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Aside from an english transfer student who was hit by a truck minutes after they met, Odd is the only one in the series who can see the ghosts and bodachs. It's possible that, as an effect of the Midnight Train project in the Christopher Snow mysteries (alluded to being in the same 'verse as this and Watchers), Odd is temporally unstable. He can know details of the past, such as what a person looked like the last time they were alive, and when something really really bad is going to happen. The ghosts are merely a response to his inability to comprehend more than the present at any given time. It may even have allowed him a response to something particularly traumatic in his past: His mothers suicide and attempted murder of him. Successful suicide. She never talks to anyone else, or really leaves her house, and others either don't want to ruin what appears to be a healthy (if hallucinatory) relationship, or nobody's noticed that he thinks she's still alive, and he never listens when they refer to "the late Mrs. Thomas." {{spoiler|Hey, it's happened before... "Stormy" even "talked" with him post-mortem, and he admitted that her voice was all in his head. Who's to say he wouldn't prefer his mother right here for the rest of eternity, or at least not in Hell, with Stormy waiting for him in their next life?)}} Elvis, {{spoiler|Boo,}} and {{spoiler|Frank Sinatra}} are there just to help him cope. That's why Elvis {{spoiler|And Sinatra}} can change age and clothing, and {{spoiler|why Boo is even still around, considering he's seen no other ghost animals}}). The english kid was just messing with him or had some sort of sympathetic ESP (or both), and the Reaper was {{spoiler|actually a physical aspect of Brother John, as a result of the Quantum Thingummy. Not a hallucination at all.}} Oh, and Annamaria is a time cop (''not,'' in this guess, a [[WMG/Grand Unifying Theories|Time]] [[Doctor Who (TV)|Lord]]), protecting Odd from the sentient and malevolent coyotes that usually exist a few microseconds in the past and/or future.