Satanic Panic Produced No Evidence

Beginning in 1980, the Satanic Panic spread across the United States and continued into the 1990s, fueled by claims that organized cults were committing ritual abuse. Authorities documented more than 12,000 accusations, but police investigators failed to substantiate any allegation of organized Satanic cult abuse. Scholarly research later classified the phenomenon as a moral panic rather than evidence of a secret criminal network.

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