Apparitional experience

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In parapsychology, an apparitional experience is an anomalous experience characterized by the apparent perception of either a living being or an inanimate object without there being any material stimulus for such a perception. In academic discussion, the term apparitional experience is preferred to the term ghost because: The term ghost implies that some element of the human survives death and, at least under certain circumstances, can make itself perceptible to living humans. There are other competing explanations of apparitional experiences. First-hand accounts of apparitional experiences differ in many respects from their fictional counterparts in literary or traditional ghost stories and films. The content of apparitional experiences includes living beings, both human and nonhuman, and even inanimate objects.

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