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Definitions & Information

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2) APPARITIONS OF THE DEAD: Manifestations of the deceased, usually within a short time after death, to comfort the grieving or to communicate information, concludes unfinished business, or announces a role as guardian Spirit.

3) COLLECTIVE APPARITION: When more than one person sees the same Spirit or Spirits.

4) COLD SPOT: Phenomena in which a certain part of a haunted area that records a significantly lower room temperature.

5) CRISIS APPARITION: Usually visual images, which appear in waking visions or dreams at a moment of crisis, such as to communicate dying or death.

6) DEATHBED APPARITIONS: Visual images of divine beings, religious figures, luminosity's, and dead loved ones that are reported by the dying in the last moments of life.

7) ECTOPLASM:
a)  An oily substance similar to blood plasma, appearing out of nowhere, leaving no physical stains or residue.
b) Small airborne droplets (like slime) floating in the air which disappear without a trace after an entity departs. Similar to plasma in electrical areas.

8) EVP: The occurrence of Phantom voices on tape. Electronic Voice Phenomenon--Which some believe it allows communication with the deceased. It's thought to be, the voices of Spirits. These sounds aren't normally heard by the human ear, but can sometimes be picked up by recording devices. (Weird, drawn-out voices--loudly screaming or faint voices, growls, squeals, and groans etc.)

9) MALEVOLENT SPIRIT: a spirit with a destructive behavior or harmful intentions.

10) ORB: Anomalous or unexplained energy caught on film usually in association with a haunting, high EMF readings, & cold spots. They range in a variety of size color with the most common color being white. They appear bubble shaped and are usually spherical.

11) PARANORMAL: Any event or object that defies scientific explanation or knowledge.

12) PLASMA: Plasma in association with electrical discharges is defined by bluish-white light caused by the ionization of the surrounding area. Plasma is the fourth state of matter. Similar to a gas its molecules are made up of atoms, which have been stripped of electrons creating a negative electrical charge or have acquired extra electrons creating a positive electrical charge. The ionization process releases photons from the bond of atoms causing a visible glow, and when these contact our retinas, the brain interprets the interaction as light (henceforth we have sight). These ion fields are not in any way oily or slimy, and definitely do not consist of airborne droplets. (Not to be confused with Ectoplasm.) Plasma may be created when an invisible electromagnetic force or high-energy field moves invisibly through an air mass.

13) POLTERGEIST: A haunting that involves noisy Spirits and no visible manifestations. Undirected expressions of extreme emotion from a person long deceased. May involve moving objects (Levitation). “Poltergeist” comes from the German polten, to knock, and geist, spirit. Some cases of poltergeists are unexplained and may involve actual spirits. In other cases the phenomena seem to be caused by subconscious psycho kinesis (PK) on the part of one individual.

14) PORTAL HAUNTING: A doorway or portal that provides access for spirits/Spirits to enter our world from another dimension. A very common doorway is a cemetery or a graveyard.

15) PSYCHO KINETIC ACTIVITY (PK):
a) The movement of objects by spirits in Class A haunting poltergeist activity.
b)  Movement of objects caused by living persons with extreme emotions.

16) RECIPROCAL APPARITION: When both the agent (the Spiritly visitor) and the percipient (the visited person) see each other, RARE.

17) RESIDUAL HAUNTING: When a spirit becomes trapped in a terrible emotional loop or whirlpool that repeats over and over, like a video segment playing over repeatedly. (Echo of a personality or traumatic event) An apparition does not interact with you.

18) SLEEP PARALYSIS: A medical disorder affecting every one out of two people, which feels like pressure on the chest makes it hard to breath. Most often this experience is mistaken for demonic possession. Often the person with this disorder sees a black figure standing next to them. This is NOT related to spirits of the dead, but to a medical disorder.

19) SOUL: Electromagnetic energy field pattern or matrix (the identity), with intelligence, emotions, attitudes and beliefs. Usually self-aware.

20) SPIRIT: Soul, essence or spirit of a deceased person. Earthbound Spirits are those that have lived and not passed over. They are trapped between worlds.

21) SPIRITS: (An intelligent spirit that interacts with us.) The electromagnetic identity (orbs, mist, vortexes or shadows) signature of a former living person who has returned to their original home location to visit relatives or influence unfulfilled wishes.

22) SPIRIT ACTIVITY ON FILM: Spirit energy occurs at a different light spectrum than what we can normally see. This may be why the camera can pick up the energy in the form of tubes, orbs or apparitions even though we can't see anything at the time we take the photo. Usually unexplained anomalous energy spikes and can be detected by using an EMF meter.

23) SPIRIT LIGHTS: Spectral lights, (ignis fatuus)-“foolish fire”. Have been around in every country and civilization. The Spirit lights are blue or yellow orbs. Some scientist suggest that the lights are swamp gas, magnetism, electricity or phosphorescent material. So far no conclusive natural source has ever been found for the sightings.

24) TUBER: Anomalous or unexplained energy caught on film in association with a haunting. It is sometimes described as a vortex. It appears like a white or black tube in photos.

25) VORTEX: Energy that takes the shape of a tube in a photograph. It may vary in color and shape. It may appear to be a camera strap in the photo. We have seen various colors in vortex photos. One theory is that they are made up of several orbs. It may be in connection with a portal or doorway. Geomagnetic energy anomaly and not Spirits can cause vortex photos. There is often a high EMF reading when an orb is present.