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Glossary
If you're going to do any ghost hunting, you won't get anywhere if you can't tell your EVP from your miniDV. That's where our handy glossary comes in. Memorize these terms and you'll always be ready when paranormal action rears its head.
Glossary

Banishing

Formal, ceremonial procedure effected to cast an invisible presence or influence out of an area.

Continuance

Commonly referred to as life after death, survival of the psyche post-cessation of the biological organism that had generated it.

Demonologist

A person, usually a member of the clergy, who studies and catalogs demons.

Digital audio

Refers to the small digital sound recorders used in investigations or to a recording media.

Digital infrared camera

Captures images invisible to people. Images are feed processed by a computer for examination.

Dowsing rod

A Y-shaped rod or two L-shaped rods used in searches for underground water, discovering the location of unmarked graves, determining the sex of unborn children and locating ghosts.

Ectoplasm

A filmy, quasi-solid substance reported to issue from a medium's the mouth, nostrils, eyes, ears, navel or nipples during trance states. In photographs, this phenomenon seems to resemble soaked muslin fabric. Whether it has ever been genuine, virtually no ectoplasm has been reported in the past 50 years.

Electromagnetism

(also, electromagnetic field, or EMF ) A force given off by electric charges found in anything that uses electricity. Some believe spikes in electromagnetism can be tied to paranormal activity.

Entity

A disembodied consciousness commonly referred to as a ghost, spirit or demon.

EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena)

Disembodied voices and sounds picked up by recording devices.

Exorcism

Ceremonial expulsion of invading entities from a person or dwelling.

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