{"podcast":{"title":"Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat","slug":"hidden-history-with-dr-harini-bhat-7830065","podcast_index_feed_id":7830065,"rss_url":"https://rss.amperwave.net/v2/feed/audacynetwork/9aee7d7eb8876a2f6880dceccf4955f6","website_url":"https://www.pavestudios.com/rewind","image_url":"https://images.castfire.com/image/661/0/0/0/0-8468079.jpg","author":"Rewind Studios","episode_count":6,"summary":"Some questions don't have answers. Yet.Dr. Harini Bhat is a clinical pharmacist and science storyteller obsessed with questions that don't have answers. Every week she unravels real events from history that still can't be fully explained. Mass hysterias. Medical oddities. Vanished civilizations. Strange signals. Unexplained phenomena that keep repeating, centuries apart, as if history is trying to tell us something.Hidden History doesn't dismiss ancient events as myth or superstition. It treats them as incomplete case files, shaped by the limits of knowledge, technology, and record-keeping. Because the unknown isn't a failure of explanation. It's a constant in human experience, one that evolves, repeats, and sometimes deepens the more we learn.Hidden History is a Rewind Original, powered by PAVE Studios. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or watch on YouTube ⁠@hiddenhistorypod⁠. For more, follow ⁠@RewindStudios⁠ on Instagram.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-08T16:18:33.060154+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-history-with-dr-harini-bhat-7830065"},"episode":{"title":"The Dancing Plague of 1518: A Deadly Epidemic That Made People Dance to Death","slug":"the-dancing-plague-of-1518-a-deadly-epidemic-that-made-people-dance-to-death","published_at":"2026-05-11T07:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-history-with-dr-harini-bhat-7830065/the-dancing-plague-of-1518-a-deadly-epidemic-that-made-people-dance-to-death","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-history-with-dr-harini-bhat-7830065","url":"https://serve.castfire.com/audio/8388272/8388272_2026-05-18-145312.256.mp3?rssID=6495","audio_url":"https://serve.castfire.com/audio/8388272/8388272_2026-05-18-145312.256.mp3?rssID=6495","summary":"What would make hundreds of people dance uncontrollably for weeks, until they collapsed? In 1518, the city of Strasbourg was overtaken by one of the strangest epidemics in recorded history. It wasn’t the plague. It wasn’t war. It was dancing. Doctors prescribed more dancing. Priests blamed a curse. Musicians were hired to keep the frenzy going. And bodies began to fall. Could something like this happen again? Head over to our Hidden History YouTube channel to WATCH this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@HiddenHistoryPod If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow Hidden History to never miss an episode! Hidden History is a Rewind Original Podcast, powered by PAVE Studios Follow us on Social Instagram: @RewindStudios TikTok: @RewindStudios YouTube: @HiddenHistoryPod","meta_description":"What would make hundreds of people dance uncontrollably for weeks, until they collapsed? In 1518, the city of Strasbourg was overtaken by one of the stran…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2209,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/hidden-history-with-dr-harini-bhat-7830065/episodes/the-dancing-plague-of-1518-a-deadly-epidemic-that-made-people-dance-to-death/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-history-with-dr-harini-bhat-7830065/the-dancing-plague-of-1518-a-deadly-epidemic-that-made-people-dance-to-death.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}