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31st Oct 2004

Big Bang, Ghosts & The Paranormal


Chris Smith

Catherine Hawkins

Paranormal investigator and vice-president of Society for Psychical Research, Tony Cornell, describes his life spent hunting for hauntings and tackling your spooky experiences during a live Halloween phone-in, and Simon Singh joins us to talk about his latest book - Big Bang - which probes the origins of the universe.

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Questions

 

How do antidepressants work ?


 

How long will it be before our current Big Bang theory is out of date?


 

why don't woodpeckers get brain damage when they hammer into a tree?


 

In Mill Road in Cambridge last Halloween I was out trick or treating with my daughter. We arrived at a door and mother and daughter came to the door, with another little girl who didn't speak at all, and was dressed in a Victorian dress which is what I thought was her costume. A few days later I asked the mother who this little girl was, she said no one else had been there - but myself and my daughter had clearly seen her.


 

Whilst visiting a friend an electric toy belonging to her children suddenly switched on, doors opened and things moved around in the room ! What was this ?


 

As a young child I woke up in the middle of night and found a man in red and white pyjamas standing at the end of my bed. He wasn't anyone I knew, I shouted out loud and he started crying and then disappeared.


 

Why can't we photograph ghosts if you can see them?


 

I grew up in an incredibly old house. Our dog was the most placid animal, and yet it would run at the fastest pace possible up the stairs from the ground floor, to the third floor and visibly shake. Also at other times I felt like I was being kicked in the back although there was no-one in the room. I also see a 'glow' in my present house.


 

I lived in a house where the dining room which was always colder than all the other rooms, and both my wife and I could see something in our peripheral vision. Then one evening I was sitting in this room, and our cat jumped up looked spooked and I suddenly felt cold, and a presence.


 

I lived in a large house in Norfolk on a farm and one night I heard a coach and horses come up the drive, yet we didn't see anything.


 

what is absolute zero?


Fact or Fiction

If you get caught in a thunderstorm it is safer to stand with your feet together than apart
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The average mountain loses about 3 feet in height every 1000 years
TrueTrue
The farthest a normally-sighted person can see with the naked eye is about 2.4 million miles
TrueTrue
Every minute you shed about 5000 skin cells
TrueTrue
A housefly beats its wings about 20,000 times a minute
TrueTrue
Americans chew their way through 5,000,000 miles of chewing gum per year
TrueTrue
In all animals blood is a red colour because it contains iron
TrueTrue
A broken clock is right at least twice a day
TrueTrue
The average person walks about 20,000 miles in a lifetime
TrueTrue
An elephant drinks up to 500 gallons of water a day
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