Hi,
I have been a paranormal investigator for the past 10 years and learned that we need to define the paranormal somehow. I was taught that you have ghosts that are residual and spirits are intelligent. Ghost do not communicate with the living, but spirits do. Ghosts are Ghosts and Spirts are spirits and you do not put them under the same definition. Are they right ? I don't know. As per Richard Southall's book, How to be a Ghost Hunter, which 99% of all Para Investigators follow, he states that "Ghosts and Spirits can not be interchangeable" . A ghost is simply a psychic recording where as a spirit is the actual sentient presence or soul of an individual. The other ghost hunter which is on the same level as Southall is Troy Taylor who states the same. I guess it is up to the individual to what they want to believe., But like everything else, we need a corner stone to build on, and these guy's seem to be the bricklayers.