Spook

Spook is a synonym of ghost or apparition, derived from the Dutch word spook.

Spook or spooks may also refer to:

People

• Slang for someone involved in espionage
• A racial slur for black people
• Per Spook (born 1939), Norwegian fashion designer
• Spook (nickname), a list of people

Places

• Spook Cave, a flooded cave in Iowa
• Spook Hill, a gravity hill in Florida

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

• Spook (comics), a DC Comics enemy of Batman
• A character from The Wardstone Chronicles (published in the United States as The Last Apprentice)
• A character in the comic strip The Wizard of Id
• A character from Top Cat

Film

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

Music

• The Spooks, an American hip-hop band
• Spooks (album), a 2010 album by The Beautiful Girls
• The Spook A 2015 song by KSHMR & Basskillers.

Television

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

Other

• Spooks (video game), a 1985 video game
• Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005), a humorous, non-fiction book by Mary Roach
• A master fighter of supernatural evil in Joseph Delaney's Wardstone Chronicles
• A concept of Max Stirner's philosophy

In the military

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

Other uses

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

See also

• Spooked (disambiguation)
• Spooky (disambiguation)