Pumpkin ghost


 * You may be looking for Boo.

Pumpkin ghost are enemies that appears in Sonic Heroes. They are a breed of ghost residing in Hang Castle and Mystic Mansion which can randomly appear and vanish at any time and harm the player.

Description
They make an iconic squeal of a cackle when they touch team members, and can remove shields or make the team lose rings.

The ghosts usually are found in confined spaces, such as behind unlockable doors, near switches, or in corridors. They will either stay still, slowly cackling to themselves, or encircle an area or route already tracked. There are two scales of the ghost as well; regular and large. There is an extra large ghost in the tower in Hang Castle. The latter is only encountered in Super Hard Mode inside the "Spiderweb Room".

They are most dangerous in the so-called 'Mystery Room' where they are crammed together tightly, while the subject team (Team Sonic, Team Dark or Team Chaotix) has to activate three switches without being interrupted by the ghosts, while Team Chaotix has to extinguish all four torches. Thunder Shoot is recommended here to take out the ghosts. They reappear, however, a few seconds later, so waste no time in locating and activating the switches.

To prolong the effects of the disappearing of the ghosts, Team Dark can use Chaos Inferno Team Blast to add an extra ten seconds of free time to activate the switches, before escaping via a Light Dash ring trail. The player must remember, however, that any ghosts which have not disappeared, even in their stasis-like state, are still dangerous to the touch.