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Polter

Played by: Rune Hekkelstrand

The official leader and host of the Haunted House, and the only character who appears in all the episodes. Polter's the only one who knows everyone's missions, as it's his job to take all newcomers to the Oracle so they can receive said mission. His own mission remains a mystery until the very last episode — when we learn, not surprisingly, that his mission was to make sure all the other ghosts managed to leave the house.

Breaking the Fourth Wall: One of only two ghosts to do this. Roughly Once an Episode, Polter will address the audience, say hello (or "uhu!"), explain to them what's going on, remind them of anything from previous episodes they might have missed, or otherwise share his thoughts on a situation.
Cannot Spit It Out: With Ridder Reddik. He likes her, and is pretty sure she likes him back, but can't ever bring himself to actually tell her — not until the very last episode.
Nice Guy: Polter is a kind, sympathetic and cheerful sort; though he's supposed to be a sort of leader he tries his best to be a Reasonable Authority Figure who rarely takes authority over the others unless he has to. He does have his limits, however.
Only Sane Man: He frequently plays this to the other ghosts, trying to act as the voice of reason when they get too carried away with their antics. Though occasionally he will pick up the Idiot Ball, like when he was trying to stage a theatrical production of Three Billy Goats Gruff and it took him until a good while into the rehersal to realize that he'd only cast two out of the three billy goats.
Secret-Keeper: Apart from the Oracle, Polter is the only one in the Haunted House who knows everyone's missions. He often has to help them keep their secrets from each other, because sometimes they get a little carried away with what they say.

Napoleon

Played by: Åsmund Huser

The baker's ghost. Napoleon used to be a baker in Copenhagen, and as a ghost he still has a passion for baking. He seldom leaves the kitchen, partly because he's a little anxious about what might be outside it, and partly because his mission is to bake the world's best chocolate cake. Frustratingly, though, however much he tries to bake a chocolate cake all he ever manages to make are Napoleon Pastries. At the end of the second season he and Blitzabeth get married, and in the third season they have a daughter named Delfia.

Berserk Button: While Napoleon is a peaceable sort who doesn't like to argue, one thing can get him angry: Insulting his baking, or saying bad things about baking in general.
The Determinator: Napoleon has been at the Haunted House the longest of all the ghosts, and all this time he's barely done anything but try and fail to accomplish his mission. Despite constant setbacks, he never gives up... he may be upset about the setback, but after moaning for a bit he'll be back at it, making another attempt. Even when all the ghosts in the house sink into a depression because they think they'll never manage their missions, Napoleon mopes along with the others... and then decides he might as well give it one more try.
Henpecked Husband: After marrying Blitzabeth, there are moments where it looks like he'll turn into this... but surprisingly, for the most part it's averted.
Lovable Coward: Napoleon is a bit of a wimp who scares easily and prefers to avoid confrontation whenever he can. On occasion he can step up and become more of a Cowardly Lion... or he might briefly lose his temper if you insult his baking.
Sweet Baker: He's friendly, sympathetic and caring — a little timid and conflict-shy, but a Nice Guy to the extreme. He's also very passionate about his baking, even if he suffers constant disappointments when the chocolate cake he wanted to make turns out as a Napoleon Pastry yet again.

Geir Gatsby

Played by: Espen Reboli Bjerke

The rascal ghost. Geir Gatsby is Polter's best friend; a trickster and a clown who's just a little too fond of pranking everyone, particularly Blitzabeth. He's got the easiest mission of all the ghosts; he's supposed to hang a picture up on the wall. However, he never gets around to doing it, mostly because he likes living in the Haunted House. In the third season he finally does hang up the picture and goes to Hermetika, but turns out to be able to still pull the occasional prank even if he's not physically there anymore.

Inferiority Superiority Complex: At first, Geir Gatsby comes across as supremely self-confident and even a little arrogant. But he's actually really insecure and it doesn't take a lot for him to lose confidence in himself or to think that other people don't like him. The second season pretty much confirms that the reason he doesn't want to complete his mission and go to Hermetika is that he's scared to — what if nobody there likes him?
Innocently Insensitive: Geir Gatsby is not the most mature of ghosts, and a lot of his worst behaviour and comments merely happen because he doesn't realize how hurtful he can be.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Few ghosts cause more trouble or causes more headaches for the other inhabitants of the house than Geir Gatsby does. Either he's pranking, tricking or teasing them, or he plays games with them and cheats in order to win. When he's always forgiven in the end, it's because he's never malicious, he just can't help himself when he senses a good joke. If you catch him in the right mood, he's pleasant and helpful.
The Prankster: Geir Gatsby loves pulling pranks on his friends — particularly on Blitzabeth, because it's so funny to rile her up.
Put on a Bus: Geir Gatsby is the second main ghost to leave the series, after Cumulus. When Obus arrives at the house at the beginning of the third season, Geir Gatsby suddenly decides in a hurry that it's time for him to hang up that picture and go to Hermetika. Turns out they had met as humans, and Geir Gatsby had stolen her hat and cane, so he was afraid of the retribution. (They do reconcile just before he leaves, and he gives back the cane, though she says he can keep that hat).
Vitriolic Best Buds: Develops this dynamic with Blitzabeth. They're always fighting about something, usually because he can't resist trying to egg her up, but in the secons season they spend a lot of time together and team up on a number of occasions.

Blitzabeth

Played by: Kirsti Grundvig

The angry ghost. Blitzabeth arrives at the Haunted House in the very first episode, and all through the series she nags and complains and yells at everyone. Her mission is to stop complaining and start being nice, but even if she softens up a bit over time, especially after marrying Napoleon and becoming the mother of Delfia, she has huge problems admitting to feeling nice or having fun.

Eek, a Mouse!!: Blitzabeth isn't afraid of anything... except animals, and especially mice. Seeing a mouse sends her into a panic.
Hidden Heart of Gold: Blitzabeth can come across as a nagging, uptight Jerkass, but deep down she's not as hard-hearted as she pretends, and she repeatedly demonstrates that she does care about the other ghosts... she just has problems showing it and prefers hiding her feelings behind an angry mask.
Perpetual Frowner: Blitzabeth doesn't smile, or laugh, or react to anything with more than annoyance. She gets a little better as the series goes on, especially as she gets married to Napoleon and becomes mother to Delfia, but she doesn't manage to shake her perpetual frown until the very last episode.
Pet the Dog: She'll have moments where she acts nicer, though usually she tries to hide it and downplay it afterwards. Napoleon and Delfia are the ones she'll most frequently act nice to, but she has surprisingly many moments with Geir Gatsby as well.
Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: In the third season, Blitzabeth angers the Oracle and gets sentenced to the Slampamper islands. The Slampamper bus arrives and takes her away... and then at the end of the episode returns with her. Turns out she started a row with the bus driver and argued so much that he just gave up and returned her home rather than be saddled with her for the entire journey. In other words, Blitzabeth almost ended up in the bad afterlife but was kicked out because they couldn't stand her there. She summed up the experience thusly: "I've never been so insulted in all my life!"

Albert

Played by: Harald Stoltenberg

The inventor's ghost. Albert lives in the attic of the haunted house, where he performs experiments that are partly scientific and partly magical, and invents all sorts of strange machines, devices and potions. His mission is to invent a brand new color.

Bungling Inventor: He's partly this and partly a Gadgeteer Genius. He makes amazing inventions, but they don't always work as intended.
Ditzy Genius: He's a brilliant inventor and scientist, but he's not as good with common sense... or with social cues, for that matter.
Labcoat of Science and Medicine: He wears one, but it's splattered with paints and colors from his experiments.
Omnidisciplinary Scientist: He's just as home with chemistry as he is with machinery, and has at least a working knowledge of most other sciences, including magic.

Ridder Reddik

Played by: Liv-Unni Larsson Undall

The knightly ghost. Ridder Reddik (translated something like "The Radish Knight") is a heroic female knight, always ready to throw herself into danger to fight evil and protect the innocent. Of course, she doesn't have many chances to do either when she's stuck in the Haunted House, but the willingness is there. Her mission is to find the Holy Marmalade Jar, which is supposedly hidden somewhere in the house.

Berserk Button: For much of the series, dragons. She's absolutely convinced that all dragons are evil, and if she even thinks there's a dragon nearby, she forgets everything else and only thinks about slaying it. She has several near-encounters with the Mute Dragon before finally discovering that he's there late in the second season — and then, despite Polter and Geir Gatsby assuring her that this dragon is friendly, grows obsessed with killing him. Luckily, the dragon manages to prove to her that he doesn't mean anyone any harm, and she finally accepts that some dragons are actually quite nice.
Cannot Spit It Out: She's not as bad as Polter is, though she does seem reluctant to take the first step in turning their relationship romantic... and the one time she tries, gets horribly embarrassed asking him straight out and turns it into an overly saccharine "playing house" game that ends up annoying and confusing both of them.
Green-Eyed Monster: She's prone to jealousy, usually if she thinks Polter is paying attention to some other female ghost — but she also gets jealous if someone else starts doing heroic things, as she thinks she's the only hero the house needs. It took her a while to warm up to Obus because of this.
Knight in Shining Armor: When she was alive she was a Knight Errant who roamed the land helping people in need, slaying dragons and performing heroic deeds. As a ghost, her attitude is largely unchanged, and her armor is still shininng, even if she doesn't get the chance to perform many heroic deeds.
Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She's a brave knight always ready for action, but she still wears a dress underneath her scale mail and she has a soft spot for children. She's also very much in touch with her emotions and isn't afraid to show it when she's upset or scared. She also displays a very feminine talent for Passive-Aggressive Kombat towards Polter when he's insulted her.

Berit Smerit Perit

Played by: Mia Gundersen

The diva's ghost. In the 1930s when she was alive, Berit Smerit was a famous French singer and actress who had earned the title "Europe's second biggest diva." Becoming a ghost hasn't changed her attitude, or vanity, one bit. Her mission is to teach Albert to dance the cha-cha-cha, but she doesn't often manage to convince him to dance with her.

Accidental Misnaming: Berit Smerit Perit can never seem to remember that Polter's name isn't "Pjolter." She also has a tendency to misremember Hermetika and the Slampamper Islands as "America" and "the Canary Islands."
Attention Whore: Berit Smerit wants the spotlight and the adoring attention of the crowd, and doesn't like sharing it with others.
The Diva: She switches back and forth between being this and The Prima Donna. On a good day, she can Diva it up with the best of them, being a classy, self-reliant and confident woman... on a bad day, she can lapse into downright childishness, sulk and throw temper tantrums if she doesn't get her way.
Drama Queen: Of course you don't get to be "Europe's second biggest diva" without having a bit of a Drama Queen in you. Berit Smerit is prone to melodrama and Comical Overreacting, though less extremely so than you might think.
It's All About Me: She can be incredibly self-centered, shrugging off bad things that happens to others while breaking out the melodrama if something happens to her. Quite often she just assumes she's the center of everyone's attention and is totally oblivious to how they're actually running around and desperately trying to deal with problems that don't involve her at all.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's selfish, self-centered, arrogant, demanding, sometimes childishly unreasonable, and not always the most honest of people. But she's also kind and generous, she's got a bit of a romantic streak, and when good fortune smiles upon her friends she's the first one to congratulate and hug them and be happy for them.
The Matchmaker: She's perfectly aware that Polter and Ridder Reddik like each other, and will sometimes take steps to push them closer together... though she tends to underestimate how much the two Cannot Spit It Out.
Small Name, Big Ego: Berit Smerit was famous and successful in life, and this led to her having a rather inflated opinion of herself. She's not quite a Know-Nothing Know-It-All, as she's a genuinely good singer, dancer and performer, and has picked up a lot of knowledge while touring Europe as a human in the 1930s, but she tends to think of or at least present herself as much more talented, knowledgeable and clever than she really is. For instance, she speaks three languages fluently, but tells everyone else that she speaks over fifty.

Ivers and Avers

Played by: Anje Isene (Ivers) and Isa Maline Isene (Avers)

Twin ghosts. Ivers and Avers are the ghosts of two young twin girls, though we don't get their backstory and don't know why they died so young. Their mission is to sleep for one year — they almost managed it once, but were woken up when there was only one day left, so they had to start all over... and of course then they couldn't get back to sleep. In the second season they have their own sub-segment going on, as they join Cumulus outside the house and meet human children.

Ascended Extra: In the first season they're really only in a few episodes, hanging around the house and not being able to sleep. In the second season they join Cumulus in her "meeting children" segments, and for a while they appear in almost every episode, even if they don't interact with the ghosts in the Haunted House.
Always Identical Twins: Averted. They resemble one another, but don't look completely identical. They even explain in their debut episode that twins don't always have to look identical.
Cheerful Child: Apart from a few moments with mischief and quarreling, they're well-behaved and sweet-natured girls with sunny dispositions.
The Dividual: Twindividual variant. They're always together, they share the same mission, and seem to share the same personality as well. In the first season, they came across more as Single-Minded Twins, with one twin always repeating what the other just said, but this was dropped for the second season.
Put on a Bus: Ivers and Avers are collectively the third departure from the series, after Cumulus and Geir Gatsby. Having spent the second season going around with Cumulus, they decide to go back to sleep after she leaves, in the hope of completing their mission so they can reunite with her in Hermetika. Early in the third season, they reappear, having managed to sleep for an entire year, and are sent off to Hermetika.
Twin Theme Naming: "Ivers" and "Avers."

Cumulus

Played by: Liv Gulbrandsen (as an adult), Rosa Engebrigtsen Bye (as a child)

The "opposite" ghost. Where all the other ghosts turn invisible if they leave the Haunted House and can only be seen by humans if they wear a bedsheet, Cumulus is only visible outside the house and turns invisible if she enters it, and can be seen by humans all the time. She also has quite a bit more spectral energy left, meaning that she still displays a lot of supernatural abilities. Her mission is to travel around and talk to human children, and in the second season she decides to transform herself into a child in order to be more at home around them. She also strikes up a close friendship with Ivers and Avers, who join her on her travels.

Age Lift: In-universe. In the second season, she transforms herself into a child in order to better interact with the human children she's supposed to help, until she reverts back to an adult to signify that she's completed her mission and can return to the Haunted House to be sent of to Hermetika.
Breaking the Fourth Wall: Cumulus is the only ghost other than Polter to do this, and only in her adult form, when she'll infrequently address the audience with her thoughts on today's subject. When she turns into a child in the second season she stops doing it — probably because for that season she has Ivers and Avers to interact with.
Friendly Ghost: Most of the ghosts in the series are pretty friendly, but Cumulus is the one who actually likes humans, listens to their troubles, and does her best to help them out.
Intergenerational Friendship: With Ivers and Avers, though it's played with. Sure, Ivers and Avers are children and Cumulus is an adult, but since all of them are ghosts and have been ghosts for at least a century it's impossible to say just how big the age difference really is. It gets further muddled when Cumulus spends most of the second season as a child herself.
Put on a Bus: Cumulus is the first main ghost to complete her mission and be sent to Hermetika. At the end of the second season, after having gone around in child form for most of the season, she reverts to her adult form, indicating that her spectral energy ran out and that she's completed her mission.

Obus

Played by: Helén Vikstvedt

The secret agent ghost. Obus is a "quadruple agent"; professional, stylish and utterly fearless (apart from a tendency to freak out and attack at sudden noises). She arrives at the ghost house at the beginning of the third season and sticks around until the finale. She actually has 'two missions, one regular and one secret. The regular mission is to perform as many heroic deeds as she can. The secret mission is to reveal and expose the spy in the Haunted House.

Action Girl: As a Quadruple Agent, she's very much this. She's lived a very action-filled and perilous life, both as a human and as a ghost. Apart from Ridder Reddik, she's the only ghost who shows any sort of combat skills — though where Ridder Reddik fights with a sword, Obus's specialty is hand-to-hand combat.
Fire-Forged Friends: With Ridder Reddik. The two did not get along when Obus first showed up, mainly because neither of them thought there were room for two heroes in the house. They eventually became friends after saving each other from a mutant pastry dough monster.
Insistent Terminology. She's a quadruple agent, not just a "normal boring single agent."
Overt Operative: For a secret agent, she's very open about her profession. Not only does she do around wearing a stereotypical Badass Longcoat and fedora, she introduces herself to everyone as a "quadruple agent."

Delfia

Played by: Maiken Kolle Riskild

Napoleon and Blitzabeth's daughter. Delfia was born early in the third season, which came as quite a shock to her parents — especially when she turned out to be a wild and uncontrollable mischief-maker. Since she was born as a ghost, Delfia has never been human and doesn't remember any other life than in the haunted house. She also doesn't have a mission, since the Oracle decreed Delfia would go to Hermetika when Blitzabeth did.

Bratty Half-Pint: Delfia is a little rascal; always getting into mischief and doing things she's not supposed to. She can also act out in more destructive ways, especially if she feels unfairly treated.
Children Are Innocent: In a glorious mix with Children Are Cruel. Delfia can be selfish, self-centered and mean-spirited, but that's because she's a kid who doesn't know any better. She's also filled with an innocent wonder of the world around her, she doesn't have any preconceptions and prejudices, and can also be very sweet and cuddly if she's in that mood.
Dreadful Musician: She's a good singer, but when it comes to musical instruments she's not as good. In one episode, she takes up playing the bagpipes as a hobby and the other ghosts really want her to find another hobby.
Forbidden Fruit: Her opinion about missions is tied to this trope. Soon after she's born, Polter tells her that she needs to get a mission from the Oracle, and Delfia declares this "the stupidest thing I've heard!" However, when the Oracle tells her she can't have a mission, she's furious at the unfairness and spends much of the rest of the series demanding that she get one.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: In a Composite Character kind of way, she fulfills the roles of both Geir Gatsby (the rascally troublemaker) and Ivers and Avers (the young child).
Younger Than They Look: Since she's born as a ghost, Delfia neatly skips the "baby" and "toddler" stages of her development and is born able to walk and talk and take care of herself. Not quite Born as an Adult, since she looks and acts about eight or nine, but still — you wouldn't know from looking at her that she was actually less than a year old.

The Oracle

Played by Hege Waagbø

A mysterious, semi-shapeless Flying Face who lives in a special room in the Haunted House. It's the Oracle who gives out all the missions to the ghosts who arrive at the house, and also seems to be the one who decides when the ghosts have succeeded or failed at their missions. The Oracle is often in a bad mood and always speaks in rhyme.

Ambiguous Gender: The Oracle's gender, if Oracles even have genders in this universe, is unknown. Polter usually uses "it" pronouns when referring to the Oracle — this doesn't seem to be a case of "It" Is Dehumanizing, as Polter has huge respect for the Oracle.
Ascended Extra: In the first season and most of the second season, the Oracle is only seen in its room and only appears when a new ghost is to receive a mission. Later episodes tend to feature the Oracle a lot more; it becomes far more common to see it outside its room, or for it to actually get involved in the plots. It's even Promoted to Opening Titles in the third season.
Beware the Silly Ones: The Oracle is a goofy-looking puppet blob thing who speaks in bad rhyme and generally acts like a bit of a Cloudcuckoolander... but get this a goofy-looking puppet blob thing angry enough and you'll see just how powerful Oracles really are. Small wonder that Polter always seemed slightly nervous around the Oracle — it wasn't all because he feared being sent to the Slampamper Islands.
Flying Face: The Ocacle is just a weird-looking floating head (which is an obvious paper mache puppet).
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: The Oracle often seems callous and can be downright mean at times, but can also be reasonable and even affable. Some of the missions are weird or difficult, but they're never impossible.
Rhymes on a Dime: The Oracle always talks in rhyme. The rhymes aren't always very good, mind.
Vocal Evolution: Early in the series, the Oracle speaks in a high-pitched, cartoony voice. As the series goes on, the pitch lowers a bit and the voice becomes less cartoony and more normal.

The Mute Dragon

Played by Unknown

A dragon who lives in the attic. He's basically friendly, but doesn't really do a whole lot other than sit around and read magazines. For a long time Ridder Reddik didn't know there was a dragon in the house, and the other ghosts kept it from her because as a knight she'd sworn to slay all dragons... when she finally found out late in the second season, there were a few clashes but she eventually accepted that the dragon was harmless and didn't deserve to be slain. There is slightly more to the dragon than meets the eye, though... it turns out he's a plant from another Haunted House, there to find out just how the ghosts in Polter's house managed their missions. He was genuinely apologetic about it when he was found out in the third season.

Delightful Dragon: Though Ridder Reddik insists that dragons are Always Chaotic Evil, this one is friendly and helpful, if a bit of a Lazy Bum. Even though he turns out to be The Mole that it was Obus's secret mission to reveal, he's not malicious — he did it as a favor to his friend Poster.
Lazy Bum: He's supposed to be kind of an assistant to Albert, but he seldom bothers to actually do anything to help him out.
Put on a Bus: Mid-third season, after he's revealed to be The Mole. He returns to his original house, though when the other ghosts find out he was only spying on them to help a friend in need, they forgive him and he parts on good terms with them.
The Voiceless: He can't talk or make any other noise. Mostly he gets his point across by gesturing.

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