History Main / GhostlyAnimals

* Webcomic/{{Housepets}}: Teoxihuitl is a ghost Jaguar, presumably not allowed into Heaven, as opposed to Rufus and Breel who are angels visiting Earth. They come with the telltale signs to distinguish, Teoxihuitl with MonochromaticEyes and translucent blue skin, and Rufus and Breel with a golden aura and halos.

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[[caption-width-right:350: He's there for you even in death. Now THAT'S UndyingLoyalty. ]]

* ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'' :

** In ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'', Basculin (a fish-like pokemon) can evolve into the Water/Ghost type Basculegion. There's also the fox-like [[{{Yurei}} Vengeful Spirits]] of Hisuian Zorua and Zoroark.
** ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'': introduces Greavard and its evolution Houndstone, Ghost-types based on sheepdogs.

* In ''Literature/WorldOfTheFiveGods'', the stories ''The Hallowed Hunt'' and "Pendric and the Shaman" have ghost animals. These spirits of dead animals do not exist independently of the shamans and spirit-warriors who have taken them up, however, except at the very end when the shaman or spirit-warrior dies. At that point the animal spirit needs to be separated from the human ghost, or else both are BarredFromTheAfterlife.

=-->Verence had stared for half a minute and then fled, wishing that he still had a real stomach so that he could stick his fingers down his throat for forty years and bring up everything he'd eaten.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}:

->''Listen young friends, for what I say is true
->You must treat your pet hamster as you would have him treat you
->Or fear that one day you'll hear a ghostly voice exclaim
->"wooo... someone forgot to clean my cage..."
->Ghost Ghost Ghost Ghost Ghost Ghost Hamster''

* LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}}: A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5Xb-DtuZAk short video]] features "Ghost Dog", which is a (supposedly) ghostly version of Mark's dog Chica floating through a graveyard.

* ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'': [[spoiler: It is revealed later on that Sissel, the ghost being followed for the game, was actually a cat. Additionally, it is also revealed that the lamp that interacts with Sissel at the start is the ghost of a Pomeranian dog named Missile]].

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' entry "[[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1111 The White Dog]]". The ghost of a white dog constantly protects the ghost of his master, who was hanged from a tree and constantly suffers the pain of the hanging. The closer the dog is to his master, the more the master appears to suffer, but the proximity of living humans alleviates that suffering.

* English folklore has numerous stories of ghostly hounds, typically haunting graveyards or moorlands.

** "Ghost" was a template in 3.5 edition that normally couldn't be applied to animals since most lacked the charisma score necessary to become a ghost. There were a few exceptions, however, mostly {{Dire Beast}}s and Legendary Animals. There was also a Ghost Brute template added in another book that was specifically there to create ghostly animals and other low-charisma creatures.

* In ''Literature/WyrdSisters'', the new ghost King Verence makes the mistake of visiting the kitchens where he sees the ghosts of all the animals whose meat had ever been prepared and cooked there:

-->One day he'd given in...and had followed the smells of cooking into the big, hot, high domed cavern that served the castle as kitchen and abattoir. Funny thing, that. He'd never been down there since his childhood. Somehow kings and kitchens didn't go well together.

-->It was full of ghosts.

-->But they weren't human. They weren't even proto-human.

-->They were stags. They were bullocks. They were rabbits, and pheasants, and partridges, and sheep, and pigs. There were even some round blobby things that looked unpleasantly like the ghosts of oysters. They were packed so tightly that in fact they merged and mingled, turning the kitchen into a silent, jostling nightmare of teeth and fur and horns, half-seen and misty. Several noticed him, and there was a weird blarting of noises that sounded far-off, tinny and unpleasantly out of register. Through them all the cook and his assistants wandered quite unconcernedly, making vegetarian sausages.

-->Verence had stared for half a minute and then fled, wishing that he still had a real stomach so that he could stick his fingers down his throat for forty years and bring up everything he'd eaten.

* When the vampires of ''Series/{{What We Do In The Shadow|2019}}'' summon their own ghosts and attempt to finish the business left over from their human lives, Nandor's ghost reunites with the ghost of his beloved horse, Jahan (aka "John"). In life, Nandor had been forced to eat Jahan and felt guilty because the horse was actually quite tasty.

* When the vampires of ''Series/{{What We Do In The Shadows}}'' summon their own ghosts and attempt to finish the business left over from their human lives, Nandor's ghost reunites with the ghost of his beloved horse, Jahan (aka "John"). In life, Nandor had been forced to eat Jahan and felt guilty because the horse was actually quite tasty.

See RaisingTheSteaks for the zombified variant. More malicious examples of this may fall in AnimalisticAbomination. A sub-trope to OurGhostsAreDifferent. For other forms of undead non-human life forms, see NonHumanUndead and {{Dracolich}}. For a more mythical take on the concept, see {{Kitsune}} and BakenekoAndNekomata.

* ''Series/{{Ghosts}}'': After its death at the hands of a dog in the episode ''Moonah Ston'', the pigeon who lives in Button House becomes one of these. It has intangibility and is InvisibleToNormals like the human ghosts living there, although it is currently unknown whether it has any special ability like they do.

** In addition to its Alolan form, who is a ghost type, a Marowak (who is based on dinosaurs) appears as a ghost in Lavender Tower in Gen I and its remakes.
** Frillish and Jellicent are Ghost types that resemble jellyfish and have a habit of dragging prey to their doom underwater.
** Decidueye is a Ghost type based on owls. Interestingly, it evolves from the non-Ghost type Rowlet and Dartrix (both of whom are Grass/Flying).
** Sensu Style Oricorio is a Ghost type based on Hawaiian honeycreepers. Oricorio's other three forms are not Ghost types, however.
** Lunala is a [[OlympusMons Legendary]] Ghost type based on bats.
** Spectrier is a Ghost type based on horses.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonInsurgence'': Several Pokemon lines which don't normally fall into this trope become these thanks to the existence of their delta variants:

** The fish-like Feebas and serpentine Milotic becomes pure Ghost type.

** In ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'', Basculin (a fish-like pokemon) can evolve into the Water/Ghost type Basculegion.