Goosebumps arise when tiny muscles around hair follicles contract, causing the hair to stand on end. Learn what triggers them ...

Scientists have discovered a rare group of people who can actually induce goosebumps when they want to. But if you’re like most people, you only get goosebumps involuntarily — namely, when you’re cold ...

Goosebumps occur when the arrector pili muscles cause the hairs to stand up, making the skin look bumpy. A person may notice goosebumps on the arms, legs, or trunk. When the hairs stand up on the skin ...

You’re watching a suspenseful movie when suddenly the hairs on your arms stand up, your skin prickles with tiny bumps, and a shiver runs down your spine. Or maybe you’re standing outside on a chilly ...

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Children of the ’90s were a different breed, thriving on all that was scary and traumatizing, from late-night series like Tales from the Crypt to horror books like Goosebumps. What we survived back ...

Human bodies do a lot of weird stuff. But goosebumps may be one of our strangest bodily functions. Goosebumps are humanity’s near-universal reaction to the cold. But for some reason, those ...

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LOS ANGELES -- The official trailer for "Goosebumps: The Vanishing" was revealed during New York Comic-Con. The series stars David Schwimmer as Anthony Brewer, a former botany professor who has ...

As someone who grew up reading every single Goosebumps book I could convince my mother to buy, there's an uncomfortable truth I've had to come to terms with as an adult: The Goosebumps books aren't ...