Gen X Archives

The Devil Made Us Do It: Inside the Satanic Panic If you grew up in the 1980s, there’s a good chance somebody thought something you liked was dangerous. Heavy metal supposedly contained hidden Satanic messages. Dungeons & Dragons could pull kids into the occult. Horror movies were corrupting young minds. Daycare centers became the center of extraordinary allegations involving secret rituals an...

Raised by Monsters: How Gen X Grew Up with Horror If you grew up in the 1980s, horror movies were everywhere. Michael Myers came home. Jason Voorhees waited at summer camp. Freddy Krueger made sleep itself dangerous. And somehow, these monsters became some of the biggest pop-culture icons of the decade. In this episode of the Gen X Archives Podcast , Pitfall Gary looks back at the horror boom that...

🎃 Trick or Terror: The Halloween Candy Scare of the 1980s🍬 🕹️The premiere episode is dedicated to Greg, a friend since childhood. He always embodied the true spirit of Gen X. He may be gone, but the legend lives on! 🤘 Halloween night, 1980s, the streets were full of ghosts, goblins, clowns and one unshakable fear: poisoned candy. If you were a kid in the '70s and ’80s you remember it, your pare...

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