Apparition

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Apparition may refer to:

Supernatural

• Apparitional experience, an anomalous, quasi-perceptual experience
• Vision (spirituality), inspirational renderings, generally of a future state and/or of a mythical being
• Marian apparition, in which the Virgin Mary is believed to have supernaturally appeared
• Ghost, the disembodied spirit or soul of a deceased person
• Doppelgänger, the ghostly double of a living person
• Bilocation, the ability/instances in which an individual or object appears to be located in two distinct places at the same instant in time

Natural sciences

• The return of a periodic comet

Proper names

• Apparition (The Legendary Pink Dots album)
• Apparitions, an orchestral work by György Ligeti
• Apparition (Burning Inside album)
• Apparition (company), a newly formed film distribution company in the U.S.
• Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach, a painting by Salvador Dalí
• "Apparitions" (song), a song by Matthew Good Band
• Apparitions (TV series), a 2008 BBC series about an exorcist
• Phantom Girl, a DC Comics superheroine
• The Apparition, a 2012 American horror film
• Apparition (EP), an EP by The Contortionist

See also

• Appearance (disambiguation)