It’s Friday. It’s additionally Friday the thirteenth. Furthermore, it’s likewise November, which is still essentially Halloween. You understand what that implies: It’s the ideal opportunity for some science stories. Here are 13 of the most shiver initiating stories we could discover in the Popular Science vaults.

For what reason do we see phantoms?

Are devils genuine? That depends. Current science can’t demonstrate that there are spirits strolling through dividers or shouting beneath wood planks. Be that as it may, people have been spotting phantoms however long our species has existed. In PopSci’s new “Secrets” issue, we investigated seven mental and actual components that can represent practically any dreadful event—including some popular ones ready for exposing—and help to figure out our interminable inclination to lay down with the night light on.

This sound deception places the terrifying in startling films

The Shepard Tone is a sonic hallucination that can cause you to feel actually and intellectually wrong—to such an extent, indeed, that film scores regularly actualize it to cause crowds to feel anxious. Discover more about how specialists are contemplating its weird force.

In the event that that is not creepy enough for you, what about a room so peaceful you can hear your own blood stream?

A strange submarine passing

How about we harken back to some outdated alarms. In 2017, analysts guaranteed to at long last tackle the secret of the H.L. Hunley, a hand-turned submarine utilized by the Confederate armed force during the Civil War. Their discoveries were cool and all, yet what truly overwhelmed us was simply the secret: All eight individuals from the team passed on situated at their fight stations. The sub was, generally, unblemished, and there was no sign that they had put forth any attempt to clear or siphon out water. None of them endured broken bones. By all appearances, they’d passed on without a battle. On the off chance that the picture of eight warriors sitting apathetically in stand by of death doesn’t hairpiece you out, indeed, apologies. It’s wiggy.