List of ghosts

Africa

Egypt

South Africa

• Obambo

Asia

Middle East

Egypt

Mesopotamia

United Arab Emirates

Europe

White Lady

European folklore

• The Wild Hunt
• The Headless Horseman
• White Lady^[1]

France

Graeco-Roman

Malta

• Black Knight, believed to haunt Fort Manoel
• Blue Lady, believed to haunt Verdala Palace
• Grey Lady, believed to haunt Fort St Angelo

Romania

• Iele, feminine mythical creatures
• Moroi, a type of vampire or ghost
• Muma Pădurii, an ugly and mean old woman living in the forest
• Strigoi, troubled souls of the dead rising from the grave
• Vântoase, female spirits of the wind
• Zmeu, a fantastic creature

Scandinavia

• The Knights of Ålleberg are the ghosts of twelve knights that died in the Battle of Ålleberg in 1389.
• James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell of Dragsholm Castle, Denmark

Slavic folklore

Slovakia

• Countess Báthory allegedly haunts her former castle at Čachtice.

Spain

• Santa Compaña
• The ghost of Catalina Lercaro in the Museum of the History of Tenerife

United Kingdom

• Agnes Sampson, known as Bloody Agnes, believed to haunt Holyrood Palace.
• Drummer of Tedworth
• Bloody Mary^[2][3][4]
• The Brown Lady^[5]
• The Grey Lady, a ghost believed to haunt Glamis Castle.
• Sweet William's Ghost^[6]
• The Cock Lane ghost received massive public attention in 18th-century England.
• Man in Grey of the Theatre Royal
• Nan Tuck's Ghost, believed to haunt Nan Tuck's Lane, one mile from Buxted.
• The ghost nun of Borley Rectory
• The ghost of Anne Boleyn, reportedly seen at the Tower of London

North America

Canada

• Emily Carr allegedly haunts James Bay Inn in Victoria, British Columbia.
• Francis Nicholson Darke allegedly haunts Darke Hall in Regina, Saskatchewan.
• The Dungarvon Whooper is a ghost believed to haunt Blackville, New Brunswick.
• Charles Melville Hays allegedly haunts Château Laurier in Ottawa, Ontario.
• The Headless Nun is a purported ghost believed to haunt French Fort Cove in Nordin, New Brunswick.
• Minnie Hopkins, wife of Edward Nicholas Hopkins, allegedly haunts Hopkins Dining Parlour in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
• Alexander Keith allegedly haunts his brewery in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
• Nils von Schoultz allegedly haunts Fort Henry in Kingston, Ontario.
• Aeneas Shaw's daughter, Sophia allegedly haunts Queenston, Ontario.
• Lady in Red
• White Lady

Caribbean

• Duppy

United States

• Ghosts of the American Civil War
• Joe Bush, a legendary ghost that allegedly haunts the Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge in Sumpter, Oregon. He is said to leave wet, bare footprints on the decks of the dredge, cause lights to flicker, and doors to open and close.
• The Blue Lady is the legendary ghost of a woman allegedly seen in and around the Moss Beach Distillery Cafe in Moss Beach, California.
• Ghost of Queen Esther, the ghost of a Iroquois woman who allegedly mourns the massacre of her village in Pennsylvania.
• President Abraham Lincoln's ghost has been reported in the White House numerous times, many of those by prominent people such as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill.
• Kate Morgan, a ghost which is said to haunt the Hotel del Coronado in Coronado, California.
• Minnie Quay, a legendary ghost of Michigan.
• Old Book is the name given to a ghost or spirit which allegedly haunts a cemetery at Peoria State Hospital in Bartonville, Illinois.
• The Red Lady of Huntingdon College is a ghost believed to haunt the former Pratt Hall dormitory at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama.
• The Ridgeway Ghost of Wisconsin Folklore, is believed to terrorize people along a 25-mile stretch of old mining road.
• Slag Pile Annie, a ghost said to appear as an elderly woman working in a remote and hard-to-access location in the former Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation mill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• Greenbrier Ghost, the alleged ghost of a young woman in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. In a court trial, the woman's mother claimed that her daughter's ghost told her she had been murdered.
• Emily, the ghost of a high school age girl who supposedly haunts a covered bridge in Stowe, Vermont. The bridge is dubbed "Emily's Bridge" and she is said to be seen only at midnight.
• The Bell Witch was a poltergeist said to haunt the family of John Bell near the town of Adams, Tennessee starting in 1817. The spirit was said to have been witnessed by Andrew Jackson although this is highly unlikely and has manifested itself as various animals and a disembodied voice mocking John and citing scripture from the Bible. It was also said to have tormented the family violently but seemed to have a fondness for daughter Betsy as she grew older until she fell in love with a man the witch despised. Eventually the ghost was blamed for John Bell's death after it was said it left a poison disguised as medicine. The Bell Witch partly inspired The Blair Witch Project and the events of her story were depicted in the film An American Haunting.
• The Wizard Clip was a ghost said to have clipped articles of clothing and visitor's hair at a home in Middleway, WV after a Catholic traveler died there in 1794 without receiving Last rites or other Catholic Sacrament. According to the story, the ghost was exorcised when Catholic priests performed a Mass at the house, and the grateful homeowner deeded about 35 acres of his land to the Catholic Church.
• The ghost of Resurrection Mary allegedly haunts roads and buildings around Resurrection Cemetery near Justice, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.
• Lady in Red
• White Lady

Other urban legends

• Vanishing hitchhiker
• Deogen, or "De Ogen" or "The Eyes", is a ghost believed to haunt the Sonian Forest in Belgium. It is often seen as figure in the form of fog followed by smaller shadow figures.

Mexico

South America

• La Llorona, a ghost of Latin American folklore who is said to have murdered her children.
• Sihuanaba, a shapeshifting spirit of Central America who lures men into danger before revealing her face to be that of a horse or a skull.
• Sayona, a Venezuelan vengeful spirit who appears to unfaithful husbands.

Oceania

Australia

• Frederick Baker ("Frederick Federici") of Princess Theatre, Melbourne
• Monte Cristo Homestead of Junee, New South Wales; allegedly Australia's most haunted house.^[7]

New Zealand

Polynesia