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Search results for "satanic" ...
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Believing the Children
This story takes a look at an investigation, which took place in 1991. In 1991, satanic daycare abuse was becoming a national panic and many parents were in frenzy over this. So when Fran and Danny Keller were charged with sexually assaulting a child, everyone just believed it did happen. But many years later, the Kellers maintain their innocence while serving their time in prison. This story reinvestigates the case by retracing the original prosecution and the original police investigation report. As well as utilizing some fresh interviews from the central participants of the case, these include the Kellers themselves.
Tags: daycare; child abuse; sexual assault; prison; crime; innocent; physical; satanic; parents; children; kids
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End-Time Christians Promote War with President Bush's Administration
According to close observers of President George W. Bush, End-Time Christian leaders have influenced Bush so that he has become steeped in the ideas of Armageddon, the Apocalypse and war with satanic forces in the Middle East. President Bush is also said to be trying to construct an American theocracy to fulfill God’s end-of-days plan.
Tags: Christianity; end of the world; religious impact; doomsday; faith;
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Witchcraft in Oregon's Youth Prisons
A KEZI-TV's investigation reveals that Wicca, a satanism-related occult has been taught in Oregon youth prisons. The prison officials allowed rabbis, pastors and priests to spend time with the troubled teenagers. Juvenile detainees have been instructed not to share their participation in the occult with their families. Wiccans claim they teach the kids to use magic responsibly; child psychologists and prosecutors believe witchcraft is inappropriate to introduce to incarcerated children who have had bad judgment and have been anti-social.
Tags: cults; occultism; religion; Satanism; Gerald Gardner; Aleister Crowley; Alex Sanders; youth; ritualistic murder; law enforcement; corrections; satanic churches
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Could it be... Satan?
Pitch Weekly investigates the Masters and Johnson Trauma Unit at Two Rivers Psychiatric Hospital and discovers evidence that an inordinate amount of its patients are diagnoised with having problems resulting from suppressed memories of cult ritual abuse.
Tags: health care; psychological health; cult ritual abuse; Two Rivers Psychiatric Hospital; Master and Johnson Trauma Unit
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Firestarter
This report tells how a man named Jay Scott Ballinger from Daleville, Indiana started fires to many churches in the area and several surrounding states. He also recruited teenagers into a Satanic Cult.
Tags: Church fires; arson; Satanic cults; Ballinger
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Devil's Advocate
Dateline NBC uncovers the story of a psychiatrist who made millions for himself and his hospital as a leader in the field of multiple personality disorder. Dateline reveals the doctor's dubious credentials and checkered past, including a startling pattern of diagnosing nearly all of his patients with multiple personality disorder, and using them to further his unproven and incredible theories of a vast worldwide satanic conspiracy.
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Satan's Theater
Satan's Theater tells the story of Joan Borawick who, at the age of 32, confronted her family with memories of ritual abuse. Nearly 800 lawsuits based on claims of recovered memories have been filed in the US in the last decade.
Tags: Ritual Abuse
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No title (id: 13023)
Houston Press finds that patients of Dr. Judith Peterson, an expert in the field of multiple personality disorder and retrieving repressed memories of childhood abuse, were often drugged, hypnotized, bound and lead to believe that they had multiple personalities or had belonged to Satanic cults. The investigation reveals that Dr. Peterson has been named in several malpractice lawsuits. (July 6 - 12, 1995)
Tags: Gangelhoff Devilish diagnosis Mental health Psychologists 10 pgs.
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No title (id: 12758)
The book tells the story of the murders of three 8 - year - old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, during the spring of 1993, and the subsequent trials of three West Memphis teenagers who were convicted of the killings. The book examines the claims by authorities that boys were slain in a "satanic" ritual; the questionable evidence-gathering techniques of police; the media hysteria that surrounded the slaying; and the subsequent developments that have cast doubt on the validity of the convictions. (November, 1995)
Tags: Reel Perrusquia Sullivan The blood of innocents Contest entry Juvenile justice Crime BOOK
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No title (id: 10390)
Outside discloses the high rates of crime and other oddities in the national park system; includes a guide which takes several well-known parks and breaks down crime statistics, odd anecdotes such as satanic worshipping and the anxiety factor, July 1994.
Tags: CA FL TX Shore Beg Bend Joshua Tree Everglades 15 pages