Accusations of satanic ritual abuse has been at the center of headline events such as The Red Scare of the 1950s and the Manson murders of 1967. 6.

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As the United States shifted with the anxieties of the 1980s, baseless conspiracy theories about satanic cults committing mass abuse spread around the country.

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