stackyFACTSIn 1962, a mysterious psychogenic illness spread rapidly through a boarding school in modern-day Tanzania, causing students to erupt in uncontrollable laughter and crying.
In 1962, a mysterious psychogenic illness spread rapidly through a boarding school in modern-day Tanzania, causing students to erupt in uncontrollable laughter and crying. The phenomenon, driven by extreme psychological stress and mass hysteria, forced multiple schools to temporarily close as it affected over a thousand young people. It remains one of the most remarkable documented cases of mass psychogenic illness in modern medical history.
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