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Evolutionary psychology explains why haunted houses creep us out

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imageIsolated, crumbling, and full of twists and turns.'House' via www.shutterstock.com

The Haunted House is a time-honored horror setting. All of us have shivered our way through spooky flicks such as The Haunting, The Amityville Horror, The Sentinel and Poltergeist.

It’s not only at the movies that we pay good money to frighten ourselves to...

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