This section will disclose formidable chronological problems in The Satan Seller , totally apart from the historical investigative research which appears in the main body of this article. But nobody took the time to do the math.
Dates are rare in The Satan Seller .
Yet Mike Warnke provides just enough information to check his story against a real calendar. He says he didn't join the Satanists until after college began, and he was kicked out of the satanic cult just before he joined the Navy. Some external information helps to define the limits of this period. School records show freshmen classes began at San Bernardino Valley College on September 13, 1965. Mike Warnke's Naval records show he entered the Navy on June 2, 1966.