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* [[Scary Movie]] parodied the line as used in ''The Sixth Sense''. Shortie says "[[I See Dead People]]" to his buddies. They all laugh and agree with each other that they scored some ''really'' good weed.

* Harry Keogh, the titular ''[[Necroscope]]'', is the most powerful medium ever to live: his mere presence wakes the souls of the dead from their previously eternal sleep and allows them to communicate not merely with him but with each other, enabling a worldwide post-life society. Don't threaten him -- thehim—the dead won't appreciate it, and they ''far'' outnumber the living.

* Chloe of the ''Darkest Powers'' series is a necromancer, and quite thoroughly [[Blessed with Suck]]. She can certainly [[Captain Obvious|see ghosts]], and they can see her... but there is ''nothing'' to alert her to the fact that they're ghosts. Absolutely nothing. She couldn't tell a ghost apart from a human if they were standing right next to each other, unless they walk through something, are dressed in period clothing, vanish, or actually tell her that they're dead. Or, alternatively, if she starts talking to them and people around her stare at her like she's crazy -- whichcrazy—which is exactly the reason that she ended up in a group home for troubled kids and was diagnosed as having schizophrenia. Even more unfortunately? Ghosts can tell that ''she's'' a necromancer, because, to them, she has a glow around her -- andher—and hers is so strong that she's the equivalent of a bonfire in the middle of a pitch-dark prairie. Her very presence in a graveyard {{spoiler|is enough to bring dozens of ghosts ''out of the afterlife'', all of them demanding things of her}}.

** As another [[Sarcasm Mode|wonderful perk of her powers]], Chloe can raise and control the dead. However, [[Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke|being as powerful as she is]] and depending on what she's dreaming about, she can accidentally raise the dead ''in her sleep''. And it's not just reanimating a corpse. Raising the dead involves [[Fate Worse Than Death|shoving a soul back into its rotting corpse]]. Hence why she [[Properly Paranoid|tends to be paranoid about falling asleep in an unknown area]], lest there be a corpse around and she raises it without realizing, and then it's ''[[Fate Worse Than Death|trapped]]'' that way. Even worse, if she even just concentrates too much on trying to summon a ghost -- notghost—not to raise a corpse, just to talk to a ghost -- theghost—the slight increase in her power output is strong enough to raise the dead anyway... or even {{spoiler|''tear open the earth'' in order to reach the corpses within, who have just had their ''souls'' shoved back inside of them}}.

* In ''[[Being Human (UK)]]'', normal people can only see [[Cute Ghost Girl]] Annie sometimes (the rules aren't clear, but it seems to have something to do with her emotional state, especially her self-confidence). Fellow supernatural entities--werewolvesentities—werewolves, vampires, other ghosts--canghosts—can always see ghosts.

* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''. [[Magical Native American|Chakotay]] uses the "vision quest" to communicate with his dead father. Neelix uses the same technique after his [[Back From the Dead]] experience -- itexperience—it doesn't end well.