History Series / GhostsUS

* DropInCharacter: Many, and a fairly {{JustifiedTrope justified}} example. All Ghosts who died on the property are trapped there, but they tend to divide themselves into groups that live on different parts of the property. However, when a ghost feels like visiting another part of the estate, there isn't a whole lot anyone can do to stop them. Nancy and Isaac are the most frequent drop-ins.

** "Halloween 3: The Guest Who Wouldn't Leave" (Season 3) has Sam and Jay try to throw another Halloween party to impress some old friends, which is complicated by the ghosts wanting to hold another seance to bring back [[spoiler:Flower]]. Things get even more complicated when Pete's widow Carol is invited by mistake, and then [[spoiler:dies and becomes a ghost.]] Things get further complicated when two of Sam and Jay's friends, Sascha and Nico, believe that the couple [[spoiler:killed Carol and want to kill them because they know too much.]]

** "Halloween 3: The Guest Who Wouldn't Leave" (Season 3) has Sam and Jay try to throw another Halloween party to impress some old friends, which is complicated by the ghosts wanting to hold another seance to bring back [[spoiler:Flower]]. Things get even more complicated when Pete's widow Carol is invited by mistake, and then [[spoiler:dies and becomes a ghost.]] Things get further complicated when two of Sam and Jay's friends believe that the couple [[spoiler:killed Carol and want to kill them because they know too much.]]

** "Halloween 2: The Ghost of Hetty's Past" (Season 2) has the gang trying to liven up Jay's Halloween party by holding a séance, which brings back Hetty's former maid Molly, who in life had an affair with Hetty's husband Elias.
** "Halloween 3: The Guest Who Wouldn't Leave" (Season 3) has Sam and Jay try to throw another Halloween party to impress some old friends, which is complicated by the ghosts wanting to hold another seance to bring back [[spoiler:Flower]]. Things get even more complicated when Pete's widow Carol is invited by mistake, and then [[spoiler:dies and becomes a ghost.]]

** Season 3: A basketball, a taxidermied owl, an old portrait of a woman, a butterfly, a book on "Poltergeists and Apparitions", a toy dinosaur, a "Woodstone Rewards Program" brochure stand and a bowl of gold-wrapped toffee.

* TheThingThatWouldntLeave: The title of the season 3 HalloweenEpisode is "Halloween 3: The Guest Who Wouldn't Leave". Said guest is [[spoiler:Pete's widow Carol, who dies and becomes the latest ghost in the mansion.]]

* TheGildedAge: The flashbacks in "He Sees Dead People" are set in 1875.

The eponymous ghosts are a close-knit but eclectic group that includes Alberta (Creator/DaniellePinnock), a saucy Prohibition-era blues singer; Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones), a pompous and [[TransparentCloset very likely closeted]] [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution Revolutionary War]] militia commander; Flower (Sheila Carrasco), a [[TheSixties '60s]] hippie who's as spaced out as she is chatty; Thorfinn (Devan Chandler Long), a bloodthirsty Viking and the oldest of the resident spirits; Trevor (Asher Grodman), a sleazy TurnOfTheMillennium yuppie caught with his pants down--literally; Hetty (Creator/RebeccaWisocky), the uptight, original owner of the house back in the 19th-century; Sasappis (Creator/RomanZaragoza), a snarky Native American exasperated with the whole afterlife situation; Pete (Richie Moriarty), an upbeat [[TheEighties '80s]] scout troop leader with an arrow shot through his neck; Crash, a decapitated [[TheFifties '50s]] greaser who spends most of his time reuniting his head with his body; and a group of assorted, disheveled cholera victims residing in the mansion's basement.

* Season 3: A basketball, a taxidermied owl, an old portrait of a woman, a butterfly, a book on "Poltergeists and Apparitions", a toy dinosaur, a "Woodstone Rewards Program" brochure stand and a bowl of gold-wrapped toffee.

* BrickJoke: in "Pete's Wife" After Jay uses [[Franchise/JurassicPark Jurassic Park]] to inspire Sam to clean up the mess she makes by inviting Pete's wife to the Woodstone, Alberta can be heard muttering "clever girl" when Sam uses a spech from Pete's guidebook he wrote in the margins to get him to [[spoiler:forgive his wife for cheating on him with his best friend.]]

* Season 3: A basketball, a taxidermied owl, an old portrait of a woman, a butterfly, a book on "Poltergeists and Appiraritions", a toy dinosaur, a "Woodstone Rewards Program" brochure stand and a bowl of gold-wrapped toffee.

--->'''Alberta:''' We're stuck in an endless purgatory...we saw a guy go down on us a couple weeks ago...and ''curse'' is where you draw the line?

* AristocratsAreEvil: Discussed with Hetty and her husband, Elias, who were Robber Barons when they were alive and generally seemed to fit all the stereotypes associated. [[spoiler: Confirmed when Elias himself shows up as a ghost and quickly proves to be such an unrepentant monster for any and all suffering he caused people that he gets sucked down to Hell by the end of the episode.]]

* AsYouKnow: In "Attic Girl", Stephanie comes down to the kitchen after Jay accidentally wakes her up where she meets up with Isaac, Hetty, Flower, and Pete, to which Pete exclaims that, as a teenage ghost, Steph sleeps for months at a time. Considering that, by that time, Steph has already been dead for 35 years (which also means Pete has only been dead for two years longer than her), she most definitely already knows this. It's doubly weird considering that Sam, the one person who doesn't already know this, isn't in the room.