{"id":4292,"date":"2025-10-29T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=4292"},"modified":"2025-10-24T09:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:55:13","slug":"archive-org-brings-you-halloween-treats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2025\/10\/archive-org-brings-you-halloween-treats\/","title":{"rendered":"Archive.org brings you Halloween Treats! 🍬🍭🎃👻🔪💉👶⚰️"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’ve spoken at length about the Satanic Panic<\/a> in the past, especially Don\u2019t Make Me Go Back, Mommy: A Child\u2019s Book About Satanic Ritual Abuse<\/em><\/strong>\u2014which was a real book that was earnestly written and actually published in order to (traumatically) teach children and parents how to recognize the signs of something that was believed to be an epidemic when I was a kid, but in fact never ever ever happened to anyone (more details, with links to sources, at my original post<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sadly, I’d never come across a print copy of the complete book. Happily, that no longer matters because the good folks at Archive.org have digitized it and you can now read the whole thing online for free: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t Make Me Go Back, Mommy: A Child\u2019s Book About Satanic Ritual Abuse<\/strong><\/em> on Archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(As an added bonus, Archive.org also has this law enforcement training video on Satanic Cults from 1994<\/a>! Again: real resources for taking real actions in the real world to address a made-up thing, often with disastrous consequences for people who did nothing wrong<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The full text of Don’t Make Me Go Back, Mommy<\/em> is worth a look. Seeing the whole book really does underscore that this was a well-intentioned project (and even decently trauma informed, for the period). But those good intentions were tragically misdirected, literally paving a road to hell for some folks who were accused of imagined atrocities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suppose there is a lesson there, America. I don’t imagine we’ll learn it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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