Category: Ghost Miscellaneous

Allan Kardec (1804–1869) is the pseudonym of French physician Hippolyte Leon Denizard Rivail, who founded Spiritism (also known as Kardecism) and promoted psychic healing. Born…

Jung, Carl Gustav (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and early follower of Sigmund Freud who eventually broke with him partly over the importance of spirituality and psychic…

The Italian Bride is a ghost of a young woman whose body was found to be inexplicably undecayed six years after burial. Julia Buccola Petta,…

Houdini, Harry (1874–1926) A master illusionist and escape artist, Harry Houdini was perhaps the greatest stage magician of all time. He also spent most of…

William Hope (1863–1933) was a famous spirit photographer, considered a genuine master by some and a consummate trickster by others. Although often accused of fraud, William…

Ancestor worship is the worship of deceased relatives, or ancestors, as if they were deities. Ancestor worship may take several forms. In its most generalized…

The belief that the ghosts of the dead can cause illness and death. In the animistic system of beliefs characteristic of tribal societies around the…

ghost seers In folklore throughout the world, it is thought that persons born at a certain time of day, or on a particular day, possess…

Ghost Dance is a Native American religious movement that arose in the mid-19th century in the plains and western portion of the United States in…