The Summer Hundreds of People Couldn't Stop Dancing #shorts

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]In the summer of 1518, a woman stepped into a street in Strasbourg and began to dance.

[00:00:06]She would not stop for days.

[00:00:09]Her name was Frau Troffea. There was no music and no clear reason. She danced until she collapsed and then she danced again. Within a week, more than 30 people had joined her. They could not stop either.

[00:00:23]By August, as many as 400 people were dancing in the streets of Strasbourg.

[00:00:28]The city's physicians had an answer. Hot blood.

[00:00:33]The cure, they said, was to dance it out. So, the authorities built a stage and hired musicians to keep the dancing going. It only made things worse. People danced for days. Many collapsed from exhaustion. Some, by later accounts, never recovered. The leading theory is mass psychogenic illness set off by famine, disease, and fear. But 500 years later, the dancing plague has never been fully explained. Follow the mind jolt for more.