Exorcism: A religious rite used to cast out a ghost, spirit or entity from a living persons body or a particular location.
Exorcist: A religious "holy man" who conducts an exorcism.
Extrasensory Perception (ESP): The acquisition of information by means beyond the five human senses.
Experimenter Effect: The theory that experimenters hold a key function in whether an experiment is successful or not. Test persons can be influenced by the wishes, personality, body language or Psi-capacities of the experimenter.
False Awakening: An experience in which a person believes he or she has woken up, but actually is still dreaming.
Family Apparitions: Ghosts that haunt one particular family. Their appearance usually means that someone within the family is about to die.
Fear Cage: A phenomenon produced when there is a high concentration of electrical wiring run through metal conduit. The ambient electrical field can produce feelings of nausea and unease in the short term, and has been proven to have long-term health consequences, such as tinnitis (ringing in the ears) and headaches.
Focal Person: Person who is at the center of poltergeist activity.
Galvanic Skin Response: The reaction and resistance level of skin to electrical current. A person with a low galvanic skin response will show a higher conductivity level for spirit/ethereal energies than a person with a high galvanic skin response.
General Extrasensory Perception - GESP: Undifferentiated ESP during which Telepathy, Clairvoyance, Precognition or Retrocognition, also known as Post-Cognition can operate simultaneously.
Geo-magnetic Field: Magnetic field generated by the Earth.
Ghost: The visual appearance of a spirit or soul of a deceased human or animal. The disembodied soul or life force.
Ghost buster: A living person who can remove an unwanted ghost, spirit, entity or poltergeist activity from a particular location by technological or metaphysical means.
Ghost Catcher: A wind chime like device that makes noise as a ghost or spirit passes by it.
Ghost Hunt: An attempt made by the living to find and/or see a ghost or spirits, generally by technological means.
Ghost Hunter: A living individual who seeks out and sometimes finds and identifies ghosts and spirits, generally by technological means.
Ghost Investigation: A scientific endeavor, in a controlled environment, set up to communicate with, record, and capture visual evidence of the existence of ghosts, by technological means.
Ghosts: Usually a photo based phenomenon resembling humanoid figures, appearing in places where no one resides or is present; most often explicable through research. Some �ghosts� turn out to be no more than random bands of mist. Then, of course, we have the ones that occupy a well-lived-in home that can either coexist with minimal haunting activity, or there can be harsh activity that can cause the occupants to flee.
