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