264 Episodes

  1. Spider Slander: Confronting the Myths with Expert Rod Crawford

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 3/4/2024
  15. Gang Initiations pt. 1

    Published: 2/26/2024
  16. Context Clues: Ganging Up

    Published: 2/19/2024
  17. Alligators in the Sewer with 'You're Wrong About' [Live at SketchFest]

    Published: 2/12/2024
  18. The Paranormal Entertainment Industry with Sapphire Sandalo and Jim Perry

    Published: 1/22/2024
  19. The Indiana Cyclone: America's First Munchausen Case with Sarah Marshall of 'You're Wrong About'

    Published: 1/15/2024
  20. We Are All Pro Wrestlers with Entertainment Journalist BJ Colangelo

    Published: 1/8/2024

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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.