Conservative Podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey Is Afraid of Halloween

One day after Charlie Kirk’s death, his longtime friend Allie Beth Stuckey said that the event had major spiritual importance. “Demons are rejoicing right now,” the conservative influencer said on her podcast, Relatable. “Satan is glad that he took an effective soldier out of the fight.” This week, Stuckey traveled to Louisiana State University, where she headlined one of the final events on the tour Kirk had planned before he was killed. Onstage, she declined to talk about demons, focusing instead on what she called the “controversial truths” of Kirk’s legacy—including that feminism has “failed women” while “porn has weakened men.”

Which doesn’t mean Stuckey is no longer stuck on demons. On a recent episode of Relatable, she returned to the long-running debate about whether Christians should participate in Halloween celebrations. “We should also realize that the trauma that comes from Halloween for some people is real,” she said. “Decisions surrounding this, they require humility, they require wisdom, and they do, as I said, have a level of liberty.”

As Stuckey’s words imply, spiritual warfare is having a moment. From last month’s viral warnings of the rapture to fears that Labubus are demonic, social media has become a prime vector for spreading fringe beliefs. Silicon Valley is even getting on board: Last month, Peter Thiel did a lecture series focused in part on the Antichrist, and Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of AI company Gloo and former CEO of Intel, has said he wants to build technology to “hasten the coming of Christ’s return” to earth.

Stuckey, whose podcast appears on former Fox host Glenn Beck’s Blaze Media network, is no stranger to looking for demonic influences in pop culture. In August, Stuckey spoke out against the popularity of KPop Demon Hunters, citing it as an example of creeping “paganism” in our society. During her Halloween episode, she played a video shared by fellow Christian influencer Forrest Frank that explained an extreme version of the argument against the holiday. In it, a self-proclaimed “former satanic church leader” claims that Halloween is the “highest day” for satanists and “the night of the year where there is the most human sacrifice on the whole planet.” The former satanist adds that neighborhoods where people celebrate Halloween are at risk because “that whole perimeter becomes one big satanic ritual.”

Ultimately, Stuckey decided against endorsing this view. “There are evil spiritual principalities at work, and we should acknowledge that and we shouldn’t minimize that at all,” she said. “But I also want to push back against this idea that as Christians we are inviting Satan into our neighborhoods or into our homes or into our children’s lives by living next to someone that celebrates Halloween.” Yet Halloween celebrations carry with them other dangers, according to her: “There is, I would say, a big intertwining of Pride and LGBTQ pride with Halloween,” she said. “People are kind of pushing back against sexual norms through their costumes and through their celebrations.”