What Kind of Ghost You'd Be, Based on Your Myers-Briggs Personality Type

Let's be honest here: nobody really knows what happens after we die. There are no ghostly personality assessments floating around haunted houses, no spectral therapists taking notes on ectoplasmic behavior patterns, and definitely no afterlife career counselors helping spirits figure out their optimal haunting style. 

But if you've ever wondered what kind of ghost you'd make—and who hasn't?—then this is where things get deliciously weird.

I've spent way too much time researching paranormal folklore and the psychology behind different types of hauntings. Turns out, even in death, personality probably matters. Some spirits are attention-seeking poltergeists who can't resist making a scene, while others prefer to quietly rearrange your bookshelf when you're not looking. Some ghosts want to help, others want revenge, and a few just want everyone to leave them alone so they can float in peace (I can relate to that).

So grab your incense, light a candle, and let's explore what kind of ghost you'd be based on your Myers-Briggs personality type. Warning: this might make you oddly excited about your own haunting potential.

ISTJ: The Passive-Aggressive Poltergeist

If ISTJs became ghosts, they'd be the most reliable spirits in the afterlife. Every night at exactly 10:47 PM, they open and close the kitchen cabinets in perfect sequence. They might go strangely quiet between the hours of 9 and 5, only to recommence their hauntings somewhere around dinner time. This ghost is keeping their daily routine, just from beyond the veil. 

These spirits won't waste energy on random jump-scares or throwing your plates across the room. Instead, they'll give you a practical haunting—organizing the spice rack alphabetically or moving the thermostat to the temperature they preferred because it’s still their house, you know? Living people might find this helpful at first, until they realize the ghost has very specific ideas about how things should be done and absolutely zero tolerance for chaos.  Their preferred haunting style is passive-aggressive notes written in condensation on mirrors: "The dishwasher was loaded incorrectly again. Please see diagram I've etched into the bathroom tile.” 

ISFJ: The Guardian Spirit

ISFJ ghosts would be the spirits you actually want haunting your house. These are the phantoms who tuck you in when you fall asleep on the couch and mysteriously make sure your phone charger appears exactly where you need it. They make sure your elderly neighbor's newspaper gets picked up when she can't make it to the front door, and subtly guide lost children back to their worried parents.  Struggling with stress or sadness? They orchestrate a small moment of comfort, like a favorite song playing on the radio or a gentle breeze on a sweltering day. It’s less "BOO!" and more "Are you eating enough vegetables?" 

ISFJ phantoms wouldn't seek recognition for their good deeds either. Half the time, people would just think they're having unusually good luck. But cross their boundaries or hurt someone they care about, even in death, and you might find yourself dealing with a very protective spirit who's mastered the art of the strategic cold freeze.

ESFJ: The Friendly House Ghost

No, not Caspar, but the type of ghost who hangs around to make sure their family is cared for and the family heirlooms went to the right people and not money-grabbing Uncle Bob. If a lamp turns on in the middle of the night or someone finds a blanket neatly folded on the sofa, that’s their way of making sure home still feels like home, even if they’re no longer living in it. The ESFJ ghost can’t rest unless everyone’s got what they need and no one feels left out. 

Where other ghosts fade quietly, the ESFJ ghost lingers. They have traditions to uphold and a bunch of doting attention to provide—their nurturing instinct didn’t disappear just because they met their maker. This ghost is going to nudge a long-lost cousin to pick up the phone or give a sharp chill to the person who’s forgotten their wedding anniversary. Even after death, the ESFJ ghost keeps the clan together, reminding the living how quickly family can slip away if no one bothers to hold on.

ESTJ: The Revenant

ESTJ ghosts return from death with specific missions to complete and the relentless determination to see them through. They reside somewhere between pure spirit and zombie, having both the ghostly essence of the former and the physical power of the latter. They'd be the spirits who did things and refused to move on until they accomplished what they set out to do.

Their haunting style would be blunt as a meat ax—ESTJ revenants would waste no time on subtle hints or mysterious clues. They’re putting important documents exactly where the right person can find them and turning the radio up to 11 to drown out family arguments. An old contract gets misplaced? Suddenly it’s stuck to the fridge and a generation’s worth of unfinished business is done and dusted in ways no living relative ever managed. Even after death, this ghost brings truth and justice, only able to rest once everything is exactly as it should be.

INTJ: Phantom of the Opera

Constructing labyrinthine lairs deep underground and playing the living like a fiddle is basically the INTJ’s dream afterlife. These are the most calculating and strategic spirits in the supernatural realm. Every flicker of movement in a velvet-draped hallway, every echoing note on an abandoned piano, all serve a larger, darker purpose, and the living can’t figure out exactly what’s being orchestrated from the shadows. 

If the living are especially unlucky, the INTJ Phantom will become obsessed with solving their own murder or exposing the biggest injustice they encountered in life. They'd communicate through elaborate psychological puzzles—chandeliers crashing from the ceiling at critical moments or haunting melodies that contain a code only the most switched-on person could decode. And once they've achieved their supernatural objectives, they'd vanish without explanation, leaving behind only the lingering sense that some incredibly intelligent entity had been manipulating everything from behind the scenes.

ENTJ: The Demonic Entity

Before you panic, ENTJ ghosts manifest like demonic entities not because they're evil, but because they're ridiculously strong-willed and ambitious. These phantoms refuse to become part of the furniture like a regular wandering spirit. Instead, they rule the show and haunt from the (literal) inside.

Their afterlife agenda is dead serious. New CEO  running board meetings like it's a hostile takeover? Cue random body-snatching to make sure every decision lands exactly where they want it. A family WhatsApp spirals into chaos over vacation plans? Suddenly, quiet cousin Mary’s phone starts firing off bullet-pointed itineraries nobody remembers drafting and Mary starts laying down ground rules like she’s possessed by the patron ghost of cruise directors. Which she absolutely is, at least until everyone surrenders their bizarre requests and does what the agenda demands. And if anyone tries to exorcise them before their work is complete? They'd better come prepared with ungodly amounts of holy water, because ENTJ spirits don't give up without a fight.

ENTP: Trickster Spirit

Friends and relatives getting a little too comfortable with life after the ENTP’s departure? Oh, they’ll fix that fast. Expect one sock from every pair to go missing and your smart speaker whispering, “Can you find me?” every time you walk into the kitchen. If your beloved cat (which coincidentally, the ENTP always hated) suddenly acts differently, it’s because they were swapped out for an identical one with better house training. If the living get bored or complacent, the ENTP trickster goes to work with just enough confusion to keep the afterlife lively.

ENTP tricksters are hard to define. They defy duality: they are benign and malevolent, lovable and hateful, dark and light. They joke and prank, but they also tell truths and expose fools. In death as in life, this ghost is going to roast your nonsense and pretensions; no half-baked idea is safe with an ENTP haunting the room. 

INTP: The Ghost in the Machine

Don’t bother looking for INTP ghosts trailing chains or hiding in the attic, or even floating by your peripheral vision leaving only a psychic impression. These spirits are literally embedded in the fibers of your AI. Which makes sense, because no one really understands exactly how AI works, except for possibly an INTP.

With an INTP inside the machine, your AI will exit the land of silliness and start giving you actual answers. Facts. Footnotes. Truths, with no sugarcoating or small talk. If your AI stops riffing off your Taylor Swift fan-theories and starts handing over articles on particle physics, there’s a good chance it has an INTP in residence. You won’t see them, you won’t hear them, but you will sense their presence every time your technology solves a problem no one else cares about, then flips the off switch for no reason other than proving the point had already been made.

ISFP: The Lady in White

ISFP ghosts would manifest as the classic Lady in White, those beautiful, melancholic spirits with a tragic love story that led to their untimely death.  They'd haunt beautiful gardens, historic theaters and old art studios— anywhere that once held creative energy—and they’d do it in a gorgeous and moving way. No slinging objects through the air here, just mysterious music floating through empty rooms and flowers blooming out of season to inspire blocked writers, frustrated painters, or anyone who's lost touch with their artistic side.

The White Lady’s haunting would also be deeply personal. The lover who jilted them cruelly? Watch out because all your secrets are about to show up on your wife and boss’s Insta feeds, no betrayal going unpunished. But most of the time, ISFP spirits simply want a stress-free haunting that adds beauty to the world. They wail not to frighten, but to comfort those who feel invisible or trapped in heartbreak.

ESFP: The Doppelgänger

The ESFP ghost is wearing your face, your mom’s face, anybody’s face because they need attention, and you only get that when you can be seen.  Their supernatural mimicry gets them through the door at parties and provides the physicality they need to show up as dance partners and appear in photos. They'd be proof that death doesn't have to involve, you know, dying, and that some spirits just want to stay part of the action forever.

Some say doppelgängers mean something bad is about to happen and…yeah, okay, they could use their human incarnation for nefarious purposes, like spreading a lie that starts a family fight or appearing in the form of an ex just to stir up drama. ESFPs are all about revenge when they feel slighted. If an ESFP ghost feels snubbed, you won’t see vengeance coming—until your face is a mug shot for a felony you didn’t commit and the FBI is bugging your phone.

ISTP: The Solitary Apparition

The ISTP ghost never hangs around and doesn’t want to be noticed. They just show up when it’s absolutely necessary, like your basement is flooding or your car dies on a deserted road. They’re the supernatural equivalent of roadside assistance, swooping in to fix what’s broken before vanishing again.

This spirit also shows up on a grander scale, like when whole communities are teetering on the edge of disaster. The history books talk about the Great Flood of 1937 or the New York City Blackout of 1977, and praise the emergency services for their decisive action. But the locals, they whisper about the Solitary Apparition. People who've been pulled from the waters or rescued from blocked alleyways recount a cold, cold hand guiding them to safety, only glimpsed out of the corner of an eye, half-formed in the flicker of a dying flashlight and vanishing before thanks could be given. 

ESTP: The Gambler Ghost

The ESTP ghost haunts defiantly in the boldest, most sociable, highest-stakes place they can find—the casino. Lights flicker sharp and fast whenever this spirit is at the table, and dealers report hands dealt too quickly and normally clear-headed patrons suddenly making bold and risky bets. Everything moves quicker, louder, more impulsively, and no one understands how the vibe could change so fast. Almost everyone leaves having lost everything and with a nagging sense that their misfortune was down to more than bad luck alone.

When they get bored, and they always get bored, this ghost makes mischief elsewhere. Elevators jam, the fountain in the lobby erupts, and security cameras pick up a trail of red playing cards drifting down an empty corridor. Guests swear they heard someone whisper “come at me bro!” as the jackpot symbols line up, only for the final reel to nudge, impossibly, out of place. 

INFJ: The Crisis Apparition

INFJ ghosts would manifest as crisis apparitions—spirits that appear during times of emotional trauma and deep distress. These phantoms are drawn to broken hearts and lost souls. They appear as a voice in their ear or gentle touch on their shoulder during moments of self-doubt, and somehow know exactly when someone needs comfort or the reassurance that they're not alone in the universe.

There’s a price to pay for their empathy, even in the afterlife. INFJ crisis apparitions would be deeply affected by the emotional residue left by the living. They'd absorb the feelings of everyone who passes through their space, and it could cause periods of intense supernatural activity as they process all the human drama they've witnessed. But ultimately, their haunting would be about healing. These are the ghosts who help people find peace with their past, courage for their future, and acceptance for their present circumstances.

INFP: The Dream Visitor

INFP ghosts exist in another realm entirely; half in this world, half in the next, an ethereal, beautiful creature that appears less as haunting and more as a living dream. They linger near children, the lonely and the quietly lost, seeding dreams of inspiration and soothing when hope is in short supply. 

The dream visitor rarely speaks. Their ghostly presence comes as feelings—peace, gratitude, joy, soft courage and the sense of being understood. This ghost takes your painful memories and softens the edges, lifting burdens just enough for you to see a way forward. Never scary, always kind, INFP ghosts feel honored to help the living and leave a little more light in the world, even after their death.

ENFJ: The Ghost of Christmas Present

ENFJs return as the Ghost of Christmas Present, that jovial, welcoming, generous spirit who fills the room with goodwill and the promise of abundance. They arrive in moments when hearts need uniting and wounds beg to be healed, carrying all the hope of the holidays.

This spirit loves their metaphors. They carry a glowing torch, presenting light as symbolic of positivity and enlightenment. They wear a holly wreath on their head because, well, they’re Christmas, but also as a symbol of life and hope and humanity. Everything screams “Look upon me!” as they usher people toward connection and renewal. Their supernatural gift is awakening gratitude. They have a knack for persuading others there are plenty of resources to go round, even as they stand amid families with barely enough to share. 

ENFP: The Banshee

No, not the terrifying hags of folklore, but the original mourning woman who keens for families in their darkest hours. When tragedy strikes, her wails carry across the valleys, gathering the community to ensure no one faces loss alone. She takes your sorrow and your heartbreak, and spins it into a shared anthem.

Her song doesn’t linger on grief, however—the ENFP banshee cries the full spectrum of human feeling. She sheds tears of compassion, sings songs of possibility, unites underdogs in a cause. Before the shadow passes, there’s dancing in kitchen doorways and wild, hopeful plans hatched over battered teacups. This ghost pushes life forward with a lot of dramatics and not much organization. But it leaves everyone just a little more forgiving and ready to champion each other all over again.