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
History
101
THE MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE
51 min
102
Context Clues: All the World Loves a Parade
40 min
103
Artificial Unintelligence with Perry Carpenter
75 min
104
Falling for Fascism (re-release)
26 min
105
BURIED ALIVE!
53 min
106
Context Clues: Grave Mistakes
43 min
107
A MASSIVE SEANCE Live Show Tour with YOU'RE WRO...
1 min
108
I WAS A TEENAGE POLTERGEIST with Sarah Marshall...
91 min
109
SKIBIDI TOILET
57 min
110
Context Clues: Brr Skibidi Dop Dop Dop Yes Yes
58 min
111
The Untold History of the NYPD with Chenjerai K...
57 min
112
Taylor Swift Decoded with Pop Music Journalist ...
58 min
113
ELVIS IS ALIVE!
65 min
114
Context Clues: The King is Dead Probably
48 min
115
The Disney Gimmick That Conjured a Ghost with J...
51 min
116
TARANTISM: DANCING MANIA pt. 2 with Sarah Marsh...
75 min
117
TARANTISM: DANCING MANIA pt. 1 with Sarah Marsh...
58 min
118
Spider Slander: Confronting the Myths with Expe...
39 min
119
THE AVERAGE PERSON SWALLOWS EIGHT SPIDERS A YEA...
55 min
120
Rewind: BELIEVING IN THE BLAIR WITCH (Updated!)
22 min
121
Pretendians: Indigenous Identity Fraud with Rob...
51 min
122
A Terrorist Attack on the Furries with Nicky Wo...
50 min
123
Long Live the Ray Cat with Emperor X and Matt K...
55 min
124
TALKING TO THE FUTURE: NUCLEAR SEMIOTICS
64 min
125
Context Clues: Going Nuclear
40 min