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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 we don't. I'm your host, Chelsea Weber-Smith, and this is

American hysteria.

Trouble at the Macy's parade, high winds kick in, and one of the balloons goes out of full.

An accident has marred a holiday tradition once again at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day

parade. You could hear, oh my goodness, I can't believe it. It happened again. As much as everyone

loves seeing these big balloons, they take giddy delight in the prospect of seeing one of them pop.

It was an uncommonly windy Thursday in New York City as volunteers prepared to wrestle the giant balloons into their proper order,

while more than 2.5 million children and adults waited on the sidewalks for the 1997 Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade to finally begin.

Mixed in among the procession of 14 marching bands, 600 clowns, and 1,200 cheerleaders,

all the favorite cartoon characters of the time were floating enormous along the route.

Barney the dinosaur, the cat in the hat, the pink panther, each ranging from six to seven

stories tall. Early in the morning, weatherman Al Roker had declared that Gale Force winds were hitting 40 miles an hour,

but Macy's known of course for their specialty in meteorology, said, no, the winds are slowing down,

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