Episode 13 | Mass Hysteria & Shared Delusions - The World Is Weird 2
Host: Derek DeWitt
Mass hysteria, collective delusions or just people freaking out - whatever you call it, you can't deny that history is filled with reports of people losing it en masse. We'll look at nuns that bite and meow, fainting and twitching schoolchildren, uncontrollable dancing, large scale paranoia, mysterious attacks on windshields and a worldwide epidemic of creepy clown sightings.
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Hear about the Vampire Panic in Bohemia and Moravia in an episode of our sister podcast, Prague Times: Ghosts in Prague
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Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt
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Capitol Assets: Weird DC (Travelogue 4)
Fatal Attraction: Magnet Woo
Down in Bermuda, It’s Easy to Believe – The Devil’s Triangle
Conspiracy Thinking in the Middle East w/Adel Aali
Panic! at the Disco - The Jan. 6 Event (WIW 12)
Conspirasphere Rising w/Derek Arnold (BR 9)
A Bridge Too Far: The Mothman Visits Point Pleasant
Smoke & Mirrors: Unintentional Dangers and Slow Thinking (Because Reasons 8)
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Inside Out: Neuroscience & Memory w/Gary Simonds (Because Reasons 7)
Bodyguard of Lies: The Ghost Army & Wartime Deception (WIW 11)
Peek-A-Boo: Project Star Gate
From Sea to Sea: More Canada Mysteries & Histories
Octopus’s Garden: Dan Casolaro, INSLAW & Death (WIW 10)
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