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In the summer of 1518, a woman stepped into a street in Strasbourg and began to dance. She couldn't stop. Within days, dozens had joined her. Within a month, over 400 people were consumed by an uncontrollable compulsion to dance, their bodies refusing to rest. They danced until their feet were raw, their bones broke, and some even danced themselves to their graves.

This is the true story of the Dancing Plague, one of history's most bizarre and unexplained epidemics. Was it a curse? A mass psychotic breakdown? Or the result of a toxic fungus? Explore the chilling theories behind the nightmare that forced a city to build a stage and hire musicians, believing the only cure was to dance the fever out.

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