The book 'Michelle Remembers' launched a nationwide conspiracy theory that wound up falsely imprisoning dozens of people. ' 'Satan Wants You' explores why it happened and how our limited collective memory has already allowed history to repeat itself.
—an account that claimed to share repressed memories from Canadian woman Michelle Smith’s childhood, with help from her psychiatrist Lawrence “Larry” Pazder.Michelle Remembers—
In the 1980 co-written biography, Smith claimed to have endured a 14-month period of detainment and torture by a satanist cult to which her mother also allegedly belonged. She alleged that she’d been caged with snakes and forced to watch cult members kill kittens before her eyes.went gangbusters when it hit shelves, sending Smith on a whirlwind tour that would come to include sit-downs with both Oprah Winfrey and the Pope.
“My mother, her role was to keep me quiet,” Smith says at another point. “She picked me up by the skin and she threw me.” By the end, we learn, Pazder and Smith’s sessions had stretched to up to six hours long apiece—a practice that became common for future patients who claimed to be experiencing similar memories.
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