Haunted Dolls [rewind]

American Hysteria

W!ZARD Studios

Society & Culture

4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Please enjoy this rewind of last year's Halloween special called Haunted Dolls. Coming up next week we'll start our Halloween series called 'The 12 ft. Skeleton.' Then we'll be teaming up with our sibling podcast You're Wrong About for another Halloween special! For this rewind, we'll see how possessed playthings have crept their way into the dark attic of America: Thomas Edison's little monsters, a demonic Raggedy Ann, a living ventriloquist dummy, a deadly voodoo curse, and an online market where you can buy yourself a soul trapped in the body of a doll. Become a Patron and support our show! Or subscribe on Apple Podcasts! American Hysteria is written, produced, and hosted by Chelsey Weber-Smith Co-produced and co-edited by Miranda Zickler Co-researched and co-editing by Riley Smith Sound design by Clear Commo Studios Voice Acting by Will Rogers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello dear listeners and happy Halloween season. We are always the most
0:08.0	excited here at American hysteria when October rolls around and if you've
0:13.6	been listening for a while you know that we like to bring you Halloween
0:17.1	specials and this year is no different but we need a little bit more time to
0:22.7	flesh that out. Pun definitely intended and you'll understand why soon so we are
0:29.1	giving you this re-release of our episode from last year called Haunted Dolls and
0:34.6	it is definitely one of my favorites and it was one that was incredibly fun to
0:41.2	make so I hope that you will either listen for the first time or enjoy this
0:46.1	classic rerun but I did want to let you know what's coming up this month. Our
0:51.7	Halloween special will be on the topic of the 12-foot skeleton craze. Not
1:00.7	only are we gonna cover kind of the rise of the 12-foot skeleton and why it
1:05.9	caused the sensation that it did but we're also gonna look at the history of
1:11.2	skeletons in America. More specifically the displaying of skeletons in America
1:18.5	both fake and real. So next week we'll give you a context clues episode to give
1:26.4	you all the context you need to get the full picture for our Halloween special
1:32.1	and then of course you'll get our episode on the 12-foot skeleton but after
1:37.4	that we also have another Halloween special in which we are teaming up with
1:42.6	ceremonial of your wrong about to really bring Halloween home. So we hope this
1:49.9	sounds exciting to you and we hope that you're already celebrating the way that
1:55.1	we are. Happy Halloween season and please enjoy this rewind episode called Haunted
2:02.6	Dolls.
2:16.6	On this podcast we explore fantastical thinking, moral panics, conspiracy theories,
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