Ghosts must explain a massive head-scratcher, which ties the show together but makes no sense logically. While the show encompasses some pretty bizarre happenings, the Ghosts story has a wealth of lore that maintains consistency throughout the series — for the most part. The most essential element of Ghosts' mythology is the ghost boundary, which keeps all the ghosts inside the Woodstone B&B grounds. It is presumably the approximate property line of the estate. Still, the ghost boundary doesn’t match the Woodstone B&B timeline, which suggests that multiple ghosts lived on the property long before Woodstone Estate existed.
Ghosts like Thor, Sasappis, and Isaac have inhabited the mansion together for decades. However, before that, they lived in sheds, tents, and on the land in the same area. The detail raises a massive inconsistency: if Woodstone didn’t exist yet, what kept the ghosts tied to the property's lines years before it existed? Something must tie all the older ghosts, including Ghosts' season 4's Patience, to where they have lived out their afterlife. There are some possible explanations for the inconsistency and examples of where it hinders the show’s otherwise cohesive lore.
Thor and Bjorn's story raises serious questions about Ghosts lore. Thor and his son, Bjorn, are Vikings who came to the area 1000 years ago, predating all known ghosts and the Woodstone property lines. When Bjorn is introduced in Ghosts season 2, he explains to Sam that he came to the area looking for his father. However, Bjorn dies before the two cross paths, and season 2 reveals that Thor’s son has been on the Farnsby's property for centuries. This prompts a big question: how did Thor and Bjorn maintain such proximity to each other for centuries without crossing paths?
The Vikings couldn’t meet because their mobility was limited to an invisible border.
Presumably, the Vikings couldn’t meet because their mobility was limited to an invisible border. However, if property lines didn’t exist yet, it's not clear what defines the line that kept the father and son apart. It doesn’t make sense to assume they wouldn’t have crossed paths, considering they are skilled land explorers with hundreds of years to kill unless their death's location limited their boundary. Without a proper explanation for why they didn’t meet sooner, audiences must assume the ghost boundaries existed long before the Woodstone estate was constructed.
Ghosts Needs To Properly Define Woodstone's Boundaries ASAP
What Keeps The Ghosts At Woodstone Estate?
The ghost boundary is the foundation of the show’s central premise that all the spirits are trapped in a house together. All the ghosts at Woodstone B&B are bound to the property, tying every ghost character together until they move on. The ghost boundary defines all the ghosts’ stories, contextualizing their Woodstone deaths and explaining what causes them to get trapped there forever. Still, Thor and Bjorn's separation raises questions about what defines the ghost boundary since it predates property lines. The show must explain how the ghost boundaries are defined to clarify the mystery.
Ghosts season 4 ignores this season 3 spirit, which is wrong considering her rich history with the other ghosts and promising season 4 love story.
If Ghosts doesn’t define the ghost border, it will continue to haunt the show. The boundary has already created a plot hole with its Thor and Bjorn story, keeping two experienced explorers apart despite their deaths and afterlives predating the estates they are bound to. The series has an opportunity to expand on its rich lore by telling the story of exactly why the ghosts are bound to the property. With Pete’s new geographically unbound ghost spirit power, it's the perfect time to delve into the ghost border's origins, cohesively incorporating all its plot points into the story.
Possible Explanations For Ghosts' Woodstone Boundary Mystery
Something Else May Have Bound The Ghosts
It’s possible that before contemporary standards, the ghosts were all confined to a radius surrounding the location of their death. It would explain what kept Thor, Sasappis, and Isaac close to one another without modern real estate. Land surveys like the Rectangular Survey System, dating back to 1785 (just after Isaac died) define modern property lines, meaning the modern ghost boundary could have been established around that time. Still, possible alternatives to property lines that explain the ghost boundary don’t explain why, at some point, it would switch from being defined by death radius to Woodstone's limits.
The ghost border could have changed at some point, but if it did, that poses the question: who gets to define it? If the show supposes there’s a god or some higher power at work (which has been implied, considering ghosts are pulled upward when they pass on into the afterlife), then the will of that higher power could be responsible. It would explain the adjustment to limiting spirits within the modern property lines where they died, as properties like Woodstone permeated. A god-like figure changing the boundary justifies the shift without much need for details or a logical explanation.
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What happens when people die where property lines don’t exist? If a person dies in a National Park, are they free to roam the entire park or limited to some radius defined by their death? Ghosts UK covers this in more detail when Mike and Allison discover the ghosts in their haunted home and look for other options. Allison realizes she sees ghosts everywhere, including two pilots who died in the sky. Understanding what defines the geographical limits of their afterlife is the key to explaining the ghost border and the lore in the CBS Ghosts series.
Ghosts (US) is a comedic series centering on a young couple who inherit an old mansion only to discover it is inhabited by eclectic spirits from different historical periods, blending humor and history as they navigate life among the dead.
Cast Rose McIver , Utkarsh Ambudkar , Brandon Scott Jones , Danielle Pinnock , Richie Moriarty , Asher Grodman , Rebecca Wisocky , Devan Chandler Long , Roman Zaragoza , Sheila Carrasco , John Hartman , Betsy Sodaro
Character(s) Samantha Arondekar , Jay Arondekar , Isaac Higgintoot , Alberta Haynes , Pete Martino , Trevor Lefkowitz , Hetty Woodstone , Thorfinn , Sasappis , Flower , Nigel Chessum , Nancy
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