In July 1518, a woman in Strasbourg, France began dancing in the street without stopping. Within a week, 34 people had joined her. Within a month, hundreds were dancing uncontrollably—some until they collapsed from exhaustion or suffered fatal heart attacks. Doctors were baffled. Authorities were desperate. And their proposed solution was absolutely wild.
Mar 13, 2026
Beneath the cracked streets and toxic vents of Centralia, Pennsylvania, a coal seam has been on fire for over 60 years — and there is essentially no way to put it out. What was once a thriving mining community of 1,000 residents is now a near-empty ghost town where the ground smokes, the roads buckle, and geologists estimate the fire could keep burning for another 250 years. It sounds like the premise of a horror movie. It is, in fact, just Tuesday in central Pennsylvania.
Mar 13, 2026