We take a step back in time and learn how one kid's disappearance sparked a panic in a little game called Dungeons and Dragons. https://linktr.ee/disinformedpodcast Sources:https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26328105 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_controversies https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/201404/dungeons-dragons-satan-and-psychology https://groovyhistory.com/satanic-panic-brief-history-hysteria https://www.cbr.com/1980s-dungeons-dragons-satanic-panic/ https://boingboing.net/2014/11/11/the-truth-about-the-dungeon-ma.htmlhttps://www.belloflostsouls.net/2022/05/satanic-panic-beyond-dungeons-dragons-prime.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/18/us/when-dungeons-dragons-set-off-a-moral-panic.html  https://mashable.com/archive/tom-hanks-dungeons-dragons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Memphis_Threehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/04/27/the-dd-panic/ https://web.archive.org/web/20141212161017/http://kushjar.com/the-disappearance-of-james-dallas-egbert-iii/ https://onthebanks.msu.edu/Exhibit/162-567-5/campus-legends-and-myths/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methaqualone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazes_and_Monsters https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000129/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084314/  Outro:Semi-Funk by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/4333-semi-funkLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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