Why do people like to be scared? Three factors contribute to ... Consider the choice to go into a haunted house: You do not know what’s happening, but there’s still a sense you can leave ...

Every Halloween, people flock to haunted houses, dress up as terrifying ghouls, or curl up on the couch with a few horror movies. The compulsion to scare oneself for fun seems counterintuitive ...

Below, you'll find a list of this year's 10 haunted houses ranked from ... for the kids," Sauls tells PEOPLE. Confession: the original Exorcist movie never really scared me much, and the previous ...

Not to mention, getting scared every once in a while is ... There's something beautiful about that. "You're in a haunted house. There are people jumping out at you. You are present," Anderson ...

It’s a classic haunted house story, but there’s something about ... machinery – they exploit topics and images we already fear,” Professor Hank Davis noted in an article on The Psychologist.