River City Paranormal Investigations

Glossary

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Anniversary Imprint: An imprint that usually manifests around the same time every year

Apparition: The physical form of a ghost or spirit.

Astral Projection: The conscious initiation of an out-of-body experience.

Aura: A field of energy that emanates from matter, especially living things. Often seen as varying colors.

Automatic Writing: Expressing subconscious thoughts or spirit-guided influences through doodling.

Clairvoyance: The ability to obtain knowledge based on unexplained intuition, vision, or various psychic senses.

Clearing: Ridding a location of ghostly activity.

Cold Spots: Self-contained areas of cold air sometimes found in haunted locations. Thought by some to be ghosts that cannot fully materialize.

Doppelganger: An apparition that looks identical to a living person, but behaves differently

Double: An apparition that looks and behaves identically to a living person

Dowsing (a.k.a. Divining): Interpreting the motions of rods, sticks, pendulums, or other instruments to obtain information, including searching for water, or checking energy fields.

Ectoplasm: A physical substance created by, or accompanying, a materializing spirit.

Electromagnetic Energy: A hybrid of electrical charges and magnetic fields that binds nature.

Electromagnetic Field (EMF) Detectors: Instruments utilized in detecting partially materialized spirits where EMF from electrical devices and power sources is low.

Electronic Voice Phenomena(EVP): The capturing of spirit voices on audio recordings.

Entity: A conscious, interactive ghost.

Ghost: Some paranormal aspect of the physical form that appears to exist apart from the original physical form.

Harbinger: A ghost, believed to be of the future, that brings warning of impending events.

Hot Spot: A site within a haunted location where activity is prominent. This term does not refer to temperature.

Human Energy Field: The composite structure that contains the energy of physical existence, sometimes considered to be the same as an aura.