In which African country did the laughter epidemic occur in 1962?
Correct answer: Tanzania
Melanie
WOW seriously? I have never heard of this in my life! it was few years before my time but still. thank you for this strange new addition to my collection of sometimes useless but always appreciated knowledge!!
Bam310
I’d very much like to have this laughing mystery if only for a moment. Life gets so serious and painful the older I become.
Robert
This is fascinating! it reminds me of the Dancing Plague of 1518 in Strasbourg, where somewhere between 50 and 400 people started dancing and couldn't stop. Some people even died because their bodies gave out
Player #88418654
Bam310, you can get there. Give yourself a moment every day to look outside and see something that makes you smile. Getting old is tough and sometimes painful, but the laughter and lightness is out there I promise. Don't let go of your pleasure in simple things.
Player #120374466
Extreme laughter is just one step from crying. Stress can do it. I at times have gotten into laughing jags. Something just hits as funny and it goes for an hour or so.
Player #97184361
I’ve witnessed in the 1970’s friends who were smokers of marijuana at times experience bouts of laughing “ fits” for at least an hour or so and could not stop. ! ! !
ZeroHero
A great example of mass hysteria me thinks
Petie
we should all laugh 😂 more
Trish
Bam310, it would probably be fun for the first little bit but then, if you can’t stop, it would be torture!
Puddintame
I have heard there is an explanation, and it even has a name... I had a laughing attack, it lasted about 3/4 of an hour, no reason, just began laughing, and couldn't stop. There was a full moon that night... who knows!!?
Claren Reando
Bam310, please keep looking for the JOY
Pilot
nano, Tasmanian Devil is from Australia.
hthr
Player #97184361, would help if they kept that up
Izzy'D
This is fascinating! I guess due to timing we, the USA was preoccuppied with JFK we didn't hear about this.
Julee
Peace , why would laughter be demonic??
nano
hence the Tazmanian devil.🤣🤣
Sue
Fairies 😏
Roger Amilcar
something similar happens in Nicaragua among black tribes
LillySparrow
Never heard of this but … a lot of black history isn’t told! I was only 3+ months old then!
LillySparrow
Robert, 😲 I’m thinking maybe it was some “bug” that caused both of these strange occurrences? Like something in their environment … a blood test nowadays might tell what could have caused them?🤔
Lala
Bam310, salvia perhaps?
sooz
Kris,
and the worst!