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In this article, the author is providing us with his list of the 4 most haunted places in France. We believe that there are two red flags in this article, and they are: red herrings and Confirmation Bias. For red herring, we found the simple answer, the author was talking more about these places as travel destination than the reasons why they're deemed to be haunted. The Palais of Versailles is already a big tourist destination. For confirmation bias, we feel that the author was expressing his thoughts on the subject and hoping that people would bite at it and agree with him. We feel that these landmarks can be haunted especially the catacombs but, we feel that this article was more about attracting people to these tourist destinations in France.

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Any country with a history as rich and exciting as France is bound to have some haunting remnants of its dramatic past, serving as a reminder of lives and times long gone. And in this instance, we really do mean haunting literally! There's plenty of reports suggesting that supernatural activity in the country is alive and well to this very day (or undead and unwell, if you want to get technical).

If you fancy seeing if you can snag a supernatural sighting yourself, head to one of these spooky settings that make up our list of the top four most haunted places in France!

1. Mont Saint-Michel

The ancient monastery on Mont Saint-Michel may be one of France's most recognisable landmarks today, but according to the stories, the Archangel Michael had to burn a hole in Saint Aubert's skull before he was persuaded to start building it. Today, the ghost of Captain Louis d'Estouteville stands guard on the mount, overlooking the site of his victory against the dastardly English in 1434.
Where to stay:
The C16th Normandy Castle sits in a glorious valley and sleeps an impressive 18 guests. If you're looking for somewhere to relax in total peace and seclusion this is the place to be, and the fact you're surrounded by an almost endless vista of spectacular French countryside is just the icing on the cake! If you're staying, make sure you indulge in one of the specially prepared breakfasts, too. They're a little extra but they're well worth it.

2. Versailles

From stumbling through time into an 18th century garden party to spotting Marie Antoinette in the garden, paranormal sightings at the Chateau de Versailles are a fairly regular occurrence. The infamous executed queen in particular seems to haunt the castle, with her spirit most frequently seen in her royal bedchamber.
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If you're off to visit a palace like Versailles, you want to make sure your accommodation is equally palatial. Chateau Du Moulin is that and so much more, and you'll feel like a true member of the aristocracy - and it's only 30km from Paris too, making a visit there a must.

3. Chateau de Chateaubriant

If you're looking for a pre-Halloween scare, head to Chateau du Chateaubriant. Legend has it that every October 16th, at the first stroke of midnight, a ghostly procession of knights and monks can be seen following the spirits of Francoise de Foix, his wife Jean de Laval and her lover King Francis I as they slowly climb the main stairs before disappearing at the last stroke.
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This quirky chateau is filled with the wonderful art work of it's talented owner. You and your clan will adore this spacious holiday home, not only does it boast a fun den for kids but the large private pool comes fully heated for all year round swimming fun! Make the most of the lovely outdoor space dining al fresco by cooking up a storm on the outdoor barbeque. It's no wonder this Chateau has been listed as one of our top 10 in the Loire Valley.

4. The Catacombs

It doesn't get much creepier than an underground, labyrinthine city of the dead, home to thousands of skeletons and walls lined with old, bleached bones. Open for brave tourists to explore, the Catacombs is an 18th century burial ground created for the thousands of corpses that overcrowded Paris graveyards no longer had room for.
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Mercifully free of both ghosts and skeletons, Chateau Boumont sits just outside Paris and dates back to the 19th century. It's been good enough for royalty, so those seeking the high life will fall in love with this extravagant chateau. There's oodles of history, the former owners include Marquise de Preignes and Baron Empain! With a professional chef available and a full concierge service on offer, you won't even have to lift a finger to be pampered (which is exactly how it should be when you're on your holiday).
If you're planning your own ghost hunting trip in France, head to Oliver's Travels to find your own luxury villa to rent (spooky happenings not included).

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Any country with a history as rich and exciting as France is bound to have some haunting remnants of its dramatic past, serving as a reminder of lives and times long gone. And in this instance, we really do mean haunting literally!

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In the photo you can clearly see faded objects that look like women in white dresses. This image is also not that serious, in other words it looks very fake. Boasting the question are ghost pictures real or is it just someone photoshoping an image to make it look real.

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For this image, well it's Pac-Man, this is one of the most popular arcade games in history. We feel that this image's red flag is trying to appeal to authority. We feel that way because we think that this arcade game changed the idea of how some people viewed ghosts. Instead of viewing ghosts in scary sense, the creators turned ghosts into something fun for everyone, many people spent a lot of time trying to get high scores as well. This game also showed that at some points the ghosts were scared. When we saw this image we applied critical thinking in the sense of what we took out of this game.

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This is an image of Casper the Friendly Ghost. Casper the Friendly Ghost was a cartoon, and a movie. It was a popular idea back when it first came out. The red flag for this would be confirmation bias. We say this because its the idea that Casper was a friendly ghost instead of a bad one. Back in the day when this first released ghost weren't really known except for the fact that they weren't at all friendly. So you can see how Casper being released could mess with peoples beliefs and confuse them into thinking that some ghost are good and some are bad.

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The video is about a youtube group called "Inform Overload". They do reviews on episodes of the TV show "Ghost Hunters". In this review they talk about how the hunters find a ghost using weird tools. This is a sign of the red flag called ideological support. In this they focus on the fact that they their using the drama from the show and all of the controversies to mask the silliness of the tools they use to find the ghosts. Which is what is explained in the video.

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In this article, the author suggests reason for why people believe in ghost as well as tell stories. We feel that this article has some facts but at the same time doesn't. We found a couple red flags, they are: proof by verbosity and ideological support. For proof by verbosity, the author is discussing too many stories, it would be easier to have told a few to get their point across. As well, for ideological support, the author mentions that a study found that "52% of Brits believe in ghosts", we feel that it was a quick study done. We both felt that some of the stories were too far fetched, but we believe that some happened, it's hard to say but we both feel that the author try to intrigue her readers more, which led to some of the stories being too far fetched.

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Across the world, ideas of the paranormal persist.

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In June, Sheila Sillery-Walsh, a British tourist visiting the historic island-prison of Alcatraz in San Francisco, claimed that she captured an image of a ghost in a picture she snapped on her iPhone. In the frame of what was otherwise supposed to be a picture of an empty prison cell was a blurry black and white image of a woman. The story, which was printed in the British tabloid the Daily Mail, featured on the Bay Area's local KRON4 TV station and mocked by SFist, isn't the first time the Daily Mail has claimed that strange images have come up on smart devices.

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Normally, a paranormal story wouldn't catch my attention, but a few months before the story came out, a Spanish friend of mine named Laura showed me a weird image she found on her phone while I was traveling in Madrid. The photo, taken on her iPhone while on a trip to Ethiopia, shows a boy looking down at leaves he is holding in his hands. Seemingly superimposed onto the boy is another image of the boy, hands in a different position and eyes looking straight at the camera.

Laura was convinced she captured an image of a ghost.

It seems that belief in ghosts is even more widespread in much of Asia, where ghosts are characterized as neutral and can be appeased through rituals or angered if provoked (as opposed to our scarier depictions of ghosts in the West), according to Justin McDaniel, a professor of religious studies and director of the Penn Ghost Project at the University of Pennsylvania. "[Ghosts in Asia] can be asked for help in healing humans, winning the lottery and protecting one while traveling or while pregnant," he said. "Like American ghosts, they have an attachment to the human realm which keeps them haunting and helping humans."

In China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, and Thailand, the seventh month of the lunar calendar (which falls in August this year) ushers in the Hungry Ghost Festival, when it is believed that ghosts of the deceased are temporarily released from the lower realm to visit the living. In Taiwan, some people believe that the presence of wandering ghosts during Ghost Month can cause accidents to the living. At least one study has shown that people avoid risky behaviors during this time, including those in bodies of water, reducing the number of deaths by drowning.

"Like in the West," McDaniel says, "people in Asia have kept their belief in ghosts despite the rise of science, skepticism, secularism, and public education. In places like Japan where secularism is very strong, the belief in ghosts is still high. Even hyper-modern and liberal Scandinavia has a high percentage of people believing in ghosts."

It turns out that a significant amount of people report having personally experienced paranormal activity. In a study published in 2011, 28.5 percent of undergraduate students surveyed at a southern university reported having had a paranormal experience. In a 2006 Reader's Digest poll, 20 percent of respondents (21 percent of women and 16 percent of men) reported that they had seen a ghost at some time in their lives.

But it's also true that if you already believe in ghosts, or are told a place is haunted, you are more likely to interpret events as paranormal. A 2002 study found that believers in ghosts were more likely than non-believers to report unusual phenomena while touring a site in Britain with a reputation for being haunted. Visitors who were told that there was a recent increase in unusual phenomena occurring at the site also reported a higher number of unusual experiences on the tour.

Another study demonstrated that hearing or reading about paranormal narratives, especially when the story came from a credible source, was enough to increase paranormal beliefs among participants. With the abundance of ghost-hunting shows in the U.S. and the UK, like Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures and Most Haunted, which is returning to screens this fall, it's probably not surprising that studies have also linked belief in ghosts with exposure to paranormal-related TV shows.

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Across the world, ideas of the paranormal persist. In June, Sheila Sillery-Walsh, a British tourist visiting the historic island-prison of Alcatraz in San Francisco, claimed that she captured an image of a ghost in a picture she snapped on her iPhone.

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In this video you will see multiple ghosts sightings that will look very real. Don`t let your eyes deceive you as they can be very real or very made up. This video is a sign of a Red Herring. We believe this because the video focuses on what you see and making you believe that it is real. There is not factional evidence to support that it is real or to give you a different perspective on the video, just the idea that seeing in believing.

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Mysterious Events Caught On Camera & Spotted In Real Life !

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Angels Caught On Camera Flying & Spotted In Real Life !

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Scariest Creatures Caught On Camera & Spotted In Real Life !

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10 Amazing Videos Of Real Ghosts Caught On Camera (2016)

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In this article, the author write about an interview with someone on the reasons for why people believe in ghosts. The list includes: our brains are wired, it's related to belief in life after death, and that some seek the thrill in it. We believe that there is some confirmation bias being put on display. The people who answered are giving their own opinions on the topic. As well, there is a bit of proof by verbosity, they used numbers from and said results. We do believe however, that they do have valid points, we both believe in ghosts, we both think that the paranormal is cool, so why not believe.

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Halloween is a time to celebrate ghosts, vampires, and everything supernatural.

But if you truly believe in ghosts, you're not alone.

According to a Gallup survey from 2005, about three out of four Americans harbor at least one paranormal belief. More than a third of people surveyed also said they believed in ghosts or spirits returning from the dead. Another 37% reported believing in haunted houses, and a whopping 41% in extrasensory perception (ESP).

But just what makes us susceptible to these beliefs, despite an utter lack of evidence that they're real?

It's how our brains are wired

Part of the reason many of us believe in ghosts simply comes down to the way our brains work, Barry Markovsky, a sociologist at the University of South Carolina, told Business Insider.

The human mind seeks patterns to make sense of ambiguous information. "Ghosts are almost always seen under ambiguous circumstances - such as in poor lighting, or when we're just waking up or falling asleep, when our senses are not at their peak function," Markovsky said.

People who believe in ghosts are often in situations where they're expecting to see them, such as in a "haunted" house, Markovsky added. In other words, if you're looking for something, you're more likely to find it.

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"Humans are hardwired to seek out explanations for what happens around us," Radford adds.

It's related to belief in life after death

A wide variety of supernatural beliefs exist in different cultures, but ghosts are by far the most common one, Benjamin Radford, deputy editor of Skeptical Inquirer magazine and author of " Scientific Paranormal Investigation: How to Solve Unexplained Mysteries," told Business Insider.

Part of the reason for this is that believing in ghosts may be related to a belief in the afterlife, a tenet of most major religions. Believing in the supernatural also has its roots in our desire to have control over our world, Radford explained. After all, a world where random things happen is a scary one.

Another Gallup poll found that in sub-Saharan Africa, more than half of people surveyed believed in witchcraft, and those who did tended to rate themselves as less happy than nonbelievers. And a 2008 study found that lonely people are more likely to believe in the supernatural.

Some seek the thrill of it

Of course, another reason people believe in ghosts is the same reason that people like to watch scary movies or play Bloody Mary in girls' bathrooms: for the thrill of it.

There's a word for buying into these scary stories: legend-tripping. Basically, people do this because they know they're not in any real danger, Radford said.

But there's a contradiction at the heart of our belief in ghosts. One the one hand, there's the idea that ghosts are scary and wish to do us harm, but on the other, there are people who go looking for ghosts.

Many ghost hunters see themselves as "traffic cops for the afterlife," Radford said. Instead of believing ghosts to be evil, they think of them as spirits that have simply gotten lost on the way to the hereafter.

As Radford put it, "If you're genuinely terrified of ghosts and think they could kill you, why the [heck] would you go looking for them?"

Of course, movies and TV shows about ghost-hunting, which are often presented with very little skepticism, aren't helpful.

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It's all good fun, but as Radford said, "Don't believe everything you see on TV!"

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There's a fascinating psychological reason behind your belief in ghosts

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Halloween is a time to celebrate ghosts, vampires, and everything supernatural. But if you truly believe in ghosts, you're not alone. According to a Gallup survey from 2005, about three out of four Americans harbor at least one paranormal belief. More than a third of people surveyed also said they believed in ghosts or spirits returning from the dead.

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This is obviously the theme song for the GhostBusters. We believe that the red flag for this would have to be appeal to authority. We say this because how famous the movie and the actors are in the movie like Bill Murray. Also the song is very catchy and how can you not jam out to it. The fame of the movie and the actors makes people believe in ghosts.