Paranormal events are phenomena whose existence cannot be explained by science. As Halloween approaches, let’s review our working knowledge of these reported occurrences. The answers appear below.
1. What name is given to the colorful spiritual energy that surrounds a person’s physical body and indicates a person’s emotional or physical well-being?
2. What term is used to refer to a gathering or secret meeting of witches?
3. What French phrase is used when a person experiences an uncanny sensation of familiarity to a place or person despite no previous encounters?
4. What name is given to a ritual or religious practice meant to drive out devils or demons from a possessed person?
5. What label is applied to the act of rising from the ground and hovering in mid-air through magical powers that seem to defy gravity?
6. What do we call the person who claims to be able to act as a messenger between the living and the dead, passing on messages often to loved ones?
7. What board game is used to spell out letters and thus messages from beyond?
8. What name is given to a sit-down meeting where participants try to make contact with the spirits of the dead?
9. What acronym is used to describe a scientifically unexplainable and mysterious flying object observed in the sky?
10. What supernatural entity or creature appears in a magically reanimated dead body and feeds by sucking the vital essence or blood of humans?
ANSWERS:
1. Aura
2. Coven
3. Déjà vu
4. Exorcism
5. Levitation
6. Medium
7. Ouija Board
8. Séance
9. UFO
10. Vampire
