American Hysteria

A podcast by chelsey weber-smith - Mondays

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230 Episodes

  1. Taylor Swift Decoded with Pop Music Journalist Brittany Spanos

    Published: 9/9/2024
  2. Elvis is Alive!

    Published: 9/2/2024
  3. Context Clues: The King is Dead Probably

    Published: 8/26/2024
  4. The Disney Gimmick That Conjured a Ghost with Jim Perry of Euphomet

    Published: 8/12/2024
  5. Tarantism: Dancing Mania pt. 2 with Sarah Marshall of 'You're Wrong About'

    Published: 8/5/2024
  6. Tarantism: Dancing Mania pt. 1 with Sarah Marshall of 'You're Wrong About'

    Published: 7/29/2024
  7. Spider Slander: Confronting the Myths with Expert Rod Crawford

    Published: 7/22/2024
  8. The Average Person Swallows Eight Spiders a Year in Their Sleep

    Published: 7/15/2024
  9. Rewind: Believing in the Blair Witch (Updated!)

    Published: 6/24/2024
  10. Pretendians: Indigenous Identity Fraud with Robert Jago and Angel Ellis

    Published: 6/17/2024
  11. A Terrorist Attack on the Furries with Nicky Woolf

    Published: 6/10/2024
  12. Long Live the Ray Cat with Emperor X and Matt Kielty

    Published: 5/20/2024
  13. Talking to the Future: Nuclear Semiotics

    Published: 5/13/2024
  14. Context Clues: Going Nuclear

    Published: 5/6/2024
  15. Magical Overthinking with Amanda Montell

    Published: 4/29/2024
  16. Francine and the Wolves of Wall Street with Sarah Marshall of 'You're Wrong About'

    Published: 4/22/2024
  17. The Society for Indecency to Naked Animals

    Published: 4/1/2024
  18. When Conspiracies Aren't Just Theories with Journalist Tom Risen

    Published: 3/25/2024
  19. Bigfoot's Big Adventure with Author John O'Connor

    Published: 3/18/2024
  20. Gang Initiations pt. 2

    Published: 3/4/2024

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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.