A Popular History of Unpopular Things

The Dancing Plague


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Join Kelli as she looks back at the dancing plague of 1518, when residents of Strasbourg all started to dance for days and weeks on end - and some of them danced to their deaths.

Intro and Outro music credit: Nedric

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A Popular History of Unpopular ThingsBy Kelli Beard

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