Ghost Miscellaneous- Page 2

Ghosts vs. Spirits : According to the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, the definition of a ghost is “a disembodied soul; especially the soul of a dead person believed to be an inhabitant of

Some folks are of the belief that ghosts seen in their dreams are actual representations of the dead. However, many dream interpreters feel that this is the most unlikely explanation for this

Animism: Souls, Spirits and the Living World Animism is one of the oldest and most influential concepts in the study of religion, but it is also one of the most misunderstood. In

Automatism Automatism is unconscious muscular movement or creative activity that appears to occur without deliberate conscious control and has often been attributed to supernatural guidance. It may involve writing, drawing, painting, speaking,

The Balfour family was a prominent Scottish family, several of whom were closely involved in the Society for Psychical Research (SPR). Eleanor Balfour (1845–1936), the eldest of eight children, married Henry Sidgwick

Chalcedony is a type of quartz used by the ancient Egyptians to drive away ghosts, night visions and sadness. Chalcedony is never crystalline, but translucent and waxy in appearance. It usually is

Cheltenham Haunting Sometimes called the “Morton Case,” after the family in whose home it occurred, this case is distinguished by an apparition of a woman that was seen over a period of

A churel is in India, the evil ghost of a woman who died in childbirth or ceremonial impurity. Originally, churels were ghosts of low-caste persons, whose corpses were buried face down to

Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) Membership organization based in Buffalo, New York, devoted to debunking claims of the paranormal. CSICOP’s stated objectives are: to establish a