Inside America’s Most Haunted Walmart: The Chilling Secrets You’ve Never Heard Before
And another viewer shared a now-eerie memory, “Hear me out. As a kid being in that toy [aisle] I always thought the toys had batteries never questioned why the toys would go off.”
How Many People Believe In The Paranormal?
Psychology Today reports that 70% of Americans believe there can be some sort of communication between the living and the dead. Of those Americans who believe, 44% say they’ve felt the presence of a deceased person.
But belief isn’t fact. In the absence of proof, psychologists say that not only is it normal to believe, but that it can provide comfort, too. “From a psychodynamic perspective, believing is ‘motivated reasoning’ that may reduce grief, existential anxiety, and fear of death,” the site reports.
Additionally, “there is some evidence of brain differences between believers and non-believers.”
The findings of a brain study indexed on the National Library of Medicine found that “frontal brain function may contribute to paranormal beliefs.” The frontal brain is largely understood to be where the executive brain functions.
Whether or not ghosts are real, belief in them, or even the willingness to suspend disbelief, points to deeply human curiosity. Most cultures have tales of ghosts or cryptids, and we can likely understand them as a combination of fear and longing. A kind of terrible hope that we are not lost forever, and neither are our loved ones. And ghost stories themselves surely deliver a delicious little shiver.














