TERMINOLOGY

Afterlife - The belief that the human soul or spirit survives after it leaves the body from cause of death. How the spirit survives will depend on which culture you are referring to.

Agent - (1) Person who attempts to communicate information to another in an ESP experiment. (2) The subject in a psycho kinesis experiment. (3) Person who is the focus of poltergeist activity. 

Amorphous - Having no definite form or shape, spirits and ghosts often appears in mist-like forms or shapes. 

Angels - In Christian belief, angels are Gods messengers, and protectors of mankind. Angels are creatures between God and man that work as intervenor's.

Anomalies - Deviation from the normal.

Apparition - A visual appearance of a dead person, living person, or beast.

Apport - The arrival of object during a séance or a haunting, these can be animate or inanimate.

Asport - The disappearance of objects that reappear elsewhere or not at all. (Dematerialization)

Astral Projection - When the spirit travels outside the body to either the astral plane or another location on this plane.  This is also referred to as an O.B.E.

Aura - In parapsychology and many forms of spiritual practice, an aura is a field of subtle, luminous radiation supposedly surrounding a person or object (like the halo or aureola of religious art) that some people are claimed to be capable of observing by means of their third eye.  

Automatic Writing - Phenomena by which people write without conscious thought.  

Automatism - A form of writing that is done when a persons conscience is in a spiritual state and their writings origin is of the messages of spirits from another dimension. The person writing obtains the information through the help of ESP.

Banshee - A death omen in Irish folklore that manifests to herald an upcoming death. Often heard singing and wailing.

Benign Spirit - A spirit that is not harmful. 

Bigfoot – A mythical bulky, hair covered, humanoid which appears to possess both human and ape-like characteristics.

Bilocation- Bilocation - Being (or appearing to be) in two different places at the same time.

Calling Ghosts - These are ghosts that call out the name of the living in order to get their attention.

Chakra - Chakra is a concept referring to wheel-like vortices which, according to traditional Indian medicine, are believed to exist in the surface of the etheric double of man. The Chakras are said to be "force centres" or whorls of energy permeating, from a point on the physical body, the layers of the subtle bodies in an ever-increasing fan-shaped formation (the fans make the shape of a love heart). Rotating vortices of subtle matter, they are considered the focal points for the reception and transmission of energies. Seven major chakras or energy centres (also understood as wheels of light) are generally believed to exist, located within the subtle body.

Channeling - The process that mediums use for communication with the deceased.

Clairvoyant - Someone with the psychic ability to see events or people which have not occurred yet. 

Clairaudient - The psychic ability to hear voices and sounds that are inaudible to the normal human ear.

Clairsentient - The psychic ability to feel things that are not normally felt by most people. 

Cleansing - A less religious form of exorcism that is done to remove spirits.  

Cold Spot - An area where the temperature is lower than the surrounding environment.  Cold spots are believed to be created when a ghost is presence within that area. 

Collective Apparition –  An apparition seen by several people at the same time.

Crypto Zoology -  The study of rumored animals that are presumed to exist, but for which conclusive proof does not yet exist, or for animals which are generally considered extinct, but are occasionally reported.  

Deja`Vu - A person's feeling that current events have been experienced before.

Deep Trace Medium -  A psychic who allows a spirit to enter their body so that the spirits can communicate through them. 

Dematerialization - The paranormal fading or disappearance of a physical object.

Demons - Both evil and good spirits that can and do intervene with mankind. Demons are also defined as the workers of Satan's will, tempting humans to sin against God.

Discarnate - A spirit that exists without a physical body.

Discernment - The ability to feel or perceive something with the use the mind and the senses.

Disembodied - A spirit that is functioning without a body.

Disembodied Voice -  A voice that is heard that comes from no physical body.

Divination - Obtaining of future events and/or the unknown by the use of outside forces.

Doppelganer (Double) - A mystical double or copy of the person who sees it. This phenomena is usually to scale of the person it's copying but a lot of the time just the face, head, and body are viewed.

Ectoplasm - A substance that emanates from a medium during a trance. It often appears as a mist-like or vapor substance.  It can be seen moving, often faces and other forms can been seen in it.

Electromagnetic Field (EMF) - An electric and magnetic energy that radiates from radio and light waves to gamma and cosmic rays. 

Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) - The recording of spirit voices on audio tape. These voices are no heard at the time the audio is being recorded.

EMF Detector -  A device that measures and detects changes in the electromagnetic field.  

Empath - Someone who shows considerable empathy psychically.

Energy - The term energy has been widely used by writers and practitioners of various esoteric forms of spirituality and alternative medicine to refer to a variety of phenomena, sometimes supposed to be directly perceptible to some observers, who have usually undergone some form of training or initiation. This 'energy'
is sometimes conceived of as a universal life force running within and between all things, and in other cases it is seen as a more localized phenomenon, such as in vitalism, subtle bodies, or somatic energies such as qi, prana, or kundalini. Spiritual energy is often closely associated with the metaphor of life as breath - the words 'qi', 'prana', and 'spirit', for instance, are all related in their respective languages to the verb 'to breathe'. It is also often seen as a continuum that unites body and mind.

Evocation - The summoning of spirits by usage of ritual, gesture, or verse of incantation.

Exorcism - The expulsion of ghosts, demons, spirits or other entities that are believed to be disturbing or possessing a person or a place that people frequent.  

Extra-Terrestrials - Life forms originating on planets other than our own.

Extra Sensory Perception (ESP) - The ability to receive information about past, present or future events that can not be obtained through the normal senses. These include telepathy, clairvoyance and precognition. 

Gauss Meter - A device that is used to measure the electromagnetic field, also referred to as EMF detectors or magnetometers.

Ghost - A ghost is believed to be the soul or the life force of a person.

Ghost Hunting - The investigation or search of ghosts, poltergeists, apparitions, or any other paranormal activity for science, or ghost removal.

Ghost Lights - Strange, paranormal lights that have no scientific explanation, usually appearing in remote areas.

Ghost Ship -The appearance of a ship that has been know to have wrecked or disappeared years or centuries before to fore warn of a pending disaster. 

Globule - A larger "Glob" of orb.

Gray Ladies - These are ghosts that are gray in color and are of deceased, usually noble women that had died or have been killed violently in relations to love or are searching for their lost love.

Haunted - A person, place or an object to which a spirit is attached.  The spirits can be human or inhuman in nature.

Haunting - Paranormal phenomena such as apparitions, unexplained sounds, smells or other sensations that are associated over a lengthy period of time with a specific location. 

Imprint - Apparitions of people and things of the past that are made up of energy that exists in the area of activity. Imprints are not actually conscience of themselves and their surrounding's, unlike an actual spirit or ghost.

Incubus - A demonic entity capable of sexually arousing and sometimes assaulting women. 

Infestation - Repeated and persistent paranormal phenomena.

Intelligent Haunting - Paranormal activity that takes place around a person or location that is caused by an intelligent or conscious spirit. 

Indirect Voice - Mediumistic phenomenon in which the discarnate entity appears to speak using the vocal apparatus of the medium.

Invocation - Summoning spirits.

Levitation -The raising of a person or object into the air without any visible means.

Light Trance Medium - A person whom spirits can communicate through without going into a deep trance state. 

Lycanthropy - The transformation of a person into the form of a wolf. 

Macro-PK - Psychokinetic effects that can be directly observed rather than only inferred from statistical analysis.

Malevolent - A malevolent spirit is one that wishes to do harm.

Malicious - These spirits will destroy or damage things of a personal or financial value for the sake of hurting others.

Manifestation - The appearance or taking of form of an entity. 

Materialization - The formation of a visible physical form of a spirit.  

Matrixing - When the mind attempts to manifest images  as something they are  not.

Medium - A person that acts as a bridge between the living and the dead.

Metaphysics - The study of that which is beyond the laws of physics. 

Near-Death Experience (NDE) - Experiences of people after they have been pronounced clinically dead, or been very close to death.  

Necromancy - The practice of communicating with the dead to obtain knowledge of the future, others' secrets, and so forth.

Occultism - Esoteric systems of belief and practice that assume the existence of mysterious forces and entities.

Orb - A spherical shaped, translucent mass of energy resembling a ball or globe of light.

OBE (Out of Body Experience) - When a persons soul, or spirit leaves their body from just a few feet away, to as far as other worlds or dimensions.

Outward Manifestation - The physical manifestation of paranormal activity.

Paranormal - Phenomena which seem to defy the known laws of science.

Parapsychology - Refers to the study of paranormal phenomena.

Phantom - An apparition or a specter.  Existing only as an energy form.

Phantomania - Paralysis that occurs when someone is under attack from supernatural or preternatural forces, also known as psychic paralysis.

Planchette - The triangular instrument used as a pointer to answer questions on a Ouija board.

Poltergeist - A German words that means "Noisy or mischievous ghost."  A destructive spirit that has the ability to move objects by solidifying the ambient air which results in the movement and/or teleportation of objects.

Possession - Refers to cases in which a person's body is apparently taken over by another personality or entity.

Precognition - Knowledge of pending future events.

Premonition - Feeling or warning about future events.

Psychic - A person with the ability to see, hear and feel by the use of senses other than the natural senses.

Psychic Attack - An attack that can either be physical or mental by a spirit.  

Psychokinesis (PK) - Objects being manipulated from afar either happening suddenly or on purpose by someone with this paranormal ability.

Reincarnation - The belief that some aspect of a person's being survives death and can be reborn in a new body at some future date.  

Residual Haunting- Believed to be a psychic imprint of a scene that keeps repeating itself. With this type of haunting no interaction with the ghost occur.  

Retroactive Psycho Kinesis - Paranormal influence that an agent can have on an experiment after it has been completed.

Retro Cognition - Paranormal knowledge of past events. 

Revenant - Another name for a ghost, used long ago and is rarely used today.

Shadow People - These entities are a deep black color and are can be in the form of a thick or misty cloud, but usually in the shape of a human. These are one of the rarest paranormal phenomena to be captured on photographs. Most of these ghosts are found in peoples homes and are evasive and sneaky in nature. Sometimes they even play pranks on people.

Shape-Shifting - Paranormal ability to assume the form of another person, an animal or other entity.  

Sleep Paralysis - A state of seeming to be awake but unable to move. 

Soul - The non physical core of a living being that exists even after their body has died.

Specter - A ghost or apparition.

Spirit - Spirits are believed to exist in an invisible realm that can only be seen under certain circumstances or by people with special abilities.  

Spontaneous Human Combustion - Refers to cases in which a badly burned human body has been discovered in circumstances suggesting that the fire originated spontaneously in or on the body of the victim.  

Spunkie - A Scottish ghost or goblin that is usually evil and likes to play tricks on travelers that are lost.

Stigmata - Unexplained markings on a person's body that correspond to the wounds of Christ.

Subliminal Perception - Perceiving without conscious awareness.

Succubus - A demonic entity said to inspire lust in men and then assaulting them. 

Telekinesis - Where objects are remotely displaced and moved around, solely by the powers of the mind.

Telepathy - The ability to communicate directly through mind-to-mind contact and to perceive information directly from another's mind, without resorting to the use of the five known senses.

Teleportation -  Paranormal transportation of objects to a distant place.

Third Eye - The third eye (also known as the inner eye) is a mystical and esoteric concept referring in part to the ajna (brow) chakra in certain Eastern and Western spiritual traditions. It is also spoken of as the gate that leads within to inner realms and spaces of higher consciousness.

U.F.O. - An unidentified flying object.

Vortex - This is a swirling funnel shape when in motion. They can also appear long and narrow and having a tread like design. Some theorize this is a vehicle to transport spirits in the shape of orbs from their realm to ours. 

White Noise - A hiss-like sound, formed by combining all audible frequencies.

Witching Hour - The time in which all paranormal activity is at it's strongest according to superstition which takes place at midnight during a full moon.