In August 1951, people in the small French town of Pont-Saint-Esprit ate ordinary bread from a local bakery. Within days, roughly two hundred had fallen ill, and many were seeing flames and animals that were not there.
The outbreak was traced to bread sold by the bakery of Roch Briand. Ergot poisoning was an early explanation, and arrests were made as the flour was traced through the supply chain, but experts questioned whether the evidence matched. In 1954 French experts concluded the poisoning was accidental, yet the exact toxic agent is still debated. Decades later, some writers alleged a secret LSD experiment; that claim has never been proved. This is the story of the affair of the cursed bread. Heres the link to the detailed story: https://youtu.be/4CwJPuqdHcc
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