ELVIS IS ALIVE!

American Hysteria

W!ZARD Studios

Society & Culture

4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

The life of the conspiracy theory that claims Elvis Presley faked his death is an almost unbelievable journey through gimmick-crazy hucksters and true blue believers, the tales turning the king of rock and roll into something more like a cryptid than a superstar, evidence caught in blurry photographs and in secret messages, all covered up by shadowy forces. This zany story shows how conspiracies theories are born, how they transform, and how they never seem to die, no matter what, much like Elvis himself, allegedly. Become a Patron to support our show and get early ad-free episodes and bonus content Or subscribe to American Hysteria on Apple Podcasts Find us on Instagram @americanhysteriapodcast Leave us a message on our Urban Legends Hotline or get your mitts on some merch at americanhysteria.com Sound Designer and Associate Producer: Riley Swedelius-Smith Producer and Editor: Miranda Zickler Voice Actor: Will Rogers Written, Produced, and Hosted by Chelsey Weber-Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On this podcast, we explore fantastical thinking, moral panics, urban legends, conspiracy theories, hoaxes, and crazes, examine the forces that shape our culture, and tell the stories that create the realities we share and sometimes the realities
0:24.2	we don't. I'm your host, Chelsea Weber Smith, and this is American hysteria.
0:32.9	Is Elvis alive? Judge for yourself by calling the 900 number on your television screen.
0:39.4	Oh, she grew Elvis alive.
0:40.8	Well, I'm not really doing that.
0:42.3	You know, I'm asking a lot of questions.
0:44.7	Dead men don't sweat.
0:46.1	You sure about that, too?
0:47.3	We're very sure.
0:48.7	Is that what really happened?
0:50.3	I'll let you rest with that one.
0:52.4	Is that what really happened?
1:03.0	Yeah. I'll let you rest with that one. Is that what really happened? I want you to visualize, if you can, this scene from the 1990 winter blockbuster, home alone, where a mother is trying to get a flight
1:14.8	back to her eight-year-old son, who was accidentally left behind when their large family
1:21.0	departed on Christmas vacation. She is standing at a desk, pleading with an airline worker, begging for an impossible ticket back to Chicago during the busiest time of the year.
1:34.9	No, no, no, no, no way. This is Christmas. The season of perpetual hope.
1:40.4	Mammoth. And I don't care if I have to get out on your runway and hitchhike. If it cost me everything I own, if I have to sell my soul to the devil himself,
1:49.0	I am going to get home to my son.
1:52.3	It's a run-of-the-mill scene for a comedy like this, sure, but with one incredibly remarkable detail.
2:03.0	According to some who subscribed to the conspiracy theory that Elvis Presley did not die on that hot August day in 1977,
2:14.4	the former king of rock and roll is actually standing behind actress Catherine O'Hara's left shoulder,
2:24.3	sporting a black turtleneck under a tan blazer with a short gray beard, somehow cast as an airport extra.
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