Ghosts and Hauntings
This is the common term for the spirit of a dead person that is believed to appear to the living.
What is a ghost?
This large, hairy creature is said to roam the forests of the Pacific Northwest and is also called Sasquatch.
What is Bigfoot?
This abbreviation stands for "extrasensory perception," the alleged ability to gain information without using the five senses.
What is ESP?
This is the name of the supposed U.S. military base in Nevada that is the subject of many UFO and alien conspiracy theories.
What is Area 51?
This is the name of the 1984 comedy film about scientists who catch ghosts for a living.
What is Ghostbusters?
This type of haunting is named for a noisy spirit that slams doors, throws objects, and makes loud sounds.
What is a poltergeist?
This legendary creature of the Himalayas is often called the "Abominable Snowman."
What is the Yeti?
This is the claimed ability to move objects with the power of the mind alone.
What is telekinesis?
This term describes a reported close encounter in which a person claims to have been taken aboard an alien spacecraft.
What is an alien abduction?
This handheld device, often used by ghost hunters, measures electromagnetic fields and is believed by some to detect spirits.
What is an EMF meter?
This term refers to a ghostly figure, often seen in old photographs, that appears as a translucent shape.
What is an apparition?
This winged creature of West Virginia folklore, first reported in 1966, is said to have glowing red eyes and a wingspan of up to 10 feet.
What is the Mothman?
This is the claimed ability to read another person's thoughts or mind.
What is telepathy?
This 1947 incident in New Mexico is one of the most famous UFO stories, involving the alleged recovery of a crashed craft.
What is the Roswell incident?
This is the name of the popular television show that follows a team of paranormal investigators, often using night-vision cameras.
What is Ghost Hunters?
This is the name for the practice of using instruments like a Ouija board or a pendulum to communicate with spirits.
What is divination (or spirit communication)?
This term, coined by cryptozoologist Ivan T. Sanderson, refers to an animal believed to exist but not yet proven by science.
What is a cryptid?
This is the claimed ability to see events or information about the future.
What is precognition?
This is the name for a person who studies reports of UFOs and alien encounters.
What is a ufologist?
This is the name of the 2009 film that popularized the "found footage" style of paranormal horror.
What is Paranormal Activity?
In parapsychology, this term describes a haunting that seems to follow a person rather than stay in one location.
What is a residual haunting? (Accept: a traveling haunting)
This legendary creature of the Pine Barrens in New Jersey is described as a bipedal, kangaroo-like beast with leathery wings.
What is the Jersey Devil?
This is the claimed ability to see distant places or events in the present without being there.
What is clairvoyance?
This is the name of the U.S. government program, revealed in 2021, that investigated UFO sightings by military personnel.
What is the UAP Task Force? (Accept: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force)
This term describes the practice of using a radio to scan for random static and voices, which some believe can capture spirit communication.
What is a spirit box (or ghost box)?