Exploring personal encounters with ghosts and the paranormal, this chapter reflects on the speaker's evolving beliefs from fascination to skepticism. It highlights the challenge of rationalizing inexplicable phenomena like encountering a cloaked figure.
Psychologist Chris French has spent decades studying paranormal claims and mysterious experiences, from seemingly-impossible coincidences to paintings that purportedly predict the future. Ian Sample sits down with French to explore why so many of us end up believing in, what he terms, ‘weird shit’, and what we can learn from understanding why we’re drawn to mysterious and mystic phenomena. Help support our independent journalism at
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