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Come Play With Us: A Spooky Storytelling Podcast
Gather around the virtual campfire and join us as we listen to spooky stories and creep ourselves out. We believe in the power of great storytelling and we’ve invited our friends to challenge them to scare the shit out of us. We'll rate them to see how they've done, and hopefully we'll still remain friends by the end of the episode.
Come Play With Us: A Spooky Storytelling Podcast
The Dancing Plague of 1518
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Episode 32
Today, Stephanie tells us about the bizarre but true story of the dancing plague. In 1518, the people of Strasbourg, Alsace, in modern day France, were beset by dance mania, at times dancing themselves to death.
Other media mentioned in the episode:
- “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It),” a single from the Beyonce album I Am… Sasha Fierce, released in 2008
- The Last of Us, a dystopian action-adventure game that was also adapted into a TV Series
- A Christmas Carol, a novella by Charles Dickens published in 1843
- Titanic, an epic romance and disaster film that released in 1997