The Night Rats Brought the Black Death to Paris

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00:00Paris, 1348. It began with ships docking on the River Seine and something small, almost invisible,

00:06crawling ashore. Rats, thousands of them, spilling into the city's narrow streets,

00:12carrying a silent killer in their fur. At first, people blamed witches or God's anger,

00:18but soon they realized something far worse was happening. The Black Death had arrived.

00:23Bells rang endlessly as carts carried bodies through the streets. The air smelled of smoke,

00:28fear, and death. Half the city vanished in just months. Families gone, streets empty,

00:34silence everywhere, except for the scratching of rats. When the plague finally faded,

00:39Paris was a ghost of itself, and the rats they stayed. History remembers kings and wars,

00:45but sometimes the thing that changes the world is just a rat.