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We are the haunted, not the horrors

By Stefani Echeverría-Fenn on October 1, 2019
Commentary   Features   Opinion
Science has now proven that trauma can be passed down intergenerationally; that rats whose mothers were exposed to stressors like water can epigenetically inherit a special fear of water. Before we had this science, nearly every culture on Earth had ghost stories.



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