Ethel Walters

Ethel Walters, also called "Ethelita"/"Senorita Ethelita" by Uncle Charlie, or just Ethel, is a minor character in the SHTM series, who debuts in Battle Of the Bones. She is specifically the Screeching Ghost animatronic from Lowe's sold during the 2023 Halloween season, and one of the Lowe's animatronics that debuts in the installment (alongside Virginia "Ginny", Clown on Stilts, Don't Fear The Reapers Band, Black Widow, Musical Band Duo, Cemetery Angel and Lunging Crimson Girl). 
Character History: 
Ethel Walter was born in New York during the 1970's, her mother being a prostitute and her father being a businessman. Growing up in the sleaziest parts of New York City made Ethel a tight-knit, hot-tempered and full of sass as a young girl. She was very defensive at a young age, and even bullied some other kids due to the way she was raised. But her parents didn't care, Ethel was their little girl. 
When Ethel got into high school, her appearance just couldn't go unnoticed. She was popular, no doubt about it, and was a "plastic", mainly insulting others for the way they were raised, and saying she was "superior". However, deep inside, she was a sweet person and would beat anyone's ass if she had the chance to. 
After Ethel had graduated high school, due to savings from her father's account ad with his permission, Ethel was finally allowed to get into college! Her sights were mainly on being a fashion designer/model, and she took mainly clothing design and cosmetology courses, along with the occasional and boring foreign language, math and science courses. Soon enough, her senior year of college had just come across in the year 1994, and the year was rapidly coming to a close. It was Ethel's first ever school/college party she'd attended. She was super excited! Ethel made sure she bought the perfect dress, put on the perfect makeup, made her hair EXTRA straight, and made especially sure that she looked BEAUTIFUL. And of course, she did! Now all that she had to do was find a date, and this night would surely be one to remember! 
When Ethel arrived at the dance, she met a handsome and dashing young student by the name of Colin Edwards, who was also junior, a year younger than Ethel, and enrolled in the university to study law and business. Despite the one year age gap, Ethel treated him with respect, and that is what she got in turn. The young couple danced the night away, having alcohol and laughing lots. Colin even offered to take her on a nice romantic stroll in the woods before they got back to their dorms! Of course, Ethel couldn't refuse, and she agreed to what would later lead to her unfortunate demise.... 
On the stroll in the woods, surrounded with shady trees and hooting owls at every corner, Colin and Ethel stumbled upon Riverbow Lake, which was cold during the night. Colin suggested that the two should go for a swim, picking Ethel up in his arms, her legs kicking and her voice laughing. "Stop Colin, don't touch my dress, I paid a lot for it, that's expensive, you idiot!" Ethel said before Colin threw her into the lake. Laughing, she also pulled him into the lake, and the two young lovers exchanged laughs, splashing each other and pushing each other into the lake, getting out once they were done. Unfortunately, Colin had to go to his dorm, as his roommate yelled for him, leaving Ethel alone. One problem though- Ethel couldn't swim...Colin made a big mistake leaving her alone in a lake.... Ethel screamed for help in bloody murder as her legs touched the bottom of the water, her body drowning. Minutes later, she never screamed again... 
Her parents seemed a little upset that Ethel didn't call them after the party, and knew that something was up. This wasn't normal for Ethel to do, and so they made and set up multiple missing persons posters all over the town, but to no avail, nobody found the poor young adult...Until two teenagers decided to go for a swim during that same summer and found the body of a young woman in a red dress, her hair damp and wet and her face cracked. The body was sent for an autopsy, and it was confirmed that she was dead, drowned, and was identified as Ethel Walters. They broke the news to her parents, and they were awfully devastated. Her funeral was held days later, but that wasn't the end for Ethel...To this day, her scorned spirit still searches for her love, and her screams sound exactly like her last as she lunges forwards constantly....That was until a certain lord of ravens approached and inhabited her soul into an animatronic...Not at Spirit, but at Lowe's exactly.... 
Animatronic History: 
Ethel is heavily based off of and exactly resembles/portrays the Pneumatic Screeching Ghost/Creepy Girl sold at Lowe's during the 2023 Halloween season. She is one of the three animatronics including pneumatics (including herself, Gramps and the clown). Her producer is Seasonal Vision International, who also made the pneumatic clown, as well as countless clown animatronics made for Spirit. Pneumatics are air pressure mechanisms, allowing the props to move violently. Professional companies such as Distortions Unlimited and Poison Props use pneumatics, but Lowe's hired some basic companies (such as Tekky and SVI) to utilize pneumatics in their lineup. As a result, three animatronics were produced including the mechanism, the Pneumatic Clown, Thrashing Gramps/Gramps, and Ethel/Screeching Ghost. Her movement is lunging forwards violently, and she moves to violent feminine screaming (original; not the screams used in Twitching Banshee or Molly, thank the Lord). Her base is very large, similar to Tekky Design's Mr. Dark (sold at Spirit for the 2021 and 2022 seasons), probably due to her mechanism/pneumatics. Her screaming audio was filtered and echoed in BOTB, to fit the fact that Ethel died while screaming and drowning. She was criticized by haunters (including Bluey; the creator) for her price ($391) and how slow her pneumatic movement is, saying Lowe's "totally jipped us with this one".