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 The Dancing Plague of 1518 The Plague That Made People Dance to their Deaths Detail from a 1642 engraving depicting people suffering from the dancing plague — Source : Wikimedia Commons You might find it hard to believe, but this is what happened in the small city of Strasbourg in 1518; people danced themselves to death in what’s known as the Dancing Plague of 1518. How Did It Start? It all started with a woman named Lady Troffea(or Frau Troffea)kicking off her break-a-leg dancing in a busy street of Strasbourg (then Holy Roman Empire, today Modern France)in July 1518. Seeing her energy, onlookers started clapping and cheering at her high spirits. But the Lady Troffea dance-a-thon was not a case of euphoria , as it soon became apparent. The woman twisted, twirled, and gyrated for six days straight (stopped in the evening and continued again in the morning). Thirty-four locals joined the “party” within a week. Physicians, who had no clue, suggested the people be allowed to d...

Dina Sanichar - The Wolf-Man From India  They found him living with wolves in a cave in the jungles of India in 1872. Was he a real life Mowgli? Dina Sanichar - Source : Wiki Media Commons A story doing the rounds of the internet these days is of a feral boy named Dina Sanichar. The 7-year-old boy was found in a cave living amongst wolves in the jungles of India in 1872, making people draw parallels with Rudyard Kipling’s character of Mowgli from the Jungle Book, some claiming Dina Sanichar was the inspiration behind Mowgli. Several articles have been penned on this story, a few on Medium itself. According to them : Dina Sancihar was in a c a ve, living with wolves, in a jungle of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh when found by a group of hunters in 1872. The hunters smoked the cave, killed the wolves, and “rescued” the 7-year-old feral boy, who still had scars and wounds on his body. They took the boy to Sikandra Mission Orphanage near Agra(Taj Mahal), where the Superin...

India's Amityville Horror-The Burari Deaths The Ghastly Discovery of 10 Members of a Family Found Hanging From the Ceiling Raises Questions - Was it Murder, Suicide ....or Something Else? The Chundawat Family of Burari (Top from left): Bhavnesh, Savita, Dhruv, Lalit, Shivam, Tina and Priyanka. (Below from left): Maneka, Neetu, Narayani Devi, Pratibha. Source- Link   Location: Sant Nagar in Burari, North Delhi, India. The Discovery of the Bodies On July 1, 2018, Gurcharan Singh is on his daily morning walk routine. He heads to the local grocery shop to buy his morning milk, but finds the shop still not open. It was already past 7am, and the shop always opened at 6am. Singh knew the owner — Bhavnesh, a family friend and neighbor, who lived just around the corner. He called his number, but there was no response. At 7:15 am, Singh arrives at the house to find the front door unlocked. He opens it and walks in to proceed to the first floor. What he see’s next coul...