The Mysterious Saint-Esprit Incident: LSD's Dark Connection

in 1951 a small provincial Village in southern France named saintus PRI was stricken by a strange malady overnight residents of all ages hundreds of them awaken to sharp pains high fevers Mass insomnia and incredible hallucinations One Man spent the hours of day and night endlessly counting the pains in his window another compulsively wrote the same words over and over small girls saw tigers in a room and blood dripping from the ceiling all complained of severe Burning Sensations more than 300 cases had been counted before the plague was identified as St Anthony's fire a poisoning produced by Urgot a fungus that grew on rye which later was milled and baked into bread a direct relationship between St Anthony's fire and lsd2 has never been clearly established to this day but those initial reports from SAA spree excited the attention of the young science who 15 years before had first synthesized LSD from Urgot