On January 30th, 1962, an all-girls boarding school in Kashasha, Tanganyika, witnessed one of the oddest types of mass hysteria ever recorded in human history: The Laughter Epidemic. This epidemic, ...

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My husband, Don, likes to say that he needs to laugh every day (but only cry once or twice a year). I appreciate and admire his good nature, and I’m sure his ability to see the humor in life helps him ...

When I was little, I tended to fall into bouts of uncontrollable laughter. Basically, once I started laughing, I found it very difficult to stop. The problem was particularly acute in contexts where I ...

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Imagine if every time you cried you burst into hysterical laughter - this is the problem that Paul Pugh lives with every day. On a cold night in January 2007, Pugh, now 38, was enjoying a night out ...

A local meteorologist has gained viral fame after being caught on live television in an uncontrollable fit of laughter that became increasingly hysterical as he attempted to maintain his composure.