American Hysteria explores how fantastical thinking has shaped our culture – moral panics, urban legends, hoaxes, crazes, fringe beliefs, and national misunderstandings.... more
Brittany Spanos is a senior writer for Rolling Stone Magazine who has taught a course at NYU called Topics in... more
The life of the conspiracy theory that claims Elvis Presley faked his death is an almost unbelievable journey through gimmick-crazy... more
The idea that Elvis Presley did not die in August of 1977, that he instead faked his death, has become... more
Our paranormal correspondent Jim Perry is back to tell us about his recent ghost hunt inside the Queen Mary ship,... more
For part two of our series, we are returning to the phenomenon called 'Tarantism' that began in the Middle Ages... more
The phenomenon called 'Tarantism' began in the Middle Ages in southern Italy where the bite of a local spider caused... 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