“I ain’t afraid of no ghost”: 8 fictional spirits we wouldn’t bust
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Today marks 35 years since Ghostbusters premiered in theaters, so this week we’re asking:
Who is your favorite ghost in pop culture?
Gwen Ihnat
There is so little going on near my hometown of Worth, Illinois, located in the strip-malled southwestern outskirts of Chicago, that I’m grateful the area at least has a ghost to call its own. I have researched Resurrection Mary plenty over the years. The dance-hall queen is just looking for a ride home to Resurrection Cemetery around 72nd and Archer, and over the decades, apparently, many men have obliged. She usually leaves the car without opening the door without her drivers noticing; once she even burned her hands on the bars of the cemetery gate. Granted, I’m pretty ghost-forward, so I’m inclined to believe the multitude of reports that all recount her exact same physical description—blond, blue-eyed, wearing a white dress—and the experience of driving Mary home. There have been a number of (not great) movies based on Mary’s legend—all titled Resurrection Mary—including a 2002 film starring Wilford Brimley that moves the action to Kentucky (boo), a 2005 version (Dance With The Devil), and a 2007 version (“On a trip down Archer Avenue, you never know who you might run into”). So I would never bust Resurrection Mary. She’s the only thing remotely cool in my hometown.
Danette Chavez
Ghost’s Sam Wheat (Patrick Swayze) is personable and sympathetic in this life and beyond—when the movie begins, he’s just a Demi Moore-loving banker who’s prepared to miss a morning racquetball session or whatever with his colleague and best friend Carl (Tony Goldwyn, providing an early glimpse of his future Fitz sleaziness) to stay up (and by that, I mean, sex up) with his wife Molly (Moore) around the old kiln. After Sam unwittingly stumbles upon Carl’s money laundering scheme, he’s killed by Willie (Rick Aviles) in a mugging meant to cover up the real motive for his murder. What does Sam do after being so rudely shuffled off this mortal coil? Does he become the Moaning Myrtle of his and Molly’s Manhattan loft? No, he continues to look after his wife, connecting with a psychic named Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg) to communicate with her and solve his murder. He also takes ghosts lessons from a moody poltergeist, does cool tricks with a penny, a bathroom mirror, and steam, and finally, exacts justice with no collateral damage. Sam is just as good a ghost as he was a man, so not even the most diligent of ghostbusters could bring themselves to interfere with his mission—certainly not me, anyway.
Shannon Miller
There are many things that I miss about Scrubs, but what I appreciated most was its ability to break up both the sterility and absurdity with deeply human moments. On occasion, Dr. Perry Cox’s (John C. McGinley) brother-in-law Ben (Brendan Fraser) would stop by to partake in the torturing of JD (Zach Braff) and remind the audience of Perry’s softer side. Watching him show unabashed affection toward Ben was always a really nice break from his typical acidity, which made Ben’s sudden death in the season three episode “My Screw Up” all the more heartbreaking. Like a true buddy, Ben sticks around to shepherd Perry through his grief and guilt, complete with a few parting gags. The show’s choice to not reveal his death until the very end was a brilliant gut punch and makes it one of the most beautiful episodes of television in recent history. Watching “My Screw Up” now (whenever I have the emotional bandwidth for it, that is) always makes me appreciate how much Ben meant to Perry as well as what Fraser brought to Scrubs with every visit. And he was just as open and laid-back in death as he was in life, which Perry always fed off of nicely. I hope Ben is peacefully snapping blurry Polaroids in heaven and having a phenomenal time.
William Hughes
Look, look, I know: Beetlejuice is a dangerous pervert with boundary issues—including the boundary between just helping his “bio-exorcism” clients deal with a few pesky mortals, and outright murdering them. And yet, I just can’t bring myself to bring down the proton packs on a character who is maybe the perfect distillation of pure, uncut ’80s Michael Keaton, lying, cheating, and stealing his way through the afterlife. Spare me any animated series sanitizations, too. If I’m going to bat for the ghost with the most, I’ve got to accept him at his ghost to the mostestest. Sure, it’ll bring a few more truly crude puns and crotch grabs—and a lot more maggots—into my life, but what can I say? The guy knows how to party. (Just, uh, don’t bring him around literally any of the woman in your life; even for a dead guy, his attitude toward consent and harassment has aged disgustingly poorly.)
Sam Barsanti
We’ve got scary ghosts and endearing/pervy ghosts, but how about a very shy ghost? I have to throw my support behind the Boos from the Super Mario series, because not only can they drive cars, play tennis, and own multiple mansions across the Mushroom Kingdom, but they also get very nervous about actually following through on ghostly behaviors. Traditionally, Boos will sneak up on Mario and his friends and kill them with a single touch, but only when Mario’s back is turned. If he turns around, the average Boo will blush, hide its face in shame, and freeze in place. There are other Boos that don’t behave like this, but they’re either big and scary or just small and lame, so it’s obvious that the regular Boo is the best kind of Super Mario ghost. Plus, a Boo is called “Teresa” in Japan, which is based on the Japanese word for “to be shy,” and that’s just extremely cute. How could you ever bust a ghost that is too self-conscious to be scary?
Alex McLevy
It’s not just because she’s played by Carol Kane, though to be honest, that’s probably a huge part of the reason for my choice. But the real appeal of Scrooged’s Ghost Of Christmas Present is the combination of bubbly vivaciousness and blithe cruelty, a one-two punch of charm that she might actually deliver, as, well, a one-two punch. The film’s retelling of A Christmas Carol largely rests on the shoulders of Bill Murray as Frank Cross, an Ebenezer-like TV president and avowed asshole who considers kindness and decency weaknesses that get in the way of profit. So naturally, he’s visited by spirits on Christmas Eve to change his attitude, and while they each have their own positive qualities (okay, the Ghost Of Christmas Future’s tortured souls stored in its ribcage are a bit of a turn-off), Present’s fairy-esque presence, light-hearted whimsy, and penchant for hitting Frank in the face with a toaster all make her the clear winner. She enjoys a good tickle fight, and has seemingly boundless enthusiasm for Christmas. It’s a win-win for any parties to which you may invite her; there’s a good chance she’ll knock out any douchebag who tries to mess with your holiday cheer.
Erik Adams
From Beetlejuice’s spectral symbol of ’80s excess to another, though this one needed an animated follow-up to get, er, fleshed out: The first Ghostbusters movie didn’t even give its most charismatic scene-stealer a proper name, referring to “The Onionhead Ghost” (based on a discarded gag) in its script and necessitating a disclaimer on all Kenner packaging containing the “Green Ghost.” Those of us who came to the franchise through the Real Ghostbusters cartoon, however, have always known him as Slimer, the friendliest, hungriest class-five roaming vapor of New York City. Speaking in the inimitable, upper-octave chatter of Frank Welker, Slimer was a kid’s entry point into The Real Ghostbusters’ world of paranormal investigations and pseudoscientific babble, the sidekick who just wanted to help and be accepted by the PhDs who once crammed him into a high-tech shoebox. (Here he embodies the fate of all Ghostbusters fans: to think you’d be chummy with Venkman when you’re actually on Ray’s wavelength.) The little spud’s lack of impulse control only looks more endearing through the lens of personal responsibility; whenever I’m having trouble exercising those requirements of adulthood, I think of my friend Slimer, the sloppy green good boy from beyond the grave.
Nick Wanserski
There are souls who return from the dead to cause pain, or to seek revenge, or because they’re lost. And some betray the very laws of mortality just because they’re not done talking to you yet. That’s what makes Obi-Wan Kenobi my favorite ghost. He used a rare and virtually unknown secret Force technique to come back from the dead because he still had a few things to say to Luke about his dad. The quickly introduced and then equally quickly ignored concept of Midi-chlorians never delved into the apologetics of how these magical germs facilitate the post-mortem transubstantiation of crude matter into luminous beings, but according to Wookieepedia, a Force Ghost is created through a technique that allows a Jedi to turn their bodies into pure energy. This is both a technically and thematically unsatisfying answer, since it just provides only enough detail to kill the esoteric mystery of a space wizard showing up from beyond the grave to harass Luke with weird little riddles and subjective musings on the nature of identity and objective truth. Force ghosts are a great narrative device for using a mentor character, and I hope we get to see a semi-transparent Luke show up in The Rise Of Skywalker.
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Weird topic . . . I guess this one: https://images.app.goo.gl/3JDPxEg8vnfHrEVv5
1) if there’s no Force Ghost Luke in Rise there will be nerd rioting in the streets (separate from the rioting when Rey turns out to be a clone of Leia)2) Beetlejuice is that friend who was a lot of fun in college, but who causes your homeowner’s insurance to go up every time he visits uninvited3) seeing Ghostbusters at the Alamo this afternoon4) Slimer sucks
He speaks in the trailer, so it would be – weird is he isn’t a ghost.. 🙂
Nerds don’t riot, they sit at home and cry on Discord
Or post a petition on Change.org
Yeah, by “riot” I assumed he meant post lost of nasty online reviews and endless YouTube videos about the ruining of the character.
“separate from the rioting when Rey turns out to be a clone of Leia Vader”
I was going to suggest that would make the Rey/Kylo Ren flirtation in “The Last Jedi” creepy given that Kylo would be flirting with the clone of his own grandpa, albeit in female form. But then I realized we are dealing with the Skywalker family that seems to like playing with possible incest.
..is that Vader rey a theory now ? (Vaderey? Reyder?)because that actually works for me ( plus a slave mom and actually nobody as a dad counts as ..’your parents were nobodies’)
Wait, are you saying Rey was a force-ghost the whole time?!
Rey turns out to be a fever dream of a breaking down R2-D2, along with the rest of the events
This guy gets it…
“2) Beetlejuice is that friend who was a lot of fun in college, but who causes your homeowner’s insurance to go up every time he visits uninvited”So…, Pacific Heights then?
Lol nice
WHO’S A GOOD DOG??????
I see your dog Ghost and raise you a Ghost Dog.
Now that I’m older I understand what’s going on in that scene, and what I’m looking at, but when I was a kid I had no idea what I was looking at, and it really broke my brain, like “What the fuck is going on there!?”
Instant nightmares. Dislike.
I love how Kubrick took so many liberties with the novel but decided keep the random bit about a past owner who made his boyfriend dress like a dog. I haven’t read the novel since high school, but I feel like that was maybe one paragraph.
The end of the Clone Wars show and parts of Star Wars Rebels go into a bit more detail about force ghosts. Yoda tells obi wan where to learn the power after he stumbles across it and tells him he’s gonna need to know how to use it for future events.
Daryl Hannah and/or Liam Neeson (however you’re inclined) in Neil Jordan’s High Spirits (I watched the shit out of that VHS as a as a teen…)
Ya we harlot
i remember that one!
I rewatched this a week or so ago for the first time since seeing in the theater with my dad back when I was…(Googles)…9ish and didn’t remember it being a sex farce. Peter O’Toole does a great job chewing scenery per usual.
I guess the sex farce goes over the head of preteens… 🙂 as a teen I definitely got it …
Does Ghost Rider count?
How about the girl in “Lady in White”(this movie used to freak me out as a kid)
YESSSSS. The song still gives me the willies.
The Angry Princess from Thir13en Ghosts, for reasons.
I’m sorry, but I don’t think I’m ready for a woke Beetlejuice. Let a player play.Anyway, I think my first exposure to onscreen ghosts as a child probably came in Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981. Ghostbusters came out 3 years later, and while that was definitely a game changer (and spooky in all the right ways for a kid my age), Raiders kicked down the door to realizing that scary stuff could be fun, too. These four-and-a-half minutes tore my world apart back then, and even as I’m watching it now, I still get a little freaked out. If I had to pick one, I’d most likely choose the one that makes Toht’s face melt. I wish I had a gif of my face the first time I saw that. I have no reason to believe it didn’t melt off, too.Ladies and gentlemen, the Ark ceremony from Raiders of the Lost Ark. My favorite movie of all time.“IT’S BYUHTEHFUL!”
The cartoon version of Beetlejuice was pretty woke, in that he was able to maintain a close and platonic friendship with a woman while still engaging in hijinks and tomfoolery. It was my first exposure to the character and it was one of the biggest heartbreaks of my adolescence when I discovered he was such an aggressive pervey creep to Lydia in the movie instead of her fun ghost friend.
That sounds awful. Beetlejuice has always been an aggressive, ugly jerk to me, which makes his comeuppance at the end of the movie that much more deserved.
I like both the cartoon series and the movie, but they’re definitely very different things I like for different reasons.
Cartoon Lydia is adorable.
It’s definitely the cartoon that has given the distorted impression that Beetlejuice was ever supposed to be friendly or genuinely likeable. Anarchic and frequently amusing, he remains the unequivocal villain throughout the movie.
And Michael Keaton’s finest performance to date, no less. Where the hell an actor goes to summon something like that from themselves is completely and totally beyond me.
I was thinking that myself. And while I don’t know who Keaton was getting his blow from back then it was the 80’s so I’m going to say the guy wore a lot of gold. Although if Keaton did all that sober it’s even more astounding.
Yah that’s like Robin Williams as the Genie style of improv and embodying a character. I really liked Keaton in Birdman though. And his performance as Vulture was some top notch scaryness.
The difference between Robin as Genie in this and Keaton is that Keaton did it all onscreen. Robin was brilliant, no question, but there is a difference.Keaton’s probably one of the most reliable actors I can think of. Always the best thing in whatever he’s in.
Indeed, they both are masters of improv. I’d say there are challenges to both, improv in a sound booth and largely by yourself vs. being able to riff off of your other cast members and such.
I’ll always shed a tear whenever I think of Eddie frickin Redmayne (who is pretty damn good himself, but wasn’t nearly on Keaton’s level that year) winning the best actor Oscar and them cutting to Keaton folding his speech up and putting it back in his pocket : (
Redmayne isn’t fit to carry a bucket of Michael Keaton’s shit. Not a bad actor, but come on. We’re talking about Beetlejuice here.
Seriously, he won for doing one of those boring “great man” portrayals, which are a dime a dozen and somehow guarantee a white British dude an Oscar if he plays like Churchill or Turing or whoever, even if the movie is blase` and paint by numbers bait. “Birdman” had some problems, but not with Keaton’s acting, he was the bomb. As always.
Play a disabled guy, get an Oscar.
Are you saying he didn’t earn it?
He’s still my favorite Batman. He channeled the right kind of damage to be believable as a billionaire vigilante. I don’t know why I couldn’t get into the Nolan-Bale films.
I dunno. I really like Bale in the role myself. I think I bought Keaton as Bruce Wayne more than I ever did as Batman.
Eh, I’d like to say that Birdman is his best role ever. I love Beetlejuice and Batman was the first movie I ever saw three times in the theater (age 13, thank you)(and still quote lines from it all the time), but Birdman is full circle Keaton as far as I’m concerned. I thought I liked it too much the first time I saw it so I gave it a year and then rewatched it. It’s an opinion, but he killed that character. It also helps that Inarritu is, along with del Torro and Cuaron are among my favorite directors and producers.
Birdman is a lot of fun and I really enjoyed it, but he’s still just playing a human character. I can see where he got that from. With Beetlejuice, he went somewhere completely different. Think about every weird movie character you’ve ever seen. Have you ever seen anything like Beetlejuice?
I still liked (and like) the film. It was just a bummer to my pre-teen self. Probably because I secretly wanted a ghost boyfriend and what Beetlejuice proposes is, no. No you don’t.
You know, it’s really too bad they didn’t pack the Ark off to Berlin for the fuhrer to open up for himself.
That’s addressed in the movie. Belloq is just too much of a selfish dick to do that. He doesn’t give a shit about the Nazis. He just wants the glory of opening it himself. He did the same thing with the Ark that he did with the golden statue in the beginning of the movie – he used Indy to get it, and then took all the credit. He also got his head blown up as a result, but hey, them’s the breaks.
Those aren’t ghosts in Raiders, those are angels – specifically, the Angel of Death and its minions. Old Testament angels. Those guys don’t mess around.
Oh, I know that now, but when you’re 8, they’re ghosts.
Raiders final scene is so awesome and horrific. I don’t remember when I first saw this movie, but I know I was very young. My little brain focused on Indy screaming “Don’t Look Marian” while keeping his own eyes tightly closed. I thought that the reason they were spared was because the ghosts could only get you if you see them. Classic kids/ostrich defense against horrors.
My dad didn’t do kids’ movies, so I know for sure that I saw it in its initial theatrical run. He’d take me out of school to see all the big releases on their opening day, stuff like Indy, Star Wars, most Spielberg movies, etc. I’m not sure what I thought what was happening in this scene when I first saw it, but I remember finding it pretty intimidating that you couldn’t even TOUCH the Ark. No one ever actually touches it with their bare hands throughout the course of the movie, if I’m not mistaken. That’s big.I could talk about this movie all day.
It came out about a month before I turned three so I probably didn’t see it during it’s initial run. But I saw it really early as it was one of those movies that I saw before I started forming memories. I’ve always “known” this movie if you know what I mean. This and Empire Strikes Back. From Empire I recall being really scared of the Probe Droid on Hoth. Basically the scary bits are what I remember which means I just might have watched these movies as a three year old.
Raiders is probably a perfect movie.
Raiders is definitely a perfect movie, and my favorite of all time. As you say, it’s been in my consciousness for as long as I can remember. I’m not really much of a horror guy now because it’s just become too damn much, but it’s weird to look back on Raiders and see how much of an influence horror had on it. The opening sequence, the origin story of the Ark with the Army intel guys at Indy’s university, the scene where the cleric is explaining Marion’s medallion (I love the ambience of that scene so goddamn much), the escape from the Well of the Souls, the Ark ceremony, just so much. It’s all so very dark and ominous, but Harrison’s personality and Spielberg’s direction lighten it up in all the right ways in all the right places. It’s a masterpiece.
What a surprise – they’re whiteNever change Racist Club. Never change.
Are we not including Jesus here even if it was only a couple of days?Asking for a friend
Jesus is not your friend.
Jesus is not a ghost. Also, the sun is not a Zippo lighter.
I’m pretty sure if you bust ghost Jesus Armageddon can’t happen so bust that asshole, it’ll make you feel good.
That’s not a ghost
Jesus is not a ghost, he’s a zombie. There’s a difference.
So we have to shoot it in the head.
A holy ghost! Works if you’re Orthodox.
Given that you covered up rapes and sexual assaults maybe you shouldn’t be commenting here you sick fuck
Jesus is just alright with me.
Hugh and Abigail Craine in the 1963 “The Haunting.” Proof that the scariest things are heard but never seen.
But the ghosts who are seen in The Haunted were kind of creepy too.
Moaning Myrtle from Harry Potter
The woman who played her was like 30! Always makes me laugh.
I recognized her from Trainspotting.
She was actually 37 in her first Harry Potter movie. Crazy!
The friendly ghost buddies in The Frighteners seemed cool. The other ones can go though including the drill sergeant.
Ironically (?), R. Lee Ermey is now an actual ghost. RIP Drill Instructor.(Such a fantastic and underrated movie though)
My first thought too.
That ghost from the “Saga” comics was nice. If wraiths count, then yeah Celebrimbor is my man.
Here he embodies the fate of all Ghostbustersfans: to think you’d be chummy with Venkman when you’re actually on Ray’s wavelength.Maybe it’s because I’m getting older, but I’m actually increasingly okay with that. When you get past the Bill Murray of it all, Venkman’s kind of a shithead.
As a kid, I wanted to be Venkman, but I always knew the Ghostbusters I wanted to hang out with were Stantz and Zeddemore.
I like Egon.
We have a full sized skeleton in our house. He has been named Egon in honor of Dr. Egon Spengler
Egon’s my favorite by far. He collects spores, molds and fungus, can fix printers, got to hang out under Janine’s desk, he’s the whole package.Doooooe, Raaaay, Egooooon!
The scariest ghost in all of pop culture
Yep… definitely the ghost of Richie Rich:
“Hey, do you think I’d get more business or less
business if as my Christmas gift I made up like 500 coffee mugs that say ‘Mr. Beefy’?”
Choked on a muffin… R.I.P.
Carol Kane brings life to whatever she’s in.
yeah, that “scrubs” episode is a killer. great series! i personally loved the musical episode.
The Funky Phantom.
spoiler alert for the Jack Black Goosebumps movie:Hannah the girl next door, played by Odeya Rush
Except she’s a real girl now.
True, though I thought it was cooler when she was a ghost
And I thought he was hotter as a zombie, but it was probably for the best he got better.
Obi-Wan Kenobi … used a rare and virtually unknown secret Force technique No.
Who/what was Slimer supposed to be the ghost *of*? That question always bothered me.
If I remember some supplemental material from an early script correctly, I think Slimer wasn’t meant to be the ghost of any particular person, just an embodiment of the excess hotel guests had been engaging in for so long. All of that psychic energy of people ordering room service and thinking “oh, what the hell, I’m on vacation” produced a spirit/poltergeist/whatever that was just pure appetite and indulgence.
It’s been argued (by Harold Ramis, no less), that Slimer was meant to be the ghost of John Belushi (who had actually signed on to play Venkman, but was replaced with Bill Murray after Belushi’s fatal overdose).
[Citation needed], FWB.Also, I regret writing bothered when I should have used haunted.
Well, it’s from a sketchy website that I doubt any of us frequent, buthttps://news.avclub.com/ghostbusters-slimer-was-created-in-a-cocaine-frenzy-1825610856
He was a ghost of a spilled pallet of that Hi-C Ecto Cooler stuff, creating a time paradox
Hari, from Solaris.
my wife thinks my love of this movie is laughable, but whether it’s nostalgia or genuine love, i think Henry Winkler and the rest of the cast of An American Christmas Carol knocked it out of the park. retelling the classic story in Depression-era America just seems perfect to me and re-imagining the Ghost of Christmas Future as a disco dancing hepcat still, to this day, fills me with delight. the only reason i haven’t watched this movie every holiday for the last decade is that, some years, i can’t wait and check it out from the library as soon as the weather starts to turn chill, in like October.
My guilty pleasure Christmas Movie is Family Man with Nick Cage & Tea Leoni. That would put Don Cheadle’s ghost on my list, I guess. Although maybe he’s an Angel more than a ghost.
Captain Danielle Gregg, from “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir”.
So I have to ask Edward Mulhare or Rex Harrison?
Why not both? (Rex Harrison)
I was an extremely odd pre-teen when I first saw this movie, but I daydreamed quite a bit about my own romantic ghost like Captain Gregg. The last scene of this movie still makes me choke up. So nope, no busting Daniel Gregg.
Rules:
One shot if you think Captain Gregg is real.
One shot if you think Mrs. Muir is imagining it to move her toward her own liberation.
No shots if somebody says “Booo!” whenever he appears.
The Ghostbusters blowjob ghost. Because blowjobs.
No Chi McBride from The Frighteners?
The Ghost in ‘Ghosts Play to the Audience’ by PinocchioP
(lyrics excerpt)
Ghost photographs are all just plays to the audience,
Cheap antics pandering to the crowd – understandable by anyone.
These sullen curses, they’re all just looking for a reaction,
Plays to the audience aimed at those real devotees.
I wanna fill people with terror, quickly and easily
I wanna improve all my scaring, smoothly and steadily.
{But} the outside is outside and inside is inside
And demons come from outside, fortune comes from within.
I have no “self”– I have no “self” so I can’t pass on.
I’ve got my own opinions – I’ve got a bunch of opinions about all this so I want to be rewarded for them.
I might just be going with the trends, but I’m really doing it because I want to!
…Or hey, maybe, I’m selling off my soul and killing my”self” here?
The good ghost in The Uninvited…Jennie in Portrait of Jennie…Robin Williams’ doctor in What Dreams May Come…The poor girl murdered in Stir of Echoes…Nicole Kidman’s mother in The Others…Bruce Willis’ child psychiatrist in Sixth Sense…The three old men in Beyond Tmorrow…But most of all I think all the ghosts in Heart&Souls.
I have researched Resurrection Mary plenty over the years.
To the point, I assume, of listening to Ian Hunter’s song of the same title? It’s on his Artful Dodger album, the one with Michael Picasso (his song for Mick Ronson) so worth getting anyway.I didn’t know it was a real urban legend at all, though, until recently. Not sure how accurate Ian’s song is.
Hi David!
I don’t think he was the Angel of Death, but the kids’ mom could go either way… so, I think Totoro was there just in case.
You had me at Sam Wheat. For my money, this is the best scene in the history of cinema:
I am dreadfully sorry this is the appropriate video of Willie realizing he’s met his demise, punctuated by Swayze’s blunt assessment:
That scene scared the fuck out of me as a child
As great as that episode of Scrubs was I contest it as part of this article. It never even occurred to me that was Ghost Ben. It meshes more with the show as a whole that he was just in Dr. Cox’s mind and it was his way of dealing with the grief through denial. Not a ghost.
Noah Czerny of the Raven Cycle books. Maggie Stiefvater makes hooking up with a ghost seem like the most tender, funny and romantic thing ever.
Alan Rickman in Truly, Madly, Deeply? (aka the good version of Ghost)
Don’t fuck with Ghost, you’ll be sorry.
Maurice and Lyda, played by Ed Asner and Lily Tomlin, the ghosts from the X-Files episode ‘How the Ghosts Stole Christmas’. One of the “funny ones” that was actually quite good.“Paramasturbatory?”
George and Marion Kerby from Topper. Those charming drunks seem like a lot of fun.
The Shining twins. They just wanted to play.
Best thing about Slimer is imagining what he was like in life.
Ghost relationships are hard.