Ghosts

thumb|right|An engraving of the Hammersmith Ghost murder case|Hammersmith Ghost appears in Roger Kirby's Wonderful and Scientific Museum, a magazine published in 1804. The "ghost" turned out to be an old local cobbler who used a white sheet to get back at his apprentice for scaring his children.

thumb|Valhalla (1905) by Emil Doepler

house or other building often perceived as being inhabited by disembodied spirits of the deceased

traditional Buddhist and Taoist festival

thumb|The ifrit Arghan's eyes are slightly crossed and his orange skin spotted all over; he carries a chest over the waters on behalf of Hamza, from an illustration in the Hamzanama

thumb|300px|, by Ephraim Moses Lilien|Ephraim Moshe Lilien (1874–1925). In Jewish mythology, a '''''' (; , from the Hebrew verb , meaning 'adhere' or 'cling') is a malicious possessing spirit believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person. It supposedly leaves the host body once it has accomplished its goal, sometimes after being exorcised.

parapsychology recordings with anomolous haunting sounds investigated as spirit voices

Preta (, yi dags), also known as hungry ghost, is the Sanskrit name for a type of supernatural being described in Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Chinese folk religion as undergoing suffering greater than that of humans, particularly an extreme level of hunger and thirst.

paranormal phenomenon

thumb|Kim Diaz Holm's contemporary art depicting a draugr haunting in enormous Hamr (folklore)|hamr ("magical shape") thumb|Kim Diaz Holm's contemporary art depicting a #Sea draugr|sea draugr in Norwegian folklore

Supposed paranormal phenomenon

urban legend in which people traveling by vehicle meet with a hitchhiker who vanishes without explanation, often from a moving vehicle

process of investigating locations supposedly haunted by ghosts

practice of claiming to capture supernatural entities in photos

fairy-like creatures from mythology and folklore (for sprites from a work of fiction see Q30318085)

folklore trope

deep-rooted mythical belief

spirit of a dead person who returns from the afterlife to seek revenge

thumb Shakchunni (Bengali: শাকচুন্নি ; also sometimes spelled Shankhachunni) is a female ghost in Bengali folklore, commonly described in the mythological traditions of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. The term refers to the spirit of a married Hindu woman who died while still married (i.e., before her husband).

1907 pseudo-scientific study by Duncan MacDougall

A toyol or Tuyul is an undead infant in Indonesian and Malay folklore. It also appears in the various other mythologies of Southeast Asia and is typically invoked as a helper by shamans (dukun, pawang, or bomoh) by means of black magic. A common use for the toyol includes using it for financial gain, where the creature robs people of their riches, making it similar to the Babi ngepet, a boar demon in Indonesian mythology, and the Hantu Raya, a familiar spirit in Malay folklore. As such, the toyol is popularly known to bring good luck to its host, but mishap to those who are unfortunate to enco

Malaysian ghost

The edimmu, read incorrectly sometimes as ekimmu, were a type of utukku in the Mesopotamian religion of Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia, similar in nature to the preta of the Hindu religions or the jiangshi of Chinese mythology. They were envisioned as the ghosts of those who were not buried properly. They were considered vengeful toward the living and might possess people if they did not respect certain taboos, such as the prohibition against eating ox meat. They were thought to cause disease and inspire criminal behavior in the living, but could sometimes be appeased by funeral repasts o

paranormal investigation organization

novel by Friedrich Schiller

in literature and poetry, spirit or ghost of a dead person

An Obambou, also Obambo or Obamba, is a supernatural being belonging to tribes of Central Africa. It is depicted as evil, possessing the power to do evil and to do good if it chooses, having the ability to possess and cause sickness, or to want a home built for them. In some African tribes, an Obambou is referred to as a devil, or as the spirit of someone who was not buried correctly.

Duppy is a word of African origin commonly used in various Caribbean Islands, including The Bahamas, Barbados and Jamaica, meaning ghost or spirit. The word is sometimes spelled duffy.

Phasmophobia

In Akkadian and Sumerian mythology, Alû is a vengeful spirit of the Utukku that goes down to the underworld Kur. The demon has no mouth, lips or ears. It would roam at night and terrifies people while they sleep and the Alû may also torment their victims for fun. It was also said that possession by the Alû would result in unconsciousness or a coma; in this manner it resembles creatures such as the mara, and incubus, which are invoked to explain sleep paralysis. In Akkadian and Sumerian mythology, it is associated with other demons such as the Gallu and the Lilu.

Kimodameshi ( or , ; "testing one's liver"), known in English as a test of courage, is a Japanese activity in which people explore frightening and potentially dangerous places to build up courage.

thumb|An illustration of Andrew Lang's "Athenodorus confronts the Spectre" |361x361px Ghostlore is the body of traditional beliefs and folklore surrounding ghosts and hauntings. Such tales often feature souls of the deceased that are believed to linger in the physical world, either to communicate with the living or to seek vengeance for past wrongs. Ghostlore is a widespread phenomenon, and narratives of hauntings and ghostly encounters are found in cultures around the world.

name given to a supernatural creature, used to explain the phenomenon of sleep paralysis

spirit of the water

doll or stuffed animal that is reported to be cursed or possessed in some way

thumb|A wiedergänger rises from its coffin. Copy from a 16th–century incunabulum now in the [[Bavarian State Library of Munich]] In German, the term Wiedergänger () is a term for a revenant and different ghost phenomena from different cultural areas, meaning "re-walker", or by extension, "one who walks again"; cognate to Scandinavian gjenganger ("again-walker"). The core of the wiedergänger myth is the concept of the deceased, who—often in the form of a physical phenomenon—return to the world of the living. They usually cause problems and frighten living people. They exist either to avenge som

thumb|300px|The Greek Stoic Philosopher Athenodorus Rents a Haunted House

The Malay and Indonesian word for spirit or ghost

In Turkic mythology, Hortdan (Turkish: Hortlak) is the troubled soul of the dead rising from the grave. Some Hortdan can be living people with certain magical properties. Some of the properties of the Hortdan include: the ability to transform into an animal, invisibility, and the propensity to drain the vitality of victims via blood loss. Hortdans are also known as immortal vampires.