After all Europe has a long unfortunate history of ergot poisoning from bread causing the dreaded St. Anthony's Fire.
Ergot is a mold that grows on grain...mostly rye during damp growing periods and causes long term poisoning that includes hallucinations, spasms and in extreme cases gangrene.
The article goes on to say that:
On August 16, 1951, the inhabitants were suddenly racked with frightful hallucinations of terrifying beasts and fire.
One man tried to drown himself, screaming that his belly was being eaten by snakes. An 11-year-old tried to strangle his grandmother. Another man shouted: "I am a plane", before jumping out of a second-floor window, breaking his legs. He then got up and carried on for 50 yards. Another saw his heart escaping through his feet and begged a doctor to put it back. Many were taken to the local asylum in strait jackets.
Time magazine wrote at the time: "Among the stricken, delirium rose: patients thrashed wildly on their beds, screaming that red flowers were blossoming from their bodies, that their heads had turned to molten lead."
At the time both ergot poisoning and mercury were suggested but an reporter working on a book about the CIA's cold war mind control experiments has discovered evidence that instead of accidental ergot poisoning...the town was dosed with LSD.
Why I said it was brilliant was with the history of ergot as a backdrop no one would have ever imagined it was a mind control experiment conducted on unsuspecting victims.
www.telegraph.co.uk
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