Ghost

Is there life after death, or rather Death? The Sims appear to have one. Both The Sims and The Sims 2 featured ghosts, and even the upcoming The Sims 3 will feature ghosts. In The Sims 2, however, ghosts were much more complex.

The Sims 2
There is a different type of ghost for each type of death on the Sims 2. Each has their own color and many have special abilities. All ghosts can interact with some objects, for example making a chair float or a teddy's head spin, and all ghosts can scare living Sims - sometimes even to death. Ghosts can
 * Scare Sims
 * Float chairs (with Sims on them), other small objects and their graves
 * Turn on appliances
 * Reenact their death
 * Cause baths to fill of their own accord
 * Float upstairs and will often nod in approval if their bed is still there
 * The ghost of a Sim that died by fire can go swimming if you have a swimming pool near his/her tombstone
 * The ghost of a Sim who died by drowning will leave a puddle and sometime she/he will mop it up
 * NOTE: They can go through walls; have your sims interact with something other than nothing when you have a graveyard near ANY of your sims to prevent accidents, or even death. :)

Angry Spirits


There are lots of reasons a Sim could be angry. If a Sim died of starvation and there is no food on the lot, if a grave is destroyed, if a spouse remarries or if a non-relative moves on to the lot. Although all ghosts interact with objects and scare Sims angry ghosts do so more violently including:
 * Breaking electrical appliances
 * Threatening gestures
 * Specified haunting of one Sim

Kicking their graves also puts ghosts into a tizzy.

Keeping ghosts at bay
The easiest way to keep ghosts quiet is to move them to a cemetery. When here several anger triggers will not work, however a starving ghosts will still be unhappy if there is no fridge. Mourning a grave will keep the ghost quiet for one night and building an island around the grave site will stop them from invading the sim's homes.

Types of ghost

 *  Death by fire: Sim appears red and she/he will swim at your pool/sea if you have one (sometimes)
 *  Death by drowning: Sim appears blue and leaves puddles of water and sometime mop it
 *  Death by Cowplant: Sim appears light green. If the cowplant is still there, the Sim will taunt it with a slab of ghostly meat.
 *  Death by flies: Sim appears purple.
 *  Death by rally forth: Sim appears white with megaphone.
 *  Death by elevator: Sim appears transparent.
 *  Death by scaring: Sim appears pink.
 *  Death by starvation: Sim appears transparent and opens and closes the fridge, taking food with it. Ghost gets angry if there is no fridge on the lot or if the fridge is empty.
 *  Death by illness: Sim appears green.
 *  Death by satellite: Sim appears orange.
 *  Death by electrocution: Sim appears yellow and sometime she/he shocked by electric and fall. (Like play dead things)
 *  Death by hail: Sim appears dark pink.
 *  Death by vampirism: Sim appears transparent.
 *  Death by old age: Sim appears white. Pets appear white. Dogs dig ghostly holes.
 *  Death by wishing well: Unknown
 *  Death by Murphy bed: Unknown