What's hiding in those woods? Is there something under your bed? Have you heard the stories about the creature in the water?
Join Atlas Obscura, and author Colin Dickey for Monster of the Month, for an online show where we'll explore various cryptids, ghosts, and other creatures that lurk just below the surface of polite debate. Is there any truth to the stories? And why are we drawn to them in the first place? During this hour-long event Colin will share the lore and the history, the myth and the science of the world of the monstrous!
The 1980s saw the rise of what's since become known as the Satanic Panic--when suburban parents became convinced that a secret network of Satanic worshippers were abducting children from daycare centers and doing horrible things to them behind the walls of ordinary looking homes. How did this panic start? How far did it spread? Why have we allowed it to largely become forgotten? This month we'll look at the Pentagram-drawing monsters in black robes in the house next door...
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Colin Dickey is the author of four books, including The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained; and Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places. He is a cultural historian who has traveled the country in search of ghosts, aliens, and monsters, and whose work focuses on the morbid and the macabre, as well as the fringe beliefs that linger at the margins of culture.
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