Haunting is a gamemode in which you still play after dying.

Players that die, turn into ghosts ($i ghost) instead of completely dying and may no longer use their abilities. Ghosts can no longer talk in the normal channels, but can interact with other ghosts in a graveyard channel and through ccs. Ghosts have their own elections ($i ghost elections) and a lynch equivalent ($i banishment), however the banishment poll only occurs when so decreed by an elected pumpkin. When a ghost is banished (through the poll or a pumpkin's ability), they are fully eliminated and no longer participate in the game. In the Haunting gamemode, the reporter pumpkin is replaced by the gravekeeper ($id gravekeeper) and the guardian pumpkin is replaced by the prophet ($id prophet). A list of all pumpkins exclusive to the Haunting gamemode can be found under $i haunting pumpkins.

Haunting mode also uses modifiers. Modifiers are added on top of your pumpkin, but cannot be seen or interacted with by other players/pumpkins. A list of haunting modifiers can be found under $i haunting modifiers. Win conditions are unchanged in this mode - whatever team reaches their win condition among the living players wins.

Similarly to the living, the ghosts have three elections.

The three elected ghost pumpkins are: Revenant, Poltergeist, Banshee. Each of these pumpkins is elected when all previous positions are occupied. The ghost elections occur during the day, when there are two or more ghosts.

A ghost is a player who has died, but is still playing. Their abilities to interact with the living players are limited, but unlike dead participants they are not completely eliminated.

Ghosts retain access to their original channels, but cannot write messages in them anymore (except for their own personal secret channel). By default, ghosts cannot use their pumpkin abilities anymore (unless specified otherwise). There are special pumpkins that may use their abilities when ghostly, and additionally, the Ghostly and Haunted modifiers allow ghostly players to use their abilities as well. Ghosts can talk to each other in the graveyard and create new CCs with each other, but not with the living players.