That's what this boat basically did. It cracked all of this open for us and it left the three of us kind of wondering about our relationship to reality.

Do we need to really now consider this other element, which was the

Disneyification of our experience. Today my eternally curious passengers it's all aboard the famously haunted ship, the Queen Mary, where our

paranormal correspondent Jim Perry is back to share with us one of the best untold ghost stories of our time.

Not only does it involve the spectres of the ship's history, but also a few ghosts that were

invented by Walt Disney himself when he took over the ship to make it into a premium haunted attraction.

The alleged paranormal phenomena experienced inside the Queen Mary for decades was recently investigated

by Jim and his team for his podcast Eufemet but what they found was something they never would have expected, creating far more questions

than answers, and creating a tale that feels tailor-made for American hysteria.

When it comes to the paranormal, what happens when the fake transmutes into the real?

Can we create otherworldly beings

with just the power of our belief?

Of course we can, as this long hidden, long forgotten, and long lasting

Disney-fied haunting will show us while Jim and I discuss what happens when horror entertainment pierces the

veil and makes a home in the dark engine rooms of our personal and national consciousness.

I'm your host, Chelsea Weber Smith, and this is American hysteria.

I am so excited as I always am to welcome our paranormal correspondent Jim Perry back to the show.

Hi Jim.

Hello, I live.

He lives just barely.

But his spectral form, I can at see the the outline of it so yes yeah I would hope that one day

based upon the work and the worlds that I navigate that I come back as a ghost in spectral form because if I didn't what are we

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