Old News: How Lucifer took over a Utah newspaper during the satanic panic
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On this date in 1985, The Provo Daily Herald was in the midst of a 12-part … uh, exposé? … titled “Satan Worship in Zion.”
Context: It was the satanic panic, a 1980s hysteria that swept the nation with reports of Satanic cults abusing children in rituals and recruiting teens.
Law enforcement and psychologists piled on with criminal charges and claims that victims’ “recovered memories” revealed childhood abuse at the hands of occultists.
Media reports of widespread devil worship were common at the time.
Content retrieved from: https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2023/07/31/satanic-panic-utah-newspaper-series.
