In one of the first major Satanic music events in America, 300,000 anonymous bodies gathered together over the weekend on December 6, 1969. They were there to see some of their favorite rock bands creating an instant pop-up city at the Altamont Speedway in Livermore, California. A dusty little town located deep in the inland desert in-between San Francisco and San Jose long before the Techno-Titans of Silicone Valley arrived.
Most of the young people in attendance were openly consuming hard-core drugs and alcohol, while people ran around nude, openly having sex in front of total strangers before the first band hit the stage. Makeshift fences surrounded the concert area as cheap bottles of red wine spiked with bad LSD, and mescaline made their rounds.
When someone asked what was in the wine, a freaky big blonde guy with a fat mustache, tight blue jeans, and wire-rimmed glasses said, “It’s got two tabs of mescaline in it. Organic. Good stuff, too. We put it in this morning,” as he took a big swig of the Red Mountain Vin Rose.
Many of the concert-goers were upset the wine was spiked with hard drugs. They had not intended to take their minds to another planet, but it was too late. Once they swallowed the first drink, they were already traveling deep into the organic abyss within minutes.
It was just after noon on Saturday as the bands were starting to arrive in their chartered helicopters on a temporary runway on the asphalt pit area of the Altamont racetrack. Finally, at about a quarter to 3 pm, a helicopter carrying the Rolling Stones along with their entourage touched down.
A confused blonde chick running towards the chaos said in her raspy voice to her girlfriend, “Who is it? Who is it?’ Her teen friend, barely able to contain herself, exclaimed in religious type fervor, “It’s Mick Jagger! It’s Mick Jagger!”
Immediately, the doped-up crowd of approximately 500 people went into a complete frenzy. Within seconds, they turned into a dangerous mob who had quickly scaled a hill and nearby fence, rushing toward the copter, almost crushing one of the Stones and some of his escorts. Their security team tried to fend off the mad horde, but the band and their crew were swallowed in a sea of mayhem.
But not everyone was so happy to see the Stones.
Some guy on a mission quickly broke through the sea of panting females shouting, “I hate you, I hate you!” and reared back, punching the singer right in the face. Jaggers Great Welcome to Satanic America and set the stage for one of the craziest nights in rock and roll history.
Ronnie Schneider, the Rolling Stones’ 1969 US tour manager, had said after the event, “We’re walking off the helicopter, and a guy jumps up and punches Mick [Jagger] in the face. The guy was just out of his mind, punched Mick in the mouth, and I wanted to kill the guy. And Mick’s like, ‘Don’t hurt him, don’t hurt him.’ That’s when we knew we had a problem.”
Yes, it was complete chaos, but as they say, the show must go on.
The stage was only about 3 1/2 feet high, and Jefferson Airplane’s performance was soon engulfed by a chaotic crowd of more than 300,000 who were held back by the Hells Angels, who viciously guarded the stage with pool cues, fists, and their boots. Hell, they had a bunch of people high on LSD like this naked fat man who tried to work his way up to the stage, stepping on grossed-out people, while under the guise of dance.
One of the opening bands, Jefferson Airplane, was unprepared for the violence that was unfolding. Apparently, the singer, Marty Balin, pissed off one of the Hells Angels on stage, who then grabbed the singer dragging him down into the crowd as he and other Angels ruthlessly beat him unconscious.
When Crosby Stills and Nash hit the stage, the crowd’s energy and violence were reaching its peak. Again, the singer would do something to upset the Angels, which would result in Stephen Stills being stabbed multiple times in the leg.
“We did a partial set because [co-lead singer] Marty Balin got dragged into the audience and pummeled by one of the Hells Angels,” said Casady. “We were trying to keep it together as our lead singer was on the ground getting beat up. There was pushing and shoving going on during our set by various elements onstage. There was no protection onstage. It had gotten so out of hand and chaotic … but we played a number of songs before we stopped.”
According to former Angels Los Angeles President and author, George Christie, said that Hells Angels Paul “Animal” Hibbits knocked out Airplane singer Marty Balin who had disrespected him.
“Some people should leave their clothes on in public. (In reference to the photo above) It quickly spun out of control, Rock Scully Grateful Dead manager told me Jagger insisted that the Jefferson Airplane play early in the day with several band performances between each of their sets, there was a concern they would outperform the Stones.
That performance would end the friendship between the Angels and the Airplane when Sweet William challenged Paul Kantner of the Jefferson Airplane on stage when he complained to the audience that Hells Angels Paul “Animal” Hibbits knocked out Airplane singer Marty Balin who had disrespected him,” Christie said.
After seeing the bloodshed, the Grateful Dead refused to go on stage due to safety concerns.
The concert management decided to postpone the Rolling Stones for a few hours until the evening, which only caused more alcohol and drugs to be consumed as the tension grew higher. But, unfortunately, no one knew that the worst was still to come.
As the night rolled in, small fires lit up the night sky blazing from trash cans as the shadows of people danced against the landscape reminiscent of the old fires of Baal. With the stench of smoke rising from the rotting trash permeating the night air, like demons rising from the depths of hell, the Rollin Stones would hit the stage with Jagger dressed in a black and red cape as if he was some Satanic High Priest giving a sermon on the Devil as the young girls listened intently.
By then, some of the Angels were also high out of their minds on bad acid and few others appeared to try to keep their fellow gang members in check.
As soon as the Stones hit the stage, it caused another massive crowd frenzy with Jagger’s sexual magnetization magic mixed in with his singing, putting many women under his creepy spell.
An eyewitness said he saw a young mother in a blue blouse and skirt pushed violently through the crowd carrying her baby, who must have been only a few months old in one hand well ahead of her husband as if a demonic spirit possessed her. She was there to see her favorite idol, Mick Jagger, the singer of the Rolling Stones.
The mother was probably high on drugs and possessed by her idol’s dark energies, becoming unaware of reality as she unknowingly dropped her baby onto the ground amidst the crowd of stomping feet. A Hells Angel attempting to manage the sea of doped-up maniacs and protect the stage had inadvertently stepped on her poor baby’s head with his oil-stained biker boots. She didn’t even notice, nor lose stride. The baby would allegedly survive the incident, but many other people wouldn’t be so lucky.
When the mayhem broke out, Keith Richards was unprepared for the violence of the American crowd who seemed to make their British rock counterparts look relatively tame. Richards had said of the event;
“The violence just in front of the stage was incredible.
Looking back I don’t think it was a good idea to have Hell’s Angels there. But we had them at the suggestion of the Grateful Dead. The trouble is it’s a problem for us either way.
If you don’t have them to work for you as stewards, they come anyway and cause trouble. But to be fair, out of the whole 300 Angels working as stewards, the vast majority did what they were supposed to do, which was to regulate the crowds as much as possible without causing any trouble.”
Richards concluded, “But there were about 10 or 20 who were completely out of their minds — trying to drive their motorcycles through the middle of the crowds. Really, the difference between the open-air show we held here in Hyde Park and the one there is amazing.
I think it illustrates the difference between the two countries. In Hyde Park, everybody had a good time, and there was no trouble. You can put half a million young English people together, and they won’t start killing each other. That’s the difference,” he said.
After the Stones opened with “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” the crowd went into a total frenzy. Jagger had pleaded for the audience to “be cool,” but it fell on deaf ears. Meanwhile, Meredith Curly Hunter, Jr. (nicknamed Murdock), an 18-year-old African-American with a big Afro from Berkeley, CA, attending the concert with his white girlfriend — tried to push his way onto the stage.
As the Stones played “Under My Thumb,” Hunter perched himself on a speaker box next to the stage when the confrontation had begun.
Hunter was violently pushed back from the stage by the Hells Angels. He became furious over the incident, so he stupidly pulled a gun.
A 21-year-old Hells Angel named Alan Passaro standing behind the melee had seen Hunter pull his gun. He quickly pulled a hidden knife from his boot and plunged into his back as he grasped his other arm holding the gun.
Still from ‘Gimme Shelter’ film about the Rolling Stones free concert at Altamont Speedway, December 1969.
Almost immediately, several other angry Angels pounced on Hunter, striking him all about the body and head unmercifully.
Within seconds, Hunter bled to death just twenty feet in front of the stage where the Stones were performing “Under My Thumb.”
Hunter was stabbed at least four times and repeatedly kicked in the head. As he lay dying, he reportedly told his attackers that he did not intend to shoot anyone.
“Hunter gets pushed back down by a Hells Angel, and he gets back up in the Hells Angel’s face. That’s when he starts getting his ass kicked — several Angels beat on him — and he falls back and comes up with a gun in his hand. Several feet away, Alan Passaro, who’s a San Jose chapter member, sees all this going down, he grabs a knife out of his ankle scabbard, and he stabs Hunter in the neck and back four times.”
A concertgoer who was a witness to Meredith Hunter’s death, Paul Cox, was standing right beside him before he was killed. He was a witness at Passaro’s murder trial. Author, Stanley Booth’s 1984 Dance With The Devil, later republished as The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones, had told about what Paul Cox witnessed to the grand jury at Passaro’s murder trial and Rolling Stone magazine. Here is Paul Cox’s eyewitness testimony;
“An Angel, he’s hassling this Negro on the side of me, reached over and shook this Negro by the side of the head, thinking it was funny, and I knew something was going to happen. The next thing I know he was flying in the air, just like all the other people it happened to.
He scrambled to his feet and he’s backing up trying to run and all these Angels jumped off the stage, and his girlfriend was screaming to him not to shoot because he pulled out a gun, and his girlfriend is like on him and pushing him back and he’s trying to get away and these Angels are coming at him and he turns around and starts running.
And then some Angel snuck up from right out of the crowd and leaped up and brought his knife down in his back. And then I saw him stab him again, and while he’s stabbing him the guy is running. This Negro boy is running into the crowd and you could see him stiffen up when he’s being stabbed.
The Hell’s Angel grabbed onto both of his shoulders and started kicking him in the face and he fell down. He grabbed one of those garbage cans, the cardboard ones with the metal rimming, and smashed him over the head with it and then he kicked the garbage can out of the way and started kicking his head in. Kicked him all over the place.
And then the guy that started the whole thing stood on his head for a minute or so and then walked off. And then the one I was talking about, he wouldn’t let us touch him. He said, “Don’t touch him, he’s going to die anyway, let him die.”
We turned him over and ripped off his shirt, rubbed his back up and down to get the blood off so we could see and there was a big hole on the side and there was a hole in his spine and there was a big hole in his temple. All of us trying to help were drenched in blood,” Cox said.
Unaware of the murder, the Stones completed their set, bringing an end to a live blood ritual that also saw three accidental deaths and four live births.
Alan Passaro was the only Hells Angel arrested and charged with murder. However, Passaro never went to prison. The jury ruled that he’d acted in self-defense due to the fact that Hunter pulled a gun on the Hells Angels.
To stupidly pull a gun on one of the most violent gangs in the world was not only a suicide mission; it was self-sacrifice to the Sympathy Symphony of the Devil.
Hunter was rumored to be a member of a “street gang” called the East Bay Executors and a drug user. Methamphetamine was found during the autopsy in his bloodstream. It is no surprise he made such devilish choices because he had an extremely rough childhood.
Hunter’s mother was a prostitute that had schizophrenia, according to Joel Selvin. Hunter was named after his father, a Native American who abandoned the family when he was young. Due to his mother’s mental illness, his older sister took responsibility for raising him. Sevin had written that he started getting in trouble with the law when he was 11, and spent much of his teen years in juvenile hall.
Joel Selvin had also written that Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones had a big part in managing the event, and it was their arrogance, greed, ignorance, and naivete caused the mayhem and deaths. Selvin claimed that Jagger wanted to keep all proceeds from a video documentary film of the event called Gimme Shelter, which he reportedly hoped would make their band bigger than the Beatles.
According to Selvin, Jagger had vetoed playing at a much safer venue made for such events in Sonoma County, where he wouldn’t be able to retain all the film’s distribution rights, so they decided to hold it at the Altamont Race Track. Selvin said the Rolling Stones had used the film, Gimme Shelter to help absolve themselves of any wrongdoing while demonizing the Hells Angels and barely mentioning any involvement by the other bands like the Grateful Dead.
In the ensuing days after the concert, the Rolling Stones and Mick Jagger had attempted to deflect attention from themselves by claiming they never hired the Hells Angels as security and vowed that he would never use them again. However, in searching this claim, I have found several original posters of the concert that list the Hells Angels as security, so Mick Jagger was lying to save face due to the media scrutiny.
In fact, many of the original posters online have been changed with the newer versions having no mention of the Hells Angels.
Understandably, the Hells Angels were outraged with the Stones, knowing that Jagger had sold them out to the media, they had vowed to settle the score. Former FBI agent Mark Young had claimed in an interview they intended to get their revenge by killing Jagger. Not just once, but on four separate occasions. (BBC The FBI at 100 via the New York Times)
According to Young, it didn’t happen because bad weather intervened. “Their plan involved making entry into his Long Island property, going by boat,” he recalled. “As they gathered the weaponry and their forces to go out on Long Island Sound, a storm rolled up, which nearly sunk the watercraft they were in, and they escaped with their own lives.”
The Hells Angels dropped their beef after the alleged attempts to kill Jagger because they agreed to pay for the club’s legal fees they incurred while defending Alan Passaro’s murder rap, according to former LA Chapter President, George Christie.
“The entire afternoon was filled with bad drug trips and violence ending with the stabbing death of Meredith Hunter by Hells Angel Alan Passaro when Hunter pointed a gun at the stage. Alan was not held responsible for the death in a court of law.”
Christie said, “This also created a decade of conflict between the Stones and the Hells Angels that ended with the Stones ultimately paying for the legal fees the club Incurred defending Alan.
After the matter with the Stones was settled the club extended an olive branch to the Airplane to resolve the misunderstanding at Altamont, but word came back to the club the Airplane felt there was no reason to reconcile and it best to leave things stand. This was brought up at the west coast officer’s meeting and became part of the minutes,” he said.
The Stones also would eventually settle a lawsuit with the Hunter family for a reported $10,000. As for the Hells Angel who killed the man, Alan Passaro was found dead in a lake with over $10,000 in his pocket. Obviously, it was a hit and not a robbery.
Recently, Mick Jagger made media headlines again for having a child at such an old age with his new flame- 34-year-old Ballerina and Producer, Melanie Hamrick. You have to wonder if she would have been with Jagger if he didn’t have all the fame and money.
I don’t know about you, but something tells me not in a million years in Hell!
At 78 years old, while looking old, tired, and frail, he still appears to be fit and going strong in the Satanic lifestyle he has embraced since the 1960s. However, most likely with fewer drugs but still a lot of Viagra induced premarital sex and rock and roll.
You have to wonder if maybe Jagger and the drug-addicted Keith Richards have been protected all these years for having Sympathy for the Devil. But more importantly, all the souls they have delivered to his cause via their music easily surpassing the most ruthless biker gang in history, the Hells Angels, while also dodging their bullets without even knowing.
For Heaven’s sake, even the Great Satan likes a good song!
“Sympathy For The Devil” by The Rolling Stones
Composers: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
Lyrics:
Please allow me to introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
I’ve been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man’s soul and faith
I was ’round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
I stuck around St. Petersberg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the Czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain
I rode a tank
Held a general’s rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
What’s puzzling you is the nature of my game, oh yeah
I watched with glee as your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the Gods they made
I shouted out
“Who killed the Kennedys?”
When after all
It was you and me
Let me please introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
And I lay traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reach Bombay
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what’s puzzling you is the nature of my game, oh yeah
Well, get down, hit it
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
But what’s confusin’ you is just the nature of my game
Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails just call me Lucifer
‘Cause I’m in need of some restraint
So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I’ll lay your soul to waste, mmm yeah
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, mmm yeah
But what’s puzzling you is the nature of my game
“Sympathy For The Devil (Official Lyric Video)”
Directed by: Lucy Dawkins and Tom Readdy at Yes Please Productions
Producers: Julian Klein, Robin Klein
(C) 2018 ABKCO Music & Records, Inc.
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
The Process Church of the Final Judgment emerged from the 1960s London Counter Culture. Its founders, two former Scientologists, Robert de Grimston, and Mary Ann MacLean, combined a weird mix of Satanism, Scientology, Sex, and Christianity, mashing it all into their own thriving business that became a famous global Cult.
The founders had met while both were enrolled in the Church of Scientology, which was operated by the former secret society member of the Ordo Templi Orientis’ (O.T.O.), L. Ron Hubbard. As a result, they would incorporate several of Scientology’s techniques, such as the E-meter, into the Process teachings early on.
As I explained in my article, Rocket Scientist Jack Parson’s and Scientology’s Ron Hubbard’s Satanic Adventures, Hubbard had learned black magic while in Aleister Crowley’s O.T.O. that he used later to invent the Church of Scientology. The Process Church was just another manifestation of the same Satanic stream that created the O.T.O. and then helped from some of the ideas for the Chruch of Scientology.
Hell, even these magicians knew that when something works, copy it, change a few teachings, and tenants, repackage it with a new name, and you can create a Cult that makes you appear to the profane like some sort of genius or even Satan himself.
The Process Church of the Final Judgment members walked around in black robes with hoods with Goat of Mendes patches preaching the coming Apocalypse, and that humanity was evil – the spawn of the Devil. They also liked to have dogs. Very big and mean dogs. Real hell hounds.
Their message was gloom and death mixed with sex, which was the opposite of the flower power generation and tie-die flower power’ resistance that became the main message for the 1960s peace movement.
The Process ran a London coffeehouse known as Satan’s Cavern as they befriended celebrities and popular musicians who would not only become their students and patrons, they would be the largest distributors of their hateful ideologies around the globe which helped create a global “Satanic State of Mind.”
A 1973 article in the Toronto Star along with a photo of the Process Church members performing an open Satanic ceremony in a public library with its original caption explains my concept simply. It reads;
“The Process Church of the Final Judgement; opens its Sabbath Assembly every Saturday night to the public. Under a silver cross with a red serpent coiled on it; a symbol of unity to Processians; Father Lars addresses the group with Mother Hathor seated (right). Processians believe Christ and Satan must be unified.”
Like the O.T.O., and the Church of Satan, the Process Church of the Final Judgment targeted ignorant celebrities. Everyone knows that is where the damn money is at. However, their main niche would be making magazines and courting musicians who would be instrumental in spreading their propaganda to millions of their fans—people who would do and copy just about anything that their idols did. This is just marketing 101 – chapter 1.
The Process Church’s first magazine, The Common Market issue, was printed and sold on the streets of London and also distributed to each member of the House of Commons (UK Parliament). Their propaganda proved to be very influential to other cultural provocateurs and revolutionaries at the time — including the cult leader and convicted killer Charles Manson who had also preached the end of the world had personally contributed an article he had written to the “Death” issue of The Process magazine.
The leaders of the Process Church would also regularly commune with various celebrities such as The Rolling Stones singer, Mick Jagger, Micky Dolenz of The Monkees, and John and Michelle Phillips, who in 1965 co-founded the iconic vocal group the Mamas and the Papas. Their ideologies would also influence the underground music scene with bands like Skinny Puppy and had access to enter people’s living rooms and their children with their own T.V. shows.
You will find that many of these Satanic sects, like the Process Church had purposely infiltrated popular culture via the music scene and even Hollywood with underground cable T.V. shows.
Author, Adam Parfrey, had written;
“The Process Church of the Final Judgment officially changed its name and its gods in 1975, but even today the original group enjoys cultural influence. It’s screeds were reproduced as linear notes for two Funkadelic albums; Skinny Puppy had an album called Process complete with an anti-vivisection lyrics, a prominent Process Church concern.
Process rituals were appropriated and valorized by Psychick TV and Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth (or TOPY), and the Process’ misanthropic bombast appeared on the pages of my Apocalypse Culture compilation.” (Love Sex Fear Death: Rarely What It Seems, pg. 7)
The Process Church was active in San Francisco, in the Haight-Ashbury areas of California, during the mid-1960s. They can also be connected to Charles Manson, whose Manson Family house was set up at 636 Cole, just a few blocks from the Process Church San Francisco headquarters, at 407 Cole Street.
Let me, please add that in the same city of San Francisco, nearby was the Satanic High Priest Anton LaVey’s Black House, which was used for many years as a place of initiation into the Church of Satan – established and formally incorporated in the State of California around the same time in 1966.
Author Peter Levenda wrote in his book, Sinister Forces;
“A key element in Terry’s thesis is that the Process Church of the Final Judgment is alive and well, and involved in nefarious activity stretching from drug-running to child prostitution to murder. This was also asserted in Ed Sanders’ study of the Manson Family, The Family. Sanders was successfully sued (in the United States) and references to both the Process and the O.T.O. — so prevalent in the first edition of his book –were expunged by the time the book was republished. (This was not so in the United Kingdom, where the courts decided in favor of the publisher and author.)
However, Terry recounts in The Ultimate Evil his discussions with Sanders concerning these cults. Terry makes no bones about mentioning both the Process and the O.T.O. in The Ultimate Evil, and has evidently resisted any legal attempts to get him to change his story.” (Sinister Forces Book III, Peter Levenda, pg. 196)
When the Police were investigating the Manson Murders, they suspected a possible connection between the Family’s leader, Charles Manson, and the Process Church. When they questioned Manson if he knew Moore, he responded: “You’re looking at him. Moore and I are one and the same”. The Process Church included an article written by Manson in the 1971 Death issue of its magazine.
Since the early 1970s, author and founding member of the folk outfit the Fugs, Ed Sanders, said the Process Church was connected to the Manson cult in his book The Family. The district attorney’s prosecutor of the Manson family, Vincent Bugliosi, the prosecutor of the Manson trial, later stated in his book Helter Skelter that Charles Manson may have been ideologically influenced by the Process Churches teachings, which is the main premise of this book, “The Satanic State of Mind.” Bugliosi had written;
“From about April through July 1967, Charles Manson and his still fledgling family lived just two blocks away, at 636 Cole. In view of Manson’s curiosity, it appears very likely that he at least investigated the Satanists, and there is fairly persuasive evidence that he ‘borrowed’ some of their teachings.
“In one of our conversations during the Tate-Labianca trial, I asked Manson if he knew Robert Moore or Robert DeGrimston. He denied knowing DeGrimston, but said he had met Moore. ‘You’re looking at him,’ Manson told me. ‘Moore and I are one and the same.’ I took this to mean that he felt they thought alike,” Bugliosi wrote.
He further said, “Not long after this I was visited by two representatives of The Process, a Father John and a Brother Matthew. Having heard that I was asking questions about the group, they had been sent from their Cambridge, Massachusetts, headquarters to assure me that Manson and Moore had never met and that Moore was opposed to violence. They also left me a stack of Process literature.”
Bugliosi concluded, “The following day the names’ Father John’ and ‘Brother Matthew’ appeared on Manson’s visitor’s list. What they discussed is unknown. All I know is that in my last conversation with Manson, Charlie became evasive when I questioned him about The Process.”
According to the author, Michael Newton, Charles Manson had learned various psychological techniques from the Process Church to use on his followers, called “The Family” who used to hang out at the “Devil House” in San Francisco.
“In 1967, hanging out around a San Francisco landmark called the ‘Devil House,’ he started rubbing shoulders with a morbid cult from England called the Process Church of Final Judgment. As one’ family’ member described the scene for author Ed Sanders: ‘The Devil House people said it was a religious order, and it went under many ancient names, one of them being the Champions of Life, another one being the Final Church of Judgment.
The Final Church is the name Manson chose for the church he would eventually found.’ Aside from its name, Manson also borrowed his concept of ‘The Fear’ from Process spokesmen, along with the cult’s program for recruiting outlaw biker gangs to ‘terrorize society’ on the eve of Armageddon.” (Raising Hell pg. 239)
The Process Church has also been linked to other murderers like Michael Carr, who was a suspected member of a Satanic Cult and an alleged high-ranking Scientologist in Clearwater, Florida, and the New York area with the serial killer, David Berkowitz, who was also known as the Son of Sam.
They had a chapter operating in New York City in the 1970s when Berkowitz went on his terror spree, eventually being arrested in 1977, which I will discuss in an upcoming chapter. The Process Church was then operating under a new name – Foundation Faith, which coincidentally left New York the next year in 1978.
As author and researcher, Steven Snyder had written, “This association was further reinforced by the publication of Maury Terry’s The Ultimate Evil in 1987, a book that linked the Process not only to Manson, but also to the Son of Sam killings, the murders of Stanford University student Arlis Perry and New York vaudeville producer Roy Radin, Valentine’s Day shooter Fred Cowan, and so on.”
As Snyder notes, since the book, The Ultimate Evil was released in 1987, several great researchers have joined the investigation, including David McGowan, Adam Gorightly, and Peter Levenda have all connected The Process Church to a nationwide wave of crime, murders, and death cults like Henry Lee Lucas’ Hand of Death cult, Adolfo Constanzo’sMatamoros cult, the “Company” of Drew Thornton, the Atlanta Child Murders, and many others.
In the end, like most Satanic cults, jealousy among the leaders, scandal, and a woman scorn would cause the group to become disbanded.
While Robert de Grimston was the leader and participated in sexual rituals with other members, his partner, Mary Ann, allegedly, did not. She was said to be the most dominating personality of the two and jealous of his sexual rendezvous.
Eventually, the jealousy would boil over to Mary Ann becoming enraged when Robert suggested performing a ménage a Trois with one of their top female aids named Morgana. The couple soon split after that, and The Process Church of the Final Judgment would experience turmoil.
To remind you, the same fate happened to Jack Parsons when L. Ron Hubbard made off with his girl. He ended up losing his girl, money, and life in the end. It seems when you play with love, sex, and, more importantly, people’s souls, all hell breaks loose for many of these damned Satanists.
In 1974, Robert would leave his wife to be Mary Ann to live with Morgana in an apartment in New York City, and they divorced the following year.
The Process Church of the Final Judgment changed its name to The Foundation Church of the Millennium, and Mary Ann took over the sole leadership of the cult.
Many senior members of the group would relocate to New York, where they would purchase a large four-story building on First Avenue in Manhattan offering courses, classes, conferences, and Psychic Fairs. A true Satanic bizarre. They also had radio shows, frequent appearances on T.V., innovative conferences, and a magazine with a print run of 200,000.
Former Process Church member and author Timothy Wyllie had written;
“In retrospect, it is far easier to see how deliberate were her motives and taking over sole leadership of The Process, but in the fear and confusion of the moment, as we watched our two revered teachers ripping into one another, those of us close to the Omega went passively along with Mary Ann’s furious dismissal of her husband.” (Love Sex Fear Death: My Life Inside the Process Church- pg. 105)
In 1979, Robert gave up his hopes of running another Satanic organization and got a job. His wife, Morgana would become an attorney. They would live the rest of their lives in relative obscurity.
Next up, I have to tell you about the story of “Sympathy for the Devil” when Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones got punched in the face as he exited his charted helicopter.
Later that night as the Stones played on stage, a bunch of doped-up Hell’s Angels high on LSD and Meth hired as security guards beat the skulls in of many stoned drunk hippies, which ended with an African American being violently killed after getting stabbed multiple times. But that was after he pulled a gun on some members of the Hells Angels.
It was mayhem like you have never seen before.
Here is what happens when you combine Sympathy for the Devil, the Rolling Stones, doped-up Hells Angels, a bunch of crazy hippies, and some bad LSD and mix it all together in the 1960s for a blood ritual night of hellish fun in San Francisco, California – the unofficial Capital of Satanic America.
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
(Warning Explicit 18 or older) – “I stepped onto your world in the Bay Area of San Francisco in 1961, but I didn’t stay there long. I was quickly shuttled down to Long Beach—a working-class town chock-full of blue-collared laborers, retired navy men, hustlers, homosexuals, and squares.
My human father was in the military, so they’d moved often. He was a junior officer with, at the time, three other children—two boys and a girl. Biologically speaking, I was the sport: a spiritual mutation that crawled out of hell into humanity.” – Jack Grisham (Author of an American Demon and Singer of T.S.O.L.)
I could clearly remember in 1982 hearing T.S.O.L.’s Dance With Me album for the first time. It was after a high school football game as I lay prone after just shotgunning two beers and taking a few bong hits of some chocolate thai. I was in my Rockabilly buddy’s 21 window Volkswagon van that I kid you not had one of the loudest sound systems in the city of Anaheim.
The guitar and drums pumped out an eloquently vicious sound at a speed and in a way that I never heard before. It was as if it was coming straight from the underworld and grabbed hold of my soul. The songs came out one after the other harder, faster, and louder than the next.
The words one some of the songs were equally shocking to my virgin ears as I heard the singer belch out his dreams of necromancy saying that he wanted to fuck the dead.
The Code Blue lyrics read;
“I never got along with the girls at my school
Filling me up with all their morals and their rules
They’d pile all their problems on my head
I’d rather go out and fuck the dead
‘Cause I can do what I want and they won’t complain
I want to fuck I want to fuck the dead
Middle of the night so silently
I creep on over to the mortuary
Lift up the casket and fiddle with the dead
Their cold blue flesh makes me turn red”
To be honest, at the time in my young punk career, the lyrics were a bit unsettling, but also a welcome invite for my initiation into the Southern California Hard Core Punk Scene. These guys were locals from a neighboring city and their band, True Sounds of Liberty – T.S.O.L. with their flamboyant singer, Jack Grisham, was now one of my favorites.
Over the years, I would see T.S.O.L. in concert and hear about their off-stage antics. It was well known in Orange County that Jack was one of the biggest assholes in the punk scene with an enormous ego and bad drinking and drug habit. Many other bands and punks had run-ins with Jack and despised his transvestite stage costumes. But at 6 foot 3 and as crazy as anyone, he would be able to withstand the criticism and still crossdress when he wanted.
More importantly, his band kicked ass so they got a free pass as good bands often do.
Being evil or what we can simply call a human piece of shit was normal punk rock behavior back then. I know because I embraced my own excrement, which I vomited onto the world for their payback so I was not shocked to read about Jack Grisham’s outrageous antics. The tales of abuse, crimes, sexual ambiguity that borders rape, and his spiritual embrace of demon hood, were no surprise which he explained in an aptly titled memoir, An American Demon. This is a cautionary tale, but he also weaves his personal history into the sex, violence, and chaos of the 80’s punk scene, without apology or psychoanalysis.
Jack tells us that his thirst for destruction and need to do such terrible acts of violence shows us that the American Demon is written under the premise that he must be some kind of demon to create such mayhem on Earth. But you know what, I believe him. At least he’s honest. In the same vain, he makes you want to falsely believe that some of these tales are made up and cannot be real.
However, anyone who knows the real Jack Grisham and the 80s punk scene like I do understand that this book reads more like a biography. An authentic narrative by a man who was not only behind the scenes, he was one of the main demons who created it.
Jack was not only a master of shock and awe, he was a narcissistic sociopath. That is why he had no problem making a Faustian bargain with the devil in order to release his inner demon upon the world. His payback from Satan for raising hell and abusing countless victims would be what allegedly kept him safe all the years from prosecution for his many crimes and even death.
To some people, reading An American Demon is like stunning them with an electric shock, but to many of us punks who were there with boots on the ground, it gives you a comprehensive account of Grisham’s childhood, onto the present day. Jack puts his demon self out there with his blood dripping horns, sweat, and semen, allowing you to see the world through the first-hand account in the eyes of a sociopath.
Jack takes you on a journey with his shadow as your guide through the underworld of his life, showing us that the actual demons are not to be found in the movies, but they are the beautiful people sitting right next to you, showing that good looking people you would never suspect can be genuinely evil for no good reason.
“The most successful serial killers are always the boys next door—gentle children of summer, flashing smiles like soft breezes through a park, sharpened knives wrapped in grass-stained Levis. I was akin to these monsters. I was camouflaged and deadly, a viper smiling in the dark,” Jack Grisham had written.
He continues, “To be a truly great demon you’ve got to be attractive—no one sensible gets taken in by a goon. I was born with summer-blond hair, a soft evening smile, and the sweetly dark taste of defiance slashed across my lips—a scrawny, scuffed up teddy bear with a voice that could string words like lights across a carnival midway. Believable, that’s what I was: a perfect distraction for the careless mark.
They never saw me coming.
Some of the evil fucks I later ran with were way too ugly to be of any real use. The cops read them like a beacon flashing on a street corner. But not me—the code of the demon, my code, was to fit in, to move from the inside out, to slide into their world, to lodge myself against their love, and then to attack from beneath the skin,” Grisham had written.
He says, “When people refer to demons, they invariably claim we come from the underworld. God, I hate that cliché. It makes us sound like we’re all hanging around in a bondage cavern, trying on leather gear and waiting for tricks. And while I do love the smell of leather and I thoroughly enjoy caves, I tortured people for fun, not profit. The concept of a demon coming from underground is pure shit.
If you want to know where demons truly come from, I’ll tell you: we’re from right here. We exist in a shadow that lies over your world—a kind of transparency of evil that some demented teacher laid out on an overhead projector. We move around you, through you, in you. We are your fathers, your sisters, your lovers. We are your next-door neighbors.
We come and go as we please—although it’s a bit harder to leave when we’ve taken residency in a body. The old Hebrews used to call their angels “Those who stand still,” and the name they gave themselves was “Those that walk.” If a demon was ever called anything, it was usually prefaced with a very terrified “Oh my God!,” Grisham concluded.
Jack Grisham has called his book a “memoir of selfishness,” but it is more than that. The American Demon reads like a true biography of a real-life Son of Satan who reveals his sins and crimes to the world as a type of predeath bed confession of sorts towards the end of his life.
The demon – Grisham is possibly doing so to atone for his sins.
A way to purge all the unadulterated violence, abuse, mayhem, and chaos to everyone who was unfortunate to cross his path. As someone on the fringes of the hardcore OC punk scene back in the day and knowing Jack personally for a brief time, I would say that there is no doubt that most of the incidents he mentions had most likely occurred.
In 2013, I befriended him, and we formed a short relationship. At the time, I started an internet marketing agency and was creating websites and producing videos so I offered my services to him. I recorded this interview at a record shop in Huntington Beach with the former Dead Kenedy’s drummer, D. H. Peligro.
After I met him and shook his sweaty hand, he made a fleeting comment that why some fans and old punk rockers act like meeting him is no big deal, as if other people and I are supposed to act as if we are a good Catholic who just met the Pope. So let’s just say that I was not at all impressed by meeting one of my all-time favorite old punk rock singers.
He was still selfish and loud but had a fake sheen to his demeanor. When comparing the old Jack to when I was a young teen in my punk rock heydays watching him play onstage with T.S.O.L., today, he was much less intimidating and a lot fatter.
Our relationship didn’t last long.
Shortly after that, I sent him a message on Facebook in an old punk rocker and classic Moe fashion telling him, “Fuck You, Jack! You are a selfish asshole!” We have not spoken since, but I’m sure he could care less, and maybe I should count myself lucky that I didn’t know him when I was younger.
There is not only natural narcissism and pathology in how Grisham thinks, lives, and writes – there still may be a real demon in control of his soul.
As for Jack, he wouldn’t want it any other way.
For me, the old T.S.O.L. is still one of the best old-school punk bands of all time, regardless of my distaste for Jack Grisham.
Hell, sometimes the worst of demons put out the best music.
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
In the middle of the California desert, two men and a woman had performed a black magic ritual in their hopes of birthing the antichrist and taking over the world. A ritual that would require they use various Satanic sacraments, drugs, bodily fluids, and have sex – both heterosexual and homosexual to form a permanent unholy magnetic chain between the two men, woman, and God forbid, the child.
It was 1945, and these men were not just some run-of-the-mill Satanic freaks.
One man was a former Naval intelligence officer who became the founder of the Church of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard.
The other man was arguably one of the most brilliant American rocket scientists ever and alleged NASA founder, Jack Parsons, who was also a disciple of “the wickedest man alive” and self-appointed, “Great Beast” Aleister Crowley -the global leader of an infamous magical secret society – Ordo Templi Orientis’ (O.T.O.).
The O.T.O. is an occult initiatory organization founded at the beginning of the 20th century by the Germans Carl Kellner, Heinrich Klein, Franz Hartmann, and Theodor Reuss. Crowley had taken over the OTO furthering their teachings with “The Book of the Law,” which he claimed had been dictated to him by a demon called Aiwass upon which he created his own religion, rituals, and philosophy called “Thelema.”
The ceremonial magic they were performing was part of Crowley’s “The Babalon Working.” It was a series of sexual rituals designed to conceive an actual human fetus and a spiritual child infused with the evil spirit of Babalon. But first, the two men had to find a willing and suitable woman who would agree to the unholy sex acts and birth a possible demon child. That woman was Marjorie Cameron. After seeing her, Parsons wrote to Crowley, “I seem to have my elemental… she has red hair and slant green eyes as specified.”
Marjorie Cameron was an artist but also happened to be in a sexual relationship with fellow honorary O.T.O. member and the occult filmmaker Kenneth Anger. Cameron was instantly magnetized to the two men with the O.T.O. teachings, Parson’s good looks, and Hubbard’s charm. However, Kenneth Anger was not too happy that his two fellow O.T.O. members were not only making moves on his girl, but they were also recruiting her to perform sex magic. For the decades that followed, Anger would voice his low opinion of Hubbard, stating in an interview for a radio documentary describing him as an “elemental demon.”
As you can see, the NASA scientist Parsons and Church of Scientology’s Hubbard were well-known practicing black magicians and who we can label as Satanists. But where did they learn this magic, and when did their venture into the Satanic State of Mind all begin?
While still a student at the University of Southern California, Jack Parsons had become interested in the writings of Aleister Crowley, the English sorcerer who called himself ‘The Beast 666.’ Crowley’s dabblings in black magic had also earned him the title in the media as ‘The Wickedest Man In The World’. and his The Book of the Law preached a doctrine of ultra individuality to the wayward generation of the 20th century enshrined in a single sentence –
‘Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.’
Parsons was not only intrigued by this concept that encouraged indulgence in forbidden pleasures, but he also wanted to become the American Antichrist version of Crowley to implement them here in the United States. A Satanic test dummy of sorts. To do so, Parsons eagerly attended one of Crowley’s Ordo Templi Orientis’ (O.T.O.) masses at the Agape Lodge in Los Angeles, California in 1939, and became enamored with their ideas and teachings. Members were encouraged to explore individual sexual freedom and swap partners — both male and female.
Two years later after the meeting, Parsons and his then-wife, Helen became full-fledged members of the O.T.O. Parsons quickly rose through the ranks in the O.T.O. and by the early ’40s began having regular correspondence with Crowley, always addressing his master as ‘Most Beloved Father’ and signing his letters ‘Thy son, John’.
Around the same time, Parson’s father died, so he inherited a three-story family mansion at 1003 South Orange Grove Avenue in Pasadena, which he rapidly transformed into a house of black magic and sex rituals. He began renting rooms advertising for tenants in the local newspaper specifying that only atheists and those of a Bohemian disposition need apply. It quickly became the hang-out spot for out-of-work Hollywood actors, writers, artists, and musicians who went there for the ultra-liberal lifestyle of non-stop partying and free sex for days on end.
One of those guests, Alva Rogers, would eventually become a ‘semi-permanent resident. ‘She was fascinated by the house, its owner, and the occupants and had written about her experience in her diary. According to Rogers, Parsons never made any secret of his interest in black magic or his involvement with Aleister Crowley. She wrote;
“He had a voluminous correspondence with Crowley in the library, some of which he showed me. I remember in particular one letter from Crowley which praised and encouraged him for the fine work he was doing in America, and also casually thanked him for his latest donation and intimated that more would shortly be needed. Jack admitted that he was one of Crowley’s main sources of money in America,” she said.
For Jack Parsons, he was leading a double life whereby day, he was a respected rocket scientist working for Northrup and at night, a dedicated occultist. A secret black magician who believed passionately in the power of sorcery, the existence of demons, and the efficacy of magic spells to deal with his enemies. He was also experimenting with ritual sex magic and sleeping with other women despite being married.
While his wife was on a trip, Parsons began a sexual relationship with Helen’s half-sister, Sara “Northrup” Hollister. Even though the teachings of the O.T.O. encourage swapping partners, Parson’s wife was furious. Out of revenge, she began having an affair with Wilfred Talbot Smith – the head of O.T.O.’s Agape Lodge in California. Eventually, she divorced Parsons and married Smith becoming “Helen Parsons Smith.”
In 1943, Crowley campaigned to have Smith removed as an O.T.O. leader, declaring Smith “a god.” Crowley then ordered him to tattoo “666” on his forehead, abandon Agape Lodge and wander the desert, demanding that he make no contact with other O.T.O. members. It appears Smith never complied with Crowley but Parsons was elected as Agape’s new head.
At this point, Parson’s business and magical life were at their peak. Not only was he a leader in the O.T.O., but he had also successfully convinced the U.S. government that rocketry could be helpful in wartime. The U.S. Army was the first patron of what would become a Parsons new venture – the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, commissioning the lab to develop “jet-assisted take-off” rockets starting in 1939. In 1943, the U.S. Army ordered 2,000 rockets from his newly formed company called Aerojet.
It didn’t take long for the good-looking, popular, and wealthy Parsons to find his next sexual partner – 21-year-old Sara ‘Betty’. Around the same time, Parson’s met then science-fiction writer named Ron Hubbard, who later would become the founder of the Church of Scientology. Parsons was smitten by Hubbard’s charm and intelligence. The two men would form a business partnership funded by Parsons, who wrote to his Master, Crowley at the time:
“About 3 months ago I met Captain L Ron Hubbard, a writer, and explorer of whom I had known for some time… He is a gentleman, red hair, green eyes, honest and intelligent and we have become great friends. He moved in with me about two months ago, and although Betty and I are still friendly, she has transferred her sexual affections to him. Although he has no formal training in Magick, he has an extraordinary amount of experience and understanding in the field. From some of his experiences, I deduce he is in direct touch with some higher intelligence, possibly his Guardian Angel.
He is the most Thelemic person I have ever met and is in complete accord with our own principles. He is also interested in establishing the New Aeon, but for cogent reasons, I have not introduced him to the Lodge. We are pooling our resources in a partnership which will act as a parent company to control our business ventures.
I think I have made a great gain, and as Betty and I are the best of friends, there is little loss… I need a magical partner. I have many experiments in mind. I hope my elemental gets off the dime [gets moving] — the next time I tie-up with a woman, it will be on [my] own terms.”
Shortly after that, as I mentioned above, the two men performed homosexual ceremonial magic together in the California desert known as the “Babalon Working.” Crowley was in correspondence with Parsons during the rituals and warned him of his potential overreactions to the magic he was performing while also derailing their magic to other members he was in correspondence with. Other members of the OTO started to worry about his escapades were going to far. Jane Wolfe wrote a letter to fellow OTO member, Karl Germer. “There is something strange going on. Our own Jack is enamored of witchcraft, the houmfort, voodoo. From the start he always wanted to evoke something—no matter what, I am inclined to think, so long as he got a result.”
What was the result of Parsons’ and Hubards’ black magic escapades?
Parsons would create bombs for wartime and rockets that eventually put Americans on the Moon when it was all said and done. Hubbard made off with Parson’s girlfriend Sara, who he married, and most of his life savings that he would use to create a new multimillion-dollar religion called Scientology.
“Parsons showed Hubbard a way — a kind of format for forming a religion,” said Pendle. “Crowley came up with this kind of structure of a mystical society. A hierarchy where you move your way up, and each time you move up a level, you find out more, but you have to pay to move up those levels. And so, I feel like Scientology’s whole structure is based on this cult that Parsons was part of.”
Parsons was devastated for the first time, with jealous rage, and vowed to get revenge against his business partner and an unloyal homosexual lover – Hubbard.
Parsons found that Hubbard used his money to purchase three boats in Miami, Florida but was unwilling to show him any financial records. Parsons headed to Miami to try and get his girl and money back but was unsuccessful. Writing to Crowley, he called Sara and Ron – “children of my folly” mentioning that he had not gotten back anything yet. Parsons later took Hubbard and Northrup to court, successfully dissolving their partnership, and took custody of two of the three boats while Hubbard and Northrup were allowed to keep the third. However, most of the money had vanished.
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Parsons later referred to this in The Book of Antichrist, writing of being stripped of his fortune, and wrote to himself that “The final experience with Hubbard and Betty, and the O.T.O. was necessary to overcome your false and infantile reliance on others, although this was only partially accomplished at the time.”
Hubbard, who briefly served with the Office of Naval Intelligence, later alleged that when he met Parsons, he worked undercover for the agency to break up “black magic” in America. As one might expect, Hubbard also began having problems with his wife, Sara. It is well documented in police records that he was responsible for a prolonged domestic violence campaign against her and kidnapped both her and her infant daughter. Hubbard had repeatedly denounced her to the F.B.I., spreading false allegations that she was a Communist secret agent. The F.B.I. declined to take any action, characterizing Hubbard as a “mental case”.
In 1951, while Parsons was working for Hughes Aircraft Company, the F.B.I. revoked his security clearance because of his association with possible Communists. Legal authorities began an investigation into his “subversive” behavior because they alleged that making rockets for the government is impossible without some access to classified information. Maybe they didn’t think that his excellent knowledge and ability to make mass killing bombs came from the devil himself.
Parsons eventually regained his security clearance from the U.S. Government but was later accused of espionage for taking documents from Hughes and again was investigated by the F.B.I. Again, he was found not guilty, but this time his scientific career was over.
About one year later, on June 17, 1952, a massive explosion rocked Pasadena, California.
Amid the debris were strewn-about pages covered in symbols such as pentagrams and text written in unfamiliar languages. On the floor was the body of a man, in a pool of blood, whose face was half-ripped off and body shattered.
The man was Jack Parsons, who was blown to pieces by an explosion that also destroyed his house.
However, he managed to remain conscious of his hellish reality and burning flesh and sulfur after the explosion. Eventually, the light would fade. Then, finally, Parsons would die alone with his thoughts.
I can only imagine what he was thinking as his body lay tattered, and he may have reminisced what went wrong with his life. He was only 37 years old.
One newspaper headline read at the time, “Slain Scientist Priest in Black Magic Cult” and another said, “John W Parsons, handsome 37-year-old rocket scientist killed Tuesday in a chemical explosion, was one of the founders of a weird semi-religious cult that flourished here about 10 years ago.”
None of his fellow O.T.O. members would pay him homage or give him accolades for his great magical work and sacrifice for the Satanic cause. His Master Crowley would remain silent about his dead disciple.
One of the few people who loved Jack Parsons despite his sinful sex acts and Satanic lifestyle was a woman who knew him when he was an innocent boy long before he invoked demons and started parading around with Satanic freaks.
That woman was his mother who killed herself with an overdose of pills just hours after hearing of her son Jack’s death.
In the 1970s, Jack’s ex-wife, Helen Parsons Smith, became one of the most prolific publishers of Crowley’s books in the USA with her Monthelema and Thelema Publications imprints.
I believe Parsons was the willing victim of a human social experiment gone terribly wrong.
In the end, there was no funeral for one of America’s most genius and possibly evil rocket scientists ever.
Some might say that all Parsons’ black magic and sex rituals had failed. But the facts are they took him exactly where he wanted to travel into the Satanic State of Mind in a rocket ship to hell.
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
“There will be undoubtedly more crimes in the sense that the Satanic Bible tells you to take no more shit.“ – Anton LaVey
After he crept into their Diamond Bar home at night fatally shooting her husband in the head as he slept, Richard Ramirez forced his wife, Sakina Abowath to “Swear on Satan” before he raped her.
In San Francisco, Bay Area, he killed an accountant named Peter Pan and raped his wife Barbara, ate everything in the fridge, threw up on the kitchen floor and masturbated on the living room floor — and then scribed an upside-down (inverted) pentagram written with lipstick on the wall and on the leg of a victim – the symbol of Satanists onto the wall.
It wasn’t until Ramirez left these Satanic pentagrams as his calling card that investigators drew the connection to Satanic worship.
In the following years, he would leave more of these pentagrams behind, and would also tell his victims to “swear to Satan” instead of God.
Ramirez not only killed adults in cold blood, but he also didn’t spare the children who he came across, often raping, torturing, and killing them as well.
During the first stages of his Satanic killing spree, several young children were forcibly taken from their beds while they slept, sexually assaulted, and then left for dead like little 9 year old Mei Leung. Yes, he was one of the sickest and most depraved criminals to ever walk the planet.
Soon thereafter, one of the 6-year-old victims who survived would be crucial in identifying Ramirez that lead to his capture.
It was evil crimes like in the name of Satan that would make Richard Ramirez go down in history as one of the most ruthless and notorious serial killers, the so-called Night Stalker. Ramirez was introduced to Satanism through the Satanic Bible and even visited the author and Church of Satan’s founder, Anton LaVey at his infamous Black House in San Francisco. Ramirez was on some sort of anti-Christian pilgrimage from Los Angeles to meet his hero, LaVey.
Richard Ramirez just wanted to “shake the hand of the great Dr. LaVey,” said Lavey’s grandson, Stanton Lavey who was a young child and eyewitness to the event. Because of shady people like Ramirez coming by the Black House House unannounced, Lavey and his wife installed a security fence, video cameras and employed full-time security guards.
“By 1983, business and life had slowed down quite a bit for my grandfather. And that’s when Richard Ramirez, the so-called Night Stalker, started coming to the Black House on some sort of anti-Christian pilgrimage to meet my grandfather.
The house had become the subject of a lot of vandalism and frequent trespassing, so my grandfather had a high fence with razor wire installed. Wooden slats were slid between the folds of the fence for more privacy — we could see who was outside without being seen ourselves. I was 5 when the 23-year-old Ramirez made his presence known to us,” Stanton said.
“He’d come up to San Francisco from Los Angeles, to “shake the hand of the great Dr. LaVey.” Tony, the house security guard, my grandfather’s driver and my occasional babysitter, confronted Ramirez after he noticed someone standing on the sidewalk and staring at the house.
The stranger told Tony that his name was Richie and he just wanted to meet “Dr. LaVey,” and would take only a minute of his time. Tony told him to scram. Ramirez then started walking in slow circles around the block, pausing whenever he reached our fence.
After this had gone on for a couple of hours, Tony went back outside to get rid of him, bringing a pistol with him in case Ramirez tried anything. But Ramirez was around the corner and halfway down the block by the time Tony reached the gate.
Some hours passed and everyone forgot about him. But then he was back. This time my grandfather went outside, tucking one of his many handguns in the pocket of his long black trench coat. As he approached Ramirez, he asked, “What are you doing out here?”
“I just wanted to meet you, Dr. LaVey,” Ramirez said nervously, and stuck out his hand. My grandfather ignored it, Stanton said.
“Well, now you have, so now you can go, I don’t take unexpected visitors. Next time make an appointment.”
Ramirez said, “Thank you for everything you’re doing for us Satanists,” as my grandfather walked back up the steps, he said.
Stanton concluded, “What my grandfather actually said was that Ramirez seemed like a kook. He would usually add that Satanism doesn’t condone murder of any kind. This was my childhood. I don’t know if it’s more or less amazing that I turned out fine, but I did.”
It was a good thing that Anton Lavey had turned away the kook Richard Ramirez because shortly after that, he would make headlines worldwide after being captured for the brutal sexual assaults and murders of several men, women, and children.
People who he had claimed were killed in the name of Satan.
Writing in his autobiography years later, Anton LaVey had written about how accusations of murder in the name of Satan do not concern him. But, Lavey said, “There will be undoubtedly more crimes in the sense that the Satanic Bibles tells you to “take no more shit.”
You see, even hardcore Satanists and High Priests like Anton LaVey knew that within the ranks of his religion, there were people who were abused, angry, crazy, and some were criminals on the fringe. But, on the other hand, people like Ramirez, who were not only magnetized to his teachings in the Satanic Bible, saw them as the new Bible of their wayward generation in a world of hypocritical Christians and as a testament to their alternative and sometimes evil lifestyle.
True crime author Philip Carlo spoke to Ramirez about the crimes and Satanism in numerous interviews.
CARLO: Speaking of spirituality, let’s talk about Satanism. There’s been a lot in the press, Richard, about your devotion to and your affiliation with Satan. Can you tell a bit about what Satan means to you?
RAMIREZ: What Satan means to me…Satan is a stabilizing force in my life. It gives me a reason to be; it gives me…an excuse to rationalize. There is a part of me that believes he really does exist. I have my doubts, but we all do, about many things.
CARLO: When did you first turn away from—as I know you were brought up a—and turn to Satan?
RAMIREZ: From 1970—well, throughout my childhood and up to the time I was eighteen years old, I believed in God. Seventeen, eighteen years old. Then, for two or three years, I became sort of like an—I didn’t believe in anything.
When I reached the age of twenty, twenty-one thereabouts, I met a guy in jail and, uh…he told me about Satan and I picked it up from there. I read books and I studied and I examined who I was and what my feelings were.
Also, my actions. Just like the Hezbollah and different terrorist religious organizations around the—it is a driving force that motivates them to do things and they believe in it whole-heartedly. It had the same effect on my life.
CARLO: In other words, their spirituality was what was the driving force in their life, and Satan became, in a sense, your spirituality and the driving force behind you.
RAMIREZ: Yeah.
CARLO: Richard, do you believe that Satan helps people to be able to do things they wouldn’t normally do? For instance, in Matamoras, Mexico, Adolfo Constanzo killed many people and he was committing human sacrifices to protect the drug cartel down there from the police, and he feverently believed that Satan would protect him and so therefore made human sacrifices. Do you feel that kind of reasoning has any place—
RAMIREZ:— place in Satanism?
CARLO: Yeah.
RAMIREZ: I don’t know the structure of Hell itself, or demons or demonology, but I do know where you tamper with witchcraft, when you tamper with Satanism, be it voodoo—
CARLO: —Santeria—
RAMIREZ: Yeah, any type of sacrifices or contacting the spirits, you’re dealing with things that are very delicate—and dangerous. I myself am no warlock, I’m not a wizard. I’m not one of these types of individuals that knows his witchcraft from A to Z.
But, I have read of instances where people end up getting killed and arrested for tampering with the wrong demons and not using the right types of…uh…the right process of sacrifices and the right types of rituals. You have to know what you’re doing. Everything from ropes to chalices—
CARLO: Everything has to be done right.
RAMIREZ: Exactly. From what I know, certain symbols—like Pentagrams—are supposed to protect you from the demons themselves.
CARLO: Yeah. You were seen in court once with a Pentagram inside your hand and you held it up and showed it to the press and the audience. Why did you do that? Did you feel that it would protect you, or were you just making a statement that you were in alliance with the Devil?
RAMIREZ: Yes, it was a statement that I was in alliance with…the evil that is inherent in human nature.”
Carlo also says that after Ramirez was caught, Anton Lavey’s daughter, Zeena LaVey, had visited him in jail, making him an honorary member of the Church of Satan, and told him they were praying for him.
After Richard Ramirez was apprehended, Lavey’s daughter, Zeena LaVey, went to the jail to visit Richard wearing a long, skin-tight Black dress over her intense hourglass figure and had bright Blood-Red lipstick on her full lips and long fingernails.
She was with her then-boyfriend, a tall man named Nicholas Shreck, who had cut off his left ear as a token of his devotion to Satan. Nicholas also wore all Black and sported an ankle-length Black leather coat.
Zeena told Richard that her Father and the Church sent their blessings and were praying to Satan for him. They were making him an honorary member of the Church. That made Richard’s spirits soar. He held LaVey in high esteem, and Zeena’s visit made him feel the forces of Darkness were being marshaled behind him. (The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez by Philip Carlo)
DISCLAIMER: You must understand that Richard Ramirez and most other ritualistic murderers had committed these killings independently. Even though he was a Satanist who visited Anton Lavey and had allegedly read the Satanic Bible, I contend that he was not part of “an organized Satanic cult.” Nor do I believe did the Church of Satan order these murders.
I contend that Richard Ramirez was influenced by the writings of Lavey and his daughter, Zeena, who visited him in jail after the murders. It was more of a Church of Satan’s endorsement of his murders for black magic marketing purposes and cultural shock value which the CoS has never been shy to capitalize upon.
SATANIC SYMBOLISM
When the Ramirez murders first started, legal authorities had called them part of a “Satanic Cult,” and these were “Satanic murders.” At the time, some Police investigators came out into the media and claimed that these brutal killers were taking part in “Satanic and ritualistic killings.” A person who not only kills people but takes it to a whole new cruel and spiritual level by sacrificing innocent victims in an ancient horrid rite.
I would understand this fact much more apparent when I was older and researched the occult to become truly knowledgeable. I found a quote that would always ring true regarding symbols was the famous words by the Chinese philosopher Confucious who once said Signs and Symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.
I remember what stood out in my mind to this very day is what the police called the Satanic symbols Ramioriez used as his calling card written in the victim’s blood on the walls or on the bodies that he left behind. It’s truly the script that many Hollywood horror movies are based upon but this was real life.
Heinous acts of violence done in such a brutal way put these killers on a whole new level of brutality that most people cannot even understand, let alone imagine that any person can be so evil.
This religious fear and serial killers like Richard Ramirez, who openly profess they are Satanists as they ritually sacrifice people in horrific murders is what leads to the “Satanic Panic.” This is why when the words Satan and serial killer are used together, it strikes fear deep into the hearts of most reasonable people and especially devout Christians who are taught to fear and fight Satan.
This is where the true Satanic Panic originated, spreading from here in the early 1980s.
Unfortunately, when referring to the Satanic Panic, some Satanists will instead focus on other alleged crimes, such as the McMartin preschool debacle, where there were never convictions to deflect attention away from the real Satanic crimes.
But please DO NOT believe them.
It has been well documented, like the crimes of Richard Ramirez and many other murderers who have done so in the name of Satan and or under the influence of demonic worship.
Now that I have gone over the facts regarding Richard Ramirezes’ ties to Satanism and Satanic symbolism let’s quickly go over the short history of his murder spree and capture.
Growing up in the early 1980s in Orange County, California, I can clearly remember when my innocent sun-bleached summer of little league baseball, surfing, and fun was suddenly interrupted with news of a Satanic serial killer on the loose.
A cold-blooded murderer who terrorized local communities with a string of home invasion robberies, rapes, and murders.
As some of you know or could imagine, there is nothing that strikes more fear in someone than a killer on the loose near your home who breaks into people’s houses when they sleep to terrorize, rape, torture, and brutally kill them.
The demon’s name was Richard Ramirez, and he would go down in history to be known as the Night Stalker. As you can see from the picture above left shortly after his arrest, his face had morphed into a demonic creature of sorts.
A man portrayed in the media as making some of his victims pray to Satan before he ruthlessly butchered them and would flash the upside-down (inverted) Satanic pentagrams on his hand in court.
The Night Stalker was a name that in itself sends chills down the sweaty neck of any reasonable person on a hot summer’s night.
Ramirez, then 25 at the time of his arrest, hew was initially charged in Los Angeles County with 14 counts of murder, five attempted murders, 19 burglaries, six robberies, seven rapes, five acts of forced oral copulation, seven of sodomy, three lewd acts with children and two kidnappings.
You probably know how vicious his crimes were — but the true-crime series delves deeply into how bloody and gory they really were. He had a pattern — he killed the man in the house, sexually assaulted a woman, and always made sure he could see the fear in his victim’s eyes. For example, in the early days of his crimes, he knocked on the car hood of Maria Hernandez so she would see him before the attack, and he yanked Tsai-Lian “Veronica” Yu out of her car as opposed to shooting her through the window.
In Whittier, he cut out Maxine Zazzara’s eyes and took them with him. Investigators identified him as an “enraged killer” because of how viciously his victims had been killed: in one case, the victim, Patty Higgins, was slashed and stabbed in the throat. Another victim, Florence “Nettie” Lang, 81, was beaten to death with a hammer.
In a docuseries on the Ramirez murders, detective Frank Salerno says, “he got comfortable after killing someone — he would take the time to have a snack. That’s a pretty sick individual.” Indeed, he would help himself with food and drinks in the kitchen after his crime.
When he continued his killing spree in San Francisco, Bay Area police said in the docuseries that he killed an accountant named Peter Pan and raped his wife Barbara, ate everything in the fridge, threw up on the kitchen floor, and masturbated on the living room floor — and then wrote a satanic symbol on the wall.
After Ramirez was caught, he had flaunted his allegiance to Satan like when he flashed an upside-down pentagram on his hand, he proudly proclaimed in the courtroom, “HAIL SATAN.”
In one of his few interviews, speaking from prison to 3TV reporter Mike Wattkiss, Richard Ramirez said he had studied Satanism. But when asked if he was a “devil worshipper,” he said, “No comment”.
When he was questioned if he was evil, Ramirez said;
“We are all evil. Aren’t we not?” He then said, ‘Yes, I am evil. Not 100% but I am evil.”
In another interview from Death Row after his conviction, Ramirez said he believed in a malevolent being and that he has felt its power.
This force that Ramirez speaks of is what many Satanists who understand what they are doing aspire to become one with. A dark force that they feed upon is the “Satanic force” or what Christians call the Devil and is evil.
“In the summer of 1985, the city of Los Angeles was held in a grip of terror by an elusive killer. He came at night entering through unlocked doors and windows, targeting houses at random, blending in with the shadows, as silent and deadly as cyanide gas. Brutalizing and robbing his victims, forcing them to swear to Satan, driven by heavy metal music and narcotics and what he believed was the power of Satan himself. It seemed no one was safe from who the press dubbed “The Night Stalker.”
It is important you understand that a common theme among criminals, especially serial murderers, is that they were severely abused as children, just like Richard Ramirez, who was forced to endure and witness horrible trauma. For example, when he was young, his father had abused him and had once tied him to a cross as punishment in the backyard.
According to author Philip Carlo’s book, ‘The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez’, Richard was scared of his father. Carlo claims Richard’s dad had been beaten as a child by both his father and grandfather. Despite vowing not to abuse his five children the same way he was, things did turn violent when his kids got into trouble.
When he was 13 years old, his cousin Miguel ‘Mike’ Ramirez murdered his wife by shooting her in the face at point-blank range with a 38-revolver. It was the first time Richard had ever witnessed a killing of a human being. His cousin Mike warned him never to talk to anyone about what he saw, which Richard didn’t. After the murder, they back to the apartment to clean up the blood and evidence.
The sight of a human being murdered and cleaning the blood was like a mystical experience to the young Ramirez. He said: “That day I went back to that apartment, it was like some kind of mystical experience. You could smell the dried blood. I looked at the place where Jessie had fallen and died, and I got this kind of tingly feeling.”
Maybe this is why after he was caught, Ramirez posed the question of whether serial killers were born or bred?
The book, The Night Stalker Killer: Life of Serial Killer Richard Ramirez, By Jack Smith, describes his troubled upbringing and his exposure to violence at an early age. Smith helps us understand what might lead someone like Ramirez to brutally rape and kill his victims with such hate in cold blood after an abused childhood and later using drugs, satanic worship, and violence.
The perfect recipe for a human to become a Killer Hell-bent on causing mayhem to the Satanic world that abused and created him demon.
In the end, an alert and brave 13-year-old boy named James Romero would witness Richard Ramirez attempting to break into his Orange County home. No even knowing it was a serial killer and his life in danger, he avoided being his next victim and took down the license plate of the Toyota station wagon that Ramirez was driving and called 911.
An all-points bulletin went out on the car and he was captured shortly thereafter when he attempted to carjack a woman in Los Angeles. Neighbors who thought he was just a car jacker, chased him, beat him down, and kept him until the police arrived.
Orange County Sheriff Officer Jim Kaiser was the person who drove Ramirez to the station after he was arrested on August 31, 1985. Upon arriving, an officer opened the patrol car door and Ramirez stepped out immediately vomiting a “green” vomit in the parking lot that he had likened to the horror movie The Exorcist.
Speaking to news reporters, he said, “It was green, like The Exorcist. This guy is really evil.”
Kaiser tightened Ramirez’s handcuffs over and over again.
“I didn’t know what he was capable of,” Officer Kaiser said. “I looked straight in the eye of absolute evil. He had cold, black eyes. He was the ultimate manifestation of absolute evil.”
Before he was sentenced to death row, Richard Ramirez proclaimed to the court: “I am beyond good and evil. I will be avenged. Lucifer dwells in us all. That’s it.
Before Ramirez, 53, died of natural causes in Marin General Hospital, he was seen moving around in his hospital bed — with a shocking green hue to his skin. A witness told the New York Post that he looked like the Jolly Green Giant in the end.
The cause of death was chronic liver failure.
“He was the color green,” said the source. “He looked like a green highlighter pen. He was sitting up in his bed doing stretches.”
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
In early August 1988, former Blondie bassist and author Gary Lachman attended an event held by some leading members of the Church of Satan calling it “a quartet of modern satanic masters, hosting an unholy celebration.”
“We are gathered here tonight to celebrate this day in history,” the event begins. “This has historically been Satan’s Day, a day of purification, a day of truth.”
It was held on the date of 8-8-88, which was purposely chosen due to the marketing power of 88 “Heil Hitler” to their fellow neo-Nazis.
Their goal was to celebrate a new film for their hero, Charles Manson, and the cold-blooded murders in Los Angeles, California, of actress Sharon Tate, couple Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, and three others just two decades prior by the Charles Manson family.
To the Satanic Revolutionaries in attendance, the murders represented the symbolic death of free love and hippie culture and a violent return to order. What we may call the emergence of their Satanic New World Order onto the world stage with Geraldo Rivera’s TV crew there to record everything.
The public ritual was called 8-8-88 and took place at the Strand Theater in San Francisco. It was hosted by the Church of Satan’s founder’s (Anton LaVey’s) daughter Zeena Schreck (LaVey), her then-husband, Nikolas Schreck, and the notorious Neo-Nazi Satanist, Boyd Rice, and the late publisher Adam Parfrey. Please keep in mind the creative adjectives I choose to use to describe these people are based on their own historical admissions and or symbols they proudly adorn themselves with.
The 8-8-88 ritual was conducted right at the heart of the Satanic Panic.
The goal, further exploit and feed upon the energies produced by the fears of the ignorant general public and media. It was shown to a sold-out crowd of degenerates promising them, “A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief,” “A Nightmare of TERROR!” and “An Evening of Apocalyptic Delight!”
Awful Satanic music with organ drones and militant drumbeats devolving into a chaotic mess of noises were cooked up for the attendees by Shreck’s band, Radio Werewolf. A quasi-Satanic music event using Nazi and dark imagery meant to provoke fear in people and propagandize the nation’s youth in front of Geraldo Rivera’s TV crew.
It was the perfect black magic marketing opportunity of a lifetime.
These Satanic Masters would not let it slip by without capitalizing on the dark energies surrounding their movement.
As organs blared in the background, the hosts clad in all black and naziesque styled military uniforms recited bad poetry as they espoused their ghastly and predominantly racial extremist worldviews.
When a reporter questioned Boyd Rice about the date’s evocations of Nazi Germany, Rice explained, “What appeals to us about the SS or the Nazis and what we feel we have in common with it is order, bringing things back to order.”
Nicholas Schreck said later that evening, “is designed to awaken primordial instincts” and take control of the masses through the “dominant frequency.” During a bad Satanic remix of the religious song, “Silent Night,” lyrics speaking of blood and rebirth were purposefully added into the song.
“We need to bring power back to the powerful,” Nickolas Shreck proudly stated. “We need the slaves to be enslaved again, and not be slaving over us, not be ruling over us.”
As you can quickly tell, Lachman’s description of Satanic Masters holding an unholy celebration was spot on.
These guys weres not shy in clarifying their murderous and racist Neo-Nazi Satanic mission on Geraldo Rivera’s video recording of the event.
For example, Boyd Rice said on camera that Sharon Tate’s death was a “symbolic representation of the end of the entire way of thought, of compassion for the weak, peace for its own sake, pacifism that breeds stagnation.”
“That whole way of thinking was destroyed on Aug. 8, 1969, a ritual of cleansing and purification.”
“For us, the ’60s were a decade of corruption, a final culmination of Judeo-Christian rottenness,” says Rice. “The ’60s were murdered, but its vestiges remained. We must annihilate its traces, branch, and root, we must purge them from our life, and purge them from life itself. This is our sacred duty.”
“The entire world is rotten and corrupt … to us they’re dead people who refuse to lay down, they’re cadavers,” said Rice on camera.
He further reveals their murderous intentions and the so-called creation of a Master Race to the world;
“We would like to see most of the human race killed off because it is unworthy of the gift of life,” he said. “We’re working with natural law, and nature has decreed that most of man must die. We are forming an elite, a master race. That’s the only term I can use.”
Toward the end of the interview, Nikolas Schreck makes the common rhetoric decrying the Satanic Panic. He says, “These middle-class housewives that are worried that we want to groom abduct their children are barking up the wrong tree because we wouldn’t want to do anything with their mediocre and corrupt lifestyle.”
Both Zeena and Nikolas Schreck later expressed regret for the event due to the controversy it generated and the backlash they endured after Geraldo Rivera aired it on television.
A few years later, in 1990, they renounced the Church of Satan. Zeena had gone on record calling her father Anton Lavey a charlatan who did not have actual knowledge of Satanism. The Church of Satan even renounced her. Shortly thereafter, Zeena and Nikolas Schreck joined Michale Aquino’s Temple of Set but later left that organization as well.
Today, Zeena refuses to be called by her former last name of Lavey and still goes by the name Shreck even though the two have been divorced since 2015. Both Nickolas and Zeena have claimed to have transitioned into a life of Buddhism.
Zeena offers merch for sale in her online store like a t-shirt of Manson’s face next to a Christian Cross in mocking fashion and images of her in front of an inverted pentagram calling her “The Original,” which she may be 100% right in her marketing claims.
According to Zeena’s website, “Kaliyuga Clearing House is happy to present the Retro-Zeena Collection. This 1989 photo of Zeena was her last, personally commissioned and stylistically designed, publicity shoot while still serving as High Priestess of the Church of Satan. A year after that, due to ideological and personal conflicts with her father and his new retinue of parasites, she renounced satanism to pursue her own spiritual journey.
Nikolas Shreck now lives in Germany where he is an author who it seems could never get enough of Charles Manson befriending and visiting him in prison up until his death and I would contend, his #1 apologetic. His Instagram page is also ripe with Satanic imagery and photos from his heyday.
Hell, I get it, we all have to make money in this damn “rotten world,” and you can’t blame them.
Modern Satanism with all the magic, controversy, marketing power, and cult heroes like Manson and “The Original” sells much better to wayward youth and parasites than plastic Buddha statues in this Satanic New World Order.
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
