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Ganzfeld
A technique for investigating ESP in which the person experiences an absence of patterned stimulation. This generally involves the subject wearing halved table-tennis balls over the eyes while listening to hiss, or white noise, through headphones.


Gauss Meter
An instrument which measures electromagnetic fields. Also called EMF detectors or magnetometers.


General Extrasensory Perception
ESP in which it is unclear whether the results are due to clairvoyance, telepathy, precognition or retro cognition.


Geomancy
An ancient form of divination which involves the scattering of soil, earth or other materials upon the ground or, markings in earth or sand which make up a configuration that can be read by a seer.


Geophysics
A branch of earth science dealing with the physical processes and phenomena occurring especially in the earth and in its vicinity.


Ghost
Generic term to describe a deceased person or image appearing to the living. Animals and even inanimate objects, like buildings, can also be ghosts.


Ghost Lights
Lights which sometimes appear in haunted houses or in some cases, woods. Not necessarily evil, these lights are often photographed by psychic researchers.


Globule
A tiny sphere of electromagnetic energy. Spirits often appear on film as globules. Also known as orbs. These are not always perfect circles.


Glossolalia
Unintelligible speech generally uttered in a dissociated or trance state. Also known as "speaking in tongues".


Gnome
A name given to fairies or 'little people', supposedly lost souls or pre-Christian people, or fallen angels doomed to walk the earth. It has been suggested that they are elemental nature spirits that inhabit a different dimension to our own.


Goat
Name given to a subject in a psi test who does not believe in the phenomenon.


Gray lady
This is said to be a ghost of a human spirit that has died by the hands of a lover or is waiting for a lover to return.


Griffin
The Griffin is a legendary creature with the head, beak and wings of an eagle, the body of a lion and occasionally the tail of a serpent or scorpion. Its origin lies somewhere in the Middle East where it is found in the paintings and sculptures of the ancient Babylonians, Assyrians and Persians. In Greek mythology, they took gold from the stream Arimaspias and, neighbors of the Hyperboreans, they belonged to Zeus. The later Romans used them for decoration and even in Christian times the Griffin motif often appears. Griffins were frequently used as gargoyles on medieval churches and buildings.


Grigori
A collective term for fallen angels. It was said that Grigori were sent to guide and assist man during the beginning of civilization. They are also known as Watchers.


Guardian Angel
Is an angel assigned to a living person to protect them from god.


Guide
A spirit who is believed to assist a person's spiritual journey.

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