Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Ghosts

Listening to The Moth podcast (Joan Juliet Buck: The Ghost of the Rue Jacob), I remembered the This American Life episode about how carbon monoxide poisoning causes hallucinations very similar to being haunted.  Old homes with gas lights that frequently did not burn efficiently and caused CO poisoning -->

Symptoms such as delirium and hallucinations have led people suffering poisoning to think they have seen ghosts or to believe their house is haunted. (Wikipedia)
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