Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 13, 2012

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    Mostly Water Premium Member about 12 years ago

    SeaFox10, put a lid on it!

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    Stephen Gilberg  about 12 years ago

    All this time, I thought mass hysteria referred to crowds panicking about some apparent disaster. I didn’t know it had a stranger meaning in psychology.

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    Puddleglum2  about 12 years ago

    If those dueling French generals had been thrown into jail, they would have realized that the ‘pen’ was mightier than the sword!

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    hablano  about 12 years ago

    OMG! Not verbal outbursts.

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    LV1951  about 12 years ago

    Mass hysteria? Most likely someone passed around some drug and dared the girls to take it.

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    tadchem  about 12 years ago

    In my high school outbreaks of mass hysteria with painful shaking and verbal outbursts usually came right after the announcement of a math quiz.

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    tadchem  about 12 years ago

    This just proves that French Generals can’t fight worth a darn, or one of them would have won long before 19 years had passed.

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    TrueBlue2010  about 12 years ago

    A couple of links about what happened at the high school.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/08/mystery-illness-is-social_n_1262480.html

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/26/leroy-high-school-mystery_n_1234111.html

    The most likely hypothesis is that one person started having symptoms as a result of stress and then other people started mimicking. At first they thought it was some type of contamination but that was ruled out by multiple agencies.

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    iced tea  about 12 years ago

    Were those students autistic?

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    Sky_Shachaq  about 12 years ago

    @ Chikuku Do you remember the name of that short story? I’d like to read it.

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