2006 Terms
and definitions
and definitions
Agent: A human being, typically a teenage
female,who unknowingly directs poltergeist energy.
Altered State of consciousness (ASC): any state of
consciousness that is different from "normal"
states of waking or sleeping.
Amulet: An object that has the power to ward off
ghosts and evil spirits.
Angel: Benevolent spiritual beings who help watch
over people.
Apparition: the disembodied soul or spirit that can
be seen visually.
Apport: When a solid object seemingly appears
from out of no where,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 the spirits in the
presence of a medium.
Astral Body: The soul of an individual projected
outside of their bodies.
Astral Projection: See out of Body (OBE)
Atmospheric Apparition: Not actually a ghost or
spirit,but instead a "visual imprint" of people and
events that was left behind in the environment that
continues to replay.
Aura: A field of energy believed by some to
surround living creatures.
Automatic Writing: A type of communication with
ghosts or spirits where they take control over the
writers hand and write out messages.
Automation: An unconscious muscular movement
caused by ghosts or the spirits. Automatic writing
is a example.
Banshee: Omen spirits of Ireland and Scotland.
Channeling: A form of spirit communication where
a unseen entity possesses a medium in a
controlled environment.
Charms: A spell or object possessing magic power.
Clairvoyance: Either an internal or external vision
of present or future events, objects, places and
people.
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.
Collective Unconscious: Form of analytical
psychology developed by Carl Jung. It is the
collective memory of all the humanity's past and is
held somewhere inside the unconscious mind.
Crisis Apparition: Ghosts that appear to loved ones
and close friends just before or soon after their
death.
Cross Correspondence: Information received from
the spirit world.
Crossroads: Point where two roads intersect. Said
to be focus point of supernatural energy.
Death Bed Apparitions: See Crisis Apparition.
Demon: Fallen angels associated with evil.
Direct Voice Phenomenon (DVP): The voice of a
ghost or spirit being spoken to the 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 previously unmarked,
unwritten surface.
Drop-In Communicator: A ghost, spirit or entity that
makes its presence known at a seance.
Dowsing: The paranormal detection of
underground water or mineral deposits (or lost
persons and objects) using a divining rod or
pendulum.
Dybbuk: A Jewish legend. The restless soul of a
deceased human being that enters the body of a
living person and takes possession.
Earth Lights: Luminous phenomena typically
shaped in ball form or irregular patches of light
appearing randomly and defying explanation.
Ectoplasm: It can be either a solid, liquid or
vaporous substance produced by ghosts or spirits.
It is usually a milky white color and has an ozone
smell. Some forms of ectoplasm are known to
move in lifelike patterns.
Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP): It is the
attempt to capture a ghost or spirits voice on audio
recording tapes. Typically there is no voice heard
to the people present at the recording but after
reviewing the tapes there are strange voices
recorded.
Electro-Magnetic Field (EMF) Detectors: Handheld
scientific instruments that can pick up electronic
and magnetic fields over different frequencies.
They can read changes 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).
Extrasensory Perception (ESP): The acquisition of
information by means beyond the five human
senses.
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.
Fairy: Small, human-like mythical being. May be
benevolent or malevolent.
False Awakening: And 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.
Focal Person: Person who is at the center of
poltergeist activity.
Ghost: The visual appearance of a spirit or soul of
a deceased being, human or animal. The
disembodied soul or life force.
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 see a ghost or spirit.
Ghost Hunter: A living individual who searches out
and something finds and identifies ghosts and
spirits.
Ghost Investigation: A scientific endeavor, in a
controlled environment, set up to communicate,
record, and capture visual evidence of the
existence of ghost.
Ghost Lights: See earth lights.
Ghostbuster: A living person who can remove an
unwanted ghost, spirit, entity or poltergeist activity
from a particular location.
Ghoul: Evil spirit or monster that robs graves and
feeds off of the flesh of the dead.
Gray Lady: the ghost of a woman who has died at
eh hands of a lover or waits for the return of a
loved one.
Guardian Angel: An angel believed to protect the
individual.
Halloween: All Hallows Eve, is the night of October
31st when the spirit and normal world allegedly
become one.
Hallucination: A false and distorted perception of
reality.
Haunt: A place where a ghost or ghosts frequently
return.
Haunting: The continuous manifestion of
inexplicable phenomena associated with the
presence of ghosts of 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.
Hitchhikers: Spirits and other supernatural entities
that attach themselves to people, objects or other
supernatural entities for the purpose of moving
from one place to another. Hitchhikers can
stowaway between dimensions, or between
locations in the same dimension.
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.
Lucid Dreams: A dream where the dreamer does
not know that they are dreaming.
Luminous Phenomena: The experience of strange
lights or glows, often around objects or people.
Magnetometer: A technical device used to study
the strength, direction and fluctuation of magnetic
fields.
Marian Apparitions: The appearance of the Virgin
Mary.
Materialization: The manifestation of physical
objects, animals or people.
Medium: A person with a gift to communicate with
ghosts and spirits on behalf of the living.
Modern Apparitions: "New" Ghosts of deceased
individuals. They appear in fashion from the
current time.
Near-Death Experience (NDE): A phenomenon in
which a person clinically dies or comes very close
to death only to be revived and then can recall in
great detail stories of spiritual worlds and other
supernatural events.
Necromancer: A person usually considered a
wizard or sorcerer, who can raise the dead and
command the spirits to obtain information about
the future.
Necromancy: A form of prophesy preformed by
necromancer.
Omen: A foretelling of a future event.
Oracle: A seer who can communicate with ghosts,
spirits and Gods Of obtain information.
Ouija Board: A board with letters and numbers
used by people who are attempting to
communicate with ghosts or spirits.
Out-Of-Body (OBE): Also called Astral Projection.
The phenomenon in which a living person's spirit
can exit their body, travel the earth and other
spiritual worlds and then return back to their
bodies.
Paranormal: Beyond the normal.
Parapsychology: The scientific study of unusual
events associated with the human experience and
PSI subjects.
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 stretch of road or route.
Phantom Hitchhikers ask for rides only to suddenly
disappear when they reach their destination.
Photographic Apparitions: Ghosts and spirits that
you can't see, but appear in photographs after
they are developed.
Planchette: A pointer used with a Ouija Board to
communicate with ghosts, spirits or higher plane
entities.
Poltergeist: "Noisy Ghost" Poltergeists are invisible
masses of spirit energy that may or may not be
connected to a living human Agent.
Possession: When a person mind and body are
taken over by ghost, spirits or other supernatural
entities such as demons.
Precognition: the paranormal awareness of future
events.
PSI: A general term used to denote the unknown
factors responsible for a variety of paranormal
phenomena.
Psychic: popular term used to denote a person
who regularly uses, or who appears to be
especially gifted with PSI abilities.
Psychic Echo: When sounds from the past have
mysteriously recorded themselves into the natural
environment.
Psychokinesis (PK): Mind movement. The
apparent ability to influence the environment by
intention alone.
Purgatory: The place where the souls of those who
die must go to be cleansed of all their sins before
they can be admitted into heaven.
Radio Voice Phenomena (RVP): The voice of a
ghost or spirit communicating through a regular
radio.
Reciprocal Apparition: An experience where both
he agent and the ghost or spirit see and react with
each other.
Recurring Apparition: Ghost or spirits that appear
in regular cycles, usually on or around the
anniversary of their death.
Reincarnation: The belief that a soul can be reborn
into a new body after death.
Repressed Psycho kinetic Energy: A theoretical
psychic force unconsciously produced by an
individual while under going a physical or mental
trauma.
Retrocognition: Paranormal Knowledge of past
events.
Scrying: A type of prophecy where an individual
can see future events by staring into a shiny or
reflective surface, such as a mirror or crystal ball.
Seance: The gathering of a group of individuals for
the purpose of communicating with the dead.
Sensitive: Someone who is aware or can detect
paranormal events beyond the range of their five
human senses.
Screaming Skulls: Human skulls that protest with
poltergeist activity when their final wishes are not
fulfilled.
Shaman: A which doctor or medicine man who
communicates with spirits while in trance and who
has the power of healing.
Sixth Sence: Popular term for ESP.
Sleep Paralysis: A frightening state of seeming to
being awake but unable to move.
Soul: the spiritual lifeforce or essence, carrying an
individual's personality and consciousness 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 represent places 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 those of deceased
persons.
Spirit Profile: Researching the background and
history of the ghost or spirit, then determining its
consistent patterns as a result of the findings.
Spiritualism: Belief systems that ghosts and spirits
can and do communicate with the living.
Spook Lights: She Earth Lights.
Stigmata: Unexplained markings on a person's
body that correspond to the wounds of Christ.
Super-ESP: A more powerful form of telepathy that
allow certain individuals to pick up information
about a deceased person from other living people.
Supernatural: Something that exists or occurs
through some means other than any known force
in nature or science.
Time-Slips: Moments where the past and present
collide at one point.
Telepathy: Mind-to-mind communication.
Telephone Calls From The Dead: When a person
receives a telephone call from someone who is
dead. The person may or may not know that the
caller is deceased.
Teleportation: Paranormal transportation of an
object from one location to another, even through
solid objects.
Transportation Apparitions: The appearance of
ghostly cars, trucks, ships, bicycles, carriages,
trains, airplanes and anything else that carry
people. They haunt their old routes.
Vampire: A supernatural creature (undead) that
can only come out at night and lives by drinking
the blood of the living.
Wild Hunt: A group of ghost horsemen or packs of
ghostly dogs seen at night.
Witch: A women with supernatural powers.
Wraith: A ghost that comes back to avenge its own
death. Considered an omen spirit.
female,who unknowingly directs poltergeist energy.
Altered State of consciousness (ASC): any state of
consciousness that is different from "normal"
states of waking or sleeping.
Amulet: An object that has the power to ward off
ghosts and evil spirits.
Angel: Benevolent spiritual beings who help watch
over people.
Apparition: the disembodied soul or spirit that can
be seen visually.
Apport: When a solid object seemingly appears
from out of no where,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 the spirits in the
presence of a medium.
Astral Body: The soul of an individual projected
outside of their bodies.
Astral Projection: See out of Body (OBE)
Atmospheric Apparition: Not actually a ghost or
spirit,but instead a "visual imprint" of people and
events that was left behind in the environment that
continues to replay.
Aura: A field of energy believed by some to
surround living creatures.
Automatic Writing: A type of communication with
ghosts or spirits where they take control over the
writers hand and write out messages.
Automation: An unconscious muscular movement
caused by ghosts or the spirits. Automatic writing
is a example.
Banshee: Omen spirits of Ireland and Scotland.
Channeling: A form of spirit communication where
a unseen entity possesses a medium in a
controlled environment.
Charms: A spell or object possessing magic power.
Clairvoyance: Either an internal or external vision
of present or future events, objects, places and
people.
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.
Collective Unconscious: Form of analytical
psychology developed by Carl Jung. It is the
collective memory of all the humanity's past and is
held somewhere inside the unconscious mind.
Crisis Apparition: Ghosts that appear to loved ones
and close friends just before or soon after their
death.
Cross Correspondence: Information received from
the spirit world.
Crossroads: Point where two roads intersect. Said
to be focus point of supernatural energy.
Death Bed Apparitions: See Crisis Apparition.
Demon: Fallen angels associated with evil.
Direct Voice Phenomenon (DVP): The voice of a
ghost or spirit being spoken to the 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 previously unmarked,
unwritten surface.
Drop-In Communicator: A ghost, spirit or entity that
makes its presence known at a seance.
Dowsing: The paranormal detection of
underground water or mineral deposits (or lost
persons and objects) using a divining rod or
pendulum.
Dybbuk: A Jewish legend. The restless soul of a
deceased human being that enters the body of a
living person and takes possession.
Earth Lights: Luminous phenomena typically
shaped in ball form or irregular patches of light
appearing randomly and defying explanation.
Ectoplasm: It can be either a solid, liquid or
vaporous substance produced by ghosts or spirits.
It is usually a milky white color and has an ozone
smell. Some forms of ectoplasm are known to
move in lifelike patterns.
Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP): It is the
attempt to capture a ghost or spirits voice on audio
recording tapes. Typically there is no voice heard
to the people present at the recording but after
reviewing the tapes there are strange voices
recorded.
Electro-Magnetic Field (EMF) Detectors: Handheld
scientific instruments that can pick up electronic
and magnetic fields over different frequencies.
They can read changes 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).
Extrasensory Perception (ESP): The acquisition of
information by means beyond the five human
senses.
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.
Fairy: Small, human-like mythical being. May be
benevolent or malevolent.
False Awakening: And 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.
Focal Person: Person who is at the center of
poltergeist activity.
Ghost: The visual appearance of a spirit or soul of
a deceased being, human or animal. The
disembodied soul or life force.
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 see a ghost or spirit.
Ghost Hunter: A living individual who searches out
and something finds and identifies ghosts and
spirits.
Ghost Investigation: A scientific endeavor, in a
controlled environment, set up to communicate,
record, and capture visual evidence of the
existence of ghost.
Ghost Lights: See earth lights.
Ghostbuster: A living person who can remove an
unwanted ghost, spirit, entity or poltergeist activity
from a particular location.
Ghoul: Evil spirit or monster that robs graves and
feeds off of the flesh of the dead.
Gray Lady: the ghost of a woman who has died at
eh hands of a lover or waits for the return of a
loved one.
Guardian Angel: An angel believed to protect the
individual.
Halloween: All Hallows Eve, is the night of October
31st when the spirit and normal world allegedly
become one.
Hallucination: A false and distorted perception of
reality.
Haunt: A place where a ghost or ghosts frequently
return.
Haunting: The continuous manifestion of
inexplicable phenomena associated with the
presence of ghosts of 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.
Hitchhikers: Spirits and other supernatural entities
that attach themselves to people, objects or other
supernatural entities for the purpose of moving
from one place to another. Hitchhikers can
stowaway between dimensions, or between
locations in the same dimension.
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.
Lucid Dreams: A dream where the dreamer does
not know that they are dreaming.
Luminous Phenomena: The experience of strange
lights or glows, often around objects or people.
Magnetometer: A technical device used to study
the strength, direction and fluctuation of magnetic
fields.
Marian Apparitions: The appearance of the Virgin
Mary.
Materialization: The manifestation of physical
objects, animals or people.
Medium: A person with a gift to communicate with
ghosts and spirits on behalf of the living.
Modern Apparitions: "New" Ghosts of deceased
individuals. They appear in fashion from the
current time.
Near-Death Experience (NDE): A phenomenon in
which a person clinically dies or comes very close
to death only to be revived and then can recall in
great detail stories of spiritual worlds and other
supernatural events.
Necromancer: A person usually considered a
wizard or sorcerer, who can raise the dead and
command the spirits to obtain information about
the future.
Necromancy: A form of prophesy preformed by
necromancer.
Omen: A foretelling of a future event.
Oracle: A seer who can communicate with ghosts,
spirits and Gods Of obtain information.
Ouija Board: A board with letters and numbers
used by people who are attempting to
communicate with ghosts or spirits.
Out-Of-Body (OBE): Also called Astral Projection.
The phenomenon in which a living person's spirit
can exit their body, travel the earth and other
spiritual worlds and then return back to their
bodies.
Paranormal: Beyond the normal.
Parapsychology: The scientific study of unusual
events associated with the human experience and
PSI subjects.
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 stretch of road or route.
Phantom Hitchhikers ask for rides only to suddenly
disappear when they reach their destination.
Photographic Apparitions: Ghosts and spirits that
you can't see, but appear in photographs after
they are developed.
Planchette: A pointer used with a Ouija Board to
communicate with ghosts, spirits or higher plane
entities.
Poltergeist: "Noisy Ghost" Poltergeists are invisible
masses of spirit energy that may or may not be
connected to a living human Agent.
Possession: When a person mind and body are
taken over by ghost, spirits or other supernatural
entities such as demons.
Precognition: the paranormal awareness of future
events.
PSI: A general term used to denote the unknown
factors responsible for a variety of paranormal
phenomena.
Psychic: popular term used to denote a person
who regularly uses, or who appears to be
especially gifted with PSI abilities.
Psychic Echo: When sounds from the past have
mysteriously recorded themselves into the natural
environment.
Psychokinesis (PK): Mind movement. The
apparent ability to influence the environment by
intention alone.
Purgatory: The place where the souls of those who
die must go to be cleansed of all their sins before
they can be admitted into heaven.
Radio Voice Phenomena (RVP): The voice of a
ghost or spirit communicating through a regular
radio.
Reciprocal Apparition: An experience where both
he agent and the ghost or spirit see and react with
each other.
Recurring Apparition: Ghost or spirits that appear
in regular cycles, usually on or around the
anniversary of their death.
Reincarnation: The belief that a soul can be reborn
into a new body after death.
Repressed Psycho kinetic Energy: A theoretical
psychic force unconsciously produced by an
individual while under going a physical or mental
trauma.
Retrocognition: Paranormal Knowledge of past
events.
Scrying: A type of prophecy where an individual
can see future events by staring into a shiny or
reflective surface, such as a mirror or crystal ball.
Seance: The gathering of a group of individuals for
the purpose of communicating with the dead.
Sensitive: Someone who is aware or can detect
paranormal events beyond the range of their five
human senses.
Screaming Skulls: Human skulls that protest with
poltergeist activity when their final wishes are not
fulfilled.
Shaman: A which doctor or medicine man who
communicates with spirits while in trance and who
has the power of healing.
Sixth Sence: Popular term for ESP.
Sleep Paralysis: A frightening state of seeming to
being awake but unable to move.
Soul: the spiritual lifeforce or essence, carrying an
individual's personality and consciousness 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 represent places 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 those of deceased
persons.
Spirit Profile: Researching the background and
history of the ghost or spirit, then determining its
consistent patterns as a result of the findings.
Spiritualism: Belief systems that ghosts and spirits
can and do communicate with the living.
Spook Lights: She Earth Lights.
Stigmata: Unexplained markings on a person's
body that correspond to the wounds of Christ.
Super-ESP: A more powerful form of telepathy that
allow certain individuals to pick up information
about a deceased person from other living people.
Supernatural: Something that exists or occurs
through some means other than any known force
in nature or science.
Time-Slips: Moments where the past and present
collide at one point.
Telepathy: Mind-to-mind communication.
Telephone Calls From The Dead: When a person
receives a telephone call from someone who is
dead. The person may or may not know that the
caller is deceased.
Teleportation: Paranormal transportation of an
object from one location to another, even through
solid objects.
Transportation Apparitions: The appearance of
ghostly cars, trucks, ships, bicycles, carriages,
trains, airplanes and anything else that carry
people. They haunt their old routes.
Vampire: A supernatural creature (undead) that
can only come out at night and lives by drinking
the blood of the living.
Wild Hunt: A group of ghost horsemen or packs of
ghostly dogs seen at night.
Witch: A women with supernatural powers.
Wraith: A ghost that comes back to avenge its own
death. Considered an omen spirit.