Apparition - the visible form of a ghost
Anniversary Imprint - an imprint that usually manifests around the same time each year.
Astral Projection - the conscious initiation of an out-of-body experience
Aura - a field of energy that emanates from matter. It is especially prominent around living things. Some claim to see it as various colors.
Clairvoyance - the ability to obtain knowledge based on unexplainable intuition, vision or various psychic senses
Clearing - ridding a location of ghostly activity
Cold Spots - self-contained patches of cool air, usually around haunted locations. They may be ghosts/spirits that cannot fully materialize
Dowsing - interpreting the motions of rods, sticks, pendulums, & other such instruments to obtain information (also called divining)
Ectoplasm - Any physical substance created by, or accompanying a spirits materialization
Electro-magnetic Energy - a hybrid of electrical charges and magnetic fields that binds nature
Entity - a conscious, interactive ghost
ESP - acronym for extrasensory perception; obtaining information from a source other that the 5 physical senses (sight, smell, hearing, taste, & touch)
EVP - electronic voice phenomena; capturing ghostly sounds, or words on an audio recording
Exorcism - ridding a person or location of evil spirits by using religious rites
Ghost - some paranormal aspect of the physical form and/or mental presence that appears to exist apart from the original physical form
Ghost Hunter (Paranormal Investigator) - one who seeks to experience and document ghostly (paranormal) activity
Harbinger - a ghost of the future that brings warning of impending events
Haunted Location - an area where ghostly activity occurs regularly
Hot Spot - a site within a haunted location where activity is prominent and/or energy fields are focused
Imprint - a non spirit/ghost that reenacts certain events
Materialization - the process by which a spirit creates a physical representation of itself in the physical world
Medium - one that possess the ability to communicate with spirits
Out-of-Body Experience - when ones consciousness exits the restrictions of the physical body (OBE)
Paranormal Research - the study of phenomena currently considered unexplainable by the mainstream sciences
Poltergeist - German for noisy ghost. an entity or energy that displays sensational interaction with the physical environment, and manifests only when a specific individual or individuals are present
Portal - a theoretical doorway of energy, through which spirits may be able to enter or exit a location
Possession - the act of being physically or mentally controlled by a spirit, usually negative
Primary Readings - the initial measurements of energy taken at a haunted location, used for establishing an investigations direction
Psi - a general, all-encompassing term for psychic phenomena
Psychic - phenomena rooted in ESP and spiritualism, also a person gifted with ESP
Revenant - a entity that comes back only a few times after death
Seance - a ritual held to communicate with spirits of the dead
Spiritualism - belief in a spiritual world and/or the ability to communicate with the spirits
Warp - a location where the known laws of physics do not apply and space/ time may be distorted
