Science. What a concept. It s put men on the moon, chopped up an atom good and proper, briefly eradicated measles and edited the very building blocks of the human genome. But one field of science still eludes even our cleverest minds. What, exactly, is a scare?
Well, as far as the boffins can ascertain using the best microscopes available, a scare is a kind of horrible juice (or enzyme ) that your panicking liver dumps into your bloodstream whenever you see something frightening, like a ghost or the news. This craven liquid triggers what is known in psychology as a fight or flight response, presenting your fear-charged body with two simple options. You can either try to wrestle with the ghost, hoping that it s just corporeal enough that you can trap it in a figure-four leglock until it taps out. Or you can run away from it, and hope that the ghost is spiritually tethered to the haunted mansion you were staying in as per the instructions of your late great uncle s convoluted will.