94: Paranormal Psychology & Defunct Halloween Traditions

We know ghosts aren't real, but what is real is the way our brains make us imagine the creepy things that go bump in the night. What about our psychology makes it so easy to be spooked? And we've all heard of costumes and pumpkin carving, but what are the weirdest old Halloween traditions, and what can we take into our own traditions? Things we Talk About: Mooney Faces Games for Halloween Snap Dragon Video 1 Snap Dragon Video 2 Caramel Pronunciation Map Mischief Night Map Cabbage Card 1 Cabbage Card 2 The Bobbing for Apples Video Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:03:36) Paranormal Psychology (01:03:06) Defunct Halloween Traditions (01:36:21) Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: Skeleton Shattering Science Topic, anomalistic psychology is the science of ghost busting, NOT parapsychology, the first step to a ghost is someone who believe in ghosts, following the format of ghost hunting shows, spooky believers are often predisposed pattern recognizers, the Australian sheep goat scale, suggestion not priming, creepyness via agent detection, a haunted house is evolutionarily designed to be spooky to us, the scary feedback loop, no infrasound d…