Wendy Zukerman

There's a chill in the air.

Out in the east, the full moon was on the rise.

And she ventured into a park to hear firsthand what people experience when there's a full moon.

That damn moon.

Some people said that the full moon stirred up all this drama in their lives.

One guy said that sometimes he doesn't even go out when there's a full moon.

I'm going to stay in that night.

I'm going to play it safe.

Just like because I know I could feel weird or do crazy stuff.

Folks said you just knew it was going to be a full moon that night because people at work would be going bonkers.

And this is in the research too.

It shows that some healthcare workers think the full moon makes their patients behave stranger.

One survey even showed that some doctors and nurses think they should get full moon hazard pay.

Meryl heard about this as well at the park.

And perhaps the creepiest thing of all, people said that the full moon could make blood come out of your vagina.

I mean, they didn't put it quite like that.

So could the moon be affecting our body and our behaviour in these strange ways?

While this idea might sound like it belongs in the world of horoscopes, perhaps even fairy tales, some scientists have been taking it very seriously.

And in the past few years in particular, there's been a slew of peer-reviewed scientific papers coming out and claiming that the moon really can affect our bodies.

in very surprising ways.