Geezer Butler

Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler developed a fascination with Satanism, reading about the occult and decorating his home with inverted crosses before an unsettling experience made him abandon the subject altogether. In the liner notes for Sabbath's Reunion album, Butler recalled waking during the night and seeing “this black shadow at the end of the bed.” He described it as “a horrible presence that frightened the life out of me” and rushed to the airing cupboard where he had hidden a 16th-century book about magic. But the book had mysteriously disappeared. “After that I gave up all that stuff. It scared me shitless!” he recalled.