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A man covered in fake blood is being scared by another man holding a chainsaw and a woman with a scarred face who's holding him down

Scientists studied a ‘haunted house’ to understand why we love horror

5 February 2019

To understand why many of us enjoy being scared, a team of scientists studied the people visiting a haunted house set in a dilapidated factory

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