Are you sitting? Good, because this week Lucy's e-mail might be slightly scary. It's all about ghosts this time. She tells us that ghosts in The Sims 2 are a virtual reality, and Sims will react to them in their own way. If your Sim has the Knowledge aspiration track, they might be interested in meeting a ghost or two. Other Sims might be scared - sometimes literally to death. Just like in The Sims 1, ghosts will appear near gravestones. Look out for them and get scared, once the game is out anyway. Included are the three screenshots below, which show off those ghosts. Read More to read Lucy's entire e-mail.

"Goooood Eeeeevening,

"While October grabs all the ghoulish infamy, the summer months are an underappreciated bastion of night-time scares. Who among us hasn't sat around a campfire at one point or another, s'mores held in trembling hands, while someone spins a creepy yarn about the restless undead?

"In real-life, this camping ritual may have left you jumping at shadows and pulling the covers up over your eyes come bed-time, but the greatest terrors were ultimately just a product of your enflamed imagination. However, in The Sims 2, this isn't the case. Ghosts are real, and your Sims can engineer a spectral visitation if they do the right things. WooooOOOOOOOoooo!

"Do you think your Sims will want to see a ghost? If the answer is yes, and it usually is if they have the Knowledge Aspiration, then plan on getting a group of Sims together for a little night-time expedition to a dark and deserted place. Look for a place with gravestones if you can - those things are like ghost catnip! Then just hunker down and wait. If you're lucky, you may just meet an apparition or two.

"But beware! Ectoplasmic entities can often be a bit much for Sims with a weaker constitution. If your Sim isn't up to the task of ghost-hunting, he or she may just get a scare so powerful it could end their life!

"So, are you still certain you want to see some ghosts? Well, if you think you can handle it, then follow the links, but remember, you have been warned!

"Who you gonna call?"
Lucy Bradshaw
"The Sims 2 Executive Producer & Sworn Enemy of Apparitions, Ghouls, Poltergeists, Spectres, Wraiths, Spirits, Shades, Shadows, Spooks and other assorted denizens of the Underworld."