Professor Chip Ironside of Staffordshire University has tested 50 healthy women of child-bearing age at three different phases of their cycle to check their ability to see ghosts!
The women were simultaneously shown ten pictures, one of which was a ghost among a pile of oatcakes while the others were only of oatcakes. The volunteers were tested on how quickly they spotted the spirit.
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The fastest women were those who were in the stage that immediately follows ovulation. The study strengthens theories that we have a "fear reflex", an innate response to threat signals such as ghosts trying to steal our oatcakes.
Among women in Stoke, the reflex seems to be influenced by hormone levels at a stage when they could be pregnant and thus be more protective towards their foetus or their oatcakes, the study suggests.
The paper was published on Thursday in Stoke's science journal 'Scientific Stoke'.
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