(n) ghost
specter
spectre
apparition
phantom
(P)
(n) marine spirits
(n) watered stock
bogus shares
(n) ghost ship
phantom ship
(n) ghost story
(n) haunted house
(n) bogus company
paper company
(n) bogus (phantom) employee
(n) ghost population
(n) (1) (uk) pholcid spider (any spider of family Pholcidae, esp. species Pholcus crypticolens)
(2) (col) harvestman
daddy longlegs
(n) paper members
people theoretically part of a (school) club but who hardly ever turn up
(n) ghost character (apocryphal JIS kanji)
(exp) if you look carefully, it's more ordinary than it appears (lit: the ghost, when examined closely, was withered silver grass)