This is the Guardian. So, so, so skin.

Get your morning mojo going with Mullah like Greek style.

Now with a new recipe, with Vitamin B6 and Vitamin D. Let's have it! Mull-a-light, get the good going. Throughout history humans have sat around crackling fires under the moonlight.

Although now perhaps in sleeping bags with torches and told each other stories about ghosts,

spirits, fairies, and strange creatures lurking in the dark. A lot of these will have passed from person to person.

Who, after all, hasn't heard the one about the doll that comes alive at night, or been told not to say

bloody Mary three times in front of the mirror.

Occasionally though there's also stories from friends or colleagues who have

experienced something spooky themselves.

Pictures falling off the walls. spooky themselves.

Pictures falling off the walls, bumps and creeks on the stairs,

a presence,

standing just to the left of their shoulder, getting closer and closer. Anecdotally, at least, during the past few years of the pandemic, lots of us have been enjoying ghost stories.

And have even had paranormal experiences ourselves.

Me included. Why do we love tales about the supernatural so much? And what does

it say about the world around us and how we cope with it? From the Guardian, I'm Madeline Finley.

And this is a spooky science weekly. Science Weekly.

At the time I was living in Bangor in North Wales. I had a job at the University of Bangor. This would be between me getting my first degree and starting my PhD so we're talking

about hundreds of years ago.

Chris French is the head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit

at Goldsmiths University London,

who researches the psychology behind the paranormal. And although he doesn't believe

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