0:00
in 1518 a bizarre and deadly phenomenon
0:03
swept through strawberg the dancing
0:06
plague for weeks hundreds danced without
0:09
rest food or water some danced
0:11
themselves to death collapsing from
0:13
exhaustion or heart attacks theories
0:16
abound Urgot poisoning Mass hysteria
0:18
stress reactions authorities tried to
0:20
intervene by setting up stages and
0:22
hiring musicians hoping to dance the
0:24
plague away but it only made things
0:26
worse more joined in eventually the
0:30
as mysteriously as it began leaving a
0:32
haunting question what caused this
0:34
deadly dance a mystery that puzzles us
