Cholera ghosts

The **cholera ghosts** are a group of ghosts who died of cholera and now reside in the basement of Woodstone Mansion. They appear in the American sitcom *Ghosts*.

## Biography

### History

They were all people that were infected with cholera and placed in a pest house. They were told that they would stay here to be treated only for to be locked inside and trapped. They either starved, died of the illness, suffocated, or a combination of the three and became ghosts trapped in the basement. They know very much about the heating system due to the mechanics that would work in the basement.

### Death

Right after they died, they either were buried in a cemetery or disposed in a waste pond due to being in a pest house. They haunted the land and subsequent settlements alongside Sass, Thorfinn, and Isaac due to them being older ghosts until Woodstone Mansion was eventually constructed directly over their plague pit. The ghosts then remained in the cellar despite not being trapped down there as they were more comfortable together; they have no objection to the other dead which haunt the house but do not often interact with them.

Over the years they learnt everything there was to know about the equipment in the basement and have become particularly knowledgeable about the old boiler for the house, that when Jay arrives and tries to fix it using the internet they do attempt to instruct Jay clearly about how to repair the boiler but it is ultimately pointless since he can't hear them.

While they took absolutely no part in Isaac's plan to get Sam and Jay out of the house and are unaware of Sam falling down the stairs, they don't seem overly surprised or shocked when she freaks out upon seeing them for the first time; they're more curious and puzzled about the word 'zombie'. Her ability does come in highly useful though when Jay forgets to turn the lever off meaning the cellar was slowly being filled with gas as they repeat 'red lever' over and over again desperately to try and warn them, Sam then screams this at her husband and the lever is shut off letting all the cholera ghosts breath a sigh of relief. They hope Sam & Jay keep the lights on but get disappointed when they turn it off again.

Later on in Viking Funeral, Isaac tries to convince the cholera ghosts to elect him as head of the house ghosts, but eventually they instead decided to vote in one cholera victim Creepy Dirk instead, causing neither Alberta or Isaac to win.

Pete goes to the cholera pit in Sam's Mom to ask any of the ghosts to pretend to be his girlfriend to prove to the other ghosts that he doesn't have a crush on Alberta. The only one who is willing to volunteer is Nancy, who tells Pete that there will be no touching or any real romance and that it just pretend. Eventually, Nancy would lie and tell the upstairs ghosts that she and Pete met after asking her for sex and for having knowledge about the water heater. Pete, wanting Nancy to leave and return to the cholera pit, "breaks up" with her and Nancy tells Pete she's proud of him before returning back to the basement.

They later briefly appear in Farnsby & B where they notice termites eating the wood then an follow up appearance in Spies occurred.

## Known ghosts

* Nancy
* Stuart
* Creepy Dirk
* Ralph

## Quotes

* Sam: "There's a bunch of zombies down here"
Cholera Ghost: "Zombies? Zombies aren't real"' (Hello!)
* Nigel: "We're ghosts. We all died of cholera."
Cody: "It wasn't great"(Hello!)
* Nancy: "Oh,no, do not tell me to calm down. You gave me cholera, Stuart."(Sam's Mom)

## Trivia

* They are the American version of the plague ghosts.
* Since they died between 1832 and 1870s, they would have been alive during the presidencies of Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison (though it is doubtful because Harrison died 30 days into office), John Tyler, James Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, or Ulysses S Grant.
* Unlike the plague ghosts, the actors who play them are different from the actors who play the upstairs ghosts.
* It is unknown if they all knew each other or were complete strangers before getting cholera.
* They don't like the ghosts living upstairs calling them rude and mean. Then they call the upstairs too bright and airy.
* Supposedly Stuart gave Nancy cholera.
* They sleep standing up as noted in Spies.
* Ralph is a teenage ghost that gets together with Stephanie in Woodstone's Hottest Couple.
* It is unknown if the African American Cholera Ghosts such as Nigel were freedman if they got cholera or were slaves that got cholera and send to the North to be quarantined and prevent infecting other slaves.

## References

1. ↑ There were only 4 major cholera outbreaks in the United States.