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Two Flexible Skeptics Contemplate the Unknowable Universe: American Hysteria in Conversation with the Something Scary Podcast
Season 2
Today I plan to lose all creditability among our dedicated skeptics by sharing my ghost experiences, talking about astrology, and even getting a taro…
6 years, 7 months ago
THE MAD GASSER OF MATTOON (mini episode)
Season 2 Episode 10
AFTER SHOCK: In the summer of 1944, Americans saw terrifying headlines about a possible Nazi chemical weapons strike in the form of an invisible pois…
6 years, 7 months ago
MONSTERS
Season 2 Episode 9
Monsters come from the darkness, from the depth of lakes and swamps, from the shadows of forests and hills, and live too in the dark parts of all of …
6 years, 7 months ago
TED BUNDY (mini episode)
Season 2 Episode 8
AFTER SHOCK: This 1970s rockstar biopic of a man whom we can all agree should be deeply reviled isn’t a new or shocking concept in America, the count…
6 years, 8 months ago
CELEBRITY
Season 2 Episode 7
Whether we like to admit it or not, we have celebrities that we follow, and we can watch their dramatics play out on a public stage, their dramatics …
6 years, 8 months ago
PARROT FEVER (mini episode)
Season 2 Episode 6
AFTER SHOCK: On this week's show we talk about a disease known as Parrot Fever that frightened the nation in 1929, leading to parrots being abandoned…
6 years, 8 months ago
QUACKERY
Season 2 Episode 5
Gwyneth Paltrow’s Lifestyle-brand ‘Goop’ and the expensive products it peddles are just the newest in a long line of medical quackery leading back to…
6 years, 8 months ago
COOTIES (mini episode)
Season 2 Episode 4
We all remember the very real threat of cooties, a contractable playground malady that developed out of the adult fear of germs. Cooties have long ac…
6 years, 9 months ago
GERMS
Season 2 Episode 3
In a real sense, germs are our only modern predator and they are invisible and impossible to detect; what could be scarier? America has adjusted to t…
6 years, 9 months ago
GRIEFBOTS (mini episode)
Season 2 Episode 2
American Hysteria presents the AFTER SHOCK, a follow-up minisode to the main episode before it, basically The Shit They Didn't Show or From The Cutti…
6 years, 9 months ago