Who doesn't love to dance? Swing by any club, wedding, or Zumba class, and it will be

full of people getting their groove on. But in the summer of 1518, about 400 people

in Strasbourg, France actually found themselves compelled to dance, as in they literally couldn't

stop. One minute, they're going about their ordinary lives, the next, they're out swaying

in the streets. They twirled until their feet bled, and their bones were visible through

their legs. Some even danced themselves to death. This horrible phenomenon was so contagious,

it actually became known as the dancing plague. And people were convinced it was the result

of a curse.

This is supernatural, a podcast original. I'm your host Ashley Flowers. Every Wednesday,

I'll be taking a deep dive into a real unexplained occurrence to try and figure out the truth.

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at podcast and Twitter at podcast network. This week, I'm talking about the dancing plague

of 1518. Nobody knows why, but for about two months, hundreds of people in France literally

danced until they dropped. And the scariest part is, there have been dozens of similar

events, some even in modern times. We'll have all that and more coming up. Stay with us.

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