Oklahoma has pockets of Satanic cults whose rituals involve the sexual abuse of children and adults, and sometimes the blood of the victims.
I got a call this morning from a woman who read my story about the Satanic Black Mass scheduled in Oklahoma City, and wanted to tell me about an experience she had years ago in Tulsa. She said she was kidnapped by a Satanic cult in Tulsa, drugged, and subjected to horrific sexual abuse as part of a Satanic ceremony. She wouldn’t give me her name, or a way to contact her. She sounded perfectly sane, but to be honest, I didn’t give it much credence. And I wasn’t too worked up over the plans by a Satanic cult in Oklahoma City to perform the Black Mass. I wrote it off as the action of a small group on the lunatic fringe. Then I got a call this afternoon from Monsignor Patrick Brankin, one of the top leaders in the Catholic Diocese of Tulsa, who is the diocesan exorcist. Brankin said he found the woman’s story believable, as he himself has worked with victims of Satanic ritual abuse. He said Oklahoma has pockets of Satanic cults whose rituals involve the sexual abuse of children and adults, and sometimes the blood of the victims. The Oklahoma City Satanic group is “toning it down to make it legal,” he said. Brankin said they should not be written off as “half a dozen kooks whose right to worship needs to be protected. … What they’re offering is the worship of Satan that is a threat to our society.” Brankin said that he doubts that Oklahoma City would rent their facilities to an organization that was going to hold a Quran-burning ceremony. He said the Black Mass is a stolen form of the Roman Catholic Mass, designed to “make a mockery of everything that Christians believe.” “It’s always been done secretly, and in private. The difference is, this is being done publicly, and in a public venue,” he said. And I also was reminded of Sean Sellers, the Oklahoma City 16-year-old who said his involvement with Satanism motivated him to kill his mother and stepfather in their bed. I spent several afternoons talking with Sellers through the bars of his death row cell in McAlester before he was executed in 1999. He had become a Christian in prison, and spent his days writing to teenagers on the outside, warning them of the dangers of drugs and Satanism.
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