If we talk about the ghost ,it was Hamlet's father King Hamlet's ghost and it appears four times throughout the play.
He appears three times, in four different scenes. First he appears to Marcellus, Bernardo and Horatio in Act one Scene 1. He later appears to them with Hamlet in Act 1 Scene 4. Hamlet follows the ghost offstage then reappears chasing him in Act 1 Scene 5. The two scenes are part of the same appearance. Finally, the ghost appears briefly in the closet scene, Act 3 Scene 4.
to see if its really a ghost
To my knowledge, Hamlet and Macbeth, are two, though I am by no means an expert. Hamlet's father's ghost appears three times, and Banquo's ghost appears to Macbeth at a banquet.There is also a ghost in his Julius Caesar, the ghost of Caesar who appears to Brutus.However, the ghostliest Shakespeare play is Richard III. Richard is visited by the ghosts of everyone he has murdered the night before the battle of Bosworth Field.All in all, there are four Shakespeare plays with ghosts.Hamlet (the ghost of Hamlet's father), Macbeth (the ghost of Banquo), Julius Caesar (the ghost of Caesar) and Richard III (the ghosts of all of Richard's victims: Prince Edward, Henry VI, his brother George, Rivers, Grey, Vaughan, his two nephews, Hastings, his wife and Buckingham)This is not easy to answer. Is Ariel a ghost (the Tempest)? Is the little orphan boy in A Midsummer Nights Dream?There are several ghosts in Richard III (at least five); probably one in Troilus and Cressida; one in Julius Caesar; at least one in Macbeth (but probably more); at least one in Hamlet; and about 4 in Cymbeline.But for a proper answer one would need to define precisely what one means by 'ghost'.
In the King James Version, the word "ghost" appears 109 times.
Altar appears 374 times throughout Scripture. Altars appears 55 times.
The word "daggers," or "dagger," appears four times in the Second Quarto printing. It appears three times in the First Folio verson. The difference is not in the dialogue, but in a stage direction in the last scene.
In the King James version the word - through - appears 463 times the word - throughly - appears 11 times the word - throughout - appears 162 times
Hamlet sees his father's ghost in the play telling him he was murdered and the ghost returns several times in the play. Shakespeare liked to use the supernatural in his plays with ghosts, witches, and other beings. Many times these characters foreshadow events or set events into action.
The word "help" appears 12 times throughout the Book of Mormon, and the word "helped" appears once.
The ghost of Banquo appears to Macbeth one time during the banquet scene in Shakespeare's play "Macbeth."
The older versions of the King James Bible mentions Holy Ghost 90 times. The new printings have changed the name to Holy Spirit which is the same as Holy Ghost.
"Never to speak of this that you have heard", by which he means the appearance of the ghost, although Horatio heard nothing from the ghost's lips. Also, "How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself . . .that you, at such times seeing me, never shall . . . note that you know aught of me." Horatio and Marcellus are not to suggest even that they have an idea why Hamlet is doing what he is doing.