Questions tagged [ghost]
Tag for general questions about ghosts. Use [ghost-1990] for questions about the 1990 film featuring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, and Whoopi Goldberg.
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Short story about a phantom hot rod the police can't catch
I'm looking for a particular short story about a hot rod that speeds along the back country roads at night, and the local sheriff's department keeps setting up these ever more elaborate traps to catch ...
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Novel: Girl starts seeing ghosts after car accident
So I read this back in high school and now I have book amnesia and can’t remember it! It was about a girl who suddenly started seeing ghosts after she was in a car accident that killed her brother and ...
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Comedy anime where the female lead is a ghost
I saw this anime at a friend's house one night during 2016 or 2017. I have been searching for it for the past three years but I was never able to find it. I have previously posted this onto both ...
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Cartoon/anime about kids exploring a haunted house/school
I hope paranormal/horror fiction is counted as fantasy here.
I am pretty sure it came out sometime in the 2000s or maybe like very late 90s even though I remember coming across this show in 2014 I ...
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Manga about a boy being visited by the ghost of his deceased girlfriend
I'm looking for a manga where the protagonist's girlfriend dies, and he is later visited by three ghosts of her; one from the past, one from the present and one from the future.
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In what game do you play as a knight inside a ghost castle and you're supposed to save a girl
You're a knight fighting ghosts (white) in a ghost castle and you need to save a girl I think her hair is white and she is white too (kinda pale I think) It's probably in ps1 or ps2.
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Late 70's or 80's romantic film when a guy falls for a ghost living in his house
I saw this film on tv when I was young, so I don't know any of the actors in the film. I believe the guy is a writer and he moves into this old home. Soon he discovers a woman taking a bath in his tub ...
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Looking for an old ghost movie from 80s-90s
It was a ghost movie that was based on a book of the same or similar name. set in The Rocks, NSW and watched it on YouTube in around 2010. The opening scene was a playground where a little girl ghost ...
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YA novel about a boy who discovers that his friend is a ghost
I read this book in the early '80s.
A boy is staying with relatives. He has no problem swimming in a pool, but is terrified of swimming in lakes and rivers. He is determined to overcome this fear, and ...
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Trying to identify 1920s/30s British ghost story with twist in the tale about a ghostly harpsichordist
I've been struggling to recall the name and author of a short British ghost story. I have an idea it was a prewar tale, possibly from the 1920s or 1930s, and it was reminiscent of E.F. Benson in its ...
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Ghost hunter story in Asimov's in the early 90s
This story takes place in the modern era - the main character can see ghosts, some of whom wander the world causing problems (in a manner I don't remember - temporarily possessing people perhaps, or ...
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Haunted house movie that focuses on a basement door and a ghost who wants to steal a mother's child
I'm not 100%, but guessing 1960-1970s, maybe '80s at the latest.
I remember the movie focuses a lot on a mysterious basement door in a house. I want to say the door emitted the sound of an infant ...
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Japanese drama about a girl haunted by a ghost of her mother's younger self
Update: found it. It was Teru Teru Ashita
I watched this Japanese drama years ago (10+ probably) and I've been trying to find it but can't remember the title. I remember mainly that it was about a ...
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Old British black-and-white humorous ghost movie, with surprise ending
Saw this only once on late night television, many years ago. Looked liked it was shot in 1930s or 1940s, shot in black and white, as I recall. It was set in the British Isles about a castle/mansion ...
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Looking for a story about a teacher who meets a ghost
Can anyone help me locate this book:
It is about a woman, maybe a school teacher, who one night, as she was staying late in the school after hours, encounters a ghost from a couple hundred years ago. ...
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Colored medical manhwa/manhua where the ghost of the youngest genius surgeon follows a lazy resident
I need help finding a manhua/manhua where the main character (MC), who has typical brown/dark-hair and brown eyes, is really lazy and barely studies and doesn't get good grades either. But one day, ...
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Anime about a ghost girl that is some kind of urban myth who shows up and helps people
I don't really remember much, but it is called something "bigaboo phantom". It is an older supernatural/horror anime from the 1990s and recently got a reboot or something in the end of the ...
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Short story with a piano player on a space station who plays a bunch of old songs and, when asked why, claims he was "possessed by a ghost"
This one is a very sketchy memory because the main thrust of it was, I'm pretty sure, based on a misunderstanding. When I was a child, in the late 1980s to the early 1990s, I remember reading a short ...
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TV series in 70s - 80s about a lady ghost and a young man
TV series in 70s - 80s about a beautiful lady ghost living in a big old house or castle.
The male lead is a young artist or something. He found the old house and moved in for free (or for a very low ...
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'80s movie where a guy falls in love with a girl, then finds out she's a ghost
So I remember the movie with a guy being in love with, or liking, this girl. And then toward the end, she comes by, riding on the back of a convertible with some friends, looking to be dressed for ...
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Story Identification - Boy invites in a female ghost who was standing under a tree outside his house
This is probably a book (or story in an anthology) from the 80s (or very early 90s).
The gist that I recall is that there's a brother and sister who see a woman standing under a tree outside their ...
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Book about a pair of girls who help a ghostly girl in a locked room move on
I believe I read this around 2018-2020. The most primary character is a young girl (1st to 8th grade) whose family (her, her mother and her father) is moving into an old mansion. Her father's job is ...
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TV show episode about a spirit ripping out organs
I remember watching an episode of what I think was a TV show. I think it may have been Supernatural, but I do not know for sure.
The episode was about several people dying due to having had some vital ...
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Movie where people communicate with a spirit using dice
In the movie I watched, I think there was a man who is killing people at the behest of his mother's spirit, though I'm not sure on that part.
There was a scene where a group of characters communicates ...
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Movie where people try to kill a possessed woman with morphine
I watched a movie where some woman was being haunted by a demon. I think it appeared as a human man with a painted face.
During a writing exercise of some kind, a teacher or professor tells the people ...
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Movie where an evil spirit is exorcised with poison
I remember the ending scene of a movie that I watched. In it, a girl, her father, and some other man are discussing how to exorcise an evil spirit out of the girl. The man places a cage with a rat or ...
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Movie involving a samurai's ghost and a courtroom scene
I remember partially watching a movie on an airplane. It was about a woman who is able to see the ghost of a Samurai or some other warrior who was beheaded, I think falsely for being a traitor. ...
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Manhwa about a girl who died in a car crash and then came back as a ghost, because she made a promise to a boy to always protect him [duplicate]
I'm looking for a manhwa, if that's what you call when it's in color form. But anyways, I do remember reading it and I somehow forgot all about it and can't seem to remember the name but I do remember ...
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Horror film involving the ghost of a bullied student killing off his tormentors, with the climax involving destroying his asthma inhaler
I think I ran into this one in 2020-2021 while searching for a different film. The setup was a fairly typical one of a set of students (high school age, I think?) are being killed off one-by-one with ...
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Movie about a daughter possessed by her mother's ghost
More than 10 years ago, I saw a movie about a daughter who is possessed by her mother's ghost. It was probably a TV movie. I believe at the time I saw it, I heard it was a remake of a Japanese movie.
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World war 2 time travel film
I am trying to identify a film:
It's a sort of time travel / ghost film, probably made for TV
It features an American or Canadian soldier in the UK in World War II
This is what I remember about the ...
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Old movie (1950?) where a ghost protects a woman from her husband
A man keeps trying to kill his wife, but a ghost keeps stopping him. In the end the husband is in the bedroom with his mistress and the ghost kicks out an ember from the fireplace to start a fire.
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Book where a girl lives on a farm and plays with a ghost boy only she can see
It was a medieval fantasy setting; in the story, a girl lives with her family on a farm. She meets a boy and they play together every day. One day a stranger on a horse rides up to the girl and wants ...
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Have a ghost and zombie ever been created from the same person?
Ghosts and Zombies are two very popular undead creatures in science-fiction and fantasy works. They both occur once their living host has died, however, they work in opposite ways...
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Film with a brother and sister trying to track down the mysterious background of their father, and encounter fascist ghosts and their victims
I think I watched this 5-6 years ago with my wife as a movie that we checked out from our library after having seen the trailer on another film we watched. I'm pretty sure it was in English, and had a ...
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Mid-1990s novel where astronauts visit a moon base and discover the ghosts of the previous crew
I don't remember much about this American novel published in the mid-1990s - I didn't finish it - but now I have a hankering to. It involves astronauts visiting a moonbase that has been abandoned for ...
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Romance/Supernatural book about a girl who falls in love with a male ghost after moving into her grandmothers house
I remember that their grandmother had passed away, and the family, mom, son, and daughter, moved in. The father might have been there. The girl starts to notice that the house is not normal. Their ...
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Why did Moaning Myrtle choose to become a ghost? [duplicate]
Moaning Myrtle was a ghost in Harry Potter. She is a minor character, but I would have to say that she is relevant to the series.
Her death was quite tragic. She was bullied by Olive Hornby about her ...
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YA/Children’s ghost story anthology book
I’ve been searching for this book for years but we shall see.
I read a horror anthology book targeted for children (I read it in elementary school) and need the title. I cannot remember much of the ...
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Horror movie (or at least has horror elements), indie filmmakers sneak into rich man's mansion haunted by said rich man
I would say this came out in the mid-late 80's timeframe.
The heroes (or at least protagonists, might be a stretch to call them heroic) are a small group (no more than three of them, IIRC) of ...
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Name of the ghost horror movie?
I remember a ghost horror movie more than 2 decades old where a church father and his apprentice come to a old house/castle and perform some ritual and the father tells the apprentice not to touch ...
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A novel or novelette length ghost story, "You can't trick me the same way twice"
Between 1995 and 2004, when I was a teen, I have rented a book from the library.I think was YA fiction book which got some sort of an award. I think it was written either in 70s, 80s, or 90s. The ...
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Early 70s Horror story (Flies on Chapter intro pages)
In 1974/75 I read a horror novel that freaking scared the crap out of me. [I was in High School at the time] Pretty sure it was not a vampire or mummy type story, it almost certainly involved ghosts ...
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Shounen AI where a boy’s eyes tear up whenever he’s near a ghost
It is about a boy who lives next to a temple’s cemetery and is sensitive to ghosts. His eyes always start tearing up when one is close to him. His neighbor and childhood friend lives at the temple and ...
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Late 80s short-lived sci-fi/supernatural series where the main characters are ghosts who solve mysteries/help people
In the first episode, the two main characters die. Afterwards, they go around solving mysteries or helping people or whatever. IIRC, in the first episode the man rescues the woman from the ocean. I ...
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Teenage book about a girl falling in love with a bad-boy ghost
I have a sneaking suspicion this is a Fear Street book, but I'm having no luck pinning it down from the lists online. The protagonist is a teenage girl, who starts seeing a ghost in her bedroom. ...
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PC game where you are a writer/journalist sent to small english village by mysterious caller. game about ghosts and occult
I played a mystery game around 10 years or so ago. I believe you are a writer or journalist who receives a mysterious call to check out a small English village on the ocean. I am quite certain you ...
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Ghost story where “villain” boss is haunted for not allowing polite letter endings
Does anyone know title, author, possibly link to a ghost story, possibly originally in French, possibly intended for children.
In which a secretary (employee with desk job) dies, and after his death ...
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Who walked in during Angela's meeting with her advisor in Malevolent?
In the 2018 film, Malevolent, one of the early incidents that Angela has showing that her medium abilities are coming out happens during a meeting with her academic advisor. She gets her prior ...
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2D RPG Fantasy PC Flash Game with 3 Characters - Ghost, Witch and Vampire
I couldn't find the game or the name of the game I played in the 2000s and was looking to see if anyone remember it.
It wasn't a very popular game, and I believe I played it on PC on an online ...
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