American Hysteria
by chelsey weber-smith
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Pennywise and the IT Girls (1990) with This Ends at Prom
Oct 12, 2026
2h 00m 17s
The Cat in the Hat Serial Killer Panic with Guide to the Unknown
Oct 5, 2026
1h 35m 49s
Halloween Newspapers.com Dive pt. 2 with Sarah Marshall
Sep 28, 2026
1h 22m 33s
Halloween Newspapers.com Dive pt. 1 with Sarah Marshall
Sep 21, 2026
1h 23m 46s
Let's Talk About Sex (Ed) with Margaret Grace Myers
Sep 14, 2026
1h 30m 08s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/12/26 | Pennywise and the IT Girls (1990) with This Ends at Prom | 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). Listen to This Ends at Prom wherever you get your podcasts Become a Patron to support our show and get early ad-free episodes and bonus content Or subscribe to American Hysteria on Apple Podcasts 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 2h 00m 17s | ||||||
| 10/5/26 | The Cat in the Hat Serial Killer Panic with Guide to the Unknown | 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? Listen to Guide to the Unknown wherever you get your podcasts Become a Patron to support our show and get early ad-free episodes and bonus content Or subscribe to American Hysteria on Apple Podcasts 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 Associate Editor: Kaylee Jasperson Hosted by Chelsey Weber-Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 35m 49s | ||||||
| 9/28/26 | Halloween Newspapers.com Dive pt. 2 with Sarah Marshall | 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. Become a Patron to support our show and get early ad-free episodes and bonus content Or subscribe to American Hysteria on Apple Podcasts 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 22m 33s | ||||||
| 9/21/26 | Halloween Newspapers.com Dive pt. 1 with Sarah Marshall | 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. Become a Patron to support our show and get early ad-free episodes and bonus content Or subscribe to American Hysteria on Apple Podcasts 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 23m 46s | ||||||
| 9/14/26 | Let's Talk About Sex (Ed) with Margaret Grace Myers | For this Back to School episode, we are getting schooled in the history of sexual education by Margaret Grace Myers, author of The Fight for Sex Ed: The Century-Long Battle Between Truth and Doctrine. Through STI public health crises, sex work moral panics, eugenic visions, world wars, sexual revolutions, and the rise of the Christian right, sex ed has always been a potent cultural battleground that has remained remarkably similar decade over decade, a fight for the soul of a nation that has never quite known how to deal with S-E-X. Get a copy of The Fight for Sex Ed Out now in paperback! Become a Patron to support our show and get early ad-free episodes and bonus content Or subscribe to American Hysteria on Apple Podcasts 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 30m 08s | ||||||
| 9/7/26 | body imagecultural history+3 | Heather Radke | RadioLabThe Sameer Project+2 | — | butthistory+4 | — | 1h 27m 35s | ||
| 8/31/26 | clean livinghealth movements+4 | Zoë Rom | Your Diet SucksAmerican Hysteria+1 | — | cleanse diethealth history+5 | — | 1h 24m 11s | ||
| 8/24/26 | solar stormsCarrington Event+4 | Ben Bradford | Are We Doomed?The Sameer Project | — | solar stormCarrington Event+5 | — | 1h 05m 04s | ||
| 8/17/26 | Ku Klux Klanpolitical machine+4 | — | The Sameer ProjectAmerican Hysteria | — | Ku Klux Klan1920s+5 | — | 1h 09m 45s | ||
| 8/10/26 | Ku Klux Klan1920s+5 | — | The Sameer ProjectAmerican Hysteria+1 | — | Ku Klux Klan1920s+5 | — | 1h 09m 55s | ||
| 8/3/26 | American redneckshillbillies+5 | — | American HysteriaDeliverance | Appalachia | redneckshillbillies+5 | — | 55m 24s | ||
| 7/27/26 | cult historyevangelical movements+3 | Harrison Hill | The Sameer ProjectThe Oracle’s Daughter: The Rise and Fall of an American Cult | — | Aggressive Christianity Missionary Training Corpscult+5 | — | 1h 09m 15s | ||
| 7/20/26 | Hobby LobbyEvangelical Christianity+5 | Michael Blanding | Hobby LobbyThe Sameer Project+1 | — | Hobby LobbyChristian nation+6 | — | 1h 02m 59s | ||
| 7/13/26 | 1990s cultureangels+3 | Christine Laskowski | T&J: A Roman Empire Love StoryApple+4 | Gaza | angels1990s+3 | — | 1h 34m 45s | ||
| 7/6/26 | fireworksAmerican history+4 | Sarah Marshall | You're Wrong AboutThe Sameer Project | Gaza | fireworksAmerican history+5 | — | 1h 39m 26s | ||
| 6/29/26 | fireworksAmerican history+4 | Sarah Marshall | You’re Wrong AboutThe Sameer Project | Gaza | fireworksAmerican history+4 | — | 1h 42m 57s | ||
| 6/22/26 | Indigenous historyAmerican identity+4 | Rebecca Nagle | Cherokee NationThis Land+3 | — | Indigenous peoplescolonizers+4 | — | 1h 11m 55s | ||
| 6/15/26 | queer representationvillains+3 | BJ Colangelo | This Ends at PromThe Sameer Project+5 | — | queer villainsmedia representation+3 | — | 1h 04m 35s | ||
| 6/8/26 | dating appshistory of dating+3 | — | match.comThe Sameer Project+1 | — | dating appsmatch.com+5 | — | 1h 06m 46s | ||
| 6/1/26 | LGBTQ+ historyconspiracy theories+3 | — | The Sameer ProjectClear Commo Studios+1 | Gaza | Gay AgendaTinky Winky+5 | — | 37m 40s | ||
| 5/25/26 | celebrationQ&A+3 | Sarah Marshall | You’re Wrong AboutThe Sameer Project+1 | — | 300th episodeQ&A+4 | — | 1h 28m 59s | ||
| 5/18/26 | Voyager Golden Recordspace exploration+4 | Riley Swedelius-SmithMiranda Zickler | The Sameer Project | — | Voyager IVoyager II+5 | — | 1h 25m 34s | ||
| 5/11/26 | AIsocial media+4 | Ryan BroderickGrant Irving | Panic WorldAmerican Hysteria+1 | — | Cute Cat AIPanic World+4 | — | 1h 21m 26s | ||
| 5/7/26 | podcast previewfriendship+3 | — | No Such ThingApple+2 | — | No Such Thingpodcast+3 | — | 12m 29s | ||
| 5/4/26 | disappearancesparanormal+4 | Sarah Marshall | You’re Wrong AboutThe Sameer Project | Southwest Vermont | Bennington Triangledisappearances+5 | — | 1h 26m 02s | ||
| 4/27/26 | mysterious disappearancesBennington Triangle+4 | Sarah Marshall | The Sameer ProjectThe Secret History | Bennington CollegeVermont | Bennington Triangledisappearances+4 | — | 1h 28m 42s | ||
| 4/24/26 | historyLoch Ness Monster+3 | — | History Daily | — | Loch Ness MonsterHistory Daily+3 | — | 16m 15s | ||
| 4/20/26 | Georgia Guidestonesmystery+3 | Tyler McBrien | Who Blew Up The Guidestones?The Sameer Project+1 | Georgia GuidestonesElbert | Georgia GuidestonesTyler McBrien+4 | — | 50m 37s | ||
| 4/13/26 | black magichistory of magic+3 | Gruff Webb | The Sameer Project | Seattle Public LibraryGaza | black magiciansmagic show+3 | — | 1h 03m 00s | ||
| 4/6/26 | pranks19th century+4 | — | patreon.comApple+ | London | April Fools Dayprank+5 | — | 44m 14s | ||
| 3/30/26 | paleontologydinosaurs+4 | — | The Sameer ProjectAmerican Hysteria+2 | — | dinosaurspaleontology+5 | — | 1h 01m 52s | ||
| 3/23/26 | dinosaurspop culture+4 | — | The Sameer ProjectJurassic Park | — | dinosaursJurassic Park+4 | — | 1h 05m 16s | ||
| 3/16/26 | Pokémonurban legends+4 | Will RogersKristen Rogers-Anderson | Guide to the UnknownAmerican Hysteria+1 | — | Pokémoncreepy+5 | — | 1h 25m 40s | ||
| 3/9/26 | cause marketinggreenwashing+4 | Dr. Mara Einstein | Compassion, Inc.The Sameer Project+1 | — | corporate marketingenvironment+5 | SurfsharkCHELSEY | 1h 19m 58s | ||
| 3/2/26 | media panicsinsects+3 | Akilah Hughes | How Is This Better?The Sameer Project | — | bugsmass hysteria+5 | SurfsharkCHELSEY | 1h 02m 53s | ||
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Chart history for American Hysteria
Peaked at #144 in United States, currently #144 in United States.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | — | #144 | #144 | — |
| Canada | — | #150 | #150 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #188 | #188 | — |
| Brazil | — | #190 | #190 | — |
Chart Positions
4 placements across 4 markets.
Chart Positions
4 placements across 4 markets.