All right, I'm Jack Gruelish.

I think you can listen to music from relaxing,

to celebrating, to getting yourself prepared.

I like all sorts, honestly.

I like hip-hop, R&B, and then house music as well.

So yeah, there's no guilt with pleasure as R&D.

Jack wears the Bose Quiet Comfort Ultra headphones,

enjoying his favourite music with more immersive sounds than ever before.

Wow, the music's just everything, isn't it?

Get yours at Bose.co.uk.

Bose, sound is power.

You're listening to Imaginary Worlds,

a show about how we create them, and why we suspend our disbelief.

I'm Eric Melinsky.

Over the summer, I did an episode about why Gothic stories

have become trendy in literature and pop culture.

And I was talking with a friend about that episode,

and I said, matter faculty,

well, you know, ghost stories are often about repressed trauma.

And she said, huh, I had heard that haunted house stories

were metaphors for owning a house,

and all the personal and economic fears that come with that.

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