Paranormal Terms

Sacred (Holiness): Holiness, or sanctity, is the state of being holy or sacred, that is, set apart for the worship or service of God or
gods. It is most usually ascribed to people, but can be and often is ascribed to objects, times, or places. The word holy is related
to the word whole.

Salt: Symbol of the element of Earth because it's a crystalline substance it can receive on hold Etheric magnetism better than
other substances. Many believe it can ward of evil intentions.

Sanguinor: A person exhibiting vampiric tendencies (the desire to ingest blood) and attributes. These may be either contrived or
pathological.

Santeria: A Cuban spiritualist religion.

Satan: Hebraic term for "Adversary," the "Tester" in the Biblical Book of Job, the most familiar name of the Devil, the "Felled
Angel" and the "Evil One." Investigators sometimes come across evidence of the activities of satanic cults, who perform animal
sacrifices and apparently believe that desecrations and obscenities are devotions to their dark lord.

Scrying: A term used to cover a wide range of divination techniques which parapsychology would tend to classify as types of ESP.
Most scrying techniques involve some degree of fixation on a surface with a clear optical depth (crystal ball, a pool of ink or deep
water) or on an area which shows random patterns (flames in a fire, smoke), the idea being that subconscious information
available to the scrying will be manifested in their interpretation of the imagery or random patterns they see.

Séance: A meeting of people to receive spiritualistic messages. A group of people who gather in an effort to communicate with the
dead.

Second Sight: Another name for clairvoyance.

Sender: Another name for agent.

Sensitive: Capable of perceiving with a sense or senses; Susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others. A
person who frequently experiences ESP (Extra Sensory Perception).

Sensory Deprivation: Conditions of greatly restricted sensory input.

Shade: An entity resembling a once-living being (human or animal).

Shadow People: Spirits or ghosts which are usually black in appearance and have no discernible features. People usually see
them out of the corner of their eye, and have also been known to be captured on film.

Shaman: A 'wizard' in tribal societies who is an intermediary between the living, the dead, and the gods. A member of certain tribal
societies who acts as a medium between the visible world and an invisible spirit world and who practices magic or sorcery for
purposes of healing, divination, and control over natural events.

Shape-Shifting: Paranormal ability to assume the form of another person, an animal or other entity.

Siddhis: Name given to paranormal powers associated with the practice of Yoga.

Sidhe: (pronounced Shee) Irish term for Fairy folk, the "little people" who sequester themselves in woodlands and caverns

Signet: A ring bearing a personal or family emblem.

Significance: Results of an experiment are said to be statistically significant when they are very unlikely to be due to chance (and
hence, in a psi test, are more likely to be due to psi).

Silky: A female ghost which is attired in a rustling silk garment (sometimes seen, other times just heard) and performs domestic
chores for a household after the occupants have retired for the night

Simultaneous Dream: A dream whose elements correspond closely with those in the dream of another person.

Sixth Sense: Grasping the inner nature of things intuitively, an ability of perception seemingly independent of the five senses
(touch, smell, sight, feeling, taste); keen intuition.

Skeptic: One who instinctively or habitually doubts, questions, or disagrees with assertions or generally accepted conclusions. A
person inclined to discount the reality of the paranormal and to be critical of parapsychological research. Generally seeks rational
or scientific explanations for the phenomenon. Paranormal Researchers are also skeptics to an extent, but with an open mind.
Before we can say it's paranormal in nature, we must first prove that it's not something that can be explained by other means.

Sleep Paralysis: A condition in which a person seems to be awake/conscious but is unable to move.

Solar Flares: Flares from the sun that affect geomagnetic fields

Soul: The spiritual element of a person, generally believed to be immortal.

Specter: An unusual appearing ghostly figure or image. A ghostly apparition; a phantom, a haunting or disturbing image or
prospect.

Spirit: A Spirit refers to an actual living essence, or soul, of a person that has remained after their physical body has died which
usually still retains the entities traits and personality and can communicate with the living.

Spirit Attachment: Some may consider this possession, but in effect, actually is more like an "add-on". A spirit attaches itself to a
living person and traveling with them from place to place. It is not technically a possession, since they are usually associated with
demonic activity.

Spirit Guide: A spiritual being who is assigned to a particular person to assist them in their spiritual or life journey. It is said that
each person can have more than one spirit guide. These guides can be highly evolved spirits of people who have lived before.

Spirit Rescue/Crossing Over: attempting contact with entities, intended to alleviate the entities' distress and aid them in the
resolution of their conflicts, and in "crossing over" to a higher, spiritual plane

Spirit Photography: Capturing evidence of spirit on film. Spirit photographs, when developed, show anomalies that were not seen at
the time the photo was taken. Examples include orbs, vortexes, ecto/mists and, on a more rare scale, apparitions.

Spiritualism (Spiritism): The belief that the dead communicate with the living, as through a medium. A belief system that spirits of
the dead can (and do) communicate with living humans in the material world.

Spontaneous Cases: Paranormal phenomena that occur in everyday life, unsought and unexpected.

Spontaneous Human Combustion (SHC): Refers to cases in which a badly burned human body has been discovered in
circumstances suggesting that the fire originated spontaneously in or on the body of the victim.

Spook: to haunt; inhabit or appear in or to as a ghost or specter

Spunkies: The sad spirits of unnamed, unchristened or unbaptized children, believed by old Gaelic and English tradition to wander
country roads in search of someone

Stigmata: Persons have been observed periodically bleeding from points on their bodies corresponding to the wounds of the
Crucifixion. Although the physiological mechanisms which produce this effect are not understood, it is apparently and
externalization of religious fervor. Stigmata have been thought to be an indication of sanctity. St. Francis of Assisi was said to
have displayed the stigmatic bleeding, and the best documented case is that of Padre Pio (b. 1887, d. 1968).who will name them.

Subjective Paranormal Experience (SPE): Or Subjective Psi Experience. An experience that the person who has it believes to be
paranormal.

Subliminal Perception:Perceiving without conscious awareness.

Succubus: A female spirit supposed to descend upon and have sexual intercourse with a man while he sleeps.

Supercharged Orb: These are orbs that tend to leave long streaks behind them, probably from them moving so fast. Watch for light
sources in the area though.. Moving the camera around quickly will usually produce streaks of light on the photo of whatever light
sources are present.

Super-ESP Hypothesis: The suggestion that people are capable of unlimited ESP. The super-ESP hypothesis is often presented
as an alternative to the survival hypothesis in explaining mediumistic phenomena (the medium is believed to obtain information
using super-ESP powers and not directly from the spirit of a deceased person).

Supernatural: Of or relating to existence outside the natural world. Something that exists or occurs through some means other
than any known force in nature. As opposed to paranormal, the term "supernatural" often connotes divine or demonic intervention.

Superstition: The unfounded belief that certain objects, activities or rituals can be helpful or harmful.

Survival: The belief that some aspect of the person (e.g., consciousness, mind, personality, soul) lives on after death of the body.

Synchronicity: coincidence of events that seem to be meaningfully related, conceived in Jungian theory as an explanatory principle
on the same order as causality