Why have so many of us seen ghosts?

On Point by WBUR

Sep 4, 202600:37:58News & Politics

One in 5 Americans say they've seen a ghost. But what if it was really our brain that had tricked us into thinking we saw something we didn't? In the "Science of the Supernatural" psychology professor Melissa Maffeo argu...

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