Ben Kissel
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Last Podcast On The Left · Episode 669: Anton LaVey Part IV - Old Wizards Die Hard · 19 Jun 2026
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Oh, they think they're going against the devil himself.
They set up a massive operation to catch Anton LaVey.
The FBI, the Secret Service, the DEA, they set up a blockade at Chicago's O'Hare Airport to meet all incoming flights in the days preceding Halloween 1980.
They were convinced that LaVey was going to arrive any day with a briefcase full of hash.
LaVey, of course, never did.
Instead, when agents raided LaVey's house on Halloween...
He was just sitting there hanging out.
Yeah.
He's an old man.
Yeah.
He told the FBI that he had the highest regard for Senator Kennedy and his family and that he would never have any involvement with drugs because he was morally opposed to them.
That was actually the truth.
He was morally opposed to drugs.
You should be more evil than this.
In 1980, he's Anton LaVey's 50.
Yeah.
He's 50 and he's circling the drain.
But part of the reason why the FBI might have taken the allegations about Anton LaVey so seriously is because earlier that year, the book that kicked off the satanic panic, Michelle Remembers, was released.
And it was taken incredibly seriously.
Now, Michelle Remembers claimed to be an autobiographical account of a woman who had been raised by Satanists who belonged to Anton LaVey's Church of Satan.
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