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 2008The Last of Us, a dystopian action-adventure game that was also adapted into a TV SeriesA Christmas Carol, a novella by Charles Dickens published in 1843Titanic, an epic romance and disaster film that released in 1997 

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