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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E24LegsFromHereToHomeworld "Legs From Here to Homeworld"]], [[spoiler:White Diamond's Pearl glides about everywhere on the tips of her toes. In fact, the only part of her body that moves individually is her mouth. The whole effect makes her rather eerie.]]

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* ''Film/TheBluesBrothers''. At the end of the scene with the "Penguin" (Sister Mary Stigmata) and Jake and Elwood Blues, she moves back through an open door into a room as if she were floating on air. Along with the other magical effects she demonstrates earlier in the scene, it manages to be one of the more memorably instances of NunsAreSpooky.
* ''Film/DeathBecomesHer'': [[NunsAreSpooky Creepy nuns]] float down the hallway leading to the morgue, past Bruce Willis's character.
* In ''Film/DraculaDeadAndLovingIt'', Dracula's wives do this. Both lampshaded and subverted when he tells them to knock it off, and the women stomp off instead.

* In ''Film/HouseOnHauntedHill1959'', the ghostly figure in the cellar [[spoiler:later revealed to be one of the caretakers]] that terrified Nora moves by gliding rather than walking.
* ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': When first seen on the planet Vormir, [[spoiler:the Red Skull]] is clad in a BlackCloak and floating above the ground, giving him a very specter-like appearance.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': The Gentlemen in the episode "Hush" hover inches off the ground rather than walking, adding to their creepiness.

* ''Series/BabylonFive'': [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens Kosh (and other Vorlons]] in contact with younger races) wore an "encounter suit" to conceal his true form, and moved in a silent, gliding motion. He ''could'' have moved pretty much any way he wanted to in his true form (even through bulkheads), but chose to present himself in this way. He could seem to suddenly appear to a character due to this silent movement -- not necessarily to scare but to make a dramatic impression.
* The Janitor from ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' dresses up with a white sheet and roller skates around the pediatric ward to scare the kids. He does this to discourage the kids from making messes that he would have to clean up. He specifically states that he added the roller blades to make the ghost more "glide-y."
* Happens to [[OurBansheesAreLouder Lydia]] in the ''Series/TeenWolf'' episode "The Girl Who Knew Too Much" during one of her psychic fugue states.

* [[Wrestling/{{Goldust}} Dustin Rhodes]] floated to the ring via invisible wires in his one and only appearance as "Seven" in Wrestling/{{WCW}}, after which he cut a WorkedShoot promo berating {{the gimmick}}. A rare "visible feet" occurrence of the trope in a live-action setting.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': Edition 3.5 has the Elocator [[PsychicPowers psionic]] PrestigeClass. The first power gained is "Scorn Earth", the ability to float and move a foot above the ground. Used mostly for practical purposes rather than creepiness, though, but a creative player will sure find a way.

* The Happy Mask Salesman from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' never walks anywhere. He usually "cuts" from frame-to-frame to different locations, though at one point he turns around to face the camera by slowly rotating on the spot....

* The Wraith in ''VideoGame/{{Evolve}}'' combines this with EvilSlinks to slither through the air just above the ground. Fittingly, its also the most likely of the monsters to induce paranoia through its ambush tactics and illusions.
* The [[OurLichesAreDifferent Dragon Priests]] in ''VideoGame/{{Skyrim}}'' float just above the ground instead of walking.
* ''[[VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy In H.A.R.M.'s Way]]'' has Pierre, the towering Mime King who wears a trailing coat and moves with a ghostly glide. The game eventually reveals how when his coat is pulled off: He is in fact a dwarf on a unicycle.
* ''VideoGame/HauntingStarringPolterguy'': This is poltergeist Polterguy's default method of moving forward.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': The sinister cadre known as The Silent Partners are shown not only gliding smoothly from place to place, but also have the habit of entering or leaving a room by levitating out of/ in to the floor.
* Done during a ImagineSpot in ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' when the librarian tells the kids that the "Scare Your Pants Off" books (a expy of the then popular ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' series) has been taken off the shelves. The kids understandably freak out and we cut to the librarian shushing them then the camera pulls back to reveal she has no legs and glides back into the library.

-->''"They have the skirts too of course, so many skirts and veils that you could never hear or see their feet. 'Hover Nuns' we used to call them. [...] They're damn spooky."''

* ''Film/TheBluesBrothers''. At the end of the scene with the "Penguin" (Sister Mary Stigmata) and Jake and Elwood Blues, she moves back through an open door into a room as if she were floating on air. Along with the other magical effects she demonstrates earlier in the scene, it manages to be one of the more memorably instances of NunsAreCreepy.

* ''Film/TheBluesBrothers''. At the end of the scene with the "Penguin" (Sister Mary Stigmata) and Jake and Elwood Blues, she moves back through an open door into a room as if she were floating on air. Along with the other magical effects she demonstrates earlier in the scene, this is the crowning moment of creepiness.

->''"Am I going crazy, or are her feet not touchin' the ground?"''

* ''Anime/{{Ulysses 31}}'': The dead denizens of Hades' kingdom are floating above the ground. For added creepy, they also always move backward, their back facing the mortals they're chasing.

* ''Film/TheBluesBrothers''. At the end of the scene with the "Penguin" (Sister Mary Stigmata) and Jake and Elwood Blues, she moved back through an open door into a room as if she were floating on air. Along with the other magical effects she demonstrated earlier in the scene, this was the crowning moment of creepiness.
* ''Film/DeathBecomesHer'': [[NunsAreSpooky Creepy nuns]] float down the hallway leading to the morgue, past Bruce Willis' character.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'': Necron Monoliths, like most other Necron vehicles, hover as a means of movement. Unlike most other vehicles, however, the Monolith's slow, ponderous approach is infinitely more eerie and menacing.
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': Edition 3.5 has the Elocator [[PsychicPowers psionic]] PrestigeClass. The first power gained is "scorn earth", the ability to float and move a foot above the ground. Used mostly for practical purposes rather than creepiness, though, but a creative player will sure find a way.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''

* Raven in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' glides around everywhere, her legs usually hidden by her flowing cloak. ([[RuleOfFunny This doesn't prevent her from]] [[BananaPeel slipping on a banana peel, though]]). Here it's more for comedic purposes than creepiness, as an exaggeration of her flying powers in the [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans original series]]. Heck, when she lands in one episode they have to teach her how to walk because she forgot, she then become Lady Legasus! to honestly just show that She'sGotLegs

* Wrestling/DustinRhoades floated to the ring via invisible wires in his one and only appearance as "Seven" in Wrestling/{{WCW}}, after which he cut a WorkedShoot promo berating the gimmick. A rare "visible feet" occurrence of the trope in a live-action setting.

* ''[[VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy In H.A.R.M.'s Way]]'' has Pierre, the towering Mime King who wears a trailing cloak and moves with a ghostly glide. The game eventually reveals how when his cloak is pulled off: He is in fact a dwarf on a unicycle.

* Raven in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' glides around everywhere, her legs usually hidden by her flowing cloak. ([[RuleOfFunny This doesn't prevent her from]] [[BananaPeel slipping on a banana peel, though]]). Here it's more for comedic purposes than creepiness, as an exaggeration of her flying powers in the [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans original series]].

* The ghost girl in Lumiose City of ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' doesn't have a walking animation when she moves. The effect is very creepy.

* MenInBlackII: The tall, conical alien Jarra moves like this, though more for extraterrestrial reasons.

* MenInBlackII: The tall, conical alien Jarra moves like this, though assumedly more for extraterrestrial reasons.

[[caption-width-right:328:You'll never hear them coming]]

* ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'': Count Orlock rises slowly and mystically from his coffin without any visible means of doing so.

* The Janitor from ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' dresses up with a white sheet and roller skates around the pediatric ward to scare the kids. He does this to discourage the kids from making messes that he would have to clean up.

[[caption-width-right:328:[{You'll never hear them coming]]

[[caption-width-right:328:[-[[You'll never hear them coming]].-] ]]

[[caption-width-right:328:[-[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Example to run away from really fast]].-] ]]

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': Edition 3.5 has the Elocator [[PsychicPowers psionic]] PrestigeClass. The first power gained is "scorn earth", the ability to float and move a foot above the ground. Used for practical purposes rather than creepiness, though.

-->''"They have the skirts too of course, so many skirts and veils that you could never hear or see their feet. "Hover Nuns" we used to call them. [...] They're damn spooky."''

* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}: Copy Rezo begins exhibiting eerie symptoms, including this trope. Later melds with PowerFloats when its revealed he merged himself with Zanaffar's spirit.

* Happened to [[OurBansheesAreLouder Lydia]] in the ''Series/TeenWolf'' episode "The Girl Who Knew Too Much" during one of her psychic fugue states.