When we talk about ghosts, it tends to summon up an image of a kind of translucent figure coming through the wall. It's other often much more subtle cues that they're picking up on things like a very strong sense of presence. The two single most important psychological factors that I would point to would be context and prior belief.
Why do so many people think they can see and hear ghosts, and what does that say about our conscious experience of the world? This episode originally ran on October 27, 2021.
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