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9[[caption-width-right:258:Hobbes can [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant make anything scary]].]]
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11->''"Well, while I can appreciate your classic look, I don't think anyone has been scared of the 'bedsheet phantasm' ensemble for a long time."''
12-->-- '''Antimony''' to Mort, ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt''
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14OurGhostsAreDifferent, and they look like refugees from the linens aisle.
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16If ghosts in Western media aren't [[JacobMarleyApparel dressed as the deceased did in life]], then chances are they're dressed as the deceased did in death. Originally, this meant grave clothes and a long, [[WhiteShirtOfDeath white]], flowing burial shroud. Of course, if the same reasoning were applied to modern burial customs, this would mean that most of today's ghosts would be attired in their Sunday best, but the trope is [[DiscreditedTrope seen as much too cheesy in the present day]] to be updated in such a logical manner.
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18Like many images common to modern culture, the Bedsheet Ghost began as a theatrical convention that has long since [[ForgottenTrope lost its context]]. In [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare's]] day, it was common to portray ghosts in armor on stage (this is why Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'s father is often depicted in a full suit of armor in historical depictions.) In Elizabethan England, armor was no longer worn in combat, and the costuming convention at the time was to dress characters in contemporary (Renaissance) clothing. So, by dressing a ghost in armor, the character was given an out-of-date look, and recognized ''as'' a ghost by audiences. However, as special effects became more elaborate, it became common to lower the actor playing the ghost onto stage with a pulley. Of course, the heavy armor clanked loudly, and by the 19th century, the sight of an armored ghost on stage [[{{Narm}} was more likely to bring laughter than fear]].
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20Because of this, by the 1800s, theatres realized they had to create a new, recognizable look for ghost characters, one that would allow the actor to enter and leave silently. Perhaps inspired by traditional burial shrouds or depictions of ghosts as ethereal, misty creatures (both attributes predating the Bedsheet Ghost), actors began to appear draped in white cloth to portray ghosts.
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22Over time, as the shroud became emblematic of the ghost, ghosts were depicted as less corporeal by showing the shroud without a body underneath it. Some stories even go one step further by showing the ghost as a wispy blob of ectoplasm, vaguely shroud-like in appearance, à la WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost.
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24As a result, the white sheet has become pop culture's visual shorthand for spirits of the dead, and a bedsheet with eye holes is the standard costume for fictional characters [[ShamSupernatural trying to dress like ghosts]]. This idea dates back at least to the Post-U.S. Civil War period--the white robes and hoods of the UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan were intended to look ghostly. (This Klan connection, in turn, is why the pointy-headed Bedsheet Ghost is no longer a popular design.)
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26TheKlan aside, dressing up as a Bedsheet Ghost is usually indicative of an ill-conceived or apathetic scare attempt, because on their own, a person in a white sheet [[NightmareRetardant really isn't that scary]] to anyone over 6 years old. Like the armored ghost before it, the Bedsheet Ghost has long lost its fright appeal, and is mostly comical today. This in turn has led to a common subversion: The characters see what seems to be a person in a white sheet, [[MistakenForAnImposter laugh at the obvious costume]], and then lift the sheet to see [[RealAfterAll there's no one underneath it]]. [[HilarityEnsues Cue running and screaming]]. However some have managed to make it somewhat less funny looking and more intimidating, such as putting red paint on the sheet to make it look bloody.
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28While the Bedsheet Ghost is rarely played straight as an attempt to ''scare'' the audience, it can still work as a mournful, sympathetic figure. The imagery also seems to have evolved into the design of ghosts as disembodied cloaks or robes with hooded faces, who still tend to be treated as spooky figures due to the whole "Grim Reaper" parallel.
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30Definitely TruthInTelevision for anyone who's celebrated [[UsefulNotes/AllHallowsEve Halloween]]: If you haven't dressed as a bedsheet ghost at some point, you know someone who has. Unless you're from the DeepSouth.
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32Sub-trope of StockCostumeTraits. Compare JacobMarleyApparel, EtherealWhiteDress and StringyHairedGhostGirl (the rather violent Japanese parallel). Not to be confused with [[Film/TheGrudge a scene wherein a ghost crawls up from underneath the bedsheet and gets you while you lie on the bed]]. Usually unconnected to ModestyBedsheet.
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39* In one of the Advertising/JayBushAndDuke ads for Bush's Baked Beans, Duke tries to con Jay as being the bedsheet ghost of his grandfather, but is given away by the tail sticking out from the bedsheet.
40* An ad for POM Wonderful pomegranate juice depicts a woman in a laundromat being harassed by a number of these, who just sort of float around and every so often blandly state "Boo." The announcer states that free radicals are everywhere, but that POM defends against them, ending with the punchline that "Real life is scary. Protect yourself from free radicals with POM."
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44* In Season 4 episode 27 of ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', Little M. goes around the city wearing a cheap ghost costume to scare people as part of Big M.'s evil plan to take over Planet Xing.
45* In the ''Animation/NoonboryAndTheSuper7'' episode "The Gury Monster", Totobory dresses as one of these to scare the Gurys away from Noonbory's house.
46* In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Joys of Seasons'' episode 94, Wilie and Wolffy dress in cheap ghost costumes to scare the goats in the woods after they inadvertently interfere with Wilie's bravery test.
47* In the ''Animation/SimpleSamosa'' episode "Dadi Ke Saath", Samosa tries to scare his friends by pretending to be a ghost, using this kind of costume when he does so. The trick is seen through by his friends pretty quickly.
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51* In ''Anime/DiGiCharatNyo'', one of Dejiko's friends, Yu-rei, is allergic to the sun and has to wear a protective suit to go outside. Said protective suit looks like a ghost costume.
52* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'':
53** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' has the Digimon "Bakemon" which resembles this type of ghost. In one episode, Sora's partner Biyomon and her mother disguise themselves as Bakumon in order to rescue her.
54** ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'' introduces Soulmon, a version of Bakemon that wears a witch's hat. It feeds on the emotions of Marcus's younger sister and since she's furious at him, it spends the day [[EverythingTryingToKillYou trying to get Marcus into deadly accidents]].
55* Makoto in ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'' tries this on Yuichi. It fails, and Yuichi chastises her for taking down a curtain to do so.
56* In one episode of ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'', Tuff had Kirby, Fololo, and Falala dress as these in order to scare Dedede. It actually suceeds in scaring him. It helps that there is an actual ghost floating around the castle, sent by Nightmare Enterprises in order to scare him into paying off their debt with them.
57* In a episode of ''Shin Anime/KoihimeMusou'' has the main characters disguise themselves as ghosts in order to scare a rich person into giving money to the poor.
58* One episode of ''[[Anime/LittleLulu Little Lulu and Her Little Friends]]'' does this. In the episode Lulu babysits Tubby and he plays various tricks to get her to leave. One of these tricks is dressing up as a ghost and scaring her away. However Lulu does the same thing to him and succeeds in scaring him. Tubby becomes annoyed as she scared him using his own trick.
59* A filler episode of ''Anime/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' had Yuuri setting up shop in a haunted house. In the end, the mermaids scare her out with bedsheet ghosts.
60* In ''Manga/NonNonBiyori'', Koma is given one to wear as the scarer for a TestOfCourage. Only Natsumi forgot to cut the eyes out and just ''drew'' them on with marker.
61* ''[[Anime/OnegaiSamiadon Onegai! Samia-don]]'': The kids do this to scare a real ghost and Psammead. They succeed in scaring the ghost but Psammead isn't fooled.
62* One episode in ''Anime/PeterPanNoBouken'' has the gang tell scary stories to each other. When its Wendy's turn to tell a story, She asks Michael to dress up as a ghost and scare Peter as she tells her story. However something bursts into the room in a glowing sheet. [[spoiler: It turns out to be Tinkerbell playing a trick on them.]]
63%% * Kaworu Nagisa starts out as one of these in ''Anime/PetitEva.''
64* Featured in some ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' episodes:
65** One episode in the "Advanced Generation" series, has Ash and the gang explore an abandoned mine where Ash gets the idea to have his Corphish go through a [[TestOfCourage test of courage]]. [[TotemPoleTrench May and Max wear a white cloth over themselves]] to scare Corphish which works. Corphish freaked out, hits the "ghost" causing the cloth to come off and have May and Max fall into a nearby mine cart. Upon seeing that it was them, Corphish becomes pissed and tackles the minecart as its sent flying off, while Corphish who is still angry, heads off in another direction.
66** One episode set during the early seasons has Ash and his friends explore a ghost ship. Two ghost pokemon, Haunter and Gastly appeared wearing sheets until they were taken off.
67** Another episode set in the early seasons features Ash and the others flying in a blimp that is supposedly haunted. A Jigglypuff gets caught underneath a table cloth and starts to wander around with it on. When Team Rocket encounters it, they believe it is a real ghost and they run away from it.
68** Some are featured in the short, "Pikachu's Ghost Carnival".
69** An episode in the ''Sun and Moon'' saga has Lana and her friends create a HauntedHouse to entertain her twins sisters. Ash, Pikachu, Kaiwe and Marowak disguise themselves as these types of ghosts to scare them. Unfortunately Ash accidentally steps on Pikachu's tail causing him to shock Ash and the others.
70* An episode of ''Anime/PrincessSarah'' has Lavinia and her friends do this to Lottie, scaring the crap out of her.
71* The Ghost Shrouds of ''Manga/SleepyPrincessInTheDemonCastle'' are literal bedsheet ghosts: flying sheets of fabric with hands and a face. They happen to be made of quite high-quality fabric, so the princess often kills them for materials to craft whatever sleeping aid is on her mind. At one point, she's seen handing a large basket of hands and faces over for resurrection as if she were sending the laundry out.
72* ''Anime/SpiderRiders'': One episode has Hunter and Corona sneak into a Invectid base. In order to do so they wear a disguise that looks like a ghost costume.
73* Near the end of a episode of ''Anime/SuzysZooDaisukiWitzy'', Witzy and his friends are shown playing around as Bedsheet Ghosts.
74* In a episode of ''Anime/TenchiUniverse'', Sasami and her friend Mirei who is an actual ghost, do this to scare her friends as a prank.
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78* "Art/MysticalMedleysAVintageCartoonTarot": On the upper part of the "Ace of Cups", there's a white, surprised ghost with a hooded head, a light-blue overall, and a halo. Its body looks as if it's made of a transparent bedsheet.
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82* In his stand-up days, Creator/WoodyAllen told a story about how he attempted to go to a costume party dressed as a bedsheet ghost... in the DeepSouth. Four guys in "ghost costumes" drive up to him and tell him to get in. HilarityEnsues.
83* Creator/MitchHedberg told one joke about waking up in his [purportedly haunted] hotel room after a night of drinking and discovering a bedsheet piled up on the floor. He immediately concluded that one of these ghosts had also binged last night and was currently passed out.
84--> "...So I ''[[SuddenlyShouting KICKED IT!]]''"
85* One Creator/ImprovEverywhere sketch, as also mentioned in Web Original, had a bunch of Bedsheet Ghosts mull around the New York Public Library- reading books, using laptops, that kinda thing. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKB7zfopiUA And then]] the Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}} show up...
86* An Creator/EddieIzzard sketch involves the [[UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}} Holy Ghost]] as a Bedsheet Ghost:
87-->"Holy Ghost, this is not an episode of Scooby Doo!"\
88"I'd have got away with it if it wasn't for those God and Jesus fellas."
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92* In issue 52 of the ''ComicBook/AdventureTime'' comic, Jake (stranded in the land of the dead with Finn's Finn-sword but without his stretching powers) disguises himself as a ghost by draping a tapestry over his head.
93* In the first issue of ''ComicBook/ExcaliburMarvelComics'', Shadowcat dons a sheet to scare some thieves holding people hostage. They believe that she is a real ghost because their bullets go through her due to her {{Intangibility}}.
94* The Dark Horse character ''ComicBook/{{Ghost|DarkHorseComics}}'' has a cape/hood ensemble for her costume that evokes shades of this.
95* One of Creator/SergioAragones' ''Drawn Out Dramas'' in ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'' had a Halloween party where, amongst all the costumes someone in a Bedsheet Ghost costume was hanging out. One woman in the crowd was just noticing [[ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself said costume had no legs beneath it]].
96* ''ComicBook/{{Melusine}}'': Although other types of ghosts can be found in the HauntedCastle, Mélusine finds out that the bedsheet kind is common when woken up by several haunting her bedroom (probably because she SleepsInTheNude). They promptly flee when she threatens to exorcise them... including [[NakedPeopleAreFunny the one she was unwittingly using as bedsheet]].
97* ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'': Penadinho/Bug-a-booo and other ghosts (though they just look like white humanoids).
98* ''ComicBook/MoonKnight'''s first cloak was the sheet draped over the Khonshu statue where he came BackFromTheDead.
99* ''ComicBook/OddThomas'': In the graphic novel ''Odd Is on Our Side'' (a tie-in to the ''Literature/OddThomas'' novels) a young girl killed by poisoned candy appears to Odd still wearing her bedsheet Halloween costume.
100* ''ComicBook/RiversOfLondon'': In ''Body Work'', Peter references the trope regarding a dust sheet Nightingale removed from the haunted Bentley.
101-->"Cut out some eye-holes and we could go trick or treating."
102* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': One of the villains who attacked Robin, Ragman and ComicBook/BlueDevil after escaping from O.M.A.C. looks like an ethereal glowing take on this, with unsettling jagged dark holes for eyes and a mouth.
103* ''ComicBook/SimoneTheBestMonsterEver'': The comic has a few bedsheet ghosts as background characters. Simone also dresses up like one in one strip. She was dressed in a pink floral sheet that sent all the monsters who saw her fleeing in terror.
104* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'':
105** In ''[[Recap/TintinTintinInTheLandOfTheSoviets Tintin in the Land of the Soviets]]'', Tintin disguises himself and Snowy as these to scare off the villains. Unfortunately, he can't see where he's going after that and falls into a manhole.
106** In ''[[Recap/TintinDestinationMoon Destination Moon]]'', Captain Haddock dresses as one in one of several unsuccessful attempts to frighten Calculus out of his amnesia. He ends up tripping over the bedsheet.
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110* Parodied in a comic strip (title unknown). In it, a girl tries scaring off her brother by using the old Bedsheet Ghost trick but fails as the brother replies, "What's so scary about a bedsheet on your head?" Then she walks out from the room. Next thing you know, she finally gets to scare her brother... by putting a ''pillow'' over her head.
111* The page image comes from a ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' Sunday strip where the duo is having an argument over who should get more bed sheets. Hobbes steals all of them after Calvin says that he, as an animal, should be sleeping on the floor, and when Calvin goes to retrieve them Hobbes pounces on him with the covers over his head. The strip ends with Calvin asking his parents to let him sleep in their bed while Hobbes sleeps very contentedly by himself in Calvin's bed..
112* ''ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUS'': In [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/35/7b/10/357b109d9acf7c656f2b01c152fbff42.gif this strip]], Joey tries to make a ghost costume for Halloween, but not unlike Charlie Brown, he cuts too many eye holes in his sheet. He decides to go as a piece of swiss cheese instead.
113* Peter does this in ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' and gets an appropriately horrified reaction from his mother, but only because he has cut holes in her new Ralph Lauren sheets.
114* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': Featured in these [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1994/10/30 two]] [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1996/10/27 comics]]. The first is with the ghosts of all the animals he ate and the other is with characters wearing ghost costumes.
115* This was Dave's Halloween costume one year in ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'', continuing his run of putting almost no thought or effort into his costume.
116* German detective ''ComicStrip/NickKnatterton'' once disguised himself as one -- but there are also real ones looking like this!
117* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' - Charlie Brown's ghost costume in the cartoon special made its debut in the comic strip some years earlier - he explains "I had a little trouble with the scissors."
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121* In the [[ChristmasEpisode Holiday Special]] of ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', Flint attempts to disguise himself as one with his Infernape and [[YetAnotherChristmasCarol pretend to be the Ghost of Christmas Past]] to try and snap Volkner out of his holiday funk. It doesn't work, because Volkner sees through the disguise easily and also Flint tries to pull this every year.
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125* One of the Master Builders in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'' is a Lego ghost mentioned below, and so is [[spoiler:Vitruvius when he dies and becomes Ghost Vitruvius.]]
126* In the made-for-TV movie ''[[WesternAnimation/YogiBear Yogi's Great Escape]]'', Yogi dresses up as a Bedsheet Ghost to scare away the trapper who's after him. The trapper even {{lampshade|Hanging}}s this: "Here comes some uninvited laundry!" Later on, a ''real'' bedsheet-like ghost shows up, and of course gets MistakenForAnImposter. The trapper pulls off the "bedsheet" to see who's underneath... and there is nothing there, except for a small point of light which vanishes, at which point the trapper is attacked by the now-invisible ghost which then proceeds to re-materialize another bedsheet around itself.
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130* In ''Film/AnAmericanGhostStory'' there is another straight (and frightening) example. Unusual in that the character interacts with the thing for an entire nervewracking scene and it remains scary without ever revealing anything under the sheet [[spoiler:(though at one point nothing is revealed under the sheet in an unusual way)]].
131* Lampshaded in the film version of ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}''. The Maitlands actually are ghosts, and have the ability to manipulate their appearance into grotesque forms, and manipulate material objects as well. However, they're completely invisible to everyone except Lydia, so in an attempt to scare the Deetzes out of their old house, they put on bedsheets so they would be visible. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeEa3gTsVDo This does not turn out to be as scary as they'd hoped.]] It doesn't help their case that they use floral-patterned designer sheets owned by the Deetzes.
132-->'''Barbara:''' God, this is so corny. Have we been reduced to this? Sheets?\
133'''Adam:''' Think of them as "death shrouds". And the moaning is important, really ''moan''.
134* In the 2005 adaptation of ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', a child Willy Wonka goes dressed as a bedsheet ghost for Halloween. When his sheet is lifted, we find he probably picked this costume because his [[BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill headgear]] wouldn't fit in any other costume.
135* In ''Film/AChristmasCarolTheMusical'', the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Be has this appearance.
136* Done for scares in ''Film/TheConjuring'' when a bedsheet is blown off of a clothesline, only to be briefly caught on a human figure.
137* ''Film/DarkShadows'': Double Subverted. The first time Victoria sees a "ghost", it's very obviously David trying to scare her. The second time, when she thinks it's David again... there is a very real specter underneath the sheets. She's neither surprised nor scared though, since she's known this ghost since her childhood.
138* ''WesternAnimation/DisneySingAlongSongs'': In the live action video "[[Recap/DisneySingAlongSongsV8 Disneyland Fun]]", Donald Duck is seen dressed up as this kind of ghost during the song "Grim Grinning Ghosts".
139* In ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', when Eliot has to take his little sister out for trick-or-treating, he dresses ET up as this.
140* ''Film/ExtraOrdinary2019'': At the beginning, Rose briefly sees the townsfolk wearing bedsheets that evoke this. Later, the demon Astaroth manifests as a bedsheet ghost with out of the ceremonial sheets Christian had hung up.
141* In ''Film/FanchonTheCricket'', Didier runs to Fanchon's shack and tells her that the people of the village are coming to throw her in the river. Fanchon takes a sheet from her shack to make herself a bedsheet ghost. Unbelievably, the people of the village fall for this, fleeing in terror.
142* ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'':
143** ''Film/GhostbustersII'': Similar to the first film, the Ghostbusters do a KitschyLocalCommercial which features [[BadBadActing Janine and Louis playing a married couple]] who are "haunted" by [[StylisticSuck a bedsheet ghost being pulled back and forth on a string]].
144** Subverted in ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 2016}}'', when the characters order the main villainous ghost to appear as something "small and friendly". He turns into a cute copy of the Bedsheet Ghost from the franchise's logo... and then swells up into a {{Kaiju}} and starts smashing the city.
145* In ''Film/AGhostStory'', the male lead dies early on, and thereafter appears as a silent figure in the background draped in a bedsheet with eye holes.
146* In the original ''Film/{{Halloween 1978}}'' and [[Film/{{Halloween 2007}} its remake]], Michael Myers briefly dresses as a bedsheet ghost while toying with one of his victims. Over top of the sheet, he's wearing the glasses of the victim's boyfriend (whom he just knifed), causing her to think it's her boyfriend.
147* In the [[Film/TheHaunting1999 1999 equivalent]] of ''[[Film/TheHaunting1963 The Haunting]]'', there is a ghost of a child in a sheet formed by/from it rather than wearing it.
148* The 1941 Creator/AbbottAndCostello comedy ''Film/HoldThatGhost'' has one of these stalking people as part of the creepy events occurring in the run-down, abandoned speakeasy called the Forrester's Club. It turns out the whole thing was a ScoobyDooHoax intended to scare people away while the gangsters who used to work there searched for a hidden stash of money belonging to the place's former owner.
149* The attorney's little daughters in the 1966 farce ''Film/HotelParadiso'' discuss the rumors they've heard that the hotel is haunted. Remembering a Halloween play, they put on sheets, circle around and sing. Hysteria ensues.
150* Eugene's disguise in ''Film/{{Housebound}}''. It's actually a threadbare blanket, not a bedsheet and is much scarier that way.
151* In ''Film/TheInnkeepers'', Claire dresses like this in Luke's "re-enactment" of her discovery of the ghost in the lobby. Since she can't see where she's going, she trips over the furniture. But then, an actual ghost appears with a bedsheet. And then we see what's under the bedsheet...
152* ''Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol'''s version of The Ghost of Christmas Past, which also somewhat resembles a WillOTheWisp.
153* In ''Film/NoKidding'', Suleiman dresses up as one for Lionel but doesn't get to show him when Hassan (dressed up as a monster) ends up scaring the life out of Cook.
154* In a rare completely traditional, completely straight example of this trope in modern film, ''Film/ParanormalActivity3'' features a Bedsheet Ghost scene. [[NightmareFuel It manages to be one of the more disturbing scenes in the entire film series.]]
155* A surprisingly scary scene in ''Film/{{Scream 3}}'' features this. When the killer attacks Sidney in the set recreating her Mother's death, under a sheet covered in blood no less!
156* Played for drama in ''Film/TheSixthSense''. When Cole is sitting in his bedsheet fort and the ghost of a vomiting girl suddenly appears and frightens him, he runs away, inadvertently covering her with the bedsheet. It's only when he gathers the courage to go back and pull the sheet off, that he realizes that the ghost is not scary at all, but just a poor, sick little girl who needs his help.
157* ''Film/UnderTheShadow'': Late in the movie, [[spoiler:the djinn]] starts taking the form of a floating [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chador chador]], which certainly [[InvokedTrope Invokes]] this look.
158* ''Film/{{XX}}'': After a PottyFailure ruins Lucy's first costume in "The Birthday Party", Mary creates her a new costume as a bedsheet ghost.
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162* Myth/EgyptianMythology: The Egyptian Book of the Dead makes reference to an obscure deity known as Medjed, who for some reason is depicted as a person wearing an enormous veil that covers everything but his eyes and legs, making him look look like a man in a cheap ghost costume. Also, he had EyeBeams.
163* In the early 1960s several people in and around the town of Kinderhook, New York reported seeing a floating white sheet-like entity that hovered in the air. On the other hand, one person who claimed to have seen it likened it to the Virgin Mary. While none of the witnesses outright stated that it was a ghost, the descriptions bear an uncanny resemblance to this trope.
164* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocong Pocongs]] of Indonesian mythology are the spirits of recently deceased people who appear in their funeral shroud. As most Indonesians are Muslims, and Islamic funerary rites require the deceased to be wrapped in a white shroud, this gives them the appearance of this trope. They are sometimes known as the "candy ghosts" because of the way the shroud is wrapped by ropes at the top and bottom, which actually figures into the mythology; the ropes are supposed to be untied after the bodies have been lowered to the grave, under the belief that it will allow the souls to enter the afterlife, and failure to do so risks causing the bodies to rise up as pocongs. Spirits who are especially distressed will rise up as red pocongs, in which the shroud is colored red. This signifies that they have been wronged in life, they will attack people on sight (unlike regular pocongs which are usually harmless), and they will not rest until justice has been served.
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168* In Lael J. Littke's "The Bantam Phantom" bedsheet ghosts come in different sizes. The protagonist Georgie wears one the size of a bridge table and still has a lot left over.
169* ''Literature/TheBlueNosedWitch'': Three of the children Blanche spends Halloween night with are dressed like this and are [[NoNameGiven only referred to by height]].
170* Creator/OscarWilde's short story "Literature/TheCantervilleGhost" originally popularized this trope.
171* The Creator/MontagueRhodesJames short story "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" has... well, ''something'' that manifests itself in the sheets of the unused bed in the narrator's hotel room. It's implied that the thing has next to no physical form of its own.
172** The [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063381/ TV adaptation]] plays it straight ''and'' makes it work.
173*** There's something darkly comical about it all. The narrator, Parkins, is a po-faced academic who has very definite views on ghosts (namely, that they don't exist), so it's deliciously ironic that the thing that terrorizes him chooses to manifest itself in a bedsheet. Not that it makes the story any less terrifying.
174* In one of ''Literature/BagOfBones'''s {{Imagine Spot}}s, the protagonist imagines his wife's ghost visiting him "wrapped in a tattered burial shroud." Creator/StephenKing manages to make it scary.
175* One of the solve-it-yourself mysteries of the ''TabletopGame/{{Clue}}'' books features Mr. Boddy's six guests all dressing up as ghosts to try to scare each other, which makes them all feel a little silly— until they notice there are ''seven'' ghosts in the room, and one of them doesn't have feet.
176* Creator/CliveBarker's "Confessions of a (Pornographer's) Shroud" uses this as an intentionally ridiculous core premise for what can either be read as a fairly serious horror story or a black comedy. The main character manages to come back as a ghost by transferring his spirit from his body to the shroud used to cover him at the morgue.
177* In the ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' picture book ''Dora's Halloween Adventure'', Dora and Boots encounter one of these in a "haunted house," but it turns out to actually be Swiper in costume.
178* ''Literature/DrGretaHelsing'': The "Whistlers" from Creator/MontagueRhodesJames appear as eerie but {{Non Malicious Monster}}s who manifest out of nearby fabric when their HauntedFetter whistle is blown. Greta wins one as an enthusiastic ally by offering to hide its whistle somewhere interesting for it to haunt, although even she is a bit unnerved when it curiously feels out her face.
179* In the book ''Franklin's Halloween'' and the associated television story from ''Literature/{{Franklin}}'', it's said that Franklin and his friends know that Bear always wears this as his Halloween costume, so when Franklin gets to the Halloween party, he doesn't have to worry about trying to figure out who Bear is, even underneath all the disguises. He and his friends get tricked, however, because while there is one of these at the party, it's not Bear, who is home sick with a cold. It turns to be their teacher, Mr. Owl, who heard that Bear was at home and decided to play a trick on all of them.
180* In Clifford D. Simak's ''Literature/TheGoblinReservation'', the character of Ghost (yes, that's how he's called) is depicted this way.
181* Gus the Ghost in the Thayer ''Gus'' series is a basic bedsheet ghost. Most people barely notice him, nor get scared if they do.
182* In David Galvin's short story ''The Halloween Train'', Susan says she's planning a Cleopatra costume for Halloween and Francis says she should come up with a better idea. Susan scoffs, "Like what -- a silly sheet pulled over my head like you wore last year?"
183* This is Johnny's costume for the Halloween party in ''[[Literature/JohnnyMaxwellTrilogy Johnny and the Dead]]''. Unfortunately, the only sheet his mum would let him cut eyeholes in is a pink floral one, leading to inevitable comments like "What are you, a gay ghost?"
184* This is Big Bird's disguise in the ''Series/SesameStreet'' picture book ''Who's Afraid of Monsters?'' It gets a good scare out of everyone until they figure out it's him.
185* In the ''Franchise/StarWars'' picture book, ''Are You Scared, Darth Vader?'' by Adam Rex, this is one of the many things that a kid tries and fails to scare Darth Vader with. Vader just wonders if it's the ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi or Yoda, not that he'd be scared even if it was, and declares "Next!" when told that it's just a ghost.
186* In ''Literature/WyrdSisters'', Lord Felmet has finally suffered enough SanitySlippage throughout the events of the novel to go completely mad, and believes he is a ghost. He dons a sheet and goes on about how he plans to rattle chains and frighten people...while Death stands there and politely insists he is ''not'' dead. Felmet ends up slipping off a parapet and falling to his death. His ''actual'' ghost, still wearing the sheet, is now allowed to haunt the place for real.
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190* ''Series/OneHundredThingsToDoBeforeHighSchool'': In "Stay Up All Night Thing!", Ronbie gets tangled up in a sheet during the school sleepover, which becomes a CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise as the middle-schoolers are panicking about the 'ghost janitor'.
191* ''Series/AceLightning'' plays this trope absolutely straight in one episode - and the bad guys are ''terrified'' by a kid stuck under a bedsheet.
192* In ''[[Series/{{Beetleborgs}} Big Bad Beetleborgs]]'', Jo turned invisible in one episode, she tried convincing someone she was a ghost by donning one of these and watching them laugh at her... till it was pulled off and there was no one underneath.
193* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E6Halloween Halloween]]", Willow was originally going to go out on Halloween in a sexy outfit that she and Buffy made. She chickened out and, mostly to cover up, went as a Bedsheet Ghost instead. Then all of their costumes were enchanted to turn them into the things they were dressed as. Cue scantily clad ghost Willow.
194-->'''Willow:''' I'm a ghost!\
195'''Giles:''' Yes. Um... the ghost of ''what'', exactly?
196* In one episode of ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'', Chavo and Chilindrina attempt to scare Quico donning these. It backfires on Chavo when Don Ramón snatches the bedsheet and plays ghost on him. In another, Señor Barriga tries to scare Chavo out of revenge for always hitting him by playing dead and pretending to return as a ghost.
197* In one episode of ''Series/Chelmsford123'', Wolfbane attempts to persuade Aulus to pardon Badvoc by using this trope in combination with a JacobMarleyWarning; needless to say [[spoiler: it doesn't work]].
198* ''Series/DoctorWho'': [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E4Listen "Listen"]] features an ''extremely scary one''. A mysterious presence in a child's bedroom only becomes visible when it gets onto the child's bed and hides under the sheets, creating an approximately-human-shaped bedsheet-draped figure. What (if anything) it really looks like under the sheets is never shown.
199* The HalloweenEpisode of ''Series/DuckDynasty'' features Uncle Si dressing up as one (complete with his hunting cap and blue Tupperware tea cup) and acting like he's a ghost when the Duck Commander crew is busy turning the warehouse into a "haunted house" attraction for the kids. However, he ends up breaking character (and the sheet gets pulled off) once Jep, who earlier in the episode considered ''Film/{{Ghost|1990}}'' to be the scariest film of all time, brings up that film again.
200* In the ''Series/FatherTed'' series 3 episode "The Mainland", Father Noel Furlong wears a bedsheet when he confronts Father Ted and Dougal in the caves.
201-->'''Father Noel''' (in bed sheet): Ooooo! Oooooo!\
202'''Ted and Dougal:''' *scream*\
203'''Father Noel''' (throws off bed sheet): Ted!\
204'''Ted and Dougal:''' *scream louder*
205* In the British kids' show ''Series/TheGhostsOfMotleyHall'', the ghosts want to scare off some people who've been hanging around their house, but the problem is they're invisible to most humans. Solution: One of the ghosts covers himself with an old bedsheet. In other words, a ghost [[LampshadeHanging dressing up as a ghost]].
206* On one episode of ''Series/GilligansIsland'', a foreign spy arrived on the island and took this up to try and scare the castaways off the island. They later decide to fight back doing the same thing.
207* ''Series/Goosebumps1995'': In "[[Recap/Goosebumps1995S2E13LetsGetInvisible Let's Get Invisible]]", after becoming invisible, Noah covers himself in a sheet to tease his brother.
208* In {{Creator/Studio100}}'s ''Series/KabouterPlop'' series, Klus is seen scaring the other gnomes while wearing a bedsheet and scaring the other gnomes thinking him as a ghost.
209* The TransformationTrinket of ''Series/KamenRiderGhost'' is stylized after this, naturally.
210* Subverted in ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'': Dewey appears to be dressed up as a bedsheet ghost, but he claims to actually be a marshmallow.
211* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS13E4 The Silent Land]]", a prankster dresses up as a bedsheet ghost in order to disrupt a ghost walk. However, the killer takes advantage of the distraction to murder the second VictimOfTheWeek.
212* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'':
213** Referenced in "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E01CaveDwellers Cave Dwellers]]": when TheHero is fighting an invisible enemy, he tosses his cloak over the foe to reveal his location. Cue Crow: "Ah! Now they're ''really'' scary! Booga booga booga!"
214** In "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S10E09Hamlet Hamlet]]", Crow and Tom try to be the ghost of Mike's father dressed up like this. Too bad all of Mike's relatives are still alive.
215* In the ''Series/PonysittersClub'' episode "Spooky Story", Billy takes Skye and Olivia camping in a pumpkin patch that is rumored to be haunted. Billy's sister Courtney sneaks up to the tent, makes some eerie wailing noises, then pops into the tent wearing a gauzy white cloth over her head. Billy and the kids are startled for a second, then they burst out laughing.
216* In the HalloweenEpisode of ''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'', the Rangers all go to a party dressed as this. This is actually important to the plot; Sledge's minions kidnap one of the Rangers in costume, one of them uses their powers to replicate the Ranger's memories and another turns the first monster into a clone of the Ranger. The fake, still in costume, returns to the base along with the real Rangers, and Kendall has to BluffTheImpostor.
217* Subverted in ''Series/PushingDaisies'' where in a flashback, young Ned is shown on Halloween in a sheet with fire engines on it. However, Chuck shows up in a white sheet later that episode.
218* Low-budget sci-fi serial ''Series/RockyJonesSpaceRanger'' brings us one of the stupidest examples. A FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit InSpace is trying to steal the land rights to some sort of space gold-mine, and is thwarted not by the Space Rangers, but by a couple of kids throwing a sheet over their remote-control airplane so he thinks it's a ghost. Keep in mind, this is hundreds of years in the future, in a civilization on par with ''Franchise/StarTrek''...
219* Played with in the YetAnotherChristmasCarol episode of ''Series/{{Roseanne}}''. One of the ghosts is a Bedsheet Ghost. When Roseanne says he must be someone dressed up, he tells her to lift the sheet. All that's underneath is a beating heart.
220* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'':
221** The Janitor dresses up as one of these to haunt pediatrics as the ''ghost who hates spills!'' Wooooohooooo!
222** Also, in-line skates.
223--->'''Carla:''' You're a monster.\
224'''Janitor:''' Hey! Do you know how messy kids can be? This place has been spotless since ''the ghost'' showed up.
225* ''Series/StrangerThings'': In "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS2E2ChapterTwoTrickOrTreatFreak Trick or Treat, Freak]]", Hopper is making French toast for breakfast when Eleven manages to pull a JumpScare on him, wearing a bedsheet over her head in the manner of a ghost.
226-->'''Hopper:''' Ahhh! Jesus....\
227'''Eleven:''' [[CaptainObvious Ghost]].\
228'''Hopper:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Yeah, I see that]]...
229* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Seen in the SpecialEditionTitle of "[[Recap/SupernaturalS05E08ChangingChannels Changing Channels]]" when the Winchesters are TrappedInTVLand, including a sitcom version of ''Supernatural'' showing Sam frightened by a bedsheet ghost he finds in a cupboard.
230* One turns up in ''Series/TheTwoRonnies'' serial "Stop! You're killing me!", haunting the graveyard at dead of night. Charley's response is to build a device to blow the bedsheet off it from below. The first person to trigger it is a [[PantyShot young woman in a short skirt]], the second [[GoofyPrintUnderwear is the local vicar]], and the third [[NakedPeopleAreFunny is their landlord in a nightshirt]].
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234* The protagonist of Music/{{Deadmau5}}'s music video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rHngwaJKUE Ghosts n' Stuff]]" takes on this form during an OutOfBodyExperience. [[OurGhostsAreDifferent He can't go through walls]], [[TheDeadCanDance but he can get tattoos and dance]].
235* [[http://www.bubblegumdancer.com/release.php?id=562&group=448&project=86 Ghost Gang]] was a [[OneBookAuthor One-Single]] dance music project from 1999 whose members were all about this aesthetic, except that the lone female member still had holes in her "costume" to show her cleavage and midriff. [[HilariousInHindsight Hilariously enough]], for those who look at them in 2015 and beyond, the DJ ghost with the headphones on bears a certain resemblance with [[{{VideoGame/Undertale}} Napstablook]] (see the "Video Game" folder below).
236* The music video for "Came Out Swinging" by Music/TheWonderYears features a girl dressed in a homemade, bedsheet-based ghost costume going around her neighborhood playing pranks on people.
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240* Most of the ghosts in ''Pinball/AmericasMostHaunted'' are cartoonish Bedsheet Ghosts.
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244* ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'': In "Afraid Not", during a thunderstorm, Pip and Pop find a bedsheet and use it to pretend to be a ghost. They end up scaring Tutter, who thinks there really is a ghost. Bear soon finds out the truth, and tells the twins off for scaring Tutter. The twins then apologize to Tutter, saying that they only wanted to have some fun and never meant to scare him for real.
245* The Creator/VincentPrice episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' has a group of ghosts resembling translucent sheets floating in mid-air, with black holes for the eyes and mouths, who tell ghost jokes and sing "[[Music/TheBeatles I'm Looking Through You]]." They have since appeared in the live stadium show ''The Muppets Take the Bowl/the O2'' and as background spooks in ''Film/MuppetsHauntedMansion''.
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249* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': Walter Denton dresses up as a ghost in the episode ''Halloween Party''.
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253* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
254** As mentioned in the Head Injury Theater quote on the quotes page, the sheet phantom is an actual Bedsheet Ghost. As with some of the other actual Bedsheet Ghosts, the explanation given is that the being's spirit is imbued into his bedclothes as he dies.
255** The death linen, another ''AD&D''-era monster, is actually a subversion - they aren't undead, but animated by "latent psychic forces born of nightmares," making them closer to psychic-type {{poltergeist}} activity.
256** Undead cloakers from the ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' setting somewhat resemble this trope, although they were never human, but ghosts of creatures that resemble flying manta rays.
257** The [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils demon lord]] Pale Night ''looks'' like this trope, being a seductive female figure wrapped in a white veil blowing on a spectral wind that occasionally shifts enough to ''almost'' reveal what's underneath it. But though she is incorporeal, she's a demon (specifically, an [[EldritchAbomination Obyrith]]), not a ghost, and the sheet is suspected to be a sort of cosmic censor to protect existence [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm from the horror of her true form]]. One of her special abilities is to briefly reveal the truth beyond that veil, which is a [[BrownNote "save or die" attack]].
258* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', some of the oldest pewter models to represent Undead Spirit Hosts depicted traditional bedsheet ghosts. Other players figured out that it was cheaper to buy plastic models and paint them ghostly gray and white, especially if those models came from a rival's army range.
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262* In ''Theatre/JacobMarleysChristmasCarol'', Marley's initial idea on how to scare Scrooge is as a bedsheet ghost. The Bogle snidely comments he's pretty scary as-is.
263* It's OlderThanFeudalism: ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'': "The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets."
264** Bear in mind that coffins hadn't caught on yet; Bedsheet Ghosts were in their burial shrouds.
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268* {{Toys/LEGO}} has ghosts that look like this. A shroud piece slips over the head. Their first version was a smiling ghost with a rounded head, and their second was a frowning/moaning ghost with more of a sheet detail, with a folded tip on the head.
269* Eleanor from Toys/LivingDeadDolls is a ghost wearing her burial sheet with a GhostlyGape underneath.
270* {{Toys/Playmobil}} also had shrouds for their figures, with only eye holes for the figure to see through. The child-size shroud has a pointed head, but the adult shrouds are rounded. While they have the traditional white ghost, a black ghost with a glowing yellow face has also been made. A new figure piece that lights up was also introduced, with flowier "robes", but no standard figure inside.
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274* The TrueFinalBoss of ''VideoGame/AeroFighters 2'' is a tablecloth ghost.
275* Aughosto from ''VideoGame/{{Alchademy}}'' is a little ghost with a white robe and hood.
276* Bedsheet ghosts feature in ''VideoGame/BabaIsYou'' as one of the many objects that can be found in levels.
277* In ''VideoGame/CaptainMorganeAndTheGoldenTurtle'', the "ghost" which Morgane arranges for Dinsdale and Mitchell to see looks like this, because a [[ScarecrowSolution bedsheet is exactly what it is]]. It contrasts sharply with the real ghost which Morgane stumbles on immediately after her trick, which looks more ghoulish.
278* The pet sites ''VideoGame/CelestialVale'' and ''VideoGame/ValleyOfUnicorns'' have a unicorn in a bedsheet ghost costume as a limited-edition pet.
279* A certain variety of {{mook|s}} in the ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'' world "Creepy Castle". The game doesn't even pretend that they're really ghosts; they're officially called "[[TheGoomba Kritters]]-in-a-sheet".
280* ''VideoGame/FamilyHouse'' centers around fixing up an old house that was once a stately mansion, centuries ago. It is hosted by the bedsheet ghost who, when he was alive, was the head butler there.
281* Nitocris dons one of these in her Assassin persona in ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder''. Funnily, despite her "underworld" association, she's not going for this look, but the Egyptian god Medjed, who looks uncannily like a bedsheet ghost. She thinks it [[PaperThinDisguise conceals her identity]] and depicts her as a foreboding harbinger of the afterlife, but it really just makes her look like a goofball, not least because her ears are poking out of the top.
282* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', the "??????" character or "Ghost" that can temporarily join your party on the Phantom Train has the appearance of this, as do the other ghosts on the train that aren't so friendly.
283* In ''VideoGame/{{Geist}}'', this strategy actually ''works'' on someone, scaring her enough to allow you to possess her. It's a bit scarier than usual, although the accountant literally sees the sheet rise up off the bed. Raimi-as-a-bedsheet-ghost has an empty dark hood and dives after her, after all.
284* The Platform/SegaGenesis version of ''VideoGame/{{Ghostbusters 1990}}'' uses this in the form of white ''tablecloth'' ghosts. As in: the tablecloth floats off the table, comes toward you, and "ties you up" if you don't eliminate it.
285* ''VideoGame/GhostControlInc'' has these as an enemy type you can encounter in the game. They're called "Halloween Spirits".
286* You actually get to ''play'' as one of these in the Administrivia/SelfExplanatory AdventureGame ''VideoGame/GhostInTheSheet''. {{Justified|Trope}} in that his "boss" tells him that if the sheet's taken off, what's left of him will scatter away and be lost forever (He died under an incoming bus, which was "very messy"). [[spoiler:Actually, the "boss" put the sheet on his definitely-not-fragmented body in order to prevent him from [[{{Intangibility}} phasing through objects]] and getting too much information. It doesn't work, of course, as he still manages to ''get'' said info...]]
287* You encounter scary red ghosts as Cute Giana, in ''VideoGame/GianaSistersTwistedDreams''. However, the less fearful Punk Giana only sees goofy-looking ghosts with patched up bedsheets.
288* ''VideoGame/HauntedHalloween86TheCurseOfPossumHollow'': When [[PlayerCharacter Donny and Tami]] meet a bunch of kids on Halloween before trick or treating starts, one of them is dressed up as a ghost, while her ponytail is visible.
289* One of the puzzles from ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis'' had Indy dressing up as a bedsheet ghost to try to scare another character. It didn't work very well until the bed sheet was supplemented with some other items.
290* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Jumper}} Jumper Three]]'', a ghost bedsheet is one of the buyable clothes for Ogmo in stage 2-5.
291* The Phantom, one of the optional bosses in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' takes on this look.
292* One monster in ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'''s [[AmusementParkOfDoom FantasyRealm]] dungeon is haunted by a mob called a Spooky Ghost. It's just a theme park actor wearing a sheet (he's categorized as a human rather than an undead monster), but [[ThePowerOfActing he's so dedicated to the role]] that he has the strengths and weaknesses of a ghost regardless.
293* ''VideoGame/KirbySqueakSquad'': Kirby can unlock a "Ghost" ability where takes on this kind of appearance and can possess enemies.
294* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
295** Most depictions of the [[OurGhostsAreDifferent Poe]] enemy depict it as a short figure draped in sheets, with glowing eyes and spindly arms and carrying a lantern.
296** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'': The manual depicts the ghostly Ghini enemies as animated bedsheets with leering faces.
297* ''Matchington Mansion'': Rex dresses up as one in an ill-conceived attempt to scare Tiffany into selling him the mansion.
298* The ghosts in ''[[Webcomic/{{Megamanspritecomic}} Megaman Sprite Game]]'' resemble these, complete with the webcomic's StylisticSuck facial design.
299* ''VideoGame/MillieAndMolly'': Enemies encountered in the spooky levels include ghosts who look like cloths with eyeholes. They can be defeated by walking into them.
300* The Ghost robe is one of the robes for Clerics in ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'' can wear, and it makes them look like a bedsheet ghost.
301* The ghost mooks from ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterPC'' resembles ghosts in sheets and carrying chains.
302* ''VisualNovel/MonsterProm'': One of the items you can get from Valerie's shop is "A Blanket With Two Holes". It unlocks a route where the player imitates an actual ghost, fooling everyone but [[TheSmartGuy Liam]] (including Polly, who's an ''actual'' ghost). They can even go to the prom in their ghost costume, if they get a date.
303* The spectres of ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'' often take this form.
304* The ghosts from ''VideoGame/PacMan'' are even further abstracted. They look like jellyfish with eyeballs. The second and third cutscenes in the original game demonstrate this: in the second, Blinky chases Pac only to catch his ghost suit on a nail, and in the third, he chases Pac again, [[BrickJoke but his crappy repair job didn't stay]]. In both instances, we see part of the creature under the costume. Technically they weren't supposed to be ghosts in 1980, just generic "monsters", but players all called them "ghosts" because of their resemblance to the stereotypical form of the trope.
305* In the second ''VideoGame/{{Painkiller}}'', the enemies in the wonderfully creepy orphanage level include children playing as bedsheet ghosts. [[ActionBomb Do not let them to get close to you.]]
306* Creator/{{Konami}}'s Platform/{{MSX}} game ''VideoGame/{{Pippols}}'' has bedsheet-looking ghosts among the enemies. They can freely move through walls.
307* One of the transformations in ''VideoGame/PizzaTower'' is a ghost transformation that resembles a bedsheet. Strangely, when the player is transformed back to normal, the bedsheet falls away.
308* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime'': The Ghost Pepper resembles one of these. Apparently, it's her Halloween party costume, but she likes it too much.
309* ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' plays with this in the form of Mimikyu, a Ghost/Fairy type. While it's alive as any other Pokemon, a Mimikyu is [[WeakenedByTheLight hurt by sunlight]], and so perpetually wears a sheet to protect itself. The play comes from the fact that their sheets are old [[SeriesMascot Pikachu]] merchandise; Mimikyu [[IJustWantToHaveFriends want the same popularity among humans]], and so they try to get others' attention via the impersonation. It figures into their special ability, Disguise: other Pokémon mistake the Mimikyu's stuffed Pikachu head [[PaperThinDisguise for a real head]] and so miss an attack (the actual Mimikyu, as evidenced by [[EyesDoNotBelongThere eyes in the "chest"]], is a few inches shorter than the disguise). Taking a peek under Mimikyu's sheet causes the viewer such shock that he/she might die from it.
310* Invoked in ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' with the ghost twins Yu and Rei, who wear pure white cloaks. Yu believes no one would recognize them as ghosts otherwise. Dapper Bones thinks they could defy this and wear something else, though.
311* A vehicular example in ''VideoGame/ReVolt'' : The secret Mystery car, which is just a sheet with some question marks written on it. Flipping it over reveals that there isn't actually a car underneath the sheet.
312* ''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven'':
313** One of the minigames in the first game, "Sneaky Spirits", has you shooting at bedsheet ghosts with a bow and arrow.
314** The DS sequel has ghosts playing in a rock band in the "Big Rock Finish" minigame.
315* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' does this twice. Once with a green bedsheet (to fit in with green ghosts) and once with regular bedsheets for a Christmas Carol parody.
316* You find some of these in the third level of ''VideoGame/TheSimpsons'' arcade game. Of course, you'll quickly notice they "float" from a rather visible rope coming out of a tree. Once you knock them down, they'll be revealed as your standard mook.
317* In ''[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Sonic and Knuckles]]'', Sandopolis Zone Act II featured bedsheet ghosts that appeared as the torches burned down. To start with would be one small one, floating at the top of the screen in a less-than-threatening manner. Then a second one appears and they grow in size and their eyes gain an angry look. When the torches go out completely a third one appears, and all three get bigger and grow horns. If the torches are left off for too long they start swooping down and menacing Sonic. Since the level contains a section where it's very easy to get stuck in a loop and remain stuck well after you've realized you're IN a loop (or even if you were prepared for the loop), these guys can get a little distressing.
318* This is an enemy added to the Endless mode of ''VideoGame/SpookysJumpScareMansion''. Named "Spooper", he looks like a guy in pretty bad bedsheet costume, with normal looking legs poking out and who just blocks the door to the next room. [[CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption And the only way to get him out of the way you have to hit him with your axe]]. But then you'll find him in the next room, his disguise slightly torn and bloodied. You must do the same. And as you keep going and his disguise falls appart, you'll discover than he's less human than he appears...
319* ''VideoGame/SuperGearQuest'': The Scaresheet, Scareface and Scareround enemies in the [[HauntedCastle Haunted Chateau]] level are three different kinds of this. Scaresheet looks more sheet than ghost and moves up and down on a fixed path, Scareface chases the player and Scareround is a bigger, dopey-looking version of Scareface.
320* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
321** Broozers are enemies introduced in ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros'', and since then, they become semi-recurrent enemies in the series. They resemble humanoids wearing a bedsheet over their body, brown shoes and boxing gloves, and when they see the player, they attack punching anything in their way, which can be useful for destroying unbreakable bricks, allowing the player to reach items and Star Coins that could not otherwise be reached. While they aren't actual ghosts, since you can defeat them with [[GoombaStomp Goomba Stomps]], they mainly appear in Ghost House levels.
322** ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DLand'' introduces a species of ghost called Peepas, who are a SuperDeformed version of this trope.
323** The series also has Lantern Ghosts, that are Shy Guys under a bedsheet. They appear in ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'', and a larger variant appears as a mid-boss in ''VideoGame/PaperMario64''.
324** The Duplighosts in ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' are literal bedsheet ghosts who can transform into dopplegangers of your partners. In the sequel ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', there's a unique one known as [[spoiler:Doopliss]], who transforms the citizens of Twilight Town into pigs. He is more [[NightmareRetardant humorous]] than scary, but he's [[BewareTheSillyOnes a lot more dangerous]] than he seems.
325* Zepheniah Mann of ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' haunts the map Harvest in this form, with a jaunty little ghostly...er, Ghastly Gibus on his incorporeal head. As part of a RunningGag (Valve's attempts at injecting horror into [=TF2=] are all StylisticSuck), the player characters are absolutely ''terrified'' of him, [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl screaming]] and dropping their weapons for five seconds if he gets too close.
326** In the 2013 Halloween Event, all players have the potential to become bedsheet ghosts (who can only move around and moan "Boo!") should they die in Helltower once Redmond or Blutarch reaches the end of the payload race and open the portal to the afterlife.
327* ''VideoGame/TrickOrTreatBeat'': You will occasionally run into these wandering around as obstacles. You can deal with them by turning them into frogs in the witch costume.
328* The boy who controls Spectre in ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal: Small Brawl'' appears dressed as this.
329* Napstablook from ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' resembles this kind of ghost. They enjoy recorded music in the "spooky" genre.
330* ''VideoGame/{{Uninvited}}'' specifically invokes this, with a ghost who, according to the narration, "looks like the classic spectre" that comes out of the sky and kills you.
331* ''VideoGame/WarioLand'':
332** The ghost enemies in ''VideoGame/WarioLandII'' that turn Wario into a zombie if he touches them.
333** The Axe Ghosts in ''VideoGame/WarioLand4'' are pretty much this... with the pointy hood style that's gone out of fashion for most other media.
334* ''VideoGame/{{Wizard 101}}'' has these as enemies throughout the game, and they come in a variety of colors. Most notably, this is the model used by the lost souls, famous for being the weakest monsters in the game.
335* ''VideoGame/TheWolfAndTheWaves'': Blue mushrooms give you a "recon mode" that looks like a bedsheet ghost.
336* ''VideoGame/YouAreNotTheHero'': During her travels, Petula fights a "Big Freakin Ghost" on board a haunted train. It's a giant black bed sheet with [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing red eyes]].
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340* In Website/CollegeHumor's ''[=BearShark=]'', both the bear and shark disguise themselves like this to escape from a real ghost.
341* In the ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' Halloween Smoochie, Disco Bear dresses up as one.
342* In ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'', Strong Mad dressed up as a ghost for Halloween in the short "Pumpkin Carve-nival". Being [[DumbMuscle Strong Mad]], the eye-holes weren't properly aligned with his face.
343* The deadbeats from ''WebAnimation/MysterySkullsAnimated'' look like purple pointy-headed bedsheet ghosts with glowing beating orange hearts, though their GameFace departs from the aesthetic somewhat due to their talon-like hands.
344* ''WebAnimation/MyLittlePonyTellYourTale'': In "Nightmare Roomate", the girls encounter what they think is a ghost but its actually a bedsheet being moved by Izzy's magic while she's sleeping. In "Haunted House", this is Misty's costume as well as a series of props she uses to scare Sunny and her friends.
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348* The [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Ghost Wizard]] from ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' looks like this... with a white mustache and a wizard's cap.
349* In ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'', [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/001031c Roll goes for the classic Halloween costume.]]
350* [[http://chainsawsuit.com/2008/06/25/strip-18/ This]] strip of ''Webcomic/{{Chainsawsuit}}''.
351* In ''Webcomic/DearChildren'', the [[NightmareFetishist supernaturally]]-[[CloudCuckoolander obsessed]] [[Characters/DearChildren Cailin Carver]] loves pictures of these creatures.
352* Mort from ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt''. He [[VoluntaryShapeshifting takes the form]] of whatever he thinks is likely to scare his latest victim, and uses the default translucent "bedsheet phantasm" appearance as a sort of indication that he's in "friendly ghost" mode ever since Antimony pointed out that no one's been scared of the linen apparition since they went from burial shrouds to bedsheets. A flashback episode to [[spoiler: his death]] reveals that [[spoiler: he chose the look because "If I'm a ghost, I suppose I better look the part. I dressed up as a ghost once. With a bedsheet and everything!"]]
353* ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'': The ghost from [[http://nonadventures.com/2011/10/22/you-cant-always-get-what-you-haunt/ "You Can't Always Get What You HAUNT"]].
354-->'''Wonderella:''' Dude, you're a sheet with some holes in it! Were you ''Hasidic'' or something?
355* Great-Aunt Pneuma from ''Webcomic/PepsiaPhobia'' shows up like this.
356* Paul (who is a ghost) from ''Webcomic/PicturesForSadChildren''. He actually has JacobMarleyApparel (and he's oddly physical, to boot), but he wears a bedsheet over it because he [[http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=2 "wanted to look ghosty". He is, after all, also a little kid]].
357* In ''Webcomic/SquidRow'', Randie did several portraits of herself as a bedsheet ghost with a blond wig.
358* Oscar [[http://www.wildelifecomic.com/comic/21 does this trope]] in ''Webcomic/WildeLife''.
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362* ''WebVideo/TheBenHeckShow'' has ''The Ghost of Unfinished Projects'' which appears in the 2015 Halloween episode.
363* The CreepyPasta ''Bedsheet Ghost" features one of these as the antagonist. It quickly swaps the bedsheet for [[spoiler: a body bag with a half-finished, rotting FrankensteinsMonster body inside, and it wants the protagonists hand.]] The ghost was a DeadlyDoctor who died in a certain hospital bed before he could finish his work. Realizing that the morgue couldn't provide fresh enough bodies, he started going after patients.
364* ''Podcast/FriendsAtTheTable'': In ''PARTIZAN'', Deck 7 of Icebreaker Prime is rumored to be haunted after people report seeing an "inky, billowing" shape drifting through the halls.
365* ''Creator/ImprovEverywhere'': (Rather affable) Bedsheet Ghosts [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKB7zfopiUA haunt the New York Public Library]]. Then the Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}} chase them away!
366* In the HalloweenEpisode of WebVideo/LoadingReadyRun's ''WebVideo/CommodoreHustle'', "Roll For Treats", Tally dresses up as a bedsheet ghost to go trick-or-treating with her boyfriend Jer, masquerading as his young son.
367* ''[[http://shirtoid.com/52061/scorched/ Scorched]]'' by Glenn Jones is about the ghost bedsheet maintenance issues.
368* The ''Website/SCPFoundation'' features a characteristically dark version in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6096 SCP-6096]], a bedsheet ghost which is normally passive but every so often picks out a person at random, hunts them down and kills them. Unlike a number of similar [=SCPs=], it isn't outwardly indestructible, amazingly strong, or otherwise empowered; rather, it can't be stopped because ''everyone'' who interacts with it, besides the target themselves, is compelled to help it reach its victim, and nobody is able to bring themselves to take actions which would hinder or harm it. In fact, the SCP Foundation itself was ''compelled to give it a dedicated MTF team specifically to help it,'' with its containment procedures simply being to let it track down its target when active and then do damage control after because it's fundamentally impossible to try and contain it. Even attempting to disband the MTF would count as attempting to hinder it now, so the agents are stuck.
369* In the ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'' episode, "Bowser's Change!", Junior steals $100.00 from Chef Pee Pee that Bowser gave him to buy a pizza with so that he could buy ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons'', only for Joseph to spend the money on candy and a lottery ticket (which he lost on). After Junior tricks Tyrone into giving him into the pizza for free, Chef Pee Pee forces him to explain to Bowser why he doesn't have the change he was expecting, so he lies to him that he tipped the pizza guy $80.00 because he was a ghost and didn't want him to spook them. When Bowser wants to see the ghost as proof, Junior disguises himself as a ghost using his ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' bedsheet. Bowser still falls for Junior's trick despite the fact that [[PaperThinDisguise the characters from ]]''[[PaperThinDisguise Thomas]]'' [[PaperThinDisguise are clearly visible on the bedsheet]], but Junior's ruse is exposed when Bowser tries to give him a hug.
370* One Italian cartoonist [[http://www.cartunista.com.br/assombracoes.html noticed]] a potential problem with this.
371* WebVideo/KarolinaZebrowska: Miss Tatternickle is disappointed to realize her mysterious follower is a plain bed sheet ghost once it decides to show itself, and scares it back to invisibility.
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375* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
376** The episode "Heat Signature" features three stereotypical cartoon Bedsheet Ghosts who, in contrast to the usual portrayal, are genuinely dangerous due to their [[DeadlyPrank sadistic mischievous streak]].
377** In "Too Young", Finn and Princess Bubblegum stage a 'prank' on Earl Lemongrab by dressing up as bedsheet ghosts, running up to Lemongrab and punching him in the stomach.
378* ''WesternAnimation/AlbertTheFifthMusketeer'' has the episode "Ghost You Said?" where Milady does this to King Louis XIII claiming to be the ghost of his ancestor. This is actually one of the many plots by the Cardinal to take over the castle. Albert would later do the same thing to get King Louis to return. Near the end of episode all the musketeers dress up as ghosts to scare the Cardinal.
379* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' has the chipmunks do this to a person claiming to be their uncle but was really using them to make money and pay off a debt.
380** Then in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAlvinShow'', J.P. Lester is an actual bedsheet ghost haunting Chesley Estate.
381* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingAdrenaliniBrothers'', both Adi and Enk dress up like this to scare Xan. They get help from actual ghosts.
382* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' has the episode "[[HalloweenEpisode Halloween Bash]]", a ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself episode with a {{Muggle}}[=/=]Magical Being party. Two Normals show up, dressed as Bedsheet Ghosts, and are annoyed to see how many of the other "costumes" are so much better than theirs. Even after the Dragon Council removed Jake's "costume", they were still regarded as the lamest ones.
383-->'''Ghost Kid #1:''' “We’ll just go as ghosts”, you said. “Nobody’ll wear a good costume”, you said!
384** In the episode "A Ghost Story", Brad's scout group wear ghost costumes to scare Jake's scout group.
385* In ''WesternAnimation/TheArchieShow'' episode "Groovy Ghosts", Archie and his friends want to use an old abandoned house as a clubhouse, but Reggie tries to scare them away by making them think the house is haunted. Instead of wearing a sheet, Reggie attaches strings to a sheet to make it move around like a puppet. Archie plays it straight when he scares Reggie.
386* A HalloweenEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/AtomicBetty'' features Betty wearing a ghost costume while trying to film a movie.
387* ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'':
388** Done in the book "The Berenstain Bears and the Ghost of the Forest" (which was also done as an episode of the 80s TV series, "Bust a Ghost"). Papa Bear decides to scare the Cub Scouts on an overnight forest camping trip by disguising as the "Ghost of the Forest" by wearing an old white sheet with two eyeholes cut in it. Scout Leader Jane overhears Papa's plan and decides to get back by crafting her own stick-and-leaves ghost face rigged with a flashlight, effectively scaring Papa and foiling his plan.
389** This is also Papa Bear's costume in "Trick or Treat" from the [=PBS=] series, with an added Jack-o'-lantern head. It actually manages to scare Brother and Sister Bear a bit... until he starts complaining that he can't see and starts bumbling around bumping into stuff.
390* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'':
391** The episode "''Feud Fight''" has Cricket and Tilly get into a rivalry with Chip Whistler over who sell more vegetables. One of their ideas to drive away Chip's customers is Tilly disguising herself as a ghost which fools everyone despite Chip telling them she just a kid covered in a sheet.
392** In "''Gloria's Cafe''", Gloria opens up a cafe but she has to stop Officer Keys from closing it down as she doesn't have the proper paperwork for it. One of her attempts is trying to convice Keys the shop is haunted by having all the customers wear ghost costumes. Keys is fooled at first but soon realizes its a trick as [[SpottingTheThread none of the ghosts are saying boo.]]
393* In "The Ghost of the Living Room" from ''WesternAnimation/BluesCluesAndYou'', said ghost is one of the characters dressed as this. The identity of said character is the subject of the episode's game of Blue's Clues, with the answer turning out to be [[spoiler:the kitten Periwinkle.]]
394* In a HalloweenEpisode of ''[[WesternAnimation/CreepSchool Creepschool]]'', this is Victoria's Halloween costume. Unlike other examples featured on this page, BecomingTheCostume is in effect causing her to gain the abilities of a ghost such as flying and intangibility.
395* One of Vlad's bad clones of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' looks like a Bedsheet Ghost... because the sheet covers up its ''horrifying'' mutations (like the fact that it has no ''legs'', ''muscle'', or ''skin'').
396--> '''Danny''': Seriously, a ''bedsheet''? [''Reaches out for the bedsheet.''] What do you got under there? [''Removes bedsheet [[spoiler: to reveal a ghost that only has the upper portion of a skeleton.]]'']
397** Also, Danny tried pulling off the Bedsheet Ghost look during ''Fright Night''. It didn't work out.
398*** The same episode gave us this nice exchange:
399--->'''Tucker:''' Nice costume, dude! Are those flaming bedsheets?
400--->'''Fright Knight:''' Flaming bedsheets '''''of death!''''
401* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', Dexter's goldfish dies and comes back as a ghost to haunt him. When trying to hunt the ghost using ghost equipment, Dee Dee appears wearing a sheet, causing Dexter to mistake her for a ghost and attack her. When he asks her what she is doing, Dee Dee says she wanted to scare the ghost by dressing up as a ghost.
402* ''WesternAnimation/DorgVanDango'': Yooki is one of these. In her original form (seen briefly in the intro) she looked like a dirty patchwork bedsheet. However, her disguised form still looks like a sheet, this time much cleaner with no visible stiches, a purple frill along the bottom, and some GirlishPigtails for good measure.
403* ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'' has a surprise cameo from the last person you would expect pulling this. [[spoiler: [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]]. Since Creator/KlaskyCsupo '''''DID''''' have a hand in the production of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', ItMakesSenseInContext.]]
404* The ghosts in ''WesternAnimation/EekTheCat'''s HalloweenEpisode are of this variety. Although the ghost that Eek befriends is more like a stray party balloon.
405* ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat'' has encountered a few of these over the years;
406** In a [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatOttoMessmer classic-era short]], ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheGhostBreaker'', Felix is haunted by a ghost that looks like this, and then has to save a farmer from it. It turns out to just be a ScoobyDooHoax, as the ghost is just a travelling salesman in disguise.
407** In the [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatJoeOriolo Joe Oriolo era episode]] [[Recap/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat1x09GhostlyConcert "Ghostly Concert"]], Felix is trapped on a haunted ship, where its revealed Professor is commanding a legion of these kind of ghosts to go after him.
408** In another Oriolo-era episode, [[Recap/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat1x68RedbeardThePirate "Redbeard the Pirate"]], Professor and Rock Bottom dress up as one to scare Felix away from Redbeard the Pirate's gold. Felix quickly catches on to the disguise when he realizes the "ghost" has two heads and four legs. Later on, they open the treasure chest, which releases the real Redbeard's Ghost (who also looks like a bedsheet ghost), who scares Professor and Rock Bottom away.
409* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'':
410** Although Bloo is an imaginary friend, his body shape definitely makes him look like this trope. This was pointed out on two occasions: in the pilot "House of Bloos", he takes the place of the ghost in a ''Pac-Man'' homage, while "Bloooo" has him go pale white from a cold and be mistaken for a ghost.
411** In "Go Goo Go", Goo is wearing a bedsheet with two eye holes as her Halloween costume.
412* In one episode of the [[AnimatedAdaptation animated version]] of ''Series/FraggleRock'', Wimbley suffers from an illness that can only be cured by scaring him. The rest of the family wear ghost costumes to try and scare him but it doesn't work.
413* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Bender is dressed as one in "The Cryonic Woman".
414* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'': In "[[Recap/GarfieldAndFriendsS3E17 Mistakes Will Happen]]", Jon plans to scare Garfield and Odie when they go into the woods against his wishes by disguising himself as a ghost, using a bedsheet to do it. Garfield soon catches onto the disguise, and when Jon runs into a tree, a convict that escaped from prison takes the disguise to scare Garfield and Odie. Garfield, [[MistakenForAnImposter having mistaken the convict for Jon]], attacks him.
415* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldsHalloweenAdventure'' featured the "laugh at the bedsheet ghost, oh no there's nothing under the sheet!" scenario, as well as a few variations where other monsters dressed up as bedsheet ghosts.
416* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'' has the girls trying to visit their manager in a hospital but the nurse won't let them through due to being past visiting hours. The girls proceed to sneak in anyways and are chased by the nurse. They lure her into a laundry room and proceed to scare her away by covering themselves in white sheets.
417* ''WesternAnimation/IfYouGiveAMouseACookie'':
418** All of the "ghosts" seen in the HalloweenEpisode "If You Give a Mouse a Pumpkin" are this. In particular, Cat has eight ghost decorations for his Halloween Spooktacular event and Moose dresses up in this costume for Halloween.
419** In "The Haunted Toolshed," Mouse, Dog, Henry and Esme Louise all believe that there's a ghost in the toolshed, even though it's actually just Moose playing music and otherwise making racket. They finally decide to confront the ghost, but figure the ghost for sure will see them coming. They therefore all dress up as bedsheet ghosts and make ghostly moaning noises to disguise themselves.
420* ''WesternAnimation/ItsMagicCharlieBrown'': Snoopy accidently turns Charlie Brown invisible and tries to turn him back to normal. One of these ideas is to cover him in a white sheet. When Charlie Brown looks in a mirror, he scares himself.
421* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' had Beezy being haunted by one. Its sheet is eventually removed, revealing a body of pizza crusts.
422* A Halloween episode in ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' when the church outlaws Trick or Treating and Hank and his neighbors rally up to bring Halloween back. Bill comes as a ghost, but he accidentally tore his sheet, but it instantly becomes a toga.
423* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Kipper}} Kipper the Dog]]'' has a ghost visit him that looks like this. Kipper would cover himself in a bedsheet in order to teach him how to be scary.
424* On ''WesternAnimation/LittleEinsteins'', the Little Einsteins are troubled by a growing number of these throughout "A Little Einsteins Halloween" and are convinced they want to take their trick-or-treat candy. It turns out [[spoiler:they aren't ghosts at all, just instruments that have been covered in bedsheets with drawn-on eyes.]]
425* Used in various episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleLuluShow''. Either by Lulu or Tubby and his friends.
426* On ''Literature/LittlePrincess'', this is the King's costume in "I Want to Dress Up." The Queen grumbles that she hopes it's not one of the good bedsheets.
427* In ''Literature/LlamaLlama Trick or Treat'', Officer Flamingo scares the kids as one of these. Well, all of them except Euclid, who isn't scared of ghosts, because "[[SpockSpeak Scientifically speaking, they aren't solid matter.]]"
428* In Creator/ChuckJones' ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "Claws for Alarm", Sylvester is frightened by a bunch of mice in a TotemPoleTrench disguised as one of these.
429* ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'': Bugs disguises himself as a bedsheet ghost in an attempt to scare Sam out of his house in "Fish and Visitors".
430* ''WesternAnimation/MaggieAndTheFerociousBeast'': "Three Little Ghosts" has Maggie and her friends disguised as ghosts trying to scare each other.
431* An AnimatedAdaptation of ''Literature/MalheursDeSophie'' (''The Trouble with Sophie'') has a episode where a boy disguised as a ghost tries to steal vegetables from a garden. Later Sophie and her friends wear bedsheets over their heads while chasing each other around.
432* Another ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'' short, "Ghost Wanted", has the little ghost apparently wearing a full "onesie" suit with a trap-door flap, one he can take off and change if necessary; which he does, leaving him fully invisible for a few seconds.
433* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/MisterGo'' has Mister Go watching a ghost movie, and decides to disguise as a ghost to scare people. A police officer spots him and pulls the same stunt on him.
434* There is a floating bedsheet ghost who is a teacher in ''WesternAnimation/MonsterHigh: Haunted''.
435* In "Frisky, Fluttery Ghost" from ''WesternAnimation/MouseAndMole'', Mole misinterprets Mouse's comment that there is "crispy, buttery toast" waiting for him as "frisky, fluttery ghost," then gets scared by thinking that a sheet which Mouse is hanging on a clothesline is one of these.
436* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E8LookBeforeYouSleep Look Before You Sleep]]". Twilight Sparkle tells a GhostStory about a [[HeadlessHorseman headless horse]] and finishes by putting a white bedsheet over her head. Despite the sheet not covering the rest of her body, Rarity and Applejack are immediately fooled.
437** In the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E15ScareMaster Scare Master]] episode, A trio of such ghosts pursue the ponies (and Spike) inside the corn maze. It's later revealed those were Fluttershy's bird friends in disguise.
438** A variation appears in the stop motion short: Pinkie Pie vs. the Flowers. After Pinkie Pie crashes into a flower display created by Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash the three of them are covered in flowers and appear to look like ghosts to Pinkie.
439* ''TheNewAdventures of WesternAnimation/{{Madeline}}'' featured an episode where Madeline and her friends entered a haunted castle where some of the girls dress up as ghosts for a Halloween party.
440* When ''[[WesternAnimation/PacMan Pac-Man]]'' chomps the ghosts in Creator/HannaBarbera's AnimatedAdaptation, they get new ghost suits in the appropriate colors out of Mezmaron's closet.
441* The ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'' episode "Pups Save a Ghost" featured a mysterious canine ghost dressed in a bed sheet prowling about the Lookout, doing things like taking treats, digging holes, and leaving ''Pup Pup Boogie'' on. Rocky devises a trap to catch the ghost, baited with a cookie and set up to drop a sheet on the ghost when he fell for it. Unfortunately, the trap gets triggered, and Ryder is covered in the sheet, making the pups briefly think he's the ghost, then a victim of the ghost. [[spoiler:The "ghost" is then revealed to be Marshall sleepwalking around under a bedsheet, which is foreshadowed by the ghost having Marshall's shape]].
442* On ''WesternAnimation/PBAndJOtter'', this is Baby Butter's costume in "A Hoohaw Halloween." This type of decoration is also seen throughout the episode.
443* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'': This is Charlie Brown's favorite Halloween costume in ''WesternAnimation/ItsTheGreatPumpkinCharlieBrown''. Of course, being Charlie Brown, he naturally ''botches'' said costume with too many eye holes, as Linus did in the actual comic strip.
444** Oddly enough, these holes are all rendered as black dots of ghostly nothingness rather than simply showing whatever part of him or his regular clothes that's underneath. Presumably because this was easier to animate.
445** Most of the other kids' costumes are also bedsheet ghosts, with the exception of a few who wear masks on top of bedsheet-ghost outfits.
446* In the ''WesternAnimation/PixieDixieAndMrJinks'' cartoon "Ghost With the Most," Mr. Jinks thinks he's killed Dixie, who was playing possum after being hit with a fireplace shovel. Dixie implements the bedsheet ghost disguise and proceeds to haunt Jinks. At the conclusion when he finds out the truth, Jinks turns the tables and makes Pixie and Dixie think he committed suicide out of guilt. Jinks dresses up as a bedshhet ghost as well.
447* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' had Carl dressed as a ghost during a montage in "Undercover Carl".
448* ''WesternAnimation/{{Popples}}'': In "Backyard Adventure", it is one of the Popples trying to scare the others.
449** In "Poppin' Pillow Talk", Bonnie wears a ghost costume to scare her brother for scaring her earlier.
450* Although the show was famous for its [[OurMonstersAreWeird often creative and surreal depiction of ghosts]], bedsheet ghosts do appear in two episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'': "The Old College Spirit" and "The Haunting of Heck House", and are very creepy as usual.
451* High-Five Ghost and his family in ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow''. Then it gets...odd when Mordecai and Rigby are turned into ghosts, and they just look like themselves, with a ghostly squiggle instead of legs.
452* A few examples from ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991''...
453** In the first HalloweenEpisode "[[Recap/RugratsS1E9CandyBarCreepShowMonsterInTheGarage Candy Bar Creep Show]]", when the babies are hiding in Stu and Drew's makeshift haunted house among hearing Angelica and other trick-or-treaters about to enter, a sheet section of the tent falls onto Tommy, and the nearby electric fan that was blowing paper bats around gives the sheet-covered Tommy a more ghostly appearance. This manages to scare Angelica AND Grandpa Lou.
454** In "[[Recap/RugratsS2E24GameShowDidiToysInTheAttic Toys in the Attic]]", Grandpa Boris is trying to find Tommy and Angelica wandering their attic, which they think is haunted. The wind blows the attic window open and sends a white sheet flying onto Grandpa Boris. Naturally, Tommy and Angelica think he is a ghost, and Boris blindly trying to get around with the sheet over him doesn't help much either.
455** Spoofed in the "[[Recap/RugratsS4E1Chanukah Chanukah]]" special; as an attempt to try and defeat the "Meany of Chanukah," Phil suggests taking Tommy's white pillowcase and wearing it over his head to disguise as a ghost. It doesn't work, and Phil only ends up walking into a table leg.
456--->'''Lil:''' [[DeadpanSnarker That wasn't very scary]].
457* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' featured a YetAnotherChristmasCarol episode where Aunt Zelda as the Ghost of Christmas Present was dressed as one of these. Unfortunately for her the only sheet she could find was a blue-colored one with a pink flower pattern on it, and according to [[AlphaBitch Gem]], it belongs to her mother.
458* In ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou!'', one of the earliest ghosts the gang encountered was The Phantom Of Vasquez Castle, who appeared as a Bedsheet Ghost. In reality, it was a magician named Bluestone The Great who used his illusionist skills to make it look like the Phantom could fly and walk through solid walls.
459* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', In the first ''Treehouse of Horror'', Homer returns from trick or treating as a ghost. Bart dresses as a ghost in two episodes, one in ''Treehouse of Horror XIX'' where it parodies ''It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown'' while the other is shown in the episode ''No Loan Again, Naturally'' where he tries to scare Homer.
460* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
461** In the episode "Here Comes the Neighborhood", the townsfolk wish to drive the rich people (who just happen to all be black) out of town, so they figure: what scares rich people? Ghosts. They then dress up as bedsheet ghosts and wind up looking like TheKlan. Hilariously, the rich people also think they look like ghosts and flee the town because it's "hainted".
462** In "Pink Eye" from the first season, Principal Victoria sees Cartman dressed as Hitler and thinks a Bedsheet Ghost would be a less controversial costume. Er, not so much.
463--->'''Cartman:''' Wow, Chef must be really scared of ghosts!
464* In "A View To a Mask" from ''WesternAnimation/SpecialAgentOso'', the boy that Oso is helping, Kevin, initially mistakes Oso for being dressed up as one of these when he lands in front of his doorway covered in his parachute. Admittedly, a very odd-looking one.
465* In the episode "Scaredy Pants", ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' tries to go as the FlyingDutchman and scare everybody, but his costume consists of a sheet and wooden clogs. Because of his square shape, everyone called him a "haunted mattress", so he asks Patrick to shave his head down to a round shape. He goes to the Halloween party and almost gets away with scaring all his friends, but he is found out eventually. Just then the ''real'' Flying Dutchman arrives and, insulted by such a pathetic impersonation, unmasks him. He takes one look at him and runs screaming into the night, followed by everyone else, and eventually Patrick. Seems [=SpongeBob=] has been sheared down until there was nothing left but his ''brain''.
466-->"Don't worry! It grows back!"
467** In "Pranks a Lot", Spongebob and Patrick trick Sandy into thinking they're ghosts. They wear white bed sheets to make her think it's a cheap costume, but when she pulls them off there's nothing there. She freaks out and jumps into an escape pod to run back to Texas.
468** "The Ghost of Plankton" has Plankton do this after watching a horror movie. Unable to see where he is going he trips and falls to the ground.
469* The titular characters of ''WesternAnimation/TheSpooksOfBottleBay''.
470* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': In "Hungry Larry", Star and Janna summon the eponymous spirit, who at first appears to be a shrimpy little bedsheet ghost with stubby arms and legs. He turns out to be [[KillerRabbit much more dangerous than he appears]], however.
471* ''WesternAnimation/TheStrangeChores'': Que in "Don't Trick or Tweet," even using it to scare Snorp. She is a real ghost, after all.
472-->'''Que:''' My costume must have a fever because it is ''sick!''
473** She also considers doing this in "Unclog The Toilet" after an unsuccessful attempt to scare a monster.
474* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons'': In ''Jungle Drums'', the Nazi army unit wears Bedsheet Ghost costumes as part of their GodGuise that they're using to control a local African tribe. The similarities to the uniforms of the Ku Klux Klan are very much deliberate.
475* The ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' HalloweenEpisode has Starfire wearing a white bedsheet ghost costume after being turned into a little kid. Near the end, when she and the other Titans turn back to normal, the costume that she wears only covers her head and not her body.
476* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011 ThunderCats (2011)]]'' episode "The Forest of Magi Oar", the Thunderkittens tease Cheetara when she reports feeling the presence of spirits, by playing at being ghosts under a tent canvas. While stumbling under it, they knock their heads together.
477* A HalloweenEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/TimmyTime'' has Timmy's friends do this to scare him.
478* In the Creator/VanBeurenStudios ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' cartoon "Wot a Night", a group of them briefly pop up to scare Tom and Jerry, but they quickly fall through a trapdoor—just to wind up with a group of skeletons instead.
479* Bulkhead from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' had this as a Halloween costume, but, being a giant robot, the only "bedsheet" that fit turned out to be a fumigation tent.
480* In the Season 4 finale of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', Dean Venture attempts to dress as one of these as a "spooky" costume, because he's unable to find Goth clothing to impress Triana. The following events actually cause him to be confused for a Klan member.
481* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/VictorAndValentino'' called "The Lonely Haunts Club", Pineapple dresses as a white bedsheet with two eyeholes cut out to spook Valentino, Victor and Charlene.
482** Victor did the same to scare the twins in his Haunted Corn Maze in "El Silbón", except backwards and has the arm holes cut out. This didn't turned out that he hoped when the twins fixed his costume and walked away, calling him "Mr. Ghost".
483* ''WesternAnimation/WabbitALooneyTunesProduction'' has "Raising Your Spirits" which features Bugs being haunted by an invisible ghost. It makes itself visible by wearing one of Bug's blankets.
484* Dick Dastardly and Muttley disguise themselves as bedsheets ghosts in the ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' episode "Creepy Trip To Lemon Twist" to scare the other racers out of competition. They think they scared Luke and Blubber Bear when it was two actual bedsheets ghosts behind them that scared them off.
485* ''WesternAnimation/WhatAboutMimi'': In "Our Little Einstein", Mimi, along with her older brother Jason, does this to scare her little brother Bradley into going to a private school for gifted kids. This fails, however, due to the fact that Jason can't see where he is going while carrying Mimi, causing him to trip and make the sheet that they were wearing to fall off.
486* In "Save the Black Kitten" from ''WesternAnimation/WonderPets'', the "ghost" that scares the black kitten (and Tuck and Ming-Ming) is just a puppy that is this.
487* One episode of the Dutch cartoon ''WesternAnimation/TheWhiteCowboy'' has a horde of these ghosts terrorizing Bullet Hole City. The worst thing the ghosts do is yelling boo towards the townsfolk, which utterly terrifies them.
488* ''WesternAnimation/TheWuzzles'':
489** In "What's Up, Stox?" when they fail to raise enough money to buy real costumes, they settle for this.
490** In "Ghostrustlers", Croc's {{Mooks}} disguise themselves as a ghost to scare the wuzzles away. It didn't fool Bumblelion. Later on when real ghosts start to appear, Hoppopotamus covers herself in a sheet to lure a ghost into a trap. However she gets caught in the trap herself.
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