A Chicago Police Department document from 1989 that outlines (in absurd fashion) how to identify teens involved in ritualistic crime went viral on Twitter on Sunday.
Not quite. The “satanic panic” was a very real case of mass hysteria that peaked in the 80s. Law enforcement played no small part in it.
Hoooooooly crap guys. My sister is an art teacher in FLA, and she found this AMAZING document in her supply closet pic.twitter.com/QyzAvhjm0E
— Jennifer Jordan (@jennlynnjordan) May 6, 2018
The media certainly didn’t help. There was coverage in glossy magazines and on TV—60 Minutes and Oprah fell for it the ward. The satanic panic in when talk-show gadfly Geraldo Rivera aired Exposing Satan’s Underground, a two-hour exposé on the dangers of .
Yep, trends from the 80s—even ones to do with debunked cases of satanic ritual abuse—are back in style again. God save us.
