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, ...

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

Perhaps the hottest growing conspiracy theory on TikTok has some parents worried that Labubu dolls are demonic. Theories ...

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 ...

Matthew Scott Kane: I didn't live through the '80s, but I do believe that the Satanic Panic has never really left us. It's kind of come and gone and taken different forms all throughout time. When ...

Recent works of fiction — 'Hysteria!'; the novel 'Rainbow Black'; the fourth season of 'Stranger Things'; the film 'Late Night With the Devil' — all treat the satanic panic as a discrete ...

As a period piece awash in the pop culture of the 1980s, and also heavily influenced by said pop culture, it would make sense that “Stranger Things” would touch the Satanic Panic.

So I wanted to do a Satanic panic show that was an allegory for what we’re going through in this current moment. It doesn’t seem like it’s changed all that much since 2019, ...

Bennett Braun, a psychiatrist who inflamed the 1980s “satanic panic” with his controversial treatment of multiple personality disorder, including in patients who alleged that he misused drugs ...

The series is described, “When a beloved varsity quarterback disappears during the ‘Satanic Panic’ of the late 1980s, Hysteria! follows a struggling high school heavy metal band of outcasts ...

Satanic Panic (2019; AMC+): Her first night as a pizza delivery driver isn't going great for Sam (Hayley Griffith), and it's about to get worse when she stumbles across a suburban Satanic coven. They ...