The Devil You Know

A powerful examination of mental illness, murder, a broken judicial system, a sensationalist media, and the rotten, apathetic core of white picket fence America (thoughts on the first season)

I despise the human race. People are ugly and pointless creatures. I sit back and I watch them and they anger me. I should get a medal for murdering these stupid people. Maybe when I'm dead, the gods of chaos shall grant me power.

• John Alexander Lawson aka. Pazuzu Illah Algarad; Letter to his mother from Central Prison, North Carolina (October 26, 2015)

The news media goes into overd__rive with the gore and the constant commentary about evil and Satan and all the rest. But that's just entertainment. The gruesome details don't begin to answer the real questions – how can law enforcement in our community allow something like this to go on, how did we let this go on? Clemmons is a wonderful place to grow up; you're surrounded by the church, you're surrounded by family, everyone's a conservative Christian, everybody votes the same way, they eat the same stuff. But while they go about their business, these ugly things, these tough things are bubbling under the surface. And a guy like Pazuzu Algarad, he's a local myth, maybe a local joke, but nobody really pays attention to him, nobody realises how serious it is. Until it's too late.

• Chad Nance; Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Camel City Dispatch, a local news blog in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

In William Peter Blatty's 1971 novel The Exorcist, and William Friedkin's 1973 filmic adaptation, a young girl is possessed by a demon named Pazuzu, a figure from the Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, and Babylonian mythologies of Ancient Mesopotamia. The king of the demons of the wind, although Pazuzu was considered evil, he was regarded as apotropaic, insofar as he would stand against the goddess Lamashtu, who ate new-borns. Additionally, his appearance was said to be so horrific that it would drive away...

An excellent examination of a wrongful conviction, a virtual cult, and the insanity that connects them (thoughts on the second season)

The reptilians have been dominating earth for hundreds of years, thousands. America started making written agreements with the aliens. Written agreements! "Ok, you can have a base here, we'll give you this base, and you can abduct any of our people, just give us your technology." And that's how we've advanced in technology. And these aliens, they pose as humans so they can destroy humans on earth. And the thing about it is, people just can't see it, they can't grasp it, and that's why they're not doing anything about it.

• Sherry Shriner; Sherry Shriner Online Radio (May 11, 2001)

People want to know how it's possible that I could interview the devil, but from my perspective, it's why not. He's been stalking me my entire life; he would go to my softball games, he was there when I graduated and walked across stage to get my diploma. So you tell me who's more qualified to interview this loser. I know more about him than anybody on this planet, I can guarantee you that.

• Sherry Shriner; Sherry Shriner Online Radio (May 30, 2006)

There's going to be a war against the real humans versus the fakes. These demons and alien entities are like parasites; they get a foothold into humans and they start to grow until they totally take them over. It's like a cancer taking over mankind. The war is on for total assimilation. Anyway, I'll be back next week folks.

• Sherry Shriner; Sherry Shriner Online Radio (December 21, 2015)

Are you at all concerned about the alien reptiles who can take on human form and have infiltrated the highest levels of world government on the orders of Satan? What about that family member who is almost certainly a clone? Surely you're worried about your colleague, the one who is, without doubt, not just a witch, but a witch with a vampire demon inside her. What about the giants?...