wraith

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The original Beetlejuice, which starred Michael Keaton as an obnoxious wraith hired to help scare away a house's pretentious inhabitants, was released back in 1988.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2023

Tom Skerritt moves through “East of the Mountains” like a hobbled wraith.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2021

Finally back home, she was … weird — an insomniac “wandering around the House at all hours like a soundless wraith… In the morning her children sometimes found her unconscious in unexpected places.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2020

No such strategies can keep the Lyceum’s own pervasive Mina, the vengeful wraith of a murdered girl who haunts the theater, from infiltrating Bram’s thoughts.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2020

In the curved hallway mirror I flit past, a red shape at the edge of my own field of vision, a wraith of red smoke.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood