Researching Online...

I really miss having my student ID and being able to sneak into the research libraries through George Mason's access. It's frustrating to be denied the ability to research online by educational and library brick walls. ARGH.

However, you will note, I updated a ton of links to the left all concerning the local ghost stories for the DC area. No, sorry, VA and MD aren't included here. Perhaps later on. I'm having too much fun focusing on only DC to try adding the other two into the mix.

Now, if I could just find some people willing to share their photos! We need to start seeing some captured images of our energetic entities.

For my purposes here, we're going to identify some definitions here based on Josuha Warren's book "How to Hunt Ghosts" mostly because his definitions seem to be the most logical to me.

1. Ghost aka spirits, phantoms, wraiths, visions, shades, specters, haints and apparitions - some paranormal aspect of the physical form and/or mental presence which appears to exist apart from the original form.
2. Entity - a ghost that appears to be conscious and interactive.
3. Imprint - an impression of an event made on the environment.
4. Warps - a place on earth where the laws of physics seem to be distorted, and reality sometimes behaves in unfamiliar ways (i.e., Bermuda Triangle)
5. Poltergeist - this definition meets a specific set of standards to include temporary activity, centered on an agent, disturbances focused on physical objects.
6. Naturals - a rare phenomenon that appears ghostly but in fact is created by some scientifically unknown property of the present nature.

Going forward, these are the definitions we'll be working from. It's a start anyway. I may add more as I learn more, but, I wanted to get us all working from a common speaking point.

Namaste