Monsters

American Hysteria

W!ZARD Studios

Society & Culture

4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Monsters come from the darkness, from the depth of lakes and swamps, from the shadows of forests and hills, and live too in the dark parts of all of us. However, this episode is less about Bigfoot and more about the idea of the monstrous, and how it has been used as a tool to demonize black folks since the first slave ships landed in America, both through folktales and famous works of fiction. We also explore how Darwin's theory of evolution affected white Americans and led to the actual creation of human zoos that displayed African people as both the missing link and blood-thirsty monsters. American Hysteria is written, produced, and hosted by Chelsey Weber-Smith Produced and edited by Clear Commo Studios Research and cowriting assisted by Riley Smith Show art by Roache Voice Acting by Will Rogers Become a Patron for extra episodes, interviews, and videos monthly! Follow American Hysteria on social media: Twitter: @AmerHysteria Instagram: @AmericanHysteriaPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I race for life for my mom who was diagnosed with bowel cancer.
0:04.0	I race for life for my best friend who we lost to so.
0:08.0	I race for life for my dad who's living with prostate cancer.
0:12.0	I race for life for everyone who's in cancer.
0:17.0	Who will you race for?
0:19.0	Sign up to your local event at raceforlife.org
0:23.0	And together we will be cancer.
0:27.0	Imporn the ship with headline sponsors Standard Life.
0:30.0	As usual, this episode contains a lot of racism because it's US history.
0:36.0	I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that this one could be particularly painful.
0:40.0	Now here's the show.
0:43.0	On this season we'll be exploring our bizarre beliefs, unfounded fears and fantastical thinking,
0:49.0	how they shape our psychology and culture and how much of our past we can find in the present.
0:54.0	I'm your host, Chelsea Weber-Smith, and this is American hysteria.
0:59.0	He was moved to a larger cage that was in the US.
1:04.0	He was moved to a larger cage that was in the US.
1:09.0	He was moved to a larger cage that was now littered with bones to suggest that he was accountable.
1:16.0	We accept their one-up honor.
1:19.0	One-up honor.
1:22.0	We accept our lives.
1:24.0	We accept our lives.
1:26.0	We accept our lives.
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