People reject reality, and this has all kinds of dangerous implications.

But I think also a positive note is that people like whimsy and like legend and lore.

They want to keep these questions alive because it just creates more stories and that's such a human thing to me.

In 2022, a roadside attraction known as the Georgia Guidestones was blown to smithereens by an unknown assailant. Financed anonymously in 1980, the Stonehenge-esque monument presented 10 mysterious guidelines to safeguard the future of

humanity and sparked controversy over its potentially satanic messages.

But what was the true intention of this anonymous donor and who would have the misguided

passion to pull off such an explosive crime? For this episode, Tyler McBrien, host of the excellent new podcast,

Who Blew Up the Guidestones, takes me through the story from the beginning and shares the

wild threads he has uncovered through his meticulous investigation, which seeks to finally

figure out the truth behind this

kitschy yet consequential small town mystery.

I'm your host, Chelsea Weber-Smith, and this is American Hysteria.

I am so excited for this one.

I am so excited to welcome Tyler to the show.

I think we're going to just really bring you all an episode that you're going to love.

This is just perfect American hysteria fodder.

So thank you for coming on, Tyler.

Chelsea, thanks so much for having me. Yeah, it seems like a perfect marriage of interest.

The Venn diagram is a circle here, I think. That's absolutely true. Yeah, this is, it just feels really like classic to the things that we love to cover. So I am a big fan of this show at this moment of the recording.

You've got four episodes out.

And it's just been such a pleasure to listen to them.

And, you know, I love an investigation.

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