River City Paranormal Investigations
Glossary
A - H : I - Z
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.