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Ghost Dance songs

Ghost Dance songs are the ritual songs of the 1889–90 Ghost Dance, a messianic movement spread by the Paiute prophet Wovoka and associated with the Lakota and the Wounded Knee massacre, with some songs surviving today.

Ghost discography

Ghost discography: releases of the Swedish theatrical rock band Ghost from Linköping, fronted by Tobias Forge (briefly Ghost B.C. in the US). Six studio albums 2010-2025, four EPs, live album, Rite Here Rite Now film, Grammy-winning 'Cirice', platinum 'Mary on a Cross'.

Ghost Doctor (고스트 닥터)

Ghost Doctor (고스트 닥터) is a 2022 tvN fantasy medical comedy in which comatose surgeon Cha Young-min's ghost possesses resident Go Seung-tak; 16 episodes, starring Rain, Kim Bum, Uee, and Son Na-eun.

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (ゴースト・ドッグ) is Jim Jarmusch's 1999 crime film starring Forest Whitaker as a hitman living by the Hagakure, scored by RZA, released by Artisan and later restored by Criterion.

Ghost Elephants

Ghost elephants: a secretive, nocturnal population of about 20 to 100 elephants in Angola's eastern highlands (Lisima), long lost to science, studied by Steve Boyes and featured in Werner Herzog's 2025 documentary.

Ghost Festival

The Ghost Festival, or Zhongyuan Festival, is an East Asian observance on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, when offerings are made to the dead.

Ghost fluid method

The ghost fluid method is a numerical technique for simulating flows with material interfaces, introduced by Ronald Fedkiw and colleagues in 1999 to avoid nonphysical oscillations.

Ghost Hunters (TV series)

Ghost Hunters is an American paranormal reality series premiering October 6, 2004 on Sci Fi, following TAPS founders Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson; 281 episodes through 2023, genre template, criticized by skeptics.

Ghost hunting

Ghost hunting, also called paranormal investigation, is the amateur or organized search for evidence of ghosts at reputedly haunted sites using EMF meters, spirit boxes, and infrared cameras; it descends from the 1882 Society for Psychical Research and was popularized by shows like Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures.

Ghost hyperbolic surface polaritons

Ghost hyperbolic surface polaritons (g-HPs) are surface-bound electromagnetic waves on uniaxial crystals whose optic axis is slanted to the surface, first observed in calcite in 2021, propagating over 20 micrometers.

Ghost imaging

Ghost imaging is an optical technique that reconstructs an image of an object from correlations between two light beams rather than direct detection, first demonstrated in 1995 with entangled photons.

Ghost in Love (자귀모)

Ghost in Love (자귀모, Jaguimo) is a 1999 South Korean fantasy romance directed by Lee Kwang-hoon, starring Kim Hee-sun, Lee Sung-jae, and Cha Seung-won, about a woman pushed to death who joins a suicide ghosts' club; 91 minutes, 362,935 Seoul admissions.

Ghost in the Cell

Ghost in the Cell is a 2026 Indonesian horror film by Joko Anwar: a framed journalist in a corrupt prison faces an invisible entity killing inmates. Premiered at Berlinale 2026; US release October 2026.

Ghost in the machine

Ghost in the machine: Gilbert Ryle's 1949 phrase in The Concept of Mind mocking Cartesian dualism as a category mistake; later a Koestler book title and an AI-consciousness metaphor.

Ghost in the Machine (2026 film)

Ghost in the Machine is a 2026 documentary by Valerie Veatch (Me @ The Zoo, Love Child) tracing AI's roots in eugenics and power; premiered at Sundance 2026, aired on PBS Independent Lens, 75% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Ghost in the Machine (album)

Ghost in the Machine is The Police's fourth studio album, released October 2, 1981 on A&M. Recorded at AIR Studios Montserrat with producer Hugh Padgham, it hit number one in the UK and added synths and saxophone to their reggae-rock sound.

Ghost in the Shell (攻殻機動隊)

Ghost in the Shell (攻殻機動隊) is Masamune Shirow's 1989 Kodansha manga and its anime franchise: Section 9's Motoko Kusanagi, Oshii's 1995 Billboard No. 1 film, Stand Alone Complex, Arise, and new Science SARU series.

Ghost in the Shell (攻殻機動隊) (1995 film)

Ghost in the Shell (攻殻機動隊, Kōkaku Kidōtai) is Mamoru Oshii's 1995 Production I.G anime adapting Masamune Shirow's manga, following Major Kusanagi and Section 9 hunting the hacker Puppet Master; first Japanese video to top Billboard's US chart.

Ghost in the Shell (攻殻機動隊) (2017 film)

Ghost in the Shell (攻殻機動隊) is a 2017 American science fiction action film directed by Rupert Sanders and starring Scarlett Johansson as the cybernetic soldier the Major.

Ghost in the Shell (攻殻機動隊) (manga)

Ghost in the Shell (攻殻機動隊) is Masamune Shirow's 1989 Kodansha cyberpunk manga about cyborg Major Motoko Kusanagi and Section 9 in 2029 Japan, source of the 1995 anime film, Stand Alone Complex, the 2017 film, and the 2026 faithful TV anime.

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (イノセンス)

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (イノセンス) is Mamoru Oshii's 2004 Production I.G anime sequel to Ghost in the Shell, set in 2032, following cyborg Batou investigating murderous gynoids; first Japanese anime in Cannes competition, Japan SF Grand Prize winner, 4K re-release 2025.

Ghost in the Shell: Arise

Ghost in the Shell: Arise (攻殻機動隊 ARISE) is Production I.G's 2013 four-part prequel anime on Section 9's founding, chief-directed by Kazuchika Kise with scripts by Tow Ubukata, music by Cornelius, later reworked as Alternative Architecture.

Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2045

Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2045 (攻殻機動隊 SAC_2045) is a Netflix-exclusive full-3DCG anime co-directed by Kenji Kamiyama and Shinji Aramaki, continuing the Stand Alone Complex continuity in 2045 amid post-humans and the Sustainable War; seasons streamed 2020 and 2022.

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex – Solid State Society (攻殻機動隊 STAND ALONE COMPLEX Solid State Society)

攻殻機動隊 STAND ALONE COMPLEX Solid State Society (Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. Solid State Society) is a 2006 Production I.G anime film directed by Kenji Kamiyama, set in 2034, following a rebuilt Section 9 hunting the hacker Puppeteer after Motoko Kusanagi's departure; a 3D version opened in 2011.

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (攻殻機動隊 STAND ALONE COMPLEX)

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (攻殻機動隊 STAND ALONE COMPLEX) is a 2002 Production I.G TV anime directed by Kenji Kamiyama, set in 2030 with Section 9, the Laughing Man case, 2nd GIG, and the SAC_2045 Netflix sequel.

Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie (攻殻機動隊 新劇場版)

Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie (攻殻機動隊 新劇場版, also Ghost in the Shell: The Movie) is a 2015 Production I.G anime film, the finale of the Arise series, directed by Kazuya Nomura, released June 20, 2015.

Ghost Killer

Ghost Killer (ゴーストキラー) is a 2024 Japanese action comedy directed by Kensuke Sonomura, written by Yugo Sakamoto, starring Akari Takaishi as a student possessed by murdered hitman Kudo (Masanori Mimoto); 105 min, premiered Fantastic Fest 2024.

Ghost light (theatre)

Ghost light (theatre): a single bulb left burning on an otherwise dark stage overnight, a safety light against falls into the orchestra pit, wrapped in ghost-appeasing superstition, dated to 1849 and sometimes called an Equity Light.

Ghost Love

Ghost Love is a 1937 novella by Chinese writer Xu Xu, in which a Shanghai writer falls in love with a woman who claims to be a ghost.

Ghost Mountain (rapper)

Ghost Mountain is Wren Kosinski (born 2001), American rapper, singer and guitarist who co-founded Haunted Mound with Sematary in 2019, left and erased his catalog in 2021, and returned with the mixtape October Country in March 2025.