Throughout the 1980s, Satanic cults were widely believed to be preying on children — torturing and terrorizing them as part of dark rituals. Across North America, there were hundreds of false allegations, scores of unjust criminal trials and countless lives torn apart. But never any real proof. By the early 90s, the panic reached the tiny Prairie town of Martensville, Saskatchewan. And nearly 30 years later, the people touched by it all are still picking up the pieces. So what happened? And ...
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Remember when people were told by the news in the 80s that there were Satanic cults everywhere? That's OK if you don't. Kristopher Irizarry-Hoeksema (aka Gato Toninas) does. When his adoptive mother, (aka Police Station Polly of 2020 viral Karen fame), became a born-again Christian, he was dragged into the heart of the Satanic Panic which was driving the growing Christian evangelical movement. With the Satanic Panic Survivor, listeners not only revisit the OG Satanic Panic of the 1980s, the ...
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Episode 1: Satanic Panic Survivor Episode 1: Introduction to the 1980s Satanic Panic
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Wherein The Satanic Panic Survivor, Kristopher Irizarry-Hoeksema, creates a timeline for the 1980s Satanic Panic and makes comparisons to the emergent (or revived) Satanic Panic. Kristopher discusses how the Satanic Panic was used to recruit Americans into the emergent 'Born Again' Christan Evangelical movement. Kristopher also discusses how the Mo…
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Throughout the 1980s, Satanic cults were widely believed to be preying on children — torturing and terrorizing them as part of dark rituals. Across North America, there were hundreds of false allegations, scores of unjust criminal trials and countless lives torn apart. But never any real proof. By the early 90s, the panic reached the tiny Prairie t…
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Episode 1: 'It was such a perfect place'
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Police Officer Claudia Bryden is drawn into a bizarre case unfolding in the peaceful Prairie town of Martensville, Saskatchewan. What starts with a single complaint about an alleged sexual assault in a home daycare grows into something bigger and more disturbing than anyone could have imagined.
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Episode 2: 'It was hell'
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By June 1992, nine people face nearly 180 charges related to the sexual abuse of children who have attended a home daycare in Martensville. Journalist Dan Zakreski revisits the sites of the story that dominated everyone's attention, including a ‘Devil Church,’ and reflects on his own role in spreading the story. Then, we meet a young mother searchi…
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Episode 3: ‘You got to be friggin’ kidding me’
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As the number of suspects continues to grow, rumours of an underground Satanic cult whose members include police officers have taken root. Saskatoon Police Officer John Popowich finds himself facing “the worst things that a human being can be accused of.”
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Episode 4: ‘There is still time to wake up'
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A local activist in Saskatoon, Marjaleena Repo, says she knew instantly that the accused were innocent, victims of nothing less than mass hysteria. Though she sounds the alarm in any forum she can find, her warnings are ignored.
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Episode 5: The Many Martensvilles
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As devastating as the Martensville Nightmare is for all involved, it’s just one piece of a much bigger picture. FBI special agent Ken Lanning spent the ‘80s trying to figure out what the hell was happening across North America, and why.
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Episode 6: ‘I remember telling them nothing happened to me’
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How does it come to be that hundreds of children across North America and beyond report such similar crimes? How has a phenomenon that’s never seen a proven case become so real in the minds of so many? And what does it mean for the children at the centre of it all?
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Episode 7: What good can come of this?
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Far from healed, the Martensville Nightmare remains an open wound for those who lived through it. And yet for the rest of us, the history is all but lost — a symbol of the broader failure across the board to face the effects of the Satanic Panic head on or to learn its lessons. But, some surprising good did emerge out of all the pain.…
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Satanic Panic Episode 14 – Invasion
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The team was just getting to the bottom of their many mysteries when there was a knocking at the door, or rather an explosion at the elevator. An old friend has come to pay the agents a visit....Door Satanic Panic – The One Shot Podcast Network
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Satanic Panic Episode 13 – Revelations
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The team returns to the TPS headquarters with an new prisoner in the mad doctor they nicked from the stronghold. However, the interrogation of the doctor raises more questions than answers.Door Satanic Panic – The One Shot Podcast Network
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Satanic Panic Episode 12 – Heavy Weapons
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The team is in the midst of the TSR Stronghold. The only thing they have to help them... is a warehouse worth of machine guns. And mechanics! So many game mechanics!Door Satanic Panic – The One Shot Podcast Network
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Satanic Panic Episode 11 – Doctors and Demons
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As the team infiltrates the TSR stronghold new information comes to light about the cooky old doctor and what resides inside Alexander. Also the team gets a potty mouth.Door Satanic Panic – The One Shot Podcast Network
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The team is on the outskirts of a TSR stronghold. While loaded down with the most guns they could possible carry, they decide to test the bounds of geographic reality.Door Satanic Panic – The One Shot Podcast Network
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Satanic Panic Episode 9 – Georgia
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In the aftermath of Inspector Acht's visit to the agency, Burt Macklin goes into business for himself. A few well placed lies, with the help a supportive superior officer, and the team is on its way to a TSR stronghold.Door Satanic Panic – The One Shot Podcast Network
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Satanic Panic Episode 8 – Inspector Acht
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The team returns from their mission out to Talawanda High school only to come under fire from a brand new threat. They must defend themselves from an inter-office investigation.Door Satanic Panic – The One Shot Podcast Network
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The team has been roped into a mission all of them have been dreading, attending Howard's birthday party.Door Satanic Panic – The One Shot Podcast Network
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Satanic Panic Episode 7 – The Demon
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The team has tracked the source of the demon to the basement of Talawanda high school, but this basement hold more secrets then anyone expected.Door Satanic Panic – The One Shot Podcast Network
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Satanic Panic Episode 6 – Room 204
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Face with a possessed girl in the middle of a high school cafeteria the team takes drastic action to try and isolate the situation. However, unforeseen circumstances make this task far harder than anyone expected...Door Satanic Panic – The One Shot Podcast Network
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