SATANIC PANIC! - Lunch Time with Demons

Season one (Ep12) What do the words occult and Satan really mean, and how did they become the center of one of America's most bizarre moral panics? This podcast dives into the history, politics, and culture that created the Satanic Panic of the 1980s and 90s; when daycare workers, musicians, and even military officers were accused of secret Satanic cults, ritual abuse, and conspiracies that never existed.  We'll explore the roots of America's fear of hidden forces, from Cold War paranoia to Anton LaVey's Church of Satan and Michael Aquino's Temple of Set, through horror films, heavy metal, televangelists, and the headlines that fanned the flames of American culture hating on satanist.  Along the way, we'll unpack what the occult actually is (and isn't), why society projects its deepest anxieties onto "Satan," and how echoes of the panic still live on today. Equal parts history and myth-busting / cultural analysis, this episode peels back the layers of fear to reveal how America built the Devil it still believes in. Ineffable -too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words. Abella's Link Tree Ryan's Link Tree