Book · 2001 · Body, Mind & Spirit
Satan's silence
Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt
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It's the best account that I've ever read by a large margin of the satanic daycare panic in the 1980s.
Jordan Peterson · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · Aug 2024 Listen at 1:17:16 What they say about it
- Documenting the satanic panic“best account that I've ever read”3
- Quoting from the book“quote again from that book”2
The best things said about it
There's a book called Satan's Silence that was written by a lawyer and a social worker that documents it; it's just unbelievable.
Jordan Peterson Modern Wisdom · Feb 2022 Satan's silence goes into very good detail over all this, but to be honest, it is some of the darkest [ __ ] I've ever read. For some reason, detailed stories of children being convinced they were raped by an innocent man is actually way more disturbing to me than stories of actual child abuse.
It's really good, the defining work of the satanic panic era.
I'm going to quote again from that book, Satan's Silence.
Satan's Silence goes on to note that as this process went on, quote, other children embellished their stories within days.
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Why people recommend it
Satan's Silence by Debbie Nathan and Michael R. Snedeker is a comprehensive examination and historical account of the satanic daycare panic that swept through the United States during the 1980s. Jordan Peterson recommended the book to a guest on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, praising it as the finest and most thorough account of the satanic panic era. Peterson also brought up the work on Modern Wisdom to document the widespread psychological contagion of the period, citing unbelievable contemporary stories about underground tunnels and child abuse allegations. Robert Evans extensively discussed the book across multiple episodes of Behind the Bastards, utilizing its detailed documentation to analyze the mechanics of the McMartin preschool investigation. Evans quoted from the text to highlight specific disturbing details regarding how children's stories were manipulated and embellished during the trials, ultimately describing the work as a defining and profoundly dark analysis of the era. The podcast hosts and guests frequently turned to this book to understand how mass hysteria, unreliable interview tactics, and sensationalized media narratives can converge to ruin innocent lives, cementing its status as an essential historical text on a deeply troubled chapter of American culture.
Every mention
Jordan Peterson did you ever read Satan Silence by any chance do you know that book Satan silence oh well it was written by… 2
“did you ever read Satan Silence by any chance do you know that book Satan silence oh well it was written by a lawyer and social worker and it's the best account that I've ever read by a large margin of the satanic daycare panic in the 1980s”
“there's a book called Satan's silence that was written by a lawyer and a social worker that documents it it's just unbelievable there were stories about underground tunnels where children were being taken down”
Robert Evans I'm going to quote again from that book, Satan's Silence. That summer, Judy Johnson became preoccupied with… 2
“I'm going to quote again from that book, Satan's Silence. That summer, Judy Johnson became preoccupied with the condition of her younger son's anus.”
“Satan's silence goes on to note that as this process went on, quote, other children embellished their stories within days. Tanya Mergile had talked about being sodomized and some of her classmates said Ry had penetrated both of their rectums and made them fillet him.”
“Satan's silence goes into very good detail over all this, but to be honest, it is some of the darkest [ __ ] I've ever read. For some reason, detailed stories of children being convinced they were raped by an innocent man is actually way more disturbing to me than stories of actual child abuse.”
“And yeah, the authors of Satan's silence, which is, have you read that book? It's Satan's silence. Yeah. Yeah. It's really good. the defining work of the satanic panic era.”
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“The book 'Satan's Silence' gives a good account of the widespread Satanic daycare panic back then, which further contributed to my disillusionment.”