History Main / BedsheetGhost

* The Creator/MontagueRhodesJames short story "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" has... well, ''something'' that manifests itself in the sheets of the unused bed in the narrator's hotel room. It's implied that the thing has next to no physical form of its own.
** The [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063381/ TV adaptation]] plays it straight ''and'' makes it work.
*** There's something darkly comical about it all. The narrator, Parkins, is a po-faced academic who has very definite views on ghosts (namely, that they don't exist), so it's deliciously ironic that the thing that terrorizes him chooses to manifest itself in a bedsheet. Not that it makes the story any less terrifying.

* Gus the Ghost in the Thayer ''Gus'' series is a basic bedsheet ghost. Most people barely notice him, nor get scared if they do.

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "The Silent Land", a prankster dresses up as a bedsheet ghost in order to disrupt a ghost walk. However, the killer takes advantage of the distraction to murder the second VictimOfTheWeek.

* In the ''Ponysitters Club'' episode "Spooky Story", Billy takes Skye and Olivia camping in a pumpkin patch that is rumored to be haunted. Billy's sister Courtney sneaks up to the tent, makes some eerie wailing noises, then pops into the tent wearing a gauzy white cloth over her head. Billy and the kids are startled for a second, then they burst out laughing.

* In the early 1960s several people in and around the town of Kinderhook, New York reported seeing a floating white sheet-like entity that hovered in the air. One person who claimed to have seen it likened it to the Virgin Mary, or at least her floating robes. While none of the witnesses outright stated that it was a ghost, the descriptions bear an uncanny resemblance to this trope.

* In the early 1960s several people in and around the town of Kinderhook, New York reported seeing a floating white sheet-like entity that hovered in the air. One person who claimed to have seen it likened it to the Virgin Mary. While none of the witnesses outright stated that it was a ghost, the descriptions bear an uncanny resemblance to this trope.

* Subverted in ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 2016}}'', when the characters order the main villainous ghost to appear as something "small and friendly". He turns into a cute copy of the Bedsheet Ghost from the franchise's logo... and then swells up into a {{Kaiju}} and starts smashing the city.

** The [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils demon lord]] Pale Night ''looks'' like this trope, being a seductive female figure wrapped in a white veil blowing on a spectral wind that occasionally shifts enough to ''almost'' reveal what's underneath it. But though she is incorporeal, she's an eons-old obyrith, not an undead, and the sheet is suspected to be a sort of cosmic censor to protect existence [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm from the horror of her true form]]. One of her special abilities is to briefly reveal the truth beyond that veil, which is a [[BrownNote "save or die" attack]].

* The UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis version of ''VideoGame/{{Ghostbusters 1990}}'' uses this in the form of white ''tablecloth'' ghosts. As in: the tablecloth floats off the table, comes toward you, and "ties you up" if you don't eliminate it.

* Creator/{{Konami}}'s UsefulNotes/{{MSX}} game ''VideoGame/{{Pippols}}'' has bedsheet-looking ghosts among the enemies. They can freely move through walls.

* In ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'', Strong Mad once dressed up as this for Halloween.