Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
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.
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 59 minutes
- Episodes
- 14
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
BONUS: : Chris Lane and Matt Martens on the WM3 & Criminal Justice System
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:…
01:06:11 |
Wed 27 Aug 2025
BONUS: Adam Kinzinger on January 6 & Conspiracy Thinking
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 thin…
00:45:59 |
Tue 29 Jul 2025
BONUS: What Does It Mean to Believe Survivors? In Conversation with Mary DeMuth and Colleen Ramser
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.
Joined by guests Colleen Ramser and Mary DeMuth, we discuss…
00:42:09 |
Mon 14 Jul 2025
BONUS: Livestream Q&A with Mike Cosper, Matthew D. Taylor, and Robert Downen
Season One may be wrapped—but the story isn’t over.
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 R…
00:54:29 |
Mon 09 Jun 2025
Forgetting What Happened
Stay tuned to the end for news from Mike Cosper and Rebekah Sebastian on upcoming Bonus episodes!
In the finale of Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, we try to do the impossible: tie the threads together.…
01:54:09 |
Wed 21 May 2025
The Spell Breaks
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. E…
00:58:26 |
Mon 05 May 2025
Joke's On Us
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 Pani…
00:43:26 |
Tue 22 Apr 2025
BONUS: Deep Dive with Mike Cosper: Q&A + Best of DDBS Live Streams
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 explo…
01:17:38 |
Tue 15 Apr 2025
Hell's Bells
Do you hear what I hear? Backmasking.
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 tri…
01:24:54 |
Tue 25 Mar 2025
Remembering What Never Happened
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 tr…
00:49:39 |
Tue 11 Mar 2025
The Witchmobile
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 tr…
01:02:05 |
Wed 26 Feb 2025
Runaway Girls, Runaway Fears
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 ju…
01:12:34 |
Mon 10 Feb 2025
The Devil Went Down To Arkansas
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 …
00:59:50 |
Tue 28 Jan 2025
Trailer - Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
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 Ma…
00:02:41 |
Fri 13 Dec 2024
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