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Glossary of Terms     

After Life  A continued life or existence believed to follow death.
Agent     The person who is the focus or at the centre of paranormal activity.
Alien Abduction A form of kidnapping by aliens or extraterrestrials, where the individual is taken up to a spacecraft. Time and memory loss frequently occur and some people recall surgical investigations.
Aliens Beings from another world, also known as extraterrestrial beings.
Astral Plane A place where all thoughts, memories, fantasies and dreams of everyone in the world exist. The astral plane is said to have many levels, and is said to operate at a higher frequency than the physical plane.
Astral Projection The process where our etheric body, spirit or mind separates from the physical body whilst maintaining a level of consciousness.
Aura Invisible to the naked eye, it is a glow surrounding the each individual and changes color and form depending on the mental and physical well being of the individual.
Bermuda Triangle (The 'Devils Triangle')  A geographical area located off the south eastern Atlantic coast of the United States this area has been subject to a number of unexplainable losses of ships, boats and aircraft, including an entire squadron of TBM Avengers.
Channeling Describes the method in which mediums allow themselves to be used in order to manifest something which comes from outside themselves. For example, a healer is a channel for healing energy. Another form of channeling is trance mediumship during a trance, mediums can be aware of their surroundings and listen to instructions of a spirit guide and converse with other people whilst passing on messages, words of wisdom or inviting questions.
Crop Circles Consists of a circle within which all corn stems are flattened but not broken, usually the outer ring of the circle has the corn flattened in the opposite direction to that of the centre. Sometimes the circle may be surrounded by a series of smaller circles that maybe linked by channels.
Death Bed Visions
A dying person has an awareness of the presence of dead relatives or friends, these visitors are said to come and assist the dying with the transition from life to death.
Deja Vu Seeing or doing something completely new but having the distinct feeling that the experience had been done before.
Demons Demons are said to have the ability to enter your home via the Ouija board, it is claimed that in such cases a demon will attach itself to an individual and not the home and therefore will follow where ever that person goes, similar too but not to be confused with possession.
Electrokinesis  
The generation of electricity from the mind that can be used to charge watches and batteries.
Electro-Magnetic Field  (E.M.F.)
A field of force associated with electric charge in motion. There is a theory that a high amount of electromagnetic energy can cause poltergeist activity, but also a theory that these same high energy levels attract spirit and that it is indeed spirit that cause the strange phenomena.
Ectoplasm Ectoplasm is said to be made up of a viscous substance which comes from a mediums solar plexus, a combination of certain chemicals used by spirit to project solid images to its audience. It is very dangerous to disturb a medium whilst in this condition, some mediums have died from being disturbed whilst in this state.
E.V.P. Electronic Voice Projection (recording of spirit voices).
Exorcism The expulsion of a spirit, ghost or demon that is possessing a person or place.
Ghosts Disembodied spirit or image of a dead person. Ghosts have the ability to move through solid objects.
Intuition
The process of coming to a direct knowledge or certainty without using the rational thought process. Handy for us ghost hunters who are not blessed with the gifts of the sensitive.
Karma A law in Hinduism maintaining that every act no matter how insignificant will eventually return to the doer, good with good and evil with evil, if not in this life then in the next.
Levitation There are records of monks and nuns rising up whilst in prayer, it has been suggested that levitation is possible due to molecules becoming refined to the point of the body changing onto a lighter plane. Energy level increases have been suggested to raise the level in the atoms of our bodies and make levitation possible.
Life After Death
The BIG question since the dawn of time, we are left to draw our own conclusions from studying cases such as reincarnation, N.D.E's and the writings of Mediums.
Malevolent Malevolent spirit is a way to describe a malicious supernatural force that causes harmful acts to living beings.
Medium An individual who can communicate with spirits.
NDE's Near Death Experience, claimed to be a glimpse at life after death, the most common reports are those of a tunnel with a bright light at the end, a place of great beauty, meeting loved ones, or visiting another dimension and sometimes even that of hell.
Occam's Razor The principle of preferring the simplest explanation of event, "a person should not increase beyond what is necessary the number of entities required to explain anything".
Orbs Orbs are allegedly the true spirit form and one theory is that these are seen at the beginning of a manifestation. Orbs can be often caught in photographs.
Out Of Body Experience O.O.B.E.)
A form of astral projection when the consciousness leaves the physical body. Many reports of this come from people who have been involved in severe accidents or have been anaesthetized. An example of this is when a patient undergoing an operation can see and hear the operation in progress.
Paranormal Something that is unexplainable scientifically.
Poltergeist

Activity connected with poltergeists is that of unexplainable rapping's and other noises, also movement of items which are often thrown or smashed and in some cased fires have been known to start. This phenomenon is generally connected to teenagers particularly teenage girls.

Reincarnation The belief that the Spirit or the Soul of a person can be reborn to a new life, some people are able to remember past life personalities and experiences. This is a non-Christian belief, but many Eastern cultures have always included reincarnation in their philosophy.
Spirit/Soul n the complete word finder Spirit is described as 'The vital animating essence of a person, or animal, The Intelligent Being without a material body'. Soul is described as 'The immaterial part of a human being, often regarded as immortal, vital, spirit or force, being, inner self.
Telepathy The ability to transfer one persons thoughts to another, this is not considered as supernatural phenomenon, many experiments into this area started enthusiastically around 1882 with the beginning of the Society for Psychical Research. In 1903 Zenner cards were developed by K.E. Zenner and American psychologist, these cards are widely used in E.S.P research with varying results.
UFO Unidentified Flying Objects, considered to be alien aircraft. It is interesting to note that a large majority of UFO's are sighted during or after an electrical storm.
Ufology The study of unidentified flying objects.