Paranormal Terms

Gabriel: Arch angle who will due God's bidding. A warrior for God that is often called upon to do battle with Satan.

Ganzfeld Experiment: An experiment where input from the outside world is reduced by placing halved ping-pong balls over
the eyes and by masking external sounds (covering subject's ears with headphones and playing white noise). A state of
mild sensory deprivation.

General Extra Sensory Perception (GESP): ESP in which it is unclear whether the results are due to clairvoyance,
telepathy, precognition or retro cognition.
Geomagnetic Field: The magnetic field around the earth. Changes in fields are believed to influence spiritual activity.

Ghost: a.k.a. "Apparitions," are believed to be the consciousness, personality, soul, or spirit that functions apart from the
body and has survived the death of the body. Reports indicate that apparitions indeed act like humans. They have the
personality and emotions and act and dress like the person they were when alive.

Ghost Hunter/Investigator: A person or group who tries to record evidence of spirit or ghosts. This may be done by means
of photography, video, EMF (Electro Magnetic Field)/Thermo readings, trying to capture EVP (Electronic Voice
Phenomena) on recordings, and other means.

Ghost Hunt: This is the first phase of any case that you will perform, the ghost hunt. Within this step you are going to try to
find enough evidence that will support the theory of an active haunting and the need for further research. If the decision has
been made to research further; then you have now entered the second phase, the investigation. During this phase you will
gather all the information needed to determine the nature and status of the haunting. You will need to know and witness the
phenomena yourself, what brought about the activity, the type of entity you are dealing with and what actions and
precautions should be taken to approach the situation

Ghost Investigation: A ghost investigation is an attempt to capture spirit activity usually at a location already known, or
presumed to be haunted.

Ghoul: Demonic or parasitic entity that feeds upon human remains.

Globule: An anomaly where-in floating, circular forms appear on photographs or videotape, which seem indicative of spirit
activity. Globes are a natural containment formation of the meniscus of liquid, as in gas containing bubbles; perhaps the
interaction of energy and a quasi-physical substance produced by spiritual manifestations results in a similar effect, the
globules being an initial containment of energy. Presently, all we know is that they continue to appear, and extraneous
possible causes such as moisture, light refraction or emulsion seepage, etc., have been considered and ruled out.

Glossolalia: Fabricated and non-meaningful speech, especially such speech associated with a trance state or certain
schizophrenic syndromes. Also known as "speaking in tongues".

Gnomes: Nature spirits made of pure elemental substance, living underground, in mines and in rocks.

Goblin: A nature spirit showing itself as small, swarthy and malicious, capable of shape shifting to become an animal, thief
or villain, name given to the more mischievous and grotesque looking fairies.

Golden-rod: A rare anomaly seen in videotape recorded at the site of a suspected haunting, appearing as bright, white or
yellowish lines rapidly moving across a room.

Guardian Angel: An angel believed to have special affection and protection for a particular individual.

Guide: See "Spirit Guide".