Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Richard Southall, author of Haunted Route 66. I was impressed with the recent blog about the different types of paranormal investigators. I feel that it is important to determine why a person would enter this field. That being said, it's also important to differentiate between the different types of hauntings that can be encountered. Over the years, I've discovered that most hauntings can really be divided into three categories—ghosts, spirits, and entities. GhostsGhost hauntings are actually "recordings" or "impressions" of an event that has taken place in the past. Unlike spirits, there is no sentience or intelligence behind a ghostly