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Jamie founded Listverse due to an insatiable desire to share fascinating, obscure, and bizarre facts. He has been a guest speaker on numerous national radio and television stations and is a five time published author.
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Our first video exclusive (unpublished in any other form)! Back in the 1980s, Satanism sparked a moral panic. In North America and Europe, the rise in popularity of heavy metal, “Dungeons & Dragons,” along with a plethora of other supposedly “occult” pastimes helped to foster what came to be known as the “satanic panic.” At its core, the satanic panic was about the fear that devil worshipers controlled schools and daycares, and the hysteria never truly died.
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