Ghost Riders

## Ghost Rider

**Ghost Riders**, also known as the **Wild Hunt**, are an unknown species of creature that was first mentioned in Season 5 and first introduced in Season 6 of MTV's *Teen Wolf.* They possess an unexplained connection with Hellhounds. According to Alan Deaton in the official trailer release during 2016's Comic-Con, despite popular belief that the Wild Hunt takes people, the real lore behind these mysterious creatures is that they erase people from reality.

Lydia Martin discovered the true nature of Jordan Parrish after reading a book located in the library of Beacon Hills High School, which read *"Woden's Hunt, also known as the Wild Ride or Wild Hunt. A myth of devilish riders in the sky accompanied by black dogs, spectral beasts whose eyes glowed with fire... A Bearer of Death and Guardian of the Supernatural, the black dog is also known by its more common name, the Hellhound."* *("Status Asthmaticus")*

*Teen Wolf* creator, Jeff Davis recently spoke on the Riders during an interview with *Entertainment Weekly*. Davis explained that the idea is that if you see them as them as they pass through your town, they'll take you and make you a part of the Wild Hunt; however, they don't just take the living, they take the dead as well. The Ghost Riders serve many mythological functions and there is an unlimited amount of them; this is likely due to the fact that every person they capture and erase from reality is presumed to eventually be turned into a Ghost Rider themselves. *("Radio Silence")*, *("Ghosted")*

*Teen Wolf* lead Tyler Posey also took part in an interview where he added that these monsters aren't as violent as villains they have faced in the past; they do not wish to be in Beacon Hills, and the destruction that ensues as a result of their presence is merely a consequence of them being somewhere they don't want to be. It has recently been revealed that the Ghost Riders are unable to leave a town until everyone has been taken, which means that their captured victims remain alive until they are able to leave, after which point they are apparently turned into Ghost Riders. *("Blitzkrieg")*

## Throughout *Teen Wolf*

* Season 5A
* Season 6A

In *Creatures of the Night*, the Ghost Riders were mentioned for the first time by Noshiko and Ken Yukimura to their daughter, Kira, while the three were stuck in traffic during a thunderstorm. Noshiko described the Wild Hunt as phantom hunters who would ride their red-eyed black horses in the sky during storms with their wolves and hounds at their side. When Kira asked Noshiko what the Ghost Riders hunted, Noshiko informed her that they hunted souls.

In *Status Asthmaticus*, Lydia Martin and Jordan Parrish, who were at the Beacon County Sheriff's Station after Jordan voluntarily locked himself in a cell out of fear that his yet-unknown supernatural identity could get more people hurt, were talking about their powers and how Jordan seemed to be a harbinger of death like Lydia.

Suddenly, Lydia got an idea of what supernatural species Jordan was and ran to the library at Beacon Hills High School, where she found a large bestiary that confirmed her theory—Jordan was possessed by the spirit of a Hellhound (later revealed to be known as Cerberus). The passage stated that the Wild Hunt was a myth involving "devilish riders" who flew through the sky with spectral, bestial dogs known as Hellhounds that are known for being both a bearer of death and a guardian of the supernatural.

In *Memory Lost*, when a young boy named Alex was brought to the station by Sheriff Stilinski after his parents were taken, the Sheriff sought out Scott McCall for assistance in helping Alex recover his lost memories. With Alex's permission, Scott used his claws to perform the memory-manipulation ritual on him by sticking them in the back of his neck. While digging through his memories, Scott saw Alex and his parents driving in their car on the back roads of Beacon Hills after having seen an R-rated horror movie together.
They were in the middle of discussing whether or not seeing such a scary movie was the right move for Alex when suddenly, a man on a horse appeared in the middle of the road. Terrified, Alex's parents attempted to drive away, but the man, who was wearing a long leather duster and a cowboy hat, seemingly disabled the car to prevent them from leading. He pulled a pistol from his hip holster and aimed it at the car, firing a bullet that shattered the entire windshield, allowing him to leap onto the hood of the car and pull Alex's father out of the car. Once Alex's father had disappeared, the man ripped the passenger door off of its hinges before pulling Alex's mother out as well, hitting the gear shift in the process. The man, for whatever reason, left Alex, who was hiding in the backseat, behind, and the car began to roll away on its own.
Just then, Scott returned to the present, where he informed Stilinski and Stiles that he had seen a man on a horse in the road, leading Stilinski to determine that the abduction was a human problem and not a supernatural one. However, when Scott struggled to remember the rest of the memory, Alex insisted that the man would be coming for him next.
Later, Scott and Stiles met up with Lydia Martin and Malia Tate in the Impound Lot to examine the car; since Lydia's Banshee instincts could not pick up any indication that Alex's parents were dead, and Scott and Malia's enhanced sense of smell couldn't pick up any scent that would indicate they were alive, they were all at a loss to explain what happened. After Stiles found a shard of glass that had turned bluish-green from the gun the man used, he and Scott eventually realized that it had, in fact, been a "magic" bullet that the man had used to shoot out the windshield.
The next day, Scott and Stiles went to Alex's house to investigate, not knowing that Liam Dunbar and Mason Hewitt, who were confused by the fact that their phones couldn't geolocate, would use Garrett Douglas' compass to find their way to the house as well. Scott and Stiles were confused by the fact that all of the house seemed abandoned except for Alex's bedroom, which had been cleared of any proof of his parents' existence.
When Scott went downstairs to investigate the noises he heard, Stiles had his first encounter with a Ghost Rider, who had returned to the house in hopes of erasing Alex as originally intended; when Stiles looked under Alex's bed, he saw bloody hooves but otherwise couldn't see anything until the Rider began shooting at him, forcing him to duck outside Alex's bedroom door. Once the Ghost Rider had left, Stiles and Scott returned to Alex's room to find that it had been completely emptied out, indicating that they had taken Alex from the Sheriff's station.
Outside the school, after realizing that he was the next target of the Ghost Rider as a result of seeing them at Alex's house, Stiles ran into Lydia Martin, who, unlike Scott, Malia, Liam, Mason, and Hayden Romero, was actually able to remember him. Just then, the Ghost Riders arrived in the parking lot, but Lydia was unable to see them. Stiles, who could see them, helped Lydia run away from them, and the two of them took refuge inside Stiles' Jeep; he warned her not to look at them or scream or she would risk being taken as well.
Though Stiles considered driving away, he eventually came to the conclusion that he was doomed either way and decided to spend his limited time urging Lydia to remember him once he was gone, citing their extensive history to help her hold on to his memory. Just as he reminded her that he loved her, the Ghost Riders pulled him from the car, leaving Lydia alone in Stiles' Jeep, struggling to remember what he told her.
In *Superposition*, Scott and Liam were practicing on the lacrosse field late at night when dozens of Ghost Riders began rushing over the field on their horses, though the two Werewolves were unable to see them due to their ability to only partially be present in the "real world."
Meanwhile, Mason Hewitt, Corey Bryant, Jake Sullivan, and several other students were in the science lab at Beacon Hills High School, doing an extra-credit physics lab that involved creating a magnetic putty. However, the presence of the Ghost Riders nearby caused the magnetic properties of the putty to become amplified as a result of the Riders' electromagnetokinetic abilities, alarming and confusing all of them.
Before they could question this further, Coach Finstock appeared and forced Mason and Corey to leave, walking them to the front door of the school. Just as they had left the building, Mason realized that he had forgotten his phone and ran back inside to the science lab, with Corey waiting on him to retrieve it. Corey became unnerved when the streetlights suddenly went out, which only intensified when the wind began blowing the leaves around him.
Corey pulled out his own phone and texted Mason to see if he found his phone yet before eventually becoming impatient and heading back inside to find Mason himself. Just as he called out Mason's name, the double doors to the school burst open due to the force of the wind, causing the leaves to blow into the entrance hall, startling Corey so badly that he gasped in surprise.
Not knowing what to expect, Corey reflexively pressed himself against the nearby row of lockers and used his Chimera powers to blend into his surroundings. This caused him to see everything with a greenish tint, and as he looked around, he was once again startled by the sight of a Ghost Rider walking down the hallway, which he was not able to see before he used his camouflage ability. Corey held his breath, afraid of drawing attention to himself, but the Rider was able to see him anyway, though he didn't seem to care much about his presence. The Ghost Rider walked down to the junction in the hallways, meeting up with some of his fellow Riders, where they paused before continuing on.
Upstairs, Mason had just finally reached the science laboratory, where he heard his phone buzz and went to pick it up. He unlocked his phone to find the first text Corey had sent, followed by a second that said, "They're here. Don't move." Concerned about Corey, Mason ignored this message and went to go find him, ending up in the library, where he saw Jake seemingly levitating in midair, choking as a result of some unseen force.
Mason gasped in shock, but before he could process this, Corey, still camouflaged, grabbed Mason by the arm and pulled him into the camouflage and enhancing Mason's eyesight as well so he could see that the Ghost Riders were there and were suspending Jake in the air by his neck with their whips, choking him with them. They quickly jerked their wrists, causing Jake to vanish in a puff of greenish-blue smoke. The Ghost Riders then jumped down from the balcony, landing lightly on their feet before walking toward the door, opening it with telekinesis, and making their way out of the school.
Back on the field, Liam seemed to sense that something was wrong with his best friend, Mason, and ran back to the school, with Scott following close behind him. When they caught up with Mason and Corey, the two explained that the Ghost Riders had just been there at the school, shocking the two Werewolves, who believed that the Ghost Riders had left after the storm ended. Corey went on to say that the Ghost Riders didn't seem to care about them at all and instead walked right past them, but when Scott pressed them for more details, neither Corey nor Mason could remember that they had captured Jake, instead believing that they were the only ones present when the Ghost Riders showed up, once again demonstrating their ability to manipulate memories.
Throughout the episode, Scott, Lydia, and Malia began experiencing strange events that led them to believe that they were forgetting someone important: Malia was struggling to control her Werecoyote transformations due to losing her memories of Stiles, her anchor; Scott noticed something off about a photo that was taken of himself, Malia, and Lydia during school picture day (which was that Stiles was also in the picture and had been erased) and was drawn to Stiles' old locker; and Lydia had forgotten who she was supposed to meet at school that morning and had strange, albeit incomplete, dreams about her last encounter with Stiles prior to his capture by the Ghost Riders.
The morning after they saw the Ghost Riders, Mason and Corey met in the library, where Mason shared what he had learned about the Ghost Riders-- the come in by the storm, collecting souls and riding lightning. However, Mason was confused as to why exactly they were there at the high school; realizing that they only saw the Riders in the first place as a result of Corey's powers, Mason suggested that Corey may have a special ability none of them know about. Corey went on to admit that he felt like the Riders were holding something but was frustrated that they couldn't remember what it was, leading Mason to theorize that it was *someone* and not *something.*
After school, Lydia had an intense retrocognitive premonition of the night that the Ghost Riders took Stiles, but had trouble understanding what it meant. Meanwhile, Scott went to work at the animal clinic and brought up the fact that he felt like there were holes in his memory to his boss, Alan Deaton, specifically that he took a shard of glass from the impound lot but couldn't remember why he was even there (due to both the young man they were investigating, Alex Turner, *and* Stiles both being captured).
Deaton admitted that dreams and waking dreams can be powerful tools to help trigger memories, but when Scott asked if the dreams could be connected to the Ghost Riders and the Wild Hunt, Deaton admitted that, while they were drawn to war and mayhem, he had never heard of them having anything to do with memory. Deaton went on to compare Scott's missing memories to Phantom limb syndrome, suggesting that his subconscious was trying to tell him what he was missing. When Scott asked how he was supposed to figure out what his subconscious was telling him, Deaton replied that the easiest way would be to just fall asleep.
That evening, Scott did just that, and fell asleep, only to dream of the night he was bitten and turned into a Werewolf. When he awoke, he found himself in the Beacon Hills Preserve, where that memory took place. Meanwhile, Malia awoke in her own room to find that, while she was sleeping, she opened all of her bedroom windows, took the blankets and sheets off of her bed, and made a den in the corner of her room where she fell asleep as though she was still in her coyote form. She then became confused when she got up and tripped over a bag holding the chains and restraints she used to bind herself during full moons before she learned control.
Later, Liam and Corey met up at the high school to try to form a truce out of respect for their respective relationships with Mason. Corey suggested that they work together to find a trace of the Ghost Riders to try to figure out what they were doing in Beacon Hills.
Meanwhile, Scott, Malia, and Lydia met up in the woods to compare notes about the gaps in their memories. Scott remembered the night he was bitten, but couldn't remember *why* he was out in the woods that night, and didn't understand how Sheriff Stilinski would have assumed he was out there and called out his name while he was hiding. Malia knew that she used to be locked up by someone during full moons before they started going to the Martin Lake House, but since it wasn't Scott or Lydia, she had no idea who it could have been. Lydia came to school that morning absolutely certain that she was supposed to meet someone, but she couldn't figure out who it could be.
Scott determined that he had a Scott and Stiles best friend who was with him that night; Malia theorized that someone else had chained her up during full moons and wanted her to stay human; and Lydia believed the person she was supposed to be meeting was someone she loved. Scott then guessed that they were all missing the same person, and pulled out the aforementioned picture, stating that he believed that he was seated between himself and Lydia in it. They all assumed that their lost memories were a result of the Ghost Riders erasing him from their memories.
Liam and Corey explored the library while camouflaged by Corey's powers, where they found a library card that was only visible when affected by Corey's powers. When they brought it to Mason, the human was delighted by how this correlated to their physics assignments, stating, "It wasn't there until you saw it-- then, it became real. It's Schrödinger's Cat! The quantum state of superposition. To see something is to change its very existence. It changed *reality*."
They examined the card, and Corey stated that it seemed to be a library card, only it was blank. Liam took it to the front desk in the library and swiped the card through the reader, causing Jake Sullivan's information to pop up on the screen. Once the three saw it, they suddenly remembered who Jake was, which caused the card to return to its normal state with Jake's name and photo on it. This confirmed that when Jake was captured by the Ghost Riders, he was erased from reality, just like Stiles and the Turner Family.
Finally, Scott, Lydia, and Malia went back to the animal clinic, where Deaton encouraged Lydia to use her Banshee ability of Automatic Writing to try to divine more information about who they were seeking. As Lydia entered a trance and began to write, Deaton admitted that he wasn't sure if they would be able to access their lost memories, adding, "The legend has always been that the Wild Hunt takes people. But, if what you're telling me is right, the truth is *much* worse. They *erase* people from reality." Lydia began writing furiously, and when she finally stopped, she found that she had written "mischief" over and over again on the page in a pattern that spelled out "STILES."

In *Sundowning*,
In *Relics*, The Ghost Riders targeted everyone who saw them at Scott's house, and subsequently launched an attack during a lacrosse match, where they succeeded in erasing all of those who saw them at the party except for the members of the McCall Pack and their allies.
In *Radio Silence*,
In *Ghosted*,
In *Heartless*,
In *Blitzkrieg*,
In *Memory Found*,
In *Riders on the Storm*,

## Characteristics

Not much is known about Ghost Riders as of yet, but their personalities seem to be similar to that of Cerberus insomuch as they are aloof and have no interest in anything but their target goals; any interference is met with force, but like the Hellhound, they show no real interest in engaging in fights if they can avoid it, as evidenced by the fact that they seemingly viewed Liam's futile attempts to physically defeat them as being that of a mere nuisance.

One of the Ghost Riders (presumably The Outlaw) showed curiosity when confronted by Jordan Parrish, as it somehow sensed his Hellhound nature and attempted to communicate with him before they vanished. It should be noted that, in the Bestiary consulted by Lydia Martin, the Hellhound is a part of the Wild Hunt, indicating there is a connection between the species. Though Mason believed that the Ghost Riders feared the Hellhound, in reality, they wanted it to return to them; during their first confrontation, one of the Riders shot at Parrish when he transformed into the Hellhound rather than fight him, and during their second interaction, the captured Ghost Rider attempted to communicate with him before somehow compelling Cerberus to control Parrish and aid in their escape.

Lydia Martin had a Banshee premonition that indicated that all captives of the Ghost Riders became Ghost Riders themselves, and Peter Hale seemed to confirm that this was true when he said that he and Stiles Stilinski, as captives of the Wild Hunt, were doomed to ride the skies forever. This was further supported when a Ghost Rider informed Scott McCall, Liam Dunbar, and Theo Raeken that no one resists or escapes their captivity, though this was later proven to not be absolutely true. Judging by Lydia's comments, the process through which a Wild Hunt captive goes to transform into a Ghost Rider involves having their souls hollowed out, taking every characteristic and trait that makes up the victim's identity until the only thing that is left is a walking corpse dedicated to the hunt for eternity. *("Ghosted")*

It was late revealed that the Ghost Riders technically don't exist on the plane of reality known as the "real world," which is why they can appear invisible unless they choose to allow others to see them. This also extends to other objects and people, giving them the ability to shift things into their plane of existence so that they are invisible to the human naked eye, as was proven when Jake Sullivan was erased from reality by the Ghost Riders, and one of his relics (in Jake's case, his library card) was made invisible and dropped on the floor, which Corey Bryant, a Chimera with similar powers to the Ghost Riders, pulled back into their world.

## Physical Appearance

The Ghost Riders have a much more old-western appearance. They ride horses while wearing cowboy hats and old withered clothing typical of the 1800s, while also arming themselves with supernatural pistols and whips. A Ghost Rider's face appears to be pale and heavily lined, as if scarred, and their mouths are kept shut due to numerous strips of skin stitching it together. There is also blackness where their eyes should be.

## Powers and Abilities

The Ghost Riders possess a multitude of powers, many of which have not been fully explored or defined. Part of their power comes from the fact that they technically do not reside in the "real world" dimension; they exist in the Phantom Train Station, but can interact with the real world.

* **Super Strength** Ghost Riders possess super strength, as evidenced by the fact that one easily ripped the passenger door off of the Turner family's car, and another was shown to effortlessly manhandle both Liam Dunbar and Corey Bryant at the same time. Even exceptionally strong shapeshifters such as Scott McCall, Malia Tate, and Peter Hale have been unable to do any more than simply hold their own against the Riders for brief moments before being overpowered.
* **Power Granting**: The Ghost Riders have the ability to turn humans and other supernatural creatures into more of their own kind by swarming around their target and laying their hands on them, hollowing out their soul and transforming their bodies into that of an undead Ghost Rider. This power was used by the Ghost Riders to turn Garrett Douglas into one of their own in retribution for his attempts to control them and force them to do his bidding.
* **Reality Warping**: The Ghost Riders possess a rare ability that has never before been seen in the series until their introduction—the ability to manipulate reality, specifically how others perceive reality. The Ghost Riders have used this power in a variety of ways, including:
	+ **Existence Erasure:** The most used aspect of this power that the Ghost Riders use is the ability to literally erase a person from existence. Like with reality warping, this power to erase people from existence has many aspects:
		- **Memory Manipulation**: In erasing a person from existence, the Ghost Riders possess the ability to modify and/or remove the memories of the victim in the minds of anyone who knows them. This was evidenced by the fact that everyone who knew the Turner family, Stiles Stilinski, and Phoebe forgot that they ever existed, causing their friends, family, and acquaintances to not recognize them before they were taken by the Ghost Riders. However, this power doesn't seem to work properly on people with dementia, as Elias Stilinski, during a moment of lucidity, seemed to remember Stiles and somehow know that his son's wife Claudia was supposed to be dead. Likewise, Theo Raeken, who had been trapped in a mystical underground prison, remembered Stiles upon his release, despite the fact that he had been erased from the memories of everyone else, however brief it may have been. In one case, after the Ghost Riders conjured a phantom who masqueraded as his deceased wife Claudia to distract him from the fact that they had captured his son Stiles, the Ghost Riders implanted false memories in his mind so he wouldn't question her presence. However, in general, the Ghost Riders simply allow the victims of their memory manipulation to fill in the blank places in their memories, which ultimately ended badly for them due to the fact that Scott McCall, Malia Tate, and Lydia Martin began realizing that their memories made no sense without Stiles' presence in them.
		- **Matter Manipulation**: In erasing a person from existence, the Ghost Riders can manipulate objects. This includes changing photographs to remove their victims' likeness from them and altering documents such as deeds to houses or yearbook forms to erase information about the victim, and making their bedrooms, homes, or apartments look as though they have been abandoned for an unknown amount of time. This appears to be through a form of Illusion Casting.
		- **Dimensional Shifting**: The Ghost Riders exist on a different plane of reality known colloquially as the Phantom Train Station, but are capable of manifesting in the "real world." However, because they are not of the real world, they seem to have a foot on each plane, allowing them to transport themselves back and forth along with other objects and people. This power gives them the power to make themselves and other people and objects invisible to the naked human eye while in the real world, suggesting that this power is a form of Projection.
	+ **Visual Connection**: The Ghost Riders have the ability to target individuals who have seen them, allowing them to locate these victims, capture them, and erase them from existence at a later time. This has presumably happened to numerous people, including Stiles Stilinski, the Turner family, Jake Sullivan, Phoebe, as well as everyone at the party Liam Dunbar, Mason Hewitt, and Corey Bryant threw at the McCall House.
	+ **Electromagnetokinesis**: The Ghost Riders appear to have the ability to manipulate electromagnetic energy, as evidenced by the fact that phones are unable to geolocate when they're in the vicinity, and their presence prevents compasses from being able to accurately point north; instead, the compass leads to their location. This indicates that they can control both electricity and magnetism. Their presence also causes clocks to stop and can make magnets around them more or less powerful. They were also able to prevent the Turners from driving away when one of the Ghost Riders confronted them in the road by disabling the battery that powered the car.
	+ **Atmokinesis**: The Ghost Riders have a limited ability to control the weather, allowing them to create thunderstorms, lightning bolts, and powerful gusts of wind in their location at will.
		- **Atmokinetic Teleportation**: The Ghost Riders appear to have the ability to teleport from one place to another in the blink of an eye through storm-related phenomena, as evidenced by the Ghost Riders appearing at the McCall House through a lightning strike and leaving through a powerful gust of wind. Their appearance through teleportation is typically accompanied by dry, dead leaves blowing toward their target with the wind gusts. The Ghost Riders also seem to be able to bring their victims along with them when they teleport, as well as teleporting their victims remotely to the Phantom Train Station without teleporting themselves. This form of teleportation is said to be able to bypass Mountain Ash barriers.
	+ **Telekinesis**: The Ghost Riders seem to have the ability to move objects through sheer force of will. This was demonstrated when The Outlaw opened the school doors with a simple hand gesture. However, the Ghost Riders typically rely more on their superhuman strength rather than this power.
	+ **Pathokinesis**: The Ghost Riders possess the ability to manipulate the emotions of others; so far, they have used this ability specifically to heighten aggression and violent behavior in the members of the lacrosse teams at the Beacon Hills High School lacrosse match. This fits with the mythology of the Wild Hunt, who are said to be drawn to war and mayhem.
	+ **Telepathic Communication**: The Ghost Riders have the ability to communicate with each other and their Hellhounds through a mysterious language even from a distance, and can compel Hellhounds to do what they want, as evidenced by the fact that they influenced Jordan Parrish into helping free one of their own who had been captured by the McCall Pack through their connection to Cerberus, the Hellhound spirit possessing him. They can also communicate with people who are not members of the Wild Hunt if necessary, such as when the pack captured a Ghost Rider to interrogate them on their plans. This form of communication is needed due to the fact that the Ghost Riders' mouths are seemingly sewed shut.

## Weaknesses

So far, the Ghost Riders have shown few weaknesses. They do seem to be vulnerable to Mountain Ash, as the majority of supernatural creatures are, but, like other creatures such as the Oni and Hellhounds, they can break through it with assistance, such as using their supernatural whips with enough force or compelling their Hellhound to use their fire to burn through the barrier. Additionally, they are able to bypass Mountain Ash barriers by teleporting through lightning strikes to the location they seek, though this, too, can be hindered if the Ghost Rider is in a location that is immune to lightning strikes, such as the generator the McCall Pack used to trap a Ghost Rider.

The Ghost Riders also seem to be vulnerable to Corey Bryant's Chimera power of Adaptive Camouflage, as when he is actively using this ability, he is able to see the Ghost Riders even when they appear to be invisible to the human eye, and he has also demonstrated the power to pull the Ghost Riders and the objects they have shifted out of their world back into it. This was demonstrated when Corey made tactile contact with Jake Sullivan's library card, a relic that was left behind after his capture and erasure from reality, and made it visible again, and again when he was camouflaging himself and grabbed the arm of a Ghost Rider, pulling him into their world so everyone else could see them.

Additionally, people with medical conditions that affect memories seem to have at least a partial immunity to the Ghost Riders' memory manipulation powers, as Elias Stilinski, Stiles' paternal grandfather, who suffers from dementia, seemed to remember Stiles when no one else who knew him could, and he knew that his son's wife, Claudia, was meant to be dead. Likewise, Theo was able to remember Stiles after he was released from his mystical prison, suggesting that the prison protected him from outside influences such as the Ghost Riders' powers.

Another weakness appears to be relics, or objects belonging to their victims that are somehow not erased with them. According to Lydia Martin, relics are an object with a fixed association in the past that are left behind due to a conservation of mass; such relics include Jake Sullivan's library card and the bracelet Gwen made for her sister Phoebe, both of which were found at the scene of where they were taken. It has been implied that these relics can be used to reverse the erasure of a person from reality by the Ghost Riders.

It has also been shown that, with help, people can recover their lost memories of an erased loved one through extended contact with the person; for example, speaking to Stiles through his police radio allowed Scott, Malia and Lydia to remember him, and seeing the burned Peter Hale after he returned from the Phantom Train Station allowed Scott and Malia to remember him as well. Noah Stilinski was able to recover his memories of his son Stiles by finding another one of his relics—his red yarn and push-pins—which allowed him to slowly recover more and more memories while also recovering more and more of Stiles' possessions in his bedroom. This seems to indicate that the Ghost Riders' magic can only repress memories, not take them away completely, leaving it possible to recover these memories by triggering them through various means.

Mason Hewitt has suggested that hiding underground can prevent a Ghost Rider from harming them, as the earth's surface would ground their lightning strikes and keep the Wild Hunt from getting anywhere near them. Additionally, despite being considered "dead" and unstoppable by legend, they can still be physically hurt and killed through the same means as many supernatural creatures; for example, Garrett Douglas was able to kill a Ghost Rider simply by biting a chunk out of the back of its skull before eating its pineal gland. In the final battles, Liam Dunbar and Theo Raeken fought dozens of Ghost Riders and successfully killed several of them; one died from trauma to the internal organs after being forcefully pinned between an autopsy table and the wall by both Theo and Liam, while Theo killed another by stabbing it in the throat with a bone saw, and Liam shot two with their own guns.

## Equipment

* **Supernatural Weapons**: Ghost Riders have guns that fire "magic" bullets, which shatter glass in ways a normal bullet are unlikely to do and cause the glass to turn blue or green, possibly from a muzzle flare. When a human or non-Ghost Rider supernatural creature is hit with the magic bullet in the gun, they are erased from reality and transported to the Phantom Train Station. Their whips possess the same quality when used to bind someone, and they can also be used to break through Mountain Ash barriers, though it takes a great amount of force and several thrashes before the barrier will start to be weakened. Bullets from their guns can cause a Hellhound to revert to its human form. Their whips also seem to possess a type of magical venom that can prevent wounds from healing in supernatural and pseudosupernatural creatures with accelerated healing abilities and that can kill a human after a long enough period of exposure, though this poisoning in both (pseudo)supernatural creatures and humans can be reversed with a potion made out of the nine herbs to counteract nine supernatural venoms mixed with honey. These weapons can only be wielded by a Ghost Rider (or, in Garrett Douglas' case, someone who has the powers of a Ghost Rider due to eating their pineal gland), though it appears that those who have been captured with the intention of becoming a Ghost Rider can use them if they are in the Phantom Train Station, as shown when Chris Argent stole one and used it to kill two of the Riders.
* **Horses**: The Ghost Riders, while possessing the ability to teleport, prefer to travel by riding their black horses to wherever they need to go. These horses possess their own ability to safely travel through the rifts between the real world and the Phantom Train Station even when not being ridden by a Ghost Rider, as Liam Dunbar was able to use a dead Rider's horse to get through the rift to the Phantom Train Station to help Hayden Romero and Mason Hewitt save Corey Bryant and stop the worlds from merging.

## Trivia

* The Ghost Riders were first mentioned in Season 5A's *Creatures of the Night* when Noshiko and Ken Yukimura told Kira about the Wild Hunt. This could indicate that they may have been in Beacon Hills since that time, especially considering the fact that there was a powerful thunderstorm in that episode that caused three separate bolts of lightning to strike near the Jeep where Scott McCall, Stiles Stilinski, and Liam Dunbar were parked, as well as an instance where the magnets on the McCall House refrigerator demagnetized and fell to the floor at the same time that the clock stopped, all phenomena that are known to be associated with the electromagnetic manipulation powers the Ghost Riders possess.
	+ They were then brought up again in *Status Asthmaticus*, when it was revealed that Hellhounds are associated with the Wild Hunt. It is unknown if this means that Jordan Parrish (as well as Cerberus, the Hellhound spirit within him) will play a part in the Ghost Riders' plot.
	+ It was revealed in *Radio Silence* that the Ghost Riders were in town at least as early as Season 5B's *Amplification*, as Peter was shown to have been captured by the Ghost Riders shortly after the blackout caused a lock-down at Eichen House while the McCall Pack tried to break Lydia Martin out of the facility.
* Corey Bryant has adaptive camouflage powers that are incredibly similar to that of the Ghost Riders, suggesting that he may be connected to them and that the Dread Doctors could have used their venom when they turned Corey into a Chimera.
* According to Alan Deaton, the Wild Hunt are drawn to war and mayhem.
* Based on the IMDB cast list, the three leading Ghost Riders are called The Outlaw, The Ranger, and The Enforcer.
* Garrett Douglas' red Löwenmensch eyes turned to the same bluish-green color of the Ghost Riders' energy after he ate the pineal gland of one of the Riders. It is unknown how the ingestion of the Ghost Riders' brain matter has changed Garrett's supernatural identity.
	+ It has since been proven that Garrett gained the power to use the Ghost Riders' weapons and compel Hellhounds to do his bidding.

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## References

1. ↑ Teen Wolf exclusive first look: Meet the Ghost Riders