American Hysteria explores how fantastical thinking has shaped our culture – moral panics, urban legends, hoaxes, crazes, fringe beliefs, and national misunderstandings.... more
Rod Crawford is the curator of the arachnids and related research collections at Seattle’s Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.... more
For this Urban Legends Hotline episode, we are dissecting the myth that the average person swallows a certain number of... more
This is an update on the new developments surrounding one of my favorite movies of all time, The Blair Witch... more
For this episode, the hosts of the new podcast Pretendians, Robert Jago and Angel Ellis, explain Indigenous Identity Fraud, the... more
Fur and Loathing is a new investigative podcast from Nicky Woolf about an unsolved 2014 chlorine gas attack on the... more
Reporter and Radiolab producer Matthew Kielty and musician Chad Matheny (AKA Emperor X) were both part of a 2014 episode... more
How do we warn people 10,000 years in the future about nuclear waste sites that will remain extremely dangerous for... more
For some context for our upcoming series that we have not yet revealed, we will revisit excerpts from our past... more
Amanda Montell is the host of the podcast Sounds Like A Cult as well as the author of the new... more
Sarah Marshall joins me to chat about how, in 1968, one unsuspecting young woman’s bustline almost caused a stock market... more