Spirit Classification for ghosts, demons, vampires and other creatures

Dallas Ft. Worth - Washington D.C. - Seattle - New Orleans

Simon Marsden Infrared Gothic Photography

"They themselves do not see the world of light as we do, but our shapes cast shadows in their minds, which only the noon sun destroys: and in the dark they perceive many signs and forms that are hidden from us: then are they are most to be feared. And at all times they smell the blood of living things, desiring and hating it. Senses, too, there are other than sight or smell. We can feel their presence - it troubled our hearts, as soon as we came here, and before we saw them; they feel ours more keenly. "

- Aragorn commenting on the Ringwraiths in The Lord Of The Rings

J.R.R. Tolkien

Ray: "Sir, what you have there is what we refer to as a focused, non-terminal repeating phantasm, or a Class Five full roaming vapor.

Real nasty one, too!"

-Ghostbusters

The Society for Paranormal Investigation SPI-5 Category

Classification System of Haunting & Paranormal Activity

by Vorpral

Interactive Former Human Spirit Pattern (Ghosts) Class I	Location Based Haunting Non-Interactive (Residual Hauntings) Class II	Psychokinetic Class III	Earth Mysteries Class IV	Non-Human Entity Class V

Phantom	Residual Haunting	General RSPK & ESP	Feng Shui - Geomancy	Angels
Apparition	Spirit (Psychic) Burn	Poltergeist	Geomagnetic Anomaly	Demons
Classic Haunting	Psychic Echoes	Psychic Attack	Ley Lines	Elementals
Graveyard Spectres	Phantom Craft	Psychic Disturbance	Power Points	Banshees?
Etheric Revenant	Spiritual Residue	Psychic Vampire	Vortexes/Portals	Ghost Lights?
Vampires	Imprints	Thoughtforms	Time Slips	Wild Hunt
		Astral Projection (OBE)		Spirit/Animal Guides?
		Bilocation/Double		Lower Astral Entities?
		Artificial Ghost		Etheric Larvae?
		Shapeshifter		Animal Ghosts Cryptozoology
		Remote Viewing		Aliens/Fey Folk?
				Nature Guardians
				Spirits

Remember that these are just categories for relating between phenomena and they do not mean to suggest that any of these particular entities/events actually exist or can be proven. I do not mean to disrespect / diminish the power or capability of any being alive or dead by simply slapping a label on it. Models are a valuable aid in understanding, and I feel this field requires more clarity and delineation in phenomena while keeping in mind that "The map is not the territory. "

They may also be known by other names, belong to more than one group or subgroup, (such as Banshees) and be in flux or in conjunction with other types of paranormal activity. (a site or location may have more than one type present) There may even exist a form of "spirit ecology" in which an Earth Mystery (such as a power point or ley line) may draw in other types of entities such as Elementals or Ghost Lights.

The "?" mark signifies subclasses of which I have a greater degree of uncertainty.

Paranormal Dictionary

http://www.npri.co.uk/paranormal-alphabet.php

Irish Language Paranormal Words

http://irishcultureandcustoms.com/3Focloir/Halloween.html#Gael48

http://irishcultureandcustoms.com/3Focloir/Creepy.html#Gael66

LEVELS OF BEING

Taken from John Greer's book, Monsters

with modified interpretation by Vorpral of SPI

Level	Description	Beings (examples)

Spiritual (may be further sub-divided into Angelic, ArchAngelic & Celestial according to the theosophists	The level of primal unity from which all other levels emanate and to which they return, possibly Heaven	Angels
Mental / Psychic	Abstract consciousness, timelessness, logic & math	Thoughtforms
Astral (may be further sub-divided into Upper & Lower Astral	Concrete consciousness, dreams, OBE	Astral Projection
Etheric	Life force	Ghosts, Fey Folk
Physical	What we commonly perceive as reality	Humans and Animals
Sub-Physical	Hell	Demons

These classifications I owe to research found in the first four books that are named in my Books To Read section.

CATEGORIZATION BY VISUAL PHENOMENA

Orbs - also known as plasmoids, speeders and EML (Electromagnetic Luminaries - credit Chris Mosely of Dagulf's Ghost)

Streamers

Ectoplasm, mist

Vortexes

Shadow Men

Ghost vehicle

"What is a ghost? An emotion, a terrible moment condemned to repeat itself over and over? An instant of pain, perhaps? Something dead which appears at times alive. A sentiment suspended in time ... like a blurry photograph ... like an insect trapped in amber."

-The Devil's Backbone