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S1. Uncanny Live with Mark Gatiss

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The Power of Suspense

Part of it I think is the power of suspense. You know the fact that they were in an asylum and it built up over time. And also the fact of coincidence in that you know things happen all the time and you might not notice it but if it's a coincidence it could just be a mathematical you know. It just so happened that it sounded like the word high and so people because they would like to associate meaning with things just decided that it was actually a word when it was just a sound. Well yeah it's really interesting there's this thing, Pareidolia about us. Our brains wanting to interpret randomness in the universe and make patterns of it. So we see

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