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* Subverted on [[Eureka]], when Allison thinks she's seeing a ghost, but really it's a hologram programmed into her logic diamond necklace.
* ''[[Bones]]'' had a full-on TANGIBLE ghost showing up when Booth was trapped on a ship about to explode. Tangible as in, could pick stuff up, could help Booth open doors, Booth physically picked the guy up and carried him... and then the guy disappeared as the helicopter came to rescue him.
* ''[[Being Human (UK)]]'' has Annie. She can interact and pick things up like a living human, but her visibility rides up and down the scale with her confidence. She can also teleport.
** There's also Gilbert. In the episode he's in, it's explained that when a person becomes a ghost they can only pass on to the afterlife once they've solved whatever problem kept them from passing on in the first place (for Gilbert, it was that he never loved anyone which is solved when he falls for Annie. For Annie, {{spoiler|it was her fiancé killing her, which is solved when she drives him mad with a secret}}). Once they are able to move on, a ghost sees a door appear and walks through it. If a ghost is upset enough, they can become a poltergeist and move or break things mentally. Also, all ghosts can't eat or drink, can randomly teleport, and are stuck in whatever clothes they died in ("It's just as well I didn't die in a Star Trek uniform or a giant squirrel costume..."). Ghosts can also hide the living or undead by wrapping them in their clothes, referred to as "swaddling".
** They also apparently date other ghost people and force their friends to babysit their ghost babies (who need to be kept the colder the better and can't be hurt if you drop them) so dead firemen are not scared of by the commitment issues caused by the ghost baby. It's not clear if ghost babies age but they don't seem to until they pass on. They can also be calmed down by telling them ghost stories. And you need to be biologically linked to a ghost baby to teleport it to you, by which logic Annie is biologically linked to a Ummm... a toaster.
** The [[Being Human
* This is played with in ''[[Lost]]'', when Hurley learns of Miles' ability to talk to ghosts. Hurley says that ghosts regularly talk to him and even play chess, but Miles insists that, in his experience, ghosts only represent the last thoughts of dead people and cannot interact with the living.
* Ghosts appear regularly on ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''. Their appearances are heralded by a [[Ghostly Chill]]. They can be repelled with salt and iron. Laying them to rest usually involves destroying their remains with fire, though one was simply persuaded to [[Go Into the Light]].
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* In ''[[The Pentagon War]]'', entering a rogue hyper hole removes you from Real Space and sends you into Parallel Space, where time, matter, and possibly even distance have no meaning. Yet, it's possible for your consciousness to persist, and even perceive light that originates in Real Space. Should this happen, you'll be able to instantly move your vantage point to any location in the universe. It's also possible, under the right circumstances, to {{spoiler|take control of the arm movements of a Centaurian and use them to type out messages}}.
* [[Gaia Online]] had a Halloween event that started when a by-product from the [[Omni Drink]] Corporation's operations was revealed to form a spectral barrier that prevented the spirits inhabiting the graveyard where it was dumped from moving on. Unfortunately, by the time [[The Atoner|OmniDrink's disinherited heir]] managed to fix this, the ghosts had all gone a bit [[Ax Crazy]] from [[And I Must Scream|being trapped in their graves for decades...]]
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