Terms Related to Paranormal Research
Anomaly: Something different, peculiar, abnormal, or not easily identified.
Apparition: The visual appearance of a ghost/spirit.
Astral Projection: The phenomenon of the soul or spirit temporarily leaving the body and traveling to another place or time.
Clairaudiance: The ability to hear things that are not audible to others.
Clairsentience: The ability to sense energy from objects, people, places or things and be able to draw information from that energy.
Clairvoyance: The ability to see things outside of the physical world without the use of your normal senses.
Demonology: The study of demons or evil spirits.
Divination: The practice of obtaining hidden knowledge about the future by the interpretation of supernatural communication.
EVP: Electronic Voice Phenomenon; A recording of unexplained voices or noises on a recording device.
Ghost: The spirit or soul of a dead individual.
Medium: An individual that is able to communicate with the dead by using clairaudience, clairsentience, and clairvoyance.
Paranormal: Unexplainable; beyond the range of scientific explanation--rare, supernatural, or unusual.
Parapsychology: The study of mental telepathy, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, and other paranormal phenomenon by means of experimentation.
Poltergeist: A noisy ghost that is thought to be responsible for loud noises, footsteps, and moving objects. Often thought to be related to the psychokinetic energy unknowingly released from a living person.
Psychic: A person who is sensitive to supernatural forces.
Precognition: Having or being able to gain direct knowledge of the future by using extrasensory means.
Retrocognition: The ability to see or sense the past or past events by using extrasensory means.
Telekinesis & Psychokinesis: The ability to move things with one's mind.
