Half of Americans Believe Places Can be Haunted by Spirits, Study Finds

    Halloween is just over a week away and there’s a new survey on how many Americans have paranormal beliefs.

    FOX’s Jim MacKay has some of the spooky details:

    Study was done by Chapman University. It’s all about Americans fears in 2017. What it found: Nearly 75 percent of Americans hold some sort of paranormal belief. 55 percent of Americans believe places can be haunted by spirits.

    35 percent of Americans believe aliens once visited earth and nearly one in five Americans believe fortune tellers and psychics can foresee the future. The lowest level of paranormal belief, but still coming in at 16 percent,was the amount of Americans who believe Bigfoot is real.

    Jim MacKay, FOX News.

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