![]() ![]() In the Bible, God is depicted as animating Adam with a breath. This belief may have also fostered the metaphorical meaning of “breath” in certain languages, such as the Latin spiritus and the Greek pneuma, which by analogy became extended to mean the soul. Early beliefs were that ghosts were the person within the person (the person’s spirit), most noticeable in ancient cultures as a person’s breath, which upon exhaling in colder climates appears visibly as a white mist. Spirits: What are they composed of?Īnother widespread belief concerning apparitions is that they are composed of a misty, airy, or subtle material. Seeing one’s own ghostly double or “fetch” is a related omen of death. The appearance of a ghost has often been regarded as an omen or portent of death. In many tales, ghosts were often thought to be deceased people looking for vengeance, or imprisoned on earth for bad things they did during life. Paranormal investigators use equipment to find proof of paranormal activity and to make contact with phantoms. The deliberate attempt to contact the spirit of a deceased person is known as a séance. ![]() Descriptions of the apparition of ghosts vary widely: The mode of manifestation in photos or seen by the living’s eyes can range from an invisible presence, shadow people, translucent or wispy shapes, and orbs, to realistic, life-like visions-solids. In traditional belief, a ghost is the soul of a deceased person or animal that can appear, in visible form or other manifestations, to the living. A ghost is the soul of a deceased person or animal Ghosts have been called spook, spirits, phantoms, fetch, haint (a common feature of southern oral and literary tradition), wraith, revenant, apparition, spectre, shade, and entity. Though the dread may be unintentional, as the phantom may not be evil (though there are times a bad one may be there), but your own psychic attention may give you that. And spirits are not “trick ponies,” they will not perform on cue every night or day, so invisible, they might still be there, leaving you a feeling of being watched or even dread. They can be where the least you expect them. What is the word spirit? And where did the words for it come from? They haunt right alongside us, around us, and in places you never think would be haunted. HOME » BLOG » HAUNTED STORIES » THE SPIRITS THAT HAUNT AMONG US WHAT IS A GHOST? – THE SPIRITS AMONG US ![]()
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