Listen: are ghosts real?

Does this sound like you – too scared to turn off the light before going to bed, uneasy in your car and even feeling a bit spooked at work? Then you’re one of the seven out of ten Brits who are convinced ghosts, spirits and apparitions are not just figments of our imagination.

Research out today reveals one in five Brits are convinced their own house is haunted and those polled admit they’ve walked a different route home at night to avoid walking past a spooky place or building (12%).

Overall, as many as 30% believe the town they live in to be haunted, while 17% of those polled have been spooked by local ghost tales about their local area.

The research was commissioned by Paramount+ in conjunction with the launch of new supernatural thriller The Burning Girls, starring Samantha Morton and Ruby Stokes, which is available to watch now. The research found that half of respondents felt a ghostly presence was friendly, but 38% are convinced they’ve seen something ghostly that unnerved them.

Ros spoke to The Burning Girls author CJ Tudor.

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