“Look, it’s 1980, boys are growing out their hair like girls, girls are wearing pants, and rock n’ roll is spreading like the venereal disease, which can only mean one thing: Satan has wrapped his leathery wings around the children and they are ensnared in his insidious worship,” said Ethel McCudgins, a local parent, commenting on the recent disappearance of high school senior, Nancy Johnson. Johnson, 18, is the editor of the Smallton High School’s weekly newspaper–the Smallton High Snoop. Burton McGillicuddy, Smallton High’s gym teacher and presbyter of his church had the following to say on Johnson’s disappearance, “I just think that the young people and the sex and the rock music are the source of our great nation’s trouble and only Ronald Reagan’s moral majority can put America back on track.” Though there have been no confirmed reports of Johnson’s whereabouts, her disappearance is only one of a series of strange occurrences in the greater Smallton area including livestock deaths, pentagrams appearing in the Smallton Sycamore Sanctuary, and rumors of late-night rituals accompanied by rock music and sexual promiscuousness.
The Peoples Temple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple
Manson Family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manson_Family
Aum Shinrikyo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum_Shinrikyo
Order of the Solar Temple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Solar_Temple
The Branch Davidians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_Davidians
Sullivan Institute https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/03/nyregion/custody-case-lifts-veil-on-a-psychotherapy-cult.html
Running with Scissors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_with_Scissors_(memoir)
Church of Bible Understanding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Bible_Understanding
Scientology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology
NXIVM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXIVM
Children of God https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_International
Heaven’s Gate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_group)
World Peace and Unification Sanctuary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_movement
12 Tribes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Tribes_communities
Trail Days http://www.traildays.us/
Thule society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_Society
Rosicrucianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosicrucianism
Hermetic order of the Golden Dawn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetic_Order_of_the_Golden_Dawn
Thelema https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelema
Aleister Crowley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley
Rosemary’s Baby (1968) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary%27s_Baby_(film)
Rosemary’s Baby (2014) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary%27s_Baby_(miniseries)
Last Exorcism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Exorcism
The Wickerman (1973) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker_Man
The Wickerman (2006) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker_Man_(2006_film)
Mohs Hardness Scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohs_scale_of_mineral_hardness
Poltergeist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poltergeist_(1982_film)
Satanic Panic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_ritual_abuse#As_a_moral_panic
Martha Marcy May Marlene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Marcy_May_Marlene
Ti West https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ti_West
ABCs of Death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_ABCs_of_Death
Sorrows of Young Werther https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorrows_of_Young_Werther
Eleusinian Mysteries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusinian_Mysteries
