Top five spookiest insurance products

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Halloween is not the only night of the year people fear the supernatural, as our compilation of the morbid and bizarre but genuine insurance products show.

Alien abduction cover In the mid-90s, when X Files was all the rage, genuine fear of alien abduction played right into the hands of specialist insurers Goodfellow Rebecca Ingrams Pearson (GRIP). However, GRIP pulled out of the alien insurance market in 1997 after it emerged members of the Heaven's Gate cult, who had been manipulated by leaders into a mass suicide, had taken out an abduction policy worth $1m per person. Immaculate conception protection British Insurance (BI), a subsidiary of Towergate Financial, insured three sisters living in Inverness, Scotland against the possibi...

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