Corner People

I heard someone describe something that I experience quite often: corner people. In my house, often see people out of the corner of my eye - I'll turn my head just in time to see them step through a doorway, or vanish entirely. It happens so much to my wife and I that I can't dispute it... and I’ve heard other people say the same things about haunted places. Recently I heard a very interesting explanation for that phenomenon. One expert theorizes that the way that the “rods and cones” are set up in our eyes, we are particularly sensitive to movement in our peripheral vision. This goes back to our tribal hunter days, where we would be tipped off if an animal was suddenly attacking us from the side. If that’s true, it certainly explains a lot about the figures that are reported out of the corners of our eye.