00:00So you've heard of the Salem Witch Trials before, of course.
00:03But what if it had nothing to do with special powers and it had everything to do with mold?
00:11Well, there is one theory from the 1970s that describes a particularly wet season between the years 1692 and 1693
00:20when over 200 people were convicted and jailed for witchcraft.
00:24But it turns out that the theory goes that this wet growing season could have led to a giant fungal
00:31outbreak
00:32in the local supply of rye that was used in their bread baking process.
00:37And once ingested, this could lead to convulsions, hallucinations, and the people were literally rotting.
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