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Ghosts in Bengali culture
Ghosts in Bengali culture (bhoot, ভূত) are the named spirit categories of Bengal's folklore across Bangladesh and West Bengal: Petni, Shakchunni, Brahmadaitya, Mechho bhoot, Mamdo bhut, Nishi Daak, tied to trees, fish, epidemics, Bhoot Chaturdashi, and a rich literary and film tradition.
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is a 2009 American romantic comedy, a Christmas Carol-style fantasy directed by Mark Waters, starring Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, and Michael Douglas; it grossed about $102 million worldwide but earned poor reviews.
Ghosts of Mars
Ghosts of Mars (2001) is John Carpenter's sci-fi horror film, also marketed as John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars, about Martian spirits possessing human settlers in 2176. It starred Ice Cube and Natasha Henstridge, cost $28 million, and grossed about $14 million worldwide.
Ghosts of Mississippi
Ghosts of Mississippi is Rob Reiner's 1996 courtroom drama, also known as Fantasmas do Passado, starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, and James Woods, dramatizing Bobby DeLaughter's prosecution of Byron De La Beckwith for Medgar Evers's 1963 murder, convicted in 1994.
Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Ghosts of Saltmarsh is a 2019 Wizards of the Coast anthology and sourcebook for D&D 5e, updating the 1981-83 Saltmarsh trilogy and four Dungeon magazine adventures with ship rules, set in the port town of Saltmarsh.
Ghosts of the Abyss
Ghosts of the Abyss is James Cameron's 2003 IMAX 3D documentary about his 2001 return to the Titanic wreck aboard the Keldysh, with Bill Paxton, Sony-Pace 3D cameras, and the ROVs Jake and Elwood.
Ghosts of War (2020 film)
Ghosts of War (2020) is a supernatural war horror film written and directed by Eric Bress, starring Brenton Thwaites, in which five WWII soldiers guarding a French château face vengeful ghosts and a simulated-reality twist.
Ghosts: The Possession of Button House
Ghosts: The Possession of Button House is a 2026 British comedy film continuing the BBC sitcom Ghosts, directed by Simon Hynd, written by and starring its six creators, released 23 October 2026 by Lionsgate.
Ghostwatch
Ghostwatch: BBC One Screen One horror drama, 31 October 1992, written by Stephen Volk, directed by Lesley Manning, starring Michael Parkinson as a fake live ghost investigation that fooled millions and was never repeated in the UK.
Ghostwire: Tokyo
Ghostwire: Tokyo is Tango Gameworks' 2022 first-person action-adventure (Bethesda) set in a haunted Shibuya where 99% of people vanished; Akito and spirit KK fight yokai with Ethereal Weaving hand signs. Metacritic 75; Xbox and Spider's Thread update in 2023.
Ghostwriter
Ghostwriter: a professional writer producing books, speeches, or articles credited to someone else without a byline. Term coined by Christy Walsh in the 1920s; EFA median rates 25¢–$1 per word; credit is rare but increasing.
Ghostwriter (2019 TV series)
Ghostwriter (2019 TV series) is a Sesame Workshop children's mystery on Apple TV+ (Nov 1, 2019 to Oct 21, 2022, three seasons, 39 episodes), a reboot of the 1992 PBS show in which a bookstore ghost releases fictional characters and four kids must return them to their books.
Ghoṭamukha
Ghoṭamukha was a wealthy brahmin lay convert of early Buddhism, known from the Ghoṭamukha Sutta (MN 94), where the elder Udena converts him and he builds the Ghoṭamukhī hall at Pāṭaliputta.
Ghoti
Ghoti is a jocular respelling of "fish" (gh as in laugh, o as in women, ti as in nation), falsely attributed to George Bernard Shaw; the earliest confirmed use is an 1855 letter by Charles Ollier, and linguists note it violates English spelling rules.
Ghotki District
Ghotki District (ضِلعو گھوٽڪي, ضلع گھوٹکی) is an upper Sindh district of Pakistan, headquarters Mirpur Mathelo, created 1993 from Sukkur District; 1,772,609 people (2023), five tehsils, Mari and Qadirpur gas fields, and Guddu Barrage canal irrigation.
Ghoul
The ghoul (Arabic: غول) is a flesh-eating, shapeshifting demon of Arabian folklore, regarded as the most dangerous variety of jinn, believed to mislead travelers in deserts.
Ghoul (Fallout)
Ghoul (Fallout): irradiated humans in the Fallout games and Prime Video series, mutated by radiation plus an unknown genetic factor, immune to radiation sickness, long-lived, at risk of going feral; playable in Fallout 76's Ghoul Within update and embodied on TV by Walton Goggins' Cooper Howard.
Ghoul (miniseries)
Ghoul is a 2018 Netflix Indian horror miniseries, three Hindi episodes written and directed by Patrick Graham, starring Radhika Apte and Manav Kaul, set in a dystopian India where a detained terrorist is possessed by a folklore ghoul.
Ghoul (TV character)
The Ghoul, born Cooper Howard, is the Walton Goggins character in Prime Video's Fallout TV series: a pre-War Hollywood Western star and Vault-Tec spokesman mutated into a 200-year-old bounty hunter who takes a serum to avoid going feral, later added to Fallout 76's Burning Springs update.
Ghoulies
Ghoulies is a 1985 American horror comedy directed by Luca Bercovici, produced by Charles Band's Empire Pictures, about small demonic puppets summoned in a mansion; famous for its toilet poster, it spawned three sequels and a planned 2027 reboot.
Ghouta chemical attack
Ghouta chemical attack: sarin rocket strikes on opposition-held Damascus suburbs on 21 August 2013, killing an estimated 1,500; UN confirmed sarin, HRW attributed it to Syrian government forces.
Ghrelin
Ghrelin is a 28-amino-acid acylated stomach peptide hormone, the endogenous GHS-R1a ligand discovered by Kojima in 1999, named from Proto-Indo-European "ghre" (grow); it stimulates growth hormone release and hunger.
Ghrishneshwar Temple, Chatries and Other Ancient Sites
Ghrishneshwar Temple, Chatries and other ancient sites (Ghushmeshwar, Kusumeshwar): an ASI centrally protected monument group at Verul (Ellora), Maharashtra, centered on the 12th and last Jyotirlinga temple rebuilt by Ahilyabai Holkar in the 18th century, with three 17th-century Bhosale chhatries, about 1 km from the Ellora Caves.
GHS hazard pictograms
GHS hazard pictograms, also called GHS pictograms, are the standardized warning graphics of the UN Globally Harmonized System for chemical labels, black symbols in red-framed diamonds.
GHS hazard statements
GHS hazard statements, also called H statements or H-phrases, are standardized phrases describing a chemical's hazards under the UN's Globally Harmonized System, appearing on labels and safety data sheets with H-codes.
Ghulam (film)
Ghulam (ग़ुलाम, 1998) is a Hindi action drama directed by Vikram Bhatt, starring Aamir Khan as boxer Siddharth and Rani Mukerji, with music by Jatin-Lalit and the hit song Aati Kya Khandala.
Ghulam Abbas (writer)
Ghulam Abbas (غلام عباس) was an Urdu short story writer, born in Amritsar in 1909 and based in Karachi, best known for the story "Anandi".
Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor
Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor, born Peerzada Ghulam Ahmad Shah, was a Kashmiri poet, 1887 to 1952, who worked as a Patwari while writing protest poetry against Dogra rule.
Ghulam Ali (singer)
Ghulam Ali (غلام علی), born 5 December 1940 in Kaleke, Sialkot, is a Pakistani ghazal singer of the Patiala Gharana trained under Bade Ghulam Ali Khan's family, famed for "Chupke Chupke Raat Din," Bollywood playback, and Pride of Performance (1979).
Ghulam Ali Allana
Ghulam Ali Allana (غلام علي الانا, 1906–1985) was a Sindhi scholar and folklorist who published as G. Allana, compiling a 1976 bibliography of printed Sindhi books.