Apparition

Generally, an apparition is the act or instance of appearing, including:

• a religious vision
  • Marian apparition
• any supernatural apparitional experience
  • phantom
  • phantasm
• a paranormal appearance such as:
  • a doppelgänger
  • someone experiencing bilocation
• Apparition and Disapparition in Harry Potter, a form of teleportation used in the Harry Potter novels