What is a ghost?
A. A ghost – or spirit or apparition – is the energy, soul or personality of a person who has died and has somehow gotten stuck between this plane of existence and the next. Most researchers believe that these spirits do not know they are dead. Very often they have died under traumatic, unusual or highly emotional circumstances. Ghosts can be perceived by the living in a number of ways: through sight (apparitions), sound (voices), smell (frangrances and odors), touch – and sometimes they can just be sensed.
That question is a matter of opinion. For some, a ghost is the spirit of a dead person that is “Earthbound” or is still walking the Earth. For other’s, they are dangerous demonic entities that are the embodiment of the devil (some religions subscribe deeply to this). Others simply shrug and say they don’t exist. Some just want to know what they are. For our purposes, we categorize the ghosts that we have studied under three categories… #1: Apparitions An apparition is the most spectacular “ghost” as it is an actual vision of a person or (in some cases) thing. Apparitions seem to take on either human form or the form of “blobs” or orbs of light. When someone says they saw their Grandma walking down the stairs of their house two weeks after poor old Grandma passed away, they saw an apparition. #2: Poltergeists German for noisy ghosts, poltergeist activity can range from simply hearing strange noises that cannot be attributed to “natural” or normal causes to furniture being flung about
