PROS of ROCHESTER, NY
Paranormal Research and Observation Society
What is the Paranormal?
| paranormal | (adj.) | Beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation: such paranormal phenomena as telepathy; a medium's paranormal powers. of or pertaining to the claimed occurrence of an event or perception without scientific explanation, as psychokinesis, extrasensory perception, or other purportedly supernatural phenomena. |
What is a ghost?
A ghost - or spirit or apparition - is the energy, soul or personality of a person who
has died and has somehow gotten stuck between this plane of existence
and the next.Most researchers believe that these spirits do not know
they are dead. Very often they have died under traumatic, unusual or
highly emotional circumstances. Ghosts can be perceived by the living
in a number of ways: through sight (apparitions), sound (voices), smell (frangrances and odors),
touch - and sometimes they can just be sensed.
What is a haunting?
A haunting is a kind of "recording" of a past event on an environment, such as a house, building or a battlefield. These recordings play back, over and over in a kind of loop - always the same, like a film or video. It is thought that the presence of certain people can trigger these recordings to play back. They are not ghosts capable of interacting with the living. It is not known how these recordings are made, but they are often associated with a traumatic or strongly emotional event. This is often known as a residual haunting.
A haunting can also be intelligent. Which means that these "ghosts" know they are dead, and are more than likely to interact with you. Either by EVP's, photos, knockings, tappings, or lights flickering.