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On Halloween in 1938 Orson Welles told a story over his
broadcasting station of an alien invasion in NJ called the war of the worlds.
Obviously, this man was clearly delusional or in another state of mind. His
whole broadcast included him telling the world about how there are aliens that
no one knew about. Over 1.2 million people were impacted by what Orson said.
Apparently, they took a poll and these people that re frightened were just a
mass delusion of what he thought that broadcast had done to the people.
Another Mass Delusion we have in our lecture is the Salem
witch trials which was located in Massachusetts where people believed they
could be cursed by a witch so they tortured and imprisoned many people in the
area. Clearly very delusional situation unless you believe that these people
were actually cursed which I do not believe.
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