Phantom: An apparition or specter that exists only as an energy form.
Phantasm: Vision of absent person.
Phantasmagoria: A crowd of dim or unreal figures. It is also a device used for ghost making as a popular entertainment in the 18th century developed by E.G. Robertson around the 1790's for projecting convincing figures before an audience.
Phantom Hounds: The sighting of phantom hounds seems to be at random, sometimes manifesting to guard something of importance. They are frightening large dog spirit creatures with glowing eyes, (sometimes headless) that chase the living, but rarely ever catch them. As long as the person seeing one of these apparitions is not frightened to death, or runs off a cliff to avoid them, they cannot cause any real damage.
Phantom Phone Calls: Calls via a telephone made by someone who has passed on. This usually occurs when the caller has a close emotional relationship to the person answering the call. Hundreds of reports of this type of phenomena have been recorded, but it is still considered a rare anomaly. There have also been reports of communication via other electronic appliances, such as radios, CB's, television sets and even computers.
Phantom Ships: The appearance of phantom ships is thought to be a death omen by sailors. The most famous Phantom Ship is the Flying Dutchman, which has many documented sightings from the 1800's. The Griffon can still be seen on the Great Lakes.
Phantom Travelers: Ghosts that haunt modes of transportation, (trains, buses, and airplanes) that seems to be cursed to never-ending travel. Also known as Phantom Hitchhikers. Some apparitions occur only on the anniversary of the spirit's death.
Phasmophobia: Fear of ghosts.
Possession: When a person's mind or body are believed to be taken over by ghosts, spirits, or other supernatural entities.
Precognition: Knowledge of an event before it happens.
Premonition: A forewarning of a future event.
Presence: The feeling that an unseen person, spirit or being is nearby.
PSI: The factors responsible for a variety of paranormal phenomena, free from the cultural and personal assumptions of the paranormal.
Psychic: A person who has the ability to see, hear and feel by use of senses other than the natural senses.
Psychic Attacks: Paranormal assaults on humans or animals that can cause physical or mental distress, cultures, the "Evil Eye" or curses are also examples.
Psychometry: To touch an object with your hands and get information about the object, it's creator, its owner, or its history.
Poltergeist: Activity believed to be caused by an adolescent with latent psychic PK abilities. This is not believed to be spirit activity. Poltergeist is a German word translated, "Noisy Spirit." Most studies have concluded that the agents of poltergeist activity originate from females under the age of twenty. Poltergeist activity is accumulative as the activity progresses. See separate Poltergeist information page.
Power Points: Spiraling rhythms of earth energy being drawn together from different sources to form a concentrated energy mass. Power Points have abnormal amounts of ghost and UFO sightings and poltergeist activity, making them a focus for many paranormal investigations.
Precognition: Is the ability to receive information about objects or events that exist in a future time -the ability to predict the future through dreams or flashes of events while awake.
Psychokinesis: The movement of objects through the use of one's mind, without the aid of physical persuasion, it is force of Mind over Matter. Sometimes it is done without the conscious knowledge of the person using it. This is the case with Poltergeist incidents, and usually is brought about by a young adolescent. Uri Geller was believed to possess this ability.
Psychic Burn: The location where a terrible event, typically extremely violent, occurs causing human emotions, (fear, panic, anger, pain, hate, confusion, etc.), to explode from the scene scarring the physical environment. This is not a ghost, but rather a reenactment of a horrible event. This is also referred to as Atmospheric Apparitions.
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Radio Voice Phenomenon (RVP) :The reception of the voice of a deceased through the speakers of an ordinary radio.
Reading: Information given to a person by a medium.
Reciprocal Apparition: When the agent (ghost) and percipient (living person seeing the ghost) see and respond to each other and no one else in the area is aware of the ghost.
Recurring Apparitions: A ghostly appearance that occurs once a year or on a regular cycle, usually on the anniversary of a death or traumatic event.
Reincarnation: The belief that a soul comes back to earth many times through many lives for the purpose of attaining knowledge of every experience and to ultimately achieve perfection. Once perfection is achieved the soul returns to God and becomes a part of Him. The Christian religion is the only major religion of the world that does not accept this philosophy.
Remote Viewing (RV): The ability to access distant or shielded information primarily of visual character such as natural or structural features via an unknown mental process. RV may include other sensory modes, such as feelings, motion, or sound. Some individuals associate specific approaches, or protocols, with RV. It is the ability to produce information that is correct about a place, event, person, or object located somewhere in time/space, which is completely blind to the remote viewer.
