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A stickler for etiquette and maintaining a good reputation, as Alison quickly discovers, Fanny has a hair-trigger temper, which prompts many complaints about modern life. She often tells Alison how to behave as a "lady". It becomes apparent later in series 3 that she only nags the other Button House residents as a way to ignore her own problems, and when there is nothing to be annoyed at she doesn't quite know what to do.

The Captain likes to be in charge and keep order, he's a fairly reserved man who often stands on ceremony and can at times (especially during parties) become somewhat overbearing. He has established himself as the de facto leader among the ghosts and believes this to be his rightful position as he is 'ranking officer'.

Pat is a kind, friendly and helpful man who does his best to remain positive at all times, he is considerate and tries to find compromises between the ghosts as well as clubs and activities for them to interact. He highly values team work and favours talking things through calmly as a method of working through differences. He takes pride in explaining technological things to the elder ghosts, such as what a television is, even though he is sometimes stumped by inventions post-dating his death. Pat is the most empathetic of the Button House ghosts, rivalled only by Kitty, which can leave him having to act as mediator between people and viewing his fellow dead as family. He has taken to occasionally treating his fellow ghosts as if they are his troop and has become popular among the majority of the other ghosts because of his genuine nature. For some, though, his cheerful personality is seen as being overpoweringly so, such as when he introduces himself to Alison for the first time.

Kitty is almost always smiling. She has a very happy and innocent nature, to the point of naïvety, which indicates she probably had a sheltered upbringing. Unfortunately this has also left her easily manipulated. Her extremely cheerful disposition and eagerness to join in often irritates the other ghosts, usually Fanny. She is kind to everybody she meets and speaks to them as though they are her new best friends. However, Kitty has been known to occasionally point out the flaws of others such as with The Captain and Thomas. She dislikes 'bossy' people and makes a point of telling Cap this when he goes too far.[9]

Thomas is a hopeless romantic through and through, which he often believes to make him more sensitive and understanding than the rest of his fellow ghosts. The downside to this is that he has a tendency to have childish, highly melodramatic outbursts when faced with ridicule from the other ghosts (or dismissal for his overly dramatic poetry), which cause him to sulk and, at one point, go so far as to try and drown himself in the lake despite already being dead.[5] It seems that while alive Thomas had conned himself into believing he was a much beloved poet, an false belief which has remained with him in death.[6] He believes that almost every woman he comes across is the most beautiful he's ever seen even though he will have said that about the last one as well and fell in love with Alison the moment he saw her; this reveals his fickle nature. Thomas also often misinterprets things women say to him — especially Alison — thinking they're confessing their love when really they're simply stating they don't want anything to do with him. This could be partially from wishful thinking, and partially because there are lots of similes and metaphors used in poetry, so he may interpret the words differently because he's a poet.

Julian is proud of his political career and election as a member of parliament, and is dismayed at not being remembered by anything other than his shameful death, as a result. He is egotistical, self-centered, and hypocritical, making "family values" the core of his political agenda while being unfaithful and neglecting his own family in life, or referring to all building contractors as "thieves" right after casually mentioning that he took public funds to fund the construction of his house. However, he's not entirely without care for others, nor remorse for his own faults. In The Ghost of Christmas, he was initially angered by having to share his room with Mike's sister and baby niece, but he took a liking to the baby and entertained her because she reminded her of his own daughter, Rachel. After this, he was happy to learn that Rachel had followed on his steps and become a MP, not being much annoyed by the fact that she was elected for the Green Party, on the opposite end of the political spectrum to himself

While the other ghosts are mostly stuck in their ways, and by extension their eras, Robin is adaptable and interested in learning new things. He has watched human life for longer than everybody else, and over that time he developed his intellect. He learned to speak English, French, and some Russian from observing the inhabitants of Button House. While his grammar and pronunciation is not perfect, he is understandable and often makes puns - much to the chagrin of his fellow dead. He is arguably the smartest and wisest ghost due to his experience, even knowing Pythagoras and quoting Shakespeare.

(everyone mentioned above cannot touch anything and can only sit on chairs!)

Alison is a kind and considerate person for the most part. She's also the more cynical one in her and Mike's relationship. While Mike can be childish, she is left to play the adult. She does her best to keep those around her happy but can often lose her temper, normally with the ghosts. Alison has been known to set aside her own needs in favor of pleasing her family and friends. She's far more reserved about the renovations to Button House than her husband and was the first to accept failure on turning it into a hotel. However, that didn't stop her quickly thinking of something else to do with the house.