For the uninitiated, Labubus are small plush creatures created by illustrator Kasing Lung back in 2015. They were turned into ...

The "satanic panic" conspiracy theory was referenced in the latest season of Stranger Things.Though in real life, the satanic panic fears were thoroughly debunked, the claims are unfortunately ...

Satanic panic is making a comeback, fueled by QAnon believers and GOP influencers. Baseless accusations are branding people as satanist pedophiles at the speed of the internet — just ask a GOP ...

With that story as my Genesis, you won’t be surprised to learn that I grew up during the Satanic Panic of the ’80s and ’90s, when a large portion of the U.S. population truly believed that ...

The ‘Satanic Panic’ Is Back: How a Bygone Moral Crisis Returned With Queer Artists In Its Crosshairs. Stephen Daw. Thu, February 16, 2023 at 9:02 PM UTC. 9 min read.

In the 1980s, false accusations of satanic ritual abuse spread across the U.S. Now, QAnon has revived those fears, borrowing from the playbook of the Satanic Panic from decades prior.

The term “Satanic panic” refers to a period of time in the 1980s when baseless accusations of the rampant abuse of children in occult and satanic rituals spread across the United States.

The satanic panic, some 30 years removed, may feel like an inoffensive way to explore the dangers of conspiratorial thinking. Kane, who is too young to remember much from the era, ...

Conservatives conjure up a 21st-century Satanic panic. Will it work? The Loudoun County case was rape. The anti-trans hysteria unleashed in Virginia, however, is wholly invented ...

Ours isn’t the first time when political opponents are labeled demonic, says scholar and author Michael E. Heyes.

Why Satanic Panic never really ended. The collective fears that consumed the US in the 1980s and ’90s are still alive and well — all the way through QAnon and beyond.

Satanic Panic was a phenomenon that swept North America, and the mass hysteria grew to include Oprah, the Smurfs, and even McDonald’s.