What could possibly go wrong when two skeptical podcasters try to summon a ghost?

Join me, Sarah Marshall of your wrong about.

And me, Chelsea Weber Smith of American Hysteria, for a historical, theatrical, ecstatic, spectacular for the living and dead.

Hold hands with your favorite disembodied voices for a spiritualist seance featuring mystifying tricks,

campfire conversation, special guests, and a dash of burlesque.

Plus, music from The Little Lies, the only Fleetwood Mac tribute band that may actually be ghosts.

Join us to release the phantoms of the past year and make room for the spirit of the new.

We promise that your mortal soul has never seen a podcast live show quite like this.

Unless it came last year. Then you've seen something like it.

Chelsea, when will we hold our seances and where? Well, Sarah,

December 3rd and 4th in Portland, Oregon at the Aladdin Theater, December 11th in Seattle,

Washington at the Moore Theater, January 11th in San Francisco, California at the Palace of

Fine Arts Theater, and January 24th in Los Angeles, California at the Regent Theater.

Warning may contain exorcisms.

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 control.

An accident has marred

a holiday tradition

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