Even though the supposed crimes unfolded thousands of miles and several decades apart, under very different circumstances, the two conspiracy theories share the same rough contours. The McMartin preschool scandal of the 1980s was a sort of analog version of the more recent Pizzagate, part of a lurid and misbegotten moral panic about subterranean child abuse. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of otherwise normal, relatively well-adjusted Americans truly believed that a massive ring of occultist pedophiles was operating right under everyone’s noses. “Everything fell into place,” one of them said. Nor was there any clear evidence that it was actually happening. Not that anyone else witnessed the abuse. And it all happened in the middle of a safe neighborhood where crimes were not supposed to happen, let alone such unspeakable and horrific ones. In total, some several hundred children were subjected to this treatment. Sometimes the kids were filmed for pornographic purposes. Their captors drank blood in front of them and staged satanic ritual sacrifices. The children were being sodomized in secret underground tunnels.
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