A wave of terror swept through American preschools in the 1980s as parents dug tunnels beneath playgrounds, searching for evidence of ritualistic abuse that never existed.
A wave of terror swept through American preschools in the 1980s as parents dug tunnels beneath playgrounds, searching for evidence of ritualistic abuse that never existed.
When a single poem transformed Satan from a minor biblical character into a horned, pitchfork-wielding supervillain, it sparked centuries of hysteria that would culminate in 1980s America imprisoning innocent people for imaginary crimes against children who “remembered” flying teachers and underground tunnels that never existed.