The Science of Weird Shit review: A sceptic tries to make sense of the paranormal

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G2C3CA Tree trunk looks like smiling face in golden autumn garden

A cognitive bias called pareidolia leads people to see a face in this tree

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The Science of Weird Shit
Chris French (MIT Press)

DURING a TV show in the early 1990s, a man describes waking up in the night with a weight pressing on his chest. He could neither move nor breathe. He says this is the result of a visiting ghost. Later that week, on another TV show, a different man tells a similar story of waking up in the night with a weight on his chest. He, too,…



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