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Talking to ghosts

Unexplainable

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Are You Trying to Get Rid of a Sceptic?

Sceptics were told it was a good idea to get the sceptic out of the way. In contrast, our psychic was very good at ramping up the atmosphere. They would end up really genuinely terrified. So what they decided to do is to get rid of me. And when you talk about all these misinterpretations based on context, are these just our brains wanting to find patterns out there? That's a very important aspect of it. A lot of these kinds of experiences that people report are down to the way our brains wired as a result our evolutionary history. For much of that time, we lived in a very, very threatening environment. We've got this bias to assume there

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