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Glossary of paranormal terms

Paranormal Dictionary

Afterlife - Life after our physical bodies die.

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

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

Anomalies -Deviation from the normal.

Apparition - The phenomenon where a spirit takes on a physical form that can be seen.

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

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 oranother location on this plane. This is also referred to as an O.B.E.

Aura -The emanation of energy that surrounds all living things.

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

Automatism -A process in which the subconscious communicates with the conscious bymeans of a vehicle such as a Ouija Board, automatic writing, or pendulum swinging.

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 humanand ape-like characteristics.

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 theirattention.

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

Chupacabra - Spanish for Goat sucker.


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Clairvoyant - Someone with the psychic ability to see events or people which have notoccurred yet.

Clairaudient -The psychic ability to hear voices and sounds that are inaudible to thenormal 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 whichconclusive 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 spiritscan communicate through them.

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

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, also knownas EVP.

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

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

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

Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) - The use of audio equipment to capture voices andsounds of the dead where there are no physical presences in the area where therecordings are being taken.


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

Empath - Someone who shows considerable empathy psychically.

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 tobe 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 orfuture events that can not be obtained through the normal senses. These includetelepathy, clairvoyance and precognition.

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

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

Ghost Lights - Closely resembling orbs, but are much larger and brighter in appearance.

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

Globule - A larger "Glob" or orb.

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

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

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 locationthat is caused by an intelligent or conscious spirit.

Indirect Voice - Mediumistic phenomenon in which the discarnate entity appears to speakusing 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 intoa deep trance state.


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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 thanthe natural senses.

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

Reincarnation - The belief that some aspect of a person's being survives death and can bereborn 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.

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

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

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 hasbeen discovered in circumstances suggesting that the fire originated spontaneously in oron the body of the victim.

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

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 thepowers of the mind.

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


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Teleportation - Paranormal transportation of objects to a distant place.

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

Vortex - This is a swirling funnel shape when in motion. They can also appear long andnarrow 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.

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