Ghosts, Poltergeists Hauntings




 * Ghosts, Poltergeists
 * Hauntings


 * The term "ghost" conjures up an image, peaceful or tortured,
 * of the spirit of someone who has died. It is generally assumed
 * that the dead, if restless and returned from the grave, would
 * be attracted either to their relatives, people with whom they
 * had some close association during life or to places that
 * had a special meaning to them. One theory holds that events
 * imprint themselves on the substance of the environment. Because
 * they are trapped in the fabric of time, their images are eternally
 * reenacted. The spirits of the murdered are often said to return
 * to the scene of their death as a reproachful or vengeful reminder
 * Ghosts are not necessarily visible, frightening or ethereal.
 * Indeed, many have been mistaken for solid, physical individuals.
 * Furthermore, ghosts may be perceived in a variety of ways,
 * though often only visible to psychics, while non-psychics merely
 * "feel" or "sense" their presence. If an individual possesses some
 * psychic faculty, they may perceive the ghost by means of vision,
 * sound or feeling. Ghosts can also be experienced through other
 * sensory perceptions, including the perception of a change in
 * temperature, movement and touch. There may be noises,
 * voices, music or other sounds that suggest the presence of
 * supernatural phenomena. Other indirect "sightings" include
 * the mysterious appearance of writing or apports such as..


 * (This page is part of Categories of Ghosts and Spirits and continues there)