[World's Scariest Legends 05] • The Dancing Plague

In the sixteenth century hundreds of residents of Strasbourg in Alsace (now France) danced uncontrollable for days on end, many dropping dead from their exertions.

Nearly four hundred years later “the dancing plague” has returned, this time afflicting the residents of an idyllic Cape Cod town.

For twelve-year-old Paul Webber and his two friends, the inexplicable dancing mania is only the beginning of the horror to come.