@jaymeeunveiled: In 1561, the citizens of Nuremberg looked toward the sky and reported something they struggled to explain: blood-red and black spheres, strange rings and discs near the Sun, and bizarre objects seemingly battling above the city. Was it a rare atmospheric phenomenon, a religious interpretation, something else entirely… or simply something we still don’t understand? Whatever they saw, their account has remained one of history’s strangest sky mysteries. 👁️ #Nuremberg #1561 #Mystery #Unexplained #DarkHistory

Q :

One dude saw a sun dog, pointed it out, and then a bunch of people stared at the sun for way too long and claimed they saw things. No other city or town saw what they saw and there’s no real account for it happening besides one article

Ben :

what's even creepier is the "Dancing Plague" of 1518 in Strasbourg, modern day France. Scientists still can't explain it. The most commonly believed theory is that it was a case of mass hysteria. But how would mass hysteria explain literally committing to dancing, non-stop, until literally getting heart attacks and passing out, dancing to death. In my opinion, there was something unnatural that took place. Like what even is "mass hysteria"? Sure, there's a mechanism for social diseases for beliefs and behaviors to spread between people, similar to cultural transmission, except the ideas or behaviors are self-harming or suicidal. But that doesn't explain why the first person to invent it would ever do it, or why a bunch of other people would pick it up and do it too. If it was a social disease spread by high charisma and conviction of one insane mentally ill person, the other people that got influenced and started dancing too, must've been influenced by something else unnaturally, and continually influenced and controlled, to keep dancing past the point of exhaustion, past the limitations of their own hearts and bodies. Like they believed they were stopping an impending doom, or maybe they believed they were summoning Satan or some crazy shit. We don't understand the context or anything that can explain it. Scientists try to point to how dancing is often used for spiritual worship, and that it releases dopamine and creates a cycle of rewards that feed onto themselves to keep you going. Similar to how some ancient tribes would dance around a fire for many hours throughout an entire night, as a dedication to the gods, like the Mayan fire dance. But, what if, there was an actual alien presence they called God or Demons or Satan, and it was what hijacked their bodies and minds, to make them do this thing? Or maybe everyone accidentally consumed an extremely high dosage of psychedelic substances such as psilocybin mushrooms, that all the soup people ate that week had the mushrooms in it? And that's how it triggered the dancing. Maybe they felt synchronized to the frequency of the universe, and it was the physical expression of that mental state. Crazy stuff

￴ ￴￴ :

im super religious, but its entirely possible its a result of some kind of small natural gas leak causing hallucinations?

Chads home theater :

Idk anything about this, but what if there was a solar eclipse, they all looked at the sun for too long and it affected their eyesight. Idk if it explains the blood red (I haven’t looked at the sun long enough to see blood) but as a kid I definitely looked at the sun long enough to see black spheres moving everywhere

Mochi :

I remember someone mentioning that this could have possibly been an attempted alien invasion from hostile aliens with the good aliens winning.

RunicSofa :

What if it was a rip in time and they were seeing the firebombing in 1944😳

Shush :

Brian Does Stuff :

future glimpse oh ww2

Thomas ✭ :

i saw something the other day saying old chinese fireworks

gabrielfrutos565 :

Had a dream like this they would fight each other then the sun split into two smaller suns one dark red and purple the red one look like low fire and the purple one looked like plasma they would spin together fast then merge then the dream would reset to the same battle. it was really vivid after the first reset I focused hard then I woke up

Bert :

More than likely a bread fungus that causes hallucinations

Nollen Dreamcrusher :

These are super cool. My only problem is the original story was written in a “broad sheet” which at the time was like tabloids for them. So it creates doubt from the beginning, maybe they did see an invasion maybe someone was just having a creative writing laugh, wish we knew.

c________c0_____ :

Big solar flare / sunspots..

Captain Dirge :

weird eye stuff from staring at the fucking sun probably.

Printed By Bori :

supernova gamma ray from the infinite abyss burning their cones

Lalalalindsay :

Sounds like if you look at the sun too long. ?

Miguel :

this is the one thing I wish we could see wtf they actually saw

StupidUgly :

who knows, they couldn't even draw babies and cats fight so it could be anything

Trapp :

after I found out about the only people who reported this were essentially the midevil version of "The National Inquirer" it made a lot more sense. This was legitimately from a tabloid from back in the day that UFO people have now taken as real historical account. In 500 years, they are going to think we legitimately found Dracula, and he got Madonna pregnant!!!

AKNOTHERE :

We must have a eye witness that told us this 😹

lori :

Looks like a UFO fight 🛸 💥 🛸

Box_1 :

idk

ᵇᶦˡˡʸⁿᶦˡˡʸ :

My theory is they experienced a short flash of physiological after image. You know when you look at intense light, such as the sun, you see shapes or patterns. The story went.. a guy saw something near the sun. Obviously that sparked curiosity for everyone else in the town. Everyone looks at or around the sun (intense amount of light) there eyes get blurry, they begin seeing fragments or shapes 🤔 I also saw a comment that said no other town experienced this event. Just the small amount of people who were around the man who sparked the curiosity. It kinda makes sense, or maybe I'm onto nothing.

Jacks Ford :

we share the same sky

Jay 🜏 :

they were high or hallucinating probably