#119 The Dance Craze of 1518 That Killed Hundreds

This Paranormal Life

True Crime, Rory Powers, Improv, Society & Culture, Kit Grier Mulvenna, Paranormal, Comedy

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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On one day in 1518, the people of Strasbourg, France would start dancing and wouldn't stop for months. Day and night they danced until they literally dropped dead. To this day no-one can explain what happened. But has it happened before or since? And are there clues that may lead to the truth?

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0:00.0	What comes after death? They say space is the final frontier, but what's the next frontier after that?
0:06.6	Answer to these questions and more on this episode of this
0:11.0	Paranormal Life!
0:13.7	Oh, welcome back to the podcast. You're listening to this Paranormal Life, the weekly show,
0:18.8	every Tuesday we dissect a different Paranormal tale and try to work out whether it's true or not, whether it happened or not,
0:24.8	whether it's Paranormal or simply mundane, like the rest of my life.
0:28.8	You're joined by your two favorite Paranormal investigators, very decorated, very prestigious, very old,
0:34.1	a lot of years in the industry. My name is Drew. Kick Greer, this guy's Rory Powers across from me. How are you doing today, Rory?
0:39.8	I'm doing great. And as you said, you know, we're not afraid to ask the big questions,
0:43.8	but we're also not afraid to ask the little questions. Like, can mice fall in love?
0:50.5	Mm-hmm. Yeah, even smaller than that, can a snail fall in love?
0:55.8	Yeah, mostly to do with love because that's love's pretty Paranormal. Yeah, we put two
1:00.8	ladybirds in a bag and just hope one male, one female, a male ladybird and a female ladybird. Get it right. Yeah.
1:08.6	And we just wanted to see what would happen. I think one of them ate the other one. Yeah, we ate the other one,
1:13.3	instantly. Yeah. Yeah, because ladybugs are poisonous to other ladybugs. But is that love to ladybug? Who knows? To me, it is.
1:20.7	Let's find out. On this week's episode, we have an array of bugs that we're going to be mashing together
1:26.0	in a sack. So over here, we have a variety of different sacks with a variety of different bugs inside.
1:31.7	And as long as we don't... Holy! I don't know which bag I just tipped open. The bugs are f***ing everywhere.
1:39.2	That's a whole situation. I guess we'll let them do their thing. We'll come back to that at the end
1:43.4	of the show, maybe. But as always, we have a brand new investigation for you this week. We're
1:47.2	going to dive right in. Thank you so much to Alex Stevens for emailing this one into us at this
1:52.0	paranormal I've podcasted at gmail.com. Today, I am taking all y'all to the year, 1518. We're in
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