1984 was a helluva year. Famine in Ethiopia. Indira Gandhi was assassinated. The AIDS virus was identified. And Satan spoke to June O’Brien of Boca Raton, Florida, through her haunted toaster.

“He had a very low voice, I’d say,” she told Today Show viewers.  “He sounded like Eli Wallach“

The Dark Lord also left messages on her toast. “SATAN LIVES” read one piece of hellishly charred bread.

When asked if the toaster was still possessed, June plopped a piece of toast into it, and after a bit of futzing – (“It seems to beware…” she whispers) – IT CATCHES ON FIRE!

BOO! And THERE’S YOUR ANSWER!

Bryant Gumbel‘s reaction is PRICELESS.

Watch this “astounding moment in TV history” courtesy of Richard Dominick, the interviewer (and later a producer for Jerry Springer) who made this astounding moment in TV history possible, and to Boyd Matson, the reporter who produced and narrated the segment.