Johanna Michaelsen

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 them. Michaelsen asserts these experiences were real and that she inherited real psychic powers. She would make even more outlandish claims about Haygood in her autobiography, including some that were...