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One ghost hunting organization gets anywhere from 30 to 80 clients in a year. While they tend to get a few more requests around October, those cases are often not legitimate according to the organization’s founder.

Using social media activates the brain’s reward center by releasing dopamine. Dopamine is a chemical linked to pleasurable activities, and too much or too little of it has been linked with mental health disorders and challenges.

If you’re looking for chills and thrills beyond Halloween, here are just a few of Iowa’s haunted sites you can visit year-round. Most are close to home, but the most notorious one is in the southwest corner of the state.

Available at Cedar Valley Humane Society

You’d be hard pressed to listen to any political speech or debate and not hear the word family. Whether it’s “middle-class families,” or “immigrant families,” or “the break-down of families,” politicians frequently invoke the term.

With sister city Douglas, these towns harbor culture, cuisine and outdoor adventure near the shores of Lake Michigan.

Available for adoption at Cedar Rapids Animal Care & Control

Taken together, proportion and scale are one of seven design principles. Interior designers use these principles to develop a room.