In Strasbourg, what started as one person's seemingly uncontrollable actions became a citywide phenomenon that danced its way ...

Mass hysteria? Ergot poisoning? Or just despair? Here’s why what started as one woman’s dance spiraled into one of history’s strangest outbreaks. Around 400 people danced for days without rest in ...

This video explores the bizarre and deadly dancing plague that struck Strasbourg in 1518. It began with one woman and quickly spread, causing hundreds of people to dance uncontrollably for days. Many ...

In the sweltering summer of 1518, the city of Strasbourg witnessed something that defied belief. It began with one woman stepping into the streets and dancing, not for joy or celebration, but ...

In July of 1518, a sizable group of people in Strasbourg, France (as many as 400) appeared to have "contracted" a sudden and inexplicable urge to dance. The affected were found in the streets to be ...

In July 1518, for reasons still unexplained, a dancing plague swept through Strasbourg. What began with one woman compulsively boogying her way around town broadened into a frenzied movement numbering ...

In 1518, Strasbourg experienced a terrifying Dancing Plague where hundreds danced uncontrollably for days, some to their death. This event is now understood as mass psychogenic illness, likely ...