35. The Cursed Bread of Pont-Saint-Esprit

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This week, the lads continue their Halloween-special month with another terrifying tale. Join us as we examine the Pont-Saint-Esprit mass psychosis in the small French commune from 1951. Following some unexplained poisoning of the bread in the town, its residents were descended into a week straight from Hell as they began attacking each other, raving about incomprehensible forces assaulting them, and killing themselves through paranoid and bizarre delusional acts. Was this event a rare but historically-precedented case of ergot poisoning, or were there far more sinister forces at play?

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