Paranormal Terminology
Angel: Spiritual being superior to man in power and intelligence; an attendant spirit or guardian.
Anomaly: An unusual event that does not fit a standard rule or can be explained adequately through scientific theories.
Apparition: The form of a ghost or spirit either seen or captured by photograph or video.
Archangel: An angel of high rank.
Aura: The energy associated with living people. Hauntings can at times tap someone's aura for energy, leaving the person tired.
Automatic writing: Process by which an individual writes without conscious thought.
Benign Spirit: A spirit that is harmless or has no ill-intention.
Clairvoyance: The ability to see things, people, events from the past, or be able to read someone's aura.
Cleansing: Process to remove spirits.
Cold Spot: A small area where the temperature is cooler than its surrounding area. An entity draws energy from the area in order to manifest.
Conjurer: one that practiced magic arts
Debunk: Find evidence that a claim of paranormal activity is not due to actual paranormal activity but is able to explain away scientifically.
Demon: Inhuman entity
Demonic Haunting: Relatively rare phenomenon but are typically severe occurrences for all involved.
Demonologist: A person with deep faith, who pursues demons in order to remove them from people and their lives.
Disembodied Voice: A voice that is heard audibly with human ears from someone without a physical body.
Doppelganger: A double of a living person created by energy, or the astral body of a person appearing to someone outside of their physical body.
Dowsing: The action of using a pair of rods held in the hands to located energy sources that may be paranormal in nature.
Electromagnetic Field Detector (EMF detector): A device used to measure data on electromagnetic fields.
Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP): Voices and sounds captured on audio recorders that were not heard by the naked ear at that time.
Elemental: A supernatural entity or force thought to be physically manifested by occult means.
Empathic Abilities: The ability of some people to feel the emotions another entity gives off.
Exorcism: The process or ritual, where prayers are used to drive out evil entities or spirits from a possessed person or a place.
Fear Cage: A phenomenon where very high electromagnetic fields, usually in a confined location, cause panic to set in as the high EMF promotes uneasiness, paranoia, anxiety, and fear. The high EMF can be the result of faulty wiring or appliances or electronic devices.
Ghost: The energy left behind of a deceased person.
Ghost Lights: Strange forms of light that appear in locations that have no logical explanation.
Imprint: Events, energy and strong feeling or emotions that are left on an object, location or even a specific person.
Incubus: An entity who preys on women an attempts sexual intercourse with them.
Infrared Digital Thermometers: A device used to monitor the presence of cold and hot spots that occur during paranormal events.
Intelligent Haunting: A haunting caused by a spirit that is aware of its surroundings, is aware of the living and can interact with both.
Haunt: a place habitually frequented by ghosts.
Malevolent Spirit: A spirit who has ill-intent.
Matrixing: The phenomenon of the mind to complete a picture that is not there.
Medium: One who can communicate with spirits.
Orb: A spherical shape captured by a camera that is usually light in color. Many believe an orb is an indicator of paranormal activity. This may be true; however, any natural floating item (dust, bugs, moisture, pollen, etc...) can produce a reflection from a camera's flash and result in an orb.
Paranormal: Not scientifically explainable. Supernatural.
Paranormal Investigator: A person who attempts to gather evidence of paranormal activity.
Parapsychology: The study of paranormal phenomenon.
Poltergeist: German word for " Noisy Ghost" known to either move, open or close objects.
Portal: A location where spirits can enter the physical realm.
Possession: The entry of a spirit or entity into a human host, willing or unwilling in which the spirit or entity controls a person's functions.
Psychic: A person who claims sensitivity and can communicate with the paranormal.
Religious Provocation: The process in which prayers, holy water, crucifixes or any religious relic is used to make an inhuman entity make its presence known in order to expel it.
Residual Haunting: Trapped energy that has no awareness of its surroundings or you.
Shadow Figure: A paranormal apparition which appears as a black mass, that most often takes the shape of a human figure.
Shapeshifting: The ability of a paranormal entity to assume the form of another person, mass or animal.
Soul: The essence of a person or animal.
Spirit: The soul of a deceased individual that remains in the living realm.
Spiritualism: A belief that spirits of the dead communicate with the living, usually through a medium.
Succubus: A spirit that sexually assaults men.
Telekinesis: The production of motion in objects without contact or other physical means.
Telepathy: Communication from one mind to another by extrasensory means.
Vortex: A vortex is an area with cold or hot spots, electromagnetic anomalies and an increase in paranormal activity.
White noise: A repetitive sound, usually static, used in an attempt to hear spirits.
Anomaly: An unusual event that does not fit a standard rule or can be explained adequately through scientific theories.
Apparition: The form of a ghost or spirit either seen or captured by photograph or video.
Archangel: An angel of high rank.
Aura: The energy associated with living people. Hauntings can at times tap someone's aura for energy, leaving the person tired.
Automatic writing: Process by which an individual writes without conscious thought.
Benign Spirit: A spirit that is harmless or has no ill-intention.
Clairvoyance: The ability to see things, people, events from the past, or be able to read someone's aura.
Cleansing: Process to remove spirits.
Cold Spot: A small area where the temperature is cooler than its surrounding area. An entity draws energy from the area in order to manifest.
Conjurer: one that practiced magic arts
Debunk: Find evidence that a claim of paranormal activity is not due to actual paranormal activity but is able to explain away scientifically.
Demon: Inhuman entity
Demonic Haunting: Relatively rare phenomenon but are typically severe occurrences for all involved.
Demonologist: A person with deep faith, who pursues demons in order to remove them from people and their lives.
Disembodied Voice: A voice that is heard audibly with human ears from someone without a physical body.
Doppelganger: A double of a living person created by energy, or the astral body of a person appearing to someone outside of their physical body.
Dowsing: The action of using a pair of rods held in the hands to located energy sources that may be paranormal in nature.
Electromagnetic Field Detector (EMF detector): A device used to measure data on electromagnetic fields.
Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP): Voices and sounds captured on audio recorders that were not heard by the naked ear at that time.
Elemental: A supernatural entity or force thought to be physically manifested by occult means.
Empathic Abilities: The ability of some people to feel the emotions another entity gives off.
Exorcism: The process or ritual, where prayers are used to drive out evil entities or spirits from a possessed person or a place.
Fear Cage: A phenomenon where very high electromagnetic fields, usually in a confined location, cause panic to set in as the high EMF promotes uneasiness, paranoia, anxiety, and fear. The high EMF can be the result of faulty wiring or appliances or electronic devices.
Ghost: The energy left behind of a deceased person.
Ghost Lights: Strange forms of light that appear in locations that have no logical explanation.
Imprint: Events, energy and strong feeling or emotions that are left on an object, location or even a specific person.
Incubus: An entity who preys on women an attempts sexual intercourse with them.
Infrared Digital Thermometers: A device used to monitor the presence of cold and hot spots that occur during paranormal events.
Intelligent Haunting: A haunting caused by a spirit that is aware of its surroundings, is aware of the living and can interact with both.
Haunt: a place habitually frequented by ghosts.
Malevolent Spirit: A spirit who has ill-intent.
Matrixing: The phenomenon of the mind to complete a picture that is not there.
Medium: One who can communicate with spirits.
Orb: A spherical shape captured by a camera that is usually light in color. Many believe an orb is an indicator of paranormal activity. This may be true; however, any natural floating item (dust, bugs, moisture, pollen, etc...) can produce a reflection from a camera's flash and result in an orb.
Paranormal: Not scientifically explainable. Supernatural.
Paranormal Investigator: A person who attempts to gather evidence of paranormal activity.
Parapsychology: The study of paranormal phenomenon.
Poltergeist: German word for " Noisy Ghost" known to either move, open or close objects.
Portal: A location where spirits can enter the physical realm.
Possession: The entry of a spirit or entity into a human host, willing or unwilling in which the spirit or entity controls a person's functions.
Psychic: A person who claims sensitivity and can communicate with the paranormal.
Religious Provocation: The process in which prayers, holy water, crucifixes or any religious relic is used to make an inhuman entity make its presence known in order to expel it.
Residual Haunting: Trapped energy that has no awareness of its surroundings or you.
Shadow Figure: A paranormal apparition which appears as a black mass, that most often takes the shape of a human figure.
Shapeshifting: The ability of a paranormal entity to assume the form of another person, mass or animal.
Soul: The essence of a person or animal.
Spirit: The soul of a deceased individual that remains in the living realm.
Spiritualism: A belief that spirits of the dead communicate with the living, usually through a medium.
Succubus: A spirit that sexually assaults men.
Telekinesis: The production of motion in objects without contact or other physical means.
Telepathy: Communication from one mind to another by extrasensory means.
Vortex: A vortex is an area with cold or hot spots, electromagnetic anomalies and an increase in paranormal activity.
White noise: A repetitive sound, usually static, used in an attempt to hear spirits.