Why do people loved to be scared so much? If a ghost was to come into my living room what is the worst it could do? Make me dead too? People love blood, horror, ghosts, cemeteries, haunted houses, spooky sounds, hauntings and twisted plots. It can't just be a fear of the unknown. Why do you think people love to be scared? Do you love to be scared? Why?

I definetly hate to be scared. I can't really say why for sure but I guess I just feel better safe and around what I know, it's like my normal environment that I've gotten used to being comfortable in. It might also be survival instincts. Horror movies have never scared me though. I watch them for the entertainment. I think I'd have to be there to get that effect. Even though the movie tries to give it, it's just not enough, not the same as feeling actually being there. And if all the horror that leads up to seeing the ghost wasn't there, I'd probably be fine seeing a ghost.

Clare, human beings have hormones that are designed to provide a "fight or flight" response. Because our society has so little opportunity to exercise these responses, people have an inherent need to find artificial means to stimmulate these responses.

People like the excitement they feel when they scare themselves or take risks that might hurt themselves.

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