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In the middle ages, a town suffered a bizarre plague where people began to continuously twist and move rapidly on streets until they passed out. Welcome to the Records Unsolved, today we are going to dig into the strange case of the Dancing Plague. Residents of Strasbourg, which was then a part of the Holy Roman Empire, experienced an unexpected and almost overwhelming impulse to dance in July 1518. The pandemonium started when Frau Troffea entered the street and started to discreetly sway, spin, and shake. After continuing her solitary dance marathon for over a week, some three-dozen additional Strasbourgeois soon joined in. By August, up to 400 people had perished as a result of the dance pandemic. Because there was no alternative explanation for the phenomena, local doctors attributed it to "hot blood" and advised the ill to gyrate their fever away. It was decided to hire professional dancers, and a stage was built. The municipality even paid for a band to play while the crowd cheered, but it wasn't long before the marathon began to wear on people. Several dancers passed out from weariness. Some even passed away from heart attacks and strokes. The bizarre incident didn't come to a conclusion until September, when the dancers were taken to a highland temple to make atonement. Although the Strasbourg dance disease may sound like the stuff of folklore, historical archives from the 16th century include extensive documentation about it. Additionally, it is not the only instance of its sort that is known to have occurred. Similar manias also occurred in Switzerland, Germany, and Holland; but, few of them were as severe or as fatal as the one that broke out in 1518. According to historian John Waller, the explanation probably mentions that 16th-century Europeans believed that the devout Catholic saint St. Vitus had the power to curse people with the Dancing plague. doing. Combined with the illness and famine horror that struck Strasbourg in 1518, the superstition of St. Vitus may have caused the stress-induced hysteria that struck most of the city. Other theories suggest that the dancer was a member of a religious cult or accidentally ingested ergot, a toxic mold that grows into moist rye and causes convulsions and hallucinations. Until today, the cause of the dancing plague is still a mystery and will continue to draw irresistibly the attention and interest of people. If you want more unanswered mysteries, check out our other videos. Some books are so fascinating that they keep us reading them over and over again, and there are books that keep secrets waiting to be told. Today on Records Unsolved, we are going to see through the content of the most puzzling book discovered, the Voynich Manuscript. The "Voynich Manuscript," a codex from the fourteenth century, is sometimes referred to as the most enigmatic book in the entire world. The text, which was written in an unidentified script by an unidentified author, still lacks a purpose today just as it did when it was first found by rare book trader Wilfrid Voynich in 1912. The document has appeared and vanished throughout history, from Rudolf II's collection in the Holy Roman Empire to the Society of Jesus in Rome's covert book auction in 1903. The vocabulary of the book has proven to be enigmatic, and its intricate images continue to be as perplexing as they are lovely. For the first time, this replica, complete with intricate folding parts, enables readers to examine this riddle in all its breathtaking detail, from its unique "Voynichese" prose to its pictures of extraterrestrial vegetation, strange stars, and nude women swimming through bizarre tubes and green spas. The manuscript's articles contain explanations of what we have discovered about this work from alchemical, cryptographic, forensic, and historical viewpoints, but they don't offer many firm solutions. Instead, the book "invites the reader to join us at the core of the mystery," as New York Times best-selling novelist Deborah Harkness states in her introduction. The Voynich Manuscript was named after the Polish-American antiquarian bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich, who bought it in 1912. It was written in Central Europe towards the end of the 15th or throughout the 16th century, although its provenance, language, and date are still hotly contested. A provincial yet dynamic character is painted in botanical, figurative, and scientific drawings on almost every page of this book, which has been described as mystical or scientific. The drawings are done in ink with vivid washes in different colors of green, brown, yellow, blue, and red. The contents of the manuscript is divided into six categories based on the illustrations. The first category shows botanical drawings of over 113 unidentified species of plants. The second category exhibits astrological drawings like Zodiac Symbols of a fish that seems to be Pisces, a bull or Taurus, and an archer. Astral Charts with radiating circles, suns and moons, and nude women emerging in chimneys are also included in this category. The third is the biological section contains a variety of drawings of tiny female nudes, most with swollen abdomens, immersed or wading in fluids, and oddly interacting with interconnecting tubes and capsules. The fourth is a complex arrangement of nine cosmological medallions, many of which are drawn across several folded folios and show potential geographic forms. The fifth is pharmaceutical images of over 100 distinct kinds of medicinal plants and roots depicted with jars or vessels in red, blue, or green. The last category is a continuous page of text, presumably recipes, with star-shaped flowers denoting each entry in the margins. The text was sold and bought throughout the years, and Voynich claimed that Albertus Magnus, an alchemist, or an early scientist Roger Bacon wrote it. Some, however, contend that Voynich created the document and its history from scratch. Over the years, several more hoaxes have been put up. Of course, that couldn't account for the paper and ink's carbon date. The Voynich Manuscript is still as mysterious and baffling centuries after its reported initial discovery. If you want more unanswered mysteries, check out our other videos. From a distance, it appears as though the elaborate Victorian bridge, constructed in 1895, is only an extension of the driveway of a wealthy businessman named James White's neighboring 19th-century home in Dumbarton. But something odd happened to most dogs passing on that bridge. Welcome to records, unsolved, today we are going to the bizarre incident in the Overtoun Bridge. Near Dumbarton, the Overtoun Bridge seems to beckon dogs to jump to their deaths. The ideal location for unsolved mysteries. Approximately 50 dogs have died since the early 1960s, and hundreds more have jumped but survived, according to Slate through their Atlas Obscura blog. Some have even made a second plunge into the sharp rocks 50 feet below. Representatives from the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals tried to investigate but were unsuccessful. Dogs' ability to develop a desire to die is questionable, if not improbable, in terms of scientific reality. But on sunny, dry days alone, something keeps drawing dogs off that bridge, frequently from the exact same location. There are a lot of theories that have been put forth. The most popular theory is that the bridge is haunted after a local man threw his infant son off the bridge in 1994, a mink is leaving behind an almost irresistible scent, and a sound anomaly that only dogs can hear exists at the bridge. David Sands, an expert on animal behavior, looked into the occurrence in 2010 and ruled out the likelihood that the animals were intentionally killing themselves. His tests at the bridge revealed that dogs, particularly those with long noses, were attracted to the fragrance of mammals below. According to Dr. Sands, the dogs' restricted vision, their lack of awareness that the path changes from flat ground to a bridge crossing a steep ravine, and the airborne odors likely encouraged the dogs to leap. But even he conceded that something seemed "off" about the bridge. While some locals thought his explanation was reasonable, many people still believe the leaps to be illogical. They wonder why the occurrence does not happen as frequently at other British bridges where animals are present below. If you want more unanswered mysteries, check out our other videos.