Features
Keta Diablo
Hello friends and fans of Bab's Book Bistro. Welcome to her new online
magazine!
When Babs asked me if I'd like to write an article for the November issue of
the magazine, I jumped at the chance. And, I thought something about ghosts
would be appropriate (and interesting) this time of year. I don't know about
you but Halloween always reminds me of ghosts, spirits and apparitions of
every kind.
So what is a ghost? Most resources describe one as a person's spirit existing
separately from his/her body that continues to exist after the person dies.
Many parapsychologists and paranormal researchers also claim there are
specific types of ghosts. Below are a few that continually to show up on
Haunted Spirits and Haunted Places web sites:
* Apparition: Defined as something that unexpectedl y appears or becomes
visible. The term is synonymous with phantasm (fantasm) and phantom
(fantom) and specter (spectre).
* Doppelgänger: in legend, this often sinister ghostly double of a person that
haunts its living counterpart.