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[[File:TS4 Ghost Icon.png|60px|left]]'''Ghosts''' are featured in most [[The Sims (series)|''The Sims'' games]] after Sims [[Death|die]]. Some lots will have pre-made ghosts, and after Sims die, they linger as ghosts. Ghosts appear as transparent color-varied Sims.

Ghosts often appear just after 8:00 p.m. (20:00), but they sometimes appear later in the night, closer to midnight. Ghosts disappear at or around 6:00 am. They're never seen in the daytime or within the hour before or past light (with one possible exception). More than one angry ghost can appear at night, but it's more common to only see one. When there are only a few ghosts, they tend to appear around every three nights. When there are more than five though, they may appear every night. When a tombstone is on the lot, eerie background music may play if a Sim is outside. When a ghost is out, the music will be percussionary, and will play at intervals or whenever a ghost jumps into something. Ghosts themselves emit an eerie ambience (howlingwindy noises/howling) whenever they are haunting a lot, it can be heard in the entire lot and becomes louder, the closer the Ghost is to the player.

* '''[[Cowplant]]'''{{vgversion|TS2:U}}: Sim appears yellow green. If the Cowplant is still on the lot, the ghost Sim will taunt it with a slab of meat. Additionally, if another Sim drank the ghost Sim's life essence, then the ghost will be angry at that Sim. These ghosts usually spend the whole night taunting the plant and rarely tend to roam around

* Deleting a [[Gravestone|tombstone]] or urn will prevent that Sim's ghost from appearing, but this should not be done as itthe willsim corruptcan no longer be resurrected due to their character file being unlinked and turned into a "stub" file containing the Sim's bare-bones character data.<ref>[[Game guide:Avoiding corruption|Several tips to avoid neighborhood corruption]].</ref> Placing a tombstone or urn in a sim's [[inventory]] will also keep the ghost from appearing, but neighborhoodit corruptionwill maybe resultdeleted if ait's Sim dies with a tombstonein or urn inthe inventory.<ref>[[Game guide:Avoidingwhen corruption|Severalthe tipssim to avoid neighborhood corruption]]</ref>dies. The best way to get rid of tombstones is by moving them to a [[graveyard]]{{Vgversion|TS2:NL}}⁺

* There is a glitch that makes a Sim's cause of death (and ghost color) reset to starvationold age (white) regardless of their actual death when moving the Sim's grave or urn to a community lot using the "Move Grave" option. The ghosts will reset the same way if a function to move multiple graves at once is used, as well. A fix is offered in this [http://modthesims.info/d/625295 mod.]

In ''[[The Sims: Bustin' Out]]'', ghosts work mostly the same as they do in [[The Sims]] for PC. The ghosts of dead Sims will appear at night and haunt the living Sims and scare them, and "scary" music will also play when ghosts appear on a lot. Only one lot, [[Goth Manor]], has pre-made ghosts. The ghosts on that lot can be exorcised by using the SeanceSéance Table.

*'''[[Temperance]]:'''{{Vgversion|TS4:PS}} Temperance is a special ghost NPC who is eternally angry, she appears after a while when a Sim is living in a haunted house, she has a fuedfeud with Guidry and will appear to disrupt any interactions to be friendly with ghosts or seances. Sims can stop her if they summon [[Bonehilda]] or ask Guidry for a bizzarebizarre idol which will hold off Temperance from doing actions.

Specters are a special ghost type appearing in haunted houses introduced in [[The Sims 4: Paranormal Stuff|''The Sims 4: Paranormal Stuff'']]. Specters can either be friendly, sad, or angry, and there are multiple benefits and disadvantages to having them in the house. Normals Sims can interact with them fine but Sims who have the medium skill will have a better time influencing their relationship and specters will have different behaviourbehavior depending on their moods:

*Sad specters have mixed results in interactions with Sims. They can be friendly or mischieviousmischievous as they stay up during the night, and possibly drop cursed objects.

* Angry specters are very mischieviousmischievous ghosts that are mostly playful but have a chance when really angry to attack Sims by setting fires on the lot. Almost all interactions with them will fail.

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File:Riverview20.jpg|[[Jasper Remington]] hugging his daughter [[Kirsten Remington]].

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File:Vein Ghost.JPG|[[Anabelle Oinkslopes]], a ghost who died of electrocution.

File:Ghost 1.JPG|[[Milton Bachelor]], a ghost who died of old age.

File:Ghost3.JPG|[[Joel Astroman]], a ghost who died of starvation.

File:Criminal Ghost.JPG|[[Chester Landgraab]], a ghost who died of old age.

File:ElectricGhostReading.jpg |[[Lolita Goth]] reading a book.

File:Ghost in Bed!.jpg|A sleeping ghost

File:140px-FireGhost.jpg|Fire

File:140px-DrowningGhost.jpg|Drowning

File:ElectrocutionGhost.jpg|Electrocution

File:140px-StarvationGhost.jpg|Starvation

mummyscurseghostMummyscurseghost.jpg|A Sim who died of the Mummy's Curse shakes hands with the Grim Reaper

File:GhostMummy.jpg|A mummy-ghost WooHoo

File:CrazyBabyDoll Screenshot-26.jpg|Agnes Crumplebottom's deceased husband, who died on the night of their honeymoon

File:Drowning ghost and sim.jpg|Drowning ghost and Sim

File:Dead relative ghost.jpg|Sim sees her deceased father

File:Mummy's Curse Ghost.jpg|Mummy's Curse Ghost

File:Ghost-waffles.jpg|Ghost eating

File:TinaGhost.jpg|A Sim who died of the [[Mummy's Curse]], after the ''Late Night'' patch is installed

File:Floating Ghost.jpg|A ghost floating over Sunset Valley, a possible glitch

File:Ghost haunting cushion.jpg|A ghost haunting a cushion

allghostsAllghosts.jpg|All ghosts from ''The Sims 3'' (with the ghosts from ''World Adventures'', ''Late Night'', and ''Ambitions'')

File:IP Deaths.jpg|The ghosts in ''[[The Sims 3: Island Paradise]]''