The Dancing Plague and Laughing Plague

Reddit Explains Conspiracy & the Unknown

Dec 05, 2023•10 min

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Episode description

There was an instance of mass hysteria in history when a group of 400 people began to dance and couldn’t stop. They danced until people started dying. Another instance of hysteria happened in a town, but this time it was because of laughter. They laughed for 16 days straight.

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