Biography

Johanna Michaelsen (1949–) is a fundie writer and self-proclaimed "authority on the occult" who promoted the Satanic Panic in the 1980s-90s. Before jumping on fundamentalist Christian bandwagon, Michaelsen was fully immersed in New Age wingnuttery. She had claimed to have had supernatural experiences from the age of eleven onward, which she now believes was inherited from her great-great aunt, Dixie Jarratt Haygood, a vaudeville performer whose tricks were easily replicated by those that knew t...Read more