The Differences Between a Spirit and a Ghost

Many people get confused when it comes to the technical side of the paranormal. To be precise some people are confused about the terms 'ghosts' and 'spirits'. Some don't recognize or realise that there is a difference between 'ghosts' and 'spirits', even though in some ways they are the same in other ways there are very defining differences between them that makes them not the same thing.

I am going to try to simplify my explanation and try not to get too technical with you all. A 'spirit' is a person who has died and has 'crossed over into the light'. A lot of mediums use terms like 'crossed over' or 'crossed over into the light', and some people know what those terms mean but some don't. So for those who don't here's a quick and simple explanation, 'crossing into the light' means that when a person dies they pass quickly through the passage of light into the spirit world. Once they pass into the spirit world and through the light they become a 'spirit'. 'The Light' is merely the doorway or the passage/corridor that guides the deceased into the afterlife. A 'Spirit' can be a visitational spirit who goes back after there passing to the spirit realm to visit their family and friends left behind but they are based if you like in the spirit world on a constant basis.

Now, there's the term 'Ghost/Ghosts' which is a person who has died but for one reason or another has not chosen to 'cross over into the light' and go to the spirit world. The reasons can vary from a person have died so quickly they don't realise their dead so they don't 'cross over' like they should and sometimes need a bit of help to do so or can after a short time realise that they are dead and 'cross over' themselves. Sometimes a person dies and is confused and doesn't realise that 'the light' is for them to go into. Other times traumatic death's or regrets can leave a recently deceased person not willing to 'cross over' or not realising that they should. Those that don't 'cross over' are known as 'ghosts' and at times are also referred to as 'bounded' or 'grounded ghosts'. These terms are used in certain cases of 'ghosts' depending on the reasons for not 'crossing over' after they died.


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Haunted Places: How Do Haunted Houses Become Haunted - Part 2

Another Tower of London prisoner was a young woman called Lady Jane Grey. Grey was the niece of King Henry VIII, and became Queen of England for nine days in a coo to change the royal line from the then Tudors to a family of Dukes in Northumberland called the Dudley's.

In the attempt by the Dudley's, Jane was told that she was to be married to the Duke of Northumberland's son, Guilford Dudley. The marriage took place on May 1553. Her accession to the throne took place on the 10th July 1553 and ended on the 19th July 1553, when Mary daughter of King Henry VIII, had Jane and her husband Guilford Dudley arrested. Mary had them sentenced to death; they were both beheaded on the 12th of February 1554. Both their ghosts have been seen in and around the Tower of London.

Supernatural: Non-Visitational Ghosts - Bound

There are a few different types of Ghosts that can haunt a house, building or bit of land. These two main types are Visitational and Non-Visitational Ghosts. The first that we are going to discuss is Non-Visitational Ghosts. These types of Ghosts are bound to a particular place. There can be several reasons why some Ghosts can be bound to a place. One of the main reasons is un-natural death, dying before ones original time. People who die in traumatic ways such as murder can end up bound to the place they died.

This doesn’t happen in every case of murder, war or un-natural death. Some people when they die move on to the Spirit Plane without a problem. For some people when they die through shock and confusion of leaving their bodies in such violent actions well, it leaves them sometimes feeling very lost and confused. When these people die they are shocked by what has happened to them so they tend to cling to the earthly plane, not wanting to leave for fear of losing their families or sometimes it is their own general fear of the unknown that bounds them here.

It can also be at times that for some people because of the quickness of their death’s they don’t realise that they are dead, they are confused and need a little time to settle to the idea that it is time to take the journey to the Spirit Realm. Sometimes a bound ghost can be bounded to a place where they died. Or more often where their family once lived they can tend to stay in those places that they once lived or died in.

In many cases it is act of violence that can bind a ghost to the place where they died. This also happens during wars and battles with so much violence and death, soldiers get confused that they have actually died and so due to the quickness of the death.

Many Ghostly soldiers don’t know that there dead after they leave their body they are always looking for something, like friends or family but more often than not because of the violence of the battles. They end up bound to the battlefields and with some of these military ghosts they don’t feel the passage of time so hundred years after the battle they can still believe that the battle is still going on and there trying to find their military commanders to give them orders of what to do next. Some search for enemies that are no longer there and some just are continually trying to get back to their families who are long dead. For the majority of these types of Bound Ghosts, once they realise that they are dead most just want to cross over to the Spirit Plane to be with there families.