I could find very little information about this tape online. Did Bob Larson really think the Goosebumps series was satanic? Was he just trying to get famous/rich by accusing a famous author of turning America's children into little devil worshipers?

Bought for .99 cents at a thrift store!

  • Did Bob Larson actually think the Goosebumps series was satanic?

    Bob Larson has claimed pretty much everything is satanic. Does he actually believe it? Maybe, maybe not, but accusing everything under the sun of being satanic is Bob's whole thing.

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    I'm unpleasantly surprised to see he's still kicking. He has his own website where you can buy t-shirts and donate money. Wikipedia says he did exorcisms via Skype!

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    Me and my headbanger teenage buddies used to love listening to him perform over the phone exorcisms on his radio show in the 90s, I'm amazed he's still going.

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    This post is Satanic

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    Why didn't I think of that?

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  • Oh Man, I LOVE Bob Larson. What a terrible person. He does online exorcism and opinion content now. He was a HUGE voice in the satanic panic world and he was one of the first, beating that drum years before especially when it came to rock music.

    Best thing about him is that he went on tour with Slayer to show how satanic it was behind the scenes and he left very disappointed. The worst the band did was smoke pot, watch horror movies and play Nintendo. No sacrifices, no orgies, no channelling Satan. Just a bunch of dudes relaxing and trying to fill time on the road.

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  • I'm pretty sure Bob Larson was famous for contributing to the "Satanic Panic" in multiple ways. He used to air un-vetted calls and stories of demonic possession on the radio. He took them quite seriously. He probably believed it, although I'm not sure that matters. He would go on to be a famous and widely publicized exorcist (still is). You can even take his classes to become an authorized exorcist.

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    The "Oh No Ross and Carrie" podcast did a series of episodes where they took his exorcism classes.

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    The more I read about him the more disgusted I am.

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  • There’s an awesome podcast series about becoming a certified exorcist through bob larson’s program from “Oh No, Ross and Carrie” if you want to learn more about this guy. He’s fucking nuts. Totally worth a listen if you’re into that stuff

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    Thanks for the recommendation.

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  • There was a really funny episode of Arthur, which had a goosebumps equivalent, which was criticized by nosy parents that didn’t read the books.

    Then they all became quiet after they actually they actually spoke to the author and cracked open one of the books.

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    Didn’t they ban the books from the library and Arthur starts a petition to bring it back?Then runs into the author, who lives nearby?

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    Yeah, essentially. Then the author turns out to be some of the parents’ English teacher or something. Then shames them for not reading what they’re so afraid of.

    When I was younger, I always thought the episode was calling back to when Harry Potter was being banned by parents. I didn’t know that goosebumps was targeted like this as well.

    Outraged adults always try to find something to scapegoat for their fear on.

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    I remember when Goosebumps first came out and have been reading them from the start.

    None of the schools around me banned them or anything but I do remember hearing something about them being “bad”. Luckily my parents weren’t like that.

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    I think it’d be the most embarrassing moment of my life if I was outraged over goosebumps and someone read a book in front of me to find out, it’s just babies twilight zone (not in a bad way of course).

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  • Bob was the only one terrorizing children 

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    Thats not fair. Whoever decided to put the doll's eyes on the boy at the end of the Bride of the Living Dummy episode certainly terrorized me.

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  • Still regreting the day i put back the satanic panic tape back on the self.

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  • This is more than likely just a (very profitable) grift. EC Comics (Tales from Crypt, Vault of Horror, etc.) was target by a psychologist in a very similar manner back in the 50’s. The guy was very clearly doing so to advance his career and sell more copies of his book Seduction of the Innocent.

    Bob here probably saw how lucrative that guy’s grift was and decided to do the same thing but with a religious spin. After all, Goosebumps was somewhat of a spiritual successor to pulp comics like Tales from the Crypt.

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  • I'd love to see the Found Footage Festival guys cover this video.

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  • I love collecting Christian/Satanic Panic stuff from the 90s, so I’ll be keeping an eye out for this!

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  • Thanks for sharing this. Enjoyed reading the back. Congratulations on the awesome find

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  • I need this for a project

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  • Its just stories about monsters with a some comedic twist bob :)

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  • Hope RLM has a copy.

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  • fucking hell, i need this so bad

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  • everything is satanic to people who want money from people who are gullible

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  • Look up Turmoil in the Toybox, a book and later VHS warning of this stupid shit, but from my childhood, the guy shitting on smurfs because, and I’m not kidding ‘they’re blue like drowned bodies’ or something like that . He-Man and the Masters of the Universe is bad because only his invisible sky daddy can claim the title master of the universe. \ So on and so on, idiotic delusional fearmongering drivel.

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