Mystery AtlasHollinwell Mass Psychogenic Illness Explanation
The explanation reached in Ashfield District Council's official 1980 report on the Hollinwell incident, holding that the collapses were chiefly mass hysteria, a genuine, involuntary physical reaction spreading through a large, closely packed crowd of children under heat and competitive stress after the first collapses were witnessed, rather than any external toxin or pathogen.
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Theories & Explanations
Hollinwell Mass Psychogenic Illness Explanation is frequently compared to Mass Psychogenic Illness Explanation — Both are British mass psychogenic illness explanations for large collective collapses, roughly 450 years apart, though the Hollinwell reading, unlike the Strasbourg dancing plague's, remains actively contested by many who lived through the event it explains.
Hollinwell Mass Psychogenic Illness Explanation contradicts Hollinwell Pesticide Drift Theory — The two theories offer mutually exclusive accounts of the same collapses; the official 1980 report favoured the psychogenic reading, but many affected families still favour the pesticide account, and neither has been conclusively proven or disproven.
Events
- Hollinwell Incident13 July 1980
Hollinwell Mass Psychogenic Illness Explanation attempts to explain Hollinwell Incident.