For the second part of this Urban Legends Hotline episode, we are continuing to explore various tall tales of ruthless gang initiations from the 1990s onward, as well as looking at the sweeping anti-gang laws of the 80s and 90s that had devastating effects on communities and categorized entire neighborhoods as gang associates, enacting severe punishments based on erroneous assumptions and outright lies. <a href="https://linktr.ee/americanhysteria">Call for a Ceasefire and Help End Civilian Suffering</a> Leave us a message on our <a href="https://www.chelseywebersmith.com/americanhysteria">Urban Legends Hotline</a><a href="https://www.patreon.com/americanhysteria">Become a Patron</a> to support our show and get early ad-free episodes and bonus contentOr subscribe to American Hysteria on <a href="https://apple.co/3R9xBJe">Apple Podcasts</a> Sound designer and associate producer: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/rileymsmith96">Riley Swedelius-Smith</a>Producer: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mirandatheswampmonster">Miranda Zickler</a>Voice Actor: <a href="http://www.talkbomb.com/">Will Rogers</a>Written, produced and hosted by by Chelsey Weber-Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

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American Hysteria explores how fantastical thinking has shaped our culture – moral panics, urban legends, hoaxes, crazes, fringe beliefs, and national misunderstandings. Poet-turned-podcaster Chelsey Weber-Smith tells the strangest stories from American history and examines the forces that create the reality we share, and sometimes, the reality we don't.