- Mytune, IL 1944 (man dressed in black, paralizing victims)
- Strausberg, Germany 1518 (uncontrollable dancing)
- Vertsberg, Germany 1749 (nuns)
- Austria (nuns meowing)
- Tanganyika (now Tanzania), where an epidemic of contagious laughter broke out 1963
- Mexico (600 paralized girls) 2006
Research riots
- Stravinsky's Rite of Spring riot 1910
- wapedia references:
- Dancing mania (e.g. Dancing Plague of 1518)
- Dennō Senshi Porygon
- Fan death
- The Gorbals Vampire
- Halifax Slasher
- London Monster
- Mad Gasser of Mattoon
- Morangos com Açúca
- New Delhi monkeyman
- Penis panic
- Salem witch trials
- Satanic Ritual Abuse
- Spring Heeled Jack
- Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic
- The War of The Worlds, a radio broadcast that allegedly caused mass hysteria
- Villejuif leaflet, mass panic after false rumours of carcinogens in common foods
- Day care sex abuse hysteria
- Bandwagon effect
- Collective behavior
- Collective effervescence
- Conversion syndrome
- Crowd psychology
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by
- Charles Mackay
- Folie à deux
- Group behaviour
- Herd behavior
- Hysterical contagion
- Mean world syndrome
- Moral panic
- Witch-hunt
- Fears
*Google: mass hysteria, mob mentality, sociology, group think, collective memory, riots, mass suicides, brain washing....