This month, in honor of the spooky season, Anna shares some stories of very normal and super explainable phenomena, in the form of ghost hoaxes and new ways in which confidence is key.
To learn more, check out:
Locating literature in the ghost hoax: an exploration of 19th-century print news media (University of Pittsburgh)
Victorian seances: The ingenious tricks used to ‘speak to the dead’ (How It Works)
Victorian ectoplasm-producing mediums: freaks or fakes? (The Guardian)
The Rise and Fall of 5 Claimed Mediums (Mental Floss)
Mediums, magicians and the all-too-fallible mind (Financial Times)
Don’t Cross The Streams: The Tech Of Modern “Ghost Hunting” (Fast Company)
Knowledge Fight #187: Magic Cheesecloth and Secret Pleiadians
Superstitions evolved to help us survive (New Scientist)
Hearing ghost voices relies on pseudoscience and fallibility of human perception (The Conversation)
The Division on the Study of American Fears (Chapman University)
selective attention test (YouTube)
