restless spirits
Haunting, wandering souls
Restless spirits are ghosts or souls of the dead unable to find peace, typically because of unfinished business, violent death, or improper burial.
The phrase appears in ghost stories and folklore across cultures: The old house was said to be haunted by restless spirits.
Figuratively, restless spirits are living people who can't settle down—perpetually seeking, moving, unsatisfied with ordinary life.
- ghostsSpirits of the deceased
- hauntedOccupied by ghosts
- haunted houseDwelling believed spirit-inhabited
- wanderingTraveling with no fixed course
- wandering soulsSpirits without peaceful rest
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- ghostsapparitions, ghosts, apparition, phantoms, specter
- hauntingsghosts, apparition, apparitions, ghost sighting, phantoms
- Gothic castledungeons, towers, turrets, battlements, drawbridges
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