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* [[Death Echo]] – If a person dies in a particularly traumatic manner, they may start reliving their death in the spot it happened, trapped in a loop. A spirit can break free of the loop if it is confronted by someone the deceased had a connection to in life.
* [[Death Omen]] – Death omens are typically ghosts that have been murdered, but rather than seeking vengeance they seek justice and will appear to people in similar situations to warn them of their impending deaths.
* [[Hell Ghosts]] – [[Soul]]s of the damned released from [[Hell]]. Unlike typical ghosts, Hell ghosts are stronger and are not tethered to any one place or object, allowing them to roam freely.
* [[Myling]] – The vengeful spirit of a child in Scandinavian folklore, said to use their cries to lure adults to their deaths.
* [[Poltergeist]] – Malevolent vengeful spirits. Unlike typical vengeful spirits, a poltergeist is indiscriminate in who it targets, only wishing to harm the person or persons they are haunting.
* [[Spectre]] – A type of avenging ghost that possesses a person, and seeks out anyone that the possessed feels betrayed by and enacts vengeance upon. A spectre will typically only rise if their grave site has been desecrated in some manner. Unlike typical ghosts, a spectre leaves behind green [[ectoplasm]] rather than black.
* [[Woman in White]] – A woman whose husband had been unfaithful to her in life, and due to this she suffers from temporary insanity and murders their children. Once the guilt of what they have done hits them, the woman commits suicide, cursing her spirit to roam back roads and waterways looking for unfaithful men to kill.
* [[Vengeful Spirits]] – When a spirit fails to move on, the ghost will eventually begin to deteriorate and turn into a vengeful spirit. Vengeful spirits will act out to avenge some wrong they encountered during their life, but do due to the deterioration from being dead, their judgement can become warped and attack those who they deem have wronged others, whether or not they were innocuous or justified.* [[Hell Ghosts]] - not ghosts ''per se'', but souls released from Hell.
===Powers and abilities===
Ghosts can affect objects in the material world. This is an ability that must be learned. Sam and Dean learn how to move physical objects and fight when they become astral projections in [[4.15 Death Takes a Holiday]]. The ghost [[Haskel Crane]] explains to Bobby Singer and [[Annie Hawkins]] that to do this, the spirit must either become very calm and enter a Zen-like state, or tap into "explosive, anger and pure, red-hot rage."<ref name="seven19">[[7.19 Of Grave Importance]]</ref>
* [[EMF|Electromagnetic interference]] – A ghost's presence can cause electrical interference in the place they are haunting. Ghosts can manipulate electronic equipment to communicate by [[EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon)|EVP]]. They can be detected by the interference they cause with electromagnetic fields through use of an EMF meter.
* Invisibility – Ghosts occupy the space within [[the Veil]], making it impossible for humans to see them. Through practice and intense concentration, a ghost can manifest itself in the living world.
* Perception control – Ghosts such as [[Constance Welch]], [[Timmy's Mother]] and [[Fiona Duncan]] showed the ability to shift their forms from a beautiful young woman to a more monstrous appearance. The ghost of [[John Wayne Gacy]] was also able to manifest in the into a more monstrous form of his clown alter ego, Pogo the Clown.
* [[Ghost Possession|Possession]] – Ghosts have the ability to possess humans, a tell tale sign of ghost possession is the sudden secretion of [[ectoplasm]] from the possessed. Possession also extends to inanimate objects. Ghosts have been known to possess everything from cars to stereo equipment and computers.
* Soul absorption – The spirit of [[Whitman Van Ness]] showed the ability to destroy ghosts and absorb their strength for himself, making him stronger.
==Appearances==
* [[Constance Welch]], the [[Woman in White]] in [[1.01 Pilot]] and , [[14.20 Moriah]] and [[15.01 Back and to the Future]]
* [[Peter Sweeney]] in [[1.03 Dead in the Water]]
* [[Mary Worthington]], aka [[Bloody Mary (urban legend)|Bloody Mary]] in [[1.05 Bloody Mary]] and , [[14.20 Moriah]] and [[15.01 Back and to the Future]]
* [[Jacob Karns]] from the [[Hook Man Legend]] in [[1.07 Hook Man]]
* [[Mary Winchester]] in [[1.09 Home]]
* [[Jordan MacNeel]] in [[14.04 Mint Condition]]
* [[Sarah]] in [[14.12 Prophet and Loss]]
* [[John Wayne Gacy]] in [[14.13 Lebanon]] and , [[14.20 Moriah]] and [[15.01 Back and to the Future]]* [[Francis Tumblety]] and [[Kevin Tran]] in [[15.02 Raising Hell]]* [[Eileen Leahy]] and [[Jacinda]] in [[15.06 Golden Time]]
==Ghosts in Lore==
==See also==
* [[Hell Ghosts]]
* [[Poltergeist]]
* [[Vengeful Spirits]]
