Ghost

Ghosts are sentient undead beings featured throughout the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series and the associated one-shot, Dead Man's Questions. In Part IV: Diamond is Unbreakable, they take on more significant roles as the series' subplot, even aiding the protagonists in unconventional ways.

Description
When a person, usually a protagonist, dies in the JoJo universe, often times their soul in the form of a incorporeal manifestation of themselves can be seen transcending into the Heaven. (Ex: Avdol, Iggy, Shigechi, Buccellati.) Though each ghost's cause of death is different, most of them can be classified as Revenant: beings unable to enter Heaven and are essentially forced to roam the earth in a spiritual form, often times bound to a specific location or required to perform certain tasks.

As ghosts, normal people cannot see them and their bounds of human capability are removed, allowing them to perform various acts of supernatural abilities. The abilities vary for each individual, though most are able to fly. There is almost no difference in appearance when as a ghost (Exception being Kira), however some will retain their injuries from their death. (Ex: Arnold's neck is slit open and the injuries on Reimi's back are still present.) And though possibly fueled with revenge, ghosts will retain their personalities and are perfectly capable of reasonable thought.

Due to having spiritual manifestations themselves and a higher overall supernatural presence, Stand users are able to see ghosts and can even see and travel to ghostly locations such as Morioh's Ghost Alley. Users can also use their stand abilities on ghosts and/or attack them, (as seen when Rohan uses Heaven's Door on Reimi) though it is unknown whether or not this would damage the ghost.

Characteristics
Ghosts also need to follow certain rules in their existence. They can only enter a room if its empty or if someone inside the room has given the ghost permission to enter.. Even though they can manipulate objects, they don't really feel them. Ghosts who previously had a Stand in their former, living life still can use them. It is also said that ghosts can't grow, only living beings, and the memories stored in their spirit are only those of their former life (demonstrated when Rohan tried to read Reimi Sugimoto's ghost and only saw information from her life before dying). If a ghost touches someone by accident they lose their limbs, so most spirits just shrivel and hide in the shadows to avoid bumping into people.

Objects
For some unknown reason, objects can become ghosts too if destroyed. These can be felt and manipulated by normal ghosts, ranging from fire, food, books, guns, places and entire buildings. These objects, like normal ghosts, don't spread to other things, so it wouldn't be possible to kill someone using a ghost object.

Reimi's Alley
A place in particular, known only as Reimi's Alley, is the border between the world of the living and the afterlife, essentially serving as a purgatory. The area is just like a maze, but it can be escaped if given directions. There's only one rule to follow: never look back, or else hundreds of hands will drag the spirit. It is revealed that spirits dragged by the hands will become wandering vagabonds, without any memory of their past life and forced to find a purpose on Earth. Stands are destroyed when dragged by the hands, as shown with Killer Queen being torn to shreds and eventually not showing any traces of its existence later.

Cleansers
A Cleanser is a small creature that, as its name says, cleanses spirits. They are born from eggs touched by a spirit. When they touch a normal ghost, plants begin to grow from the ghost, trying to change them into something else similar to a plant by eating him from the inside. When they eat a ghost object, they turn those into into bugs. They have the function to clean the world from spirits, so that it won't be overflowing with vagabond spirits of the dead. They can be killed either by cracking their eggs or shooting them, but their dead remains can still clean whatever it touches.

Trivia

 * Aside from ghosts, the general definition of a revenant includes animated corpses, which would possibly explain the mysterious circumstances around Bruno Buccellati's death and would put him under the same category.
 * In Deadman's Questions, Araki explains that the the series' take on ghosts spawned from the idea that "In the world of life after death, if the spirit lives on, it would not be a place where everyone goes, but where there are "rules" similar to this world. The ghosts should go through just as much hardships as we do, if not more."