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Morbid Network | Wondery

True Crime, Comedy, Exhibit C

4.5 • 95.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

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	When a group of high school cheerleaders fell victim to a baffling mix of neurological symptoms,
0:04.3	parents and administrators of course looked into the material factors, mold in the building,
0:08.4	contaminated water source, but what if the cause of the contagion wasn't coming from their physical environment at all?
0:14.4	Wandering in Pineapple Street Studios newest podcast, Hysterical,
0:18.0	examines a mysterious outbreak that saw a ripple effect far beyond the tight-knit community where it began.
0:23.4	Believed by some to be the most severe case of mass hysteria since the Salem witch trials,
0:27.8	O' Stan Tiberski explores the power of our minds to manifest very real symptoms that spread like an airborne contagion.
0:34.7	From CIA agents inexplicably crippled with nausea and vertigo, cops ODing from miniscule exposure
0:40.5	to fentanyl, every story asks the same question. Could this actually happen to me?
0:45.5	I'm about to play you a clip from hysterical. Follow hysterical on the Wundery
0:49.2	app or wherever you get your podcasts. In December of 2011, a young woman posted a video on.
1:00.0	In December of 2011, a young woman posted a video on YouTube.
1:04.0	Hi everyone.
1:06.0	My name's the shit and this is my first video.
1:10.0	She's got shiny red hair with side bangs and she's wearing a white graphic hoodie.
1:15.0	A poster for the metal band Avenged Sevenfold is tacked to her bedroom while behind her.
1:20.1	So I'll start off by telling you a little bit about myself.
1:22.8	I'm 16, I'm an 11th grade, and I play softball, like all the time.
1:32.4	When she made this video, there was no Tik-T this video there was no Tik-Toc, there was barely an Instagram.
1:36.0	She's not looking to monetize, not trying to influence.
1:39.0	What this 16-year-old is looking for is a little help. She's been having strange symptoms that
1:46.7	so far no one can seem to explain. Recently last August I had passed out at a concert, I was head-banging, and I thought, you know, I was
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