Types of Ghosts
Residual Hauntings-- These are often considered a photo in
time or leftover energy from the past. When a spirit
becomes trapped in a terrible emotional loop that repeats
over and over, like a video segment playing over repeatedly.
This would be like an echo of a personality or traumatic
events ( i.e. a battleground). This type of apparition does
not interact. Some people see apparitions, some feel
energies, and some hear sounds. There have been some
theories that limestone deposits have some effect on
residual hauntings, as they have been found near active
sites and limestone can hold electromagnetic charges.
Time Slips-- This type of haunting is most usually seen as
sounds and transparent shadows. This has been
documented for years. This may also be a type of residual
haunting. What may be occuring is actually from the past,
another time in life slipping into our time. This has yet to
have much study on it.
Crisis Apparitions-- These are apparitions of dying or
recently dead. This is the most frequently reported
apparition. This type commonly involves one-time visits to
someone with whom the apparition had close emotional ties
to. This encounter usually seems to be a type of farewell,
sometimes important or useful information is passed on to
the "viewer". This is usually a visual image that appears in
wakking visions or dreams.
Apparitions of the dead-- These are apparitions of people
who have been dead for a while. There are 2 types of
these: 1) those that make one or several visits to someone
and 2) apparitions that linger for months or years around a
particular location or person they associated with when alive.
Deathbed Apparitions-- Visual images of devine beings,
religious figures, luminosity's and dead loved ones that are
reported by the dying in the last moments of life.
Apparitions of the living-- Also called bilocation or OBE (out
of body experience). These apparitions can either be
spontaneous or intentional. In the case of spontaneous
OBE, the person whose apparition is seen is generally
(though not always) unaware of his OBE. OBE is
considered intentional when the apparition can be connected
to a personwho is aware they were haveing this experience,
or with someone who was consciuosly trying to
communicate with the person who witnessed the apparition.
Apparitions from another plane or time-- There are reports
of apparitions who act as frightened of us as we are of
them. In some cases, they indicate that we, not they are the
ghosts. In reports such as these, the observed ghosts
appera to be "normal" and "alive" as we know it, (although
the setting and dress may be of a different era or locale).
Given our incomplete understanding of time and space and
the likelihood of additional planes of existence or
dimensions, perhaps reports indicate that two distinct spatial
or time dimensions can somehow merge and coexist for a
time.
Intelligent apparitions-- These are s manifestation of a spirit
that is visible to the ey as well, but seem to have a
consciusness of there own. These have been known to
interact with people by speaking, manifesting themselves,
moving objects and other forms of communication