Fact Check: Images of Satanist Schooling in Libraries Are Digitally Generated

Demonic figures are not actually educating children.

By Cameron Hilditch

May 9, 2023

Images are circulating online that purport to show demonic figures in libraries instructing children in the ways of Satanism. These images were generated using artificial intelligence software and are not real.

I pray🙏 for Jesus to shorten the days.
I pray🙏 that his coming is around soon.
I pray🙏 for the Souls of the Children of this World, for the slithering serpent wants them too. I hold my head down in sorrow that innocence is stolen & corrupted by the hands of their keepers. https://t.co/XeiJHvSlU9
— CROWSPLAY (@CROWSPLAY1) May 5, 2023

Each of these images has a watermark in the bottom right-hand corner that reads “The Pumpkin Express.” Facebook and Instagram accounts by that name posted the images on May 2. The Facebook post in question was edited to include a notice that “This is not real. I created these pics with AI (artificial intelligence) software. The children are not real, this never happened.”

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