{"id":20315,"date":"2026-02-28T17:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=20315"},"modified":"2026-02-28T17:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:33:09","slug":"satanic-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=20315","title":{"rendered":"Satanic Panic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Google AI: The <strong>Satanic Panic<\/strong> was a <strong>1980s\u20131990s<\/strong> moral panic, primarily in <strong>North America<\/strong>, involving unsubstantiated, widespread fears of organized Satanic cults abusing children. Fuelled by the 1980 book\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Michelle+Remembers&amp;sca_esv=5bd0976fc60d8687&amp;hl=en&amp;sxsrf=ANbL-n4DE_NqOA15ZjyfToNH3NgCDSuxSg%3A1772314240071&amp;ei=gF6jaYCCBPCqw8cPtIKaoQE&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjMoY2Vkf2SAxWZrYkEHX8PD9wQgK4QegYIAQgAEAM&amp;uact=5&amp;oq=satanic+panic+era&amp;gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiEXNhdGFuaWMgcGFuaWMgZXJhMgYQABgWGB4yBRAAGO8FMgUQABjvBTIIEAAYgAQYogRIkRhQ1gNYohdwBXgAkAEAmAF1oAGsBaoBAzcuMrgBA8gBAPgBAZgCCaAC-QPCAgUQABiABMICChAuGIAEGEMYigXCAgUQLhiABMICCBAAGIAEGMcDwgIJEAAYFhjHAxgewgIFECEYoAHCAgsQABiABBiRAhiKBZgDAIgGAZIHAzcuMqAHkyCyBwM0LjK4B_QDwgcFMS43LjHIBxCACAA&amp;sclient=gws-wiz-serp\">Michelle Remembers<\/a><\/em>, sensationalist media, and dubious, recovered-memory therapy, this hysteria led to numerous false accusations, ruined lives, and innocent convictions, especially against daycare operators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I believe I learned this term from the Holy Post Media, more than once now:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why are Christian parents opposed to Harry Potter? #shorts\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ua4hLop-iE0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google AI: The Satanic Panic was a 1980s\u20131990s moral panic, primarily in North America, involving unsubstantiated, widespread fears of organized Satanic cults abusing children. Fuelled by the 1980 book\u00a0Michelle Remembers, sensationalist media, and dubious, recovered-memory therapy, this hysteria led to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=20315\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20316,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20315\/revisions\/20316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}