Aaron Mahnke

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They weren't the usual suspects.

To be fair, there were a lot of weird targets during the height of the Satanic Panic in the 1980s.

Most of them, in some way or another, resembled Eddie Munson from Stranger Things.

These folks, though, did not fit that mold.

The Fortune 100 company, Procter & Gamble.

You see, they were accused of supporting Satanism.

And it was all because of their logo.

It looked innocent enough.

On one side, there was a crescent moon with a man's face.

Think man and the moon, right?

On the other side, there were 13 stars.

And to the average person, it honestly just looked like a stylized depiction of the night sky.

But paranoid pearl-clutchers claimed that the image contained satanic imagery.

The curls in the moon's hair, for example, were actually supposed to be subtle devil's horns.

And the stars, when connected like a constellation, could form the number 666, the mark of the beast.

The company denied the claims, of course.

They'd had that logo since 1851, and the 13 stars were meant to represent the 13 original colonies.