The Dancing Plague of 1518

In July 1518, a woman walked into the streets of Strasbourg and started dancing. She didn't stop for days. Within a month, hundreds had joined her — collapsing from exhaustion, some reportedly dying — in one of history's most baffling and unsettling outbreaks. The city's response made it worse. The medical theories still don't fully explain it. And the way it ended is somehow the strangest part of all. This is the Dancing Plague of 1518 — and no one has ever completely solved it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.