The SPR classified its subjects of study into several areas: telepathy, hypnotism, Reichenbach's phenomena, apparitions, haunts, and the physical aspects of Spiritualism such as table-tilting and the appearance of matter from unknown sources, otherwise known as materialization.

That signal would bring more and more wretched figures streaming up from all sides, and the good Samaritan would find himself besieged, hemmed in by ragged apparitions spraying him with tubercular saliva, by children covered with oozing sores who were pushed into his path, by gesticulating stumps of arms, blinded eyes, toothless, stinking open mouths, all begging for mercy at this, the last moment of their lives, as if their end could be delayed only by instant support.

The higher part of this body, containing the spiritual elements gathered during life, merges after death entirely into the causal body ; while the lower part, containing the animal elements, forms the Kama-rupa, the source of " spooks " or apparitions of the dead.

There was a time when with the rest of the happy band they saw beauty shining in brightness, – we philosophers following in the train of Zeus, others in company with other gods ; and then we beheld the beatific vision and were initiated into a mystery which may be truly called most blessed, celebrated by us in our state of innocence before we had any experience of evils to come, when we were admitted to the sight of apparitions innocent and simple and calm and happy, which we beheld shining in pure light.

* Late 1500s – supposed apparitions of St Catherine to a shepherd, who built here a small chapel into a cave

More importantly, how many people die after seeing these apparitions needs to be taken into account and last supporters must discuss how this claim fits with the world as we know it today.

While he had previously been a showman, by this time Philidor had decided to no longer attempt to fool the audience members into believing that the apparitions were real.

Glanvill wanted to prove that the supernatural could not be denied ; those who did deny apparitions were considered heretics for it also disproved their beliefs in angels.

There were more reports of angels and apparitions from the front including Joan of Arc.

It has been promised, by the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Pontevedra apparitions great graces, specially at the hour of death, in particular the salvation of the soul for the believer that for Five Consecutive First Saturdays of Month ( 5 Saturdays in 5 Months ) receives Holy Communion and practices the following exercises as an Act of Reparation to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God and Queen of Heaven:

* Signs before death, and authenticated apparitions: in one hundred narratives, collected by Horace Welby.

Several miraculous events, healings and apparitions of Rose have been reported around the world, commencing soon after his death.

About 17, 000 answers were received and after making all deductions it appeared that death coincidences numbered about 30 in 1300 cases of recognized apparitions ; or about 1 in 43.

Several accounts of strange knocking sounds and ghostly apparitions were reported, although for the most part they stopped after the couple moved out, but following Fanny's death from smallpox, and Kent's successful legal action against Parsons over an outstanding debt, they began again.

In the 1980s, Conyers became known for " White Road ", where resident Nancy Fowler claimed to have seen apparitions of the Virgin Mary.

According to Maitland she was a " born seer ," with a gift " for seeing apparitions and divining the characters and fortunes of people ", something she reportedly learned to keep silent about.

The family hears clanking chains, they witness re-appearing bloodstains " on the floor just by the fireplace ", and they see strange apparitions in various forms.

It, along with four other " Fátima prayers ", originated during the Marian apparitions at Fátima, Portugal in 1917.

When Rose is captured by the malevolent " waterhive ", Jackie is targeted by ghostly apparitions seeking to lure her to the same fate.

Although the local Catholic bishop, Pavo Zanic, felt that the apparitions had been " a case of collective hallucination ", Pope John Paul II approved pilgrimages to the area in 1986, and tens of thousands of believers have visited Međugorje ( now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina ) since then.

At the same time, strange apparitions begin to eat away at the courage and morale of the men ...

Persinger has also come to public attention due to his 1975 Tectonic Strain Theory ( TST ) of how geophysical variables may correlate with sightings of unidentified flying objects ( UFOs ) or Marian apparitions.

These included moving furniture, flying marbles, interference with bedclothes, cold breezes, pools of water on the floor, apparitions, physical assaults, graffiti, equipment malfunction and failure, disappearance and reappearance of objects, apparent levitations, and fires which spontaneously ignited and extinguished themselves.

At the time of the apparitions, the grotto lay well out of town, on common ground which was used by the villagers variously for pasturing animals, collecting firewood and as a garbage dump, and it possessed a reputation for being an unpleasant place.

Cardinal Bertone reported that Lúcia Santos, one of the seers of the Fátima apparitions, said that the consecration requested by the Virgin Mary was fulfilled and accepted in heaven, and that everyone should live out the consecration personally by faithfully wearing the Brown Scapular.

Accounts of apparitions of his spirit include accounts claiming that when summoned in medium sections, the strength of Cofresí's spirit was excessive, to the point of killing some of the hosts he possessed.

The surviving building holds a local reputation as the locale of various paranormal activity, with visitors and local residents claiming to hear the sound of rattling chains or wagon wheels and horses ' hooves, seeing smoke ( presumably from soldiers ' pipes ), spotting apparitions of a woman in a hoop skirt, and smelling a strong lavender violet perfume.

Some of the people interviewed in that segment claimed to have seen apparitions of Civil War soldiers.

Visitors have reported peculiar noises on the grounds and in the buildings, as well as sightings of apparitions of soldiers.

Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights ( 1847 ) transports the Gothic to the forbidding Yorkshire Moors and features ghostly apparitions and a Byronic hero in the person of the demonic Heathcliff while Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre ( 1847 ) adds The Madwoman in the Attic ( Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar 1979 ) to the cast of Gothic fiction.

The video for the remix, directed by Peter Christopherson of Hipgnosis, features a man pacing at night and dancing with starry apparitions, while Almond sings amongst the stars.

The Pontevedra apparitions are the Marian apparitions that Sister Lúcia, the visionary of Our Lady of Fátima, reported receiving while living in a Dorothean convent in Spain.

Huygens's device was even referred to as the " lantern of fright " because it was able to project spooky images that looked like apparitions.

This marsh light is attributed to some kind of unexplained marsh gas apparitions that confuse fishermen, make them lose their bearings and may even lead to drowning if one decided to follow it moving over the marshes.

Some visitors to the cemetery claim to have been tripped by ghosts or " pushed off " the mausoleum when sitting or standing on it, even seeing apparitions of child victims who died of a disease ( possibly polio ) or a Native American chief.

Weird New Jersey writes that visitors to this stable site at night have reported extremely local fogs surrounding it and seeing apparitions in it, or sometimes even in clear weather, and also claimed the air is sometimes unusually chilly, and feeling general unease in the area for no immediately apparent reason.

Many of these were killed in the same school in which the apparitions had occurred ; one of the children who reported the vision was even one of the victims.

Such things that may qualify as " divine " are apparitions, visions, prophecies, miracles, and the soul, or more general things like resurrection, immortality, grace, and salvation.

Halley's Comet has probably been in its current orbit for 16, 000 – 200, 000 years, although it is not possible to numerically integrate its orbit for more than a few tens of apparitions, and close approaches before 837 CE can only be verified from recorded observations.

See Our Lady of Lourdes for more details on the apparitions.

For example, the individual may see overt visual hallucinations such as monsters, the devil or more subtle ones such as shadowy apparitions.

He cites the apparitions at Heroldsbach, Germany ( 1949 ) as an example, where exactly the same optical effects as at Fatima were witnessed by more than 10, 000 people.

As is common with Marian apparitions, the epithet given Mary in reference to the apparition included the place name, thus " Holy Mary of Guadalupe " or more commonly Our Lady of Extremadura.

Beardsley and Hankey's sample contained 47 young female apparitions, 14 old lady apparitions, and 14 more of an indeterminate sort.

Several places are guarded by magical creatures, including apparitions, hellhounds, and zombies, as well as some more unconventional entities ; one is a tiny demon that flies by periodically, holding a key.

In the context of most Marian apparitions, " conversion " does not necessarily mean a religious conversion to the Catholic Church, but rather sincere repentance for past sins and amending one's life to follow more closely the teachings of Jesus Christ.

She was unable, however, to convince a group of theologians of the validity of her apparitions, nor was she any more successful with many of the members of her community.