ghosts
Spirits or ignores
Ghosts are the spirits of dead people believed to appear to the living, typically as pale or translucent figures.
Ghost stories populate folklore worldwide.
The word extends to faint traces or remnants: a ghost of a smile, the ghost of her former self.
To ghost someone is to abruptly cut off contact without explanation: He ghosted me after three dates.
A ghostwriter produces work credited to another person.
Ghostly threatening presence
- phantomInsubstantial apparition
- wraithSpectral apparition of someone
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
haunt · revenant · spook · ectoplasm · manifestation · haunting · ethereal · incorporeal
October 31st festival
- Día de los MuertosMexican festival for ancestors
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
- graveyardPlot for interring the dead
- haunted houseDwelling believed spirit-inhabited
curse · legend · lore · superstition · omen · ancestral spirits · vengeful spirit · unfinished business
Ritual to contact spirits
- mediumMiddle size or state
- psychicOne claiming supernatural perception
- clairvoyantOne who perceives beyond senses
- channelingDirecting flow or energy
Ouija · spiritualism · necromancy · summoning · exorcism · EVP · cold spot · orb
Light blocked by object
- traceMinute remnant or pursue
- vestigeFaint surviving trace
- remnantWhat stays after most goes
- memoryMind's retention capacity
echo · pale · faint · vanish · disappear · linger · past · shell
Not yet clarified
- sightingInstance of perceiving something
- encounterUnexpected meeting or confrontation
- evidenceFacts supporting truth
- debunkExpose as false
hoax · investigation · testimony · photograph · paranormal activity · cold case · mystery · believer
specter
Ghostly threatening presence
- phantomInsubstantial apparition
- wraithSpectral apparition of someone
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
spirit · haunt · revenant · spook · ectoplasm · manifestation · haunting · ethereal · incorporeal · paranormal
Halloween
October 31st festival
- Día de los MuertosMexican festival for ancestors
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
- graveyardPlot for interring the dead
haunted house · curse · legend · lore · superstition · omen · ancestral spirits · vengeful spirit · unfinished business
seance
Ritual to contact spirits
- mediumMiddle size or state
- psychicOne claiming supernatural perception
- clairvoyantOne who perceives beyond senses
channeling · Ouija · spiritualism · necromancy · summoning · exorcism · EVP · cold spot · orb
shadow
Light blocked by object
memory · echo · pale · faint · vanish · disappear · linger · past · shell · haunted
unexplained
Not yet clarified
- sightingInstance of perceiving something
- encounterUnexpected meeting or confrontation
- evidenceFacts supporting truth
debunk · hoax · investigation · testimony · photograph · paranormal activity · cold case · mystery · believer · skeptic
- beingsbeings, being, entities, entity, creatures
- Seasonal Motifsautumn, fall, spring flowers, springtime, summer
- folklorefairy tales, fairytales, folktales, folk tales, folk tale
- paranormalparanormal, haunting, apparition, paranormal phenomena, hauntings
- supernaturalwitches, spirits, vampire, demon, werewolf
- fearsspiders, snakes, falling, heights, death
- ghost storiesTales of the supernatural
- ghost storyNarrative featuring apparitions
- ghost townDeserted former inhabited place
- pale as a ghostExtremely pallid from shock
- white as a ghostExtremely pale complexion
- ghosts from one's pastUnresolved history resurfacing
ghost, ghostly, ghosting, ghosted, ghostwriter, ghostlike, ghostwrite, ghostwriters, ghostliness