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Real-Life MIRACLES That Made Skeptics Believe · The conspiracy

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Speaker 1: There are things that we attribute to the unexplainable. Things
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Speaker 1: that can't be possibly only explained by science and sometimes
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Speaker 1: just take a little bit of faith. Whether it be ghosts, spirits, aliens,
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Speaker 1: or other supernatural events, they're always shocking and sometimes really
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Speaker 1: can't be explained by logic. However, some of these things
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Speaker 1: aren't always bad. From miracles that inspire to divine punishments
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Speaker 1: that are meant to strike Fear and teach lessons. Today
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Speaker 1: we'll be talking about some of these unexplainable miracles from long,
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Speaker 1: long ago and some that still happen to this day. Crime, conspiracy,
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Speaker 1: serial killers, cults, and murder. All things that I love
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Speaker 1: to consume and I know you do too, you sick, beautiful,
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Speaker 1: intellectual miracle. Did I stare too long? Probably. Anyway, today
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Speaker 1: we're talking about miracles. And one of them being you.
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Speaker 1: I'm happy you're here. You're my little miracle. I can't speak.
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Speaker 1: I can't speak. I'm excited. I'm excited to talk about this.
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Speaker 1: So without further ado, let's unbuckle our seatbelts, go Mach
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Speaker 1: 5 down the highway, slam on the brakes, and bust
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Speaker 1: through this windshield into these beautiful miracles together. I feel
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Speaker 1: like this does fall under my deep dive type videos
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Speaker 1: because technically, I mean, these are conspiracies because most of
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Speaker 1: them just aren't really explainable. So I feel like it
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Speaker 1: falls under that. That is my argument. Anyway, let's get
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Speaker 1: into our first miracle. And that is the miracle of
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Speaker 1: the sun. This miracle specifically is known as the Miracle
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Speaker 1: of Fatima or the Miracle of the Sun. And according
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Speaker 1: to the story, three Catholic shepherd children in 1916 were
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Speaker 1: near a place called Fatima in Portugal where they reported
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Speaker 1: that they saw an angel. And their names were Lucia
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Speaker 1: dos Santos and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto. And
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Speaker 1: it wasn't until May of 1917 when they would see
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Speaker 1: or experience apparitions of the Virgin Mary from the Bible.
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Speaker 1: She was also known by the name of the Lady
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Speaker 1: of the Rosary, which is just another way to say
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Speaker 1: her name, mostly used by the Roman Catholic Church. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: the Lady of the Rosary would prophesize that by praying,
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Speaker 1: a great war would end. That great war being the
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Speaker 1: First World War. However, she also supposedly told these children
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Speaker 1: that on October 13th of that year, 1917, she would
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Speaker 1: reveal her true self to perform a miracle. And there
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Speaker 1: are newspapers that spread this claim, apparently, though I could
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Speaker 1: not find these postings that were prophesied before the event
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Speaker 1: took place. However, people apparently believed these children and began
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Speaker 1: to travel to this area to experience this event, that
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Speaker 1: would happen five months later on the date the children stated.
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Speaker 1: There were obviously people that were like, these kids are crazy.
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Speaker 1: There was people that didn't believe them. But at the time,
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Speaker 1: I mean, during the war, a lot of people were
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Speaker 1: just hoping for miracles. Religion was very prevalent, especially in
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Speaker 1: this time period and in this area. So, I mean,
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't put it past people to believe in something
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Speaker 1: at this point. But the exact secrets Mary revealed supposedly
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Speaker 1: were these three things. One, a vision of hell. Two,
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Speaker 1: a prediction of the end of World War I and
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Speaker 1: the beginning of the worst war to follow. World War II.
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Speaker 1: And three, a vision of the Pope along other spiritual
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Speaker 1: leaders being killed by soldiers. And according to this article,
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Speaker 1: July 13th, 1917, it was said, and the quote is
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Speaker 1: as follows. In October, I will tell you who I
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Speaker 1: am and what I want, and I will perform a
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Speaker 1: miracle for all to see and believe. And it spread
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Speaker 1: throughout the lands, and many believed it was going to happen.
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Speaker 1: And supposedly around 70,000 people were there waiting through terrible
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Speaker 1: weather to see what would transpire on this day. So
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Speaker 1: on the day of this actual event that the three
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Speaker 1: children stated, this Virgin Mary is going to come back
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Speaker 1: on this day, the Lady of the Rosary, this huge
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Speaker 1: crowd got around and a storm broke out. was happening
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Speaker 1: and it was raining and pouring, the weather was terrible,
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Speaker 1: but it would eventually disappear on this day. And the
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Speaker 1: sky would be opened, showing the sun as an opaque
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Speaker 1: spinning disk in the sky. And the crowd supposedly was
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Speaker 1: able to stare directly at the sun at this time,
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Speaker 1: describing it as the silver sun and saying that it
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Speaker 1: was seen to whirl and turn in the circle of
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Speaker 1: the broken clouds. And the sun then supposedly began to dance,
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Speaker 1: zigzagging across the sky while others stated that it displayed
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Speaker 1: rainbow-like radiant colors. It was like ping pong and back
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Speaker 1: and forth in the sky, like a freaking EDM light show.
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Speaker 1: Ping pong tournament? That's a terrible analogy. But all these
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Speaker 1: people were saying they were seeing the same thing, and
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Speaker 1: that was that the sun was literally dancing in the sky.
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Speaker 1: And other witnesses even described that once drenched and wet
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Speaker 1: clothes suddenly out of nowhere became dry, along with the
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Speaker 1: muddy ground that was absolutely drenched and flooding completely became
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Speaker 1: dry as well, once the sun came up. and started
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Speaker 1: dancing in the sky and shit. Father Joaquin Lorenzo said,
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Speaker 1: That's Sounds terrifying, man. I'd be running for the hills.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be hiding amongst people. But those who mocked
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Speaker 1: everyone who traveled to the location were mocked by the
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Speaker 1: others who also showed up, where their minds were changed
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Speaker 1: and were suddenly paralyzed with fear. People were trembling and
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Speaker 1: just falling to their knees, not understanding what was happening,
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Speaker 1: but assuming that it was some sort of miracle that
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Speaker 1: was happening in the sky. But tons of people had
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Speaker 1: different reactions, some believing that it was a sign or
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Speaker 1: some sort of miracle, and other people were paralyzed with fear.
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Speaker 1: Some calling out stating that, we shall all be killed.
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Speaker 1: It's way to kill the mood, man, what the hell?
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Speaker 1: And others praying for Mother Mary to save them confessing
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Speaker 1: their sins. And one story from a Protestant had her
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Speaker 1: own testimony. She was supposedly living in Portugal for the
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Speaker 1: last seven years, And she was in doubt, assuming nothing
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Speaker 1: was going to happen on that day. However, she describes
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Speaker 1: hearing a great cry from a crowd of people and
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Speaker 1: even noticing the sudden disappearance in rain to be very odd.
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Speaker 1: She said, quote unquote, I saw the rain cease suddenly,
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Speaker 1: not as rain usually ends. Then the clouds were pushed
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Speaker 1: back from the sun in every direction, as if by
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Speaker 1: invisible hands, and the sun appeared in color like the
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Speaker 1: blade of a knife, luminous but not dazzling, Then as
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Speaker 1: I looked, the sun described a swift circle, paused, described another, paused,
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Speaker 1: described yet a third, and then the clouds began to
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Speaker 1: sweep over it again. Why don't people talk like this anymore?
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Speaker 1: That was magical. That was great. I liked that a lot. Also, terrifying.
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Speaker 1: I feel like this is like us nowadays, just looking
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Speaker 1: at all those UFO drones that are going around. We're like,
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Speaker 1: what the? But we're not describing it like that. We're
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Speaker 1: just like, what the in the sky? What is that?
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Speaker 1: And the three original children who had claimed to have
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Speaker 1: heard about the miracle before it all happened stated to
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Speaker 1: have seen visions of the event itself, including those of Jesus,
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Speaker 1: Our Lady of Sorrows, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, which
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Speaker 1: are just different depictions and descriptions of Mother Mary and St. Joseph,
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Speaker 1: the husband of Mary and the legal father of Jesus.
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Speaker 1: And they were there blessing the crowd, which was told
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Speaker 1: to the group almost a year before it happened, according
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Speaker 1: to her own memoirs. And many people accused Lucia of lying. However,
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Speaker 1: it's nearly impossible to gather the full events and accusations
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Speaker 1: set at the time, just because it was so long ago. However,
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Speaker 1: many people tried to rectify her claims and get Lucia
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Speaker 1: to claim she was lying, especially a lady named Maria Rosa, who,
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Speaker 1: on principle alone, truly believed she was a liar. However,
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Speaker 1: after the events that transpired that day, many minds were changed.
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Speaker 1: And newspaper articles would document the strange phenomenon, calling attention
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Speaker 1: to the strange miracle that had happened. Tons and tons
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Speaker 1: of people had their own views on what happened, describing
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Speaker 1: the events in slightly different ways, but nearly all lining
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Speaker 1: up with other accounts. But the story wasn't fully recognized
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Speaker 1: by the Catholic Church until 1930, describing it as a
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Speaker 1: supernatural event that was direct evidence of a miracle. And
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Speaker 1: the Pope at the time approved of these apparitions in 1940,
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Speaker 1: declaring that the event truly happened as he experienced something
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Speaker 1: much later on, October 30th, 1950, with handwritten notes describing
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Speaker 1: himself as awestruck. And the location had been remembered with
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Speaker 1: a shrine dedicated to the event in the town it
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Speaker 1: happened in, Fatima, Portugal. And for years to come, it's
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Speaker 1: remembered and thousands gathered to this place. And from May
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Speaker 1: 11th to May 13th of 2017, many went to this
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Speaker 1: place to remember the events that had happened a hundred
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Speaker 1: years ago. And this really marks the significance and belief
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Speaker 1: that on the day, a miracle that was unexplained shocked
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Speaker 1: the town folk and those who traveled there. But scientists
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Speaker 1: naturally would begin to question what could have actually happened
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Speaker 1: if not a miracle. Trying to understand the multiple different
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Speaker 1: claims of the sun's behavior. The dancing sun around the
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Speaker 1: sky surely would have been reported by the rest of
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Speaker 1: the world, right? Because we all see the sun at
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Speaker 1: the same time, which is kind of a miracle in
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Speaker 1: and of itself. Look out your window right now, look
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Speaker 1: at the sun. I'm looking at it with you right now.
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Speaker 1: but I'm in the past, which is also kinda cool.
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Speaker 1: Getting off track. But the fact that we can all
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Speaker 1: see the sun at the same time would just point
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Speaker 1: to either the clouds disturbing the view of the sun
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Speaker 1: and confusing a lot of onlookers, and or the colors
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Speaker 1: could be described as a phenomenon known as perihelion, where
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Speaker 1: rainbow colors are displayed in the sky due to the
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Speaker 1: sun's rays. And the movements, though, like where the sun
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Speaker 1: is dancing in the sky, could only be described as
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Speaker 1: retinal after-images. Happens when you stare at a bright light
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Speaker 1: source for too long and the image is almost burned
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Speaker 1: into your eyes for a certain amount of time. We've
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Speaker 1: all looked at the sun when we're not supposed to.
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Speaker 1: That shit, you can see that shit everywhere you look
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Speaker 1: for a while after you do that. But what isn't
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Speaker 1: described is the sudden weather change and the clothes and
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Speaker 1: the mud suddenly becoming dry as well. unless multitude of
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Speaker 1: people and eyewitnesses were starstruck and locked in a lie.
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Speaker 1: It can't really be explained otherwise, though. So what did
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Speaker 1: this event actually solve? Well, a miracle doesn't always have
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Speaker 1: a purpose, necessarily. Sometimes it just inspires hope and reaffirmation.
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Speaker 1: Whether it happened or not, people continue to argue it
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Speaker 1: to this day. However, it's still fascinating at the very least,
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Speaker 1: I think, personally. I mean, I think it's very interesting Like,
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Speaker 1: for little, three little children to gather people on a
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Speaker 1: specific day to witness something like this is pretty strange.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty strange. I want to believe in miracles. I
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Speaker 1: want to be whimsical and fantastical and believe that miracles
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Speaker 1: can happen, you know? Who's to say? Who's to say?
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Speaker 1: What do you say? Let me know down in the
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Speaker 1: comments below what you think about that event. If you
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Speaker 1: have any explanations or if you know anybody that maybe
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Speaker 1: saw it or if you know more about it. Let
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Speaker 1: me know down below. But let's get into our next miracle,
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Speaker 1: or should I say divine punishment. And that is the
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Speaker 1: dancing plague of 1518. That's right, it's as weird as
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Speaker 1: it sounds. In July 1518, residents in the city of Strausburg,
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Speaker 1: which was part of a Roman empire, were all suddenly
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Speaker 1: struck with the feeling of dancing, which like, Sounds great,
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Speaker 1: but it's not. It was sudden and uncontrollable, and they
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Speaker 1: all began to boogie down and break down until they died. basically,
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Speaker 1: but we'll get into it. This was started by a
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Speaker 1: single woman by the name of Frau Trophia, who wandered
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Speaker 1: into the street and began to dance uncontrollably, seemingly out
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Speaker 1: of nowhere. And according to witnesses, she was estimated to
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Speaker 1: have been continually dancing for a week, eventually collapsing in
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Speaker 1: the street from exhaustion, which I don't know how that's
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Speaker 1: possible to continually dance for a whole week straight. I'm
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Speaker 1: assuming she had to have slept at some point, otherwise
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Speaker 1: she literally would have died. And if she didn't drink water,
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Speaker 1: she would have died. So I don't know if she
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Speaker 1: was like, you know, like a marathon where people were
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Speaker 1: handing her drinks while she was dancing or something or
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Speaker 1: like sleep dancing too. I don't know. But either way,
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Speaker 1: she was dancing continuously for a week. Let's just leave
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Speaker 1: it at that. But she would eventually collapse in the
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Speaker 1: street from exhaustion after dancing for a week straight. I mean,
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Speaker 1: who wouldn't? But after a bit of rest, assuming that
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Speaker 1: it was just a strange habit, she immediately began to
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Speaker 1: dance again again. in the compulsive activity. And this went
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Speaker 1: on for days and others eventually joined her as well
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Speaker 1: in her... flash mob? Dance-a-thon, whatever you wanna call it.
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Speaker 1: And people were dancing like no tomorrow, okay? This was
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Speaker 1: like a rave up in here. Numbers were growing from
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Speaker 1: a measly 30 people to supposedly 400 by August, which
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Speaker 1: was a month after the first lady started dancing. And
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Speaker 1: witnesses stated they began to collapse from either strokes, heart attacks,
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Speaker 1: or just from pure exhaustion. And they were drenched in sweat,
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Speaker 1: thrashing violently in the streets with swollen feet that continued
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Speaker 1: to bleed, and onlookers described their eyes as almost vacant
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Speaker 1: and empty. This just sounds like walking down the street
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Speaker 1: of any Vancouver street, basically, on a Saturday night. Honestly.
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Speaker 1: But they all seemed seemingly under a spell, and at
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Speaker 1: the height of the dancing plague, around 15 people were
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Speaker 1: dying per day from it. However, the exact amount of
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Speaker 1: people that died isn't actually totally clear. But they were
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Speaker 1: so desperate that professional dancers and musicians were hired to
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Speaker 1: play music and dance with the crowd, and a new
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Speaker 1: stage was built to house them, and the guild halls
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Speaker 1: were refurbished to hold the dancing. Like, this... this place
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Speaker 1: was like lit, but like, it was horrible. Like people couldn't,
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Speaker 1: couldn't stop dancing. Like it was, it was, it was
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Speaker 1: very strange. I mean, it was me after I basically
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Speaker 1: just look at a bottle of tequila, I'll start dancing,
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Speaker 1: but still these people, it seemingly came out of nowhere
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Speaker 1: and there was no answers at this point. But after
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Speaker 1: a certain amount of time, all of this, you know,
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Speaker 1: music and other dancers coming in, it was banned later
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Speaker 1: on with religious leaders and and believers assuming this was
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Speaker 1: a punishment from Saint Vitus. So they began to dance
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Speaker 1: until their feet bled as well, despite not being plagued.
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Speaker 1: And Saint Vitus, also known as a guy who was
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Speaker 1: a Christian martyr from Sicily, who is known as the
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Speaker 1: patron saint of dancers. And his name was used to
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Speaker 1: name a neurological disorder, which was Sydenheim's chorea. I'm probably
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Speaker 1: saying that wrong. also known as Saint Vitus Dance. And
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Speaker 1: this is described as a neurological disease of uncontrollable jerking
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Speaker 1: affecting the hands face and feet. And this would just
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Speaker 1: make matters worse, because now everyone was dancing. And this
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Speaker 1: was immediately shut down, and dancers and musicians were now
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Speaker 1: banned in the area to try and help slow this
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Speaker 1: strange plague. And assuming they were being punished by this St. Vitus,
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Speaker 1: they were given small crosses and red shoes, sprinkling holy
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Speaker 1: water on them to try to stop their dancing. Because
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Speaker 1: at the time, of course, they didn't know that a
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Speaker 1: disease was prevalent in making them do this. They just
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Speaker 1: thought it was a punishment, a divine punishment of sorts.
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Speaker 1: So was it better to allow them to dance the
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Speaker 1: plague away or be sent away so that no more
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Speaker 1: people could catch this? No one knew. and the death
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Speaker 1: toll would just keep climbing. But they tried everything to
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Speaker 1: figure out how to stop this phenomenon. However, all else failed.
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Speaker 1: By September, the plague began to subside. However, it was
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Speaker 1: only due to the remaining dancers being banished to a
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Speaker 1: mountaintop shrine to pray for absolution, forgiving them of any
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Speaker 1: sins they committed that could be the reason for their
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Speaker 1: divine punishment. So why the frick did this happen? How
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Speaker 1: could a whole town suddenly be plagued by something that
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Speaker 1: makes you dance? besides your tequila, you know? This isn't
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Speaker 1: the only documented case of hysteria like this, though. Dancing
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Speaker 1: mania had been happening in the 14th to the 17th
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Speaker 1: century and was seemingly unexplainable. From Aachen, now Germany, to
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Speaker 1: other parts of Europe, all explaining and documenting all the
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Speaker 1: same characteristics. And all are documenting hundreds, if not thousands,
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Speaker 1: all suddenly beginning to dance completely spontaneously or out of
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Speaker 1: their own control. Well, there are a lot of different
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Speaker 1: guesses and explanations for this, beginning with the food poisoning. theory.
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Speaker 1: Some believe that the food supply could have molded and
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Speaker 1: created a fungal chemical product, ergo fungi, which develops in
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Speaker 1: a grain or rye. So what is the actual simple definition? Well,
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Speaker 1: this also contains a molecule linked to a drug you
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Speaker 1: may be familiar with, or not. I don't know your life, dude.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what you do on your off time, okay?
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Speaker 1: But I'm talking about LSD. And the actual breakdown is
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Speaker 1: slightly tricky, but it's pretty much a precursor to developing LSD.
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Speaker 1: And this really doesn't explain why people would dance for days, necessarily.
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Speaker 1: But it's funny to imagine, funny in regard to dancing,
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Speaker 1: that is, not death, obviously, that a bunch of people
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Speaker 1: were just on LSD and didn't know it. But that's
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Speaker 1: one theory. But the most plausible one seems to be
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Speaker 1: that everything points to it as stress-induced hysteria. Just imagine
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Speaker 1: going through the most stressful time of your life, aka
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Speaker 1: constant plague and loss of your family members and starvation.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't a great time to be alive at this
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Speaker 1: point of time in history, because medicine and access to
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Speaker 1: clean drinking water was nearly impossible, and there were many
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Speaker 1: struggling to just make it to the next day. They, like,
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Speaker 1: we got it made today. comparatively. And this would then
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Speaker 1: explain people completely losing their minds and dancing due to
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Speaker 1: a full mental breakdown, basically, with many onlookers seeing dancing
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Speaker 1: as a way to find joy. So mental break, dance
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Speaker 1: the pain away, be completely unconscious, and dance until you
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Speaker 1: feel better, which was probably until you just dropped dead.
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Speaker 1: So they were all just having a good time until
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Speaker 1: they just weren't alive anymore, basically. And that scientific explanation
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Speaker 1: isn't really fulfilling necessarily, as it raises more questions than answers.
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Speaker 1: But other moments of these hysterias have been marked as
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Speaker 1: people just acting like wild beasts, parading around naked, performing intercourse,
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Speaker 1: or hopping and leaping about. And this was also believed
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Speaker 1: that they could have been possessed by demons, due to
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Speaker 1: the divine punishment that everyone thought it was. Which is
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Speaker 1: why many just let them dance to death or dance
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Speaker 1: themselves out of fear that they would upset the saint
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Speaker 1: or god despite not being plagued with the desire to
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Speaker 1: boogie at all. There are rumors, however, that the person
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Speaker 1: who was one of the people to document this was
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Speaker 1: a physician by the name of Paracelsus, who coined the
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Speaker 1: term dancing mania. And according to his account, the story
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Speaker 1: I just told you was the same. So could he
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Speaker 1: have fabricated this story? Doesn't seem entirely likely as it
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Speaker 1: was happening all over Europe before and after the event
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Speaker 1: in Strasbourg. Although dancing mania is kind of, I mean,
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Speaker 1: funny in a sense, why would a multitude of people
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Speaker 1: fabricate stories throughout the centuries to continue a lie. I'm
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Speaker 1: not really sure. But it's definitely a strange and interesting
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Speaker 1: phenomenon that seems to be divine punishment during those dark,
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Speaker 1: dark times. But let me know what you think down
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Speaker 1: below while we move into our last and final and
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Speaker 1: much more recent miracle, which is the miracle of Callie Hardig.
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Speaker 1: And this one is terrifying and keeps me up at night,
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Speaker 1: but it's also, it ends well. This one actually ends well, okay?
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Speaker 1: So stick with me. But anyway, in July of 2013,
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Speaker 1: a 12-year-old by the name of Callie Harding experienced something
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Speaker 1: truly horrible. Like many children her age, she had spent
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Speaker 1: a carefree day at a local water park in Little Rock, Arkansas,
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Speaker 1: named Willow Springs. But hidden within the warm, freshwater environment
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Speaker 1: was a microscopic threat. Naegleria fowleri, commonly referred to as
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Speaker 1: a brain-eating amoeba. And within days, Callie became one of
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Speaker 1: the youngest victims of primary amoebic meningonus, I can't say that. Meningoencephalitis. Meningoencephalitis.
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Speaker 1: otherwise known as PAM, a rare but nearly always fatal
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Speaker 1: condition caused by the amoeba. And this disease progression was
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Speaker 1: terrifyingly swift. After entering her body through her nasal passages
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Speaker 1: after enjoying her day at the water park, the amoeba
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Speaker 1: would travel to her brain, where it began to just
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Speaker 1: destroy and eat away the tissue. And she first complained
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Speaker 1: to her mom, Tracy, about experiencing a headache. And she
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Speaker 1: stated that she accidentally fell into the water earlier, which
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Speaker 1: caused a rush of water to enter into her nose.
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Speaker 1: And I mean, this literally could have happened to anyone.
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Speaker 1: I know, I've been in the lake and I've gotten
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Speaker 1: all sorts of water, like, plunged up my f *
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Speaker 1: * * ing holes. You know what I mean? And
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Speaker 1: now this is a new fear unlocked. It's absolutely terrifying.
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Speaker 1: But that's all she had at first, was just a headache.
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Speaker 1: And she remembered that water just went up her nose.
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Speaker 1: And the next morning, she would still have that headache,
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Speaker 1: and it would just continually get worse and worse. And
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Speaker 1: her mother then checked her temperature, and it supposedly read 104.3, 104.3,
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Speaker 1: which is terrible. And her mom quickly gave her Motrin,
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Speaker 1: aka ibuprofen, to help her fight against a possible infection
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Speaker 1: that could have developed over time. you know, the couple
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Speaker 1: days that she had this headache. But then, she would
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Speaker 1: begin projectile vomiting onto the floor. And Callie would state
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Speaker 1: that if her mother had not raised her head for her,
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Speaker 1: she would not have been able to lift it herself,
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Speaker 1: and her eyes would just roll into the back of
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Speaker 1: her head. And so she would immediately be rushed to
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Speaker 1: the ER, where doctors stated that she had just had
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Speaker 1: the flu. The symptoms of sore muscles, nausea, sensitivity to light,
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Speaker 1: the high fever, and vomiting were just all symptoms of
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Speaker 1: the flu. So they would just start her on a
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Speaker 1: regular IV. But after that wasn't working, they supposed that
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Speaker 1: it might be worse than the flu and decided to
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Speaker 1: do some more tests, thank God. And eventually, to determine
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Speaker 1: if she had meningitis, they did a spinal tap, which
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Speaker 1: I've had one of those before. Those are terrible. You
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Speaker 1: got a needle this big going into your spinal cord
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Speaker 1: to get fluid out. It's horrible. Worst nightmare. Anyway, actually,
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Speaker 1: you know what? No. A brain-eating amoeba would be my
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Speaker 1: worst nightmare. However, the results of the spinal tap would
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Speaker 1: go to the lab, and they would find out exactly
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Speaker 1: what was wrong with her. Something... absolutely awful. Callie had
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Speaker 1: contracted PAM, as we know. And historically, over 97% of
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Speaker 1: patients diagnosed with this infection did not survive. Out of
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Speaker 1: more than 150 documented cases in the United States, only
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Speaker 1: two people had survived before Callie. And her parents were
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Speaker 1: absolutely devastated and didn't inform Callie of the diagnosis, especially
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Speaker 1: since she might have not even made it through the
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Speaker 1: weekend at that point. But later they would break the
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Speaker 1: news of the disease to her, explaining to her she
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Speaker 1: had less than a 1% survival rate to beat this disease.
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Speaker 1: The solution to her disease was to induce her into
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Speaker 1: a coma medically so her body could fight the infection
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Speaker 1: more easily. And this coma would lower her temperature to
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Speaker 1: slow her body, reducing the ability for the amoeba to spread.
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Speaker 1: And she also received an experimental drug known as Miltifosine,
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Speaker 1: which wasn't meant to treat this exact type of infection,
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Speaker 1: but had a promise in treating other parasitic infections. So
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Speaker 1: they thought, you know, why not? Especially with the only
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Speaker 1: 1% survival rate. And a child named Zachary Reyna died
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Speaker 1: a month before of this exact parasite, even taking this
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Speaker 1: experimental drug, Miltisophine, but to no avail. So it was
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Speaker 1: kind of a last-ditch effort. They were like, it's probably
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Speaker 1: not going to work, but we might as well give
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Speaker 1: it to her anyway. However, by September, she was speaking
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Speaker 1: again and her family described it as a miracle of
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Speaker 1: beating the odds and coming out on top. She had
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Speaker 1: to go through rigorous different rehabilitation techniques. She was so
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Speaker 1: terrified of the water due to the association of getting
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Speaker 1: a parasite due to water that she had a very
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Speaker 1: tough time even going into the shower at that point,
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Speaker 1: which is completely understandable. Eventually, she would work her way
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Speaker 1: up to even submerging herself into a pool to face
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Speaker 1: her fears of water. And she would eventually make a
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Speaker 1: full recovery after all of that rehabilitation and just strength,
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Speaker 1: and she would return to school, walking about with only
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Speaker 1: scar tissue on her left eye. And thanks to the recovering,
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Speaker 1: she's been able to live a full, fruitful life. And
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Speaker 1: at 23 years old, as of 2023, she states she
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Speaker 1: only has blurring vision sometimes. But that's the only long-lasting
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Speaker 1: effect she got from the amoeba. And what's insane and
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Speaker 1: what truly makes it a miracle are the odds of
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Speaker 1: her survival. The treatments that she received weren't so different
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Speaker 1: from others who tragically perished. However, she is one of
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Speaker 1: four or five people to survive this horrible and terrifying
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Speaker 1: parasite over about 157 cases. But she beat the odds
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Speaker 1: and recovered and actually became a mother. and she has
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Speaker 1: a picture with her daughter, Adeline, and it is so cute.
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Speaker 1: But the miracle is that she could get through this
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Speaker 1: horrible brain-eating amoeba and survive, let alone have a family
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Speaker 1: of her own after the fact. And out of all
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Speaker 1: the horrors and unexplained miracles and divine punishments, hers definitely
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Speaker 1: takes the cake as one of the rarest and scariest
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Speaker 1: miracles to overcome, which is a brain-eating amoeba, aka my
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Speaker 1: worst fear. But I am so happy that she was
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Speaker 1: able to get through that. She has a beautiful family now,
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Speaker 1: and I very much appreciate you watching this video or
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Speaker 1: listening on Spotify as well. That is all I have
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Speaker 1: for miracles today. It was a little bit more positive
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Speaker 1: than other deep dives, but if you have any other
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Speaker 1: deep dives that you want me to do, let me
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Speaker 1: know down in the comments below. Nothing is off the table.
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Speaker 1: Maybe some stuff. I don't know what it is yet,
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Speaker 1: but I'll read it. If it is, I won't do it.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, let me know down in the comments below
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Speaker 1: what else you want me to deep dive on, but
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Speaker 1: until then, I will see your beautiful face in the
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Speaker 1: next video. All right, bye.