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.

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