Spook is a synonym for

ghost A ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that is believed to be able to appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to rea ...

. Spook or spooks may also refer to:

People

Spook (nickname) Spook is a nickname of: * Thomas Dowler (1903-1986), American football, basketball and baseball player and football and basketball coach * Rupert Hanley (born 1952), South African cricketer * Spook Jacobs (1925–2011), American Major League Base ...

, shared by several notable people *

Per Spook Per Spook (born 2 July 1939) is a Norwegian fashion designer. He was awarded ''Aiguille d'Or'' (The Golden Needle) in 1978, and ''Dé d'Or'' (The Golden Thimble) in 1993. He was decorated Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. ...

(born 1939), Norwegian fashion designer * a ghostwriter * a racial slur referring to a black person * an undercover agent or spy

Places

* Spook Bridge, an abandoned bridge over the Withlacoochee River, Georgia, United States *

Spook Cave Spook Cave is a flooded cave located about west of McGregor in rural Clayton County, Iowa. It is privately owned and operated as a tourist attraction offering escorted boat rides into the cave. The cave was first discovered in 1953 and opened for ...

, a flooded cave in Iowa, US * Spook Hill, a gravity hill in Florida, US *

Spook (crater) Spook crater is a small crater in the Descartes Highlands of the Moon visited by the astronauts of Apollo 16. The name of the crater was formally adopted by the IAU in 1973. Geology Station 2 is adjacent to Spook, between it and the smaller, yo ...

, a small crater in the Descartes Highlands of the Moon

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 series of dark fantasy novels by Joseph Delaney * ''Spook'', a graphic novel by Joshua Starnes and Lisandro Estherren * ''Spooks'', a children's book by Colin and Jacqui Hawkins as part of their ''Picture Lions'' series * ''Spooks'', a comic book series by Larry Hama

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

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 Boris Claudio "Lalo" Schifrin (born June 21, 1932) is an Argentine-American pianist, composer, arranger and conductor. He is best known for his large body of film and TV scores since the 1950s, incorporating jazz and Latin American musical elemen ...

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''

Other arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Spooks'' (video game), a 1985 video game

Military

* "Spook", nickname for a

Mine Protected Combat Vehicle The Mine Protected Combat Vehicle – MPCV (a.k.a. 'Spook') was a Rhodesian 4×4 Infantry fighting vehicle (IFV), first introduced in 1979 and based on the body of the Mercedes-Benz Unimog light truck. It remains in use with the Zimbabwe Nat ...

, a Rhodesian armoured fighting vehicle * "The Spook", emblem of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, a United States Navy fighter-bomber

Other uses

* a concept in the

philosophy of Max Stirner Johann Kaspar Schmidt (25 October 1806 – 26 June 1856), known professionally as Max Stirner, was a German post-Hegelian philosopher, dealing mainly with the Hegelian notion of social alienation and self-consciousness. Stirner is often seen as ...