While modern research digs at the roots of our evolutionary tree, the public's relationship with science is in danger of becoming dead wood. Aron Ra joins us for a discussion about ancient ancestors and modern misconceptions.

Something Wicker this way comes, as we rekindle our interest the most heathenish of horror classics, 50 years after it scared the Hell into audiences.

Author Jack Legg is here to dig up all the dirt on the Satanic Panic in his own backyard with his new book "Digging Up Devils," the story of 80 human sacrifices that never happened.

On this episode: How can greed be a sin if it also makes the world go round? Ethicist John Paul Rollert joins us as we cash in our chips.

We're biting off more than we can chew with mythical Satanic cannibals past and present, and it's a mouthful.

Its time to correct some clerical errors with our comprehensive history of Sinister Ministers--fictional and factual.

Our favorite feminist fiend is back, as we uncover even more esoteric history revealing why Lilith always comes out on top.

We remember the infamous 1988 Geraldo Satanism special--and then drink to forget the infamous 1988 Geraldo Satanism special.

We've tested Testaments new and old, and so it came to pass that we delve into the most fundamentally American of all fundamentalist American religions and meet their really weird devil.

It's a buyer's market, but everything must go! Sidney Sin joins us for a who's who of who's sold their souls for fame, fortune, and malevolent musicality in human history.

Pazuzu, king of ancient wind demons and friend to children everywhere; but what made Pazuzu the most popular demon of his day, and what can his myth tell us about the nature of religion, morality, and storytelling? Digital Hammurabi's Megan Lewis explains.

Black Mass Appeal is developing a King James Aversion with this down and very dirty study of the absolute worst parts of the Bible.

Where do you go for face time with the Big S? To the library, of course.

We're making a Halloween house call to America's most famous haunted home to learn how the Amityville Horror conjured a new brand of American demonology.

Atun-Shei Film's Andrew Rakich talks religion, race, and recreancy with his new Satanic historical thriller "The Sudbury Devil."

We are angel investors once again as we discuss the Satanic queer vibes of "Good Omens."

In the thrilling conclusion of our Black Miskatonic Appeal game: Who lives? Who dies? And who has to submit to Misty's community theater tryouts?

That is not dead what can eternal lie, but what if it's just been lying for 150 episodes or so, how dead is it then?

What Satanic secrets do we dig up in this grave underaking?

On this episode: We don't know the meaning of the word...but that's about to change.

Beelzebub has visited us with a very inconvenient virus, so while we reschedule our regular BMA, here's another little peak into Tabitha's private library to tide us all over. This time: Neo-Exorcist and Lego hair pioneer Bob Larson exercises our patience.

Just for our Patreon backers, Tabitha is cracking the books and cracking the mysteries of Stonehenge. What will we learn? Well, we're talking about Mike Warnke here, so probably not much--but hey, at least it's a party.

How did a tiny Southern California school end up giving an object lesson in the dangers of mass hysteria? To help us prosecute the McMartin Preschool case, we’re joined by lawyer and YouTuber Leonard French.

Satan springs eternal, but where did he spring from? Often we see older gods and religious figures compared to Satan and held up as his supposed origins, but is this accursed ancestry legit?

In possibly our funniest episode ever, you say to-may-to and we say to-mah-to as we pick apart this pick-up manual for Satanists.

We're mad as Hell. No, really, literally this time.

We’re returning the world of Silver Screen Satanism in the days before major film censorship for some historical Hollywood heresies. SHOW LINKS KSAT: San Antonio man wrongfully convicted in 1991 has charges dismissed in Satanic Panic case Australian Center for the Moving Image: Early Hollywood and the Hays Code Faust (1926) A landscape of nightmare…

By 1988, the Satanic Panic was starting to run out of steam, so Harvest House Publishing pushed a brand new absurdo-biography tell-all to stoke its engines. Is “Satan’s Underground” the worst Satanic Panic memoir ever published–or just the worst we’ve read for this show?

When it comes to Satanic aesthetics, you know the drill. But these days, we can’t help but notice a lot of Satanic art and fashion is looking downright cute – even adorable. Artist Artetak joins us to discuss this brand of "Soft Satanism." SHOW LINKS Artetak! Website, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube The Daily Voice: NC Man Vowed T…

When it comes to Deadly Sins, there’s one option you can always count on for putting skin in the game. So why do conventional religions have so many intimate inhibitions about Lust, and what can we do with the baggage we’ve inherited from them? SHOW LINKS Salon: "The Samuel Alito’s Mom’s Satanic Abortion Clinic" is a thing that exists now, Kelly Mc…

We're taking everybody's advice and going to Hell! For as long as people have believed in a fiery underworld, they’ve spread stories about how to get there from various locations around the world; so when you want to go somewhere just for the Hell of it, where should you set your sites? SHOW LINKS The Telegraph: Young sacrifice belief in God on alt…

Of all the books in Lucifer’s Library, one is overdue more often than all the others. But in the 50-plus years since the publication of the Satanic Bible, what has the world been saying about it, and how should these perspectives inform our own? SHOW LINKS A Journey to Hell: My Visit to the Houston Satanic Temple’s Art Show, Michael Hardy (2022) Ma…

We've heard of the banality of evil, but this wasn't really what we imagined.

We unleash the weirdest depths of Tabitha's Satanic Panic library.

The future is now – and also later, and arguably anytime we want it. With 2023 looming, we’re looking ahead and behind at some of our biggest Satanic and personal ambitions, and wondering which of them we’ll summon up for ourselves in the new year? SHOW LINKS WAAYTV: Business Owner Defends Yule Festival GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook …

Every Satanist knows that there are really only two magic words in life: Hail Satan. But where does this phrase come from, and why DO we say it so often? SHOW LINKS WCIA: Satanic Temple adds ‘Serpent of Genesis’ to Capitol Rotunda holiday display, Danny Connolly, Cole Henke (2022) Latin for Satanists: How to hail Satan in proper Latin, Nahn Cerwyam…

“It’s my time now," Satan declares in the 1997 horror/drama Hollywood hit The Devil’s Advocate, starring Al Pacino as the original boss from Hell. Now, at the film’s 25th anniversary, has his time passed -– or has this become a truly timeless work? SHOW LINKS LiveScience: Why Does the Devil Have Horns & Hooves?, Tom Metcalfe (2022) Publisher’s Week…

Pride comes before the fall -- and since it’s already November, that means we’re already late! But as Modern Satanists, what does pride, in all of its myriad forms, mean to us, and how can we celebrate it most meaningfully? SHOW LINKS Simone's "Creepy Bay Area" streaming special Awful Announcing: The danger of Kyrie Irving’s flat-Eartherism was ign…

For as long as humans have believed in mysticism we’ve been eager to know what the future holds, but modern religions are always hot to deal fortune telling to the devil. To help us learn more about why everyone is so afraid of making a psychic connection, we’re joined by Shiva Honey. SHOW LINKS Shiva Honey's Serpentinae website and shop, Instagram…

We're created some monsters -- or so they say. Just in time for Halloween, we’re going to decrypt the Satanic legend-making over American cryptids, with the help of Karen and Blake from the long-running skeptics' podcast, MonsterTalk. SHOW LINKS MonsterTalk: website, Twitter, and Facebook The Conversation: The monster festival – a pilgrimage to sma…

Satanic Bay Area has our very own Satanic ‘Chick’ Tract celebrating the real history of Halloween, but the actual Jack Chick spent decades hatching fabrications about our favorite holiday. To help us with some of these comic misconceptions, we welcome Satanic artist Jason Lenox back to the show. SHOW LINKS Lenox Art Emporium Satanic Bay Area's Hall…

In past episodes we’ve added such creatures as goats, cats, and everyday snakes to our Mephistophelean menagerie, but today… Here there be dragons. We’re making the biggest addition ever – in more ways than one. We explore the history of devilish dragons and why these mythical monsters are so often associated with Satan. SHOW LINKS Satanic Bay Area…

On your MARKS, get set, go! We all know those fateful numbers 6-6-6 by heart, but most people’s assumptions about what they really mean don’t add up. To help us decipher this inscrutable integer, we’re joined by Beverly, longtime record-breaking member of our own Mark of the Beast club. SHOW LINKS Only Sky: After legal threats, Kansas school board …

For five years here at Black Mass Appeal we’ve strived to pass around the fruit of knowledge and answer everyone’s questions about Satanism, Satanists and non-Satanists alike. But we can’t reach everyone, and some people have instead gone looking for wisdom on the wrong places, like Quora and the dearly departed Yahoo Answers. So today we’re answer…

It's said one's own birthday is the highest of Satanic holidays, so we're making a wish and diving into the history of these rites of passage with Satanic writer La Carmina; also, a classic American witch finally gets her day in court, and Satanic Bay Area finds its initiative. SHOW LINKS Ripley's: Last Salem "witch" pardoned thanks to middle schoo…

In 1992, FBI Special Agent Kenneth Lanning published his "Investigator's Guide to Allegations of Ritual Child Abuse." Though many sources today credit Lanning with sinking the Satanic Panic, few people have actually read this conclusions, so today we’re getting to the bottom of a national panic -- and to the bottom of a few drinks. CW: We drink and…

Nothing says "family friendly" quite like the name Disney, but Disney has always had its dark side. Here to help us with our cell-shaded sins, we have Ryan and James of the Creepy Kingdom podcast network. SHOW LINKS Creepy Kingdom's website, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram Giving the Devil His Due: Satan In Cinema, by JP Telotte (2021) He…

It's the return of our podcast-within-a-podcast, Neil Before Pod, this time with John Carpenter's 90s Lovecraftian apocalypse classic, "In The Mouth of Madness."