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Strange stories/unexplained events

mouse2

Hi all. Is anyone else interested in weird historic events? I thought maybe we could start a thread if so of facts and links? I've just read about people dancing non stop and even some dancing themselves to death in france!

www.theguardian.com/.../bizarre-dance-epidemic-of-summer-1518-strasbourg

Anyone else have any strange historic events to share?

  • in reply to NAS65089

    Apologies as I must have missed that part of your post. That's a really interesting fact so thank you for sharing it with me

     I'm now about to google this :)

  • Yes, this sounds interesting. I can remember, in 1988, and now you get how the saying, "Only In America," comes about, a teacher-librarian took a group of primary school students to court for not returning library books by one day. 

    As I mentioned, Mouse, and as you saw, one of my special interests in Japan, and every year in Furano, they have the Heso-Matsuri or Belly Button Festival, whereby people have their bellies painted with faces and wear kimonos like skirts.