Part One: The Satanic Panic: America's First QAnon | BEHIND THE BASTARDS 

My poor mother had fallen for the D&D will turn your kids into satanic monsters. So when she learned I was going to start playing it with friends when I was a kid she basically forbad it. I had already bought a player's guide so I purposely left it out on our couch where she could read it. I know she read it and left placed neatly on my bed. I know this because that afternoon she told me I could play D&D with my friends because and I quote, "Its just math and imagination. That's not going to turn you evil."

Realizing that my mother was always a religious nutcase when looking back that the reason why she was constantly asking if my dad was molesting me to the point that I was almost loosing touch with reality, was all because of the Satanic Panic. Irony is that now I'm a huge D&D player with several people who are D&D veterans. Many of them have a lot of traumatic memories also because of the Satanic Panic.

1:01:03 Hello. Belgian here. In the case of Marc Dutroux there were no high lvl or low lvl politicians involved. It was a misunderstanding of a statement by the (equivalent of) the DA that the media spun out of control. Marc Dutroux is a monster, and our police organisation and the deficiencies within it allowed him to kill his victims. But it is not a conspiracy come to light. In fact, because of the case the police underwent a serious restructure to eradicate the gaps that Dutroux fell through.

I just can't understand adults believing in the devil. It feels like you could just convince them to do anything you want them to.

I had Mike Warnke's comedy CD! My far-right parents got me it as a gift when I was a kid.

33:56 that flag is so red it's forming a pool of blood on the ground.

holy shit having FGM as your closing bit is like trying to speedrun stand-up comedy any% on nightmare mode

I love this podcast, but for once, I have to intervene to correct something as it is doing exactly what it's fighting against. I'm belgian, and the way the guest is talking about the dutroux affair (at 1:00:30) is, well, the way the far-right conspirationists tell it here in Belgium. I remember well the whole "Dossier Bis" and "Temoin X" part of the affair, and the attacks against politicians, in particular the socialist (and openly gay, probably not a coincidence in making him a target...) Elio DiRupo, throught stories very reminiscent of what the Qanons proponents are telling today, just without the whole "Satanistic" aspect (Belgium is one of the less spiritualistic country in the world, after all), replaced by the always efficient "Elites/Freemasons" frame. Almost 30 years after the facts, the dutroux affair is a story of completely unefficient police services working on an crime that was just too unthinkable to be perceived, not a vast conspiraty of paid kidanpping to provide victims to some elites circles... I understand that this affair (as with everything that happens in Belgium) is not well publicized internationally, and sadly that often means that only the most spectacular and biased point of view are disseminated by authors with ulterior motives, so be very careful about what you read or hear about such events that happens in a foreign country you don't know the language : things can and will be lost in translation, sometimes deliberately...

I just started listening to this one and I can't even get past the intro because I'm too excited to tell you that I'm from the Michelle Remembers town that acts like a city and someone would have absolutely noticed if Satan was summoned and defeated in that graveyard. It's part of a provincial park and surrounded by houses that were built at the same time as the graveyard. It's a tourist graveyard. They just would have noticed, you guys. It would have been loud.

46:00 Memory is very complicated, and it is possible for people to have a blackout-like lack of memory of the actual traumatic experience. All the emotional and bodily aspects of the trauma are still there, just not the actual conscious memory. Nowadays, trauma-informed therapists can better avoid the pitfalls of the past in treating symptoms that result from this

Ahhh yessss a Jake episode! I love his voice, he's immediately reassuring and comfortable to hear. He could tell me my house had caught fire and I'd still be reassured lol

That guy's "jokes" were all old Gallagher jokes from the early 80s.

I hope there is a real hell for people like Maury Terry and Geraldo. They literally ruined lives and families

I like the bit at the end talking about how this distracted from actual cases of child abuse.

Mike Huckabee's comments about that one Duggar kid makes some of this less surprising. He said something along the lines of, 'its a part of growing up'.. Really? It is? Where?

Wasn't Teal Swan and her cult movement a product of "repressed memories" in her childhood called forth by the crazy child "therapist" that was instrumental in the Satanic Panic in the 80s?

Dissociative amnesia is a thing. Don't wanna be taking the side of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation on this one regardless of how abusive the ISSTD was during this period.

I grew up in a small town north of Bakersfield during the 80s. It was...an interesting time.

When I was a kid my dad took me to see Mike Warnke when he came to our town to do stand up.

The satanic panic just make me like Pokemon more

"Delicious little creatures." What's up, dude? What? What's going on, guy? What? What? WhaAAAAAT?

when this "ex-satanist" MF said the word "1987" my internet poisoned sense of humor got me shouting "was that the bite of 87?!" at my computer.

Republican politics center around this lunacy. Just look at someone like Greg Locke.

Well, you see, what must have happened is that Charles Manson escaped from prison, attended the ritual with Warnke, then sneaked back into prison without anyone noticing. Or the guards were all satanists, and they let him out, and back in. Or he used some infernal magic to make it happen, but only that one time. It all makes total sense now, right?

Ugh, we're so stupid.

Ah yes, the three Ws of magic-users. Wizards, Warlocks, and Whatevers.

Realizing this made me realize we are at risk of trans people becoming the new target of this.

Thank god we played DnD at my jewish friends' house and his mom thought that all this shit was absurd Christian nonsense

how tf do you actually spell “demonoiogy”? demoniology? every time i google it i just get demonology

26:25 Confirmation bias at its most obvious.

You think its bad here...this crap is worse in Mexico. Most people are very religious. Spain is ever present.

Actually the USs first Q Anon LITERALLY burned "witches"

I would be subscribed to y'all's channel for support but doing that just blows up my feed with these backlog videos going up. It's great they're coming to RU-vid but that's why I personally unsubscribed after originally subscribing right away. I'm enough of a fan of the show that I'm sure I'll subscribe in the future I just wanted to give feedback . Wish y'all the best.

A lot of hootin and hollerin over what amounts to edgy atheists lol

Unfortunately, repressed memories are very common and real in extreme trauma, especially in children. You guys usually do your research and it's really disappointing that you dropped the ball here on such a crucial and harmful misconception.

You guys really had no idea what you were talking about when it comes to repressed memories and you've done a great job of invalidating the experiences of the victims who suffer from that. This pretty bad low.

So much arrogance and so little research

Some of these cases were serious and tragic - this sounds like they are all on amateur comedy hour joking about everything and so superior in their opinions. And enough with all the cursing. Open a dictionary and learn some new words.

I couldn't make it through this entire video. Im not sure the host understand the difference between left wing and right wing. The host created strawmen that the right doesn't believe. The moral majority wasn't anti women and was not racist. And the economy literally boomed during the Regan presidentcy. This show should be retitled The Right Wing Panic.

McMartin Preschool had mapped out tunnels. Your info is old.

FBI revealed maps of tunnels beneath the day care in the Caller case

Mike Recine did this better, you are podcast saturation in human form

Robert, please do Jack Chick.