Ghost

Life after death is featured in all The Sims games.

The Sims
In The Sims, ghosts can scare Sims on the lot and can wake sleeping Sims, but cannot do anything else. They are transparent and green. They roam around the lot and can go through walls and objects, but cannot go up stairs or cross water. The ghosts from the original Sims are more translucent than the ones from Unleashed. Unleashed ghosts have a blue tint to them.

In Makin' Magic, magical Sims can make the Shed Your Skin charm. When it's used at night, the Sim who used it will be transformed into a green ghostlike figure. It has been reported that, while charmed, Sims may be able to talk to ghosts, as well as walk through walls and objects.

Ghosts can appear at any time between 11:00 pm and daybreak. When they appear, they will usually hang around for a few hours.

The Sims 2
There is a different type of ghost for each type of death in 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 bear's head spin, and all ghosts can scare living Sims - sometimes even to death.

Ghosts can:
 * Scare Sims (Sims can die from shock if this happens)
 * Float chairs (with Sims on them), other small objects and even their graves Sims_2_microwave.jpg
 * Turn on appliances
 * Make a bowling alley float
 * Make musical instruments play by themselves
 * Reenact their death
 * Cause baths to fill of their own accord
 * Visit their bed (the last one they slept in)
 * The ghost of a Sim that died by fire can go swimming if there is a swimming pool near his/her tombstone
 * The ghost of a Sim who died by drowning will leave a puddle and sometimes she/he will mop it up
 * Walk through walls, fences, and furniture.

Angry Spirits


There are lots of reasons a Sim could be angry. If a Sim's life was unhappy, if a Sim died of starvation and there is no food in the fridge, if a grave is destroyed, if his/her spouse remarries, selling his/her bed, a Sim kicking his/her grave, removing the lot they lived on if they died on another lot or have been moved to another lot, or if a non-relative moves on to the lot. Parents will be enraged to see their orphaned child with a boyfriend/girlfriend. Although all ghosts interact with objects and scare Sims, angry ghosts do so more violently including:
 * Breaking electronics
 * Threatening gestures
 * Specific haunting of a certain Sim



Keeping ghosts at bay
The easiest way to keep ghosts quiet is to move their graves to a cemetery. When there, several anger triggers won't work, however a starving ghost will still be unhappy if there is no fridge. Mourning a grave will keep the ghost quiet for the time being, and building a moat around the grave site will stop them from invading the Sim's home, as they can't cross water.

Players who are irritated by ghosts raiding the fridge or leaving puddles can change how they died by first using testingcheatsenabled and then shift clicking on the ghost's tombstone. Options will then appear to change the cause of death; old age and satellite create fairly quiet ghosts.

Types of ghost

 * Death by fire: Sim appears red and smoking. They will sometimes swim in pools or in the sea.[[Image:Snapshot_cdae9d39_12fed12a.jpg|right|thumbnail|A Sim that has died from a fire.]]
 * Death by drowning: Sim appears blue and leaves puddles of water
 * Death by Cowplant: Sim appears light green. If the cowplant is still there, the Sim will taunt it with a slab of meat. Additionally, if someone drank the Sim's life essence, the ghost will be angry at that Sim.
 * Death by flies: Sim appears purple.
 * Death by rally forth: Sim appears white with megaphone.
 * Death by elevator: Sim appears white and acts dizzy.
 * Death by fright: Sim appears pink and will occasionally act frightened.
 * Death by starvation: Sim appears white and often uses 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. Occasionally, these ghosts will grasp their throat and start coughing, re-enacting their death.
 * Death by satellite: Sim appears orange and smoking.
 * Death by electrocution: Sim appears yellow and sometime she/he will re-enact their death.
 * Death by hail: Sim appears magenta.
 * Death by sunlight: Sim appears white and is still a vampire.
 * Death by old age: Sims and pets appear white. Dogs dig ghostly holes.
 * Death by Running with Scissors (a download at the Sims 2 main site by MaxoidMonkey): Sim appears light pink.
 * Death by wishing well: Sim appears white and acts like he/she died of starvation.
 * Death by Murphy bed: The Sim will appear white and avoid the bed he/she died under.
 * Death by lightning: Sim appears yellow and re-enacts their death.

Description
Ghosts also appear in The Sims 3. There are premade Ghosts in each graveyard that ships with The Sims 3 and each of its expansions.

Ghosts are the only life state other than normal Sims in The Sims 3 (Not including expansion packs). Ghost can be combined with all other life states.

They can be turned into playable characters using the Oh My Ghost! opportunity and can also get married and have babies, including ghost babies. As a playable character, the Ghost will be added to the household, like a family member. Ghosts float instead of walking, and they whisper all the time. They can become invisible, as well as possessing and haunting furniture. Ghosts, including playable ones, have free will actions telling them to scare other Sims, but do not do this all the time like in the Sims 2, and scaring Sims cannot cause death. As of Patch 1.6, ghosts float rather than stand, and autonomously go through objects, walls and even other Sims.

Ablities
Ghosts can now walk through walls, ceilings and floors, without doors or stairs. When you tell a Ghost to go to an upper or lower floor, it will aways walk, then take "invisible stairs" to the intended location.

Types of Ghosts
Ghosts are different colours depending on how the Sim died. All Ghosts are translucent. Different Ghosts may behave a little differently. Fiery Ghosts like to take showers and baths. Starved Ghosts tend to prepare and eat a lot of food. Ghosts who died of old age will often take naps on vacant beds, and if there are no vacant beds available, they will float around complaining that they are tired.

Drowning

A drowned Sim is blue with an animated water "texture".

Sim is yellow with an animated electricity "texture".
 * Electrocution

A burned Sim is orange with an animated flame and smoke "texture".
 * Fire

Starved Sims are pinkish-purple with an animated cloudy "texture".
 * Hunger

Mummy's Curse

Sims killed by the curse of a mummy will appear a dark grey with an animated swirling sand "texture". This death is only available with the World Adventures expansion pack.

Falling Meteor

Sims killed by a falling Meteor. They appear Orange. This death is only available with the Ambitions expansion pack.



Making Ghost Babies
Having a baby with a ghost can result in either a normal baby or a ghost baby. A ghost baby is transparent like a ghost and they have their own headstone in their inventory. They do not disappear at the end of the night and they can age.

Gold Digger Lifetime Wish
Sims with the Gold Digger Lifetime Wish want more than anything to see the Ghost of their rich spouse. This is easily achieved by marrying a Young Adult Sim to a wealthy Elder.

Making playable Ghosts with the Oh My Ghost! opportunity

 * Oh My Ghost!
 * Location: Science lab
 * The local science lab is conducting super secret experiments involving the Automagic Ghost-O-tron 1220-DR previously rumored to be "under construction." If you're interested in a glimpse of the after-life, bring the remains of a loved one to the lab for some "tests."

To have a playable ghost, resurrect a dead Sim by taking the urn to the science lab. This must be initiated by the Oh My Ghost! opportunity. A few days / moments after a death the science lab will call a Sim and tell them to go to the lab with the urn. Sims who complete this opportunity once will be able to do it again without prompt, but they will be charged §5000 for each resurrection. Once the urn has been taken to the lab, you do not get it back again, instead it exists immovable in the resurrected Ghost's inventory. Sims that are brought back maintain all the relationships they had before their death. However, if they were married, they will now be engaged to their former spouse, and engaged Sims will return to dating. Ghost Sims can always disappear back into their urn by using the 'Return to the Netherworld' interaction on it. This will place their urn into the Mausoleum.

Ghosts cannot become partners in or buy out businesses.

Mods like Chaos Mod Painting can make a ghosts playable with one click or even instantly make a regular Sim into a Ghost.

Indian Burial Ground
When a family first moves in to a neighbourhood, they may find their property is haunted by random Ghost Sims. They can either dispose of these Ghosts themselves, keep them, or allow an exterminator to deal with them. Players must not place these urns in their inventories if they plan to accept the ghostbusters' offer. This ghostbuster looks exactly like the Repo-man.

Misc wishes

 * Sims with the Evil trait often wish to see the Ghost of living Sims around them.
 * Sims working on the Photography skill have challenges to photograph Ghosts, including a challenge to capture a Mummy-Ghost on film.

Resurrecting
Ghosts can be resurrected as normal Sims. If a ghost eats Ambrosia they will be turned into a normal Sim. Prior to a patch it was for Ghosts to lose their gravestone if the player switches families. That meant it could not be resurrected nor could it die.

To prepare Ambrosia, the requirements are:


 * 1) Cooking level 10 to prepare the whole meal
 * 2) Gardening level 7 to grow Lifefruit
 * 3) Fishing level 10 to get the Death fish, or level 7 with the proper bait, which is angelfish
 * 4) Grave of deceased Sim to resurrect

Ghosthunting in The Sims 3: Ambitions
Ghosthunting is a career in The Sims 3: Ambitions expansion pack.