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* In [[Series/GhostsUS both versions]] of ''Series/{{Ghosts|UK}}'', the titular spectres can only be seen by the female lead, who has suffered and survived a head injury. For bonus points, she can hear them too... to her intense frustration!

* In both versions of ''Series/{{GhostsUK}}'', the titular spectres can only be seen by the female lead, who has suffered and survived a head injury. For bonus points, she can hear them too... to her intense frustration.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', the only person who can see or hear Ardbert during the events of the ''Shadowbringers'' expansion is the Warrior of Light. [[spoiler:Turns out Ardbert is quite grateful for the company, as it's been over a hundred years since anybody else could see him, hear him, or talk to him. It's later revealed that this is because the Warrior of Light and Ardbert are both reflections of one another. The two of them eventually perform a FusionDance to join as one again.]]

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** The child-killing demon Der Kindestod from the Season 2 episode "Killed by Death" can only be seen by young people with fevers.
** In ''Series/{{Angel}}'', only people whose blood has mixed with [[EldritchAbomination Jasmine's]] can see beyond her beauty to see the creepy maggot-infested walking EldritchAbomination she is. Subverted with [[spoiler: Connor]] who always saw her as a maggot-infested walking EldritchAbomination because [[spoiler: ''he was her father''. Yeah. Talk about a face only a parent could love]].
* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'':

* On ''Series/{{Lost}}'', Hurley theorizes that only he, Locke, and Ben can see Jacob's cabin because they are the craziest ones.
* In ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'' episode "Behold, Eck!", a two-dimensional creature from AnotherDimension accidentally enters our world. It can only be perceived by people wearing glasses made from a special prescription that uses meteroic quartz.

** In "Music of the Spheres", the alien audio signal is only recognizable as music to teenagers, but not to adults or younger children.
** In "The Beholder", only people who have been given a treatment with iridium can see the ghost-like alien Kyra.

* Played with in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Imaginary Friend". Young Clara originally has a not-unusual imaginary friend named Isabelle who she pretends to play with. Then an alien presense reads her mind and manifests itself as the physical embodiment of Isabelle. It's not really that no one else can see her though, just that she vanishes whenever someone else enters the room.

* ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Folie a Deux" featured a monster disguised as a human working in a telemarketing company, escaping detection by apparently "hiding in the light", and is able to kill people and control their corpses without anyone else noticing they're dead. An employee named Lambert, however, is able to see him as he is, as well as those whom he killed. Everyone thinks he's crazy, but he manages to get Mulder to see the monster as well.

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* In ''Manga/ChargerGirl'', Charger Girls use a cloaking system to hide themselves from the populace of Earth (normally, they're transparent, but can still be seen), and while cloaked, can only be seen or touched by other people from Life Core and Sento, for some reason. Sento's ability to see and touch them is never explained in the anime, but [[spoiler: he does briefly lose the ability to do so while depressed.]]
* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'' from part 3 onwards, stands can only be seen by other stand users. They're invisible to everyone else.

* Literature/{{Discworld}}

* ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'' inverts this in the latter books. [[Literature/GodEmperorOfDune Siona]] and [[Literature/HereticsOfDune her descendants]] are invisible to prescience. This is important both to humanity's survival so no one threat can target all of humanity ever again, but it is the only thing that saves [[Literature/ChapterhouseDune Chapterhouse planet]] from destruction by the Honored Matres.

** In ''Series/{{Angel}}'' only people whose blood has mixed with [[EldritchAbomination Jasmine's]] can see beyond her beauty to see the creepy maggot-infested walking EldritchAbomination she is. Subverted with [[spoiler: Connor]] who always saw her as a maggot-infested walking EldritchAbomination because [[spoiler: ''he was her father''. Yeah. Talk about a face only a parent could love]].

* In ''VideoGame/AnotherCode'' only Ashley can see D, apparently because "her heart and mind are pure" or something like that.

* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'' demons are invisible unless viewed through a [[SeeThruSpecs Demonica visor with the Devil Summoning Program installed]]. Even ''then'', they just show up as a bit of graphical corruption on the HUD until the program gathers enough information to display their actual appearance. The FinalBoss is so ridiculously powerful that [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm the Demonica can't even translate its appearance into a coherent form]] until augmented by a being of similar power.
* Then there's ''Franchise/TouhouProject'''s Koishi Komeji, a mindreading girl who closed her [[ExtraEyes third eye]] (located on her [[{{Squick}} external]] [[EyesDoNotBelongThere heart]]) in order to escape all [[BreakTheCutie the hatred]] [[BlessedWithSuck that comes]] [[ForgotAboutTheMindReader from reading people's]] [[AMindIsATerribleThingToRead darkest thoughts]]. However, closing off her eye also [[EmptyShell closed off her heart and mind]] on top of giving her the ability to [[PsychicPowers manipulate peoples' subconscious]]. Consequently, [[PerceptionFilter no-one is able to establish an emotional connection with her or feel her presence]] ''even when looking straight at her'', and as soon as she leaves a person's field of vision they [[LaserGuidedAmnesia immediately forget all about having ever even seen or met her]]. However, her powers don't work as well on children and sometimes she [[NotSoImaginaryFriend plays with them]]. However, most of them forget about her as they grow up.

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* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SkunkFu'' the invisible ninja monkeys can only be seen by stupid people, so Ox, the dumbest cast member, is the only one able to see and fight them. Skunk and the others think of stupid thoughts and are then able to see them.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' has an unusual, ''literal'' example: In [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS3E01TheHolocronsOfFate "The Holocrons of Fate"]], [[spoiler:only Kanan — who was blinded by Maul in the Season 2 finale — can see in the light unleashed by the holocron fusion. Everyone else is blinded by it.]]

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/MonsterAllergy'', [[Recap/MonsterAllergyS01E23TheDevourer "The Devourer"]]

* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'' demons are invisible unless viewed through a [[SeeThruSpecs Demonica visor with the Devil Summoning Program installed]]. Even ''then'', they just show up as a bit of graphical corruption on the HUD until the program gathers enough information to display their actual appearance.

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation:
** The world accessible through [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-093 SCP-093]] is almost immediately found to be full of strange figures that are visible on the monitoring cameras, but which the people exploring the world can't seem to see. [[spoiler: They turn out to be the "ghosts" of the Unclean and those absorbed by them -- they can only be seen by machines or those affected by His Tears. They show no ability to speak, but seem able to communicate textually through machinery that allows it, and communicate telepathically with the affected.]]