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- For this Halloween special, we are going to look at a handful of American cases in which mysterious blood suddenly appeared without a sensible source, as if by some kind of macabre magic, whether it be found all over the inside of a house, raining down from the sky alongside flesh and organs, dripping out of a centuries old tombstone, or oozing from an otherwise bloodless Puritan corpse. We'll see which of these events may have reasonable explanations and which remain inexplicable to this very day.
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Written, Produced, and Hosted by Chelsey Weber-Smith
Young Hunting performed by Brian Peters
Rain Oh Rain performed by Dan D. Dirges
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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices - Don’t you want a balloon? For this episode, the Wives Colangelo of the movie podcast This Ends at Prom join me to honor not only the 1990 horror miniseries Stephen King’s IT, but also its diabolical star, the late Tim Curry, whose transcendent version as Pennywise the Dancing Clown has terrified audiences for the last 26 years. Together, BJ, Harmony, and I go through the sweeping plot of IT and along the way tell stories from the making of the miniseries, give our thoughts on the meaning behind the story, and of course, wax poetic about perhaps the greatest character actor of our lifetimes (RIP).
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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices - Breaking news, my dear friends, and this one’s a doozy,
an urban legend born from an uncanny movie.
Some of it’s silly, some of it’s serious,
it’s all happening now and the truth is mysterious.
The cat in the hat played by Mike Myers
burns through our Tiktoks like an uncanny fire.
Teens are using AI to make him even scarier
while the consequences are getting much hairier.
Threats against schools and threats against students
are leading to arrests from here to Saint Louis.
Will and Kristen join me from Guide to the Unknown
to cover a panic chilling parents to the bone
Is this a real problem or will kids just just be kids
who haven’t yet learned what a problem this is?
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Producer and Editor: Miranda Zickler
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Associate Editor: Kaylee Jasperson
Hosted by Chelsey Weber-Smith
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices - This is part two of our Halloween season kick off celebration with Sarah Marshall, host of the podcast You’re Wrong About. In this series, we use the newspapers.com archives to play our favorite game in which we give each other random words, this time Halloween related words, and see what kind of obscure, bizarre, spooky, stupid, and funny stories we can dig up from the last 200 years. For part one, I delivered my fiendish findings to Sarah, and now for part two, she will deliver her awful offerings to me, with many other tricks and treats along the way.
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Producer and Editor: Miranda Zickler
Associate Producer: Riley Swedelius-Smith
Additional editing by Kaylee Jasperson
Hosted by Chelsey Weber-Smith
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices - It’s the beginning of Halloween season here at American Hysteria, and we are kicking it off with this two part episode cohosted by Sarah Marshall of You're Wrong About in which we play our favorite game, the newspapers.com Dive, using the keywords we give to each other to see what obscure bizarre, spooky, stupid, and funny articles we can pull up from the last 200 years. For part one, I will be presenting my haunted historical findings first and then next week Sarah will present hers.
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Get some of our new merch at americanhysteria.com, all profits this month go to The Sameer Project, a Palestinian-led mutual aid group in Gaza
Leave us a message on our Urban Legends Hotline at americanhysteria.com
Producer and Editor: Miranda Zickler
Associate Producer: Riley Swedelius-Smith
Additional editing by Kaylee Jasperson
Hosted by Chelsey Weber-Smith
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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.
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