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In the early 1500s, a woman in what is now known as modern day France began dancing uncontrollably.

Within the span of a month, hundreds of people had joined her and were physically unable to stop themselves from dancing,

ultimately resulting in some succumbing from exhaustion.

Today we look at the baffling mystery of the dancing plague of 1518.

This is Redweb.

TASFORCE Welcome back to another episode of Redweb.

You didn't hear it, but man was I slam in my papers because I'm excited for this when my hands were dancing for the dancing plague.

Welcome back to Redweb.

A podcast all about mysteries, the unsolved, the unknown, the creepy, sometimes aliens.

But today we're talking about something that we've hinted at and referenced a million times, which is the dancing plague.

I'm your resident mystery enthusiast, Trevor Collins joining me, hearing this potentially for the very first time as always, Alfredo Diaz.

So is it like a placebo effect thing?

Boom, roasted, end of episode, just like that.

As always, we can shut this case.

Kind of, I mean, that's part of one of the theories for sure.

That's got to be a theory somewhere where it's just like, I can't stop.

This woman hasn't stopped dancing.

Right.

Someone gets in there and they're just like, I can't stop either and they believe it.

And that gives them the mental willpower to continue that gives her body the mental capacity to keep going.

Right.

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