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Why don't you think they believe you?

Honestly, I was the only guy.

Why?

How is this and what happened to me, you know,

psychogenic?

How is it mass hysteria?

That makes no sense to me.

The human mind is a very powerful thing.

Hysteria is alive and well. About a year and a half ago in December of 2022 a group of students at a school

for girls suddenly came down with mysterious symptoms that no one could explain.

It reportedly starts with an unusual gas smell.

The girls begin experiencing shortness of breath, numbness in the arms and legs,

difficulty walking.

Over the course of a couple hours, 51 girls become ill and are sent to the hospital.

The symptoms resolve themselves soon after.

This isn't happening in Leroy or in any American high school.

It's happening at a girls conservatory in the holy city of calm in Iran.

And it's just the beginning.

Across the country today, 16 provinces reported dozens of students falling mysteriously ill.

Dozens of outbreaks like this are reported in girls schools across Iran over the coming weeks.

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