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The Dancing Plague of Strasbourg: What the Record Actually Says
Hundreds danced in a Strasbourg market until the raging subsided of itself. Nearly everything else in the famous story - the woman who started it, the guild halls, the hired musicians - comes from somewhere other than the chronicle.
Meat Fell From a Clear Kentucky Sky in 1876
Samples went from a Bath County farmyard to Louisville, Lexington, Philadelphia, Brooklyn and New York. The microscopes came back with three different answers. By June one journal said what it was had stopped being an open question — and that where it came from had not.