S3 Ep8: Get Down with the Sickness, It’s Soci...

Rudolf Diesel built the world's first internal combustion engine and had hopes it would help lift people out of poverty and prevent the devastation caused by mining for fossil fuels. He had friends and enemies in high places. And so, when he vanished off a boat in the middle of t ...  Show more

When Carl Tanzler was very young, he claimed a dead relative of nobility came to him and showed him the woman he would eventually marry. He spent the next four decades in search of the woman, and when he found her, he never let her go, even long after she had died.*Content warnin ...  Show more

Nuns meowing like cats. School girls laughing uncontrollably. People dancing in the streets until they die from exhaustion. Cristen and Caroline dig into the fascinating history of mass hysterias, why some think it's on the rise today and how it seems to affect more girls and ...

CIA agents in Havana complaining of mental fog, dizziness and ear pain in 2016. Children in Miami in 1974, hyperventilating and wracked with abdominal pain. A medieval outbreak of the “dancing plague”. A chorus of meowing nuns. These mysterious and seemingly disparate events may ...  Show more

This week the boys breakdown the bizarre, highly controversial phenomenon of Mass Hysteria by analyzing some of the strangest cases of Mass Hysteria... Through Time! From dancing plagues to laughing to death, it's gonna be mass hysterical!

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Around the world and across time, people have fallen victim to one of the strongest contagions of all - the power of suggestion. Here are just a few examples of these bizarre cases.