American Hysteria
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.
1
Houdini's Afterlife with Sarah Marshall and Tim...
64 min
2
#Elsagate (rewind)
45 min
3
Introducing: Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Cr...
8 min
4
The Disturbing World of Mobile Game Ads with Pa...
75 min
5
Dear Chelsey and Ask Sarah Marshall
71 min
6
DEAR ABBY AND ANN LANDERS
70 min
7
Titanic in Real Time
60 min
8
Polybius: The Arcade Conspiracy
38 min
9
Not Just a Phase: Goths Through History with Ch...
72 min
10
The Imaginary Gods of ChatGPT with Journalist M...
57 min
11
The FBI's White Christian Nation with Lerone A....
81 min
12
Listen Now: American Scandal
6 min
13
Staring at the Sun on LSD with Sarah Marshall o...
80 min
14
The Call is Coming From Inside the House with S...
88 min
15
THE HIPPIE BABYSITTER BABY ROAST
55 min
16
Context Clues: Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's ...
48 min
17
GENDER REVEAL PARTIES: Pride Rewind
40 min
18
The Last Prison Rodeo with Journalist Adam Mahoney
55 min
19
Mayhem! at the Minecraft Movie with BJ Colangelo
71 min
20
Lost Boy Larry with Producer Miranda Zickler
67 min
21
BALLOON BOY
52 min
22
New Context: Gang Accusations and Initiations
109 min
23
Hoax Diary Spectacular with Sarah Marshall of '...
93 min
24
The Runaway Nun Hoax pt. 2 with Sarah Marshall ...
85 min
25
The Runaway Nun Hoax pt. 1 with Sarah Marshall ...
80 min