[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Ghosts Season 4, Episode 3, “Halloween 4: The Witch.”] Ghosts ‘ Halloween episode delivered a deviation from tradition as Sam ( Rose McIver ) steered away from a seance, and focused on trying to spend a mellow holiday cleaning out junk from the Woodstone mansion with Jay ( Utkarsh Ambudkar ), but Puritan spirit Patience ( Mary Holland ) had another idea. Horrified by the modern practices of her new cohorts, Patience got the other spirits to present Sam with the option of being tried as a witch.
Unwilling to entertain their shenanigans, Sam goes about her business, only dressing in an old gown giving off Bridgerton vibes as her only sign of engaging with her otherwise favorite holiday. So, unbeknownst to Sam, Patience rules over a judgment that finds her guilty of witchcraft, and she’s sentenced to petrification. Of course, Patience’s ruling isn’t binding as Sam isn’t turned into stone, but a lookalike statue leaves spirits and Jay all but convinced that Sam was turned into stone and sold to a yard sale attendee who happens to blow up random objects on his YouTube page.
Eventually, Sam returns home and it’s discovered that the lookalike statue wasn’t her, but a long-forgotten artifact collecting dust in Woodstone’s ballroom. Seeing that her ruling wasn’t final and that no one quite agrees with her outlook, Patience ponders the idea of returning to the dirt, but also lets it slip that she’d return to “the.