| Glossary, Page 4 |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
Radio Voice Phenomenon (RVP) - To receive the voices of a deceased human being over a
regular radio (CB, AM/FM, and HAM, etc)
Rapping - Phenomenon of knocking or tapping that typically accompany poltergeist
disturbances.
Raps - Unexplained knocking sounds associated with poltergeist activity.
Reciprocal Apparition - A rare type of ghost sighting when both the spirit and the human
witness see and respond to one another.
Remote Viewing (RV) - Ability to access distant or shielded information primarily of visual
character, such as natural or structural features, via an unknown mental process. RV can
include other sensory modes, such as feelings, motion, or sound. Some individuals associate
specific approaches or protocols, with RV. Other similar terms: remote perception, enhanced
perception, extrasensory perception (ESP).
Research Site - A true research site is one where a controlled environment can be established,
and then visited frequented (normally on a regular basis, weekly, biweekly, etc.) to test new
theories and research ideas. To a researcher, the benefits of a long-term research site is
being able to find norms for that location, therefore deviations from that norm can be found
recorded as data. This isn't possible on an investigation, where one may only visit a site only a
few times.
Residual Energy - Energy left over after a person has died, sometimes in a home or even on a
piece of furniture associated with the deceased. This appears to be the kind of ghostly
energies that manifest in spirit recordings where ghosts are seen to be doing the same task
over and over again.
Residual Haunting - Not technically referred to as a haunting, but more of an energy imprint.
When a spirit is seen doing the same thing at specific intervals constantly. Perhaps the spirit is
trapped repeating a specific moment in life, or perhaps it is just a flash from the past during a
traumatic moment in someone's life.
Second Sight - Paranormal perception at a distance in time or space also known as
Extrasensory Perception (ESP)
Sensitive - Often interchangeable with "psychic", this word refers to a person with psychic
powers, but lacks the ability to communicate with the dead like a medium. However, mediums
are sensitives.
Shroud - The white flowing robe that a ghost is said to wear. In fact, shrouds were the sheets
in which corpses were wrapped for burial. The ghosts that are most likely to wear them
therefore, are older graveyard spirits. Most other ghosts, however, appear in normal, everyday
clothes.
Sixth Sense - A term used to describe a hidden sensibility or a perception of things by an
unknown mechanism thats effects are the only perceivable portion. It includes clairvoyance,
premonition, monition, psychometry, dowsing, and telepathy.
Simulacra - [From the Latin simulacrum which means "likeness, similarity".] A word used to
describe the faces and shapes that are often reported in photographs and in almost every kind
of inanimate object including doors, buildings, clouds, trees, and bushes. Usually, it is nothing
more than the imagination of the witness making the texture of the object into a face or figure;
also referred to as matrixing by some.
Skeptic - One who instinctively doubts, questions, or disagrees with assertions or generally
accepted conclusions. In parapsychology, one who insists on ruling out all possible natural
causes for a phenomenon.
Sleep paralysis - A medical disorder where one awakens from sleep to find something
pressing down on their chests, obstructing normal breathing and hindering them from moving.
Smells (Psychic) - Smells ascribed to a paranormal origin due to a lack of cause; phantom
smells
Specter (Spectre) - Another term for a ghost.
Spectral Flames - Luminous phenomena seen in cemeteries and around churches, believed
by some to be paranormal.
Spirit - Another term for a ghost or discarnate being. The principle force within a living being,
the soul.
Spirit Photography - A term used for both legitimate attempts to capture ghosts and
paranormal energy on film and also for the work of fraudulent photographers during the
Spiritualist era.
Spirit Possession - Also known as a Walk-In, when a discarnate or earthbound spirit enters the
body of a living person, but usually never completely.
Street Lamp Interference (SLI) - The phenomenon of streetlights inexplicably blinking off as
you pass beneath them.
Subliminal - A term for sensations beneath the threshold of consciousness, too vague to be
individually recognized.
Succubus - The female counterpart to the Incubus, the Succubus attacks unsuspecting men
while they sleep, raping them. Often when the man opens his eyes, he sees a decrepit hag
with stringy white hair and boils all over her body.
Supernatural - Events or happenings that take place in violation of the laws of nature, usually
associated with ghosts and hauntings.
TAPS - The Atlantic Paranormal Society
Telekinesis - A term denoting the ability to move material objects by implementing psychic force.
Temperature Changes - Marked changes of temperature sometimes occur as paranormal
activity or in conjunction with paranormal activity.
Theism - The belief in one or more gods or goddesses.
Tulpa - From the Tibetan language; it refers to any entity that attains reality solely by the act of
imagination; a thought form. If its creator wishes, this creation may become physical reality
through intense concentration and visualization. However, care must be taken to only bring to
reality what is beneficial to the world, let its destruction becomes more problematic than its
creation.
UFO - Unidentified Flying Object, also known as a flying saucer or foo fighter.
Urban Legend - A mysterious or shocking story that is told over and over again, is embellished,
until it creates a reality all of its own. Although urban legends are typically bogus, sometimes
the spirit world responds to the telling of the tale and molds reality accordingly.
Voodoo - (Vodun in Benin; also Vodou or other phonetically equivalent spellings in Haiti; Vudu
in the Dominican Republic) The branches of a West African ancestor-based, theist-animist,
religious tradition which predates historical times. Its primary roots are among the Fon-Ewe
peoples of West Africa, in the country now known as Benin, where Vodun is today the national
religion of more than 7 million people. The word vodun is the Fon-Ewe word for spirit. The
religion is practiced throughout the Caribbean countries, especially Haiti, but spread to the U.S.
through New Orleans, louisiana.
Vortex - Tornado-like Ectoplasmic manifestations.
Wicca - The 20th and 21st religion of Witchcraft that is steeped in the ancient Celts and other
similarly spiritually minded people throughout the world. Wicca merges ancient pagan festivals
and beliefs with 19th, 20th, and 21st century occultism. Some claim Wicca is merely a nature
religion made up primarily of gentle folk lore who believe in horoscopes, wear capes and
flowers in their hair, revere the Lord and the Lady and hold a special significance for
Stonehenge.
Winds (Paranormal) - Breezes and currents of air associated with a haunting that have no
natural explanation or cause.
White Noise - A hiss-like sound, formed by combining all audible frequencies. Often used as a
background to EVP recordings.
Women-In-White - These are unhappy spirits associated with human suffering. Many times
such forces are put into place after a murder or a suicide has occurred, but Women-In-White
ghosts can also be linked to the death of a child, an unhappy love affair and any number of
events that would bring about extreme sadness or depression.
Wraith - An apparition that is generally supposed to be an omen of death.
Xenoglossy - Speaking in a language unknown to the speaker in the normal waking state. It is
different from what is commonly called glossolalia, or speaking in tongues, which is typically a
form of vocalized religious expression.
Zener Cards - A pack of twenty-five cards bearing the simple symbols in groups of five (star,
circle, square, cross, and waves) used in testing extrasensory abilities under laboratory
conditions.
Zombie - The result of the reanimation of a corpse. Usually associate with the practice of
voodoo.
regular radio (CB, AM/FM, and HAM, etc)
Rapping - Phenomenon of knocking or tapping that typically accompany poltergeist
disturbances.
Raps - Unexplained knocking sounds associated with poltergeist activity.
Reciprocal Apparition - A rare type of ghost sighting when both the spirit and the human
witness see and respond to one another.
Remote Viewing (RV) - Ability to access distant or shielded information primarily of visual
character, such as natural or structural features, via an unknown mental process. RV can
include other sensory modes, such as feelings, motion, or sound. Some individuals associate
specific approaches or protocols, with RV. Other similar terms: remote perception, enhanced
perception, extrasensory perception (ESP).
Research Site - A true research site is one where a controlled environment can be established,
and then visited frequented (normally on a regular basis, weekly, biweekly, etc.) to test new
theories and research ideas. To a researcher, the benefits of a long-term research site is
being able to find norms for that location, therefore deviations from that norm can be found
recorded as data. This isn't possible on an investigation, where one may only visit a site only a
few times.
Residual Energy - Energy left over after a person has died, sometimes in a home or even on a
piece of furniture associated with the deceased. This appears to be the kind of ghostly
energies that manifest in spirit recordings where ghosts are seen to be doing the same task
over and over again.
Residual Haunting - Not technically referred to as a haunting, but more of an energy imprint.
When a spirit is seen doing the same thing at specific intervals constantly. Perhaps the spirit is
trapped repeating a specific moment in life, or perhaps it is just a flash from the past during a
traumatic moment in someone's life.
Second Sight - Paranormal perception at a distance in time or space also known as
Extrasensory Perception (ESP)
Sensitive - Often interchangeable with "psychic", this word refers to a person with psychic
powers, but lacks the ability to communicate with the dead like a medium. However, mediums
are sensitives.
Shroud - The white flowing robe that a ghost is said to wear. In fact, shrouds were the sheets
in which corpses were wrapped for burial. The ghosts that are most likely to wear them
therefore, are older graveyard spirits. Most other ghosts, however, appear in normal, everyday
clothes.
Sixth Sense - A term used to describe a hidden sensibility or a perception of things by an
unknown mechanism thats effects are the only perceivable portion. It includes clairvoyance,
premonition, monition, psychometry, dowsing, and telepathy.
Simulacra - [From the Latin simulacrum which means "likeness, similarity".] A word used to
describe the faces and shapes that are often reported in photographs and in almost every kind
of inanimate object including doors, buildings, clouds, trees, and bushes. Usually, it is nothing
more than the imagination of the witness making the texture of the object into a face or figure;
also referred to as matrixing by some.
Skeptic - One who instinctively doubts, questions, or disagrees with assertions or generally
accepted conclusions. In parapsychology, one who insists on ruling out all possible natural
causes for a phenomenon.
Sleep paralysis - A medical disorder where one awakens from sleep to find something
pressing down on their chests, obstructing normal breathing and hindering them from moving.
Smells (Psychic) - Smells ascribed to a paranormal origin due to a lack of cause; phantom
smells
Specter (Spectre) - Another term for a ghost.
Spectral Flames - Luminous phenomena seen in cemeteries and around churches, believed
by some to be paranormal.
Spirit - Another term for a ghost or discarnate being. The principle force within a living being,
the soul.
Spirit Photography - A term used for both legitimate attempts to capture ghosts and
paranormal energy on film and also for the work of fraudulent photographers during the
Spiritualist era.
Spirit Possession - Also known as a Walk-In, when a discarnate or earthbound spirit enters the
body of a living person, but usually never completely.
Street Lamp Interference (SLI) - The phenomenon of streetlights inexplicably blinking off as
you pass beneath them.
Subliminal - A term for sensations beneath the threshold of consciousness, too vague to be
individually recognized.
Succubus - The female counterpart to the Incubus, the Succubus attacks unsuspecting men
while they sleep, raping them. Often when the man opens his eyes, he sees a decrepit hag
with stringy white hair and boils all over her body.
Supernatural - Events or happenings that take place in violation of the laws of nature, usually
associated with ghosts and hauntings.
TAPS - The Atlantic Paranormal Society
Telekinesis - A term denoting the ability to move material objects by implementing psychic force.
Temperature Changes - Marked changes of temperature sometimes occur as paranormal
activity or in conjunction with paranormal activity.
Theism - The belief in one or more gods or goddesses.
Tulpa - From the Tibetan language; it refers to any entity that attains reality solely by the act of
imagination; a thought form. If its creator wishes, this creation may become physical reality
through intense concentration and visualization. However, care must be taken to only bring to
reality what is beneficial to the world, let its destruction becomes more problematic than its
creation.
UFO - Unidentified Flying Object, also known as a flying saucer or foo fighter.
Urban Legend - A mysterious or shocking story that is told over and over again, is embellished,
until it creates a reality all of its own. Although urban legends are typically bogus, sometimes
the spirit world responds to the telling of the tale and molds reality accordingly.
Voodoo - (Vodun in Benin; also Vodou or other phonetically equivalent spellings in Haiti; Vudu
in the Dominican Republic) The branches of a West African ancestor-based, theist-animist,
religious tradition which predates historical times. Its primary roots are among the Fon-Ewe
peoples of West Africa, in the country now known as Benin, where Vodun is today the national
religion of more than 7 million people. The word vodun is the Fon-Ewe word for spirit. The
religion is practiced throughout the Caribbean countries, especially Haiti, but spread to the U.S.
through New Orleans, louisiana.
Vortex - Tornado-like Ectoplasmic manifestations.
Wicca - The 20th and 21st religion of Witchcraft that is steeped in the ancient Celts and other
similarly spiritually minded people throughout the world. Wicca merges ancient pagan festivals
and beliefs with 19th, 20th, and 21st century occultism. Some claim Wicca is merely a nature
religion made up primarily of gentle folk lore who believe in horoscopes, wear capes and
flowers in their hair, revere the Lord and the Lady and hold a special significance for
Stonehenge.
Winds (Paranormal) - Breezes and currents of air associated with a haunting that have no
natural explanation or cause.
White Noise - A hiss-like sound, formed by combining all audible frequencies. Often used as a
background to EVP recordings.
Women-In-White - These are unhappy spirits associated with human suffering. Many times
such forces are put into place after a murder or a suicide has occurred, but Women-In-White
ghosts can also be linked to the death of a child, an unhappy love affair and any number of
events that would bring about extreme sadness or depression.
Wraith - An apparition that is generally supposed to be an omen of death.
Xenoglossy - Speaking in a language unknown to the speaker in the normal waking state. It is
different from what is commonly called glossolalia, or speaking in tongues, which is typically a
form of vocalized religious expression.
Zener Cards - A pack of twenty-five cards bearing the simple symbols in groups of five (star,
circle, square, cross, and waves) used in testing extrasensory abilities under laboratory
conditions.
Zombie - The result of the reanimation of a corpse. Usually associate with the practice of
voodoo.