Thursday, February 24, 2011

Ghost Hunting Terminology Part 10

Religious Provocation
The use of prayer, holy water, and/or religious artifacts to make an inhuman entity show itself and leave a lo
cation. Only those trained in this kind of ritual should consider employing it.

Residual Haunting
A scene from the past that continues to be played out over and over again, like a recording, with the witness of the phenomena essentially peering into a formeer era. The ghostly participants in these time displacements often seem unaware of their living observers.

Sensitive
A medium, psychic, or clairvoyant. A sensitive can see or feel people, objects and events in the realm of the paranormal.

Thermal Imaging Digital Camera
A device that records images of long-wavelength infrared radion (i.e., heat) that are invisible to the human eye. The thermal imaging camera facilitates the capture of images in darkness, smoke or fog.

Vortex
An anomaly that sometimes shows up in still photographs taken at the site of a suspected haunting, appearing as a translucent white tube or funnel-shaped mass. Some researchers believe vortices may be portals to the spirit realm.


Bibliography
Seeking Spirits: The Lost Cases of The Atlantic Paranormal Society, Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson with Michael Jan Friedman, Pocket Books, 2009

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