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Hysteria 51

Easter Island Unearthed & Hypnosis Unhinged | 482

Hysteria 51

ForthHand Media

True Crime, Conspiracy, Supernatural, Aliens, Comedy, History, Science, Paranormal

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

This week on Hysteria 51, we’re cracking open two stories that prove the world is basically a reality show hosted by archaeology and existential dread.

First up: Easter Island (Rapa Nui), where a new moai statue turned up in a place researchers thought was already picked clean, the dried lakebed inside the statue quarry. A “how did we miss that?” moment so loud you can hear it across the Pacific. We dig into what was found, why it’s so weird, and what it might mean when climate and changing conditions start revealing secrets that have been marinating underground for centuries.

Then we pivot hard into the unsettling: the case of Dr. George Kenney, a Florida high school principal who hypnotized students, and the haunting controversy that followed after three teens died in 2011 after undergoing hypnosis sessions. We walk through what happened, what investigators and lawsuits focused on, and why this story keeps resurfacing as one of the strangest true crime-adjacent headline spirals in recent memory.

So queue it up for weird news, Easter Island mystery, and a hypnosis case that’ll make you say, “Nope,” while still leaning closer to the speaker.

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0:00.0

The following is a fourth-hand production.

0:14.6

Welcome into another blurry hysteria.

0:17.7

Flint and David.

0:18.9

I am here, sir.

0:20.3

How goes? How's the weird Wednesday hitting you, even though it's not Wednesday in the recording.

0:26.4

I'm being productive.

0:29.2

Well, we're recording.

0:30.4

So I can't ask for much more.

0:32.4

Right. I got a big moving day in the studio tomorrow and my mother-in-law is with us because she had her knee replaced.

0:40.3

And there's therapy people here today.

0:41.9

Lots of people in and out of the house and lots of things going on.

0:45.6

So I got that guy for me.

0:48.1

As I said before, start charging.

0:51.7

Right.

0:52.7

You go cover charge.

0:53.8

Hey, you want to party. VIP access bottle service. Sir, this is ketchup. It's a bottle, ain't it? It's back to 57. I like it. Anyway. But yeah, man, weird news. If you got your stories, get them to us weird Weird at hysteria 51.com. W-E-I-R-D at hysteria-51.com. And also we need to, please, please, please send us your voicemails. 773-669-7-2-7-277. Again, 773-669, 7-277. And also, what are some uh i'm gonna give you a go to facebook

1:30.7

if you're on there go to stare nation give us some topic ideas we got a lot of them in the works

1:34.7

but uh we'd love to hear we haven't asked for those in a while uh so what are what do you feel

1:40.3

on these days paranormal some cryptids some you know there's always alien stuff we got a lot of

1:44.8

we're just talking like we've been doing a lot of alien we need to branch out and do some other stuff

1:48.0

but it's been so in the news with everything it's true and sounds like it's going to stay there for a

1:54.4

little bit feels like there's stuff of brewing you know so i don't knowiting time to maybe be alive,

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