The real history behind Stranger Things 4’s Satanic Panic plot:
In the first episode of Stranger Things season 4, Eddie, the leader of Hawkins High’s “Hellfire Club” of Dungeons & Dragons players, gleefully reads from a Newsweek article about how the game is for Satan-worshippers. “The devil has come to America,” he reads out. “Studies have linked violent behavior to the game, saying it promotes satanic worship, ritual sacrifice, sodomy, suicide, and even murder.” READ MORE
People who make fun of the satanic panic obviously didn’t see any documentary detailing the rituals and what the children and others who try to leave are put through. I couldn’t even finish watching the documentary I first saw on it.
They had so much momentum back then.
I listened to a couple podcasts about the Satanic Panic a while back. One was investigative, and after it went to court, they found out nothing was happening after all. It’s the kind of disinfo that makes you scratch your head and ask, “Can anyone actually know anything for sure?”
If those circumstances were true and the perps were innocent, it’s a great example of using the exception to prove the rule.
“The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world that he did not exist.”