ghosthunter
nounEtymology From ghost + hunter.
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A person who attempts to track down ghosts.
- They watched the two ghost-hunters run own the corridor and go crashing over the trip-wire.1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 119:
- His reputation as a ghosthunter grew stronger and others began contacting him for investigations and "exorcisms."1992, Blanche Barton, The secret life of a Satanist: the authorized biography of Anton LaVey:
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- The most prolific and successful German horror writer of the Hefte is Helmut Rellergerd (1945-), who writes as Jason Dark about a ghosthunter named John...1999, John Clute, John Grant, The encyclopedia of fantasy:
- The Frighteners (1996) has a ghosthunter, Frank, working with a trio of ghosts who infest premises that he then clears.2004, Tom Ruffles, Ghost images: cinema of the afterlife:
- The last two years have certainly made me a ghosthunter, perhaps not in the intensive style exhibited by ghosthunter clubs and "professional" ghosthunters...2005, John B Kachuba, Ghosthunting Illinois:
- Related terms
- ghosthunting