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by citizenpaul 1071 days ago
I find high skepticism as well. When things too farfetched to be real like this happen I have to assume human intervention was involved. Perhaps some lord thought it amusing to pay people to dance and not tell anyone. Perhaps a competing king wanted to make these areas look bad or cause a panic.

Especially since nothing similar has ever happened again.

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Your comment makes no sense. Applying a bit critical thinking, the following are evident:

1. No one could be paid to dance until their own death, and 2. Mass dancing hysteria has happened several times over the ages. Just Google it. And there have been other types of mass psychosis as well, some even in the last century. Heck, Havana Syndrome from a few years ago [1] may be a case of it.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome

> Especially since nothing similar has ever happened again.

The article says otherwise.