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An Astral Projection, Not a Ghost
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A character who looks, feels, and talks like a ghost turns out to be a living person's out-of-body experience. Common variations include: The "ghost's" body merely lies in a Convenient Coma, but they don't know that and fervently believe themselves to be actually dead (especially if they Never Found the Body). A soul-body reunion in the end can help avoid what would otherwise become a Downer Ending. A Haunted House turns out to be the one a character always sees in their dreams... because they are the one haunting it. The character is capable of projecting an astral form and pretends themselves to be a ghost in order to scare off someone. A Sub-Trope of The Reveal and an Inverted Trope of sorts to Dead All Along. As this is a revelatory trope most of the time, spoilers will be found ahead. |
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In Adventure Time, Jake is being visited by the ghost of his father in a dream, when his brother shows up. Jake is disturbed because of how this means that his brother is dead, but his brother laughs it off and tells him he's just astral projecting. | |
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Who Are You? is an I See Dead People story about a cop who wakes up from a six-year coma and finds out that she can now see ghosts, who give her help in solving their murders. But episode 13 establishes that she can also see the astral projections of people in comas. That quickly becomes plot-relevant when her old boyfriend, believed to have been killed in the stakeout-gone-bad that put her in a coma, is revealed to have also been in a coma for all these years. | |
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The horror novel Jago has a sequence where a group of people performing a seance receive a message from the other side trying to warn them about the villain; the spirit giving the warning is actually the novel's heroine, who has been temporarily separated from her body. | |
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Tiffany in Eerie Cuties Chapter 6 was accidentally stabbed with a sword in the gut and became a "ghost", a little too freaked out to notice lack of visible bleeding. Later a vampire bite ("No sense letting a good meal go to waste!") snapped her back into her own body. Of course, this only means Tiff switched to mistaking herself for a vampire until she was told about the "astral projection sword" at the end of next chapter. | |
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The Ghost and Molly McGee: Wraiths are what happens when someone loses their soul, losing all meaning in life. The series finale reveals that Scratch, the titular ghost, is one; his human body is Todd Mortenson, a recurring extra who facially resembles Scratch. | |
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In a 2 episode arc on Haven, Nathan vanishes into thin air and discovers that he is a "ghost", along with several other people (the show has had ghosts before, so this is not that unbelievable). However, as time passes Audrey figures out that they are not ghosts, instead they are a result of someone's Trouble which can turn people (that she takes a picture of) intangible and invisible. | |
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Poledra in The Belgariad appears occasionally as a ghost to aid the main characters, having died in childbirth some three thousand years previously. At the end of the Malloreon, she reveals she never really died at all, but faked it in order to carry out a vague plan to help uphold The Prophecy. | |
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Harry Potter does this in the Dangerverse fics. When Luna (who is a Seer and can thus see Harry's astral form) first encounters Harry, she is absolutely terrified for a moment. It doesn't help that the last time anyone had seen Harry, he'd been suffering from a sudden and debilitating lupus flare-up. | |
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An elderly woman on Fringe believes that she's seeing the ghost of her dead husband in her apartment. What she's really seeing is her husband's double in another universe. As a widower, he's having much the same experience. | |
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In Constantine (2014), a spirit possessing children and killing their parents for the last few decades is originally believed to be the spirit of a dead child. While it is indeed a child's spirit, he isn't dead. After killing his abusive parents, his soul was unable to stand to trauma and fled his body, leaving it in a catatonic state. At the end of the episode, his soul and body are reunited in a high-security psych ward where he'll receive some much-needed counseling. | |
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Misao from Asura Cryin' is initially believed to be a ghost accompanying the main character before it is revealed that she is very much alive, but serves as the main power source of the Asura Machina under the main characters control. | |
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A girl in Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit ends up this way after drinking wine with a magical flower in it. | |
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Subverted in Darkest Powers. Liz is in denial over her death and believes that she is an astral projection because she can move objects. It turns out she is dead but activated her Puberty Superpower - telekinesis - posthumously. | |
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The Dresden Files: In Ghost Story, Harry assumes that he himself is a ghost, the same as many other characters in this book, which in this universe means being a mere memory or echo of the real (dead) person. It turns out that he is having an out-of-body experience while Queen Mab and Demonreach heal his body. | |
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One of the hauntings dealt with in Supernatural some time in season three turns out to not be a spirit, but the projection of a girl in a coma. | |
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In a sketch on The Benny Hill Show Benny plays a man who literally dreams of going out partying at night, getting away from his harridan of a wife. Then one day he's out in the daytime he happens by the very same place he goes in his dreams. Amazed, he knocks on the door. A bunch of women answer. | |
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At least one episode of Ghost Whisperer featured this; a "ghost" turns out to be a hiker who was in a coma and occasionally flatlining, during which times he was able to appear to Melinda. Eventually he prevents the doctors from reviving him so that he could become a full ghost in order to help Melinda save his brother. | |
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The ghost in The Time of the Ghost by Diana Wynne Jones turns out to be one of these. | |
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In the midst of all the actual ghosts in Psychic Detective Yakumo, one apparent ghost turns out to be the projected spirit of a terminally ill but still-living girl, whose anxiety about her impending death causes her to project her spirit to other people at night while she's sleeping. | |
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The X-Files: In the episode "The Walk", a quadruple amputee uses astral projection to commit a series of murders. | |
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Late in the manga of Ghost Sweeper Mikami, it's revealed that Okinu's physical body still remains intact, preserved by the mountain's cold. She's later able to return to it and to life, albeit temporarily losing her memories of the time she was a ghost. | |
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Ghost Dad reveals at the end that Bill Cosby's character Elliot, apparently a ghost, is actually in a coma in the hospital and that the "ghost" is a projection that he's been controlling from the hospital bed. His daughter also becomes a ghost after being knocked unconscious, albeit briefly. The ability is said to be genetic, as it also happened to Elliot's father while celebrating his son's ninth birthday, leaving his body trapped in a bunny suit for a week. | |
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In Jackie Chan Adventures, when Jade activated the talisman that enables astral projection, she initially thought she was dead. | |
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In The Disastrous Life of Saiki K., Kusuo uses astral projection to punch the ghost of Nendo's dad. Toritsuka briefly believes Kusuo died, but soon realizes the truth. | |
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In The Garden of Sinners, the ghostly antagonist of the first chapter/movie turns out to be an out-of-body experience of a bedridden, blind girl named Fujou Kirie. | |
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Soap ended with many plot threads hanging, including Jessica about to be shot by a firing squad in Central America. Next season, she shows up on spinoff Benson as a ghost which only Benson can see. But then she finds out she's not really dead, she's just in a coma in a Central American hospital. | |
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A minor character in The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service uses her astral form to impersonate a ghost to make the inhabitants of an apartment think it's haunted. | |
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In Poppy O'Possum a monastery is attacked by a dragon during a school field trip, at one point a monk checks in on where the kids were hiding using astral projection and is mistaken for a ghost. Then the dragon kills his body, making him an actual ghost. | |
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Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy (Everlost, Everwild, and Everfound) has this as a plot point. | |
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In CLANNAD, there are rumors around the school that Fuuko Ibuki is really a ghost since she never seems to actually attend classes, but she's actually an Astral Projection due to her body being comatose since her first day of high school. | |
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Mavis Vermillion in Fairy Tail is eventually revealed to be an astral projection rather than a spirit like most of Fairy Tail thought. In fact, she's actually an immortal trapped inside of a Lacrima crystal for nearly 100 years using the projection to interact with her guild. And that's just the first part of revelations about the character in question. | |
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Doctor Who: In "Day of the Daleks", the ghosts the Doctor is asked to investigate turn out to be time-travelers from the 22nd Century making "an unstable transfer" into the 20th. (The rebels need a "stable point" which exists in both 20th and 22nd centuries. Auderley House no longer exists in their time, but a nearby tunnel does.) In "Army of Ghosts", the ghosts appearing all over the world are actually an army of Cybermen trying to come to Earth from their home dimension. |
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André Maurois' short story "The House". A woman repeatedly dreams of a house. One day she finds the house she's been dreaming of but the people who live there are frightened of her. When she dreamed of the house she appeared there as a ghost. The story was made into a segment of the Night Gallery show. | |
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In Herbert's Others, Nick "Dis" Dismas receives a nightly visit from several bodily deformed apparitions - not ghosts, but ethereal projections, sent by a psychic among them. | |
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Sunday Without God has Cute Ghost Girl Dee, however, while Ai initially believes she's dead, she's actually alive, and the reason she appears as a ghost is because her physical body is trapped by the seal over Ostia, the "Groundhog Day" Loop created by her classmates of Class 3-4, and while within the seal she has a physical body. | |
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Oz: At the very end of the episode "Laws of Gravity", Jeremiah Cloutier was able to appear as an apparition into the solitary confinement cell of Jaz Hoyt and Hoyt is absolutely terrified at the image as a result despite Cloutier being unable to move his own body due to third degree burns over 90% of his body. | |
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In Geist, protagonist John Raimi spends most of the game as a ghost after his body and soul are separated at the start of the game. His empty body ends up being hijacked by a demon. | |
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In Beneath the Clouds the evil spirit possessing the Emperor turns out to be the spirit of the main character Genza, whose bitterness and resentment at being exiled created a living spirit. He sacrifices himself to exorcise the spirit. It is implied that Genza's sacrifice redeemed him, as he's reunited with his late wife in the afterlife. | |
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In Just Like Heaven, it turns out that Elizabeth (Lauren in the book) is actually in a coma, and the protagonists have to get her 'ghost' back into her body before the hospital takes her off life support. | |
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In The Invisible, Nick is severely beaten by Annie and her friends, and finds that no one seems to notice him the next day, and changes he makes in the world reset as soon as he looks away. He initially believes himself to be a ghost, but eventually learns that his body is critically injured, but still alive, and that he's having an Out Of Body Experience, with only Annie able to perceive him. | |
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In the second level of Ghost Hunter, there are some strange ghosts which the capture grenade does not work on. Later on you find out that they are astral projections of the local hillbillies. | |
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In The 4400 episode "Audrey Parker's Come and Gone", the title character suffers from a variation of this. Her 4400 ability is to astral project, but while she's on one of her projections, she's murdered. Her disembodied self is able to persist for a little while outside of her body, allowing her to act as a "ghost" who communicates through machines. | |
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The Legend of Korra: Kai has a brief freak out when Jinora astral projects into his cell, though she reassures him that it's just a high-level airbending and spiritual technique, she's not a ghost. | |
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Doctor Strange: Given how often Doctor Strange uses Astral Projection, this sort of thing is inevitable. As a master of the art, he never mistakes astral forms for spirits of the deceased, and he has to make a conscious effort to render himself visible to normal sight. When he does so, other (non-mystic) characters will often refer to his astral form as his 'creepy ghost.' He uses this effect on one occasion to convince a bank robber he will be haunted forever unless he releases his hostages and surrenders. It works... apparently the "criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot" trope is not franchise-specific. | |
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Koichi in Digimon Frontier is stated by Crusadermon to only be a ghost. Since the Digital World runs on Narnia Time, his body back in the human world hasn't died yet. | |
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Psycho Busters: The hero initially mistakes the astral projection of one of his soon to be allies for a ghost. A sexy naked ghost. | |
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In the Towers Trilogy, Xhea is tasked with dealing with a ghost, Shai, who claims that she is not dead, only sleeping. Xhai initially thinks Shai is just in denial, but soon notices that she is different from ordinary ghosts. Shai is in fact technically still alive, just separated from her body. She later becomes an actual ghost once her body dies. | |
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Given a twist in INVADERS of the ROKUJYOUMA!?, where Cute Ghost Girl Sanae turns out to be a mass of spiritual energy that split off from a powerful psychic and was concentrated enough to retain her personality and appearance. In book 11 she and the human Sanae are forced to recombine, after which she acts like the timid "Sanae-san" around family and the energetic "Sanae-chan" around her friends. She still takes on Sanae-chan's younger appearance while astrally projecting, though in later books she learns how to leave Sanae-san behind in her body as a Literal Split Personality. | |
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Happens to Ash Ketchum and Pikachu in the Pokémon: The Original Series episode "The Tower of Terror" after getting struck by a falling chandelier. As the three Ghost Pokémon show them what it's like to be ghosts, Ash befriends Haunter and, after being reunited with his body, asks him to help him against Sabrina back at Saffron City. | |
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One of the main cast of the M.M.O. City of Heroes is Numina - the astral projection of a mage who takes on a lot of ghost like qualities. However said astral projection out lived her body and so now she is a ghost for all intents and purposes, just not one limited to or corrupted by obsession with unfinished business. | |
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In Mob Psycho 100, a ghost peeking at one of the clients through the window turns out to be an astral projection of a psychic. | |
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Played with in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Next Phase". Geordi and Ro wander the halls of the Enterprise thinking they're dead, but in reality they're under the influence of an experimental Romulan phasing cloak that makes them invisible and intangible. | |
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