Amulet: An object that has the power to ward off ghosts and evil spirits.

Apparition: The disembodied soul or spirit that can be seen visually.

Atmospheric: Apparition: Not actually a ghost or spirit, but instead a "visual imprint" of people and events that was left behind in the environment that continues to replay.

Aura: A field of energy believed by some to surround living creatures.

Channeling: A form of spirit communication where an unseen entity possesses a medium in a controlled environement to impart guidance, wisdom, or future events. The channeled entity could be a deceased human being, an Angel, Demon, Elemental or other higher plain spirit.

Charms: A spell or object possessing magic power.

Clairvoyance: Either an internal or external vision of present of future events, objects, places, and people.

Crisis Apparition: Ghosts that appear to loved ones and close friends just before or soon after their death.

Crossroads: Point where two roads intersect. Said to be a focus point of supernatural energy.

Demon: Fallen angels associated with evil.

Drop-In Communicator: A ghost, spirit or entity that makes its presence known at a seance.

Earth Lights: Luminous phenomena typically shaped in ball form or irregular patches of light appearing randomly and defying explanation.

Ectoplasm: Ectoplasm can be either a solid, liquid or vaporous substance produced by ghosts or spirits. It is usually a milky white color and has an ozone smell. Some forms of ectoplasm are known to move in lifelike patterns.

Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP): EVP is the attempt to capture a ghost or spirits voice on audio recording tapes. Typically there is no voice heard to the people present at the recording but after reviewing the tapes there are strange voice recordings.

Extrasensory Perception (ESP): The acquisition of information by means beyond the five human senses.

Exorcism: A religious rite used to cast out a ghost, spirit or entity from a living persons body or a particular location.

Exorcist: A religious "holy man" who conducts an exorcism.

Family Apparitions: Ghosts that haunt one particular family. Their appearance usually means that someone within the family is about to die.

Focal Person: Person who is at the center of poltergeist activity.

Ghost: The visual appearance of a spirit or soul of a deceased being, human or animal. The disembodied soul or lifeforce.

Gray Lady: The ghost of a woman who has died at the hands of a lover or waits for the return of a loved one.

Halloween: All Hallows Eve, is the night of October 31st when the spirit and the normal world allegedly become one.

Haunting: The continuous manifestation of inexplicable phenomena associated with the presence of ghosts or spirits attached to a particular location.

Haunted Objects: Jewelry, furniture, clothing, etc, that seem to be haunted by a past owner or have been cursed.

Levitation: The paranormal raising or suspension of an object or person.

Lucid Dreams: A dream where the dreamer does not know that they are dreaming.

Luminous Phenomena: The experience of strange lights or glows, often around objects or people.

Medium: A person with the gift to communicate with ghosts and spirits on behalf of the living.

Modern Apparitions: "New" Ghosts of deceased individuals. They appear in fashion from the current time.

Near-Death Experience (NDE): A phenomenon in which a person clinically dies or comes very close to death only to be revived and then can recall in great detail stories of spiritual worlds and other supernatural events.

Omen: A foretelling of a future event.

Orbs: Orbs are the most photographed anomalies captured on camera. They most often show up as transparent or translucent balls of light hovering above the ground.

Ouija Board: A board with letters and numbers used by people who are attempting to communicate with ghosts or spirits.

Out-Of-Body Experience (OBE): Also called Astral Projection. The phenomenon in which a living person's spirit can exit their body, travel the earth and other spiritual worlds and then return back to their bodies.

Paranormal: Beyond the normal.

Parapsychology: The scientific study of unusual events associated with the human experience and PSI subjects.

Percipient: A living person who sees a ghost, spirit or paranormal event.

Phantom Hitchhiker or Traveler: A ghost or spirit that haunts a particular stretch of road or route. Phantom Hitchhikers ask for rides only to suddenly disappear when they reach their destination.

Photographic Apparitions: Ghosts and spirits that you can't see, but appear in photographs after they are developed.

Planchette: A pointer used with a Ouija Board to communicate with ghosts, spirits or higher plane entities.

Poltergeist: "Noisy Ghost." Poltergeists are invisible masses of spirit energy that may or may not be connected to a living human Agent. Some of the most common poltergeists activities include loud unexplained nosie, levitations, the moving of objects, and electrical problems.

Possession: When a persons mind and body are taken over by ghosts, spirits or other supernatural entities such as demons.

PSI: A general term used to denote the unknow factors responsible for a variety of paranormal phenomena.

Psychic: Popular term used to denote a person who regularly uses, or who appears to be especially gifted with psi abilities.

Psychic Echo: When sounds from the past have mysteriously recorded themselves into the natural environment.

Psychokinesis (PK): Mind movement. Psychokinesis (PK) is the apparent ability to influence the environment by intention alone.

Recurring Apparitions: Ghosts or spirits that appear in regular cycles, usually once a year, on the anniversary of their death, for example.

Repressed Psychokinetic Energy: A theoretical psychic force unconsciously produced by an individual while undergoing a physical or mental trauma.

Seance: The gathering of a group or individuals for the purpose of communicating with the dead.

Sensitive: Someone who is aware or can detect paranormal events beyond the range of their five human senses.

Sixth Sense: Popular term for ESP.

Soul: The spiritual lifeforce or essence, carrying an individual's personality and consciousnessof all actions.

Spectre: A ghost or apparition

Spirit: Often used to define the soul of a person, but it can also be used to represent places such as sacred lakes or objects, shrines, and elemental entities.

Spirit Photograhpy: Photographs of figures or faces, believed by some to be those of deceased persons.

Spiritualism: Belief systems that ghosts and spirits can and do communicate with the living.

Super-ESP: A more powerful form of telepathy that allow certain individuals to pick up information about a deceased person from other living people.

Supernatural: Something that exists or occurs through some meas other than any known force in nature or science.

Telepathy: Mind-to-mind communication.

Telephone Calls From The Dead: When a person receives a telephone call from someone who is dead. The person may or may not know that the caller is deceased.

Teleportation: Paranormal transportation of an object fom on location to another, even through solid objects.

Transportation Apparitions: The appearance of ghostly cars, trucks, ships, bicycles, carriages, trains, airplanes and anything else that carry people. They haunt their old routes.

Vortex: A vortex usually takes on the appearance of a swirling funnel shape when moving about. They can also appear in pictures as being long and narrow and having a tread like design within their body.

Wraith: A ghost that comes back to avenge its own death. Considered an omen spirit.

THIS INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED BY "THE GHOST HUNTERS BIBLE," BY TRANT BRANDON.