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Ghosts are spectral beings who are similar to spirits with the exception that they were once living beings. Like spirits, they posses color-coded spectral energy and the ability to manipulate it. The author once stated that a ghost's spectral energy is often locked to one specific purpose (such as creating butterflies), but this has since been retconned; ghosts have the same capacity to manipulate their energy as spectrals do, although the only ghosts to demonstrate this ability in the comic are former spectrals who learned their skills in life. Particularly willful ghosts may be able to interact with the physical world, earning the distinction of "poltergeists", similar to spirits capable of the same feat. Ghosts are seen to have floaty "tails" instead of legs. Animals also form ghosts upon death, though few animal ghosts have been shown in Paranatural.

Some statements PJ makes to Max suggest that people with particularly violent deaths are more likely to leave ghosts after death, or at the least lengthen the time their ghost exists. Ghosts don't linger forever; they can be consumed by spirits for their spectral energy, and even if they survive they turn "white n' forgetty"[1] and fade away after an unspecified amount of time. Isabel tells Max that ghosts can linger for longer if they're "exceptional": "They have exceptionally unfinished business... or they're exceptionally stubborn jerks."[2] So far, there are no indications of what, if anything, awaits ghosts in terms of an afterlife.

According to Mr. Spender, most ghosts cannot use tools because as a being of pure spectral energy, a ghost would be absorbed completely by the spirit in the tool to fuel its recovery. Exceptionally powerful ghosts such as Francisco Guerra have the ability to use tools without being immediately absorbed, however.

Notable Ghosts[]

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