Unexplained episodes of mass dancing can be found throughout the Middle Ages.

When people think of Medieval diseases, hysterical dancing is not usually what first comes to mind. Yet in 14th and 15th century Germany, dozens of ordinary people claimed to be infected by the ...

For years, the Mütter Museum invited visitors through its doors for a Halloween party that emphasized blood and guts. That event, Mischief at the Mütter, was scrapped amid the institute's two-year ...

This isn’t about that night you dropped too much MDMA at the club. And no, it’s not a Yeah Yeah Yeahs track either (even if “dance, dance, dance ’til you’re dead” would’ve been a fitting soundtrack).

Strange Epochs, a new weekly narrative history podcast hosted by Shawn Spainhour, launches its debut episode with one of history's most baffling mass events: a 1518 outbreak in Strasbourg where ...