The Dancing Plague of 1518

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Imagine dancing until your heart stops.

[00:00:03]In 1518, a woman in Strasbourg started dancing in the street and didn't stop for days.

[00:00:09]Soon, hundreds joined her in a trance-like state.

[00:00:12]They couldn't quit.

[00:00:14]They danced until they collapsed from exhaustion, strokes, or heart attacks.

[00:00:19]Physicians were baffled, even building a stage to dance the sickness out.

[00:00:23]To this day, science isn't entirely sure what caused this mass hysteria.

[00:00:28]It wasn't a party. It was a death trap.