Easter Island Unearthed & Hypnosis Unhinged | 482

This week on Hysteria 51, we’re cracking open two stories that prove the world is basically a reality show hosted by archaeology and existential dread.

First up: Easter Island (Rapa Nui), where a new moai statue turned up in a place researchers thought was already picked clean, the dried lakebed inside the statue quarry. A “how did we miss that?” moment so loud you can hear it across the Pacific. We dig into what was found, why it’s so weird, and what it might mean when climate and changing conditions start revealing secrets that have been marinating underground for centuries.

Then we pivot hard into the unsettling: the case of Dr. George Kenney, a Florida high school principal who hypnotized students, and the haunting controversy that followed after three teens died in 2011 after undergoing hypnosis sessions. We walk through what happened, what investigators and lawsuits focused on, and why this story keeps resurfacing as one of the strangest true crime-adjacent headline spirals in recent memory.

So queue it up for weird news, Easter Island mystery, and a hypnosis case that’ll make you say, “Nope,” while still leaning closer to the speaker.

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