Titlebook: Social Panics & Phantom Attackers; A Study of Imaginary Robert E. Bartholomew,Paul Weatherhead Book 2024 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and

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Spiked! The Great British Needle-Spiking Panic: A Crime in Search of Criminals,ents were reported across continental Europe. We trace syringe-spiking panics back to the United States prior to World War I, in Britain and India during the 1930s, and France in the 1960s. These reports have all the hallmarks of a social panic—an exaggerated threat that is stoked by the media, advo

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,Pins, Needles & Paranoia: HIV Panics,lcome to the world of AIDS’ scrawled in lipstick on the bedroom mirror. These accounts served as cautionary tales about the importance of monogamy and the physical and moral perils of casual sex. A kindred panic involving ‘AIDS Harry’ is also examined along with other scares involving the fear of co

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The London Monster: An Eighteenth-Century Spiking Scare, sharp objects. The parallels with contemporary needle-panics are striking. Some historians have cast doubt as to whether these encounters ever occurred, attributing their appearance to rumors, urban legends, embellishment, and hoaxes. The Monster mania that gripped London resulted in angry mobs who

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Mad Gassers and Ethereal Terrorists,tan, and the  Middle East, each involving Islamic schoolgirls living under repressive conditions and amid plausible rumors that they were being targeted. In Iran the rumor held that they were being punished for participating in headscarf protests. In Afghanistan it was claimed that the Taliban was p

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Serial Pet Killer Panics: From the Yorkshire Dog Poisoner to the Croydon Cat Killer,hat are reported in the media. Frustrated with perceived police inaction, concerned citizens collect cases and share them with news outlets which often produce emotional stories. The perpetrator who is almost always assumed to be male is commonly given a nickname that further cements their reality,

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The Annoyers: Mysterious Sprayers, Pitters, Biters, and Crackers,ggered by a single American newspaper report. Soon hundreds of ‘attacks’ poured in from across the country. Few victims ever saw the bug in action as people redefined a variety of mundane skin conditions, puncture wounds, and insect bites as confirmation of attacks. During the 1950s, a mysterious fi

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Beyond Belief: Of Monkey Men and Genital Thieves,d only by plausibility. We also examine a wave of ‘attacks’ by a monkey-like creature in New Delhi, India during 2001, and compare it to accounts of Spring-heeled Jack in Europe. The outbreaks in non-Western cultures can appear to be absurd to those outside of the social and cultural milieu. Deeply