFollow Gen X Archives on X.com | Mastodon | Bluesky\nGet the Latchkey Ledger\nGen X history, pop culture, memories and new episodes delivered to your inbox.\nSign up at GenXArchives.com\nSupport Gen X Archives\nGen X Archives is independent and ad-free. If you enjoy the podcast and want to help keep it going, you can become a producer at:\nGenXArchives.com/support\n\nProducers help support...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/-DkSbNCrRRwVNTdAEsY_L8SznNicSvq7CRTYcM-Sgdo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82OGI3/YmNhZTIwMGUzODQx/YWNlNWI4YzJmYTY5/YWRjYS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}