Ghosts have always been shaped by their surroundings, being that they are essentially our leftover electrical impulses trapped within the earth's magnetic fields. In earlier times they were often stuck in place but gradually moved into kinetic forms that moved easier.
From roaming animals to torches to other humans these remnant memories latched on like an invisible leech. Of course this eventually kills the kinetic host as their own electrical impulses are reconstructed to fit the ghosts ultimately shredding them both into smaller impulses (what are classed as "orbs") or completely deconstructed.
As our technology advanced and improved, so too did the forms that ghosts could inhabit. Like mirrors, for example. In the dark they seem to show a face that isn't yours and in fact this distorted face can be these remnants within the mirror itself, within you, the host, or a combination of both. It's awfully crowded nowadays.
Another key example of this post-mortem evolution comes from steam-based engines. These became hives for paranormal activity, all based around how many remnants were drawn there, either from their hosts working there or from the accidents frequently occurring in the early industrial period. Factories seemed to make as many ghosts as they did products, with poor birth control only contributing to the supply of both.
With the global use of electricity ghosts now travel faster than ever before and become so much more than faint electrical impulses. They are less like the individuals stuck in confused memory fragments, latching onto the closest source of kinetic energy. They are now a global force, a conglomeration of everyone who has died since we began running cables through the oceans and placing satellites in orbit and carrying phones with us at all times.
They aren't just one person.
They are every person in one space - in one planet.
They are the new afterlife and we stare into their leftover faces every time we go online.
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