{"id":246828,"date":"2026-11-07T10:18:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T16:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/belief-in-magic-is-not-disappearing-in-the-modern-world-study-shows"},"modified":"2026-11-07T10:18:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T16:18:32","slug":"belief-in-magic-is-not-disappearing-in-the-modern-world-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/belief-in-magic-is-not-disappearing-in-the-modern-world-study-shows","title":{"rendered":"Belief in Magic Is Not Disappearing in The Modern World, Study Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Imagine a house where footsteps supposedly echo through the hallways at night and doors close in empty rooms.<\/p>\n<p>If you had to spend a night there, would explanations involving old floorboards and drafts be enough to settle your doubts?<\/p>\n<p>As it happens, trusting a scientific explanation doesn\u2019t necessarily close the door on ghosts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a house where footsteps supposedly echo through the hallways at night and doors close in empty rooms. If you had to spend a night there, would explanations involving old floorboards and drafts be enough to settle your doubts? As it happens, trusting a scientific explanation doesn\u2019t necessarily close the door on ghosts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}