Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.

This is your host, Steven novella, president of the New England Skeptical Society.

Today is November 2nd, 2005.

With me this week are Bob novella, pretty evening everyone.

Perry de angeles, righto, and Evan Bernstein.

Hi everyone.

There's no guest this week so you just have the four of us.

I'm just going to start with some follow up from our last week we were talking about

ghost stories just being right around the Halloween time and newspaper articles.

Of note the new Haven register on the Sunday before Halloween published an article about

the New England Skeptical Society called Skeptical Society wants residents to breathe easy.

In other words you don't need to be afraid of ghosts.

And they interviewed both Evan Bernstein and myself for the article.

It was a good article.

Did you read it Evan?

I did in fact, yes.

It was you know it was skeptical.

It was no, usually they follow the formula of like talking to some gullible people and

telling quote unquote both sides.

And then at the end concluding well who knows if it's all real or not.

But this guy really was just writing sort of an expose of how stupid people who really

believe in ghosts are good for him.

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