by BallaratBob » Wed Jul 14, 2021 9:53 am
There were lots of rumors in the 80s and 90s about satanic sacrifices throughout the High Desert. There was supposed to be a group that met regularly in the Johannesburg and Red Mountain area. There were also sites in Searles and Panamint Valley which were supposedly used from time to time for meetings. There was even a rumor of a human sacrifice being performed in the area. I recall hearing specific rumors about a flattened-off hill near the mouth of Bruce Canyon, the Kopper King Mine area, Goler Wash, and the Gold Bottom Mine just to name a few which come to mind. Many people back then laughed this stuff off as just the over-active imaginations of paranoid individuals, but there were plenty of people who took it seriously. I've heard that there are still people who believe that there are tunnels under the McMartin Preschool site and there are probably still people in the Trona area who believe that there are bones of human sacrifice victims buried out in the desert. One thing's for certain, if there was ever any actual Satanic Ritual Abuse going on, it was extremely rare and the hype exaggerated the phenomenon (if it even existed) a million times over.