Paranormal Glossary: Terms Explained

The phenomena our cases keep running into — each explained in plain language, with links to the matching story archives.

• Abandoned Asylum
• Akashic Records
• Alternate Reality
• Ancient Astronauts
• Anunnaki
• Apport
• Area 51
• Astral Projection
• Aura
• Automatic Writing
• The Backrooms
• Banshee
• Bilocation
• Black Dog (Hellhound)
• Black-Eyed Children
• Bloody Mary
• Bridezilla
• Cattle Mutilation
• Changeling
• Choosing Beggar
• Chupacabra
• Clairaudience
• Clairvoyance
• Cold Reading
• Cold Spot
• Crisis Apparition
• Crop Circle
• Cryptomnesia
• Cryptozoology
• Demonology
• Dimensional Jumping
• Disembodied Voices
• Dream Telepathy
• Egregore
• The Elevator Game
• Empath
• Energy Vortex
• EVP — Electronic Voice Phenomenon
• Exorcism
• The Fair Folk
• False Awakening
• Family Secrets
• The Feeling of Being Watched
• Flatwoods Monster
• Fugue State
• Gang Stalking
• Ghost Hunting
• Ghost Lights (Will-o'-the-Wisp)
• Gigantopithecus
• Globster
• Graveyard Shift
• Harbinger
• Haunted Doll
• Haunted Mirror
• Haunted Roads
• High Strangeness
• HOA Horror
• Hypnagogia
• Incubus
• Infrasound
• Intelligent Haunting
• Jamais Vu
• Jersey Devil
• La Llorona
• Ley Lines
• Liminal Space
• Long-Lost Relative
• Lost Time
• Lucid Dream
• Main Character Syndrome
• Mandela Effect
• Men in Black
• Missing 411
• Momzilla
• Moon Illusion
• Mothman
• Near-Death Experience (NDE)
• Nephilim
• Night Terrors
• Nightmare Neighbor
• NPE — Non-Paternity Event
• Numbers Station
• Old Hag Syndrome
• Omens
• Ooparts
• Orbs
• Ouija Board
• Out-of-Body Experience (OBE)
• The Oz Factor
• Parallel Universe
• Paranormal Investigator
• Pareidolia
• Pendulum Dowsing
• Phantom Phone Call
• Phantom Smells
• Poetic Justice
• Portals
• Possession
• Precognitive Dream
• Premonition
• Presque Vu
• Prophecy
• Psychokinesis (Telekinesis)
• Psychomanteum
• Quantum Immortality
• Reincarnation
• Remote Viewing
• Residual Haunting
• Retrocognition
• Revenant
• Roswell Incident
• Seance
• Simulation Theory
• Sixth Sense
• Sleep Paralysis Demon
• Spirit Box
• Spirit Photography
• Starseed
• Stone Tape Theory
• Succubus
• Synchronicity
• Telepathy
• Terminal Lucidity
• Thin Places
• Third Eye
• Thoughtform
• Tic Tac UFO
• Time Slip
• Timeline Shift
• Tulpa
• UAP — Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena
• Ufology
• Urban Exploration (Urbex)
• Vanishing Hitchhiker
• Vardoger
• Vimana
• Vril
• Wendigo
• White Lady
• Witching Hour (3 AM)
• Wood Knocks
• Wraith
• Xenoglossy
• Yeti