Instrumental Transcommunication - communication from the dead via a device such as a phone, radio, television, walkie-talkie, etc.

Investigation - An organized group of researchers in search of paranormal phenomena to document with scientific instrumentation.

Kobald - A German malicious spirit who haunted metal-bearing mines.

Lemures - A ghost who returns to haunt its living relatives. This spirit was so named by ancient Romans. 

Manifestation - The appearance of a spirit energy, ghost, or apparition visible to the naked eye or caught on film.

Marion Apparition - Materializations of what is believed to be the Virgin Mary.

Meditation - A spiritual or devotional exercise of contemplation usually concerning a philosophical or religious subject. A planning or intending of the mind to fill oneself with positive energies. 

Medium - A person who communicates with the dead. A medium may accomplish this through a seance.

Metaphysics - The study of events beyond or outside of man's understanding of classical physics.

Night Shades - Same as Shadows.

Olfactory - Of or relating to the sense of smell.

Orb - A circular-shaped ball of spirit energy believed to contain the soul, personality, and emotions of a deceased person or animal. These may be visible to the naked eye or invisible until caught on film. They may also have streaking tails of ectoplasm or glowing energy.

Ouija Board - A game board with an alphabet and planchette that when touched with the fingers will move to spell out spirit messages or telepathic writings. It can be a dangerous tool which opens a portal to malevolent spirits and invites them into your home. 

Paranormal - The word "para" means beyond. Something that is beyond logical or scientific explanation.

Paranormal Group - A group of people who actively seek out paranormal phenomena in order to research, document, and learn about it.

Para physical - The human body's physical reaction to being exposed to paranormal phenomena. This includes phenomena felt as cold spots, hot spots, electric tingles, goose bumps, hair raising sensations, nausea, vertigo, headaches, etc.

Parapsychology - The study of unexplainable phenomena such as telepathy, clairvoyance, and psycho kinesis.

Pendulum - A small dowsing tool composed of a dangling crystal or metal plumb which is used to answer questions or find things through psychic energies.

Percipient - The person who sees a spirit manifestation.

Phantasm - A phantom. A French derivation.

Phantom - A term for an apparition. Derived from French cultures.

Phantom Traveler - A human or animal spirit that haunts a particular road or highway. Often this is a hitchhiker who rides with living people, then inexplicably disappears.

Poltergeist - Means "noisy ghost" in German and, despite the name, refers to a psychokinetic manifestation rather than a spirit manifestation. Psycho kinesis is psychic phenomena generated by a living person, usually a child, with unvented negative energies. These energies produce loud, destructive results which mimic true paranormal events.

Portal - A multi-dimensional gateway which spirits of the dead may enter or exit from their world into ours. This may be accomplished via a vortex.

Possession - The act of a malevolent spirit or demon taking over the body of a human or animal, manipulating it, and using it for its own purposes.

Post cognition - Same as retro cognition.

Precognition - Clairvoyant knowledge of something prior to its happening.

Premonition - A psychic forewarning of a foreboding event.

Presence - Any spirit energy on the earthbound plain.

Psychic - A person with abilities of extrasensory perception or metal telepathy.

Psychic Impressions - Intuitive knowledge gained through psychic abilities.

Psychic Imprint - Believed by some to be a replayed psychic event which is ”recorded" in space and time and continues to loop the same scene over and over again in a particular location. This view portrays the repeating events of a residual haunting as mindless, soulless imprints of past lives, not as the active, intelligent movements of spirit energies.

Psychic Photography - Another word for spirit photography.

Psychic Protection - Any deliberate metaphysical method by which a person attempts to ward of spirits.

Psycho kinesis - Using the mind to produce motion of inanimate and remote objects.

Psychometry - The ability to perceive information about people, places, or things from touching objects associated with them.