Apparition: The disembodied soul or spirit that can be seen visually.
Apport: When a solid object seemingly appears from out of nowhere, with the help of the spirits in the presence of a medium.
Asport: When a solid object is teleported to a different location with the help of thespirits in the presence of a medium.
Astral Body: The soul of an individual projected outside of their bodies.
Atmospheric Apparition: Not actually a ghost or spirit, but instead a "visualimprint" of people and events that was left behind in the environment that continuesto replay.
Aura: A field of energy believed by some to surround living creatures.
Cold Reading: A psychic reading given with no prior knowledge of the sitter.
Collective Apparition: A ghost or spirit sighting simultaneously by more than one living person.
Crisis Apparition: Ghosts that appear to loved ones and close friends just before orsoon after their death.
Demon: Fallen angels associated with evil.
Direct Voice Phenomenon (DVP): The voice of a ghost or spirit being spoken tothe sitters of a seance. The voice usually comes from some point near the medium,but not through the medium. Sometimes a spirit horn or trumpet is used.Direct Writing: When ghost or spirit's handwriting appears directly on a previouslyunmarked, unwritten surface.
Dowsing: The paranormal detection of underground water or mineral deposits ( orlost persons and objects) using a divining rod or pendulum.
Ectoplasm: Ectoplasm can be either a solid, liquid or vaporous substance producedby ghosts or spirits, It is usually a milky white color and has an ozone smell. Someforms of ectoplasm are known to move in lifelike patterns.
Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP): EVP is the attempt to capture a ghost orspirits voice on audio recording tapes. Typically there is no voice heard to thepeople present in the recording but after reviewing the tapes there are strange voicesrecorded.
Electro-Magnetic Field (EMF) Detectors: Handheld scientific instruments thatcan pick up electronic and magnetic fields over different frequencies. They can readchanges and distortions in the normal electro-magnetic fields.
Elemental Spirit: A spirit associated with one of the classical four elements (fire,earth, air and water).
Energy Vortex: see Ectoplasm.
Extrasensory Perception (ESP): The acquisition of information by means beyondthe five human senses.
Exorcism: A religious rite used to cast out a ghost, spirit or entity from a livingpersons body or a particular location.
Exorcist: A religious "holy man" who conducts an exorcism.
False Awakening: An experience in which a person believes he or she has wokenup, but actually is still dreaming.
Family Apparitions: Ghosts that haunt one particular family. Their appearance usally means that someone within the family is about to die.
Ghost: The visual appearance of a spirit or soul of a deceased being, human oranimal. The disembodied soul or lifeforce.
Ghost Catcher: A wind chime like device that makes noise as a ghost or spiritpasses by it.
Ghost Hunt: An attempt made by the living to find and see a ghost or spirit.
Ghost Hunter: A living individual who searches out and sometime finds andidentifies ghosts and spirits.
Ghost Investigation: A scientific endeavor, in a controlled environment, set up tocommunicate, record, and capture visual evidence of the existence of ghosts.
Haunting: The continuous manifestation of inexplicable phenomena associatedwith the presence of ghosts or spirits attached to a particular location.
Haunted Objects: Jewelry, furniture, clothing, etc, that seem to be haunted by a past owner or have been cursed. Hypnotism: An induced trance or sleep state.
Ley Lines: Invisible lines that run between sacred objects or locations.
Levitation: The paranormal raising or suspension of an object or person.
Magnetometer: A technical device used to study the strength, direction andfluctuation or magnetic fields. Medium: A person with a gift to communicate with ghosts and spirits on behave ofthe living.
Modern Apparitions: "New" Ghosts of deceased individuals. They appear infashion from the current time.
Near-Death Experience (NDE): A phenomenon in which a person clinically diesor comes very close to death only to be revived and then can recall in great detailstories of spiritual worlds and other supernatural events.
Orb: A mass of energy in the shape of a ball, there are several classifications depending on size, ghostly appritions are usally always associated with an orb and are present.
Out-Of-Body (OBE): Also called Astral Projection. The phenomenon in which aliving person's spirit can exit their body, travel the earth and other spiritual worldsand then return back to their bodies.
Paranormal: Beyond the normal.
Percipient: A living person who sees a ghost, spirit or paranormal event.Phantom Animals: Ghosts of deceased animals.
Phantom Hitchhiker or Traveler: A ghost or spirit that haunts a particular stretchof road or route. Phantom Hitchhikers ask for rides only to suddenly disappearwhen they reach their destination.
Photographic Apparitions: Ghosts and spirits that you can't see, but appear inphotographs after they are developed.
Poltergeist: "Noisy Ghost." Poltergeists are invisible masses of spirit energy thatmay or may not be connected to a living human Agent. Some of the most commonpoltergeists activities include loud unexplained noise, levitations, the moving ofobjects, and electrical problems.
Possession: When a persons mind and body are taken over by ghosts, spirits orother supernatural entities such as demons.
Psychic: Popular term used to denote a person who regularly uses, or who appearsto be especially gifted with, psi abilities.
Psychic echo: When sounds from the past have mysteriously recorded themselvesinto the natural environment.
Radio Voice Phenomenon (RVP): The voice of a ghost or spirit communicatingthrough a regular radio.
Recurring Apparitions: Ghosts or spirits that appear in regular cycles, usuallyonce a year, on the anniversary of their dead for example.
Reincarnation: The belief that a soul can be reborn into a new body after death.
Repressed Psychokinetic Energy: A theoretical psychic force unconsciouslyproduced by an individual while undergoing a physical or mental trauma.
Sleep Paralysis: A frightening state of seeming to being awake but unable to move.
Soul: The spiritual life force or essence, carrying an individual's personality andconsciousness of all actions.
Spectre: A ghost or apparition.
Spirit: Often used to define the soul of a person, but it can also be used to representplaces such as sacred lakes or objects, shrines, and elemental entities.
Spirit Detection: The reading made by scientific equipment (EMF Detectors,Temperature changes, etc.) when a ghost or spirit is present.
Spirit Photography: Photographs of figures or faces, believed by some to be thoseof deceased persons.
Stigmata: Unexplained markings on a person's body that correspond to the woundsof Christ.
Supernatural: Something that exists of occurs through some means other than anyknow force in nature or science.
Time-Slips: Moments where the past and present collide at one point.Telepathy: Mind-to-mind communication.