218: The Double-Murder That Canceled Halloween

If the occult parricide of the Brooks family didn't instill enough fear in the Bellaire community to cancel Halloween in 1995, then the fallout of the Satanic Panic made the final push. As the rise of teen occultism and violent satanism terrorized the hivemind of every suburban family across the country, Nathan Brooks embodied that terror and made a plan to not only shoot, stab, brain, decapitate, and crucify his own parents, but to go on a murder spree against all of those who loved and trusted him.

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