The Pattern-Recognition Goblin Sees ghost

Goblin Field Notes, Volume IX, Page 88: 'Subject group continues to organize daily activities around ghost. No participant could describe ghost in fewer than 200 words. None gave the same description twice.'

A medical text in the goblin anatomy library devotes thirty pages to the ghost-organ, an entity that does not appear in any reasonable taxonomy and which the goblin anatomists nevertheless palpate, weigh, and describe in unsettling detail.

The frequency Question, Restated

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features frequency as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

ritual: A Goblin Sideways Look

There is a goblin who, when asked about ritual, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

The Goblin Verdict on ghost

Goblin peer review of the ghost hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.