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== Things from the Afterlife ==

=== [[Anime and Manga]] ===

** In the manga, there's a [[Beach Episode]] where the beach is allegedly haunted by soldiers who trained in that area, but committed suicide when they didn't make it to the war zone before the fighting ended. It turns out there's a mundane explanation for the mysterious lights ... but how did those [[Spooky Photographs|indistinct figures in uniform show up in some of the high-schoolers' group photos]]?

* ''[[To Love Ru]]'': The old school building is allegedly haunted, but it's really a bunch of extraterrestrials hiding out. Then [[Cute Ghost Girl|adorable Oshizu-chan, dead for 400 years]], shows up to thank the heroes for calming the situation down.

* In the ''Funky Phantom'' Saturday morning cartoon, at the end of the episode the "ghost" was usually shown to be a fake a la [[Scooby Doo]]. In a couple of episodes one of the guest characters turned out to be a real ghost.

* In one episode of ''[[Growing Up Creepie]]'', a "haunted" theater is revealed to have just had a termite infestation - except for the part where the termites are eventually revealed to actually be ghosts.

** There was an episode where Arnold, Helga, and Gerald heard the story of a train that went off the tracks. The conductor and the actual train supposedly reappearing as a ghost train and conductor on certain nights at the old station, drawing everyone in with a weird light and taking them straight to hell where the conductor would kill them. The kids go check it out and sure enough a train shows up, draws them in with a light, takes them to hell, and the cursed conductor leaves the front... and turns out it was just an average train that passed through a steelworks, and takes the kids back. The episode ends with Arnold's grandma sitting on a fence playing harmonica while the real ghost engine races by on a nearby track, with the ghostly mad conductor laughing.

** The other "ghost story" episodes "Weezing Ed" and "Ghost Bride" had this as the ending, too. In "Weezing Ed", the counterfeiters pretend the island was haunted are captured... and then we hear the laughing/coughing that the dead gangster Weezing Ed was supposed to have. In "Ghost Bride", the kids try to scare each other by pretending to be the Ghost Bride, but after the main group leaves the last hoaxer in the graveyard and goes home, the real ghost shows up and isn't very happy...