The Haunted Mind: The Psychology of Ghosts | Halloween Sleep Story

Podcast: Sleep Stories from the Pioneers · Pioneers of Human Behaviour

Opublikowano: 2026-10-16

Why can an empty room feel occupied? The Haunted Mind is a gently narrated Halloween sleep story for adults about strange experiences, the psychology of ghosts, and the people who tried to understand them. Begin beside a candle and a looking glass on a Halloween night in Scotland. Follow Benjamin Franklin into an orchard near Paris, Michael Faraday to the moving tables of Victorian London, and William James into the mysteries of a Boston medium. Along the way, encounter Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, Mary Shelley and Ernest Shackleton as we explore expectation, memory, dreams...