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There are no tales of the supernatural older or more iconic than
ghost stories. A part of every culture, ghost stories range from chilling
tales to horrific stories filled with violence. But, they are always told,
in every era, around the globe.
Some ghosts have needs and wants any human can identify
with. Their voices echo from beyond the grave; the spirits cannot
reach out and grasp what they need, not without help. Though they
use frightening powers to reach into the human world, ghosts are
ephemeral and often invisible to the human eye. Some humans
(and hunters) don’t necessarily believe in ghosts, until they have
an encounter with one. When they do, the spirits seem far away
— except in a few haunted places where Death has carved out a ter-
ritory in the living world.
While ghosthunters, skeptics, and hunters may spend their
lives debunking urban legends or fighting poltergeists, there are
people who can walk amongst the ghosts. Those who do are not
ghosts themselves, but have been touched by them. They are called
by many names — the haunted, Fog Men, or revenants — none of
which accurately captures what these people are. A common term
most hunters use for these individuals is “ghostwalker.”
Ghostwalkers walk the line between life and death, the living
and the dead. They are mediums and psychopomps, haunts and
horrors — and more. To the dead, a ghostwalker can be its best friend
or worst enemy. To a hunter, she can be a valuable ally or a nightmare
made flesh.
Despite what hunters might believe after seeing their powers in
action, ghostwalkers are living, breathing humans who have crossed
the threshold of death. These haunted men and women dance
between the worlds of the living and dead. Hunters who encounter
them are presented with an enigma. Not only do they strive to identify
what a ghostwalker is, many aren’t sure what to do about them.
Wherever ghostwalkers tread, ghosts soon follow; the haunted
find their way into many a chilling ghost story. For hunters, these
people complicate their ghost hunts, or become just the tool they
needed to succeed in their task. Ghostwalkers tend to circulate
wherever ghosts linger on; hunters may be surprised that, when
they visit a tainted location, they’ll face ghosts as well as people
who seem to affect them, two different denizens of the supernatural
world. A simple haunting, or full blown nightmare, becomes
anything but when ghostwalkers appear. They flaunt many rules of
the supernatural world, rules hunters believe can’t be broken.
For all these reasons and more, ghostwalkers present a moral
dilemma to hunters whenever they’re included in a chronicle. After
all, some hunters won’t accept help from a ghostwalker, and may try to
kill them. That is, if dying is even possible for them; such things as life Angels, and ministers of grace,
and death begin to blur whenever ghostwalkers are involved.
defend us!
Be thou a spirit of health,
A Shrouded Past Bring with thee airs from
or goblin damn’d.

Compared to vampires, werewolves, or better known monsters, heaven, or blasts from hell.
ghostwalkers really don’t have a storied history that’s known to Be thy intents wicked
outsiders. There are no myths of ectoplasm-bleeding psychopomps, or charitable.
though some hunters may study mythology and recognize a little Thou com’st in such a
evidence here and there. questionable shape,
In Egyptian mythology, Osiris was torn to pieces, and became That I will speak to thee.
a Lord of the Dead. Dionysius, according to certain Greek - William Shakespeare,
mystery cults, also ruled there, too. Both figures possessed other “Hamlet, Act I, Scene IV”