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On this podcast, we explore fantastical thinking, moral panics, conspiracy theories, and urban

legends, examine the forces that shape our culture, and tell the stories that create the

realities we share, and sometimes the realities we don't. I'm your host, Chelsea

Weber Smith, and this is American History. I reacted like someone who had been attacked,

assaulted. The most interesting thing we've seen and all the things that make us particularly

human. I'm there right here, my beer right there. I usually see the column of the Shadow

People. Hi, I don't know what happened. You can remember everything now. I'll remember

it's the last thing I do.

It can run in families, both believers and skeptics agree, these experiences with the

extra terrestrial paranormal. On a beer run on a dark wooded road in the early 1980s, my

dad used to tell a story of driving his pickup truck with his buddy Jarshaw when all of

a sudden bang, they hit something that sounded like solid metal, but they hadn't seen anything

at all. When they got out to look, there it was on the pavement, a metal sphere a little

smaller than a soccer ball. As they got close, it shot straight up in the air, stopped

in front of them and then zipped into the woods and disappeared. It's a wopper, I know,

but my mom even backs this one up. My mom, who has seen her own unexplained objects, a bright

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