Question:
What are ghosts?

Answer:
A ghost is a spirit. Ghosts have been known to have power to lift tables, etc., but the spirit beings that do such things cannot be human spirits who have died because they are either “with Christ” or in the “place of torment.”

But God has created “an innumerable company of angels” (Hebrews 12:22) which are spirit beings, and they “minister for them who shall be the heirs of salvation” (Hebrew 1:14).

There are also a large company of fallen angels who fell when Satan wanted to be “like the most High.” The Bible calls these fallen angels “demons” who have power to make people fall into a fire (Matthew 17:15), and other harmful things, but they cannot touch a believer because on the cross of Calvary Christ “through death” destroyed “him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and [delivered] them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage” (Hebrew 2:14, 15).