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Ghostly

Ghostly

Have a Ghost in your household.

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How to unlock the Ghostly achievement in The Sims 4 - Definitive Guide

To get this achievement you need to live on a property with a grave or urn which appear after a Sim dies.

Every few nights a ghost will appear. You need to get the friendly interaction filled right to the top, then select "Invite To Household".

Ghosts will only come out late at night and return to their grave early in the morning.
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03 Dec 2017 06:09

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Does this work if you move into a haunted apartment?
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By YKKBaby on 09 Jan 2018 21:35
As long as a ghost is in the household the achievement should unlock.
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By oGARY86 on 09 Jan 2018 22:35
Thank you for posting this! I now have a ghost family. laugh
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By ZoZombify on 14 Jan 2018 09:49
Changed my vote to positive. It didn't unlock for me I'm guessing because of a bug. Your guide is accurate and thus deserves the positive instead.
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By Project Torture on 24 Mar 2018 15:32
Any interaction before the invite? Doesn't pop up for me, had frienly full, romance full, asked to be friends, even best friends and it won't show. Or should it be someone else than prior spouse?
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By tynderi on 28 May 2018 09:19
I don't think this works with prior spouses. I was going for the Black Widow achievement and, like tynderi, was trying to invite the ghost of a previous spouse into the household. I never had the option to ask to move in and even other household members did not have the option after befriending the ghost.
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By Scream26 on 26 Dec 2018 23:50
It appears that you must invite a former spouse or lover to stay the night before you can Invite to Household.
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By Marx on 18 Jul 2019 09:26
I cannot get this achievement. I have the achievement to have a household with 8 playable ghosts, but not this one? It is so strange to me. Any tips or help?!
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By DarkestCrown7 on 06 Feb 2021 16:58
This ain't popping for me no matter what I do. Is it bugged?
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By Lyesmith1217 on 26 Mar 2021 14:22
It seems like ypu must ask a ghost to join, you can not be a ghost and ask to join
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By AtomicKing74 on 31 Mar 2021 23:29
This isn't working for me and when I try filling up the green friendship bar it goes back down or turns red :/
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By Vastyrr on 15 Nov 2022 04:05
If anyone is struggling with this. I did the black widow achievement first. Placed all 5 urns outside the house (where they will become tombstones), wait for a ghost to appear at a tombstone then increase relationship with them. Because you used to be married to them, it doesn't take an awful lot to get the green relationship bar full then you can "invite to household"
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By Flopsy86 on 23 Jan 2024 02:55
if just looking for the achievement itself, the sims 4 community has families you can download from the gallery that already has one or more ghosts in the house, so that is the quickest option available
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By evorgnayr on 04 Apr 2024 14:31
^ This isn't working for me. There are plenty of these households but the achievement doesn't unlock when I load them up. I'm wondering if the actual action of inviting them is required to trigger the achievement rather than already having them in the household...
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By Octobot Super on 18 Apr 2024 20:30
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I know a lot of people were having an issue trying to get the option to "Invite To Household" to a ghost, but here are the setups that seemed to work for me.

TLDR:
You can start a new family, use one that you've been playing for awhile, or even move random families/friends from other lots into your family (best if you've already established a friendship so you won't have to take up too much time doing that). The Goal is to get your friendship level to "Best Friends' and that the green friendship bar is at 100%, anything less wasn't giving me the option to invite ghosts to household.

Current Family (Good if you've been doing a long-play and established relationships prior)
I used the same family I used for all of these achievements. I already knew I wanted to have a family "graveyard" in the backyard for when I would get around to this achievement so the setup was easy. Any time a family member died, I would put their urn in the backyard (which would transform into a tombstone). Make sure you "strengthen the connection to the physical world" on their urn/tombstone so that we have an opportunity to interact with ghosts and have them appear on the lot.

I currently have 13 tombstones, ironically, and so the ghosts would show up after midnight. Since they were family members I've interacted and had a friendship with before, I just had my main character interact with one of his deceased ancestors until they were good friends and then, until they were best friends. Now I was getting worried because I figured since they were "best friends" I would have the option to invite them, but it wasn't until their Happy/friendship bar was all the way 100% green for me to finally get the option to do so. You may not see it on the first set of FRIENDLY options so go through them slowly until you see "Invite To Household".

New Family (Good if you are just focused on this achievement)
Much like the previous section, the method will be similar. Just create a family of 8, make sure they are young adults or up. Make sure they are all related and pick a lot to start the game. Build up everyone's friendship and aim to get up to "best friend". Once that's reached, close the specific sims up in a small room with no door or access to anything and wait for them to kick the bucket. Once dead, "Strengthen the connection to the physical world" on their urn/tombstone and they should start showing up at midnight. Interact until the friendship bar is 100% green and the option to "Invite to Household" should show up under the FRIENDLY options.

Transferring Other Sims to Current Family (Good if you're doing a short-play or having issues with ghosts showing up after midnight)
Same method, but if you are struggling to get some ghosts to appear or the friendship is progressing slowly, go into the "Manage Worlds" option and click on your current family lot. Click the option to transfer sims to different households and you can then add other sims (preferably sims you've established a good friendship with) into your household. From there on, the process is the same, get up to "best friends", kill the sim via your method, and then "strengthen the connection to the physical world" on their urn/tombstone. Interact until the friendship bar is 100% green and the option to "Invite to Household" should show up under the FRIENDLY options.
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04 May 2021 19:57

To get this trophy you need to live on a property with a grave or urn which appear after a Sim dies.

Every few nights a ghost will appear. You need to get the friendly interaction filled right to the top, then select "Invite To Household".

Ghosts will only come out late at night and return to their grave early in the morning.
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22 May 2018 09:54

See Ghost Family.

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We kill a Sim and wait for his ghost to appear, or we find a ghost in the city. It turned out that the ghost of an old woman lived next door to me. Then we communicate until we reach about 95% friendship and from the friendly actions section we select the option to offer to join the family.
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26 Dec 2017 00:21

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The easiest way is to create a pair of neighbors, an old man and a teenager, and constantly poke the teenager into friendly conversations, just until you type “become best friends”, there should be enough time. Then the Old Man will die a natural death, on the urn with his ashes you need to click the option above mourn, I don’t remember exactly how, so that the ghost will remain in our world for a while, after 3-4 days the ghost will come at night, since he died with a full scale of friendship, then we just point at him and invite him into the family and catch the achievement.
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By orochimaru32 on 20 Jun 2020 14:17
My item only appeared at 100%. Tried it 3 times.
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25 May 2020 22:13