Ghosts Need to Explain a Huge Head-Scratcher That Undermines the CBS Show’s Premise

Ghosts should explain a big mess, which ties the show together, but doesn’t make sense logically. Although the show encompasses some pretty bizarre events, the Ghosts the story has a wealth of lore that maintains consistency throughout the series – for the most part. The most essential element Ghosts‘ mythology is the border of ghosts, which keeps all ghosts within the grounds of the Woodstone B&B. It is presumably the approximate property line of the property. Still, the ghost boundary doesn’t match the Woodstone B&B timeline, which suggests that several ghosts lived on the property long before the Woodstone Estate existed.

Ghosts like Thor, Sasappis and Isaac have inhabited the mansion together for decades. However, before that, they lived in sheds, tents and on land in the same area. The detail raises a huge inconsistency: If Woodstone didn’t exist yet, what kept ghosts bound to the property’s boundaries years before it existed? Something must link all the oldest ghosts, including Ghosts‘ Patience from season 4, where they lived their afterlife. There are a few possible explanations for the inconsistency, and examples of where it disrupts the show’s cohesive lore.

Thor and Bjorn’s locations highlight inconsistencies in ghost boundaries

Thor and Bjorn are a father and son Viking duo

Thor and Bjorn’s story raises serious questions about Ghosts tradition. Thor and his son, Bjorn, are Vikings who came to the area 1000 years ago, before all known ghosts and Woodstone property lines. When Bjorn is introduced in Ghosts In season 2, he explains to Sam that he came to the region in search of his father. However, Bjorn dies before the two cross paths, and Season 2 reveals that Thor’s son has been on the Farnsby estate for centuries. This raises a big question: how did Thor and Bjorn remain so close for centuries without crossing paths?

Presumably, the Vikings could not assemble because their mobility was limited to an invisible border. However, if the property lines did not already exist, It’s unclear what defines the line that kept father and son apart. It makes no sense to assume their paths wouldn’t have crossed, considering they are skilled land explorers with hundreds of years to kill unless the location of their death limited their boundaries. Without a proper explanation as to why they didn’t meet before, the audience is left to assume that the ghost boundaries existed long before the construction of the Woodstone estate.

Ghosts needs to properly define the boundaries of Woodstone ASAP

What keeps the ghosts at Woodstone Estate?

The ghost border is the basis of the show’s central premise that all the spirits are trapped together in one house. All of the ghosts at Woodstone B&B are tied to the property, binding all the ghost characters together until they move on. The Ghost Frontier defines all of the ghosts’ stories, contextualizing their deaths in Woodstone and explaining what causes them to be trapped there forever. Still, Thor and Bjorn’s separation raises questions about what defines the ghost border, given that it predates property lines. The show should explain how the ghosts’ boundaries are defined to clear up the mystery.

If Ghosts doesn’t define the ghost boundary, it will continue to haunt the show. Frontier has already created a plot hole with its story of Thor and Bjorn, keeping two experienced explorers apart despite their deaths and later lives predating the properties they are tied to. The series has the opportunity to expand on its rich lore by telling exactly the story of why ghosts are tied to the property. With Pete’s new geographically unlimited ghost spirit power, It’s the perfect time to delve into the origins of the ghost frontiercohesively incorporating all of its plot points into the story.

Possible Explanations for Ghosts’ Woodstone Frontier Mystery

Something else may have trapped the ghosts

It is possible that, before contemporary standards, ghosts were all confined to a radius around the place of their death. This would explain what kept Thor, Sasappis, and Isaac close to each other without modern real estate. Land surveys like the Rectangular Survey System, which dates back to 1785 (just after Isaac’s death) define modern property boundaries, meaning the modern ghost boundary could have been established around this time. Still, possible alternatives to the property lines that explain the phantom border don’t explain why, at some point, it would stop being defined by the death ray and start being defined by the boundaries of Woodstone.

The phantom border could have changed at some point, but if it did, that raises the question: who gets to define it? If the show assumes there is a god or some higher power at work (which is implied, considering ghosts are pulled up when they pass into the afterlife), then the will of that higher power could be responsible. This would explain the adjustment to limit spirits within the boundaries of the modern estates where they died, as estates like Woodstone permeated. A divine figure changing the boundaries justifies the change without much need for details or a logical explanation.

What happens when people die where there are no property lines? If a person dies in a National Park, are they free to roam the entire park or are they limited to some radius defined by their death? Ghosts UK addresses this in more detail when Mike and Allison discover the ghosts in their haunted house and look for other options. Allison realizes she sees ghosts everywhere, including two pilots who died in the sky. Understanding what defines the geographic boundaries of your afterlife is key to explaining Ghost Frontier and lore on CBS Ghosts series.