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Spook

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Spook is another word (Dutch, from Middle Dutch spooc) for a ghost
Ghost
A ghost has been defined as the disembodied spirit or soul of a deceased person, although in popular usage the term refers only to the apparition of such a person...

 or apparition. It may also refer to:
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Spook is another word (Dutch, from Middle Dutch spooc) for a ghost
Ghost
A ghost has been defined as the disembodied spirit or soul of a deceased person, although in popular usage the term refers only to the apparition of such a person...

 or apparition. It may also refer to:
  • Spook Jacobs
    Spook Jacobs
    Spook Jacobs was a major league infielder from 1954 to 1956. He played for the Philadelphia Athletics, Kansas City Athletics, and Pittsburgh Pirates. He was born in Cheswold, Delaware.-Baseball career:...

    , a Major League Baseball player in the 1950s
  • Spook (band)
    Spook (band)
    Spook is an Australian band, comprising of Chanel Cole and Daniel Belle along with electronic producers Dennis Gascoigne and Leo Hede, better known as Statler & Waldorf....

    , an Australian trip hop band
  • A character from The Wardstone Chronicles
    The Wardstone Chronicles
    The Wardstone Chronicles are a dark fantasy series of books written by the author Joseph Delaney and published by Random House. The series is about a seventh son of a seventh son, Thomas J. Ward , who can see and sense creatures of the dark and other things that others cannot...

  • A character in the comic strip The Wizard of Id
    The Wizard of Id
    The Wizard of Id is a daily newspaper comic strip created by American cartoonists Brant Parker and Johnny Hart. It began in 1964. In 1997 Brant Parker passed his duties with the strip on to his son Jeff Parker, who had already been involved with creating Id for a decade. Currently the strip appears...

  • A character from Top Cat
    Top Cat
    Top Cat is a Hanna-Barbera prime time animated television series which ran from September 27, 1961 to April 18, 1962 for a run of 30 episodes on the ABC network on Wednesdays [8:30-9pm Eastern]. Originally co-sponsored by Kellogg's and Bristol-Myers...

  • Spook Hill
    Spook Hill
    Spook Hill is a gravity hill in Lake Wales, Florida.Spook Hill is located on the Lake Wales Ridge, a geologically significant range of sand and limestone hills, which were islands from two to three million years ago, when sea levels were much higher than at present...

    , a gravity hill in Florida
  • Spook Cave
    Spook Cave
    Spook Cave is a flooded cave located about seven miles west of McGregor, Iowa in rural Clayton County, Iowa. It is privately owned and is operated as a tourist attraction. One can take an escorted boat ride into the cave. The cave was first discovered in 1953 and opened for business in 1955...

    , a flooded cave in Iowa
  • Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
    Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
    Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife , published by W. W. Norton & Company, a non-fiction work by Mary Roach who also wrote Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, is a humorous scientific exploration as to whether there is a soul that survives death...

    , a book about the study of life after death by Mary Roach


Spooks can mean:
  • Spooks
    Spooks
    Spooks is a BAFTA award-winning British television drama series produced by the independent production company Kudos for BBC One. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, as the series follows the work of a group of MI5 intelligence officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters,...

    , a UK TV show (called MI-5 in the US)
  • The Spooks
    The Spooks
    Spooks was a hip-hop/R&B group active in the late 1990s. After attaining success throughout Europe with their record S.I.O.S.O.S., Vol. 1, Spooks garnered a hit with the single "Things I've Seen"...

    , a band
  • Spooks!
    Spooks!
    Spooks! is the 148th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.-Plot:...

    , a Three Stooges film