ROTTEN.COM

ROTTEN.COM

Rotten.com was a shock website from the late 90s and early 2000s that collected the most gruesome and explicit photos on the early internet. After a series of outrages pushed it into the public eye, the site would become an unlikely voice in the battle for online free speech at a time when the government was first attempting to censor the net. Become a Patron and support our show! Follow American Hysteria on social media: Twitter: @AmerHysteria Instagram: @AmericanHysteriaPodcast Find our merch at americanhysteria.com American Hysteria is written, produced, and hosted by Chelsey Weber-Smith Sound design by Clear Commo Studios Researched and edited Riley Smith Produced and editing by Miranda Zickler Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Haunted Dolls [rewind]

Haunted Dolls [rewind]

Please enjoy this rewind of last year's Halloween special called Haunted Dolls. Coming up next week we'll start our Halloween series called 'The 12 ft. Skeleton.' Then we'll be teaming up with our sib...

9 Okt 20231h

Lemuria: The Strangest Place to Never Exist with Author Justin McHenry

Lemuria: The Strangest Place to Never Exist with Author Justin McHenry

Justin McHenry, author of the forthcoming book Lemuria: A True Story of a Fake Place, tells me an expansive tale of an alleged long lost continent first written about in early scientific works, then h...

18 Sep 202356min

The Killer Crossdresser with Horror Analysts BJ and Harmony Colangelo

The Killer Crossdresser with Horror Analysts BJ and Harmony Colangelo

To unpack the movie trope of the Murderous Man in a Dress, prolific horror film analysts and writers BJ and Harmony Colangelo discuss with me all the complicated trans and drag “representation” in mov...

11 Sep 20231h 15min

EARLY DRAG QUEENS (part two)

EARLY DRAG QUEENS (part two)

For part two of our series, we are starting in the anti-gay moral panic of the 50s and 60s to see how the drag scene continued to transform underground, with female impressionists dazzling the starlet...

4 Sep 20231h 1min

EARLY DRAG QUEENS (part one)

EARLY DRAG QUEENS (part one)

This series will cover the moral panics and cultural crazes that have long followed the controversial art form once called "female impersonation." For part one of our two part series, we'll start back...

28 Aug 202355min

Context Clues: Long Live the Queens

Context Clues: Long Live the Queens

Our upcoming series, Early Drag Queens, will cover the surprising relationship between "female impersonation" and American masculinity in the time before the gay and transgender civil rights movements...

21 Aug 202351min

Love in the Time of Leprosy with Advocate José Ramirez, Jr.

Love in the Time of Leprosy with Advocate José Ramirez, Jr.

As the social media and the news got word of the new cases of leprosy found in Florida, a slew of misinformation and stigmatization followed. José P. Ramirez Jr. is the author of the memoir Squint: My...

14 Aug 202359min

Blame It on Barbie with Entertainment Journalist BJ Colangelo

Blame It on Barbie with Entertainment Journalist BJ Colangelo

BJ Colangelo is an editor at Slash Film and the writer of “The Only Guide To Barbie Lore You Will Ever Need,” a comprehensive look at the cultural movement of America's pinkest lady. On this episode, ...

24 Juli 20231h 24min

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