Types of Apparitions
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Types of Apparitions
Apparitions of the dead (Post-Mortem Apparition): These apparitions are the manifestations of the recently deceased. Usually, their purpose is to complete unfinished business, convey information, comfort loved ones or, in some cases, announce themselves as a spirit guide. They are generally the most reported type of ghost phenomenon and most popular classification in many ghost stories. They have been reported to be conscious of those present upon their manifestation and are, at times, able to communicate to the living as well as manipulate objects.
Collective Apparition: The same figure is seen simultaneously by two or more observers. It is hypothesized that if one person experiences an apparition, the chances are increased that a second individual in the same party will experience the apparition as well. This may be due in part to expectation or fore-knowledge of the alleged haunting.
Crisis Apparition: Vision of a person familiar to the viewer coincides with the death or endangerment of the person seen. Sometimes linked to spontaneous telepathy or psychic projection. Typically, the “living ghosts” appear only once to a special loved one who may be many miles away at the time of the incident. This phenomenon can also manifest in the person hearing a voice of a friend or loved one with some message or warning while the person is alive and well, totally unaware that this has occurred. Most of these crisis apparitions occur at a moment of great crisis or death when a person is in some form of danger or pain. The person in crisis may not be aware that they are doing this. It is explained and often agreed that these apparitions are the externalization of an unconsciously received telepathic impressions. Apparitions that are seen hours after death are put in to the category of “delayed” crisis apparitions.
Deathbed apparitions: These are apparitions that are seen by those who are about to die. Many have claimed to see religious figures, divine beings, visual images or dead loved ones coming to guide them to whatever existence awaits them. These apparitions have also been reported in near-death experiences as well.
Doppleganger: A doppelganger, also spelled doppelgaenger, may be the ghost or psychical projection of a living person. The word doppelganger comes from the German Doppelgaenger, literally meaning “double-goer. This type of apparition is usually associated as a portent of harm to come to the living twin. Scientists at the University Hospital in Geneva, Switzerland discovered that electrical stimulation of the brain, used to treat epilepsy, can produce the sensation of a doppelganger’s presence in the patient.
Reciprocal apparitions: These apparitions are manifestations of both the agent and the witness appearing to the other simultaneously. These cases are rare but have similar aspects of crisis apparitions. One theory in regards to reciprocal apparitions is that there is a strong desire in the agent and percipient to see one another unconsciously causing an out-of-body experience.
Religious Apparition (also Marian Apparition): Images of religious figures such as the Virgin Mary or Christ in any number of mediums- as a ghost-like figure, solid figure, and also in physical objects including clouds, stones, water, and even toast. Many of these apparitions are collective apparitions seen by many witnesses at once.
Veridical apparitions: These are apparitions that can be corroborated by historical facts. In many cases these apparitions are unaware or are oblivious to any witnesses and appear to be replaying a specific moment in time as if it were a video recording of the event or incident. Typical of a Residual type of haunting.
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