What Alaina Urquhart has said about Mass psychogenic illness
1 quote · 1 episode · Jul 20, 2026
Alaina Urquhart, Co-host of Morbid, autopsy technician and author of the Butcher novels, has been quoted on Mass psychogenic illness once in 1 episode of Morbid, most recently on July 20, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Urquhart said both cases were interesting because crowds believed something implausible and acted recklessly.
“Just because it's a bunch of people believing something that is unbelievable for us to think of”
Morbid: Phantom Stalkers: The Halifax Slasher and The Hammersmith Ghost (Jul 20, 2026) · Listen from 51:02
Episodes
Phantom Stalkers: The Halifax Slasher and The Hammersmith GhostMorbid · Jul 20, 2026 · 54 min
Morbid hosts Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart recount two English mass-hysteria cases: the 1803–04 Hammersmith Ghost killing and the 1938 Halifax Slasher panic.
Others on Mass psychogenic illness
- Ash Kelley · 2 quotes
Alaina Urquhart on other topics
- Rescue of Jessica McClure · 12 quotes
- Watts family murders · 7 quotes
- Ted Bundy's Green River consultation · 6 quotes
- Ghost sightings and hauntings · 5 quotes
- Murder of Martha Moxley · 4 quotes
- Green River killings · 3 quotes
- Green River Task Force · 3 quotes
- Police response to active shooters · 3 quotes