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Paranormal Vocabulary
Need to find out what a paranormal term means? Interested in broadening your paranormal vocabulary? You have come to the right place. This is a large list of paranormal terms and their definitions.
Here's a quick run-down of some common terms you might encounter in the paranormal community. We do not claim to be the definitive source for definitions, so if there is a word missing or you need to know what the term means please contact us.
Vocabulary
APPARITION: A supernatural appearance of a person or thing, esp. a ghost; a specter or phantom.
DEBUNK: to expose or excoriate as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated.
DEMONIC: Inspired as if by a demon, indwelling spirit.
EARTHBOUND: Attached or confined to the earth or to earthly concerns.
ECTOPLASM: The visible substance believed to emanate from the body of a spiritualistic medium during communication with the dead.
ELECTRONIC VOICE PHENOMENA EVP): Is the appearance of intelligible voices on recording media that has no known physical explanation.
ELEMENTAL: pertaining to the agencies, forces, or phenomena of physical nature. Of such character as to resemble a force of nature in power or effect.
GHOST:The soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
GHOST HUNTING: Various investigation methods used to determine the authenticity of ghosts and hauntings.
HAUNTING: To inhabit, visit, or appear to in the form of a ghost or other supernatural being.
ORBS: Round, opaque lights captured on film thought to be spirits or paranormal activity.
PARANORMAL: Beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation.
PHANTOM: Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; a ghost or an apparition.
PHENOMENON: An outward sign of the working of the laws of nature or an extraordinary happening.
PSYCHIC: Outside of natural or scientific knowledge; spiritual.
SPECTRE: A visible incorporeal spirit, esp. one of a terrifying nature; ghost; phantom; apparition.
SUPERNATURAL: of, pertaining to, or being above or beyond what is natural; unexplainable by natural law or phenomena; abnormal.