ghosthunter

Paranormal activity investigator

A ghosthunter is someone who investigates locations believed to be haunted, typically using equipment to detect supposed paranormal activity.

The pursuit ranges from amateur hobbyists with cameras and voice recorders to self-styled professionals featured in reality television.

Also spelled ghost hunter.

The ghosthunters spent the night in the abandoned asylum.

paranormal

ectoplasm

Supposed supernatural exudate

exorcism · possession · haunting · apparition · specter · wraith · EVP · cold spot · orb · manifestation

investigation

EMF

Charged objects' surrounding influence

recorder · footage · documentation · debunk · anomaly · reading · sensor · flashlight · surveillance · analysis

media

reality TV

Filmed unscripted programming

host · footage · lockdown · reveal

atmosphere

eerie

Disturbingly strange

darkness · shadows · dread · foreboding · unexplained · mysterious · ominous · unsettling · goosebumps · silence

location

haunted

Occupied by ghosts

mansion · crypt · dungeon · catacomb · battlefield · prison · morgue · sanatorium · castle · inn

Opposites
belief and approach to paranormal

ghosthunterskeptic

One who doubts claims

debunker · rationalist · materialist · disbeliever · atheist

relationship to ghosts/spirits

ghosthunterexorcist

Expels demons ritually

ghost · spirit · ghostbuster · medium · necromancer

relationship to spirits

ghosthunternecromancer

Summoner of the deceased

medium · ghost · spiritualist · conjurer · channeler

Family

ghost, hunter, ghosts, ghostly, ghosted, ghosting, hunt, hunts, hunted

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