Paranormal List D

Daemon (Daimon)

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Daemon (Daimon) : a guardian spirit or guardian angel often associated with the communication of advice and inspiration.

DAT (Decision Augmentation Theory)

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DAT (Decision Augmentation Theory) : a theory associated with an attempt to reconceptualise psychokinesis as a precognition-based selection process rather than one of actual influence.

DMILS (Direct Mental Interaction with Livung Systems)

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DMILS (Direct Mental Interaction with Living Systems) : a term used to describe instances where one person tries to influence a biological system from a distance. Often the biological system is the physiology of another person.

Dead Sea scrolls

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Dead Sea Scrolls : were discovered from 1947 to 1956, in caves along the western shore of the Dead Sea. The bulk of the scrolls were found in caves near Qumran, which was once home to a community of scholars identified as Essenes. This group was a Jewish sect known to have existed elsewhere in Israel during the Second Temple period, which includes the time of Jesus. The scrolls comprise mostly of around 800 fragmentary documents, with only some of them remaining nearly or completely intact. It is estimated that around 100,000 fragments have been found in total. Their find has been hailed as one of the single most important discoveries of the twentieth century.

Death Clicks

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Death Clicks : is a strange phenomenon that has its origins in Samoa. Like the wailing banshees of Ireland, believed to predict the imminent death of someone in the household; death clicks are the sudden onset of persistent and loud clicking that sounds throughout the house of someone who is going to die soon.

Death bed visions

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Deathbed Visions : is a phenomenon, whereby a dying person has an awareness of the presence of dead relatives or friends. These deceased persons who visit the dying, are said to visit at the time near death, to help the sick person 'cross over to the other side'. In other words, to help the dying person with the transition from life to death. There have been documented cases where the person who is dying has actually seen someone on their deathbed, that they could not have possibly known had already died before them. This type of report tends to add some weight to the phenomenon.

Decline effect

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Decline Effect : is a decrease in a subject's performance in a PSI test, when the same test is repeated.

Deja Lu

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Deja Lu
Deja Lu : comes from French, which literally translates to 'already read'. In English the term is associated with reading something entirely new, but having the distinct feeling of having read the article, book or newspaper etc. before. In other words, the illusion of having already read something actually being read for the first time.

Delayed Crisis Apparition

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Delayed Crisis Apparition : are apparitions that are seen hours after death and are put in to the category of "delayed" crisis apparitions.

Delta

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Delta : is a term that is used to describe any form of anomalous experience. Another way of saying that events cannot be explained, strange phenomena.

Dematerialisation

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Dematerialisation : is a strange, unusual or paranormal fading and/or disappearance of an object.

Things disappearing before the eyes.

Demoniac

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Demoniac : is a human being possessed, influenced or even produced by a demon or evil spirit; generally a person whose faculties are directly controlled by a demon. The word also relates to a person who resembles or possesses the characteristics of a demon or evil spirit.

Deport

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Deport : is the strange, unusual or paranormal movement of an object from a secure and enclosed space. The movement of an object when no one is within the vicinity of said object.

Dionysius the Areopagite

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Dionysius the Areopagite (Greek Διονύσιος ὁ Ἀρεοπαγίτης) was the judge of the Areopagus who, as related in the Acts of the Apostles, (Acts 17:34), was converted to Christianity by the preaching of the Apostle Paul. According to Dionysius of Corinth, quoted by Eusebius, this Dionysius then became a bishop of Athens

In the early 6th century, a series of famous writings of a mystical nature, employing Neoplatonic language to elucidate Christian theological and mystical ideas, was ascribed to the Areopagite. They have long been recognized as pseudepigrapha and are now attributed to "PseudoDionysius- the Areopagite".
Dionysius was also popularly mis-identified with the martyr of Gaul, Dionysius, the first Bishop of Paris, Saint Denis.

Dover Demon

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The Dover Demon was allegedly sighted on three separate occasions in the town of Dover, Massachusetts on April 21 and April 22, 1977. It has remained a subject of interest for cryptozoologists ever since then. Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman was the initial investigator, the first to interview the eyewitnesses within a week of the sightings, and the individual who named the creature the Dover Demon; it was disseminated by the press, and the name stuck. Coleman quickly assembled and brought into the inquiry three other investigators: Joseph Nyman, Ed Fogg, and Walter Webb. All were well-known ufological researchers in eastern Massachusetts, with Webb being the assistant director of the Hayden Planetarium at Boston's Science Museum. Coleman did not feel he was necessarily dealing with a ufological phenomenon, but he wanted to have seasoned investigators with good interviewing skills to do a comprehensive examination of the eyewitnesses and their families, as well as law enforcement, educational, and community members.

Drakes Drum

2008-08-28T09:42:00.000-07:00

Drake’s Drum is a snare drum that Sir Francis Drake took with him when he circumnavigated the world. Shortly before he died he ordered the drum to be taken to Buckland Abbey, where it still hangs today, and vowed that if England was ever in danger someone was to beat the drum and he would return to defend the country. According to legend it can be heard to beat at times when England is at war or significant national event takes place.