text: scary movie trivia...? can anyone name all thirteen ghosts on the movie "thirteen ghosts? the twelve ghosts which make up the black zodiac all have their own unique back story, and while these were not described in the film, the production and make-up teams used them as guidelines. all the ghosts were contained in glass prisons, and were caught with the aid of the psychic rafkin, who could locate them, and on the behalf of cyrus.  1. the first born son (played by mikhael speidel)  the first born son is the ghost of a little boy called billy michaels, who was obsessed with cowboy films. not heeding his parents' advice, he played cowboys and indians with a real bow and arrow, and the arrow went straight through his forehead.  2. the torso (played by daniel wesley)  the torso is the ghost of a gambler called jimmy gambino. losing everything in a poker game, he tried to welch on his bet and escape. the mob, which he owed money to, caught up with gambino and cut him into several pieces, wrapping them in cellophane and dumping the corpse.  3. the bound woman (played by laura mennel)  the bound woman was a cheerleader, who was strangled after a high school prom after cheating on her boyfriend. she was strangled by him, and was later found buried on the football field.  4. the withered lover (played by kathryn anderson)  the withered lover is jean kriticos, the wife of arthur. she died in the freak house fire while trying to rescue her children.  5. the torn prince (played by craig olejnik)  the torn prince is the ghost of royce clayton, who was a baseball star. he challenged a greaser to a drag race and was killed in the ensuing crash.  6. the angry princess (played by shawna loyer)  the angry princess is dana newman, who constantly tried achieving perfection with her looks, despite being beautiful. she gave up eventually and slit her own wrists. she was found with dozens of self-inflicted gashes on her. the movie suggests that she killed herself for another reason (in the scene when she appears in the bathroom, you see the phrase "i'm sorry" on the floor in blood). this, however, was probably there to add more drama to the scene and not true.  7. the pilgrimess (played by xantha radley)  the pilgrimess is the ghost of isabella smith, an english woman who travelled across the atlantic and settled in new england. she was a separatist, and this isolated her from the other townsfolk. she was found guilty of witchcraft, and put to death in the stocks (pillory).  8. & 9. the great child and the dire mother (played by c. ernst harth and laurie soper)  the dire mother is the ghost of margaret shelburne, who was imprisoned by a group of lumberjacks, forced to live in a cage as a form of entertainment, due to her being only three feet tall. she had a child with one of the lumberjacks, a son harold who weighed over 300 pounds (136 kg).  harold was spoiled by his mother, who raised him to be her protector and to exact revenge on the lumberjacks. harold took up his father's axe, and was capable of chopping down massive redwoods single-handedly. eventually he turned the axe on the other lumberjacks, and both he and his mother were killed by a frenzied mob.  10. the hammer (played by herbert duncanson)  the hammer is the ghost of a blacksmith, george markley, who lived in a small town in the 1890s. he was driven out of town after wrongfully being accused of stealing. enraged, he tracked down the people responsible and hammered them to death. the other townsfolk captured him, and they drove large nails into his body and cut off his hands.  11. the jackal (played by shane wyler)  the jackal is ryan kuhn, a psychotic mental patient with a penchant for attacking women. he was permanently in a straitjacket, and had a metal cage locked around his head. after years of this, he had grown deformed, and reviled human contact. he was the only victim of a fire that broke out in the asylum; he apparently ran into the flames rather than let anyone touch him.  12. the juggernaut (playe