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[crossmr]

I was just checking my unit list.. down to 2 forgotten beasts..but I noticed an undead..a ghost.
I checked the name, ran off to my workshop to make a slab, but can't find the name anywhere on the list. All dwarves are entombed, and no one is showing as not..
I scrolled the entire list twice and can't find the name there at all (oh why doesn't this one have a search???)

[Matoro]

It's bug that happens sometimes. IIRC DFHack has a tool to fix it, command "tweak" or something like that.

[crossmr]

that got rid of it it..sort of..it's still on the list.. but the ghost seems gone and when I center it, it centers on the corner of the map..
not sure what that means.

[Oaktree]

If a guard for a caravan got killed while in the embark they can leave a ghost who can't be slabbed. 

In my one fort's case he fell into a magma pit while fighting off a goblin attack - no body to recover.  Luckily he wasn't a violent haunt, so he became a sort of mascot.  And the fort's morale was generally good enough to handle the bad thoughts that arose from encountering him in the tunnels.

[crossmr]

after a short time, he disappeared from the list. So it seems okay now. It was definitely a dwarf, said he was a spear dwarf. He must have been a caravan guard. but I couldn't even find him anywhere on the dead/deceased or anything else list. Very strange.

[laularukyrumo]

It's a known bug. Caravan guards and possibly dwarven merchants, when killed, do not show up on the dead/missing list and cannot be slabbed. If you can't bury them for whatever reason, they come back as ghosts inevitably. You learn to deal with it.

[foop]

It's bug that happens sometimes. IIRC DFHack has a tool to fix it, command "tweak" or something like that.

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tweak clear-ghostlyIt's described as "[...] works, but is potentially very dangerous".  I've never had any problems with using it.  I used it a lot in the game where rampaging zombies massacred every caravan to set foot upon the map for several years.

[ORCACommander]

iirc hosts can eventually die of old age

[laularukyrumo]

I know from personal experience that using tweak clear-ghostly does not clear the "this tile is occupied by a creature" flag, preventing you from ever building constructions and I think buildings on that tile, and any creature that paths through it will be forced to lie down. I don't know about other weirdness, but I'm sure it exists.