residual haunting

plural residual hauntings

1. parapsychologyA haunting in which a specter repeats a loop of its past, with no semblance of intelligence or consciousness.

   A residual haunting may not be caused by trauma or violence, though.

   2019, Zak Bagans, Ghost-Hunting For Dummies, page 142

   2 more examples

   Residual haunting activity can occur when something traumatic/stressful occurs, such as a murder or a rape.

   2019 November 15, Haunted Orange County, Types of Hauntings

   A residual haunting is a continuous film loop of the past containing images of a life once lived.

   2020 October 8, Rick Hinton, Stephanie Dolan, “Archived copy”, in Explaining the difference between ghosts and spirits, and other paranormal jargon, archived from the original on 14 May 2021