American Hysteria
A podcast by chelsey weber-smith - Mondays
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230 Episodes
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Taylor Swift Decoded with Pop Music Journalist Brittany Spanos
Published: 9/9/2024 -
Elvis is Alive!
Published: 9/2/2024 -
Context Clues: The King is Dead Probably
Published: 8/26/2024 -
The Disney Gimmick That Conjured a Ghost with Jim Perry of Euphomet
Published: 8/12/2024 -
Tarantism: Dancing Mania pt. 2 with Sarah Marshall of 'You're Wrong About'
Published: 8/5/2024 -
Tarantism: Dancing Mania pt. 1 with Sarah Marshall of 'You're Wrong About'
Published: 7/29/2024 -
Spider Slander: Confronting the Myths with Expert Rod Crawford
Published: 7/22/2024 -
The Average Person Swallows Eight Spiders a Year in Their Sleep
Published: 7/15/2024 -
Rewind: Believing in the Blair Witch (Updated!)
Published: 6/24/2024 -
Pretendians: Indigenous Identity Fraud with Robert Jago and Angel Ellis
Published: 6/17/2024 -
A Terrorist Attack on the Furries with Nicky Woolf
Published: 6/10/2024 -
Long Live the Ray Cat with Emperor X and Matt Kielty
Published: 5/20/2024 -
Talking to the Future: Nuclear Semiotics
Published: 5/13/2024 -
Context Clues: Going Nuclear
Published: 5/6/2024 -
Magical Overthinking with Amanda Montell
Published: 4/29/2024 -
Francine and the Wolves of Wall Street with Sarah Marshall of 'You're Wrong About'
Published: 4/22/2024 -
The Society for Indecency to Naked Animals
Published: 4/1/2024 -
When Conspiracies Aren't Just Theories with Journalist Tom Risen
Published: 3/25/2024 -
Bigfoot's Big Adventure with Author John O'Connor
Published: 3/18/2024 -
Gang Initiations pt. 2
Published: 3/4/2024
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.