| Agent - The apparition or ghost seen by a human being Amulet - Any object that's thought to have the power to ward off ghosts and evil spirits or to bring good luck Apparition - Any disembodied spirit that appears visibly Apport - A solid object that appears from nowhere in the presence of a medium Asport - Any objects that the spirits or the medium makes disappear or teleports to another location Astral Projection - An outer body experience Automatic Writing - Communication from the spirit in written form Automatism - Any unconscious and spontaneous muscular movement caused by the spirits Channeling - A form of spirit communication Cold Reading A technique using a series of statements, questions and answers that allows fake mediums, mind readers and magicians to obtain previously unknown information about a person Collective Apparition - An unusual type of spirit sighting in which more than one person sees the same phenomenon Collective Unconscious - The collective memory of all humanity's past held in the individual unconscious mind Control - A control lives in the spirit world and is manifested by a medium, used in a s�ance to act on the mediums as a guide amongst the spirits Crisis Apparition - A specific type of a out-of-body experience in which the agent projects his or her astral body at a time of a crisis or death to a particular percipient. Cross-Correspondences - Interrelated bits of information received by the spirit world by different mediums at different times and locations. The communications must be joined together to form a complete message from the spirit(s) Direct Voice Phenomenon (DVP) - A spirit voice spoken directly to sitters at a s�ance Direct Writing - A spirits handwriting appears directly on an unmarked surface Drop-in Communicator - A spirit that makes itself known at a s�ance Dybbuk - found is Jewish legend is the restless soul of a deceased human being that enters the body and takes possession of a still-living person Ectoplasm - A solid or vaporous substance, life-like and moldable; dense but liquidy or as I call it - Ghost Snot LOL Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) - The capture of spirit voices on magnetic tape as an audio recording Exorcism - The expulsion of a ghost, spirit, demon or any other entity thought to be possessing or haunting a human being or location Ghost - A form of apparition, the visual appearance of a deceased human's spirit soul Ghost Hunt - An informal attempt to simply sight or record a ghost in a location similar to others known to be haunted Ghost Investigation - A carefully controlled research project, set up to record paranormal activity at a location known to be haunted Ghost Hunter - A person who searches for, finds and sometimes is able to identify apparititions or the cause of spirit activity Ghostbuster - A person who removes a ghost, poltergeist, spirit or spectral activity from a haunted site Gray Lady - The ghost of a woman's whose death has been caused by a loved one or who died while waiting for her lover o return or appear Hallucination - A false or distorted perception of objects or events with a full belief in their reality Haunt - A ghost that returns to the same location is said to haunt it Ignis Fatuus - "Foolish Fire" - Any variety of a ghost or spectral lights Kabala - A collected way of thinking based on ancient Jewish spiritual writing and their mystic interpretation Magnetometer - A device that measures Marian Apparition - The appearance of the ghostlike figure of the Virgin Mary Materialization - The production of some physical object or person from the spirit world Medium - Someone who can communicate with spirits on behalf of another living being; the medium acts as a midway point, halfway between the worlds of the living and the dead Mesmerism - The induction of a sleep or trance state; aka hypnotism Near-Death Experience (NDE) - Is undergone by a person who clinically dies or comes close to actual death and is revived Necromancy - A form of prophecy is which the seer or sorcerer/sorceress raises the spirit of the dead in order to have the wraith foretell future events Objective Apparitions - Apparitions or phenomenon that appear independent of our minds, thoughts or feelings Oracle - A seeress who is about to communicate with the gods and the deceased to foretell the future Ouija Board - A board pre-printed with letters, numerals and words used by mediums to receive spirit communications. A planchette is used to spell out words or point out numbers/words Out-of-Body Experience (OBE) - The paranormal phenomenon in which a spirit double leaves your body and travels to another location Paranormal - Something that is beyond the range of normal human experience or scientific explanation Percipient - A person who sees an apparition or ghost Phantom Traveler - The ghost of a human or animal that haunts a specific roadway, route or vehicle Planchette - A palm-sized triangular platform that is used as a pointer during the operation of a Ouija Board Poltergeist - A non-human spirit entity and is more malicious and destructive then ghosts of dead human beings Purgatory - The place where souls of people who have died in grace must suffer while being cleansed of their sins before entering heaven Radio Voice Phenomenon (RVP) Receiving the voice of a deceased human being over a regular radio Reciprocal Apparition - An rare type of spirit phenomenon in which both the agent and the percipient see and respond to each other Repressed Psychokinetic Energy - A psychic forced produced by an individual undergoing physical or mental trauma; when released, some think the power causes paranormal occurrences such as poltergeist activity Retro cognition - A sudden time warp in which you find yourself in the past, seeing to experiencing events of which you had no prior knowledge Scrying - A type of prophecy in which the fortune-teller reveals the future while staring into a mirror or some other reflective surface or crystal ball S�ance - A gathering of individuals, led by a medium, to contact spirits and/or have communication with the dead Sensitive - Someone who is aware of or can feel paranormal presences that can't be picked up by the regular 5 senses Shaman - A wizard in tribal Societies who is an intermediary between the living, the dead and the gods Spirit Cabinet - A solid or curtained enclose within which the medium sits to allow the spirits to appear in darkness Spirit Photography - A spirit photograph captures the image of a ghost on film Spirit Theater - A term used by modern-day magicians to describe shows, acts to tricks in which ghosts or other spirit activity are produced Spiritualism - A belief that the spirits of the dead can communicate with living humans Subjective Apparitions - Hallucinations created by our minds Super ESP - A powerful form of telepathy that allows a medium to unconsciously pick up information about a deceased person from other living people Supernatural - Something that exists or occurs through some means other than an known force in nature; demonic intervention Telepathic Projection - Suggests that spirits of the dead sent mental messages to the living rather then physically returning as ghosts Teleportation - An object is moved from one distinct location to another such as a solid wall Wild Hunt - A group of ghost huntsmen, horses and hounds in procession always seen at night |
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