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Ghostly Wail
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It's common for ghosts and spirits to make all manner of noises when they wish to communicate with the living. One such noise is otherworldly moaning or screaming. There are several reasons why a ghost may groan or shout. It could just be how ghosts in a particular setting vocalize, a sign or symptom of depression on the ghost's part, a ghost's way of warning the living about something, or an intimidation tactic. This is a staple in Gothic Horror, like all other things ghostly. Compare Death Cry Echo, Death Wail, and Our Banshees Are Louder. Polar opposite of Whispering Ghosts. May overlap with Super-Scream if it's an actual power. |
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Discussed in Halloweentown, when Grandma Aggie says ghosts are "very depressed creatures" and mimics their signature moaning so her granddaughter Sophie will know how to properly make the sound. | |
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Razzberry Jazzberry Jam: In “Phantom Of The Jam�, ethereal wailing echoes through the House Of Jam whenever the Jazzberries try to rehearse for their performance at the Masquerade Ball. This gets a big ol’ lampshade hung on it when they actually meet the ghost responsible. | |
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Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest features ghost ropes in the level Ghostly Grove, which wail as they appear and disappear. | |
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: The undead soldiers that Mr. Strange conjures up can only speak in a ghastly unintelligible shriek, which he eventually identifies as the Black Speech of Hell. | |
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EXTRAPOWER: Star Resistance: The ghosts of Stage 3 give off a ghostly wail as their death cry. | |
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Runescape: Mortals perceive ghosts' speech as incoherent wailing unless they have a Ghostspeak amulet to translate it into ordinary dialogue. | |
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Pokémon: The Ghost-type move Astonish is described as a startling shout, although it's not classed as a sound-based move. Misdreavus and Mismagius, a line of Ghost types based on banshees, naturally learn the move leveling up. |
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In A Christmas Carol, the ghost of Jacob Marley lets out a frightful cry to scare Scrooge into listening to him, unhinging his jaw for added effect. | |
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The Wolf and the Waves: This is the noise that plays whenever you switch to ghost form. | |
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Godzilla vs. Kong: A variation with Mechagodzilla's piloting supercomputer which has been fashioned out of Ghidorah's skull. Although the skull is physically just a hunk of bone with no vocal chords, it's still producing audible echoes of Ghidorah's signature roar and growls, foreshadowing that Ghidorah's consciousness is still in there. Hearing the skull's wailing is actually what draws Madison's attention to the door leading to the Skull Room in the first place, confirming that humans In-Universe can hear it too. Which makes it all the more staggering on Apex's part that they still thought it wasn't an overly-risky idea to hook the thing up to Mechagodzilla as its brain. | |
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Danny Phantom: The aptly-named Ghostly Wail is an extremely strong, destructive vocal attack that uses ecto-energy. Sounding like a legion of tortured souls all groaning and moaning at the same time, it is the most powerful ability of both Danny and his evil future self and is unique to them. The weather ghost Vortex can let loose a ghostly sonic shriek, a sub-power of the above-mentioned Ghostly Wail but only slightly less powerful. |
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Fable: The wraithlike Screamers have a permanent Ghostly Gape and a shriek that inflicts Life Drain. | |
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Fatal Frame: Being a ghost-fighting Survival Horror series, there are ghosts that do this when confronted. | |
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The Haunting of Hill House (2018): Nell's attempts to communicate as a ghost only come through as distorted groans and wails, coupled with a Ghostly Gape. Zig-zagged in the finale when Nell gathers enough presence of mind to speak clearly. | |
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: Very loud wails from the costumed antagonists, most of whom were ghost-based, are quite common. This also happens in later entries in the franchise from time to time. | |
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The LEGO Movie: Played for Laughs. Vitruvius' ghost form was clearly meant to be funny, seeing as the animators deliberately made him appear to be dangling from a string. The hilarity is ramped up by him doing a silly "oooooh" sound as he leaves. | |
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John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme: There's a sketch in which the ghosts of Emmeline Pankhurst and Albert, a soldier who died in World War II, explain their thoughts about voting. It ended like this: | |
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