The Mystery of Pont-Saint-Esprit Madness

In 1951, a small French town called Pont-Saint-Esprit went completely insane overnight.

People started seeing snakes falling from the sky, fire raining from trees,

and their neighbors transforming into flowers right before their eyes. Over 250 people

were rushed to hospitals. Villagers danced maniacally in the streets for hours without stopping.

Others leaped into rivers trying to escape invisible flames that only they could see.

Doctors quickly labeled it mass hysteria, but the symptoms were too bizarre

and coordinated to ignore. Some residents claimed they could fly and jumped from windows.

Others saw their own limbs detaching from their bodies. The entire town descended into a