Season 2, Episode 8: D&D and the Devil
How the enormously popular role-playing board game "Dungeons and Dragons" became a target during the satanic panic. Featuring Nathan Lloyd, host of th...
Witch Hunt Podcast
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Witch Hunt explores history's most infamous witch hunts (literal and metaphorical) and the history of scapegoating. Season one examines the Salem Witch Trials and season two covers the Great Satanic Panic of the 1980's and 90's.
Season 2, Episode 7: Memory and Myth
We look at memory - real, repressed, and invented and its impact on the Satanic Panic. Featuring expert Elizabeth Loftus. Episode Music: The Way the ...
Season 2, Episode 6: Medical Evidence
We reveal how medical experts got it wrong. Warning: adult content. Episode Music: Melancholy, by Lucas King https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/emotio...
Season 2, Episode 5: Cult Cops
Retired police detective Duane Gonyon sheds light on how the Satanic Panic got out of control. Episode Music: Whisper, by Lucas King https://itunes.ap...
Season 2, Episode 4: McMartin
The story behind the most famous case of satanic ritual child abuse that never happened. Featuring RetroReport Producer Barbara Drury. Episode Music: ...
Season 2 Episode 3 - What Michelle Remembered
We unpack, "Michelle Remembers," the harrowing, horrible hoax that started the "satanic panic" of the 1980s/90s. Episode Music: Seeker by Kai Engel: ...
Season 2 Episode 2: The Big 80s
Episode two explains Satan's big social comeback in the 1980s. Featuring experts Professor Megan Goodwin and Mary DeYoung. Episode Music Levantara`n e...
Episode 11: The Great Satanic Panic
The premiere episode of season two explores how what we believe and how we react to allegations of child abuse fueled a moral panic that destroyed tho...
Special Episode Three - Paper Plates and Sympathy
Our mini series finale explores the truth behind "Patient Zero" and the AIDS epidemic. Writer Michele Lent Hirsch shares her story of life under quara...
Special Episode Two - There Was Something About Mary
This episode, we tell the story of the original Typhoid Mary. Featuring author and historian Judith Leavitt. Episode music: Seeker by Kai Engel http:/...