Context Clues: Grave Mistakes

American Hysteria

W!ZARD Studios

Society & Culture

4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

'Buried Alive,' our upcoming Halloween special, looks at the American fear and fascination with premature burial. We'll explore the panic that swept the nation in the 1800s, leading to the creation of safety coffins for those potentially entombed too soon, and the spectacles drummed up by eccentric performers who competed to see who could stay buried alive the longest. This episode provides more historical context through excerpts from our previous episodes, Death, The 12 Foot Skeleton, and Quackery. Get tickets for A MASSIVE SEANCE Live Show with You're Wrong About: linktr.ee/amassiveseance Full episodes to check out: Death The 12 Foot Skeleton Quackery Become a Patron to support our show and get early ad-free episodes and bonus content Or subscribe to American Hysteria on Apple Podcasts Sound design and Production by Riley Swedelius-Smith Edited by Miranda Zickler Hosted by Chelsey Weber-Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What could possibly go wrong when two skeptical podcasters try to summon a ghost?
0:11.1	Join me Sarah Marshall of, of you're wrong about. And me, Chelsea Weber Smith of American
0:16.8	hysteria for a historical, theatrical, ecstatic, spectacular for the living and dead.
0:26.0	Hold hands with your favorite disembodied voices for a spiritualist seance featuring mystifying tricks,
0:34.5	campfire conversation, special guests,
0:38.4	and a dash of burlesque.
0:40.5	Plus, music from The Little Lies, the only Fleetwood Mac tribute band that may actually be ghosts.
0:49.0	Join us to release the phantoms of the past year and make room for the spirit of the new.
0:56.5	We promise that your mortal soul has never seen a podcast live show quite like this. Unless he came last year. Then you
1:06.6	seen something like it. Chelsea, when will we hold our seances and where?
1:13.2	Well, Sarah, December 3rd and 4th in Portland, Oregon
1:16.8	at the Aladdin Theater, December 11th in Seattle,
1:20.4	Washington at the Moore Theater,
1:22.8	January 11th in San Francisco, California
1:26.1	at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater,
1:28.5	and January 24th in Los Angeles, California
1:32.2	at the Regent Theater.
1:34.0	Theor.
1:37.0	Warning, may contain exercises.
1:39.0	Welcome to this installment of Context Clues, where we bring you excerpts from previous episodes to make our upcoming topic just a little bit richer.
1:57.0	I'm your host, Chosy Weber Smith, and this is American hysteria.
2:05.7	There are few things more frightening to imagine
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