About this podcast
American Hysteria explores how fantastical thinking has shaped our culture – moral panics, urban legends, hoaxes, crazes, fringe beliefs, and national misunderstandings. Poet-turned-podcaster Chelsey Weber-Smith tells the strangest stories from American history and examines the forces that create the reality we share, and sometimes, the reality we don't.
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AMERICAN HYSTERIA
About this podcast
American Hysteria explores how fantastical thinking has shaped our culture – moral panics, urban legends, hoaxes, crazes, fringe beliefs, and national misunderstandings. Poet-turned-podcaster Chelsey Weber-Smith tells the strangest stories from American history and examines the forces that create the reality we share, and sometimes, the reality we don't.
Recent episodes
- Bloody Mary (rewind)26 Oct · 1 h 04 min
- MYSTERY BLOOD19 Oct · 1 h 07 min
- Pennywise and the IT Girls (1990) with This Ends at Prom12 Oct · 2 h 00 min
- The Cat in the Hat Serial Killer Panic with Guide to the Unknown5 Oct · 1 h 36 min
- Halloween Newspapers.com Dive pt. 2 with Sarah Marshall28 Sept · 1 h 23 min
- Halloween Newspapers.com Dive pt. 1 with Sarah Marshall21 Sept · 1 h 24 min
- Let's Talk About Sex (Ed) with Margaret Grace Myers14 Sept · 1 h 30 min
- Baby Got Backstory with Heather Radke7 Sept · 1 h 28 min
- Ye Olde Cleanse Diet with Zoë Rom of 'Your Diet Sucks'31 Aug · 1 h 24 min
- Solar Storms and the Carrington Event with Ben Bradford of 'Are We Doomed?'24 Aug · 1 h 05 min
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