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  • Boo! Britain gets first ghost school

    01/26/2006 10:18:24 AM PST · by lowbridge · 24 replies · 704+ views
    Boo! Britain gets first ghost school LONDON: One of Britain's most haunted houses will become the country's first ghost school, aimed at giving the public a chance to decide whether things really do go bump in the night. Muncaster Castle, an 800-year-old country pile in the scenic Lake District of northwest England, has been chosen for the two-day residential course because of its spine-chilling reputation for spooks and spectres. Jason Braithwaite, a cognitive psychologist and neuroscientist from the University of Birmingham, grew up within 15 kilometres of the castle and will run the course in March. A self-confessed sceptic about...