The Dancing Plague of 1518 – The Town That Danced to Death

In the summer of 1518, a woman in Strasbourg began dancing in the streets... and couldn’t stop. Within weeks, hundreds had joined her—many dancing until they collapsed from exhaustion. Some even died.

There was no music. No celebration. Just a compulsion no one could explain.

Was it mass hysteria? Poisoned bread? Or something even stranger?

This is the true story of one of the most bizarre outbreaks in human history—told in under 3 minutes.

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