264 Episodes

  1. Womb Wars pt. 1

    Published: 8/1/2022
  2. Context Clues: Maybe it Ain't About the Babies

    Published: 7/25/2022
  3. Postcolonial Astrology with Alice Sparkly Kat

    Published: 7/5/2022
  4. The Planetary Propaganda of the Anti-Nazi Astrologer

    Published: 6/27/2022
  5. The Supernatural Imaginary of the Third Reich with Historian Eric Kurlander

    Published: 6/20/2022
  6. Astrology

    Published: 6/13/2022
  7. Pride Rewind: Gender Reveal Parties

    Published: 6/6/2022
  8. All the Other Snuff with Sarah Marshall of 'You're Wrong About'

    Published: 5/23/2022
  9. Rotten.com

    Published: 5/16/2022
  10. Snuff Films

    Published: 5/9/2022
  11. Context Clues: Pornography

    Published: 5/2/2022
  12. Hear ye! Hear ye! Extra extra hear all about it!

    Published: 4/4/2022
  13. The Séance of Selena with Poet Melissa Lozada-Oliva

    Published: 3/28/2022
  14. Scene Queens with Podcasters BJ and Harmony Colangelo of 'This Ends at Prom'

    Published: 3/21/2022
  15. Boy Bands

    Published: 3/7/2022
  16. Fangirls

    Published: 2/21/2022
  17. Context Clues: Teenage Sex

    Published: 2/14/2022
  18. Introducing Spectacle: Las Vegas

    Published: 2/10/2022
  19. Twitter Saves Megan from the Westboro Baptist Church

    Published: 1/31/2022
  20. The Westboro Baptist Church

    Published: 1/24/2022

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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.