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Topic / Pineapple Street Media / Dan Taberski

Serial, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, True Crime

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Dan Taberski's new show, Hysterical, investigates a mysterious illness that spreads among a group of high school girls in upstate New York. What is causing their sudden, often violent symptoms? Is there something in the water or inside the school? Or is it “all in their head?” The series examines the outbreak in LeRoy, NY, believed by some to be the most severe case of mass hysteria since the Salem Witch Trials. In his search for answers, Dan Taberski (9/12, Missing Richard Simmons, Running from Cops) explores other seemingly inexplicable events of the last few years – CIA officers being crippled with nausea and vertigo; cops OD’ing from exposure to fentanyl – and discovers they’re far more connected than we realize.

From Wondery and Pineapple Street Studios, this 7-part series forces us to grapple with the mysteries of our own minds, and reckon with a contagion that we thought was long dead, but may be the defining disorder of our time.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's me. Dan Tibersky, you're back in your feed, and I'm here to tell you that I've got another one for you.
0:06.5	It's the newest podcast from Wundry and Pineapple Street Studios and me, and it's called
0:11.6	hysterical.
0:13.0	It all starts in 2011, when a group of girls at a high school in upstate New York
0:18.0	began experiencing bizarre neurological symptoms, ticks and twitches and strange outbursts, all with no clear source.
0:27.0	It starts with one girl and that spreads to another and another as desperate parents and
0:31.4	school administrators look for an answer.
0:33.7	Is it mold in the school buildings that's causing the symptoms?
0:37.2	Is it a contaminated water source?
0:39.2	Or is a cause not coming from their physical environment at all.
0:43.2	Hysterical is about one of the most confounding illness outbreaks
0:46.5	in American history, a real medical mystery that had ripple effects
0:49.9	well beyond the tight-knit community where it began.
0:53.1	And soon enough the entire nation was trying to solve it,
0:55.5	from Dr Drew to Aaron Brockovich.
0:58.5	Believe by some to be the most severe case of mass hysteria
1:01.8	since the Salem witch trials,
1:03.4	hysterical is about the desire to be believed
1:06.8	and what happens when the world tells you it's all in your head.
1:09.8	I'm going to play a clip from hysterical now, just a little from the beginning to see if I can't get you hooked.
1:16.0	You can follow hysterical on the Wondery app, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:22.0	In December of 2011, a young woman you get your podcasts.
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