Updated Nov 6, 2026
Haunted sound effects
Ghost Sound Effects
These ghost sound effects are the noises a spirit makes without saying a word: a moan inside the wall, breath at the top of the stairs, a swing moving in still air, knocks from an empty attic. Describe one in up to 300 characters, get up to two takes from the Sound Effects tab, and let the Ghost effect pull them back into the house.
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Sound ideas
Ghost sound effects with no words in them
Spirit sound effects work when the listener can’t quite name what made them. Each prompt gives one of these ghost sound effects a place in the house, a distance and an ending, and keeps words out; the draught and the swing load with Seamless loop on.
“A low, hollow moan from inside the plaster wall of an old bedroom, close on the right: it rises slowly, wavers and sinks away without a breath. Small dry room, no words, no music, ends in silence.”
The classic haunted-house moan. The page’s default chain strips its weight, so it hangs in the plaster.
“Soft, breathy whispers overlapping close behind the listener at the top of a wooden staircase, no words you can make out, fading one by one until a single slow exhale is left. Very close, no music.”
Switch to Reverse at 50%: the exhale comes first and the whispers rise backwards out of it.
“A cold draught through an empty nursery at night: thin wind whistling at a cracked window, lace curtains brushing the sill, a cot mobile turning with faint wooden clicks. Even level, no voices, no music.”
A bed for a haunted room. Audition it thinned, then loop the MP3 exactly as generated.
“A wooden swing hanging from an old oak at night, moving on its own: the rope creaking against the branch in slow, even beats, nothing else moving in the yard. No wind, no birds, steady, no music.”
Keep it Raw for a yard speaker: the creak stays woody and the MP3 loops without a seam.
“Three slow knocks on a wooden attic hatch above the listener, muffled through the ceiling, a long pause, then two more, quicker and closer, as if answering. Small house, dry, ends in silence.”
A poltergeist beat for a game or a séance scene. Echo at 30% sends each knock down through the beams.
“A music box in another room playing a few slow, out-of-tune notes of a lullaby, the spring nearly spent, each note further apart until the mechanism clicks and stops. Distant, through a closed door.”
Ghost at 85% leaves little but the tail: a tune remembered more than heard.
Effect recipe
How Ghost takes the body out of a sound
This page opens the Sound Effects tab on Ghost at 60%, a good starting point for ghost sound effects. It runs in your browser through the Web Audio API, so a take can be thinned, pushed back and doubled without generating again. The player below demonstrates this chain on an example sound. At 60%:
Wordless ghostly moan
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Cut out the floor
460 Hz high-pass, 7 kHz low-passA knock loses its thud, a moan its chest, a footstep the boards under it. The 7 kHz ceiling softens hiss and clicks, so even a close sound seems to cross the room to reach you.
- 2
Push the source back
dry signal at 40%Less than half of the original reaches you directly; the rest is the space around it, so a breath sounds out in the hallway rather than at your ear.
- 3
A long, cold tail
4.5 s reverb, ~81% wetThe reflections are louder than the sound itself: a knock lasting a fraction of a second leaves seconds of tail.
- 4
A twin that won’t line up
1.012× copy, 45 ms late, ~21% levelA faint copy starts a beat late at 1.012× while the main take plays at 0.976×, so the two slide apart and one moan seems to have something moving inside it.
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Sink a little
0.976×, about −0.4 semitonesAbout 2.4% slower: a 10-second sound plays for about 10.2 seconds, plus 1.2 seconds of tail in the WAV. A limiter catches the loudest knocks.
How it works
How to make ghost sound effects
- 1
Choose one thing the ghost does
Moan, breathe, knock, send a draught, set a swing or a music box going. Up to 300 characters: what it is, where in the house, how far away, how it ends. Add “no words” to keep it a sound.
- 2
Loop the haunting, not the scare
Seamless loop on for draughts and a swing that never stops; off for moans, knocks and whispers that happen once, which covers most ghost sound effects.
- 3
Thin it, then download
Up to two takes per generation. Try your ghost sound effects through Ghost or Reverse, then download the WAV with the effect or the raw MP3.
Use cases
Where spirit sound effects belong

Paranormal-style videos and fiction
Knocks in an empty house, breath on a staircase, a music box behind a locked door: ghost sound effects for ghost-hunt parodies, found-footage shorts and haunted fiction. They are generated sounds; present them as fiction, never as evidence of a real haunting.

Haunted houses and Halloween yards
Haunted sound effects work best where nobody can check the source: a moan inside a wardrobe, a swing creaking at the dark end of the yard, a draught in a room with every window shut.

Games: spirits and poltergeist events
Spirit sound effects for game events: a cold draught as something passes, knocks that answer the player’s knock, a music box that starts by itself. Trigger one-shots from events and loop the draughts. Under our Terms of Service, ghost sound effects you generate can ship in commercial games.

Audio dramas and podcasts
A ghost who never speaks still needs a presence in the mix: a breath before a line, a knock that cuts off the narrator. Voice the living in the Text to Speech tab; the dead get ghost sound effects instead of words.
Tips
Making haunted sound effects that unsettle
- Put every sound where it shouldn’t be: inside the wall, under the floor, above the ceiling. Location does more for ghost sound effects than any adjective.
- Ask for “no words”. A sound the listener can almost name is scarier than a voice they can understand.
- Short beats long. A two-second moan with a 4.5-second tail unsettles more than a moan that never ends.
- Follow each sound with an absence: knocks, then nothing; a music box that stops mid-phrase.
- Move something physical — a swing, a hatch, a curtain, a cot mobile. Something moved, and nobody moved it.
FAQ
Ghost sound effects FAQ
Ghost sound effects free each day: describe a moan in the wall, breath on the stairs or knocks in the attic, get up to two takes, then thin them with Ghost.
Let the house breathe
Describe one sound a ghost would make, hear both takes, and let Ghost at 60% pull it back into the walls.



