Ghost Manifestations

Things to learn if you are going to do Ghost Hunting.

Specters and Entities can appear in different forms:

Shadows; ghosts are sometimes seen as dark silhouettes, like against a wall. These are sometimes known as shadow people.
Hat Man is a type of shadow person that wears a hat and cloak.
Certain reports say they have glowing red eyes. Shadow people are believed to be neither good or bad. They just watch over and observe. But some can be malevolent or benevolent.
There have been shadows seen at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia.

Mist or fog; spirit can manifest itself in a hazy or vapor form.
Like the famous photo of The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall in England, taken in 1936.

Orbs; spirits can appear as a ball of light, like Will-o-the-wisp.
There have been orbs witnessed at cemeteries in New York and Chicago.
And at Gettysburg, there have been pictures taken of strange, floating lights.

Full body apparition; ghosts can sometimes be seen as an entire human shape and form. Or sometimes just a face or head have appeared.
At the Stanley Hotel and the Titanic exhibition, full body apparitions have been observed. And ladies in white have appeared in different grave yards around the country.

Also noises can be made by ghosts. From banging to footsteps, from incorporeal entities.
These are normally referred to as "Poltergeist activity". But they can be characterized as Mischievous or noisy ghosts.

Ghosts can appear in different shapes, or alternate materializations.



There are different types of Hauntings:

Residual hauntings; where spirits repeat the same action over and over again and they do not interact with living people, also known as an imprint, earth bound spirit, or stay behind.

Intelligent hauntings; where a ghost can interact and possibly communicate with the living. Like Traditional Haunting.

Mischievous, noisy ghost, makes noise, moves objects.
Poltergeist; can be considered to be a type of psychic phenomena, called Psychokinesis. This is when a person, (like a young child), can move objects with their mind.
Ghosts can also cause poltergeist type activity, things moving and flying around, but I would call them a mischievous or noisy ghost.

Demons; It can be dangerous to write or talk about evil spirits sometimes.

Portal Haunting; Thin Spots, between this world and the spirit realm, boundary area. Sometimes an old mirror can act as an opening to another level of reality.


Hauntings and manifestations of incorporeal spectral entities are parts of Ghostology,
the study of para-spiritual activity.