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Ghosts is a supernatural television sitcom that first premiered on CBS on October 7, 2021. As of September 2025, the show has had four seasons. Season 4 aired on October 17, 2024. A fifth and a subsequent sixth season were confirmed, with Season 5 set to air on October 16, 2025.
Created by Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, the show revolves around Rose McIver as Samantha "Sam" Arondekar and Utkarsh Ambudkar as Jay Arondekar, who inherit the haunted Woodstone Mansion. The series also stars Brandon Scott Jones (Isaac Higgintoot), Danielle Pinnock (Alberta Haynes), Richie Moriarty (Thorfinn), and several other skilled actors who play offbeat spirits who are connected to the property.
It's set around Sam and Jay, who attempt to restore and run Woodstone Mansion as a bed and breakfast whilst cohabiting the property with a diverse group of ghosts from different eras who inhabit the property and possess supernatural powers.
Each of the ghosts with their pasts and individual powers creates both comical and emotional responses, which define the series' charm.
Ghosts: Abilities of the main Woodstone Mansion spirits
Thor (Thorfinn) - The Viking with electricity control
Thor, the Viking ghost and oldest spirit, can generate and manipulate electricity. His power stems from his death by lightning strike, giving him a profound connection to electrical currents.
This capability was revealed in Ghosts Season 1, Episode 1, when Thor used his power in a haunting ploy to scare the living couple, Sam and Jay. Thor can manipulate electrical devices and even cause electrical fires, such as burning down the couple’s gazebo, which was shown in Season 1, Episode 5.
Trevor - Physical interaction with the living world
Trevor stands out as one of the rare ghosts who has the power to tangibly move objects in the real world. Trevor can make phones, laptops, and other devices temporarily work, something not typically possessed by other spirits.
Through interaction with the material world, Trevor becomes a powerful ghost who either helps or makes things more difficult for the surviving inhabitants of the house. His power was demonstrated as early as the pilot episode of Ghosts, wherein Trevor indirectly made Sam trip by knocking over a vase.
Sass - Dream infiltration
Sass had the power to get into and impact the dreams of the living. He appears in their dream worlds, where the communication seems to be real to the dreamers, but not to others, who often consider it ghostly communication.
This capability gives Sass a special means to interact with the living world, which is unmonitored and unlimited by physical space. It was initially presented in Ghosts Season 3, Episode 2, when he used dreams to communicate with Jay and affect decisions and events.
Pete Martino - Leaving the property
One of the major powers of these spirits is Pete's power to exit the perimeters of Woodstone Mansion, something most ghosts do not have. As an ex-travel agent, Pete's power to venture outside the property is ironically practical, granting him periodic physical interaction with the external world.
Nevertheless, Pete has to come back within a short time or lose himself completely. This power brings new narrative possibilities by extending beyond the narrow ghostly domain of the mansion, as seen in Ghosts Season 3, Episode 9.
Hetty - Temporary visibility
Hetty's newly discovered power makes it possible for her to be seen among the living, but only on St. Patrick's Day. This time-specific visibility to all the people who are alive is a first in ghostly communication with the living, permitting more immediate communication, socialization, and possible progress in overcoming unfinished business.
This power was discovered in Ghosts Season 4, Episode 16, and is significant in relation to themes of culture and heritage associated with her character.
Patience - Blood manipulation
Patience is a Puritan with a bloody past and has one of the most terrifying ghost abilities, making walls bleed, and writing threatening messages in blood. This power emulates her death caused by bloodletting, and her traumatic earthly experience is transferred into her ghostly powers. It was revealed in Ghosts Season 4, Episode 2, and brought horror to the otherwise comedy-based ghost team.
Alberta - Humming to the living
Alberta's power is slightly more benign but unique: she hums, and the living can hear it. As a Prohibition-era lounge singer, this sound projection links her past persona to the present. Her humming has been a subtle form of interaction with Sam and Jay, particularly handy in swaying Sam's descendant in Ghosts Season 4.
Flower - Intoxicating touch
Flower is a 1960s hippie ghost who is free-spirited and has a peculiar power of causing a short-lived hallucinatory state in all those who go through her. This impact parallels the dizzying and surreal feeling of being under the influence, which was the case of her death, where she used hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Her power is not as practical or potent as other ghostly powers are, but it provides a humorous and comedic twist to the repertoire of ghostly powers that exist in Woodstone Mansion.
Isaac - Foul smell production
Isaac, the 19th-century ghost of Woodstone Mansion, has the unique and somewhat nasty power to release a pungent, putrid smell like sewage or rotting garbage whenever the living move through him.
This is a power directly related to the nature of his death from dysentery, so the presence of his ghost is typically received with disgust and avoidance by the living inhabitants. Though not hostile or danger-conducive, the stink becomes a humorous and slightly uncomfortable aspect of Isaac's personality trait and the series' comedy.
Additional spirits
Crash: A 1950s greaser ghost who was decapitated. His head was removed in the pilot episode, after being knocked off by Thorfinn, but was recovered in the episode Ghost Father of the Bride. He is dressed in jeans and a leather jacket, which symbolizes the traditional greaser appearance.
The Basement Ghosts: A cholera-afflicted group of people who perished in a pest house outbreak in the 19th century. They reside primarily in the basement because they look sickly, and know the heating system in the mansion. They can go upstairs, but they prefer the basement.
Carol: The widow of Pete, who turns into a ghost after choking on a donut hole during one of the Halloween parties at Woodstone Mansion in Season 3. In the third-season finale, she is engaged to Baxter.
Donna: A ghost Pete encountered in St. Lucia who was thought to have killed her husband and had escaped to the island. She was struck on the head with an early model cellphone and died. This storyline is from Season 4, when Pete learns some darker facts about Donna.
Joan: Joan is a screenwriter who lived in the 1940s Golden Age of Hollywood and is one of only a handful of spirits who can depart the mansion grounds and spend long durations there without ill consequences. She shows up in Season 4 and is known to have a Hollywood background.
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Ghosts is back for Season 5, landing Thursday, October 16, 2025, in the same 8:30/7:30 slot on CBS. Sam and Jay are still running their B&B (and now there’s this restaurant, Mahesh). And of course, they are still stuck with a bunch of ghosts floating around Woodstone Mansion.
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