WMG / Ghosts (US)

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Thorfinn lost a devastating battle before his death

Thorfin is meant to be a fearsome Viking but has very short hair with the sides of his head shaved and a short beard, which in the Viking culture would have been considered unmasculine. Long hair was a sign of strength, pride, and masculinity. Cutting off a Viking's hair was a way to shame and emasculate them so therefore Thorfinn had to have lost and have been shamed.

Thorfinn cursed the property because he was extremely lonely and wanted friends

After going insane from loneliness for a few hundred years, Thorfinn wanted friends, so he cursed the property which explains why so many people experienced unlikely deaths like Samantha, Pete, Flower and Hetty's husband.

Sam and Jay will tell their upper crust neighbors, Henry and Margaret, that they can see ghosts

With Henry's mom able to communicate with Sam, it will be extremely easy to prove. They can probably use it for leverage at some point or the plot will simply demand it. Besides, Samantha will stop wanting to look crazy all the time.

Sam and Jay will visit Weehawken and Sam will see the ghost of Alexander Hamilton.

Sam will ask about Isaac, which Alexander has no ill will towards and speaks fondly off.

• Hamilton didn't die in Weehawken; he was shot in Weehawken but died in New York City.

Alberta will be the first ghost to get "sucked off"

After her murder is solved, she will cross over and potentially have a touching final moment with Pete.

• Jossed: It was Flower.
  • Flower's still around, she just fell down a well. Someone else got "sucked off'.

Flower is afraid that if she gets with Thor he'll be sucked off.

It seems to be based on unfinished business, and after his funeral it almost happened once before. Flower declaring her love was the only reason he stayed, so if that's resolved he might not have anything else holding him back.

More than simply recovering from being close to death is needed to see and hear ghosts.

If simply experiencing trauma that leaves one comatose, then making a recovery, is enough for one to see ghosts, the phenomenon ought to be widely documented in the medical literature and become common knowledge. Therefore, there ought to be something else in the process that makes information about people who can truly see and hear ghosts so difficult to come by due to the extreme scarcity of documented cases, leaving scope for widespread scepticism about the existence of ghosts.

• Ghosts need to have been responsible for the near-death trauma, as when Trevor knocks the vase that Sam then trips over onto the ground. Ghosts who can directly interact with the physical world - as Trevor can - are very, very rare, so it checks out.
  • This would explain why Eric didn't retain the ability to see ghosts after he literally died from electrocution and was able to see the ghosts (even becoming a ghost himself), then was brought back.
• There may be a genetic component. Some children can see ghosts. Hetty was such a child, and Sam is her descendant. It could be that a combination of genetic predisposition and clinical death is needed to gain the ability to see ghosts.
  • Wasn't a random toddler able to see Isaac (calling him a pirate)? It may be that young children in general can see ghosts, but only up to toddler age (hence people in general don't remember ever being able to see ghosts). In the UK series, it is said that children can see ghosts until they are old enough to walk.

The ghost that was sucked off in the season finale was

• Crash
• One of the basement ghosts
• Alberta
• Issac
• Nigel
• One of the Other Redcoat Ghosts
• Sassapis
  • All Jossed; it was Flower.
    • Even it being Flower is Jossed. She was trapped down a well the entire time.

Flower will be brought back in the Halloween episode only to be revealed to have sobered up in Heaven

When the guys bring back Flower with the Halloween seance, it will turn out she had sobered up since then and is now a sobered-up Susan Montero, who is different from the constantly stoned Flower they knew.

• Jossed Not only was the seance a dud, she didn't even get sucked off to begin with.

ALL the ghosts have ghost powers.

Of the main ghosts, the only ones to not yet have displayed some ability are Pete and Hetty—everyone else has something. It'll eventually turn out that all ghosts have a power, but it sometimes takes time to figure out what it is and how to use it. Shenanigans will ensue if/when someone like the cholera ghosts or Stephanie figure out what they can do.

• Like her British counterpart Fanny, Hetty is visible in photographs.

Houses like Woodstone Manor exist all over the United States

We saw the house in New York so it stands that there are many others across the country.

• The West Coast: A Native American, a Spanish missionary, a fur-trapper, a Chinese railroad worker, a Mexican, a gold panner, victims of the Oregon trail and/or Okies (who live in the shed), a failed Hollywood star and disgraced executive.

• The South: A Mississippian, A Cherokee, a Spanish conquistador, a British Convict (if it was set in Georgia), a slave, victims of the Trail Of Tears (who live in the shed or in the basement), a hillbilly, a Confederate Soldier, a Voodoo Priest, and a pro segregation politician that died without wearing pants in ironically an affair with a black women.

• The Plains: A Lakota, A French Fur Trapper, a farmer who lost his life in a farming accident while tending to his crops, victims of a tornado or a blizzard (similar to the plague pit), a cowboy trampled by his own cattle, a train engineer who died tragically in a train collision during the expansion of the railway in the Great Plains, a saloon singer, and a disgraceful Oil Tycoon.

• Hawaii: A Pacific Islander who is one of the early settlers in Hawaii, a British explorer, a Spanish explorer, a princess under the reign of King Kamehameha the Great, a Hulu Dancer, a ukulele player, a surfer, an Americans settler in the late 19th century, a Japanese plantation worker, a World War II captain during and after Pearl Harbor, and a hippie.

• Alaska: An Inuit, A Russian Settler, an American Miner, a U.S. soldier that died on his way to the governor's house at "Castle Hill", a Japanese settler in the 1890s, an activist that drowned in oil, and a Sarah Palin Expy.

All of the ghosts, not just Trevor, know exactly the Double Entendre meaning of "sucked off", which is why they chose it

Slang terms are much older than we like to think, oral sex is certainly not new. They know what they're doing with the double entendre puns, which used to be even more common in the old days, as opposed to now where it's outright said. Eventually, Sam will blurt out the double meaning and assume the ghosts (sans Trevor) were unaware of the double meaning. And then Hetty will laugh saying "Samantha, did you really think we were all naive prudes in the past? Sex was a much more private matter back then, but we certainly had a colorful vocabulary. Why do you think we chose such a term? It gave us a private chuckle and a little amusement for the first 20 years of hearing it" and then Trevor will be surprised, Pete will say "I thought I was the only one who knew, too. Then it became less funny over time but I never said anything because I was afraid of ruining it for them. But Thor told me they knew what it meant, it'll stop being funny for you as well eventually". And then they Alberta tells the story of the person who came up with the term who was sucked off, a descendant of a Puritan fur trapper who was sucked off in the 80s, right before Pete arrived. Alberta will say she giggled the first 20 years when someone used the term. Hetty will admit she did, too. As did Isaac. And then both Sass and Thor will say they wished they'd come up with the term.

Even though Pete's ghost power is the ability to leave the property, he will be drawn back to it to "rest" from his wanderings.

• Pete's job as a Travel Agent, in addition to his off-time as a Pine Cone Trooper (expy for the Scouts) and his reactions to modern technology will allow him to leave the grounds of Woodstone B&B. His reaction to the modern world (more "modern" than the one he left) will cause him to want to return
  • Pete did use his scouting skills to return to the Woodstone, after Jay accidently left him at the mega-store. He is free to come and go as he pleases and headed off (on an airplane) to join his daughter and grandson on vacation.
• Confirmed: While in the Caribbean, Pete started losing parts of his body, starting with a hand. He rushed back to the Woodstone estate, arriving just in the nick of time. Upon return, his missing limbs (and other, ahem, "extremities"), returned to normal.

During "Ho'les are Bad," the ghosts try to use Mark's phone to Face Time Sam. However, to her, all that she can see is the ceiling of the kitchen where Mark left his phone. Alberta was not one of the ghosts present. Since she can interface with the Alexa, she will eventually get to use the smartphone as well.

• Due to her power it’s possible Sam will be able to hear Alberta only since it seems like technology doesn’t allow a living person with the ability to see Ghosts normally to see ghosts on Face Time, Zoom or even on TV if someone dies unexpectedly on camera.