Due to the graphic nature of this episode. Listener discretion is advised. This episode fee the discussions of abuse, murder, sexual assault and child sexual assault that some people may find disturbing vice extreme caution for listeners under thirteen and nineteen eighties away. The anxieties surged across the United States worries the economy, military conflicts and religious turmoil seem to dominate public discourse and too many don't like the nation was losing its way. Looking to cast blame some pointed the finger at inept governments and amorphous foreign threats from beyond the country's borders, but others did there was a more insidious threat, something evil in the biblical set. And this fear, wasn't wholly unfounded few

by highly sensationalized crimes. The rise of occult imagery in pop culture and the growth of evangelical churches paranoia ran rampant. There was some invisible malevolent force corrupting the Youth of America and painting the moral fabric of society Every shadow hit a monster: there was no safe harbour and in the face of so overwhelming evil. Some People reason there could only be one entity to blame sake himself. People were convinced date uncovered the truth about an all encompassing evil conspiracy to end life, as we know it, and from that first, bark of insanity. The flames spread rapidly allegations emerged, the devil worshippers were carrying out disturbing occult rituals all over the country in homes businesses, even schools and day cares. People

to see Lucifer's influence in movies music and on the backs of shampoo bottles in the midst of the a new religious right rose up. The news media as a megaphone. They stoke the flames compounding situation in a misguided bid to destroy Lucifer at all costs. It wasn't long before wild conspiracies, half truths and phony. First person accounts of Satanism blended together, hers, take stories that young children were being kidnapped. Sexual. Abused and murdered by evil calls spread like Hell fire overs. This law enforcement and psychologists pursued the claims cokes children into corroborating. The outrageous allegations based on these PS, testimonies, scores of day care center employees and parents stood trial. Families were torn apart, businesses left in ruin, reputations redo

to tatters and when the settled some still didn't know what to believe. That was the sea tonic, panic, miss information paranoia and fear ignited a firestorm across North America and the locations of this modern day witch hunt still ripple even today,. hi, I'm Gregg pulsing welcome The first episode of a five part special on the satanic panic part of a cross over event between serial killers and calls over the next four weeks were taking it. He dived into what sparked this modern day: mass panic in America, I'm here my co host Vanessa Richardson high everyone. You can find

Episodes of serial killers, cults and all other Spotify originals from cast for free on Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts, with several Ok, it's worth of distance. It's easy to pass judgment on those who were swept up in the madness of the satanic panic, but we're to examine exactly how it took hold from Nineteen sixties, popular culture and the rise of evangelical Christianity do sit. Killers and murderous cults. We're delving into the facts that fed the falsehoods today we're charting the origins of the satanic panic, tracing its roots back to the highly publicized crimes of cults and serial murderers, murderers in the sixties, and and will also Look at how sensational reporting led to an unprecedented explosion of paranoia, as the nineteen eighties rolled around next time, we'll cover the murderous rampages of three iconic serial killers who terrified their communities

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Detective Bob Perez, could feel all the hairs on the back of his neck standing on end he wasn't sure if it was the chill in the air or his horror, over the task at hand for them several weeks he'd been investigating one of the most horrific abuse cases. He'd ever seen. His ten year old, foster, daughter Donna revealed that she'd been sexually molested by nearly every adult in her life. Every time he talked to her revealed more and more abusers, but she didn't we know their names. She called them things like a bald guy glasses or a fat mother with black Hair detective parade, needed more information. So that morning March Thirteenth nineteen, ninety five, he drove he drove the streets of wine that she Washington to see. If she, point out the homes of her molesters

places where she and other children had been passed around like party favors. According to Donna, it was all arranged by an elaborate underground sex ring the hidden Your belly of this sleepy Pacific Northwest town as per has turned down street after street Don appointed at more and more of the front doors by the the drive she identified. Twenty two houses and buildings throughout the town, including a local, pending hostile, church, peripheral stunned the cult of abuse was wider than he could possibly imagined. He started to call the circle, but persons didn't truly appreciate the diameter of the circle not yet when he finally saw the whole picture. He'd help bring charges against forty three adults accused of

raping or molesting sixty children, at least twenty nine thousand. Seven hundred twenty six times, except none of it It actually happened. Scenarios like the one in Winatchi played out over and over again during the satanic panic in towns across America, in the nineteen eighties and was time of nearly unprecedented paranoia, a period where the darkest most outrageous accusations were taken seriously even by educate, did otherwise reasonable adults. In short, it was a moral panic and to fully grasp these events, we need to understand exactly what that means. Socio is an criminologist Stanley Cohen. Writes that moral path, occur when a person or a group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests. warnings about the threat must be passed on by worried citizens disconnect.

Been through any number of ways, but in the modern era, panic most commonly spreads through mass media, according to Cohen, news, newscasters, community leaders or other public officials can condensed the danger into a digestible, easily recognized simple, it's much more or less. To to incite public outcry and to Christian Middle America- there is no simple, more terrifying, then Satan himself once a threat has been signified, regardless of whether the panic is justified or rational authorities pressure to do something about it. Any dissent is considered suspicious at best, at worst, a clear sign of guilt at the height of satanic panic, many took disagreement as a sign of collusion with evil because no one wanted to be ostracised by their community people incur, and embellished rumors wanting

To avoid casting suspicion on themselves too many there were only two choices guilty or innocent to believers. Debating Lucifer was a cause that was an absolute good club themselves. In sanctimony parents pointed to the encroaching threat of Satanism as justification for stamping out whatever offended them. After all, the fate of their children's souls were at stake. Eventually moral panics can grow powerful enough to affect actual social change and when they do? This only reinforces the original concern after enforcement and psychologists started looking into the tonic accusations. Sir killer logic ensued for school Dixon believers alike. The very fact of, investigation served as evidence that the threat was real. Why else?

with those in power act. This process showcases the emotional minefield that surrounds any widespread moral, panic or conspiracy to those who feared that city Cultures. Were invading their neighbourhood, but devil was the ultimate evil and his victims. Young children were the ultimate innocence in this the collective voices of the satanic panic believers grew until they drowned out any reasonable debate with each additional and who bought in the threats, did you see more legitimate to those the outside. Eventually the masses took even the most outrageous claims seriously with love faltering consequences and the bigger the scandal, the more captivating the headlines, dubiously turning panics red through mass media and was influenced by modern popular culture. Followed a similar course as previous moral hysteria is throughout history from the same

which trials to the red scare. This rumours and the dark side of human nature have always driven people to violence. Masquerading as righteous justice, even the Disturbing accusations of satanic ritual abuse have origins in the ancient and often bloody crusades of the past stories about children being kidnapped and murdered. To appease the devil can trace their roots back millennia, Irene Luckily, somebody earliest these stories targeted Christians rather than Satan as the perpetrators of evil, In ancient Rome, Christians were accused of kidnapping and cannibalized children as relatively new religious minority. They were blamed for everything, from economic hardship to destructive fires but as Christianity spread and became more socially acceptable by the middle ages. The myths CO opted and used to advance the church's interests. Florence. Each Ridley, a literary scholar founded

stories of child sacrifice circulated as early as the fifth century. In her article, a tale hold too often really a trip it's one of these tales to Socrates of Constantinople, a christian historian not to be confused with the greek philosopher. She writes Socrates. tale of hot. In Mostar and Syria, a group of Jews have tortured and murdered a christian child in mockery of Christ and everything That remote time. Similar stories have continued to appear in various forms in the folk lore of Western Europe and eventually in America. This pattern continued as the years went on through the medieval period stories of innocent children who were kidnapped and tortured by small,

a religious groups ran rampant in the modern era. Similar troops were used by the third Reich as anti semitic propaganda to indoctrinate the Hitler youth in Nazi Germany. In the United States, tales like these were used from the country's inception. As away to malign black people from than a century stories of black men attacking torturing, and killing white children circulated throughout the country, time. They served as excuses to justify evils like slavery. After this, the war. They were used to enact and expand Jim Crow laws that kept black people subjugated and oppressed, no matter what else changed? This kind of baseless your mind ring reinforced racist policies and institutions, though each adoration of these vile stories differed in their particulars for over

thousand years they ve demonized vulnerable groups by using innocent children as sympathetic victims, because society generally agrees across the board that crimes targeting children are senseless and despicable it. So ages. We don't even question whether these accusations are true by men. Relating emotions. These stories twist the protected instincts of parents into a tool for prejudice and violence. This specific, group, targeted by these myths always depends on the social environment of the time, as this sixties turned into the seventies. A new group emerged as the target of collective fear and distrust. Unlike in the past, the motor nation, for these fears seemed less rooted in hate and more anchored in a mystical paranoia, concern, of adults were frightened as they felt american culture changing and ultimately slipping out of control in those uncertain times, then

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sixty six when Anton Levey founded the church of Satan in San Francisco, but though his move tat a controversial name. It didn't inspire much outrage at first. He only had a few followers most considered levey. To be nothing more than a harmless crank for the rest of the country. There first frightening introduction to Satanism came two years later in nineteen sixty eight, when Horror movie, Rosemary's baby was released to critical and popular acclaim, originally a novel, rosemary his baby told the story of a secret group of countess who arranged for an innocent woman to be impregnated with Satan's child, but dear in nineteen, sixty nine will they publish the satanic Bible for him Satan was not a physical creature with a pitchfork and horns instead he was a symbol of liberty and rebellion against a prudish controlling establishment in the first part of the book called the book of Satan Levey wrote

in this era, wilderness of steel and stone? I raise up my boys that you may here to the east. To the west. I beckoned to the north and to the south, I show, assign proclaiming death to the weekly wealth to the strong The satanic Bible wasn't as revolutionary are controversial as it pretended to be Levey attack to the concepts of good and evil, as well as organised religion, but his critique we're very original or shocking book, also outlined the philosophy of his church, which borrowed from or plagiarized concepts from Social Darwinism alone. But the writings of Regner Red Beard and Ayn Rand Levine also argued for a hedonistic lifestyle, believing that it was human nature to give in to lust greed and the individual ego. Hardly shocking concept at the time. Indeed, the The thing in the book that went beyond recycled philosophy was the final section

level gave dubious instructions for various magic spells and indications to the devil, which looked a lot more frightening and impressive than they were because Levey did not actually believe in the supernatural. These were meant to read as performance art pieces, overall much, if not all of the satanic Bible was derivative of other philosophies and debunked works of alleged black magic, some purchase the book ass, a novelty but few gave it any credence for now lobby was largely ignored, but it wasn't long before public interest in the occult grew beyond just a money making opportunity for authors and movie studios in August of nineteen sixty nine the same year. The satanic Bible was published stories about. Depraved cults cults became gruesome reality month. Charles Charles Manson, his bohemian followers brutally murdered seven people in LOS Angeles among the

victims was actress Sharon Tate, it was eight and a half months pregnant. At the time of her death in the mats. The Manson murders were sensational around around the country of a sudden in reality was more terrifying than the bloodiest horror film the centre of it all was Charles Manson. Almost overnight, he became one of the world's most notorious villains, evil. Incarnate. He was a genuine cult leader, a man who commanded his followers to murder innocent victims, including an unborn baby in the Serbs. A dark, mystical plan. crimes were modern proof of the ancient horror stories about satanic child murderers, child murderers, tales of the attacks were further fascinating, morbidly, fascinating the nation for years to come and in many ways, Manson's family played specifically to the paranoia of white, suburban Americans that an evil force was

to take their innocent children is violent, called, was composed primarily of young middle class. Women, Were drawn by the hippy movement of the time every night. The news reported more about how the women were applied with lsd and marine by bizarre evil ideology, following the murders. The truth about the cult emerged, mats until this followers that there was a secret coded message hidden in the Beatles White Album according to him, the lyrics of Helter skelter foretold and upcoming upon the lipstick race WAR, for wit, he and his followers had to prepare soon, Manson wasn't described ass, a horrific isolated case. His violence was conflated, anything and everything the news could link him too. Environment of rising dread. Things like this, a tent Bible no longer seem like harmless novelties. Instead of a bit spurious hedonistic, nonsense, depraved devil worship

suddenly seemed like a real possibility. Chow those Manson made America fear a new dimension of evil and every he was associated with, from rock music to the rise of hallucinogenic drug use were all loosely lumped under the same counterculture umbrella that led directly to Satan's doorstep. The amorphous counterculture movement had been a favorite bogeyman of conservative adults for years young people throughout the country. He sought new experimental, more tolerant lifestyles. They also fiercely criticize the establishment and the ideal of the american dream, trend, combined with the burgeoning civil rights and anti war movements. In the. U S made many feet. But the country was under attack after you,

of worry. The changing nation prove to them that their fears weren't unfounded. They were very real threats in the eyes of these frightened parents, their growing. Children were poisoned by immorality and short sightedness. There were plenty of potential scapegoat. But after the Manson family murders, a huge portion of the blame felony era's popular music. In a bizarre hypocrisy, men, bought into Manson's claims that satanic messages really were hiding on rock albums, though they decried Called leader is an evil liar. They cherry picked his claims that supported their fears and a kind of dress rehearsal for the later satanic panic. Accusations rumors were repeated ad nauseam until a sizeable number of people in the? U S gave them credence peoples, started playing albums backwards, searching for hidden infernal messages in Rio.

Bans like the Beatles more experimenting with hiding Easter eggs in their music, for example, using backmasking a technique in which a sound is recorded backward onto a track. Beetles had inserted a reversed lyric in their song rain. It just wasn't satanic though there were some legitimate instances of back masking, not every rumour about. It rang true, when P, found something they thought was demonic. They pleaded for their friends with ambling. Harassment. Even sceptics could be convinced that there were devilish words hidden in the meaningless reversed sounds it turns out. The human mind has a natural tendency to search for patterns, images and distinct words, even where none exist. This Psychological phenomenon is known as Pareidolia looking into the sky and comparing clouds to animals or spotting gnarled faces in tree. Trunks are examples of visual Para Dalia, but this

influence our perception when listening to music as well We don't always simply here what is played to us. Instead, we hear what we want to cycle Diana Deutsche discovered that by broadcasting the same sounds through two speakers at slightly different rhythms listeners be tricked into believing that phantom words or phrases were being played. She I found that the words people heard depends greatly on their mindset and thoughts at the time of the experiment. However, most people trust their senses, implicitly and dont know to expect psychological tricks of the mind so in the nineteen seventys. When fearful parents heard what they thought were demonic voices in the music, their children, listen to they panicked and for to believe the messages were there, it wasn't it it's to assume that the backwards words were actually corrupting their children. Swaying them to the side of evil. Pardon

paranoia can be explained by a long held misunderstanding about so called subliminal messages, starting in the nineteen fortys and fifty's company tried inserting single frame advertisements in the midst of otherwise unrelated cartoons and movies, even though, but conscious mind couldn't precede the brief flashes. Advertisers hope that the unkind This would be persuaded to act on the ads. So frequent psychological studies have largely discredited the original theories behind subliminal messages in one thousand nine hundred and seventy five researchers determined that flashing the words Hershey's chocolate during a student lecture did not lead to a sudden craving for chocolate, for example, even when chocolate samples were readily available and to say that subliminal messages are entirely mythical. However, more real research has suggested that they can impact a person's choices, though these

Act is more subtle than once believed either way. The idea that backwards, infernal slogans can expect a child's mind is completely unsubstantiated. Nevertheless, it was still a theory in the early nineteenth seventies and into the eighties. At the time, Some social psychologists and doctors argued that the brain could unpaid justly perceive and internalize the secret recordings. But their statements were completely baseless. These learned, researchers have been hoodwinked by their own fears and biases. Ultimately, truth of the claims didn't matter too concerned parents. They heard what they wanted to and fro altitude of reasons. They were already looking for an excuse to declare the counter culture movement tainted, or immoral hysteria around subliminal messages. Shocking books, like the satanic Bible and horrific cults, like Manson's, justified prejudices that parents already held but more significant,

the rumours unified a number of disparate groups. Suddenly religious groups Serbia's who resisted the social change at the time and adults who are simply wary of drug use all had common ground the evil behind curtain was at last revealed and too many it all made complete sense. The youth origin rebellious and there was nothing innocent about the shifting tide of popular culture, everything orchestrated by a single entity who pulled strings in the darkness, very moral failing could be attributed to Satan, and only a strident, unified moral police could stop him to some. He was influencing the music that children listened to the films they watched or possible. Simply encouraging the use of drugs like LSD. Others saw that the debt all was drawing young people away from christian churches or fuelling the spread of eastern religions. Like Buddhism,

Meanwhile, for those who feared cults and serial killers, like Manson Sir, was a violent being who craved debauchery, blood and human sacrifice. To those who who's. The rising tide of political and social change, so was instead an insidious cultural force, a Sid, elective whisper that threatened the hegemony of white middle class. Christians in the United States, no matter what a concern parents biggest fear chances where it could be traced back to the counterculture and bus Lucifer, the devil was a big enough concept that it accommodated Christians of all stripes, and it provides The paranoid suburban suburbanites, the perfect excuse to interfere wherever they liked Anton Lavey road in the nine satanic statements of the satanic Bible eight and has been the best friend the church has ever had as he is,

kept it in business all these years, and even after millennia, the dark Lord still giving the fears about say Panic messages infiltrating media soon spawned a cottage industry of christian approved paraphernalia as rhetoric about the dangers of the devil in popular music and media multiplied. Churches eagerly stepped in to fill the vacuum. As etons eternal enemy concerned. Citizens felt only their pastors could truly be trusted, since people still Needed entertainment, they turned to their religion for a safe alternatives, contemporary Christian music was born in the late sixties and early seventies. As artists work, too Reed songs of worship with instrumentation and melody that resembled the popular music of the time it was given the churches stamp of approval something that was safe for children of all ages. Meanwhile,

born again Christians wrote inspirational books about their religious journeys and, as the nineteen eighties dawned, Christian, television shows aimed at children dominated the airwaves, but even with the explosion. Of christian media. Some stood up from the pack like the work of cartoonist Jack Chick by the nineteen seventies chick, had published a slew of short comic strips designed to inform children about the devil's devious waves and to annoy late their young minds against unholy temptations, the comics work and easily digestible with expressive, art and heavy handed christian themes. There were event We translated into over one hundred languages, making them a hand. Andy Tool for missionaries seeking to proselytize overseas but ass. His repertoire expanded into dozens and eventually hundreds of comics, the dark side of chicks, Christianity reared its head, Chickpeas

did a literal interpretation of the Bible and didn't shy away from attacking those he saw as enemies of Christ is comics included racist, sexist homophobic and anti catholic diatribes, that warned of say ten conspiracies and threatened. His critics with eternal damnation, despite our because of their aggressive and bigoted language. The sales of chick comics flourished during the seventies they found fertile audience among the rising numbers of conservative Christians in the U S and abroad, though they were ultimately just comic strips. They nonetheless captured the essence of many christian churches at the time, and it wasn't message of love or peace, but rather a morning against evil and a call to arms spelled it out loud and clear, sir. I was responsible for corrupting every aspect of modern life.

Anyone who refuse to rise up against him was doomed to spend eternity in lake of fire while chick spread the word that only a of Christianity and moral policing could stand in the way of Satan. Popular me here at the time, continued to fuel the public's paranoia. More and more people came to genuinely believe that the devil really was on their doorstep. The news scared them their churches, scared them. Even Comic books, spread the fear by the mid nineteen seventies people had been bombarded with warnings about Satan for some long we're just waiting for him to stick, is flaming pitchfork through their male slot. They were on the edge of hysteria and all would take set them off, was one Little spar when we return the first ritual murders and the truth about the devil's shampoo looking for a clear and how to add more fun to your day,

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people were more willing than ever to believe in baseless gossip and conspiracy theories, especially if they played into their outlandish fears so in nineteen, seventy five, when a new crop of bizarre rumours spread across the nation people bought in after dozens of midwestern ranchers started reporting, their cattle were being murdered and mutilated. People suspected that, devil. Worshippers were responsible the cows were covered in small cuts, which looked to be the work of a scalpel, a knife, or possibly some kind of ritualistic dagger cases of dead bovines popped up, In Kansas Montana, and throughout the West and Midwest some of the animals had been mysteriously drained of their blood, fuelling wild conspiracy theories. It seemed like There had to be a paranormal explanation. What else could account for the that there were no animal tracks or footprints to be found around the animals corpses. Shirley

an evil force was behind the deaths. While some people blamed Ufos government experiments or publicity hungry pranksters, the satanic cult theory got most of the press, armed citizen militias started guarding herds of cattle at night and statewide signed. It studies searched for the origin of the attacks, but there is also the investigations word. Would anyone expected it turned, that most of the animals simply died of disease and other natural causes, then small insects and other animals devoured their organs. The blood Hadn't actually been drained at all it just coagulated and didn't spill out of the tiny cuts made by the insects in Vienna ranchers were forced to confront the truth that these kinds of deaths been occurring for years for decades, dead cat alike, were considered normal casualties. In fact, nothing the incidents was out of the ordinary and

nothing had actually changed, but instead of accepting the truth, it's spawned and even grander conspiracy. Now. Not only did they believe that satanic Cultus were slaughtering and drinking the blood of cows across the Midwest. They wondered if people were covering it up ass, his off The case with conspiracy theories, the sensational press was aided by cynical profiteers clamouring to cash in on the drama, so called clipped experts and poor sageness emerge from the woodwork eager to testify the nature of demonic sacrifices even after multiple investigations failed to detect any foul play cranks and con man appeared on local news to spread misinformation about the cattle deaths. They thought brocaded elaborate and contradictory stories about how the supposed rituals were carried out and the profound

tools the cultists used to suck out the blood of the animals. These bogus called experts didn't just look, first parts and the evening news they also target churches and superstitious civilian watchdog organizations all work. eager to go into detail about their sorted, satanic, past and too when the youth about the ever present darkness for a price. But the rumours about contests ritually slaughtering cattle weren't, just fuelled by smooth talking cynics. They were spread by average people desperate to make sense of a confusing world, and there were certainly evil lurking in America. The time sir, killers and even a few genuine, depraved cults who committed a slew of horrific acts during the seventies and eighties. This mixed of sensationalized truth, genuine mysteries, misunderstood psychology and mislead in conspiracy theories was difficult to sort through

in some ways, it was simpler to believe that a single overarching evil, like the devil, was deliberately pulling the strings. Unfortunate, blaming Satan for all the world's problems allowed some bad actors to go overlooked. so unjustly victimized innocent targets, Time went on, and malicious stories multiplied baby came even more outlandish. During the nineteen eightys, the amorphous mob of conspiracy theories, turn their sights toward one of the largest corporations in the: U S Procter and gamble best further headed shoulder: shampoo, Procter and Gamble started receiving mounds of threatening letters from anti satanists. The messages claimed that Proctor and Gamble Logo was the work of the devil. At the time the insignia consisted of a man's face in a moon next to thirteen stars, the stars, actually meant to represent the thirteen original american colonies, but critics but

If they were evidence that the company our light itself with the prince of darkness, the myth was made on a verse from the Bible Revelation chapter, twelve burst One states- and there appeared a guy wonder in Heaven. A woman clothes with this and the moon under her feet and upon her head a crown of twelve star where's the letter writers alleged that the logo made a mockery of that verse and was thus satanic. They also that the devil's number six six six could be made. If you drew lines between the stars according to conspiracies. That meant that Procter and Gamble had signed a pact with Satan, some even alleged that the company sent money to the church of Satan. The allegations were primarily spread by a pamphlets passed out by evangelical churches in shopping center parking, its concerns citizens inform their neighbours that they were washing their hair, with the Devil shampoo

as absurd as the story was. It resulted in a genuine headache for Procter and gamble some retailers caved to public pressure and stopped carrying their products in Eighty to the company received more than three thousand letters a week planing about satanic imagery, so they hired for full time employees who were solely devoted to answering every message every year It seemed. The rumours became wilder Finally, in nineteen, eighty five Procter and gamble in their logo to quell the outrage once and for all. Though it may have stopped some of the criticisms moves like these. Only legitimized the absurd accusations in the minds of conspiracy theories and the or Anti Satanist felt that their claims were validated. The more they loaded, the powder keg for the future panic later in our satanic panic special will explore exactly what happened when it did

but for now remember people had been flooded with propaganda from all sides about the contrived thread of Satanism for years, an environment where an extremely vocal group of people legitimately believed they were fighting an eternal war with the devil. There were no rules, but there would be casualties thanks again for turning into our satanic panic, special we'll be back Thursday with part two our cult and serial killers. Crossover event will explore the real and terrifying serial killers that fueled the satanic panic for

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