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An apparition is an act or instance of appearing, including:

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An apparition is an act or instance of appearing, including:
  • a religious vision such as a Marian apparition; or
  • certain ostensibly paranormal
    Paranormal

    Paranormal is a general term that describes unusual experiences that lack a scientific explanation, or phenomena alleged to be outside of science's current ability to explain or measure....
     experiences such as ghosts
    Ghost

    File:Henry Fuseli- Hamlet and his father's Ghost.JPGA ghost is popularly held to be the disembodied spirit or soul of a death person. Popularly described as insubstantial and partly transparent, ghosts are reported to haunt particular List of reportedly haunted locations that they were associated with in life or at time of death....
    , doppelgänger
    Doppelgänger

    Doppelg?nger , or "Fetch", is the ghost double of a living person, a sinister form of bilocation.In the vernacular, "Doppelg?nger" has come to refer to any double or look-alike of a person....
     or bilocation
    Bilocation

    Bilocation, or sometimes multilocation, is a term used to describe the ability/instances in which an individual or object is said to be, or appears to be, located in two distinct places at the same instant in time....
    ; or
  • any other apparitional experience
    Apparitional experience

    In psychology and parapsychology, an apparitional experience is an anomalous, quasi-perceptual experience.In scientific or academic discussion the term "apparitional experience" is to be preferred to the term "ghost" in respect of the following points:...
     (i.e. anomalous, quasi-perceptual experience).
  • the return of a periodic comet
  • Apparition, another alias of the DC Comics
    DC Comics

    DC Comics is one of the largest and most popular American comic book and related media companies, along with Marvel Comics. A subsidiary of Warner Bros....
     superheroine also called Phantom Girl
    Phantom Girl

    Phantom Girl is the Pseudonym of Tinya Wazzo. In the Post-Zero Hour continuity, she is known as Apparition. She is a Character , a comic book Superhero#Superheroines in the DC Comics DC Universe....
  • Apparitions (TV series)
    Apparitions (TV series)

    Apparitions is a BBC drama about a priest, played by Martin Shaw, who examines evidence of miracles to be used in canonisation but also carries out exorcisms....
    , a 2008 BBC series about an exorcist


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  • Apparition and Disapparition in Harry Potter
    Magic (Harry Potter)

    In the fictional Harry Potter series created by J. K. Rowling, magic is depicted as a natural force that can be used to override the usual Physical law while still being approached entirely scientifically....
    , a form of teleportation used in the Harry Potter novels