Spook
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Spook is another word for a ghost
or apparition. It may also refer to:
Spooks can mean:
Ghost
In traditional belief and fiction, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a deceased person or animal that can appear, in visible form or other manifestation, to the living. Descriptions of the apparition of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to...
or apparition. It may also refer to:
- A term used to describe espionageEspionageEspionage or spying involves an individual obtaining information that is considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information. Espionage is inherently clandestine, lest the legitimate holder of the information change plans or take other countermeasures once it...
agents or spies, originating in the United States of America - Spook JacobsSpook JacobsForrest Vandergrift "Spook" Jacobs was a second baseman in Major League Baseball who played from 1954 through 1956 for the Philadelphia Athletics , Kansas City Athletics , and Pittsburgh Pirates...
, a Major League Baseball player in the 1950s - A character from The Wardstone ChroniclesThe Wardstone ChroniclesThe Wardstone Chronicles is a dark fantasy series of books written by British author Joseph Delaney and published by Random House Publishing...
in USA a character from the book "The Last Apprentice" - A character in the comic strip The Wizard of IdThe Wizard of IdThe Wizard of Id is a daily newspaper comic strip created by American cartoonists Brant Parker and Johnny Hart. Beginning in 1964, the strip follows the antics of a large cast of characters in a shabby medieval kingdom called "Id". From time to time, the king refers to his subjects as "Idiots"...
- A character from Top CatTop CatTop 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. Reruns are played on Cartoon Network's classic animation network Boomerang.-History:...
- Spook HillSpook HillSpook 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 CaveSpook CaveSpook 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...
, a flooded cave in Iowa - Spook: Science Tackles the AfterlifeSpook: Science Tackles the AfterlifeSpook: 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 - A derogatory term for a black person
Spooks can mean:
- SpooksSpooksSpooks is a British television drama series that originally aired on BBC One from 13 May 2002 – 23 October 2011, consisting of 10 series. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, as the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a...
, a UK TV show (called MI-5 in the US) - The SpooksThe SpooksSpooks was an American hip-hop/R&B group, active in the late 1990s. After attaining success throughout Europe with their album 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. It is notable as the first Three Stooges short filmed in 3-D. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.-Plot:...
, a Three Stooges film - Spooks (cartoon)Spooks (cartoon)Spooks is an animated short subject produced by Walter Lantz, and stars Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.-Plot:In a cemetery, a warlock wearing a hat, mask and coat comes out of a tombstone to explore the outside of his vicinity...
, a 1930 Oswald the Lucky RabbitOswald the Lucky RabbitOswald the Lucky Rabbit is an anthropomorphic rabbit and animated cartoon character created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney for films distributed by Universal Pictures in the 1920s and 1930s...
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