TALKING TO THE DEAD
For the season two premiere, we are exploring the rich American history of Spiritualism, a massive 80-year trend of popular culture lasting from the Civil War to the Jazz age in which mediums began sp...
3 Juni 201931min
Presenting American Hysteria: Season Two
Join us next week, Monday, June 3rd, for the premiere of season two where we cover the creepy, sexy, gross, and surprisingly political American movement of Talking to the Dead. Find out what more you ...
27 Maj 20192min
BELIEVING IN THE BLAIR WITCH (mini episode)
This is the 20 year anniversary of one of my favorite movies of all time, The Blair Witch Project, a movie that masqueraded as real found footage of three college students who went missing in the wood...
6 Maj 201916min
THE MANDELA EFFECT (mini episode)
Our culture, our society, our very sense of self, relies heavily on a faith in our memories as perfectly accurate. But what if our memories aren’t as reliable as we think? What if we can recall vividl...
22 Apr 201913min
THE MOMO SUICIDE CHALLENGE (mini episode)
The newest viral internet urban legend focuses on an entity named Momo, a creepy humanoid figure with giant eyes, a strange too-wide smile, and grotesque chicken legs, said to message teens and kids o...
8 Apr 201913min
THE END OF THE WORLD
It has been said that the apocalypse is as American as apple pie, and for our season finale we are exploring different versions of the end of the world, the hyper-religious, the new age, and the scien...
25 Mars 201942min
The Morality of Drugs and the Opioid Crisis with Sarah Deutsch
This week we will be discussing the history of drug panic in the United States and its effects in the present day. My guest is Sarah Deutsch, a friend of mine from high school who received her masters...
18 Mars 201925min
DRUGS
When a security camera caught footage of a 31-year-old Florida resident eating the face of a homeless man, the news and social media dubbed him the Miami Zombie, and it was widely speculated that he w...
11 Mars 201932min
