Ghost facts for kids
In folklore, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear to the living.
In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to realistic, lifelike forms.
Other terms associated with it are apparition, haunt, phantom, poltergeist, shade, specter or spectre, spirit, spook, and wraith.
The overwhelming consensus of science is that there is no proof that ghosts exist.
Children quite often dress up as ghosts at Halloween.
Images for kids
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Yūrei (Japanese ghost) from the Hyakkai Zukan, ca. 1737
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Union Cemetery in Easton, Connecticut is home to the legend of the White Lady.
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Apulian red-figure bell krater depicting the ghost of Clytemnestra waking the Erinyes, date unknown
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Athenodorus and the Ghost, by Henry Justice Ford, c.1900
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"Hamlet and his father's ghost" by Henry Fuseli (1796 drawing). The ghost is wearing stylized plate armor in 17th-century style, including a morion type helmet and tassets. Depicting ghosts as wearing armor, to suggest a sense of antiquity, was common in Elizabethan theater.
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A 1901 depiction of ball lightning
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Muhammad ibn Muhammad Shakir Ruzmah-'i Nathani - A Soul Symbolized as an Angel
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Macbeth Seeing the Ghost of Banquo by Théodore Chassériau
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An image of Zhong Kui, the vanquisher of ghosts and evil beings, painted sometime before 1304 A.D. by Gong Kai
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi, The Ghosts, c. 1850
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Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, a claimed ghost photograph by Captain Hubert C. Provand. First published in Country Life magazine, 1936
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See also
In Spanish: Fantasma para niños
