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Spook

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Spook is a synonym for ghost.

Spook or spooks may also refer to:

Places

  • Spook Bridge, an abandoned bridge over the Withlacoochee River, Georgia, United States
  • Spook Cave, a flooded cave in Iowa, US
  • Spook Hill, a gravity hill in Florida, US

People

  • Spook (nickname), shared by several notable people
  • Per Spook (born 1939), Norwegian fashion designer

Arts, entertainment, media

Fictional characters

  • Spook (comics), a DC Comics enemy of Batman
  • Spook, a character from the cartoon series Top Cat
  • Spook, a character in the comic strip The Wizard of Id

Films

  • Spooks (1930 film), a 1930 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short
  • Spooks (1953 film), a 1953 Three Stooges short
  • Spooks: The Greater Good, a British 2015 spy film

Literature and comics

  • Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, a 2005 non-fiction book by Mary Roach
  • Spook's, a title used in The Wardstone Chronicles (published in the United States as The Last Apprentice) and The Starblade Chronicles book series by Joseph Delaney
  • Spooks, a children's book by Colin and Jacqui Hawkins as part of their Picture Lions series
  • Spook's, a dark fantasy series of books written by British author Joseph Delaney
  • Spooks, a comic book series by Larry Hama

Music

Groups

  • Spooks (group), an American hip-hop band

Albums

  • Spooks (album), a 2010 album by The Beautiful Girls
  • Spooks: Original Comics Soundtrack, a 2008 album by Lalo Schifrin and Andy Garfield, based on the comics by Larry Hama

Songs

  • "Spooks", by Dance Gavin Dance from the album Downtown Battle Mountain II
  • "Spooks", by Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead) from the Inherent Vice soundtrack
  • "Spooks!", by Louis Armstrong, released in 1954, later found on album Satchmo In Style
  • "Spooks", by Marion Brown from the album Three for Shepp 1966
  • "Spooks", by Pryda from the single Spooks / Do It
  • "Spook", by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club from the album Wrong Creatures

Television

  • Spooks (TV series), a UK series broadcast from 2002 to 2011 (called MI-5 in some countries)
  • Spooks: Code 9, a UK series broadcast in 2008

Other arts, entertainment, and media

  • Spooks (video game), a 1985 video game

Military

  • "Spook", nickname for a Mine Protected Combat Vehicle, a Rhodesian armoured fighting vehicle
  • "The Spook", emblem of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, a United States Navy fighter-bomber

Slang

  • Slang for someone involved in espionage
    • CIA members, in slang
    • MI5 members, in slang
  • A racial slur for a black person

Other uses

See also

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