Spirit Collecting

As soon as you receive the Spook-o-meter at level 5, an entirely new facet of the Ghost Hunter career opens: Spirit Collecting. Now, you collect plenty of ghosts and spirits while on the job.

But you can also use this special object outside of assignments to locate ghosts in the wild. You can find ghosts at the graveyard, a park, laundromat, or any other community lot where your Sim does not disappear upon entering.

The Spook-o-meter

To seek these spirits, use the exact same steps as Ghost Invasions. When you visit a community lot, click on the ground and then choose the Scan for Spirits interaction. Your Sim goes to that location and whips out the Spook-o-meter.

After you use your equipment a few moments, any spirits in the immediate area will appear. Then, simply pull out the Banshee Banisher and get to work collecting the ghost the same way you would on any of your normal assignments.

Every spirit you collect results in additional XP. While you can get promotions in the Ghost Hunter career without this side activity, it will certainly take much longer to do so.

Regularly sell your spirits for Simoleons at the science facility so you can buy new objects for your lot, such as a telescope to help develop your Logic skill. Ghosts have different values, both in Simoleons and XP, depending on the type of the spirit and how "old" it is.

A young spirit—one that hasn't been dead for that long—is not worth as much as an ancient spirit.