Steve Griggs

**Steve Griggs** was a teenager in the 1970s who was decapitated by very sharp barbed wire after he fell off a wall on the edge of the Carlton Cottage property. He is friends with Harold, Calvin, Chapman, Judge Custard and Robert.

## Steve Griggs

### Relatives

Joe Griggs (brother) Marilyn Griggs (mother) Bertram Griggs (father) Katey Griggs (sister)

### Affiliation

Shane Hill School, Carlton Cottage Ghosts

## Biography

### Life

Steve was born in 1961 and had an older brother named Joe who was born three years before him. Steve and Joe both got on very well, but Joe was still cooler and had more friends. Steve’s younger sister was born six years after him, in 1967, and both Steve and Joe found her a little irritating. Steve lived in Shane Hill Village with his parents, who both worked at the local grocer’s named Griggs’ Grocers. Steve and Joe both helped out there from time to time and Joe got a proper part time job there whilst he was at university. One time when Joe was home from university when Steve was seventeen, he invited Steve to come out with him for a party and gathering with his friends. However, Steve was supposed to be looking after his sister that night because both his parents were out. Joe and his mates had got their hands on some alcohol, some of which Steve consumed. After this, he needed to urinate, so wandered away from the main group to find a tree. However, he accidentally ended up on Carlton Cottage grounds, and then couldn’t find his way out again. This inspired him to try and climb over a wall on the edge of the property, but he overbalanced due to the influence of the alcohol, and fell off the wall, his neck being entirely severed by some extremely sharp barbed wire. Joe and a couple of his mates found the corpse when they went looking for him after he’d been gone for some time. Jacob Sandwich, the owner of Carlton Cottage at the time, reported the death to the police and it was declared as death by misadventure and Sandwich got in no trouble for the death.

### Death

Steve isn’t exactly one of the main ghosts around at Carlton Cottage, but he is quite key as he is around every few weeks. He has a rather annoying problem that his head is separate from his body as a ghost, meaning it is often falling off. Henry mentions in the first episode that the longest Steve ever had his head on for was four years between 1989 and 1993 when he made sure to be much more careful about moving to ensure it didn’t fall off, but eventually his body lost the head again. When Hannah Linton passed away, and Henry and Jennifer gathered everyone for a death ceremony, they couldn’t find Steve’s body to put his head on, so instead had Calvin hold onto it for them so he had a decent view of what was going on. Steve was again misplaced when Calvin was distracted by something and left the head on a table somewhere in the house. This meant that Steve only found out about Jack and Rosie Holmes’s arrival when they started looking around the house. Steve and Calvin were very good friends whenever Steve was around or had his head on and the two were also friends with Martin.

## Personality

Steve is quite relaxed and doesn’t get annoyed by much, except for when his body doesn’t look after him properly. He is relatively calm and is friendly towards others, ghosts and livings. He is grumpy sometimes when his body particularly screws up and may just miss him, but is often in a good mood when he is around.

## Relationships

### His family

Steve was always nice to his family but found his little sister irritating at times, but always looked up to Joe. He wouldn’t always obey his parents, but wasn’t exactly badly behaved. If there was an argument between Steve and his parents, he’d often sulk afterward and wait for a punishment, but they were quite lenient and fair on him, meaning Steve was good to them too.

### Calvin Briars and Judge Custard

Calvin and Martin are both a little scandalous, Martin more so than Calvin, but both of them are friends with Steve now that they are trapped together as ghosts. Calvin approves of Steve’s clothing, especially the denim jacket, so the two get on well. Although Martin’s sleazy demeanour and know-it-all mindset are annoying, he too can be friendly and is always friendly to Steve. Along with Chapman, they are the four most recently dead of the main ghosts (Majorie Linton is rarely seen) and this may be why they all get along so well.