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It’s pretty easy to start a rumour that sets a whole populace into a panic and over the years there’s been so many unsubstantiated stories about epidemics, monsters and threats to the morality of our youth, that it’s almost as if we’re looking for things to worry about.
Which made me wonder: with the results of last week’s election still at the top our minds, and the moral panic that’s starting to pervade the nation, what were some other times that people had a mass hysterical event for a bizarre reason.
Turns out hysteria comes in all forms, of all kinds of reasons. Check these out.
