a creepy sleepover (with chelsey from american hysteria)

Rattled & Shook

Tenderfoot TV & Audacy

Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Episode 109: Meredith is joined by Chelsey Weber-Smith of the American Hysteria podcast to discuss the history of ghosts, creepy sleepover traditions, and how many spiders you ate last night. :)

Thanks to Chelsey and Megan for sending in their stories!

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Host: Meredith Stedman @meredithstedman

Guest: Chelsey Weber-Smith @americanhysteriapod

Original artwork by Puppyteeth

Intro voicework by Miles Agee

Original Music, Intro Theme & Ending Theme by Makeup and Vanity Set

This episode features voicework by Jill Cofsky (Seance with Harvey).

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to a Tenderfoot TV podcast.
0:05.0	Parkos.
0:08.0	Welcome to Radio Rental.
0:11.0	The scariest stories you've ever heard in your life.
0:14.0	All told by real people.
0:18.0	And off we go.
0:20.0	This wasn't a human being that I saw.
0:22.5	There's something here in this house, something out of this world.
0:25.2	There was a woman moving through the hall.
0:27.9	I stepped back and I was completely alone.
0:31.7	Radio Rental is available now.
0:33.9	Listen for free on Amazon Music.
0:38.4	And now, presenting R Rattled and Shook.
0:42.2	I'm Meredith, and this is Rattled and Shook, a podcast where we tune into scary stories and discuss our deepest darkest fears, but in a fun way.
1:22.4	And today I have Chelsea Webbersmith here from the podcast, American Hysteria, which you probably have listened to.
1:30.6	Hi, Chelsea.
1:31.4	Hi, I am so excited to be here. Thank you for having me.
1:35.9	Well, Chelsea, tell everyone about your podcast a little bit just so they know kind of what you're into and what you talk about and why we will be talking about ghosts today.
1:44.0	Sure. So American Hysteria is a history podcast that covers moral panics and urban legends,
1:53.2	conspiracy theories, hoaxes, crazes, and the general way that American culture has been
1:59.4	influenced by fantastical thinking.
2:02.0	So we go find kind of obscure stories that have had a much bigger impact on our national
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