Deliberately Caused Bodily Damage - DCBD: Occurs in religious and occult circles. The mystics feel no pain and/or show no bleedings and infections when piercing their body with sharp objects. Sometimes slight bruising might occur.
Demon: Malevolent entities associated with negative influences.
Direct Mental Interactions with Living Systems - DMILS: The paranormal influence on cells, enzymes and other biological systems (e.g. laying on of hands). DMILS is a synonym for bio-PK.
Direct Voice Phenomenon (DVP): The voice of a ghost or spirit being spoken to the sitters of a s�ance. 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 previously unmarked, unwritten surface.
Doppelganger: Someone sees his/her own ghost or a duplicate of him/herself. This duplicate is always vague and transparent. According to a German superstition, such an apparition was an omen of an imminent death.
Double or Astral Body: The etheric body, which is claimed to be able to separate itself from the physical body and is able, from there, to operate independently as the center of the consciousness.
Dowsing: The paranormal detection of underground water or mineral deposits (or lost persons and objects) using a divining rod or a pendulum.
Drop-In Communicator: A ghost, spirit or entity that makes its presence known at a s�ance.
Earth Lights - Storm Sprites: Like Ball lightning, except on a much larger scale. Luminous phenomena typically shaped in ball (Mostly seen from space) and forms irregular patches of light appearing randomly in the clouds and defying explanation.
Ectoplasm (1): Ectoplasm can be either a solid, liquid or vaporous substance witch is produced by the interaction of a ghosts or spirits with solid matter; it is usually a milky white color and has an ozone smell. Some forms of ectoplasm are known to move in lifelike patterns.
Ectoplasm, Substance X, Teleplasm (2): Ectoplasm is a cold and moist substance, responsible for the production of various finite energies outside the medium�s body or on the walls left behind by a manifestation.
Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP): EVP is the attempt to capture a ghost�s or spirit�s voice on audio recording tapes. Typically there is no voice heard to the people present in the recording but after reviewing the tapes there are strange voices recorded, usually frequency reading is outside human the hearing range.
