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1. Agent: A living person at the site of a
haunting. Some human agents act only as witnesses to
paranormal events while others are believed to be the method
by which the hauntings occur.
2. Apparition: A special image that is sometimes
referred to a a ghost, but is recognize it as a person or
specific shape. They are usually connected to residual
hauntings rather than spirit-related ones.
3. Apport: A physical object that can materialize and
appear at will and can include coins, watches, jewlery, and
even food. They arespirits that can make things dissappear
and reappear to make themselves known
4. Automatic Writing: A method by spirits and mediums
to recieve in formation from the nest world. The spirits
take control of the medium to write down their message.
5. Banshee: A death omen or spirit that attaches
itself to a certain family
6. Bogey: A spirit that is particularly antagonistic
toward humans, traveling alone or in a group to cause
trouble.
7. Channeling: A modern method of spirit
communication where the spirit pass information on to the
medium who then repeats the message for whom it belongs to
to hear.
8. Clair audience: Receiving the paranormal
information through auditory impressions, voices, and
whispers. Many psychics are said to receive information from
the spirit world in this manner.
9. Collective Apparition: A type of ghost sighting
that occurs when one or more people see the same
apparititioin.
10. Dematerializations: The sudden disappearance of a
person or spirit in full view of witness.
11. Discarnate: A word used to describe a spirit.
Meaning without flesh.
12. Doppelganger: Double images. It is an exact
spirit double of a living person. They are negative in
nature.
13. Ectoplasm: An organic material that was suppose
to exude by physical mediums during seances as a way of
providing contact with the spirit world. it would often take
certain shapes.
14. Electronic Voice Phenomena: Voices and sounds
that are from the dead recorded onto a recorder.
15. Elementals: A term described as angry or
malicious spirits. other refer them as earth spirits.
16. Exorcism: A ritual used by the catholic church to
drive out demons or evil spirits from a living person. and
from a home or location.
17. Extra: A shape or a face that is said to have
supernaturally appeared on film and cannot be explained away
as fraud.
18. Ghost: generic
term used for a number of different supernatural
entities.
19. Ghost Hunting: Various methods of investigating,
Reports of ghosts and haunting and determining their
authenticity.
20. Ghost Lights: Strange balls of light that appear
in specific locations. But have no explanation. Most lights
have a story or legend behind them. usually involving a
person who has been beheaded. then the light is explained as
this person searching for their missing head.
21. Haunting: A repeated manifestation of
supernatural phenomena in a specific location. The activity
may appear as physical apparitions, sights, sounds, smells,
or cold areas. haunting may continue for years or may only
last for a brief period of time.
22. Intelligent Haunting: Activity that takes place
around people or location that is caused by an intelligent
or conscious spirit. best described as the personality of
someone who has died and whose spirit has not crossed. The
spirit will interact with the witnesses's at the location
and attempt to make contact or let their presence be known.
23. Levitation: The rising of a physical person or
object without assistance.
24. Materialization: The sudden appearance of a
person or object in front of witnesses.
25. Orbs: Round, opaque lights that are captured on
film and believed to be spirits, or some sort of
paranormal activity.
26. Ouija Board: A piece of wood bearing the letters
of the alphabet that is used as a tool to make contact with
the spirit world. Sitters place their fingers lightly on the
planchette where the spirits can spell out messages on the
board.
27. Paranormal: A word meaning "unknown" or beyond
the normal. Events that are unexplainable.
28. Phantom: another name for ghost. or spirits
referred to as have been seen wearing cloaks or robes.
29. Poltergeist: Means noisy ghost. It is actually
refereed to as the traditional ghost and haunting's. it can
be used to describe the work of a human agent. example
Knocking and movements of objects.
30. Psychic: A word used to describe a person who is
allegedly sensitive beyond the normal means. Such a person
may be able to see and hear things that are not available to
most people.
31. Psycho kinesis: The ability to move physical
objects using only the power of the mind.
32. Rapping: refers to sound that occur to a location
that is experiencing a haunting or to one of the earliest
forms of spirit communications which mediums and spirits
work out in code from questions being asked and answered.
33. Reciprocal Apparition: A rare type of ghost
sighting. when both the spirit and the human witness see and
respond to one another.
34. Seance: A sitting that is held for the purpose of
communication with the dead. At least one person in the
circle is preferred to be a medium.
35. Simulacra: A word used to describe the faces and
shapes that are often reported in photographs and every
other kind of intimate object including doors,
buildings, clouds , trees, and bushes.
36. Specter: Another word for ghost
37. Spirit: A discarnate being, or ghost that exists
in an invisible realm.
38. Spirit Photography: Legitimate attempts to
capture ghosts and paranormal energy on film and also for
the work of fraudulent photographers during the spiritual
era.
39. Spiritualism: A faith based on the idea of that
life continues after death and that communication between
the living and the dead .
40. Supernatural: Events or happenings that take
place in violation of the laws of nature, usually associated
with ghosts and haunting's
41. Teleportation: The appearances, disappearance or
movement of human bodies and physical objects though closed
doors or over some amount of distance using paranormal
means.
42. Wraith: An Apparition that is generally supposed
to be an omen of death
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