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Ghosts were usually thought of as spirits of the dead, and depicted as chalk-white humanoid figures, or looser, floating spirits in shrouds. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ghost Story (comic story)|Ghost Story]]'') Indeed, [[Arganthone-056]] once faced such a spirit, the [[Ghost of the First Premium Turkey]]. However, the term was sometimes used to refer to spirits which embodied concepts, rather than deceased mortal — including the Ghosts of [[Ghost of Christmas Past|Christmas Past]], [[Ghost of Christmas Present|Christmas Present]] and [[Ghost of Christmas Future|Christmas Future]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') | Ghosts were usually thought of as spirits of the dead, and depicted as chalk-white humanoid figures, or looser, floating spirits in shrouds. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ghost Story (comic story)|Ghost Story]]'') Indeed, [[Arganthone-056]] once faced such a spirit, the [[Ghost of the First Premium Turkey]]. However, the term was sometimes used to refer to spirits which embodied concepts, rather than deceased mortal — including the Ghosts of [[Ghost of Christmas Past|Christmas Past]], [[Ghost of Christmas Present|Christmas Present]] and [[Ghost of Christmas Future|Christmas Future]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') | ||
In the [[Prime Universe]] at least, ghosts were a type of non-corporeal [[spirit]]. Like many other spirits, if they had nowhere else to go, ghosts would naturally find themselves in the [[Spirit Realm]]. Indeed, if corporeal beings became trapped in the Spirit Realm while living, they could haunt the physical world, appearing as insubstantial “ghosts” indistinguishable from genuinely dead ones. In the course of the [[Great Ghost Disaster of 1978]], the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]] came to believe that “ghosts and other related spirits can't persist in dimensions which they aren't anchored to – except on occasions when the Spirit Realm is directly connected to the dimension that they’ve entered”. However, all it took for a ghost to anchor themself to a given realm was to [[Possession|possess]] a physical being native to that universe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ghosts and the Machine (short story)|The Ghosts and the Machine]]'') | |||
== History == | |||
Many ghosts resided in [[the Strange and Wonderful House]], but found “other places to haunt” prior to the [[Fall of the Strange and Wonderful House]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 60: The Fall of the Strange and Wonderful House|The Fall of the Strange and Wonderful House]]'') | Many ghosts resided in [[the Strange and Wonderful House]], but found “other places to haunt” prior to the [[Fall of the Strange and Wonderful House]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 60: The Fall of the Strange and Wonderful House|The Fall of the Strange and Wonderful House]]'') | ||
By the 2010s, due to an unidentified threat, [[the Great Ghost]] believed his native [[Spirit Realm]], that of the [[Prime Universe]], to be “doomed” and was looking for a way for him [[the Great Ghost's legion|his legion]] of spirits to permanently escape. He intended to do so via ordinary spirit paths, but, when [[Frankenstein-818]]'s malfunctioning [[Spirit Realm Gateway]] opened a [[Rift]] between the Spirit Realm and the [[Cupid Homeworld]], took his chance and led his legion out of the Realm through that portal. While the spirits rampaged, looking for bodies to possess across [[the Multiverse]] thanks to a flotilla of [[Fog Ship]]s stolen from the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids|Cupids]], Frankenstein built a [[One-Way Forced Spirit Realm Gateway]] which, when activated, would send everything around it to the Spirit Realm. | |||
However, before he could use it, Frankenstein was abducted by the spirits and forced to build a [[Reverse Spirit Realm Gateway]] to replace the Rift, which the [[Department of Rifts]] had sealed. After a short mishap with the One-Way Gateway where [[Foreman-964]], [[Pythagoras-858]], [[Technophile-963]], [[Igor-1612]] and [[Philatel-426]] were briefly transported to the Spirit Realm before being summoned back by [[Juliet-178]] using the reverse switch of the One-Way Gateway, the Cupids managed to send most of the ghosts back to the Spirit Realm. When they tried to return through the Reverse Gateway, they were transformed into clockwork toys of which [[Madame Tarsa]] took possession. The Great Ghost, meanwhile, was separated from [[Queen of the Black Market|his host body]] and sent to parts unknown. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ghosts and the Machine (short story)|The Ghosts and the Machine]]'') | |||
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