ecto-mist

English

Etymology

From ecto- +‎ mist.

Noun

ecto-mist (countable and uncountable, plural ecto-mists)

1. A fog-like apparition associated with ghosts.
   • 2011 October 8, Melba Goodwyn, Ghost Worlds: A Guide to Poltergeists, Portals, Ecto-Mist, & Spirit Behavior, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 24:

     The hotel had revealed many interesting energy anomalies, orbs, and ecto-mists, but none as impressive as these apparitions.

   • 2011 February 8, Melba Goodwyn, Chasing Graveyard Ghosts: Investigations of Haunted & Hallowed Ground, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 69:

     The majority of graveyard ghost stories that involve voices being heard and ecto-mist or full apparitions being seen could very well be the work of a cemetery guardian.

   • 2020 March 31, Samantha Irby, Wow, No Thank You.: The #1 New York Times Bestseller, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:

     There were no tipped-over bottles or clouds of ecto-mist swirling near the baseboards, nothing other than that weird, ominous moaning and the rattling of the walls that accompanied it.

   • 2021 July 13, Ryan Douglass, The Taking of Jake Livingston, Penguin, →ISBN, page 157:

     The shout sends ecto-mist ripping through his body so he rips apart at the cheeks and chest, his body splitting open at the neck and knees, until he pops in a burst of red smoke and then exits through the crevices of the door.