How to get rid of ghosts???

[Dizzy]

Does anyone know how to get rid of the ghosts in Sims 3? In TS2 there was the option to move all graves to a community lost of your choosing. I am also a little disappointed that my active house cannot call up the ghost exterminators to get rid of them :/ And if they can I have yet to find how to do that.

I know in a Legacy i am supposed to leave all the ghosts on the lot, but there are a LOT now and I think they might be clogging up the works. My game has gotten really slow and I really have not added any new content. I have actually taken away most of the decor in the home and I have removed all plants from the yard trying to make it more playable but it's still choppy and it didn't used to be. At any given time there are at least 3 or 4 ghosts roaming around the lot day and night... beings they don't count for the sim count on the lot this can happen when i already have a high number of sims active on the lot so i think all the ghosties are contributing to the game slow down. Also i am just freaking tired of them! They eat my food and don't clean up after themselves, they are always in the bathrooms when a LIVING family member needs it. I am just totally over the whole "oohh ghost" thing now and want them gone.
I lived with them this long because i thought I'd be able to call the ghost busters and have them taken care of :/

Anyone have any ideas?

[Shell]

I thought there was an option similar to Sims 2, where they could be sent or taken to the grave yard. Now you have me wondering!

[Kate]

I've not yet had ghosts in my game (I know, wow) so I don't know the answer to this question. But I have to say, like Shell, I was under the impression you could send the tombstone to a graveyard or another lot.

[Dizzy]

I just read that you have to take the grave into a sim's inventory and THEN have that sim go to the graveyard and then drop the grave. In TS2 there was an option when you clicked on the grave or the land i forget that said move all head stones to community lot. I have not gone in game to see if this works since reading about it.

lol.. Yeah kate i was just thinking while reading yer last update "wow.. this is still the first generation" Not that it's a bad thing at all.. don't get me wrong. It made me worry i was kinda skimming through mine and not posting enough to you guys for my story.
The ghosts are fun at first and i did enjoy them, but now they are just in the way. There are too many of them out and about. Might not be too bad if they only came out at night like in TS2, but they are always freaking there. And it's not even the fact that they often inhabit items my sims were going to use and scare them.. they just add 3 extra people bumping around the lot and it's already so full.

I will report back after I go in game later today and see about moving the graves. One problem i already see with this is i have some ghost that NEVER go back to their graves and if the ghost is out you can't take the headstone into the inventory :/

[Kate]

I'm interested: did you get your ghosties sorted Diz? Or did those pesky Sim ghosts refuse to go back to their graves? hehe

[Dizzy]

Nope, well not all of them. I was able to pick up two graves and take them to the cemetery and drop them there, but three ghosties are being very stubborn and not going back into their graves. Someone else on another site I looked at since said you could also get the dead off the home lot by going to the cemetery and click on the mausoleum and selecting "manage the dead", but that only works on townies that have died. (while doing that i found that Kirk Langdon, Marcellette's ex-husband, had passed away). As I said the only graves that showed up were the Townies that have passed on and you can grab those head stones and place them anywhere, but it did not show the dead I have on my lot.

I have also read one should be able to call ghost exterminators, but I can't find anyways to do that. I thought maybe it was cause there was no ghost hunter building, but when I look there is no building for that profession to place down. But sims in my game had had the chance to join that profession when looking on line or in the paper.

I am seriously annoyed that these freaking ghosts wont go in their graves. *sighs* and I really don't want to do a move objects on cheat and delete them, i would like them just relocated to the cemetery, but if they persist i might have to just delete them. :/

[Deleted]

I think the 'Ghost Hunter' profession can be found at the Science Laboratory, there's no actual building per se for it. If that helps at all.
I'd find it annoying that those ghosties just won't do as you tell them either. ;D

[Dizzy]

well in the new village I thought i ran across a building placed in the town that was specifially for ghost hunting. But I am not trying to get one of my people into the profession. There is no option for me to hire a ghost hunter to come get rid of the ghosts.