Zashiki Warishi, a young Japanese boy is responsible for poltergeist activity in a whole neighborhood in Tokyo, while in the mountains, the ghost of Yama Uba is a blamed for the disappearance of small children.
Mount Everest is haunted by the ghost of climber Andrew Irvine who died there in 1924. His phantom ghost shares tents with climbers and encourages them to make the final ascent. The ghost was first reported by Dougal Haston and Doug Scott in September 1975 and has been seen several times since.
India
Brahmadaitya is ghost of an unmarried Brahmin monk who takes up residence in a tree after death, but the bitchy boogey will break people's necks if they trespass his property.
Pretas are the rooming ghosts of Hindu men who died by violence and whose corpses were disposed of "unceremoniously."
Mumiai is a Indian poltergeist that invades homes throughout Bombay, while Virikas are small spirits that appear surrounded by a reddish mist and make guttural sounds.
Paisachi and Bauta are male and female ghosts who haunt so many homes that they have been given nicknames.
Australia
Important cases from New South Wales are the Old Government House in Parramatta, the Quarrantine Station in North Head, and the Rookwood Cemetery.
Cases from Victoria include the ghost of Frederick Baker, who died of a heartattack while playing Mephistopheles in "Faust" at the Princess Theatre in Melbourne, the spirits of the Old Melbourne Gaol (Jail), and the Block Arcade, which is haunted by three firemen who lost their lives trying to put out a fire that erupted in a grain storage warehouse that used to stand on the spot.
Another haunted spot in Melbourne is the Victoria Market, which is built right on top of Melbourne's first cemetery. Reports of ghostly encounters at the market go back to the 1840's and continue to this day.
Brisbane in Queensland is the most haunted city in Australia and locations covered from that city will include the Old Government House, the Parliament House, the Brisbane Arcade, and City Hall, where at least three ghosts haunt the hallways. One is an elegant woman, another a maintenance man who continually rides the elevator that killed him in a freak accident, and the last is an American sailor stabbed to death in a fight with another sailor in the downstairs tearoom.
Brisbane cemeteries are also hotspots of paranormal activity.
Lutwyche Cemetery ghosts are presaged by the smell of death.
Singing white lights haunt Toowong Cemetery, and apparitions dart across the roads in Bridgeman Downs Cemetery.
However, Australia's best documented ghost is known simply as the Ghost of the Outback. It has been seen scores of times in a clearing near Corroboree Springs, which is about 100 miles from Alice Springs. The short dark-featured spirit is thought to be a member of the Arunta Aboriginal Tribe, which used the site for secret and occasionally fatal intitiations.
Sydney Opera House Four ghosts call it home.
Tasmania
Cases include the Theatre Royal ghost in Hobart and the floating apparitions of Royal Hobart Hospital.
West Australia Fremantle Museum has three ghosts of former prison inmates who erected the building under forced labor.
Every resident of the town of Stawell has reported seeing the 8-foot-tall phantom of a man who stays near one particular house in town.
A stone building known as the Garth on the bank of the South Esk River just outside Fingal in Tasmania is haunted by the angry ghost of a settler who hanged himself when the bride he sent for from England jilted him.
Canada
Toronto, residence of William Lyon Mackenzie haunted by ghostly footfalls on the stairs.
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Christ Church Cathedral the apparition of the first bishop's wife materializes.
The Firkins' House in Heritage Park in Fort Edmonton, Alberta, which haunted by the presence of a friendly young man, the son of one of the early owners.
Agassiz, British Columbia, an old remodeled farm house
Crashes have been heard when nothing was wrong. There have been sounds of old music playing around where a stove used to be in the living room. It sounded
like it was coming out of the wall. One mid afternoon a smoky mist formed in mid air and then dissolved. People would wake up at night to music playing or say that someone had touched their legs. They've also heard I glass smashing and the basement door dragging open and shutting.
A benevolent presence haunts the Vogue Theatre Vancouver.
The ghost of an Indian Chief is seen on the Sarcee Reservation and the apparitions of two men appear in the Banff Springs Hotel. Both sites are near Calgary.
Central and South America
Buses traveling in the area of former U.S. Army facility Fort Clayton in Panama City report the sudden appearance of an extremely ill American soldier lying on the back seat of the bus. The pale man asks to be dropped off at the clinic and then disappears.
The Azeman is a ghostly woman who haunts the villages of Surinam (Dutch Guiana) in northeastern South America. The unwelcome phantom bites a piece of flesh from the big toe of sleeping persons and saps their blood.
Caribbean
The City Cemetery in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, is haunted by ghastly apparitions of decomposing bodies. In recent years, the cemetery has been plundered by grave robbers who sell casket handles, shoes, and anything else they can salvage from the tombs.
Bakas ghostly ghouls are members of a secret society in Haiti who agree to return from the grave.
The Chase Mauseleum in Christ Church Graveyard in Barbados, West Indies, is famous in ghostly lore. The coffins of family members buried in the early 1800s move around in the locked vault, sometimes lining up vertically along the walls. At one time, the Governor of Barbados personally sealed the vault but nine months later the coffins were all rearranged, even though all the seals had not been tampered with. Finally, the government reburied the coffins in separate places and that seemed to have stopped the phenomenon. The empty Chase vault lies open now for all to see.