264 Episodes

  1. Black Friday: 'Panic Monday' Off-Season Talk Show

    Published: 12/2/2019
  2. Disney Subliminal Messages: 'Panic Monday' Off-Season Talk Show

    Published: 11/4/2019
  3. Mind Control

    Published: 10/21/2019
  4. Terrorism: Part Two

    Published: 10/14/2019
  5. Terrorism: Part One

    Published: 10/7/2019
  6. Wardrobe Malfunction

    Published: 9/30/2019
  7. Pornography

    Published: 9/23/2019
  8. Violent Video Games

    Published: 9/16/2019
  9. Dangerous Teens

    Published: 9/9/2019
  10. Furby

    Published: 9/2/2019
  11. Toy Riots

    Published: 8/26/2019
  12. LIVE VARIETY HOUR

    Published: 8/19/2019
  13. Two Flexible Skeptics Contemplate the Unknowable Universe: American Hysteria in Conversation with the Something Scary Podcast

    Published: 8/12/2019
  14. The Mad Gasser of Mattoon

    Published: 8/5/2019
  15. Monsters

    Published: 7/29/2019
  16. Ted Bundy

    Published: 7/22/2019
  17. Celebrity

    Published: 7/15/2019
  18. Parrot Fever

    Published: 7/8/2019
  19. Quackery

    Published: 7/1/2019
  20. Cooties

    Published: 6/24/2019

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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.