Ghost Hunter’s Glossary

Aura: An energy field that surrounds a person visible only to mediums.

Electric Magnetic Field: Waves in a building that can be analyzed to look for signs of ghosts and spirits.

Electronic Voice Phenomena: Voices that appear on a recording that were never heard when it was recorded.

Ghost: An automated series of energy that resembles a repeated task a person would perform in life.

Ghost Hunter: A person who looks for evidence of ghosts and spirits.

Haunted: A quality of a place inhabited by spirits or ghosts.

Hypnagogia: A state of consciousness halfway between waking and sleeping where people can see spirits.

Medium: A living person who can see the spirit world.

Orb: An energy signature of a spirit that can be seen in some photographs.

Spirit: A supernatural entity that can make decisions and choices.

Phantom: A malicious spirit.

Phantasms: An energy signature left behind by a phantom.

Skeptic’s Glossary

Anomaly: Something mundane that looks of place or cannot be explained by the viewer. Often confused for a sign of paranormal activity.

Argument from Authority: A fallacious argument that relies on the authority figure making a claim and not the claim itself.

Charlatan: A person who fakes belief in the supernatural for personal gain.

Cold Reading: A system of asking vague questions to lure people into revealing information of a specific nature.

Electric Magnetic Field: Waves in a building that show signs of electrical wiring.

Electronic Voice Phenomena: Audio recording anomalies that people forget they said or a combination of noises that accidentally sound like words.

Hypnagogia: A state of consciousness halfway between waking and sleeping where people can hallucinate.

Hot Reading: A variation on cold reading where some information is researched ahead of time.

Orb: A lens flare, reflection or other visible anomaly on a photograph mistaken for a spirit.

Scientific Evidence: Evidence of a phenomena that is concrete and offers specific interpretations.

Skeptic: A person who demands high-quality evidence before they will believe an extraordinary claims.

Texas Marksman Fallacy: A logical error where the view remembers successful guesses and forgets all the misses.

True Believer: A person that honestly believes in the supernatural.