Four WILD Cases of MASS HYSTERIA
About this episode
This episode explores various historical cases of mass hysteria and the psychological phenomena behind them.
Across centuries, crowds have convulsed, nuns have meowed like cats, factory workers have fallen “sick” from phantom June bugs, men have panicked that their bodies were literally shrinking away, and entire towns have watched mysterious tics spread like a virus. Doctors now call it mass psychogenic illness, terror and stress so contagious that they leave real bite marks, real vomit, real screams, and sometimes whole communities convinced that something impossible is hunting them.
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