Ghost (disambiguation)

A ghost is a supernatural entity usually thought to be the spirit of a person remaining on Earth after their death.

Ghost can also refer to:

Entertainment

Art

• Ghost (artist), a graffiti artist
• Ghost print, an method of mono-printing

Games

• Ghost (game), a word game
• Ghost (chess), an amateur chess engine for the XBoard protocol
• Ghost, a vehicle from the video game Halo: Combat Evolved.
• Ghost Recon, a first-person shooter
• StarCraft: Ghost, a console third-person shooter video game taking place in the StarCraft universe. It derives its name from the Ghost special operations unit
• Ghosts (board game), a board game
• Ghost, an enemy in Pac-Man.
• Ghost (video games), an opponent whose fighting patterns are based on ghost data taken from a real player
• Super Ghouls and Ghosts, a platform game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System
• Ghost Pokémon, a Pokémon type
• Ghost (Matrix character), the name of one of two main playable characters in the Enter the Matrix video game
• Ghost (Dungeons & Dragons), is an undead monster in the game

Film

• Ghost (film), a movie starring Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, and Patrick Swayze
• Ghosts (Michael Jackson film), a forty-minute short film produced by Michael Jackson
• Ghost (Matrix character), a character in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions
• Ghostbusters, a movie directed by Ivan Reitman, written by and starring Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd, also starring Bill Murray and Sigourney Weaver
• Ghost in the Shell, a Japanese science fiction manga created by Masamune Shirow and the motion picture by Mamoru Oshii based on it
• The Ghost Who Walks (planned movie adaptation of Lee Falk's The Phantom

Literature

• Ghosts (play), a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen
• Ghost (Dark Horse comics), a series of comic books published by Dark Horse Comics featuring a superheroine of the same name
• Ghost (Marvel comics), a supervillain, part of the Marvel Universe
• Ghosts (novel), one of the three novels of Paul Auster's New York Trilogy
• A ghostwriter is an author who writes under someone else's name
• Ghost (Piers Anthony novel), the title of a science fiction novel by author Piers Anthony
• Ghost (John Ringo novel), a novel by the Military sci-fi author John Ringo
• Ghost (Niven) is the framing story for the fixup Crashlander by Larry Niven
• Ghost, the name of a starring character of the novel Lost Souls by author Poppy Z. Brite. He is also featured in numerous short stories by the same author. See: Lost Souls (book)#Steve Finn and Ghost

Music

• Ghost note, a purposely unemphasized note in musical compositions
• "Ghosts," a song by Shellac from their 2000 album 1000 Hurts

Groups

• Ghost (band), a psychedelic music group
• Ghosts (British band), a British post-rock band

Compostions

• Ghost (Phish song), a song by Phish on the 1998 album The Story of the Ghost
• Ghost (Pearl Jam song), a song by Pearl Jam on the 2002 album Riot Act
• Ghost (Clutch song), a song by Clutch on the 2004 album Blast Tyrant
• Ghosts (Robbie Williams song) is a song by Robbie Williams on the 2005 album Intensive Care
• Ghosts (Japan song), a song by Japan on the 1981 album Tin Drum
• Ghosts (Michael Jackson song), a song by Michael Jackson on the album Blood on the Dance Floor (HIStory in the Mix)
• Ghosts (Albert Ayler), a composition by free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler

Science

• Faddeev-Popov ghost, an auxiliary field which appears in quantum field theories involving redundancies of description, such as gauge theories
• Ghost (field theory), in field theory, a field whose kinetic term is of the wrong sign, and would thus detrimentally represent a particle of negative energy
• Ghosts are also a name for the structures that form when blood is submerged in water. The red blood cells explode, leaving small spheres of phospholipids. These are the "ghosts".

Technology

• Ghosting (television), an image on a television screen that doesn't belong to the programme in question
• Ghost (software), a computer disk cloning program
• Ghost (IRC), a technical glitch in Internet Relay Chat
• Ghost (audio), a next-generation audio codec by Xiph.Org
• In stage lighting, a light is considered to be ghosting if it remains lit, despite efforts to turn it off
• In radars, a multipath signal return that incorrectly appears to the radar receiver as a valid target. See: Radar#Clutter
• In object-oriented programming, a ghost is an object with no reference and therefore serves no purpose in the program. See: Object (computer science)#Objects in object-oriented programming

Religion

• Hungry ghost realm is one of the realms of samsaric existence in Buddhist belief
• The Holy Ghost is another name for the Holy Spirit in most variations of the Christian religion

History

• The Ghost Army of World War II

Other

• Ghost, the name for a mind hosted/trapped into a computer by the mean of mind uploading. Resulting symbiotes are called ghosts computers or “ghostcomps”. These names had been popularized by David Pulver in his GURPS books, and more recently in the anime Ghost in the Shell, see Ghost in the Shell#Ghosts. See also: infomorph
• To ghost can also mean to stalk a group of people, capturing or killing them in swift hit and run attacks. An example of this can be seen in the movie Predator, where the alien Predator remains hidden as it stalks the soldiers through the forest, picking them off one by one in surprise attacks.
• Ghost, a person believed to be dead, officially or unofficially, when in fact they are not
• Ghost, a person who exhibits skills at stealth and stalking
• Ghost inhale, a smoking technique not to be confused with a similiar technique, Ghost hit, when one inhales smoke from marijuana and holds it, so when he exhales there is no smoke
• Ghost, one possible English transliteration of the Urdu word for a type of lamb curry. See: Ghoust