Context Clues: The Uncanny Valley of the Dolls

Context Clues: The Uncanny Valley of the Dolls

To get you ready for our upcoming episode called Haunted Dolls, we have selected some excerpts on Furby urban legends, demon-possessed toys, and uncanny killer clowns. Listen to Furby here Listen to Satanic Panic pt. 1 here Listen to Phantom Clowns here Become a Patron at patreon.com/americanhyseria Produced by Chelsey Weber-Smith, Riley Smith, and Miranda Zickler Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Rewind: BELIEVING IN THE BLAIR WITCH (Updated!)

Rewind: BELIEVING IN THE BLAIR WITCH (Updated!)

This is an update on the new developments surrounding one of my favorite movies of all time, The Blair Witch Project, paired with our 2019 minisode. When news broke that the film's production company ...

24 Jun 202424min

Pretendians: Indigenous Identity Fraud with Robert Jago and Angel Ellis

Pretendians: Indigenous Identity Fraud with Robert Jago and Angel Ellis

For this episode, the hosts of the new podcast Pretendians, Robert Jago and Angel Ellis, explain Indigenous Identity Fraud, the phenomenon of scam artists pretending to be indigenous in order to recei...

17 Jun 202453min

A Terrorist Attack on the Furries with Nicky Woolf

A Terrorist Attack on the Furries with Nicky Woolf

Fur and Loathing is a new investigative podcast from Nicky Woolf about an unsolved 2014 chlorine gas attack on the world’s largest Furry convention, an assumed safe place for those who create animal a...

10 Jun 202452min

Long Live the Ray Cat with Emperor X and Matt Kielty

Long Live the Ray Cat with Emperor X and Matt Kielty

Reporter and Radiolab producer Matthew Kielty and musician Chad Matheny (AKA Emperor X) were both part of a 2014 episode of the 99% Invisible podcast called Ten Thousand Years that asked the same ques...

20 Mai 202458min

TALKING TO THE FUTURE: NUCLEAR SEMIOTICS

TALKING TO THE FUTURE: NUCLEAR SEMIOTICS

How do we warn people 10,000 years in the future about nuclear waste sites that will remain extremely dangerous for longer than human civilization has existed? When language, symbols, and technologies...

13 Mai 20241h 7min

Context Clues: Going Nuclear

Context Clues: Going Nuclear

For some context for our upcoming series that we have not yet revealed, we will revisit excerpts from our past episodes: Horror Movies pt. 1, The End of the World, and Alien Abductions pt. 1 and 2. We...

6 Mai 202443min

Magical Overthinking with Amanda Montell

Magical Overthinking with Amanda Montell

Amanda Montell is the host of the podcast Sounds Like A Cult as well as the author of the new book The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality, a collection of personal essays on va...

29 Apr 20241h 5min

FRANCINE AND THE WOLVES OF WALL STREET with Sarah Marshall of 'You're Wrong About'

FRANCINE AND THE WOLVES OF WALL STREET with Sarah Marshall of 'You're Wrong About'

Sarah Marshall joins me to chat about how, in 1968, one unsuspecting young woman’s bustline almost caused a stock market bust when thousands of Wall Street employees became obsessed with watching her ...

22 Apr 20241h 17min

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