>>111761338A lot of them were people who degenerated down to a single mood, or an unintelligent thing that haunted something they used to know. Or they are more like psychic residue made by people who were super attached to a place or object.
Like Slimer was not the ghost of a single person at all, but some weird mix of various summoned entities by a wacky 1930s cult and the hedonistic emotions spent by people staying in the hotel. They just kind of came together to form a little monster of consumption.
>>111761373I thought some of them were not really fragments as much as they were people who mostly lost all memory of who they were, and what they were over a long period of time. The best their little bits and scraps of memories they can come up with were that they had arms, a mouth, and maybe an eye. But the general shape was just sort of forgotten.