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AHHT
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Antoinette’s Haunted History Tours.
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Boo-tique
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Our
souvenir stand. First named in 1997.
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Cleansing
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The
process of removing unwanted spirits/residue from a location.
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Drawing
the Light
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The
visualization we do to create spiritual protection.
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*EMF
Detector
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An
ElectroMagnetic Field detector. One
of the many devices people can use to determine the presence of ghosts.
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*EVP
(Electronic Voice
Phenomenon)
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Ghostly noises recorded on a tape recorder, digital voice recorder or videotape recorder.
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Ghosts 101©
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Antoinette's famous talk on the basics about ghosts.
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Hardcores
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A nickname for people who
prefer an intense manifestation. (Like Antoinette, Alixandria, David, Gary, all our friends…)
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*Investigation
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Same as
ghost hunting and ghost busting; going to a place to see if it's haunted.
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*Investigative Team
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A group
of people that do investigations. Most use only tools, some use only psychic
ability, the best use both.
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Polter Goods
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Our
souvenirs.
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Polterguy
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A member
of our elite group of Ghost Finders. Alixandria invented the word in 1995.
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Polterpunx
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Members
of our elite ghost hunting group that live the Punk life. 138!
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Psychic Ability
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One of the many intellectual senses given to all
humans to better understand alternate realities. Commonly
called ESP (Extra-Sensory Phenomenon).
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Psychic Lint
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Random
psychic impressions, not a ghost or any type of entity.
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RBA
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Right
Brain Activities.
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*Rods
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Two
pieces of wire that have each been bent into an L shape. They are used to
"dowse" for ghosts. A device used to determine the presence of ghosts.
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scaredy-cats
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A
nickname for folks who prefer a milder scare (like Marlene).
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Spooked
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How you
feel after an unpleasant ghost experience, like a jumpy cat.
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The Creeps
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No, not
your old boyfriends/girlfriends. The same as being spooked.
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The Temple
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Originally this referred to
the
Piasa Masonic Temple. For several years our tours started from this
location. It is now "Spirits Lounge". We currently host our tours at the
Franklin Masonic Lodge.
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Tour Guide
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The staff
member who leads the group through the tour, does most of the talking on the
tour, and is also responsible for getting the entire group back safely, with
no ghostly groupies.
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Trolley
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A large
vehicle that is very similar to the cable cars in San Francisco, but
enclosed with windows, heating and air-conditioning, it holds about 30
people.
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Trolley Troll
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The staff member who assists the Tour Guide on tours,
keeps the group together, provides gear
the Tour Guide may need, and brings up the rear.
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Troys
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Folks who
take our research, work, ideas, words and phrases and
represent them as their own original work. (Example: Antoinette's Haunted
History Tours - original; "History and Hauntings" tours - not
original, a troyed phrase.)
