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.

Follow Hysterical on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. You can binge all episodes of Hysterical early and ad-free right now by joining Wondery+ at Wondery.fm/Hysterical_Morbid.

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Part Two of Aaron Hernandez

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Racheal is joined by her homesteading ranch wife partner in crime; her neighbor on the ranch, Natalie; and the two discuss the tragic downfall of Aaron Hernandez.

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Bear with us guys - We're down bad on the ranch. First Rachael was in horrible hail storm truck accident that left her with a burst fracture in her L2 vertebrae but actually 12 hours before that Greg was in the hospital getting 7 stitches. Then well, two weeks later and Greg's Dad has a freak accident on the ranch and is air lifted by Helicopter to the hospital.

Is it just bad luck or is there a curse on this land? Did we disturb a tomb when we trenched in our power to our new house?

Ranch guests Phil Des Jean & his right hand man, Mason, join us this week to discuss the tragic accidents haunting their stay on Hunter's Ranch.

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The Family, also known as the Santiniketan Park Association or the Great White Brotherhood, was an Australian New Age group formed in the mid 1960s under the leadership of Anne Hamilton-Byrne. The group taught a hodgepodge of Western and Eastern religious doctrines, with Hamilton-Byrne claiming to have been a reincarnation of Jesus. Classic cult move, Anne....

The group became the centre of controversy when its compound in Olinda, Victoria, was raided by police in August 1987 amid allegations of child abuse. All children were removed from the premises, and were discovered to have been adopted through illegal means. Hamilton-Byrne and her husband were eventually arrested in 1993 and charged with conspiracy to defraud and to commit perjury in relation to the adoption scams, but those charges were eventually dropped and they fled on the lamb to the Catskill Mountains of New York.

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Rachael was in a terrifying accident in her truck this week and so she is telling her OWN wild listener stories as well as more from our inbox!

Thank you for sending in your stories and please keep them coming!

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Matthew Hahn risks life in prison in order to save a young girl - and due to Hahn's prior criminal record and the 3 strikes law in California turning over this memory card to land in the hands of the proper authorities effectively provides evidence not only of a sexual assault on a child but also of a burglary committed by Matthew Hahn.

He knew he was sealing his fate inside of that envelope - yet he did it anyway. Seemingly a petty thief, his sense of duty to protect a young girl he had never met drove him to sacrifice his life of crime and drugs, jeopardize his freedom and prove his moral compass has a true north.

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Back in December of 2019 Rachael traveled to San Jose, CA to interview Matthew Hahn - a man whose story will rock you to your core. He's an open book and his unwavering honesty from where he grew up, to his drug addiction, to losing a friend and ultimately making a decision that could have landed him in prison for the rest of his life - but saved a child's life from anymore abuse.

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