Tales of raves, Satanic rituals and ghostly apparitions have gripped the historic spot for years.
, too — especially during the pandemic, when shuttered venues and complicated permitting restrictions encouraged swaths of local musicians to take their gigs to public spaces unannounced — though park service spokesperson Julian Espinoza has stressed that there are more suitable locations for shows than a 130-year-old tunnel.
So, the prospect of him exploring the tunnel seemed likely, Walker said, but “the only people who might know for sure are the people who were in his inner circle at the time who may or may not have been privy to what he was doing down there.”Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATE, who was a priest at the Church of Satan throughout the 1960s and later formed his own religious movement, the Temple of Set, may have lent some inspiration to LaVey for the rituals if they did, in fact, happen.
But some soft evidence might be found in “The Satanic Rituals,” LaVey’s 1971 companion novel to “The Satanic Bible,” which outlines nine ceremonies and instructs members of the church on how to perform them. One near the end, titled “The Call to Cthulhu” after Lovecraft’s famed short story of the same name, told members to gather at night in “a secluded location near a major body of water — a large river, lake, or ocean,” but ideally “a natural stone cavern at the water’s edge.
The author and historian, who is still a leader within the Church of Satan, called the rumors “ridiculous” and ultimately chalked them up to the hysteria of the “Satanic panic” in the 1980s and 1990s, going on to say that the Church of Satan never scrawled pentagrams on the walls of the tunnel, nor did it conduct any rituals there.
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