The Mass Hysteria Iceberg Explained

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[@peachietm]

I LOVE YOU DADDY GOON

[@jeffireymurdock2073]

good gravy thats a giant deal

[@haileyrocker330]

as someone who lived in boston when the ‘mooninite panic’ happened, literally no one was scared except the police. sports games were canceled, concerts, everything. my parents had literally given birth to my little sister 2 days before and we COULD NOT. LEAVE. THE HOSPITAL. FOR. DAYS. according to 7 year old me who had to eat the hospital food and miss school, “the chicken tenders sucked” so clearly i was not very pleased with the situation at hand. neither was my father who had tickets to the celtics game.

[@Nickles4]

I remember listening to WBCN at the time and even they were like “lol our police are stupid”

[@generalmarkmilleyisbenedic8895]

Ur dad be a bugman

[@phantomspaceman]

I remember it popping up on 4chan and laughing with everyone at how dumb the police were. Then the story kept turning up and all the headlines were "These cops are retarded." It's the hysteria equivalent of a forced meme.

[@TheRach995]

Boston is a (comparatively to west coast cities at least) relatively safe place so my guess is they just had nothing better to do & since cops training primes them to be paranoid they just kinda confirmation biased themselves into the stupidest bomb scare in east coast history.

[@hyperball01]

You dad is such a Chad lmaoo.A new child is born, wanting to go to a Celtic game to celebrate it

[@bug688]

I remember the mass hysteria surrounding Talking Angela where people claimed that Angela's eyes were secretly cameras for child traffickers. It was so obviously fake but there were so many people hyperanalyzing the app and zooming in to Angela's eyes to see camera lenses. Honestly, it was pretty entertaining

[@FIRING_BLIND]

Thats not really mass hysteria It's just ppl being gullible and believing scaremongerers

[@delanawright436]

either way the lenses wouldn't be IN her EYES. she's an AI forn gods sake. full on ADULTS were saying that too, i waslike 7 and was shaking my head at a bunch of 20 year olds who don't know how spyware worked

[@rosieroovs]

i remember that! i don't even know where i found out about it since i didn't really use the internet except for club penguin at the time but i remember being told to look for the silhouette of a man in a room in her eye, and sure enough, i found it. but i figured that it must have been some sort of texture (obviously it was) that just probably included this guy or something else that looked something like that. a few years later i watched a video on it and God was it funny seeing all the kids and parents freaking out about an app on a phone that most likely doesn't even have a front-facing camera lol

[@mammoneymelon]

@@delanawright436 i'm so glad my parents are actually smart bc i don't think little 5th grade me would've been able to handle them freaking out over something that makes no sense lol like dude, the app was made by a big company. it takes like two taps to figure it out lol. it's not like they had an army of child predators at the ready. it was wild to me that they put that shit on the NEWS. i understand little kids falling for it but grown adults? that was a strage era

[@Hmm121]

I was one of those kids who had a break down over it

[@marumaru2105]

I love how the female-only hysterias range from biting and meowing, to laughing and twitching for no reaosn, and then the male-only hysteria is just "dick broke"

[@juanfranciscovillarroelthu6876]

We are so basic

[@thexskating]

Lmaoooo

[@ROBOHOLIC1]

@@juanfranciscovillarroelthu6876 that's our second brain

[@ghostshrimp5006]

Hey, dick broke is serious business 👉

[@c0smicca1n]

HELP

[@lessiewilhoit1811]

" Remember those 4 Frenchmen you warned me about, don't worry we got all 67 of them" I spit my jello out I laughed so hard

[@atomic.madness452]

My favorite genre of mass hallucinations or haunting has to be the ones where people would see “specters” at night, that all mysteriously disappeared once we stopped lighting our homes with vast amounts of odorless gas

[@bugglemagnum6213]

🤣🤣🤣

[@liz5089]

I literally learned this playing a point and click video game, and it’s been my favorite fact ever since.

[@AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult]

@@liz5089 which game?

[@liz5089]

@@AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult Nancy Drew Ghost of Thornton Hall

[@AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult]

@@liz5089 oh thank you, I bought some Nancy Drew games, but never got around to playing them.

[@theboi5584]

The idea that a group of people can just freak out and go insane around the same time is both equally terrifying and fascinating.

[@adrianp7574]

And develop symptoms of sickness due to panic

[@johnjeckell1953]

I have bad news. Almost all humans are connected to a hive mind. They have no control over what they do. Likely you are connected to the hive and will never realize it, even if it was proven to you.

[@kiwimarshall3937]

@@johnjeckell1953 Hiveminds are just the collective intelligence of a group of organisms. The one you propose is literally a scifi concept and hasn't been seen anywhere else besides fictional media.

[@jdhfSD63gH]

@@johnjeckell1953 stop reading jung and eating mushroooms. we have no proof of this at all

[@honeycrispsnail4032]

@@johnjeckell1953 so are you one of the only ones that aren’t connected to the hive mind? lmfao

[@BuckBlaziken]

“The government is trying to hide the Monkey Man.” Is honestly just a hilarious sentence

[@johnnymartinez478]

it’s joe rogan he is the original monke man

[@mightymudcrab3381]

They glow in the dark

[@thecastiel69]

Kalaa Bandar (Black Monkey), It also parodied in movie Delhi-6

[@calebharper5019]

That's when my wife asked me what the fuck I'm watching

[@ProjectEchoshadow]

And they put chemicals in the water that turn the friken frogs gay

[@ellamckee3477]

My key takeaway from this video is that nuns get extremely bored and just enjoy trolling to pass the time

[@riomadre]

There's an old book called "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" that is a fascinating read with some obscure /mostly forgotten instances of mass hysteria. I read it in 10th grade and I still think of it. I recommend it if you're interested in this topic!

[@ultraviolettas]

Oooh thank you!!

[@mitaskeledzija6269]

Ty

[@busterc1760]

My grand father had a library of old medical and scientific books and I remember that being in his shelf’s

[@BeardedDragonMan1997]

Thank you

[@YouTubenostalgia914]

Oh boy. Somebody ⬆ lives in a society...

[@Buzz_the_Cat]

“Everybody gangsta till the nuns start meowing” -Sam O’Nella

[@pierceboland4015]

May god rest his soul😢

[@astromorphs-are-qu]

@@pierceboland4015 he’s back though

[@combatafatpiglel9641]

@@astromorphs-are-qu And now we wait. Again.

[@cmutt6054]

I miss Sam o nella

[@combatafatpiglel9641]

@@cmutt6054 yeah 😔

[@_mango_]

When Wendigoon says "that'll probably be a future video I talk about", I'm so happy he really means it

[@Alyssablivion]

ikr

[@IamTheShadows]

You cant say the same about most big creators unfortunatly

[@_mango_]

@@IamTheShadows Precisely, Wendigoon always goes above and beyond with his promises and is a man of his word

[@EricLeafericson]

@@_mango_ It isn't even a promise. Even his guesstimation of what he's going to make is more likely to happen than most New Years Eve resolutions.

[@Samuel-ko9uv]

Right? I jumped when I saw that he actually did a video on mass histeria

[@Kristine_202]

I remember after 9/11 everyone was freaked out about anthrax being sent through the mail. I'm a New Yorker, so I was already experiencing some PTSD, but I was completely freaked out if I saw any kind of powder anywhere or even just smelled something odd. I don't think anthrax even has a smell, but you know how you'll be sitting in a room and smell something and not be able to figure out where it's coming from? Well, post-9/11, my brain automatically went to "we're all going to die" whenever that happened. You hear some of these stories and wonder what the people were thinking, but it really doesn't take much. We were all in a heightened state of panic and it escalated quickly.

[@ASDeckard]

The 2001 anthrax mail attacks killed 5 people, and infected 17 who survived.

[@GenericScreenName808]

I was a sophomore in high school when 9/11 happened and I vividly remember my dad buying the kits to cover our windows they were advertising them on Fox News. A former coworker was telling me he was a rep for whatever the drug was that apparently treated it and he told me he bought a new house from the sales that year alone. Our minds are so fragile and screens just give them open access to implant hysteria, hearing about these kids getting physical rashes and passing out certainly explains why the social issues we have now are so pervasive

[@BlueSpiritFire1]

I think the meowing nuns one is my favourite. We all know someone who has done that - meowing in response to normal questions just to be an obstinate little shit. The idea of a whole convent just deciding to act like stubborn kids meowing at everything until they're threatened with punishment has me cracking up.

[@chrissy3875]

HAHAH FR

[@thefrubblewarrior4678]

>:D

[@SassyGirl822006]

That was literally me. I would do that for days as a kid, because I felt like it. My mom would just roll her eyes, and say "just don't act like a cat, please." 😒

[@Valfara770]

@@SassyGirl822006 Hehe, fitting name you got there. :D I heard a nice Reddit story once about a woman who was annoyed at being nagged at by people that instead of arguing she just started to bark at people like a dog. That shut them up quite nicely. :D

[@etoile-diabolique]

@@Valfara770 i understand her barking has become my favorite défense mechanism It annoys everyone and I truly seem unhinged so they stop trying to argue it cracks me up

[@strawbrryblood]

the meowing nuns thing is absolutely hilarious to me, cause obviously it wasnt involuntary because they stopped after being threatened with punishment. they all just agreed to do this for seemingly no reason, definitely sounds like something a group of students would do.

[@claressadubs]

It totally sounds like something a bunch of bored girls would do to entertain themselves and annoy other ppl 😆

[@DesolatedChild018]

A lot of nuns started life at the convent really young, very much pre-puberty, so they might as well be teens who did the most boring chores every same day trying to have some fun - with the grown ones, that knew nothing much beyond the covent walls, being in on the joke and jumping in out of similar boredom. Which frankly? Good for them. Same. Meanwhile young monks were all night preaching in fright, drenched in cold sweat, terrified of the wrath of God because “their pp was sinfully hard”.

[@ms.chomper5024]

Girl like to meow so it's something we would do

[@laughatdarkness1286]

I have a tic where i sometimes randomly meow its super awkward lol

[@topsoil86]

they were absolutely just pulling a silly little prank

[@ooerca6511]

"stop fucking meowing its annoying" "meow" is just mass hysteria virgin vs chad

[@f_mva]

those nuns were fucking hilarious and they Knew it

[@AmalekIsComing]

Yeah fucking

[@fordshojoe8080]

Did you just meow at me? Do I look like a fucking cat to you? Do I look like I jump all nimbly bimbly in trees?

[@nicolelouise7295]

The nuns were just bored out of there mind, so they were sending people out of their mind by the most unique thing ever; meowing.

[@Viking_Luchador]

"Alright meow, hand over your license and registration."

[@frankygmanentertainment5835]

The laughter epidemic reminds me of this girl i grew up with that would sneeze an insane amount of times nonstop, she once sneeze like 62 times in a row . The teacher thought she was faking but she literally had tears coming from her eyes.

[@TheNephilimofEmpireCity]

Ugh those dreaded back of the nose tickles that won't go away

[@corneliusdwyer1824]

I have very dramatic and excessive sneezes and never sneeze juse once, it's usually 3 or more times. people think I do it for attention, but it honestly sucks. My record is 13, I couldn't imagine the absolute horror of 62...

[@rokukou]

How would someone even fake a sneeze? Poor thing. My family sneezes in fits while i tend to have big single sneezes.

[@yanentine]

God, that must have been really painful after a while, you would think that all that sneezing would cause a nosebleed, due to all the irrigation to the nose lining - maybe she was allergic to something?

[@Sing_A_Rebel_Song]

That sounds like my dad, he once sneezed so much he broke a rib

[@RyguyK456]

I love how often wendigoon try’s to come up with a different word for something sexual but ends ip saying something worse than saying the actual phrase he’s thinking of

[@monkeymachine33]

For real 😂😂

[@madisonbittner3848]

​@@monkeymachine33 are u the monkey man of Delhi

[@Hatsune-Miku_Fan]

What he say??

[@dumiighostii]

Kith is my favorite, personally.

[@MyaB1986]

Tries*

[@MilaWht]

I actually started a small case of mass hysteria in my school when we were about 10 or 12, we were on a camping trip with my grade in the middle of nowhere, and while talking with my friends I asked if they believed in spirits, one of the girls thought I saw a spirit and within a few hours we had 30 kids crying and scared saying they were seeing spirits and ghosts and classmates hair levitating and stuff asking for their parents, I got a lot of shit by the teachers for starting something I didn't even ment, and then my family and I got shit from all my classmates parents for making up lies and scaring kids

[@HelloMomoMomo]

thats so sad :’(

[@WaxyLT]

Absolutely legendary power move.

[@GAMER123GAMING]

bruh what

[@bigpooper4156]

Lord of the flies moment Also I did something similar, gave some busmates in 8th grade sweetarts and told them it was ecstasy, told them it was just candy before it got out of hand)

[@yoMC18]

I always get upset by teachers/parents blaming one kid for something that neither was their intention nor caused by them but rather by circumstances.

[@gabrieldantas1179]

the story about the goalie casting a spell is the most true thing i’ve ever heard, here in brazil, fans will say anything about the enemy team if it means they lose and their team wins, it’s hilarious

[@WheatGaming]

Makes you wonder if that goalie was casting a spell or if he was mocking them

[@hi_dom]

@@WheatGamingwhy not both

[@katherine1304]

as for the blackburn faintings, i can attest to it being VERY mental. anxiety can absolutely cause one to lose consciousness. i passed out in high school once because my teacher was describing what happens to a body during crucifixion (it was an ancient history class i went to public school) and a mix of not eating breakfast, having done the pacer test that morning in gym (lol) and hearing gory stuff and him prefacing it saying people had thrown up hearing it before is what caused me to pass out. after that I was terrified of anything gory but specifically when i was in school, and i ended up passing out during a drivers ed video where they talked about horrific 911 calls and how they collect bodies from crashes. gory stuff had NEVER bothered me before and no longer bothered me once i left high school. but there were multiple times i had to FIGHT not to pass out because my body associated passing out with hearing about anything gory in school. my sister had something similar where she passed out while handing in an assignment in a college lecture and after that her anxiety was so bad she missed a lot of that class in particular. her brain associated that class specifically with passing out and she felt like if she went she would pass out again. it was a long time ago so I don’t know if she did end up passing out again, but I know it severely affected her grade.

[@definitelynotanAIchatbot]

This means you are trans. Please embrace your identity or I will do it for you.

[@ciclon5682]

The guy that dressed in a blanket in hammersmith so scare one person and set off a huge case of mass hysteria its probably one of the earliest and most legendary trolls of human history.

[@welcometoamerica1579]

lol really, a precursor to "killer clowns" he walked so they could run

[@ilikechamomile4502]

Dude even felt bad about it after like I only did it once 😂😭

[@atomicdancer]

'Twas just a prank, bro.

[@AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult]

@@VampireDrip ikr

[@laserdiscisawesome1263]

Small bit of Tom foolery

[@picccle]

being a nun seems so crazy. meowing, biting each other; they're just religious catgirls

[@ВикторРуставили]

Monastic life is pretty boring, no wonder they break down sometimes.

[@NichoMania2]

Makes me wonder if Felicia from Dark Stalkers was inspired by this, given her bg. 😅

[@FreyjaShartSquad]

good bye 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@mheilig]

ara ara

[@NagitosWifeSpotty]

this comment is adding to the fact really want to become a nun just so i could bite another nun and restart the biting nuns

[@KaeYoss]

What's so unbelievable about soccer players casting spells against each other? It happens all the time, even in world cup matches. And not just the African teams. Otherwise, how do you explain all those players falling over and rolling around in pain when no one even touched them?

[@christianlowman2698]

😂😂😂😂

[@bdbailey]

Neymar must have majorly pissed off the elder spirits

[@X-SPONGED]

I now headcanon that every soccer game is just a giant wizards tournament ala Harry Potter. It's just that they casted a spell so that no muggles can see the spells actually being used. Thank you, random commenter for this hilarious depiction.

[@gabrielsfilms2086]

pfffft

[@gabrielsfilms2086]

@@X-SPONGED the only headcanon ever.

[@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz]

"The customer is always right _in matters of taste_ " is the line. No one with more than a few brain cells actually thinks the customer is every right, seeing as most customers want everything to be delivered yesterday and for free.

[@melasnexperience]

God, I was a kid during the Daycare Satanic Panic, and it was amazing how much people were willing to focus on the completely outrageous & bizarre false claims while letting people who WERE physically & emotionally abusive get a pass (like the daycare I briefly attended until my folks mercifully withdrew me after the owner/head teacher denied me food all day & isolated me from the other kids) and keep working for decades. It still makes me mad that people ran with the craziness and ignored the more "mundane" shit. It feels like it was designed to enable people like her.

[@wolfetteplays8894]

“Focus on the outrageous while exalting physical abusers” Yep, sounds like liberals to me

[@JadeTwo]

What happened at the mcmartin preschool was more akin to child trafficking. It was pushed under the rug as a hoax of "satanic panic" media narrative and the school demolished. You can watch an interesting breakdown of what was found there, such as a I believe a lunchbox found deep under the school incased in cement which was dated years after the school was built. The trafficking rings are a thriving business and here in America involve the Mormons, freemasons, and other sinister organizations

[@cronchybo]

@@wolfetteplays8894 what?

[@lightningmonky7674]

Not designed, humans can be very very very stupid

[@NefariousSpineLizard]

@@wolfetteplays8894 You realize that the Satanic Panic was largely perpetrated by religious conservatives, right..?

[@anaccount4354]

The puppy pregnancy syndrome is essentially just that one fucked up short film about a kid eating a watermelon seed and turning into a watermelon because he didn't listen to his parents.

[@dr_rowby.scramble]

Oshiete oshiete yo sono shikumi wo boku no naka ni dare ga iru no? Kowareta kowareta yo kono sekai de kimi ga warau nanimo miezu ni Kowareta boku nante sa iki wo tomete Hodokenai mou hodokenai yo shinjitsu sae freeze Kowaseru kowasenai kurueru kuruenai Anata wo mitsukete yureta Yuganda sekai ni dandan boku wa sukitotte mienakunatte Mitsukenaide boku no koto wo mitsumenaide Dareka ga egaita sekai no nake de anata wo kizutsuketaku wa nai yo Oboeteite boku no koto wo azayaka na mama Mugen ni hirogaru kodoku ga karamaru mujaki ni waratta kioku ga sasatte Ugokenai ugokenai ugokenai ugokenai ugokenai ugokenai yo Unravelling the world Kawatteshimatta kaerenakatta Futatsu ga karameru futari ga horobiru Kowaseru kowasenai kurueru kuruenai Anata wo kegasenai yo yureta Yuganda sekai ni dandan boku wa sukitotte mienakunatte Mitsukenaide boku no koto wo mitsumenaide Dareka ga shikunda kodoku na wana ni mirai ga hodoketeshimau mae ni Omoidashite boku no koto wo azayaka na mama Wasurenaide wasurenaide wasurenaide wasurenaide Kaeteshimatta koto ni paralyze Kaerarenai koto darake no paradise Oboeteite boku no koto wo Oshiete oshiete boku no naka ni dare ga iru no?

[@HeatherSchrivener-el2mx]

Don’t feed the troll

[@Oroberus]

It actually heavily reminds me of how batshit crazy some people went due to Covid. Getting a pretty new vaccines which might not have tested and monitored to the extent other vaccines have but still went through a rigorous medical examination and deemed safe and working? No WaY! VaCcInEs ArE SoCiAlFaScIsM! Drinking bleach because some right wing lunatic said it will cure Covid? Yes please! xD

[@mariawhite7337]

What makes it incredibly sad is all those bastards that are taking advantage of these peoples ignorance.

[@somedude-l2g]

Wait i didn't just fucking dream about that? THAT WAS A REAL THING? That shit left me traumatised for a few years until i thought i had only dreamt about it

[@Pocchari]

Puppy Pregnancy Syndrome sounds somewhat like the old wive’s tale that if an animal frightens a pregnant woman the baby will look like that animal. I’m sure it varies from place to place or even family to family considering how historically isolated Appalachia is, so I don’t know if you’ve heard of it where you are. My aunt was startled by a snake in a drawer when she was pregnant and was absolutely terrified the last few months of her pregnancy her baby would have a snake face. Needless to say he came out perfectly fine and continues to look like a normal man to this day.

[@cactus2255]

that's what the "man" wants you to think, he is now starting the rise of the snake people

[@MegCazalet]

Oh my god how did the snake get in the drawer?!

[@Pocchari]

@@MegCazalet No idea, I was only 4 at the time. It’s not really uncommon for snakes to sneak into houses in Appalachia though. At least in my area. One got into my parents’ house just last year. A few months later I also woke up to a lizard in my bed (while convalescing at their house). 😅

[@15arael]

@@cactus2255 sneple

[@aprilmichel7816]

Might not have anything to do with it, but there is a pretty common trope in our local fairy tales (Central Europe) that reminds me of this, only the fright factor kinda disappeared. Most of the time an evil character swaps a completely normal baby with either a puppy or a kitten to have the mother fall out of grace of her husband or considered a witch.

[@TheFastfoodcritic]

A common misconception is that y2k "didn't happen" or was an overreaction. That is a huge annoyance with older IT people . They will tell you it took a lot of work and time and crunch to make sure "y2k did not happen". It would have been a real disaster. Not mass hysteria.

[@smooshiebear80]

Y2K: the original toilet paper hoarding incident

[@pointyorb]

Yeah but how does the date not working = all electronics exploding

[@WyldeFyres]

​@@pointyorbyeah people obviously went overboard but it really would have fucked up daily life really badly for everybody

[@clintbustwood4800]

@@pointyorbbanking records would be corrupted, electrical infrastructure would crash due to the errors, personal computers would brick, etc.

[@blakebrownlee8182]

@@pointyorbYou would be surprised at how much damage one wrong variable can cause.

[@biobuilder332]

I swear to god dude you’re the best channel on KZbin, not just in the creepy horror sense but just because you’re naturally entertaining and cover such a wide variety of subjects. You’ve introduced me to so many unique horror shows on KZbin, and honestly your religious videos have really changed how I think about interpretation of religious stories. Keep it up, Wendigoon. You’re the most special tree.

[@sway_onthetrail]

He really is just so good. The way he introduces information in such a respectable, honest, and easy to understand way makes listening to him talk about it super easy. These topics are always cool to read about, but Wendi does a great job of making you want to deep dive further into each one.

[@anygirl2994]

You are going to make him smile with the "you're the most special tree"

[@gabriellemadrid2831]

And doesn't he look like his hair smells nice! 😁

[@cruella4341]

I was a victim of my own hysteria when I was like 13. I was becoming more aware of my health and therefore more aware of what I eat, and I somehow convinced myself I had diabetes because of how much sugar I had. Now if you don’t know one of the symptoms of diabetes is extreme thirst which causes them to drink a lot and of course having to pee a lot. Suddenly when I convinced myself I had diabetes I was going to the toilet like every hour. I wasn’t thirsty at all and yet I was going every hour. My mum took me to the doctor, they did a lot of tests and they said that I did not in fact have diabetes but they also couldn’t find anything wrong with me that could have caused me to go the bathroom that many times. Then after like 2 weeks of this and I was 100% sure I did not have diabetes it completely stopped and it hasn’t happened again since. I was convinced I had some other illness but looking back I think I was just super anxious, which is what my mum and the doctors suggested it was. Also didn’t help that I didn’t drink much water during the time cause I was so sick of going to the toilet I stopped drinking so that probably confused my body even more

[@raincandy1653]

That is both scary and fascinating

[@kelseylannan4884]

this obviously is just nonsense, but I wonder if it works opposite way too. like if you were told by a doctor that you had cancer but you didn't, would you slowly die from thinking you did? 🤔 or if you actually had diabetes but just refused to believe it, would your symptoms go away? lol

[@JAY-tm7lt]

The same thing happened to me but I thought I had appendicitis because I had bad sharp stomach pains and was constipated. Turns out I eat like shit and have anxiety which led to me developing IBS and freaking myself out over it lol

[@barriakarl]

People think placebo is a joke.

[@bananabrain364]

This is very similar to what having health-related OCD is like!

[@batsnackattack]

There really was more explanation for the Belgium Cola Hysteria. People can read more online but when they dug into the details they found that of the original complaining kids, most were from a school and region and families that rarely allowed the kids soda pop. Each child was allowed a single can of coke. A number of students did not want to drink the coke and gave it away to some students who, in particular boys, were delighted to quickly guzzle their extras or just all their cans. 1 boy had drank 3 cans of coke within 30 minutes. However, even the children who'd only drank their own single can were found to have never drank any kind of soda pops ever before and were surprised to burp. Others a sugar high and otherwise a very standard case of what mom warned you about if you gobbled sugar.. the standard sugary upset tummy. Happens every halloween a million times too.

[@TheDramacist]

Cola actually has a big caffeine dose for kids who arent used to it

[@Thebatcavepetfriendlybakery]

​@senpai2654 im epileptic so i always drink caffiene free stuff and im very antisocial so i rarely leave my house. That being said, i forgot soda with caffeine was a thing for a sec until you said it lol

[@gretablackwell495]

Fun fact! Sports curses actually have a long history. In Ancient Rome, there were these things called defixiones, or curse tablets. They were thin sheets of lead, inscribed with text which usually called upon either underworld deities or spirits of the deceased, asking them to place a curse on a specific target. (Sometimes they just list the names of targets.) Some were target towards business rivals, some towards thieves... and many curse tablets were addressed towards athletes, written by their opponents or particularly dedicated audience members. I can only assume that the average Roman sports game had so many curses flying around that they all cancelled each other out.

[@mx.rain_yt]

*TIMESTAMPS* *INTRO - **0:00* SCP-Heretic Kickstarter - 2:53 But as always... - 6:51 *TIER 1 - **6:54* 7:05 - Strawberry Sugar Virus 8:18 - Dancing Plague of 1518 10:19 - Hammersmith Ghost 13:21 - June Bug Epidemic 14:30 - West Bank Fainting Epidemic 16:24 - Miracle of the Sun *TIER 2 - **17:54* 18:00 - Meowing Nuns 19:01 - Halifax Slasher 20:37 - Spring-heeled Jack 22:25 - Belgium Coca-Cola Crisis 24:17 - Monkey-man of Delhi 25:31 - Biting Nuns *TIER 3 - **27:14* 27:16 - Blackburn Faintings 28:16 - Irish Fright 31:34 - 2008 Congo Football Riots 33:54 - Mt. Pleasant, MS Mass Drug Use 34:54 - 2007 Boston Mooninite Panic 37:55 - Face Scratcher *TIER 4 - **39:45* 39:48 - Puppy Pregnancy Syndrome 42:18 - Liverpool Leprechaun 43:46 - Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic 45:04 - Mad Gasser of Mattoon 46:18 - Daycare Child Abuse 50:36 - Dhat Syndrome *TIER 5 - **52:20* 52:25 - Hollinwell Incident 53:30 - Koro Syndrome 55:24 - Malaysia 2019 Screaming Schoolgirls 56:47 - Louisiana Twitching Epidemic 1939 *TIER 6 - **59:00* 59:04 - Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic 1:01:21 - Ganesha Drinking Milk Miracle 1:03:33 - Milan Poison Scare 1:06:28 - Lille Boarding School *Final Thoughts - **1:11:21* *Thank you for watching - **1:15:01*

[@Roastpeef]

*Tanganyika

[@Brbuddy]

Good job you need more likes for this shiiii

[@mx.rain_yt]

@@Roastpeef Thanks! I don't know how I messed that one up tbh

[@saoirsedeltufo7436]

Halifax just has one 'l'

[@mx.rain_yt]

@@saoirsedeltufo7436 Ah, my bad! I just went off the video. It is fixed now!

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

I just cannot fathom how much research is put into Wendigoon’s icebergs. The hard work always be paying off.

[@milkcurator3127]

He doesn’t make them lmfao

[@TylerG60]

Bot

[@buttsauceable]

he isnt making the icebergs also he apparently didnt proofread much because he kept calling halifax haliflax

[@ereviscale3966]

A quick wikipedia read and Google search maybe 20 hours a video including writing and editing and you've got 2 videos a week

[@ereviscale3966]

Don't get me wrong, that's more work than I want to do and I enjoy the videos!!!!

[@hurricanerae]

Oh my god! I love that the Aqua Teen Hunger Force "bomb" scare made the list. A few friends of mine and myself were so obsessed with how hilarious the event was that we had "Never Forget" t-shirts made with the date and a mooninite on them. I still have that shirt somewhere.

[@shadymcnasty5920]

Thats awsome

[@rickydornberger4771]

Amazing.

[@jmoney7289]

YOU..... ARE. A GOD?

[@hurricanerae]

@@jmoney7289 Nah. I was just one of a few bored recent college grads.

[@generalsleepy3859]

What's especially awful about the daycare abuse scandals is that it meant the children who were almost certainly never abused were subjected to completely unnecessary highly invasive medical examinations, which were traumatizing on their own.

[@KS-PNW]

Not to mention the fact that innocent people spent years and in one case more than a decade in prison with a chomo tag on them..

[@KawaiiEvoMii]

As somebody with pretty bad anxiety, I can attest to the fact, worrying about NOT doing something so much, can cause the opposite effect, in which you actually end up doing it. Just a strong thought that occurred during most of this. Great vid as always.

[@kaileymarie2251]

I had a similar thought... sometimes people who don't normally have anxiety can develop it after hearing a lot of stories that something is happening? I have anxiety and I can see how a bunch of people fainting over "gas" could lead people to feel the symptoms even if its not real.

[@sixthgear5874]

My grandfather personally observed the miracle of the sun as a young child. I can remember him telling stories of seeing the sun “dance across the sky”

[@Big_Bird_Abelardo]

So your grandfather praised the sun?

[@Hibarioozora7777]

@@Big_Bird_Abelardo The miracle of the Sun isn't a praising of the Sun, it's a miracle performed unto the Sun.

[@HydraBill57]

@@Hibarioozora7777 Think you missed the joke buddy. Btw if the sun moved across the sky we'd all be dead. I'm not saying for certain miracles never happen but I'm pretty sure it's safe to say this one didn't.

[@rolllimbo973]

@@HydraBill57 look where praising the sun got Knight Solaire 😢😢

[@Autistic_Tarkov_Guy]

@@Hibarioozora7777 whoosh

[@arforafro5523]

Cop: "Is that a bomb?" Worker: "No sir, its a light fixture" Cop: "It looks to have some electronics on it, just like an IED" Worker: "Sir its not an IED, I was hired to install this light fixture as an advertisement" Cop: "That's exactly what someone installing an IED would want me to believe" Worker: "Sir these are just lights, we have already installed several of them around the city" Cop: "Around the city?, you and this whole Cartoon Network are planning something big, and I'm going to find out and stop you"

[@DraidtheSpacePirate]

This made my day 😂

[@Castigar48]

The best and brightest of boston

[@hard_drive.system]

@@Castigar48 Whaddya mean its an LED? sounds the same like an IED to me, just not improvised.

[@Castigar48]

@@hard_drive.system Premeditated Entertainment Gadget. The opposite of on IED

[@Gontz_Csst]

The idea of shooting a Ghost is something so british yet so american at the same time

[@secretman796]

British because of ghost hysteria shit and American because they would shoot anything that's on their dam property even if it's already dead yeeeehaaaaaa🤠🔫

[@parliecharker4316]

My wife and I were living in Hawaii during the ballistic missile scare. We both got the text early on a Sunday morning and just looked at eachother like, "Well, I guess this is it." It was such a strange calmness that we felt. Edit: Spelling

[@nellieduncan8448]

I have a fun mass hysteria story. In high school I was sitting in class and felt a tickle in my throat and I started coughing. I tried to keep it quiet but the girl next to me asked if I was ok and I told her I felt something in my nose and throat and she said she kinda did too and she started coughing. Then the whole class was coughing and our eyes started watering and the teacher thought we were pranking her but I know for a fact I felt something and none of the kids were faking either. Eventually we all left room and stopped coughing outside. I got in trouble for “causing mass hysteria” and tbh I believed it cuz I knew I felt something, I thought maybe I made the other kids start coughing. Flash forward a few years to last week, I was talking to my boyfriend about it (he was also in that class) and he started laughing and said that he knows why I was coughing. I sit one row away from the vent and the kid that sat behind me directly in front of it had poured some paprika in the vent and bragged about it after school, that’s why I was coughing. So I guess it wasn’t actually my fault 😂😂😂

[@navyntune8158]

That fucker did too much trolling

[@shinigandhi7565]

Lol classic!

[@lunathetrip3241]

this is kinda like when someone sneezes or yawns, EVERYONE in the room starts yawning. like it's not your fault??

[@offdazaza2769]

@@lunathetrip3241 I think the yawning is actually like an explainable effect that happens when other people yawn.

[@wolfetteplays8894]

@@lunathetrip3241 the elites find any excuse possible to make you feel helpless and break your spirit. It’s just a fact of life.

[@rigelestbit]

I love how when he's going to say something absurd he closes his eyes, pauses for a little bit and starts talking slower and slower. You can feel the "bullshit" coming out from his soul.

[@BlueJay73FFS]

My favorite mass hysteria from a historical perspective will always be the War of the Worlds broadcast. For one, being a voice actor and seeing the effect that a well-put-together production like that was able to have is really cool. But I think the coolest thing I will associate with it will be a few years ago, our local radio station did a full re-enactment of the broadcast for the 80 Year (I think, I'm bad with math lol) anniversary of the original broadcast. One, getting the chance to see a radio production done live right in front of you is super cool, and they even went the extra mile for those of us watching in the studio by having everyone dressed in period-accurate clothing, and they even had an actor acting as one of the producers who was waving at the actors through the window in the studio to try and get them to stop the production, going so far as to hold up a sign that said, "People think this is real" on it. During the intermission that actor even came in and all the actors had the same conversation (though who knows if it was word-for-word accurate) that the actors and producers had when the broadcast first went live, discussing how to stop the mass panic. When the production was broadcasted on the actual radio that Friday (the recording happened on a Tuesday or Sunday I think) they didn't air that conversation, and obviously there was no way for those listening at home to see the visual gags of the producers trying to shut down the show. That was just for those of us there live in the studio. It was amazing just how dedicated they were to a full reenactment of the entirety of that broadcast, when the majority of the people experiencing it would never know about those things. Of course I did listen to the broadcast on Friday with my grandparents to get the full experience, and of course it was also amazing, and my grandma commented that "It really is easy to see how people thought this was real." One of my favorite historical moments, and definitely my favorite mass hysteria moment from history.

[@KrayZJoy]

I would love to see a reenactment this deep. That sounds amazing!

[@Freyjinn]

as someone anxious and scared of diseases, the idea of having a phantom illness cause you just worry too much hits me way too hard xD amazing video as always, love to hear about such weird cases!

[@doskipanda7466]

Don’t care

[@forest3945]

@@doskipanda7466 if you didn't care why did you reply to them?

[@everychannel1025]

covid

[@bldhf]

i think the funniest thing about that is that worrying about having a phantom illness is what would cause it to happen

[@egg3913]

sometimes when i lay in bed i think of my house or the world tilting and it feels like it is tilting. it gives me anxiety

[@aidanfedorochko3728]

Wendigoon, you should do a WW2 iceberg covering mysteries, spy work, and other strange events and people. It would be pretty cool.

[@_mango_]

I agree, a World Wars Iceberg could be lit, as well as a Cold War iceberg explaining the operations, rumors, and secret conspiracies from back then between the US and Russia

[@lazlolammers3947]

Now this is something I want to see

[@glxssy8037]

I love that idea. Or something like human experiments or war crime icebergs. Like the Japanese torturing the Chinese to see effects of radiation and other unnecessary torture under the guise of "science." Japan tried to cover it up but in the 90s it came out

[@jellydarling1008]

That’s a genius idea!

[@alvintollah]

@@_mango_ I'd imagine the Cold War iceberg would be separated into parts, due to how many things I've heard come out of that war, let alone the obscure ones

[@pete5516]

I don’t think anyone has made one but I would really love to see an iceberg type video on genetic deformities/mutations that occur in different animals, there’s a lot of really obscure and interesting ones so it makes for a good disturbing iceberg. plus there’s lots of interesting reasons why a mutation may affect one specific species or lots of different species and so many have been documented there’s gotta be some creepy unknown ones for the bottom of the iceberg

[@Jess-jt4zf]

That's such a cool idea, I love it!

[@Fnukysknuk]

Ngl I don't know that I would personally watch it but it sounds like a good idea so I liked and am replying to hopefully boost your comment

[@ultimatesillymeowpurr]

HONESTLY this sounds so cool i would watch that

[@ColdEmperor]

Like and comment to boost the comment! Good shit.

[@slowloris2894]

There are so many of those, man. Sometimes doctors literally have to line up a babies DNA with the deformity on a computer to figure out what it is. That is a great idea.

[@americankid7782]

I wanna give a bit more information on the Daycare Abuse story. So apparently a couple years before this there was a Therapist who used Hypnosis with one of his patients to recall Traumatic Memories from her past. This led to her remembering that she was being tortured by her parents as a part of a cult and that a ton of people were involved. Now this Therapist did the honorable thing and wrote a book and sold thousands of copies with the two becoming famous. Because of this book and event more people started using Hypnosis as a treatment to help recover lost memories with a surprising amount of children suddenly recalling that they were victims of abuse, many times at the hands of there parents or people they are nearby a bit. Another detail that is important due to the time period is a lot of these involved cult activity. On top of this many of these cases were being reported in the Newspapers and parents were getting arrested due to accusations from there Neighbors. Also Leading questions and Hypnosis were used a lot. If you know Anything about Hypnosis or the Human brain then you know exactly how bad an Idea this was lol.

[@pieofchart]

I like the concept of a random, short british man wearing green being mistaken for a Leprechaun and completely owning it, thus causing a Leprechaun Hunt craze.

[@gabrielmoultrie3208]

Huge congrats on 1M dude! I started watching after the childhood trauma explained video from quite a while ago now, and it’s been surreal to see someone’s true and passionate hard work pay off in real time. The gratitude you’ve constantly shown for your viewers on top of that makes me certain that you’ve more than deserved the success. Congrats again!

[@Rahnonymous]

I can't believe he's at 1M already. One second he was at 300K, and then after I sneezed he shot up to triple that

[@lenorahummell1580]

He grew so fast

[@believeinmatter]

@Cija Elma Reported.

[@elijahjames3924]

I’m really surprised that the Battle of Los Angeles isn’t on here because it’s a perfect example of how wartime hysteria can manifest itself to the point that the event was deemed a battle though no enemies were present.

[@alibelsanchez4862]

I mean idk they were definitely shooting at something and for fact it wasn't no balloons

[@bruhbruh-us6gl]

@@alibelsanchez4862 aliens aren’t real

[@MisterFribble]

I'm not. As he said, he's not focused on overreactions. The Battle of LA was a crazy war nerve driven overreaction to a weather balloon.

[@kvanderessen4734]

@@bruhbruh-us6gl they may not have visited us, but it’s ignorant to think with the size of the universe and all the possibilities that there aren’t at least some microbial life forms on other planets

[@bruhbruh-us6gl]

@@kvanderessen4734 You assume that life as we know it eventually developing is an inevitability, when in reality, we exist in a uniquely suitable location for life, the likes of which has not been seen anywhere else in the universe

[@YiraHeredia]

Hey wendigoon i started watching a while ago around when you first hit a million, ive been thru so much and when existential crisis hit, these icebergs allowed me to cleanse and expand my mind in a way that i could only articulate as life saving, thank you wendigoon

[@The_Sunny_One]

I kinda feel like “Mandela Effect” is a type of mass hysteria. Instead of just logos changing or whatever people genuinely think they have false memories.

[@dialgalithstorm6534]

Exactly! Every time I see supernatural explanations for the Mandela Effect, I'm just like "orrrrr.... you just remembered it wrong!"

[@jamesgraves4724]

@@dialgalithstorm6534 that’s literally what it is, ppl remembering small details wrong it’s pretty much the same Reason why eyewitnesses testimony isn’t that credible in the court of law…

[@grrsooka3148]

@@dialgalithstorm6534 is that not what the mandela effect is? remembering something wrong?

[@syruptalk]

@@grrsooka3148 i’ve seen some people say that the mandela effect is a glitch or some shit from an alternate reality ?💀

[@chrishansen7004]

@@syruptalk it's more fun to think of it that way, quit trying to be a party pooper

[@bethanoni95]

My grandad is one of the kids who helped start the Liverpool Leprechaun rumour. He was about 14 or 15, hanging out at a park with a friend, and they decided to tell some younger kids they had seen a pixie or a leprechaun or something, and it spread from there. He kept it up and told my mum and uncle when they were young that he'd seen them. It was only when they were older he said "oh yeah, I made it all up back then to mess with some of the other kids". Gotta love your family legacy being mass hysteria 🤣

[@francescafrancesca3554]

That's actually so cool. Humans are very fun sometimes

[@jupitersnoot4915]

Classic teenager behaviour honestly.

[@mrheherdisruptor8975]

I'll do the same tbh

[@WinterandNoodle]

@@francescafrancesca3554 Why are you talking like you're an alien lmao. Get over yourself.

[@azdma7092]

The screaming/possessed schoolgirls are actually quite common in Malaysia. It is something that usually occurs to mostly Malay Muslim schoolgirls and women. There was even some research about the phenomenon. I actually saw one happening at my school some time ago, though only on one person (heard that there was actually a few people that 'kena rasuk' (possessed) that whole week however). The atmosphere of the school on that day quickly turned more silent. There was also an incident two years ago where doors of houses were mysteriously knocked on in the middle of the night. This originally occurred in one village in a state, but it later spread to other states, causing a mass hysteria of sort. Search 'Malaysia mysterious knockings'. There was even videos of it.

[@yuixan763]

I’m not sure if this still happens, but when I was growing up in Philippines there were news of possessed schoolgirls. It started with one girl then one by one those schoolgirls started getting possessed as well. It’s really weird that it happened, but I never knew it happened in other countries as well.

[@Yarsig]

I can solve these mysteries. Girls screaming for attention, or to fit in, or they think it would be cool to say, "Yo, I've been freakin' possessed bro." (For example, see those dumbass church videos where someone pretends to be possessed) People knocking on doors after they heard the rumor to scare their friends, relatives, or just random people cause that shit's funny.

[@azdma7092]

@@Yarsig Well, I remember walking past the girl when school has ended that day and she looked quite pale and a little shaken. There was also a teacher trying to comfort her. There is a psychological explanation for this kind of incidences, but I don't remember the exact explanation, other than that its related to stress. For the knockings one, there was a few news article stating that someone actually looked out and saw no one banging the door or looking at the CCTV but seeing no one outside. Some other logical explanations that I could think of are strong winds and animals. Interestingly, there was a similar case in the 90s involving a 'ghost' knocking on people's houses asking for milk for their child, which was said to have happen in a few states, though I have no idea if that actually happened or is just an urban legend.

[@Castigar48]

Man Malaysian school girls must be bored as hell to get off with this

[@MrKojack28]

As a Malaysian I can vouch for this, victims of hysteria tend to be Malay Muslim school girls most probably because the girls could be on their period (menstrual blood is said to attract supernatural entities) and usually for some fucking reason female dorms are always the most haunted (a lot of dorms in Malaysia tend to be really haunted since they're surrounded by a lot of forests/or places with very strong supernatural presence) Also black magic here is a common practice in Malaysia esp among Malay folk so it's not too far-fetched or in fact such a common occurrence to see a student going thru hysteria/possessions.

[@Interference22]

An essential clarification: it's the HALIFAX slasher, not the Haliflax slasher. Halifax is a town in Yorkshire in the UK. And also a buildings society.

[@TheAngelinahuang]

Halifax is also the provincial capital of Nova Scotia, Canada.

[@PiOfficial]

Yes it’s named after the original

[@gremmdogs]

Thank u omg I was looking for this comment cause I thought I was going crazy, couldn’t stop giggling

[@crabwithahat7193]

I can comfortably say that this channel is the only one that brings a smile to my face when it pops up in my notifications. There is something extremely chaotic and wholesome about him. If I had money this would be the first and only channel I'd throw it at. Thank you so much for the constant belly laughs and have a wonderful day if by chance you see this ♥️

[@thejinks-lx4qf]

The content interesting no doubt

[@dixieboyz1]

It's hard to explain how happy I am when I see his videos. He's like a childhood idol but im not a child anymore lol

[@ripoffranter]

Stalin out here spittin

[@Hoosier-19KILO]

I could relate, for me his voice is very calming, and I always sit through his sponsors.

[@TheGorillaMan412]

Wendigoon and Scott the Woz.

[@mmoon8159]

I totally get the psychosomatic thing because a few years ago my sister and I wondered if the salad we ate was fresh and freaked ourselves out so much that we both ended up really nauseous and vomiting it all up. The salad was fine and we were both adults at the time

[@leanna1021]

That happened to me with Sushi, I bought sushi, and had leftovers in the fridge for only a day in a plastic container so it was completely fine. A thought pops up in my head "is this sushi bad for me". I kept searching up and all the websites said it was completely fine, there wasn't even fish. I got sick from it anyway from freaking out, spat it out and got nauseous from perfectly fine sushi.

[@lovelytigress227]

@@leanna1021 This is pretty generic and not even my story, but your comment reminded me of this. I remember one of my professors telling my class of this time she and her husband went to a restaurant where she ordered and ate sashimi without realizing it consists of raw fish. She enjoyed the meal and only felt ill after she found out what it was. I don't take pleasure in that last part at all, but I genuinely like to think she psyched herself out and that the food had nothing to really do with it.

[@maddieb.4282]

@@lovelytigress227our brains are so powerful haha!

[@phoenixxmatrixx3769]

Sometimes I really convince myself that the things I use to ear my food aren’t clean and I start feeling sick and throwing up.. They are - in fact - always clean.

[@fernandasenaoliveira3479]

this happened to me once, but with fewer people. I was 17 and studying in a public technical high school. the government cut our food budget so we did not get food for a while. we decided to protest. we occupied the technical schools managing building. the police could not legally take us out, but they would scare us all the time. they would send our version of SWAT to the streets with guns and big cars, making noises and threatening us. on the third night, after 2 nights of staying up guarding the building and watching the police threat us, I went to sleep in the auditorium with some other people. we all woke up to police lights and sirenes. I remember the colora on the wall. we huddled together and it took us some time to realize we were in total darkness in a place it would be impossible to see police lights. there no windows and we were far from the street. we looked at each other and laughed from despair lol it was hard, but we were very stressed and sleep deprived. we got our food back tho! it took us 9 days at this location and then 11 at our actual school and worse situations but we did it!

[@taintwasher3703]

are you from brazil?

[@luna_callmenico1776]

Tem cara de Brasil isso daí kkk

[@letmediealready-m1q]

I'm guessing Brazilian or greek?

[@KingOfGaymes]

What the fck why did they take away food 💀

[@arionthedeer7372]

@@letmediealready-m1q look at her name and it’s Brazil

[@EthanTrees]

i heard the "drinking milk" miracle and immediately started laughing-- i used to do the same thing with fired clay when i was little, it absorbs water really fast so i used to stick fired clay to my tongue because it made a vaccuum. cool stuff!

[@pong9000]

I shut down a restaurant. Installing signs, my ladder sparked rumour in the kitchen that painters were working. Kitchen staff began to suffer nausea and headache from chemical fumes. Then the floor staff joined in, refusing to work in toxic conditions. Kinda deadlocked, as they couldn't decide the source of this maybe odourless irritant... until I brought an unopened paint can from the truck and offered it as the scapegoat, I'd happily remove from the restaurant.

[@ebonilius]

Good thinking!

[@maddieb.4282]

That is HILARIOUS.

[@willf.4590]

Placebo effect is a hell of a drug.

[@soggytv717]

I’m so proud to be here at 1.03 mil. I’ve been here since if I’m not wrong 14.7 k. Seeing you grow as a creator has given me something I’ve never had, you have helped me through some very rough times and I’m glad you are getting at least a little bit of the respect and awareness you deserve (you deserve so much more lol) I can’t wait to see you at 5 mil and more. Much love.

[@ravenfelter3055]

I came in a little later unfortunately. He was at somewhere between 20k and 25k. Can't remember the number. Wish I found him earlier.

[@apollo1573]

I thought I was early finding him at like 80k lmao. To be fair he grew very quickly so we probably all found him within like 3 months of each other

[@commissarvigil4806]

Gave me A hard on watching his Subs grow im so proud of him

[@PA-1000]

@Greepa YOUR CRINGE!!! Jk

[@PA-1000]

@Greepa yea people keep telling me that I don't know the difference between your and you're ☹

[@DiMagnolia]

The dancing plague is probably my favorite story, and it’s not the only case of a dancing plague in history! Most of them happened around France and Germany in the Middle Ages, it’s so crazy!

[@fordshojoe8080]

Hmm something fishy was going on around those times

[@unchargedpickles6372]

They think the grain in the village storage had grown this one fungus thay causes strong hallucinations and that the 1st lady who started trippin hard began to dance so everyone else who ate then began trippin would go join her and they just danced until they were overwhelmed by exhaustion and dropped or sobered up and came down. Those who ate more things made w it before they came down kept going longer. I like to think of it as the original rave lol lots of hallucinogens and dancing ppl...

[@Tina06019]

25:35 Those convents were chock-full of really bored teenage girls and young women who likely didn’t want to be there.

[@SaltySamYouTubeSensation]

mass hysteria is genuinely such a fascinating phenomenon to me, so cool you're talking about this!!

[@alexanderleuchte5132]

Research the "Satanic Panic" that fell under the table

[@flamersshowsandmore3864]

@@alexanderleuchte5132 wasn't that something to do with music

[@alexanderleuchte5132]

@@flamersshowsandmore3864 That was one part of it, Heavy Metal music luring kids into Satanism but also Dungeons&Dragons and hidden satanic networks and atrocious rituals everywhere. It was a general hysteria of christians, psychologists, parents and law enforcement seeing the devil everywhere

[@MadeleineSwannSurreal]

Mass hysteria is such a fascinating phenomenon. Aldous Huxley's book The Devils of Loudun is an interesting read, and someone else mentioned Extraordinary Popular Delusions which is another good one

[@brentambrielcabigas1086]

although sam o'nella explained it better in my opinion

[@MadeleineSwannSurreal]

@@brentambrielcabigas1086 who's that?

[@gabeliveforever]

@@MadeleineSwannSurreal youtube history clown

[@MadeleineSwannSurreal]

@@gabeliveforever thanks!

[@-desertpackrat]

The June Bug one is the first thing I noticed in the first shot of the iceberg lol it's so hilarious, June Bugs, a type of scarab, can't even bite people. Their spikey legs can pinch a little and it's uncomfortable, but can't even break skin, so whatever bit those people who did have bites wasn't even a June Bug, or not even bites because some skin issues like eczema/dermatitis and some rashes present like individual, spaced out bumps just like a bug bite, and if people were stressing out to the point of being ill, they probably gave themselves stress dermatitis or hives. My friend gets legit fevers just from being stressed, literally every time she gets a new job, she has a fever of 101 or so the day she has to start and feels sick like she has a flu, but she's never actually sick if she goes to the doctor. I've told her therapy might help her control it because it's pretty obvious she's getting stress fevers from getting so anxious any time she has something important to do, you can actually give yourself a full blown fever by stressing yourself out too much, it's messed up.

[@angelinacamacho8575]

Whenever I get too stressed I get stress rashes and panic attacks that feel like heart attacks.

[@blunderabluez]

we have a ton of June Bugs in Northern California and when I heard “June Bug bite” I knew something was wrong lol. I don’t think they even ‘hiss’ at people when agitated

[@mlokgerm]

I get all itchy when I’m super stressed and sometimes even get rashes! So, this could totally be what happened.

[@animesenpai1163]

I used to always get fevers after a math exam lol

[@animesenpai1163]

Now that I seen what a June bug looks like ... we used to play with them I doubt it could hurt a fly...

[@Gigachadbateman104]

Love this guys videos no jump scares or loud creepy music just him saying facts with a little photo in the corner

[@bungerroyale112]

I work retail. No, the customer isn't always right, in fact most customers are complete morons and if they try to make up rules, they don't get taken seriously. So the fact Coke didn't back down is respectable but they handled it so poorly.

[@donothesitate1198]

I don't think you understand what it means lol

[@mud4309]

@@donothesitate1198 yeah my boi Wendi was very clearly and obviously being sarcastic and joking.

[@de_anubis]

@@mud4309 nothing about that was obvious. He said it just like everything else without any hint of sarcasm.

[@micahfoley9572]

i believe the original quote was "the customer is always right in matters of taste". Basically, it was a boss telling their employees to never tell the customers they look stupid in the outfit they picked out.

[@abyxis]

@@micahfoley9572 or. If somebody says the burger dosent have enough salt. It dosent. Because that’s how the customer wants it. If that makes sense. Customer is always right about what they want. Not literally everything like people think now

[@sam-psonsmith9951]

The dancing plague situation is actually really messed up. Doesn't even matter what caused it, if it happened the way it is described, You are basically aware that something strange is happening to you, even if you want to stop moving your body it will not stop. After many hours you are completely exhausted to the point where you might enter a trance like state, mixed in with the fear of not knowing what is going on, and the feeling of helplessness since you can not stop it. After a while you are in severe pain, your muscles burn, your bones hurt, and people around you have been collapsing by now. You are crying and sobbing in tears, begging for it to stop. While your body keeps on dancing, as if your were possessed. And non of the by standers can do anything about it. This must have been a living nightmare for the victims and a horrific sight for those who witnessed it. No matter what caused it, this is a living nightmare an entire town witnessed/lived through. I would start believing in demons too if a ever saw that, especially back then. If it ever happened in that way, might be made up. People have been lying back then as much as today...

[@b.collins2656]

supposedly, some of the people afflicted had danced for so long that the bones of their feet became exposed, and there were healthy adults just dropping dead from cardiac arrest. a dancing plague sounds silly until you really, really start to think about it.

[@boman1074]

the story is so well known i just wish there was more

[@unchargedpickles6372]

They believe it was caused by a fungus on the grain that had hallucinogenic affects and when the 1st person tripping from the fungus began to dance, everyone would join her when they started trippin too and they danced till they sobered up basically lol

[@sam-psonsmith9951]

​@@unchargedpickles6372 if you take the eye witness accounts for real, it doesn't really seem to fit the description. For one, supposedly there was random people joining in over a day after it had begun. they were fine one minute and suddenly they joined in the dancing, (not in joy and fun, but full of fear and crying) Next problem i have with a bad trip as an explanation. Is the part that even when people have some kind of shared bad trip, most of them sooner or later would just give in to the pain. They would drop once their feet are actually braking. But according to eye witnesses, people kept dancing, with broken bones and feet so sore you could see the bloody flesh. People died of exhaustion because their body literally danced until they died. I don't think that a bad mushroom trip would cause such an event to go on for days and have the same effect on all the people there, but no other effects on any other people in town elsewhere. Mushroom trip sounds like and answer someone came up with in 5 minutes because they didn't have anything good. EDIT: Oh and another problem, if they just had a bad trip why did most of them supposedly know that something was happening to them and kept asking for help. Based on descriptions they didn't seem to have any hallucinations or other mental effects.

[@Stxrend]

I walked without stopping 8 hours straight in a circle listening to the same song on repeat on acid, so yea that being some kinda bad trip is definitely believable and just a “five minute whatever” to someone who’s never done drugs

[@MKPStudios]

Dude not gonna like I saw your channel first when you had like 50k now you have over a million! Keep up the great work 🙌

[@dookie7299]

These sex bots are just everywhere now. No Cija, i don’t want to see “naughty videos” hidden as a virus link.

[@yeboid.p.3641]

Here when he has like 10 k

[@filipmazic5486]

@@dookie7299 I used to report them for sexually explicit content but at this point I just do child abuse or terrorism for fun. Hopefully it makes a difference

[@joshmakarenko5809]

@Jasper Wellings Mmmm I was in during his first Iceberg and it was like 200k, dunno if he shot up that much after one vid

[@arkgaharandan5881]

i was on his channel since he had less than a thousand.

[@kilodebatido1372]

"June Bug Epidemic" sounds like someone got an idea to skip work and they started telling each other the "right" symptoms so they could be considered sick

[@keenanhynes6924]

I still can't get over the fact that like a year ago I was watching this guy say crazy shit into his phone with 70k subs, now he's my hillbilly dad with an uncontrolled love for giants.

[@lenorahummell1580]

Right, he grew so fast.

[@squilliam8013]

Yeah it wasn't too long ago either

[@ivangarciaramos3940]

Giants grow up fast.

[@aizawaskitten8669]

I remember the face scratcher hysteria, it was later hypothesized that people mistook planes flying in the sky as some sort of alien being that scratches peoples face off. The green and red lights blinking underneath the planes are the only parts visible at night so the people mistook them as the eyes of an alien creature flying at night. Another case of mass hysteria was reported in India recently was when several women reported that someone or something cut off their braids(hair) while they were asleep. This case was covered extensively in the media and worsened the hysteria.

[@MononymousM]

With the plane hypothesis, what's the theory on how their faces got scratched?

[@jaynobles950]

The Lillie Boarding School story reminds me of my favorite horror movie “The Witch” by Robert Eggars. It’s horrifying and fascinating to watch someone being fear driven into “practicing” witchcraft by people who themselves fear/hate witches.

[@bmkbbk123]

hate to break it to ya, but he reccomended that vid to mista gg so i think he knows abou tit hgaha

[@RisingSunfish]

If a nun starts meowing, does she become a nyun? I’ll see myself out. (Also, don’t think I didn’t notice that secret bottom tier, pal! Seriously though that got a good chuckle out of me, well played.)

[@user-uu5fc5ek7o]

The Malaysian screaming schoolgirls thing is pretty common in SEA countries in general. In my home country, Indonesia, we call it "kerasukan" (lit. Possession), it's so common that almost every year you got at least 2-3 news about it in TV each year. As far as I know, almost all cases of it happens in public school and coincide with high stress (like national finals) or something spiritual (like a big tree which is believed to hold spirits, being cut down), as such I never saw it myself, but from recording of it that I saw, it looks like people genuinely lost control of themselves because once they're "cured", they're unconscious, supernatural or not, it's still really weird how they seemingly lost control of their body

[@beltsan6749]

At first I thought it was like that thing where you hear a class collectively yell "WOOOOI" and then your class does it and then the class after that Idk if that’s just a me thing but it’s pretty common where I live

[@wolfetteplays8894]

There’s more to this world than you know

[@RugMann]

@@wolfetteplays8894 take your medicine and watch out for rabbit holes. You've got a fragile mind

[@coulthard1984]

Why is it that nearly all cases of screaming etc comes from women?

[@can_can9119]

By any chance are there any videos of the phenomenon while its happening? I always find it morbidly fascinating things like this happen and with a lot being relatively recent I'm surprised there's no footage of these events

[@chillpengeru]

The mooninite panic is my favorite. I'm in MA and remember watching the news going "....isn't that inignot and err? lol". Then the guys that put up the signs were grilled by the press, and just used the interviews to talk about their favorite hair styles, which pissed the media off even more.

[@switchblade6]

Based

[@JadedBelle]

That interview was hilarious!

[@v3ck1n]

I forgot about that interview, classic!

[@kassyyar97]

Theres this anime called Paranoia Agent and it is literally about Mass Histeria. I really recommend it, its masterfully done and each episode is an anthology that is connected by the “villain”. It was created by Satoshi Kon, the same director of Perfect Blue, Tokyo’s Godfathers, etc. Edit: the whole show is over youtube with english subs, apparently you cant find it over anywhere else :( please check it out! Satoshi Kon deserves more praise!

[@seasluggy]

Omg this used to be my fav anime ever I need to watch it again

[@kassyyar97]

@@seasluggy I thought exactly the same! It’s been a while, I guess I should watch it once more :))

[@crunchii891]

Ooh that sounds really cool, do you know where I could watch it??

[@perfectblueeeee]

Anything by Satoshi Kon is amazing! He’s my favorite director

[@kassyyar97]

@@crunchii891 I think you can even find it over youtube actually, its very hard to find nowadays :(( maybe crunchyroll? But I doubt it, good luck in your search though! Its definitely worth it!

[@gayraccoon353]

Not really mass hysteria but there were a group of us at school (I think we were 12??) who all started panicking and even hallucinating on Halloween. If I think about it rationally my best guess as to how it happened is I started panicking cuz my friend was kinda out of it and someone came to the conclusion that he was possessed and then another one of our friends joined in on the panicking and eventually there were just four 6th grade kids sobbing and panicking over ghosts/demons/odd sightings and our teacher literally interviewed us one by one so she could figure out what tf had happened. Our entire class was just staring and four years later the kids still brought it up occasionally cuz they thought it was a weird prank. It was not and none of us really know what caused it Thanks for reading

[@The_Copper_Element_Itself]

Some dude really conviced a whole school to have vivid allucinations lmao

[@matt4048]

I want to be part of mass hysteria. Closest thing you get to having friends as an adult.

[@RedRobin1212]

Best comment 💯

[@busterbackster1]

Do you not have any friends as an adult?

[@itsruckaswife7036]

So true

[@cosmicthespider7974]

We just lived through one. *COVID 19*

[@micahfoley9572]

according to the replies to this thread so far, 1 in 5 people is subject to mass hysteria. edit: 2 in 7.

[@Friedrich2DerGrosse]

When Wendi doesn't have to constantly say he's "Joking/Trolling" in a video you know it's a "safe" one.

[@SaltpeterTaffy]

None of these happened in Minecraft.

[@Пегла42]

its all a joke and a prank and its all in minecraft

[@mattzr1550]

That was just the last one 🤨

[@Friedrich2DerGrosse]

@@mattzr1550 In some of the conspiracy episodes he had to say that for some conspiracies. Also in the JFK conspiracy one too.

[@daisyjoy242]

What did Minecraft

[@Zutarilvl59]

There's Paris shock syndrome, which is kind of like a mass hysteria lite. Japanese people who go to Paris are often so shocked between their expectations and reality and can become really depressed. From Wikipedia: The syndrome is characterized by a number of psychiatric symptoms such as acute delusional states, hallucinations, feelings of persecution (perceptions of being a victim of prejudice, aggression, hostility from others),[1] derealization, depersonalization, anxiety, as well as psychosomatic manifestations such as dizziness, tachycardia, sweating most notably, but also others, such as vomiting.[2]

[@xeres6232]

I don't even blame them, french here, Paris is a shitty dumpster that reeks of piss. You want to see France ? Stay away from Paris, those poor tourists I swear...

[@UzUMaK1-Lee]

Why Japanese people in particular? Just curious, but I would imagine a lot of people across all cultures would be shocked by how Paris actually is, so why specifically Japanese people?

[@Zutarilvl59]

@@UzUMaK1-Lee I think there is this big romanticization of Paris here in Japan. It’s always proclaimed to be this miraculous beautiful utopia where everyone and everything there is so beautiful and they build this image up through their lives that they one day want to go and see this beauty with their own eyes. I guess it’s the shock of having this image built up over a lifetime and finally making a trek over there to have the image brutally shattered. I’m no psychologist by any means but that’s my opinion based on living here for a decade.

[@SlimeyBaron]

​@@Zutarilvl59reminds me of how so many avatar fans experienced severe depression after seeing the movie because of how pretty the world is despite it all being fake.

[@You.are.correct.however]

@@elodee3baget

[@hdlth6514]

The mouldy bread thing for the dancing plague could actually be ergot accidentally baked into the bread which was known to cause St Vitus Dance and St Anthony’s fire from a condition called ergotism. Fun fact: LSD was first derived from ergot by dr Hoffman

[@sarkaztik3228]

Just wanted to point out that Haliflax should be Halifax when it comes to the Halifax Slasher incident. Haliflax is a completely different place. Keep up the great work and congratulations on your milestone! You've more than deserved it!

[@callumleask1053]

Huh, didn't realize Haliflax was a real place, figured it was a typo

[@dddddddddddddddadddddddddddddd]

Halifax is my town and finally seeing it mentioned somewhere but hearing him say it wrong so many times made me want to cry haha

[@callumbutler5870]

@@callumleask1053 I'm pretty sure it's not a place

[@TomNode]

Yup came here to say this 😄

[@rskl8083]

@@callumleask1053 yeah place in east coast of canada

[@Chris-xq9jt]

For the Congo football riot, I remember hearing about it in high school. It was the botembo derby. Though to call it mass hysteria means that there was and still is mass hysteria in African football. There are plenty of other incidents you can find of players doing witchcraft then fights happening. Its common enough some Associations have officially banned "muti" aka witchcraft. If you want to see how weird it gets heres one of the bigger incidents with a totem. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5mnqJ16d6tpoNk (sorry about the soundtrack, just googled it up for an example)

[@apen_7]

You won the cash bro

[@TheMcZioms]

@@apen_7 I thought he specifficly meant 2008 Congo incident video, i guess i was wrong Edit: After rewatching the video im 90% sure he specifficaly meant 2008 Congo incident.

[@ThrobbertJomes]

There are so many of these examples it's kinda funny. In 30 minutes I went from a sceptic to very on board with this shit. Not like I think it's actually magic, but that it's actually challenging to explain lmao

[@supermoneyball420]

It is insane to me that casting a spell is just a red card that seems a little light for witchcraft hahah, like heck if you’re down to extra time and they’re about to score might as well break out a spell that’s like a cheat code 😂

[@Chris-xq9jt]

@@apen_7 haha I wish I could find that incident. Hard to find specific footage from a league that small. Ill take any bitcoins or merch you want to throw my way though 37sVDJ1AJPBojXnHuo4J71BLwaCgQCKk9E

[@melodymoyer9193]

You're channel is beyond top tier. You always put to much research into yout stuff and go the extra mile to put your own unique spin on it. I swear you're becoming the golden standard for this genre of content

[@user-gn6wz9fe1c]

From what I understood the meowing nuns was it was dialect created by the covenant to get around rules regarding communication between members which was fairly common. a lot of abbeys and religious military orders developed sign language systems as communication in a lot of circumstances when direct communication was forbidden. It was then probably misunderstood by the local community and suspected of being some form of heresy commonly associated with proto radical reformation movements and recorded as such.

[@HeyItsNovalee]

I actually had a first hand experience of a mini case of mass hysteria when I was on a school trip to a Frida Kahlo exhibit at a local museum in middle school lol. We were like half way through the guided exhibit and looking at the Henry Ford Hospital and Caesarean Operation pieces from 1932 when one of my female classmates suddenly passed out. She really didn’t even hit the floor, she just leaned over and her friend caught her, and she was still partially awake, just super dizzy. But of course everyone else got scared and the tour stopped while all the teachers to us to sit and wait as they called paramedics for the girl. While we were waiting a few other girls in the class also started saying they were feeling dizzy and sick, and when the paramedics finally got there about 4 or 5 girls got taken away to be seen. I’m pretty sure the only girl that was actually taken to the hospital was the first girl, but we still didn’t see the others for the rest of the trip so they probably got taken home by their parents. One of my best friends at the time had also started saying she felt dizzy but wasn’t taken home, if I remember correctly. I actually think that by the end of the day everyone’s parents got called so we could all go home, and I remember the teachers asking the museum employees if there was something in the air that may have caused it. We even made it on to the local news, and the leading theory was that our class must have walked by a gas leak or something on the way to the museum. My mom is a pretty anxious person to begin with so the entire night she was worried about me, and of course because I was scared and also anxious I ended up feeling sick and started thinking I was also feeling dizzy. (The fact that my best friend had said she felt sick also didn’t help) We pretty much just watched tv once we got home but a few hours later I still hadn’t stopped feeling anxious so I told my mom I was feeling sick and she decided to take me to the hospital. We spent the entire night waiting to be seen and when they finally saw us they concluded that there was absolutely nothing wrong with me lmao. My mom kept asking them if they hadn’t heard the news about the museum and how we were on the tv and everything but no one at the hospital knew what were talking about lol. That’s pretty much all I remember. Now that I’m older I’m 99% sure the first girl only passed out either because the blood in the paintings scared her and she had that fainting reaction some people have to seeing blood, or like she had said she just hadn’t eaten enough that morning. Probably both tbh. And the rest of us just felt sick from paranoia 😂 still though to this day going to that museum makes me feel a little bit weird and I’ve never been a fan of Frida Kahlo’s paintings 😅😅

[@updownstranger564]

the fatima apparitions are such a fascinating story whether or not you believe it was actually supernatural. i think you do a great job of covering religious beliefs without being biased or disrespectful. would love to see you cover more miracles that don't have solid scientific explanations like this one.

[@imboofingit8684]

I think the Catholic church not releasing the letters puts some real weight to the story

[@hardcoreholly1161]

Juice dons it

[@easypeasy5219]

Why? To help with your confirmation bias?

[@bruhbruh-us6gl]

@@easypeasy5219 Idk, I personally will sooner believe 40k+ people that all say they saw the exact same thing at the exact same time before I trust a snarky atheist who wasn’t even there. Not that I have anything against snarky atheists, but for your information the snarky atheists that actually were there said it happened too.

[@TheCagamerda]

I am from Portugal and I remember being in 6th grade when this strawberries case happened. Some students from my school claimed they had symptoms but nobody took them seriously and started moking them because they didn’t knew that the soap opera was a work of fiction. After a while they stoped showing symptoms. I don’t know if they were faking it or they were really feeling sick, but at the time it seemed they were making it up and imitating each other to look cool

[@mafaldasilva7978]

fodasse :/

[@martithdurel3974]

An additional bit about the Hammersmith Ghost, the man was actually very guilt ridden that he had killed an innocent man according to reports I had read. In fact when he realized it was a man he had shot he turned himself in. Almost as though it dawned on him that he let a ghost story get the better of him. Leading theories I read had that there were several people taking advantage of the 'sightings' to commit their crimes. (Similar to how people used fae and such to get away with criminal activity decades before.)

[@melody3741]

I always thought the dihydrogen monoxide/ hydrogen hydroxide thing was funny but also really highlighted how big of a responsibility the scientific community and science entertainers and informers have when speaking to the public

[@orionbarnes1733]

As somebody who's very enthusiastic about chemistry, I absolutely agree, we've got this idea of "chemicals" meaning "bad chemicals", when in reality we may very well need that specific chemical to survive. Saying "there's Sodium Chloride in the food" sounds scary, but if I say "they put salt on your french fries" it shows how harmless it really is. It's so hard to get past that sort of thing for many people that I've even seen ads criticizing something for having "citric acid" in it. All citrus products contain citric acid, but we don't cower in fear of orange juice, or at least I hope we don't.

[@akusukanasi6456]

A FAN FROM MALAYSIA! Ketereh is quite near my place. If you ever live in Malaysia, there is a lot of case of mass hysteria which have very interesting stories as well. Also, I saw it once during university. Creepy af. Everybody start fainting and some are being possessed laughing manically.

[@shadymcnasty5920]

Sounds sus

[@moonyfoxy876]

Same thing with Indonesia, the whole school is possessed lmao

[@akusukanasi6456]

@@shadymcnasty5920 sus indeed. Idk if ghost caused it or theres scientific explanation for it. But yea happened in front of my eyes. Basically quite common here in malaysia since theres a bunch of different stories with similar cases from other ppl.

[@reubenagimudie]

25:00 “And in one case, a short bald monk was walking along the street at night when a mob saw him and nearly beat him to death thinking him to be the monke-man” Just gonna… just gonna let that sit for a sec

[@kojiyaw]

I remember in highschool, we had some kind of social event. However, the school had a blackout and everyone got freaked out because of the dark. After the lights went back on, many students suddenly had these "seizures" where many have thought they were getting possessed (like wtf). Teachers called the emergency hotline right after where apparently many students got hospitalized but they get to return home since there were no actual injuries. The day after, our whole school got assigned to be blessed in our local church since the school considered it as a solution for the "possessions". While having a mass in the church, however, apparently one student stood up and walked on the aisle in a weird manner as if she was in a trance. Other students started to notice and apparently, many students, most of which are girls got "possessed" where, again, they have these some sort of seizures. Idk but for me it must be an example of these mass hysteria. I mean, even the priest at the church don't actually believe they are possessed or something.

[@teddthebusdriver]

I found your channel through your disturbing movie iceberg and have been along for the ride since. I think I learn more from you than from history class. Can’t wait to be pleasantly surprised by what the future holds for your channel and this community

[@dinospumoni5611]

Sounds like a shitty history class lol Don't get me wrong, wendigoon has some genuinely educational stuff, like his Bible story analyses, or various stories of historical events, but a proper history class should teach you a lot more than that. This is (very good) entertainment

[@apollo1573]

@@dinospumoni5611 h y p e r b o l e is a thing

[@teddthebusdriver]

@fine kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipCTo4ako62hj7s Yes

[@agentadvocate]

I was in university during the 2007 Aqua Teen Hunger Force "bomb" scandal & it actually went so far it affected the distribution of the movie. I remember my friends & I being so pissed it wasn't coming to the one theatre in my Canadian city that was set to get it after the big hoopla. Over 10 years later I'm still salty about it.

[@XSlimSxadyX]

I was like two when it came out, so I don’t really remember it happening, but I would have been majorly pissed if I was older.

[@L3thalShad0ws7]

Meatwad make the money, see Meatwad get the honies, G'

[@shintsukiwithalaptop372]

The Mooninites are probably still rolling with laughter at the chaos they caused. This is the only victory they’ve had against the Aqua Teens because this whole thing eventually snowballed to the series being canceled years later. Those pixelated madlads

[@Usernamesdontmatter1]

One of my favorite spring heeled jack stories is the one where a soldier shot him and Jack responded with smacking him in the face until he fell over