264 Episodes

  1. Germs

    Published: 6/17/2019
  2. Griefbots

    Published: 6/10/2019
  3. Talking to the Dead

    Published: 6/3/2019
  4. Presenting American Hysteria: Season Two

    Published: 5/27/2019
  5. Viral: Believing in the Blair Witch

    Published: 5/6/2019
  6. Viral: The Mandela Effect

    Published: 4/22/2019
  7. Viral: The Momo Suicide Challenge

    Published: 4/8/2019
  8. The End of the World

    Published: 3/25/2019
  9. The Calm Down: The Morality of Drugs and the Opioid Crisis

    Published: 3/18/2019
  10. Drugs

    Published: 3/11/2019
  11. The Calm Down: Murdered on Lovers' Lane

    Published: 2/25/2019
  12. Teenage Sex

    Published: 2/18/2019
  13. The Calm Down: Talking to My Christian Friends About Gay Stuff

    Published: 2/11/2019
  14. The Gay Agenda

    Published: 2/4/2019
  15. The Calm Down: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Clown

    Published: 1/27/2019
  16. Phantom Clowns

    Published: 1/21/2019
  17. The Calm Down: Kids in Cauldrons and Satanic Ritual Abuse

    Published: 1/14/2019
  18. Satanic Panic: Part Two

    Published: 1/7/2019
  19. Satanic Panic: Part One

    Published: 12/10/2018
  20. The Calm Down: Hidden Anti-Semitism in Conspiracy Thought and Getting to Know Satan

    Published: 12/3/2018

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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.