Need to know vocabulary for new investigators

Over the years investigative groups have developed some terms that every beginner should become familiar with. I will use a lot of basic vocabulary in my posts. To make my blog easier for you I am going to address some of these terms in this post. Thousands of words have been created to define the paranormal. I am going to keep terms and definitions concise and will only address those I feel a beginner should know.  

It is important to know:

• Apparition — a spirits manifestation to one’s sense of vision 
• Electromagnetic energy — a mixture of electrical charges and magnetic fields 
• Entity — a conscious ghost
• EMF — electromagnetic field 
• EVP — electronic voice phenomena   
• Intelligent haunting — ghost is aware of your presence and does things to get attention 
• Orbs — balls of energy that give off light, often mistaken as a ghost 
• Paranormal — anything that cannot be explain in a scientific or factual manner
• Residual haunting —the ghost has no awareness of your presence, they are just going through a past event repeatedly 

You need to know these words to get started as an investigator. If I ever use words not in this list, I will try to always give definitions at the end of post or directly next to the word in parenthesis’. These are not the only words that will be useful to know, but they are the most important for beginners. At the bottom I will list a good site that has a mass amount of words if you wish to know more. 

The website SimplyGhost.com has all these words and much more if you want to look up other words that describe the paranormal.