Category: Ghost Glossary

Spirit photography was a commercially successful occupation from the 1860s to the 1890s. A person wanting a spirit photograph would go to a photography studio…

Apparitions of people who have died are commonly called ghosts. They often appear repeatedly at the same place, sometimes for years, with the ghost seemingly…

Phantom voices and sounds are noises that appear to be coming from ghosts. Sometimes a phantom voice or sound is only heard once or twice,…

Sightings of ghosts have been reported throughout history and throughout the world, and more than 10 per cent of Americans say they have actually seen…

Occupants of or visitors to certain houses, hotels, castles, theatres, schools, or other buildings sometimes report experiencing odd, recurring, unexplainable phenomena, such as noises with…

SPOOK Generally accepted as an alternative term for ghost, the origins of the word may be traced back to American Indian lore and thus regarded…

A wraith is the ghost of a person on the verge of death. According to lore the wraith appears as an exact likeness of its…

TASH is an Irish word for a ghost that can appear in human or animal form. Ireland has a strong ghost story tradition and gave…

Spectre is a Word that is generally thought to mean a ghost or apparition but among ghost hunters it has become employed to describe hauntings…

Smoke Ghosts is a curious phenomenon not to be confused with ectoplasm or ‘mist’ phenomena, smoke ghosts are said to be ghost forms which give…