Michelle Remembers is published in 1980. The controversial book by a psychiatrist makes sensationalist and unsubstantiated claims about Satanic ritual abuse of his wife, based on widely discredited recovered-memory therapy. The book’s early success helped lead to the so-called “Satanic panic” of the 1980s.
This Day in Halloween: Controversial "Satanic-Panic"-inducing book "Michelle Remembers" is published in 1980. / Illustration by Sarah Ryan