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American Hysteria
American Hysteria
chelsey weber-smith

American Hysteria explores how fantastical thinking has shaped our culture – moral panics, urban legends, hoaxes, crazes, fringe beliefs, and national misunderstandings.... more

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Episodes

Spider Slander: Confronting the Myths with Expert Rod Crawford

Rod Crawford is the curator of the arachnids and related research collections at Seattle’s Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.... more

22 Jul 2024 · 46 minutes
The Average Person Swallows Eight Spiders a Year in Their Sleep

For this Urban Legends Hotline episode, we are dissecting the myth that the average person swallows a certain number of... more

15 Jul 2024 · 1 hour, 1 minute
Rewind: Believing in the Blair Witch (Updated!)

This is an update on the new developments surrounding one of my favorite movies of all time, The Blair Witch... more

24 Jun 2024 · 24 minutes
Pretendians: Indigenous Identity Fraud with Robert Jago and Angel Ellis

For this episode, the hosts of the new podcast Pretendians, Robert Jago and Angel Ellis, explain Indigenous Identity Fraud, the... more

17 Jun 2024 · 53 minutes
A Terrorist Attack on the Furries with Nicky Woolf

Fur and Loathing is a new investigative podcast from Nicky Woolf about an unsolved 2014 chlorine gas attack on the... more

10 Jun 2024 · 52 minutes
Long Live the Ray Cat with Emperor X and Matt Kielty

Reporter and Radiolab producer Matthew Kielty and musician Chad Matheny (AKA Emperor X) were both part of a 2014 episode... more

20 May 2024 · 58 minutes
Talking to the Future: Nuclear Semiotics

How do we warn people 10,000 years in the future about nuclear waste sites that will remain extremely dangerous for... more

13 May 2024 · 1 hour, 7 minutes
Context Clues: Going Nuclear

For some context for our upcoming series that we have not yet revealed, we will revisit excerpts from our past... more

06 May 2024 · 43 minutes
Magical Overthinking with Amanda Montell

Amanda Montell is the host of the podcast Sounds Like A Cult as well as the author of the new... more

29 Apr 2024 · 1 hour, 5 minutes
Francine and the Wolves of Wall Street with Sarah Marshall of 'You're Wrong About'

Sarah Marshall joins me to chat about how, in 1968, one unsuspecting young woman’s bustline almost caused a stock market... more

22 Apr 2024 · 1 hour, 17 minutes
American Hysteria
Spider Slander: Confronting the Myths with Expert Rod Crawford
American Hysteria