Types of Ghosts and Apparitions

APPARITIONS / GHOSTS / HAUNTINGS

Experimental Apparitions : When a living person knowingly sets out to appear to another person who is far from them. A common example of this is an astral projection where your conscious self leaves your physical body.

Crisis Apparitions : The image of a person who is experiencing major crisis. 

- Accident 
- Emotional Trauma
- Death
- May appear to family or friends at the time it is happening

Postmortem Apparitions : The dead person shows themselves to the living after they have passed away. 



Continuing Apparition : The living see the dead in a place they may have lived in life, over a long period of time. 

Transitional Ghosts : 

- Extremely common
- Almost always appear to family / loved ones / those they shared a strong emotional link with
- Normally only lasts a few minutes
- Voice, image, scent of the dead person in question

Purposeful Ghosts : 

- Ghosts who have a specific reason for appearing
- Most common, those who return shortly after death to visit loved ones again
- Needs to communicate something to the living
- Dangerous Type = Vengeful ghost = Wont rest until they cause harm to their victim

Graveyard Specters :

- Human like
- Usually appear days to weeks following new burials
- Not as common in present day
- Rarely speak or make noise

Replay Hauntings : 

- Event some the past replays in the presence of a sensitive
- Often seen as a videotape being replayed 
- Normally no sense of a spirit