English poet, classics scholar, and founder member of the Society for Psychical Research.
Human skull that emits blood-curdling screams when anyone attempts to move it.
Mysterious cloud of mist that often hovered over the Cowloe Rock, near Sennen Cove in Cornwall, warning of approaching bad weather.
Idea that recurrent hauntings are produced by the replaying of recordings stored in the physical environment, analogously to tape recordings.
18th-century ghost show developed by the impresario Paul de Philipsthal, also known as Philidor.
Type of primitive spiritual entity from the pagan past, perhaps the manifestation of a race memory, usually associated with a single place.
Spirit of a dead person returned to visit the living, the common conception of a ghost.
Verbal charm to be spoken or chanted, sometimes a single magic word such as Abracadabra or the Renervate encountered in the fictional Harry Potter series of books.
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