History Main / ISeeDeadPeople

** ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'': The Consular and Inquisitor both have encounters with ancient Force Ghosts. With the Consular, they are brief conversations with important figures in history. The Inquisitor is drawing much of their power by having several ghosts bound to them. The Knight also encounters the spirit of their fallen Master in one of the expansions.

* The Sorrow in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'' and ''Webcomic/TheCobraDays''.

* Aradia Megido from ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'' has a rather narrow version; she can only hear the dead and she can't control when they decide to talk to her. One of her friends, Sollux Captor, has a related ability in that he can hear the thoughts of those who are ''near'' death.

* Psychics in ''Webcomic/AGirlAndHerFed'', like Hope, can see ghosts naturally. Turns out that through the use of their implant, OACET Agents can see them too, if they know what to look for.
* The titular ''Webcomic/{{Distillum}}'' see and hear ghosts that are part of the anomalies. BadassNormal in-training, Jamie, is the only one of the main cast who doesn't, and it freaks him out a bit.

* In ''Webcomic/BeneathTheClouds'', Buddhist monk Genza and his assistant Masako can see ghosts, but only during their exorcism rituals. However the ghosts can possess Masako for a limited time, giving them the ability to interact with others.
* ''Webcomic/GuildedAge'': Gravedust does.
* In ''Webcomic/UndeadFriend'' people who have joined the Undead Friend game have the ability to see and hear ghosts. They can also physical interact with their designated ghost partner.
* Dylan from ''Webcomic/RainingKnives'' is able to see two ghosts: the brother he [[SiblingMurder murdered]] and an unknown man.

* Lalita Necron from ''Literature/{{Phaeton}}'' can see and hear dead people, this extends to being able to recognise vampires and other corporeal undead by seeing the exposed part of them (fangs, scars, that spot where [[AndShowItToYou their heart was violently ripped out and shown to them]] before they died) glowing bright orange.

* This is the basis for the TV shows ''Series/GhostWhisperer'' and ''Series/{{Medium}}''.
** However, in ''Series/{{Medium}}'', the main character has more general psychic abilities, most prominently that she has visions of crimes. Seeing ghosts is mostly shown to be an irritating side effect of her abilities. In ''Series/GhostWhisperer'', on the other hand, this power is the protagonist's entire raison d'etre.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E13SubRosa Sub Rosa]]", Dr. Crusher meets up with a ghost known only to the women in her family, except that it turns out that [[spoiler:it's really a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien who must possess women with a specific gene to survive]].
* The title character on ''Series/TheFamousJettJackson'', demonstrates this ability on two different occasions, despite this not being a supernaturally-themed show.
* Miles on ''Series/{{Lost}}'' has the ability to sense dead bodies and draw "impressions" from them. He apparently managed to use this to find the bodies of [[spoiler:Karl]] and [[spoiler:The French woman]]. "Some Like It Hoth" goes into detail about his ability: he just receives "impressions" from their last thoughts and he can't communicate with someone who was cremated. There needs to be an intact body-though he wasn't near a body when he first used it.
** Ever since [[spoiler:leaving the island]], Hurley has begun to see dead friends and have conversations with them. What's more, other people can sometimes ''see'' the dead people when they come to Hurley. [[spoiler:The guy at the asylum saw Charlie, but for some reason Sayid couldn't see Eko...]] In season 6, [[spoiler:Jacob]] abuses this so he can continue to give Hurley guidance and carry out his plans despite being dead.
** In one instance, leads to a funny scene in which the two of them argue about whose dead-people power is better.

* Stark from ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. Helping tormented souls, alive or not, seems to be his day job.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': [[MagicalNativeAmerican Chakotay]] uses the "vision quest" to communicate with his dead father. Neelix uses the same technique after his BackFromTheDead experience -- it doesn't end well.
* The Reapers from ''Series/DeadLikeMe'', as it would render the entire premise unworkable if they couldn't. In a slight variation, they only see ghosts once that person's soul has been let out of its body, and the ghost looks as its body did when it left- resulting in some rather nasty disfigurement if the Reapers don't get to it before death.
* In ''Series/ColdCase'', at the end of the episodes when the cases have been solved, the officers and/or the victim(s)'s closest loved ones see the ghost(s) of said victim(s). Fairly often, the ghost is smiling, letting those watching them know they are now at peace. In one episode involving a very old case, the loved ones have all passed away as well, so it's Sam who sees the ghost.

* In ''Series/{{Misfits}}'', this is said exactly word-for-word by [[spoiler:Nathan.]]
* Grandpa Jerry from ''Series/TeenAngel'' can see angels (some of which are dead people) because of a near-death experience.

* Haley Joel Osment's [[Creator/EmilyOsment own sister]] reportedly debated with the producers of ''Series/HannahMontana'' '''not''' to use the line in an episode. [[ActorAllusion Evidently, the producers]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzKVGs9DyZc got their way]].
* Dr. Michael Holt, the main character of ''Series/AGiftedMan'', can see the ghost of his dead ex-wife, but it's not clear if he can see others.

* In ''Series/TheSchoolNurseFiles'', Ahn Eun-young can see dead people, including her friend who died in an accident.
* In ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' [[spoiler: Jeremy]] gains the ability to see at least some dead people after being resurrected. [[spoiler: Specifically, the ghosts of his dead vampire girlfriends Anna and Vicki]]. Later [[spoiler: Matt dies and is resuscitated, and starts to see his sister Vicki. And then the ghost (presumably) of Mason shows up and smacks Damon for killing him.]]
* ''Series/TheXFiles'': Seeing ghosts is the X-file of the episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS04E22Elegy Elegy]]". People report seeing wounded women who seemed silently asking for help in strange places where they had actually never appeared when alive. They always brought the ominous message "s/he is me". It turns out the apparitions happened very close to the moment of their death and only people who were close to death themselves could see them.

* A witness in episode 5 of Series/AlmostHuman seems able to speak with the dead.
* ''Series/{{MASH}}'' featured an episode in which Klinger--out of sorts with a high fever--is the only person who can communicate with the spirit of a dead soldier.

* The band in ''Series/{{Dead Last}}'' [[BlessedWithSuck gains the power]] to see the dead in the Pilot, forming the basis for the series.
* Tyler Labine later stars in ''Series/{{Deadbeat}}'' where his character also has this power.
* ''Series/ThePath'': Eddie sees his dead brother during a spiritual ritual, though it's ambiguous at first if he's just hallucinating due to a mind-altering drug. The vision of his brother then leads him to information on the internet questioning his religion, Meyerism. It sparks the beginning of his doubts.
* ''Series/HandOfGod'': Pernell begins to see his [[spoiler: dead son PJ]], though it's somewhat teased as just being hallucinations.
* Parodied in the ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' episode ''The Gang Beats Boggs,'' when Charlie and Dee both see the ghosts of the people they're trying to emulate: baseball great Wade Boggs, and [[Series/TheDukesOfHazzard Boss Hogg.]] Boggs [[AsHimself plays himself,]] telling Charlie that he [[EskimosArentReal isn't actually dead,]] he's just [[PinkElephants so drunk he's hallucinating.]] Hogg encourages Dee to continue pursuing her goals -- namely, drinking 71 beers in a cross-country flight; she's just too drunk to know or care that she got his name mixed up.
* The set-up for the sitcom ''Series/GhostsUK'' (and its American remake) has the titular ghosts engineer an "accident" to scare the new owners of the HauntedHouse, away - which instead results in one of them becoming able to see and hear the ghosts. Also, children can often see ghosts. It's where imaginary friends come from.
* ''Series/{{Raines}}'': Subverted. Raines will meet every VictimOfTheWeek after they died and would even sometimes help him, but he knows full well that they're figments of his imagination, not actual ghosts.
* ''Series/OctoberFaction'': Geoff's individual power is being able to see ghosts.

* ''TabletopGame/GeistTheSinEaters'': Sin-Eaters get their {{powers|ViaPossession}} by dying and coming back possessed by a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent Geist]]. They automatically perceive ghosts, [[TranslatorMicrobes ignore any language barrier]] when speaking with them, and can exert themselves to [[TouchTheIntangible interact physically]] with the ghostly realm of Twilight.

* In ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming'', the sluagh likewise have an innate ability to see and interact with the dead.

* Projectors in ''TabletopGame/{{Orpheus}}'' have the ability to see ghosts, even if they're not projecting themselves out of their bodies at the time.
* The imbued of ''TabletopGame/HunterTheReckoning'' have this as part of their various powers enabling them to see and identify the supernatural.

* The Sorrow in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'' and ''Webcomic/TheCobraDays''.
** In the fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Stray|Dahne}}'', the Sorrow's son Ocelot has this ability as well.
*** Not entirely un-canon. Although Ocelot may not ''see'' ghosts, per say, it's implied that [[spoiler: Liquid's possession of him was due in part to inheriting the Sorrow's power]]. More a case of "talking to and getting taken over by" Dead People.
* ''VideoGame/Onmyoji2016'': Not only can Seimei "see" (視る ''miru'', with the radical on the left) spirits and other creatures living in the ''inkai'', he can also make ''other people'' in the vicinity see them.
* In at least the book of the game ''VideoGame/FatalFrameI'', Miku and her brother Mafuyu are sensitive to spirits and received warnings from their relatives not to act on these spiritual intuitions.
** This is true in the game too. Miku "sees things that other people don't", as does Mafuyu, and it's the reason they're so close; Mafuyu's the only one she can talk to about the visions she sees.
** This extends far beyond Miku and Mafuyu. People with a strong enough sixth sense can "see things that other people don't", and said sixth sense doesn't require inheriting it via birth to someone with it: Those who had gone through a traumatic event in life that claimed the lives of their loved ones can develop it as well, as Yuuri and [[BigBad Ouse]] in the fifth game can attest (Yuuri lost her family in a car accident, whereas Ouse lost hers -- and everyone else in her native village -- in a flood, when she was alive; both developed a strong sixth sense as a result).

* Marona from ''VideoGame/PhantomBrave'', which causes her great amounts of grief from [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer almost everyone.]]
* Dawn Star from ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire''. Considering the dead do not rest easily across the Empire, [[spoiler: because the Water Dragon, keeper of the gates to the Underworld, has been imprisoned and all but one of her worshipers slaughtered,]] it is a massive case of BlessedWithSuck for her.
* In ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'', the infamous "pigeon dating sim", the heroine sees dead birds. [[spoiler: LoveInterest Fujishiro Nageki, the mourning dove freshman who can only be found in the library, is a suicide victim with GhostAmnesia. Being befriended and romanced by the heroine fulfills his GhostlyGoals, and [[BittersweetEnding he has to leave for the afterlife once he remembers himself]].]]
** Ghosts can also be seen by the unhinged Higure Anghel, a FallenAngel / [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane mental case]]. In the manga and ''Holiday Star'' anyone with a pure heart can see them.
* In the endgame of the second ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'', a NPC who can somehow see the ghosts of V3 bosses you've beaten appears in [=ACDC=] Town.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has a few different levels. Most ghosts are visible to anyone, usually if they're trying to eat you. But some ghosts are invisible to players until you undergo some task or drink some potion to reveal them: the Ancient Orc spirits of Nagrand, or [[http://www.wowhead.com/quest=10227 the ghosts of Auchenai,]] fall into this third category. Ramdor the Mad is the only one who can see them... until you read from the Book of the Dead, after which you can see them too.
** While we're on the topic of ''Warcraft'': a cheat in ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'' is named directly after this trope ("iseedeadpeople"), but the result is not what you'd expect from the name - it only removes the 'Fog of War' from the map.
* The ghost from ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'' claims to see dead people. [[ComedicSociopathy But not before firing off a few rifle rounds after seeing live people]].
* In ''VideoGame/TheLostCrown'', Nigel encounters [[spoiler: the Karswells]] without realizing they're ghosts until afterwards, and later deduces that [[spoiler: Nancy and Timmy]] are as well. In the latter case, Mr. Russett could sense their presence, but couldn't see them like Nigel could. It's obliquely implied that [[spoiler: the Vicar]] is a ghost as well, but Nigel apparently doesn't catch on to that one.

* In ''VideoGame/AmberJourneysBeyond'', Roxy set up a number of CCTV cameras and electromagnetic sensors that can do this to a degree, detecting sound signals and videos of manifestations around the HauntedHouse. The titular AMBER device, however, takes it a step further by allowing you to ''see into the memories'' of ghosts.

* The title character in the Dana Knightstone games can see the ghosts of people who died with unresolved issues, which is a great professional help considering she writes historical novels.

* Joshua of ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' is mentioned to have been able to see the workings of the Reapers' Game before he was a part of it, which comes off like this [[spoiler: and, in fact, ''is'' this, because everyone playing the game is dead and trying to come back to life]]. Although it's possible that [[spoiler:Hanekoma was lying about this]], several background [=NPCs=] have scan quotes that imply a similar situation. The trope namer is even quoted:
-->'''Mr H:''' See, he's a little special...\\
'''Neku:''' "Special"?\\
'''Mr H:''' Yeah. He sees things.\\
'''Neku:''' Things? Like what? "I see dead people" kind of sees things?

* In ''VideoGame/TheDarksideDetective'', one chapter features a boy who can see and hear ghosts. The protagonist temporarily acquires the ability as well (and it becomes a running gag that he has to keep stopping to explain what's going on to his sidekick, who has no idea why he's suddenly holding conversations with thin air).
* The plot of ''VisualNovel/KindredSpiritsOnTheRoof'' is kicked off when Sachi and Megumi, two ghosts haunting a Japanese high school, realize that Yuna, a student at the school, can see and hear them, so they recruit her help in [[TheMatchmaker getting yuri couples together]]. It is never explained why Yuna can see or hear the ghosts, but she is apparently the only one who can do so [[spoiler:until it is revealed late in the game that Yuna's friend Ano can see the ghosts as colored outlines, and is aware that Yuna is conversing them, but cannot hear them herself. Shortly before the ghosts pass on, Yuna's ChildhoodFriend Hina also becomes able to see and hear them.]]
* ''VideoGame/GooseGooseDuck'': The initial version of the Medium Goose was able to activate their ability and see the ghosts of any and all dead players. Because this prompted the dead players to float around live players in an attempt to out their killer, later versions of the game changed this so instead of seeing the ghosts directly, the Medium could check how many ghosts there were.

* ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII'': {{Justified|Trope}} with [[MultipleChoiceChosen Godwoken]] like the player character. Their unique magic wields a form of SoulPower called Source, and the spirits of the dead are [[MadeOfMagic made of the stuff]], allowing them to perceive, speak with, [[GhostMemory share memories with]], and [[SoulEating even consume]] ghosts.
* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' video games continue the tradition
** VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic has an incident where your character goes to Korriban and meets one of the ghosts of the original Sith Lords that defected from the Jedi and was banished to Korriban. Your Jedi party members (and Carth, strangely [[note]]Which does ''not'' help the speculation into his possible [[ObliviouslySuperpowered Force Sensitivity]][[/note]]) are clearly able to see and understand the regretful spirit.
** VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic: The Consular and Inquisitor both have encounters with ancient Force Ghosts. With the Consular, they are brief conversations with important figures in history. The Inquisitor is drawing much of their power by having several ghosts bound to them. The Knight also encounters the spirit of their fallen Master in one of the expansions.

* This is Izuku's Quirk in ''Fanfic/YesterdayUponTheStair''.

* ''Literature/DeadSilence'' has Claire, who sees what she thinks are hallucinations of the dead-- or so she assumes.
* Every magically aware person or entity in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', even the ones that aren't human but still look the part.
** Well, kind of. When Dresden's in the graveyard in ''Grave Peril'', he is uncomfortably aware of the fact that there are hundreds of spirits around him, but he's never shown any proficiency at sensing or dealing with spirits. Mortimer Lindquist, on the other hand, is highly skilled at sensing, seeing, and communicating with all sorts of shades, specters, and ghosts.
** Mortimer names this trope live on telly, being, like Dresden, a PopCulturedBadass (the badass part comes 8 books later, but still).
* Ida, eponymous ''Literature/ShamanOfTheUndead'', is one of the few people who can see ghosts. As her job is to lead the dead to the afterlife, this is something of a {{Required Secondary Power|s}}. She can also sometimes see the moment they died, and has odd creepy life-like visions where BlackMagic was used.

* In Creator/JodiPicoult's book ''Literature/LeavingTime'', Serenity, to the point that she doesn't even realize they're ghosts and believes she no longer has her psychic powers. At the end, a little boy also admits to seeing the people who used to live in his house, and Serenity tells him that they won't hurt him, but they are real.
* Unusually, ''Literature/BridgeOfBirds'' has this as a learned skill. Master Li has it among his many skills, and teaches it to Number Ten Ox.
* One of the defining abilities of witches in ''Literature/LivesOfTheMayfairWitches'' and ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles''.
* Lisa Hardman of ''Literature/TheShapeshifter'' book series has to spend a couple of hours a day writing out 'spirit communication slips' for dead people's relatives.
* In the children's book series, ''Golden & Grey'', Tom Golden can see and speak to ghosts (oddly enough, it turns out that ghosts aren't actually dead people).
* Bod Owens, the boy raised by ghosts in ''Literature/TheGraveyardBook'' by Neil Gaiman, can see ghosts because he has the "favor of the graveyard," given him when he was adopted.

* [[Literature/JohnnyMaxwellTrilogy Johnny Maxwell]], in ''Johnny And The Dead'', is the first (and for a long time the only) person who can see the Dead. He doesn't know why; it's just [[WeirdnessMagnet the sort of thing that happens to him]].
* Kalinda, Si Cwan's younger sister, in the ''Literature/StarTrekNewFrontier'' series. She's used her necromantic abilities to help solve a murder, and was actually [[spoiler:possessed by her deceased brother when his newborn son was in danger.]]
* In ''Literature/BonesOfFaerie'' [[spoiler:Liza]] has the ability to talk to the dead and can call back the recently deceased.
* In ''Literature/OddThomas'' by Creator/DeanKoontz, Odd can see and feel the spirits of the dead. However, he can't hear them. "The dead don't talk. I don't know why." They can find ways to communicate with him in other ways, which sometimes proves useful in resolving whatever problem keeps them here. He even quotes the line "I see dead people," and adds "but then, by god, I do something about it."
* Literature/MercyThompson, a rare Native American "walker" (= coyote shape shifter), can see and talk to ghosts. [[spoiler: It's ''because'' walkers can communicate with ghosts that they're rare, as vampires have exterminated most of Mercy's kind, for fear the walkers would track down their daytime hideouts by consulting their deceased victims.]]
* Harry Keogh, the Literature/{{Necroscope}}, is the most powerful medium ever to live: his mere presence wakes the souls of the dead from their previously eternal sleep and allows them to communicate not merely with him but with each other, enabling a worldwide post-life society. Don't threaten him -- the dead won't appreciate it, and they ''far'' outnumber the living.
** Ironically, he cannot see the dead, only hear them, and yet he calls himself a 'Necroscope' which is combined from the Greek roots for 'seeing death', he ought to call himself a 'Necrophone'.
* Chloe of the Literature/DarkestPowers series is a necromancer, and quite thoroughly BlessedWithSuck. She can certainly see ghosts, and they can see her... but there is ''nothing'' to alert her to the fact that they're ghosts. Absolutely nothing. She couldn't tell a ghost apart from a human if they were standing right next to each other, unless they walk through something, are dressed in period clothing, vanish, or actually tell her that they're dead. Or, alternatively, if she starts talking to them and people around her stare at her like she's crazy -- which is exactly the reason that she ended up in a group home for troubled kids and was diagnosed as having schizophrenia. Even more unfortunately? Ghosts can tell that ''she's'' a necromancer, because, to them, she has a glow around her -- and hers is so strong that she's the equivalent of a bonfire in the middle of a pitch-dark prairie. Her very presence in a graveyard [[spoiler:is enough to bring dozens of ghosts ''out of the afterlife'', all of them demanding things of her]].
** As another [[SarcasmMode wonderful perk of her powers]], Chloe can raise and control the dead. However, [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke being as powerful as she is]] and depending on what she's dreaming about, she can accidentally raise the dead ''in her sleep''. And it's not just reanimating a corpse. Raising the dead involves [[FateWorseThanDeath shoving a soul back into its rotting corpse]]. Hence why she [[ProperlyParanoid tends to be paranoid about falling asleep in an unknown area]], lest there be a corpse around and she raises it without realizing, and then it's ''[[FateWorseThanDeath trapped]]'' that way. Even worse, if she even just concentrates too much on trying to summon a ghost -- not to raise a corpse, just to talk to a ghost -- the slight increase in her power output is strong enough to raise the dead anyway... or even [[spoiler:''tear open the earth'' in order to reach the corpses within, who have just had their ''souls'' shoved back inside of them]].
** And yet ''another'' bonus: [[spoiler:When a full demon from the Hell Dimension came through to our dimension, she attracted his attention -- he was ''very'' interested in her greatly-enhanced powers. Before he vanishes, he gently tilts her head up toward him and tells her, "Grow up strong, little one. Strong and powerful."]] Understandably, she is concerned by the possible implications of this.
*** Hopefully, he won't come back to check up on her in a few years. Or ever. [[spoiler:It's also unclear whether demons are interested in necromancers in general, or if he was interested in Chloe because he could tell that something or someone had severely messed with her powers]].
** There is a good reason why most necromancers eventually go insane. And the more powerful they are, the faster it happens. Considering Chloe is the most powerful necromancer in existence at the moment, or even possibly the most powerful to ''ever'' exist, this is very unfortunate.
* Creator/MegCabot's ''Literature/TheMediator'' series is based around this ability. About [[spoiler: four]] characters can talk to/touch ghosts, including the heroine.
* Beka Cooper in Creator/TamoraPierce's ''[[Literature/TortallUniverse Terrier]]'' can hear ghosts that ride on the backs of pigeons. Or possibly snatches of thought (from dead people) that are somehow attached to the pigeons.
* In the Jennifer Lynn Barnes novel ''Platinum'', Lilah has the power of "retronition" or the ability to see the past. Part of what this entails is the ability to see ghosts, as ghosts are essentially fragments of the past trapped in the present.
* Claude Sylvanshine in ''Literature/ThePaleKing'' has Random Fact Intuition, which makes him the only one who can glean any information about the ghosts that haunt Post 047.
* In ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' [[spoiler: Nico di Angelo, a son of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hades]],]] can talk to ghosts.
* In ''Literature/VampireAcademy'', a side-effect of being shadow-kissed is that Rose can see ghosts and has to concentrate to shut them out completely. She first gets this ability in ''Shadow Kiss'', and it complicates her field experience— not to mention her life— a lot. It also becomes extremely useful later on in the series.
* Literature/SisterhoodSeries by Creator/FernMichaels: Barbara Rutledge comes back as a ghost after her unfortunate death in ''Weekend Warriors''. Her sister Nikki Quinn, her mother Myra Rutledge, and her father Charles Martin can see her and talk to her. Later, Countess Anne "Annie" Ryland de Silva finds herself able to see and talk to her dead family members. Interestingly enough, the author herself claims that there's a ghost in her house!
* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'' Muggles can't see, hear, or become ghosts but all Wizards and Witches can. [[InvisibleToNormals Same with some other creatures like Dementors]] though Muggles can still on some level "sense" that they are there.
* Austin from ''Literature/HollowPlaces'' begins to see apparitions of his dead sister after he uses a 'wishing well' found in an anomalous cave. He's the only person who can see her, though she's shown to be more than a vision through incidents where she opens doors with a touch or communicates through notes that remain even after she disappears.
* In Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's Literature/{{Chalion}} stories. When most people die, they are taken up by one of the gods, but some hang around [[OurGhostsAreDifferent for one reason or another]], gradually fading away. One of the side effects of sainthood is the ability to see them.

* In Janet Lunn's ''Literature/ShadowInHawthornBay'', the protagonist Mairi Urquhart has second sight, which means she has visions of the future and also encounters the occasional ghost. She is very used to the ghosts; when she sees one, she just murmurs a polite greeting and then goes back to whatever she was doing before.
* Will Herondale is confirmed in the first chapter of ''[[Literature/TheInfernalDevices The Clockwork Prince]]'' to be one of the few Shadowhunters that can.

* Rain Cacique in ''Literature/RainOfTheGhosts'' has the ability to see ghosts, but she requires a magical family heirloom in order to communicate with them.
* Xhea, protagonist of the ''Literature/TowersTrilogy'', has the ability to see and hear ghosts, which is an extremely rare talent in her world.
* In ''Literature/TheRubyRedTrilogy'', Gwen can see ghosts and makes friends with some of them. She is the only character in the series who has this power, although [[SnarkyNonHumanSidekick Xemerius]] mentions that sensitive people can sometimes tell that there is ''something'' there.
* Witkacy, the hero of ''Literature/ShamanBlues'', can see ghosts and spirits thanks to being a shaman.
* ''Literature/TheSilerianTrilogy'': All of the Guardians have this ability, and it's the main thing they're known for besides their fire magic.
* Franchise/StarWarsLegends states that this is one of the side effects to Force Sensitivity.
** Tash Arranda, being Force-Sensitive, is the only one who's ever been able to sense the titular spirit of ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear: Ghost of the Jedi''. Initially she could only sense him vaguely, but when she let go of her fear his form and voice became much clearer.
** ''Literature/DarthBane:'' In the second book, Bane sees his former rival everywhere. It's never made clear if it is some Force projection, or something going on in Bane's head. Either way, they disappear after leading him to the orbalisks on Dxun.
* This is the basis of one of the seven Blessings fae can possess in ''Stranger & Stranger''.
* In ''Literature/AFineAndPrivatePlace'', Jonathan Rebeck has been living in a cemetery for decades, having wandered in one day after his life collapsed and deciding he had nothing outside to go back to; somewhere along the way, he gained the ability to interact with the ghosts of those interred there. At the end of the novel, he finally finds a reason to rejoin the land of the living, and when he leaves the cemetery he loses the ability to see dead people.

* Cyndricka in ''{{Literature/The Traveling Triple-C Incorporeal Circus}}'' can see and hear ghosts, and though she is mute, she can communicate with them in sign language.
* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'', medicine cats occasionally are able to see spirits from [=StarClan=], but usually they're limited to dreams. Goosefeather's an unusual example in that he can see them all the time. Similarly, the members of a group called "The Sisters" have the genetic ability to see ghosts that are TrappedOnTheAstralPlane - dead but not yet passed on to their afterlife. Most Clan cats don't believe they can actually do this, not out of ArbitrarySkepticism, but because their religion leaves no room to ''be'' Trapped On The Astral Plane. You either go straight to "the good place" or to "the bad place" when you die, no lingering allowed, and the spirits that medicine cats see are already in one or the other.

* ''Literature/Mouse2017'': Normally only babies and animals can see ghosts, and adults who can see them only see a shadow or static. Mouse has the rare ability to see ghosts in detail at age fifteen because he can perceive things without looking directly at them - when he does try to look at Anna, she disappears.
* Played with in ''Literature/TheHauntingOfCassiePalmer'' by Creator/VivienAlcock. Cassie assumes at first that she's the only person who can see Deverill, the ghost she inadvertently summoned up, and is surprised when other people acknowledge his presence. Deverill tells her that, having been brought into the world, he can be seen by any person, although animals aren't aware of him. Most people seem to assume that he's a living man, with only Cassie's mother, who has some psychic ability of her own, seeing anything strange about him.
* The eponymous "psychic doctor" of the ''Literature/MilesPennoyer'' stories is able to detect spirits of the deceased. Occasionally he can bring these spirits to the attention of those untrained in the mystic arts.
* ''Literature/GhostGirl2021'': Zee, an ability she inherited from her mother. Nellie's aunt also has the ability.
* This is one of the three ways psychic Talent manifests in ''Literature/LockwoodAndCo'' - the others are Hearing Dead People and Touching Emotional Echoes Of Dead People [[spoiler:and, for a sufficiently powerful Listener and sufficiently strong ghost, Talking To Dead People]]. Of the main characters, Lockwood is the most skilled at this, seeing much clearer details than his colleagues.

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* This was Kuwabara's initial power in ''Manga/YuYuHakusho''. It's somewhat inconsistent as to whether he can ''see'' them or merely sense their presence-- he gives some pretty precise descriptions of ghosts he's seen in the past, but isn't initially able to identify Yusuke following him, and dismisses him as the spirit of some kind of animal. His sister, Shizuru, however, is stated to have stronger spiritual awareness and does clearly identify Yusuke following Keiko in a later chapter.
* ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura's'' brother Touya. He mostly uses it to talk to his deceased mother when she comes to check on the family (from whom he inherited the ability), and privately admits that he's responsible for Sakura's intense fear of ghosts, since he used to tell her about all the ones he saw when they were younger. [[spoiler: He does eventually lose this ability, however, as he gives up his powers to save his boyfriend's life.]] In the sequel series ''Manga/CardCaptorSakuraClearCard'', [[spoiler: Touya eventually begins to develop new powers, and regains his ability to speak with his mother. Sakura also begins to see their mother's ghost, which frightens them both-- Sakura because she doesn't understand why, and Nadeshiko because she ''does'': Sakura subconsciously blocked her ability to see ghosts because she was so scared of them. The fact that the block is no longer in place is proof that her powers are growing out of her control.]]
* Creator/{{CLAMP}} is fond of this one. Watanuki of ''Manga/XxxHolic'' spent most of the series trying to [[CursedWithAwesome lose this ability]] via a deal with Yuuko the Dimension Witch.
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* The main point of the anime and manga ''Manga/NatsumesBookOfFriends''. The main character and his grandmother were able to see spirits to a great extent.
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
** Mana has the "demon eye" ability, which apparently allows her to see ghosts. Of course, the only ghost around is Sayo, so the demon eye doesn't see a lot of use.
** In the English dub of the second anime, Negi actually says the trope name after he successfully performs a spell that allows him to see all the ghosts in Mahora Academy. It's more than likely a ''ShoutOut'' to the Trope Namer.
* Kyouko from ''Manga/HoneyCrush'' has this ability. This allows her to see and bond with the ghostly main character.
* ''Manga/ChocottoSister'':
** While visiting an amusement park, Choco meets the ghosts of Yasuoka's wife and daughter who died while they were on their way to the same park. Choco's abilities may be explained her own supernatural origin.
** In the final chapters of the manga, Choco also has an encounter with her [[FluffyTamer beloved deceased kitty-cat Kuro]] and a woman revealed to be [[spoiler:Yurika's mother.]]
* This is a very [[BlessedWithSuck dangerous ability]] to have in the ''Manga/HellTeacherNube'' world, as being able to see and hear ghosts means that you're SupernaturallyDeliciousAndNutritious -- ones with GhostlyGoals won't stop bothering you until you help them, and the ones that are dangerous will come after you first.
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* In ''Anime/TsukuyomiMoonPhase'' Kouhei's spiritual powers were so great that they became a danger to him, so his family had to seal them away when he was a child. They later kept the facade that he is so spiritually unaware that ghosts and spiritual barriers that are strong enough to affect ordinary people with minimal spiritual awareness have no effect on him. However, all the photos he takes end up having ghosts present in them, and once his powers begin to manifest again, he goes to the mountains to train.

* Happens to Kagome at least once, in the Soul Piper episode of ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'', she is the only one who can see the spirits (until briefly at the end, the mother can)

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Manga/ReKan''. Hibiki can see ghosts, and talks to them regularly. But to most of the other characters, she seems to be speaking to thin air. It's also strongly hinted that Narumi can see them as well, but tries to avoid doing so as much as possible unlike Hibiki.
* After gaining a [[FightingSpirit Stand]] in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'', Stand users are not only able to see other users' Stands, they can now see spirits of the deceased. There are a number of TearJerker moments throughout the series were the heroes can see and speak to the ghosts of their allies that had recently died. In ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'', Reimi Sugimoto is the resident CuteGhostGirl in Morioh and the Stand users in town often speak with her to discuss any leads that could help locate [[BigBad Yoshikage Kira]].
* ''Manga/TheUnpopularMangakaAndTheHelpfulOnryoSan'': Only Senai can see Onryo-san, though his editor Kimura can feel her, especially when she starts bothering him for criticizing Senai's work. A neighbor also sees a rug apparently beating itself. Later on, [[InvisibleToAdults it's implied kids can see her just fine]]. [[spoiler:Though those kids might have been ghosts too.]] His neighbor Hakuu Ranko can see her too, but doesn't realize she's a ghost at first because she's drunk.

* Franchise/MarvelUniverse:

* Saarek of the [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Green Lantern Corps]]... not that anybody believes him, even though he's proven his abilities several times over.
* The protagonist of ''ComicBook/MajorBummer''.
* Brody, the protagonist of ''ComicBook/BrodysGhost'', can do this (as well as other stuff) as part of his ghostseer schtick.
* Satori Deacon of ''ComicBook/PS238'' can do this; she really wishes she couldn't, because once the ghosts notice this they never leave her alone.
* ''ComicBook/{{Ragman}}'': Rory can converse with the dead, and take on the memories of their final moments.
* At the start of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' story "Present Tense," Billy, Mandy and Grim are at a carnival and Grim has his palm read by a psychic. She freaks out upon realizing she's reading a skeleton's palm and runs off. (Grim mistakes this as a premonition of his doom.)

* ''Fanfic/{{Kitsune}}'': {{Discussed}}. Requiem, a medium, who can see and speak to ghosts and spirits, is described with "She sees dead people."
* This is Izuku's Quirk in ''Fanfic/YesterdayUponTheStair''.

* In the ''Temeraire'' and ''Assassin's Creed'' crossover fanfic ''Fanfic/TradeWinds'', the Bleeding Effect in this fic manifests in the form of Desmond Miles (and eventually William Laurence) seeing spectral images of their Assassin ancestors. Desmond sees Arno Dorian, Shao Jun, and, most frequently since he spends most of the story on a ship of some kind, Edward Kenway. Laurence is quite distressed by the Bleeding Effect and keeps trying to ignore his ancestors, Robert Fitzwalter and Thomas de Carneillon, thinking he's gone mad and is seeing ghosts.
* In ''Fanfic/ParagonKimPossible'', Josh Mankey curses Ron so that he can see dead people. He ends up [[spoiler:[[SelfHarm gouging his]] [[EyeScream own eyes out]] to stop the visions]].
* Steam in ''Fanfic/DimensionalLinks'' can see ghosts, including Mask Spirits. It's how he could see Zelda in [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks his game]].

** [[spoiler:Ren's grandmother could too - which led to her being viewed as insane, becoming an outcast, and her own family getting the same treatment as her, which led to his parents being AbusiveParents to Ren in an effort to get him to stop saying he saw them as well.]]
** [[spoiler:Later on, due to a NearDeathExperience, Akechi gets the power to see ghosts as well - and [[LaserGuidedKarma instantly gets swarmed by the spirits of all his past victims]]. And the other Thieves eventually get this power after beating Yaldabaoth.]]

* Norman in ''WesternAnimation/ParaNorman''. The ability comes from his mother's side of the family, seen with his uncle, [[spoiler:and their distant ancestor, Agatha.]]

* Film/JonahHex (the movie version) can bring dead people to life for as long as he's in contact with them. This leads to an interesting scene when he's getting beaten up by a furious man who turns back into a mummified corpse whenever Hex gets clear. Surprisingly enough, this power isn't scary (although the way he acquired it definitely is).

* The horror flick ''Film/{{Gothika}}'' has Creator/HalleBerry as a woman dragged into a ghost's plot to gain revenge on her killers. Then, at the end, [[spoiler: it turns out she's one of these, as another ghost appears before her]]. Subverted in that [[spoiler: she says, "To hell with this," and just walks away -- slightly justified, as her involvement with the first ghost involved her being committed to an insane asylum and the murder of her husband]].
* Annie, sort of, in ''Film/TheInvisible''. [[spoiler:Nick is actually OnlyMostlyDead]], but the effect is the same.
* Nell in ''Film/TheHaunting1999'' is a clairvoyant when she sees ghosts of dead children from the sheets and curtains.
* Max in the ''Mostly Ghostly'' film series when he sees the ghosts of his friends, Nicky and Tara.
* Kenny Tyler in ''The 6th Man'' when he sees the ghost of his brother, Antoine.
* In ''Film/TheEye'', a women starts seeing dead people and death omens, with the added complication that she was formally blind and has no visual memory.
* The protagonist of ''Film/TheAlphabetKiller'' is a police detective who begins to see the spirits of the victims murdered by the killer she's tracking. It is never fully explained if these spirits are real, or just a byproduct of her [[DefectiveDetective mental condition.]]
* The first ''Film/ScaryMovie'' parodied the line as used in ''The Sixth Sense''. Shortie says "I See Dead People" to his buddies. They all laugh and agree with each other that they scored some ''really'' good weed.

* ''Film/Ghost1990'': Oda Mae is descended from a long line of mediums who have always been able to commune with the dead. It seems that the family power skipped a generation at first--but when Sam shows up, she realizes that she actually does have the power of mediumship, and before long, every ghost for miles around is using her as a channeler, too.

* Edith from ''Film/CrimsonPeak'' has the ability to see ghosts when most people can't.
* ''Film/{{Always}}'': The crazy guy at the abandoned airstrip where Ted takes shelter seems to be able to hear Pete's ghost. Pete tries to use him to send Ted a message to stay away from Dorinda, but the guy only gets about half of it, so instead staying away, Ted thinks he's being told to go after her.
* In ''Film/TheDisappointmentsRoom'', Dana is the only one who can see the ghosts in the house, which leads David to believe she's going insane.
* In ''Film/{{Husk}}'', Scott experiences visions that allow him to see aspects of the farm's past. These visions allow him to piece together what happened and identify the cause of their current predicament. The actors in these visions apparently cannot see him, and do not acknowledge his presence at all.
* ''Film/AnotherMe'': Fay and her dad turn out to be seeing Fay's dead twin Lila, who's come back intent upon revenge against them.
* ''Film/{{Endless}}'': Riley becomes able to communicate with Chris as a ghost, though most people think she's just hallucinating in grief over his death.
* ''Film/Ghost1990'' lampshades this. Mae Brown is a fraudulent psychic, until she meets the real ghost of Sam Wheat, after which she is plagued by real ghosts cluttering up her apartment and endlesssly complaining.
* ''Film/TheFrighteners'', directed by Peter Jackson. Frank develops the ability to see and communicate with ghosts, and uses his ability to get the ghosts to haunt people's houses, from which he will exorcise them for a hefty fee.
* In ''Film/InYourAfterglow'', the autistic teenager Claire talks to the ghosts of George and Anne James, who owned her family's mansion during the Civil War. She hates it and wishes the ghosts would leave her alone. [[spoiler:In the end the ghosts leave once Leigh discovers Erin's diary, but Leigh tells Claire that she has a gift and warns her that she'll likely meet other ghosts in her life.]]
* ''Film/DarbyAndTheDead'': Darby has this ability, gaining it after she nearly drowned as a girl (while her mother died in the same incident). Since then she's devoted each Friday to speaking with the dead and then helping with their unfinished business so they can pass on. The film's plot is sparked when Capri, a former friend who now bullies her, dies then coerces Darby into helping her in another way. [[spoiler:It turns out Alex can also see them, after gaining it when he was in a car accident where his friend had died.]]
* ''Film/KarateAMuerteEnTorremolinos'': Spiritism is used to contact with a dead girl. She recommends contacting with the also deceased Miyagi, but the heroes find Miyagi is not available right now, they have contacted his family home.
* UsefulNotes/MarieCurie as portrayed in the 2016 Polish film ''The Courage of Knowledge'' feels a strong connection to her husband Pierre long after his tragic death.[[note]]TruthInTelevision, they had both been investigating afterlife communication and she kept a diary she intended him to read; she also felt he talked to her sometimes.[[/note]] She keeps working in their shared lab and catches glimpses of him puttering around. The film leaves it ambiguous if he's really still there or if it's just beloved memory. Their daughter Irène opines that this God/afterlife business might be just "Father Christmas for grownups," but Pierre's father tells her there is something to it and she should look for her dad in her dreams.
* ''Film/LastNightInSoho'': Ellie has the ability to see ghosts and is used to seeing the ghost of her dead mother in mirrors. When she moves to London, she starts having visions of a girl called Sandie who lived in TheSixties, was forced into prostitution and then murdered by her pimp. After that, Ellie starts seeing Sandie's ghost everywhere. [[spoiler:Turns out Ellie is mistaken and Sandie actually murdered her pimp and went on to murder a bunch of johns, whose ghosts Ellie is stalked by. Meanwhile, Sandie is still alive, well into old age; seeing Sandie everywhere is likely a result of Ellie's obsession with her combined with SanitySlippage.]]

* ''Series/TheRising'': Neve's dad sees her as a ghost, though at first he thinks it's due to his drinking (being TheAlcoholic, he's frequently drunk) or going nuts. Later it turns out Alex, her boyfriend Joe's cousin, sees Neve as well (while sober). [[spoiler:It turns out she's also visible to William Wyatt.]] Neve's stepbrother Max and Sergeant Diana Aird also get strange feelings and throw looks in her direction when Neve's around, without being able to actually see her.

* Franchise/Star Wars Legends states that this is one of the side effects to Force Sensitivity.

* ''Franchise/Star Wars Legends'' video games continue the tradition

** VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic: The Consular and Inquistor both have encounters with ancient Force Ghosts. With the Consular, they are brief conversations with important figures in history. The Inqusitor is drawing much of their power by having several ghosts bound to them. The Knight also encounters the spirit of their fallen Master in one of the expansions.

* Tash Arranda, being Force-Sensitive, is the only one who's ever been able to sense the titular spirit of ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear: Ghost of the Jedi''. Initially she could only sense him vaguely, but when she let go of her fear his form and voice became much clearer.

* ''Literature/DarthBane:'' In the second book, Bane sees his former rival everywhere. It's never made clear if it is some Force projection, or something going on in Bane's head. Either way, they disappear after leading him to the orbalisks on Dxun.

* In at least the book of the game ''VideoGame/FatalFrame1'', Miku and her brother Mafuyu are sensitive to spirits and received warnings from their relatives not to act on these spiritual intuitions.

* In ''Series/ColdCase'', at the end of the episode when the cases had been solved, the officers and/or the victim(s)'s closet loved ones would see the ghost of said victim(s). More than once, the ghost would be smiling, letting the one watching them know that they are now at peace.

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}} Onmyōji]]'': Not only can Seimei "see" (視る ''miru'', with the radical on the left) spirits and other creatures living in the ''inkai'', he can also make ''other people'' in the vicinity see them.

** In the fanfic ''FanFic/{{Stray}}'', the Sorrow's son Ocelot has this ability as well.

* Oda Mae from ''Film/Ghost1990'', which she initially faked. Once she gets the power, HilarityEnsues.

* Rain Cacique in ''Literature/RainOfTheGhosts'' has the ability to see ghosts, but she requires a magical family heirloom in order to communicated

->'''Cole Sear:''' [[TropeNamer I see dead people.]]\\

->'''Cole Sear:''' I see dead people.\\

'''Malcolm Crowe:''' While you're awake?\\

'''Malcolm Crowe:''' Dead people like, in graves? In coffins?\\
'''Cole Sear:''' Walking around like regular people. They don't see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don't know they're dead.\\
'''Malcolm Crowe:''' How often do you see them?\\
'''Cole Sear:''' All the time. They're everywhere.

* ''Series/TheRising'': Neve's dad sees her as a ghost, though at first he thinks it's due to his drinking (being TheAlcoholic, he's frequently drunk) or going nuts. Later it turns out Alex, her boyfriend Joe's cousin, sees Neve as well (while sober). [[spoiler:It turns out she's also visible to William Watts.]]

* ''Series/TheRising'': Neve's dad sees her as a ghost, though at first he thinks it's due to his drinking (being TheAlcoholic, he's frequently drunk) or going nuts. Later it turns out Alex, her boyfriend Joe's cousin, sees Neve as well (while sober).

* ''Series/TheRising'': Neve's dad sees her as a ghost, though at first he thinks it's due to his drinking (being TheAlcoholic, he's frequently drunk) or going nuts. Later it turns out Alex, her boyfriend Joe's cousin, sees Neve as well (sober).

* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'', medicine cats occasionally are able to see spirits from [=StarClan=], but usually they're limited to dreams. Goosefeather's an unusual example in that he can see them all the time. Similarly, the members of a group called "The Sisters" have the genetic ability to see ghosts that are TrappedOnTheAstralPlane - dead but not yet passed on to their afterlife. Most Clan cats don't believe they can actually do this, not out of ArbitrarySkepticism, but because their religion leaves no room to be Trapped On The Astral Plane. You either go straight to "the good place" or to "the bad place" when you die, no lingering allowed, and the spirits that medicine cats see are already in one or the other.

* In ''Film/Film/KarateAMuerteEnTorremolinos'', spiritism is used to contact with a dead girl. She recommends contacting with the also deceased Miyagi, but the heroes find Miyagi is not available right now, they have contacted his family home.

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', where most ghosts are plainly visible to the average person: they actively have to become invisible if they want to go unseen. That said, it's left ambiguous how many of the ghosts seen throughout the series are actual dead people and how many are supernatural creatures native to the Ghost Zone.
** Youngblood is only visible to kids or people with a child-like mindset. The only teenager who can't see Youngblood is Jazz, who already sees herself as an adult.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'', ghosts can control when humans are capable of seeing them, with them being invisible by default. The exception to this is when ''any'' ghost formally introduces themselves or makes a bond with a human, from which point that person is able to see ''all'' ghosts permanently. Throughout the show, this has led to Molly and other characters (namely her immediate family and Libby) having prolonged interactions with Scratch or other ghosts in public, only to cut to an outsider watching in fear/concern over the person talking to thin air.

* Everybody in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' too, with the following arguables:
** They only rarely mention a ghost [[NeverSayDie as having been a dead person]] in the series. The Dairy King and Sidney Poindexter, notably. Desiree, the genie ghost was also described as having died, and the girl with the dragon pendant was, too. At least one of the ghosts, Boxed Lunch, was explicitly described as the child of two ghosts rather than a dead person. Though a background character from Walker's prison in "Public Enemies" implies that ''all'' ghosts are the spirits of dead people.
--->'''Prisoner:''' You'll never take me alive, coppers!\\
'''Bullet''': You're a ''ghost.''\\
'''Prisoner:''' Well... you'll still never take me!
** Youngblood is only visible to kids (or people with a child-like mindset).
* ''WesternAnimation/ElenaOfAvalor'': Elena has this power only on Dia de Los Muertos as revealed in the episode "A Day to Remember".
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': "I see dead celebrities."
** {{Parodied}} in "The Death of Eric Cartman": The other boys get so fed up with [[TokenEvilTeammate Cartman]] that they all start to ignore him, leading him to believe that he's died and become a ghost. [[ButtMonkey Butters]] was LockedOutOfTheLoop, however, and greeted him like normal, thus obviously demonstrating that he has this ability.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': The girls faced a zombie magician, Abracadaver, who was illusionist [[PunnyName Al Lusion]]. He became Abracadaver after a little girl (who strikes an uncanny resemblance to Blossom) made him become imprisoned in an iron maiden.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'', ghosts can control when humans are capable of seeing them, with them being invisible by default. The exception to this is when ''any'' ghost formally introduces themselves or makes a bond with a human, from which point that person is able to see ''all'' ghosts permanently. Throughout the show, this has led to Molly and other characters having prolonged conversations with Scratch in public, only to cut to an outsider watching in fear/concern over a child wildly gesturing and talking to themselves.