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They Couldn’t Stop: The True Story of the Dancing Plague

In the summer of 1518, something deeply unsettling happened in the streets of Strasbourg. Without music, celebration, or warning, people began to move — unable to stop. Some danced for hours. Others for days. As exhaustion set in, confusion turned to panic, and what began with one person soon spread across the city. This video tells the true story of the Dancing Plague of 1518, one of the strangest and most disturbing events in European history. Drawing from contemporary accounts, historical records, and modern psychological research, we explore how fear, belief, and social pressure combined to produce a crisis no one understood — and no one could immediately control. This is not a story of myth or superstition. It is a story about human behavior under extreme stress. What caused the dancing? Why did it spread the way it did? And what does this event reveal about the human mind? Settle in for a long-form historical documentary that traces the outbreak from its first moments to its quiet end — and explains why it still matters today. Thanks for watching Obscura Histories. New documentaries every week Subscribe for more: @ObscuraHistories