One more helping, for good measure: Satan (Taylor’s Version)
In this bonus episode, Sarah talks to Yvonne Eadon, a professor at the University of Kentucky who specializes in conspiracy theory and online misinformation, about GAYLOR — the online fan theory that ...
13 Dec 202542min
Yet another helping from Satan: The Devil’s storytellers
In this bonus episode, Sarah talks to Professor Bill Ellis who specializes in folklore and urban legends, and they chat about the innate human behaviours that lead us to create panics in the first pla...
12 Dec 202523min
A second helping from Satan: Elizabeth Knapp’s Possession
We travel back in time to 1670s Massachusetts to review the famous case of the so-called Satanic possession of 16-year-old Elizabeth Knapp — which took place twenty years before the Salem Witch Trials...
11 Dec 202537min
Episode 8: Where Are We Now?
Now that we know where we’ve been, where are we going? As the Satanic Panic receded from view, we almost forgot it had happened at all – until it came back. How do today’s moral panics compare to the ...
8 Dec 202558min
Episode 7: Four Lesbians and a Baby
Though it sounded like a wholesome sitcom premise — four lesbian housemates raise a baby in San Antonio — reality proved anything but. Instead, Liz, Anna, Cassie, and Kristy found themselves caught in...
1 Dec 202552min
A second helping from Satan: SATANISM 101
Dr. Justin Sledge (who you heard from in Episode 6) is a professor of philosophy and religion. in this bonus episode, we learn how his own experience as a teenager implicated in an alleged satanic plo...
27 Nov 202533min
Episode 6: I’m Just a Teenage Cultist, Baby
How does a victim of a school shooting become accused of masterminding the whole thing in the name of Satan? When Justin Sledge was 17, a friend of his opened fire at their high school, killing two pe...
24 Nov 202546min
