Louis uses it to give Frankie a trip to the ghost world for her birthday in "Mostly Ghostly Girl". Covering a living person in ectoplasm allows them to travel through a mirror to the ghost world, but once it wears off they can never return. The Haunted Hathaways: Ectoplasm is depicted as a bright blue opaque goop.When Angel and Wesley find some around a house, they realize that someone who lives in it is possessed. Angel: Ethros demons leave a trail of a glowing, viscous substance wherever they go.See also Covered in Gunge and Our Ghosts Are Different. There is no scientific evidence that the substance in its supernatural sense exists however, the term "ectoplasm" is used in real-life biology to refer to the translucent outer layer of a cell. There's several old photos floating around of mediums with what appears to be ectoplasm emerging from their orifices but those photos are staged using white cloth as a stand in for ectoplasm. It was believed by certain individuals that ectoplasm was the viscous white substance that mediums secrete during seances. The fictional portrayal of ectoplasm has its roots in old spiritualism and occultism circles. Ectoplasm has been traditionally portrayed as white or translucent but due to the popularity of the Ghostbusters franchise (and Green Is Gross), green is a common color for the mysterious substance in fiction. The strange substance is represented in fiction in a variety of ways but it's often depicted as slimy, gaseous, a form of energy, or a ghostly glow. In some works, ectoplasm slime can only be seen under UV light. It's also useful as an indicator that a ghost has been in an area or has interacted with an object. It's common for ectoplasm to be treated as a form of spiritual energy akin to Soul Power.Įctoplasm can be used to visualize ghosts and differentiate them from normal people in visual media. In some works, ectoplasm works as a property of matter, while in others it's just used to give supernatural entities another layer of otherworldliness. Ectoplasm is a substance that paranormal creatures and people associated with them emit or are covered in.
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