Paranormal Dictionary

 

 

Afterlife: Life after our physical bodies die.

 

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

 

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

 

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: The emanation of energy that surrounds all living things. 

 

 

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.

 

 

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

 

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 way of removing negative energy out of a home, business, or personal space.

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

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

 

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

 

Disembodied Voice: A voice that is heard that comes from no physical body, also known as EVP.

 

Dowsing: A type of divination employed in the attempts to locate things such as grave sites, ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, and many other objects and materials, as well as so-called currents of earth radiation.

 

Dowsing Rod: A Y- or L-shaped twig or rod

 

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 use of audio equipment to capture voices and sounds of the dead where there are no physical presences in the area where the recordings are being taken.

 

Electro Magnetic Field (EMF) Detector:  A device that measures and detects changes in the electromagnetic field.

 

Empath: Someone who shows considerable empathy psychically.

 

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

Orb: A spherical shaped, translucent mass of energy resembling a ball or globe that puts off its own light. 

 

Ouija Board: A board that is used to communicate with spirits. -DO NOT ATTEMPT TO USE THIS.

 

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.

 

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. 

 

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 occurs.

 

Retro Cognition: Paranormal knowledge of past events.

 

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 has been discovered in circumstances suggesting that the fire originated spontaneously in or on the body of the victim.

 

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.

 

Vortex/Portal: 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.