Up to 40 Students Faint in North Yorkshire

[Paranormalcy]

I personally think these types of events are intriguing and a neat and public study in mass psychology.

Fainting pupils trigger major alert at North Yorkshire school

A major emergency response was sparked when four pupils fainted during an Armistice Day service causing a "ripple effect" through the school.

Up to 40 children felt unwell as anxiety swept through Outwood Academy School in Ripon, North Yorkshire, a senior fire officer said.

http://www.itv.com/news/story/2015-11-11/fainting-pupils-trigger-major-alert-at-north-yorkshire-school/

[Ashotep]

Reminds me of when all those students were developing these tics. Makes you wonder about some people and why they do this.

[back to earth]

[Lucas Cooper Merrin]

Sounds like mass hysteria

[Captain Dumbass]

Remembrance day gatherings... those are extremely dull. Its hard for a child of modern times to think back to world war one and keep that attention for hours without falling asleep.

[Paranormalcy]

I don't think 40 kids were like "Man, this is so BORING!" *faint*

I do think it's probably an aspect of mass hysteria and that's what makes me interested. If this can happen, is this also what is at work in *some* paranormal experiences or even "sightings"?

[TheGreatBeliever]

Am having hysteria in me head everyday!

[TripGun]

Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

[Captain Dumbass]

There are absolutely nothing hysterical about remembrance day gatherings... they are slooow and boooooring... yawn.

I think its a case of mass-drowsiness.

[R.E.H Fan]

It had nothing to do with anxiety. It was because the heating in the hall was turned on too high.

[rjos]

Captain Dumbass, your name is truly apt. Have some respect.

[Athena1979]

Like Salem witch trials....

[back to earth]

I don't think 40 kids were like "Man, this is so BORING!" *faint*

I do think it's probably an aspect of mass hysteria and that's what makes me interested. If this can happen, is this also what is at work in *some* paranormal experiences or even "sightings"?

Like what ?

Ones I looked into didnt hold up ..... I am still looking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_Sun

[LightningSieler]

Sounds like a good time/place to test out a frequency device..... Ripple effect.... Interesting.

[Paranormalcy]

I don't know which ones, if any, that's why I posed the question. One of my original ideas long ago was "mass psychic resonance" and a dependence on the overall belief in a given area of a given phenomenon be mostly receptive, but potentially even one fairly strong uncertain or a direct skeptic, could prevent the entire thing.

[Goodnite]

Maybe they all got their results from the algebra test that day. Lol.

[Captain Dumbass]

Captain Dumbass, your name is truly apt. Have some respect.

I am very sorry rjos... i don't know what apt. means.

I do have respect and i represent my theory in the most respectful way. I have been to several remembrance days when i attended an english univercity...

and they ARE truely boring. I don't say i don't respect it or the reason to do it, WW1. But it does not take away the FACT that it is extremely boring and doesn't feel current for minors of today. Maybe americans are better to put a party into a day like that, but that is unrelated to this story.

Edited November 13, 2015 by Captain Dumbass

[Athena1979]

How does one separate mass hysteria from an actual problem? I can see hysteria causing it, but what if there was something else that affected those specific children? OK, not gas, but, maybe food or an allergy to soap at the school... How do you prove hysteria? Just because you gave up, so you claim hysteria? If that's true, why only 40 kids. Kids talk about all sorts of unnerving things all the time ( drama, rumors) . those kids would be fainting on a daily basis.

[AstralPhae]

Didn't this happen somewhere else as well?

[Paranormalcy]

It's happened many times. Quiet a few in the UK, some in Russia, some in one or two Hispanic countries. I would guess it has probably happened in every country. It's when it's large groups of people, typically kids. To me, it's a form of "viral" mass hysteria, like a "viral video" - it's "going around". There are some very old accounts of "diseases" that worked the same way, but more horrifyingly. Like one that caused people to dance uncontrollably until their death. Not just jerk or twitch but actually dance, rhymically. NO actual medical condition will make you dance (well, maybe Saturday Night Fever) - clearly psychological.

[Paranomali]

This is beyond bizarre. I wonder if it was pre planned, like to get out of an upcoming class or something lol

[Paranormalcy]

No it tends to be surprising to everyone involved. Sometimes it happens all at once, sometimes it takes almost a week to get rolling. Hazmat/EMT and other contamination specialists get called in, search everything, and declare the area safe. It's not *everybody* in the school that gets it, it's a sometimes significant but still minor fraction of teh total students that are afflicted - with documented but not serious conditions - anxiety, blood pressure, drowsiness, weakness, headaches, etc. Typical psychosomatic symptoms that more or less mimic a cold or flu.