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They say the Devil’s in the details, but when conspiracies captivate our imaginations, we often overlook the real devils walking among us. From the creators of the hit podcast The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill comes a new show, Devil and the Deep Blue Sea , which takes you back to the Satanic Panic that gripped America in the 1980s and 90s. This limited series explores how hysteria gripped parents and teens through cautionary tales like Go Ask Alice , influenced notorious criminal cases like the West Memphis Three, and catapulted the political agenda of the Moral Majority. Join as we seek to understand how this wave of panic devastated innocent lives and diverted the church’s attention from the evil lurking in its own pews.
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Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is hosted by Christianity Today. The show has published 16 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "BONUS: Amanda Knox on the Satanic Panic and Wrongful Convictions" (11 December 2025, 62 minutes), "BONUS: Survivors & Abuse Continued - Rachel Denhollander on Faith and Accountability" (13 November 2025, 60 minutes), and "BONUS: Chris Lane and Matt Martens on the WM3 & Criminal Justice System" (27 August 2025, 66 minutes).
Devil and the Deep Blue Sea publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 60 minutes across 16 episodes.
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Christianity Today hosts Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, a history podcast with 16 episodes published.
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Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
<p>In our final bonus episode, Mike Cosper and Rebekah Sebastian talk with exoneree, producer, author, podcaster, and advocate Amanda Knox.</p> <p>Amanda was a 20-year-old American student in Perugia in 2007 when her...
Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
<p>In this bonus episode, Mike Cosper sits down with attorney and advocate Rachel Denhollander, the first woman to publicly accuse Larry Nassar of sexual abuse. Together, they discuss what it really costs to tell the...
Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
<p>Mike Cosper and Rebekah Sebastian sit down with Chris Lane, District Attorney of Floyd County, Indiana, and Matt Martens, a Washington, D.C. defense attorney and author of Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian...
Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
<p>In this bonus episode of The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Mike Cosper sits down with former Congressman Adam Kinzinger for an intimate and wide-ranging conversation about January 6th, conspiracy thinking in the...
Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
<p>In this bonus episode of Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, we explore one of the most difficult and essential topics raised in season 1: abuse.</p> <p>Joined by guests Colleen Ramser and Mary DeMuth, we discuss the...
Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
<p>Season One may be wrapped—but the story isn’t over.</p> <p>In this bonus episode of The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, we bring you a dynamic conversation between two returning guests—Matthew D. Taylor and Robert...
Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
<p>Stay tuned to the end for news from Mike Cosper and Rebekah Sebastian on upcoming Bonus episodes!</p> <p>In the finale of Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, we try to do the impossible: tie the threads together. From...
Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
<p>As we approach the end of the series, we learn that the Satanic Panic didn’t end with a bang. It was more of a slow fade-out. The Religious Right had secured major political and cultural victories. Evangelicals no...
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<p>Remember Mike Warnke, the world’s #1 Christian comedian from Episode 3? We’ll revisit his story with a little fact-checking, but first, we introduce you to another infamous figure of the Satanic Panic: Lauren...
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<p>The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea team is on spring break, so we’re taking this opportunity to bring you something a little different. In this interview with show creator and host Mike Cosper, we explore how the ripple...
Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
<p>Do you hear what I hear? Backmasking. </p><p><br></p><p>From the Beatles to Led Zeppelin, rumors of hidden, subversive messages in popular music sent Christians into a frenzy. Backmasking wasn’t just a recording...
Episode #4
<p>In today’s episode, we’re exploring how fear and false memories motivated us to believe stories that were horrific yet too compelling to check. It started with Jay’s Journal, where Beatrice Sparks transformed teenage...
Episode #3
<p>August 8, 1974—Richard Nixon resigns. The country watches as the law-and-order president falls under the weight of his own corruption, leaving behind a legacy of paranoia, scandal, and a crisis of trust in American...
Episode #2
<p>The 1960s promised a revolution—civil rights, moon landings, peace, love, and rock and roll. But it also brought riots, rising drug use, and missing kids. By decade’s end, American parents weren’t just worried—they...
Episode #1
<p>On the face of it, TLC’s show about the Duggar family and Damien Echols, one of the infamous West Memphis Three, seem to have little in common. But what if we told you that both stories, which begin and end in...
Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
<p>They say the Devil’s in the details, but when conspiracies captivate our imaginations, we often overlook the real devils walking among us.</p><p>From the creators of the hit podcast The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill...
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