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
- Abductee
- Afterlife
- Akashic Records
- Alchemy
- Alternate Reality
- Amulet
- Analog Horror
- Ancient Astronauts
- Anunnaki
- Apport
- Area 51
- Astral Projection
- Aura
- Automatic Writing
- The Backrooms
- Banshee
- Baphomet
- Bilocation
- Black Dog (Hellhound)
- Black-Eyed Children
- Bloody Mary
- Boogeyman
- Bridezilla
- Cat Sith
- Cattle Mutilation
- Changeling
- Channeling
- Choosing Beggar
- Chupacabra
- Church Grim
- Clairaudience
- Clairvoyance
- Cold Reading
- Cold Spot
- Confabulation
- Creepypasta
- Crisis Apparition
- Crop Circle
- Cryptomnesia
- Cryptozoology
- Curupira
- Danse Macabre
- Demonology
- Dimensional Jumping
- Disembodied Voices
- Divination
- Draugr
- Dream Telepathy
- Dybbuk
- Ectoplasm
- Egregore
- El Cucuy
- Elemental
- The Elevator Game
- Empath
- Energy Vortex
- EVP — Electronic Voice Phenomenon
- Exorcism
- Eye Of Providence
- The Fair Folk
- Fairy Forts
- Fairy Ring
- False Awakening
- False Memory
- Family Secrets
- The Feeling of Being Watched
- Fermi Paradox
- Flatwoods Monster
- Folie A Deux
- Folk Lore
- Fugue State
- Gang Stalking
- Genius Loci
- Ghost Hunting
- Ghost Lights (Will-o'-the-Wisp)
- Ghoul
- Gigantopithecus
- Globster
- Goetia
- Graveyard Shift
- Green Man
- Grigori
- Grim Reaper
- Haint
- Harbinger
- Haunted Doll
- Haunted Mirror
- Haunted Roads
- Hellhound
- Hex
- High Strangeness
- HOA Horror
- Hoodoo
- Hypnagogia
- Illuminati
- Incubus
- Infrasound
- Intelligent Haunting
- Jackalope
- Jamais Vu
- Jersey Devil
- Jinn
- Jinx
- Kappa
- Kelpie
- Klabautermann
- Kraken
- La Llorona
- Levitation
- Ley Lines
- Liminal Space
- Little Green Men
- Long-Lost Relative
- Lost Media
- Lost Time
- Lucid Dream
- Lycanthropy
- Main Character Syndrome
- Mandela Effect
- Mediumship
- Memento Mori
- Men in Black
- Mesmerism
- Microsleep
- Missing 411
- Mojo Bag
- Momzilla
- Moon Illusion
- Mothman
- Nagual
- Near-Death Experience (NDE)
- Nephilim
- Night Terrors
- Nightmare Neighbor
- Nocebo Effect
- NPE — Non-Paternity Event
- Numbers Station
- Numerology
- Old Hag Syndrome
- Omens
- Onryo
- Ooparts
- Orbs
- Ouija Board
- Ouroboros
- Out-of-Body Experience (OBE)
- The Oz Factor
- Parallel Universe
- Paranormal Investigator
- Parasomnia
- Pareidolia
- Pendulum Dowsing
- Phantom Phone Call
- Phantom Smells
- Philosophers Stone
- Poetic Justice
- Portals
- Possession
- Precognitive Dream
- Premonition
- Presque Vu
- Prophecy
- Psychokinesis (Telekinesis)
- Psychomanteum
- Psychopomp
- Pyrokinesis
- Quantum Immortality
- Reincarnation
- Remote Viewing
- Reptilians
- Residual Haunting
- Retrocognition
- Revenant
- Rosicrucians
- Roswell Incident
- Samhain
- Scrying
- Seance
- Sigil
- Simulation Theory
- Sin Eater
- Sixth Sense
- Skyquake
- Sleep Paralysis Demon
- Spirit Box
- Spirit Photography
- Spiritualism
- Squonk
- Starseed
- Stigmata
- Stone Tape Theory
- Strigoi
- Succubus
- Synchronicity
- Talisman
- Telepathy
- Teleportation
- Terminal Lucidity
- Theosophy
- Thin Places
- Third Eye
- Third Man Factor
- Thoughtform
- Tic Tac UFO
- Time Slip
- Timeline Shift
- Tulpa
- UAP — Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena
- Ufology
- Uncanny Valley
- Undine
- Urban Exploration (Urbex)
- Vanishing Hitchhiker
- Vardoger
- Vimana
- Vril
- Wendigo
- White Lady
- Witching Hour (3 AM)
- Wolpertinger
- Wood Knocks
- Wraith
- Xenoglossy
- Yeti
- Yokai