Today, Wondery and Audacy’s Pineapple Street Studios, a division of leading premium podcast network Audacy Podcasts, announce Hysterical, a seven-part investigative series hosted by Dan Taberski that explores a mysterious illness contracted by a group of upstate New York high school students in 2011. Taberski, the podcast heavyweight behind several award-winning and genre-defining series, attempts to uncover what really happened in this fascinating case, and in the process, discovers similarities to other more recent mysterious events. Hysterical debuts on Wondery+, and is available for Prime members on Amazon Music and Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers on July 8. Hysterical will be available everywhere you get your podcasts starting July 22.

Hysterical forces listeners to grapple with the mysteries of their own minds and to reckon with a contagion thought to be long dead, but which may be the defining disorder of our time. It forces us to question our preconceived notions about sickness and health,...