ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author focuses on two ghost encounters and analyzes the relationship between them and the existential threat Fiji villagers perceive from a changing climate. The first of these took place in the close vicinity of main field site outside Nadi in the western parts of Fiji's main island, Viti Levu, and involved the return of a ghostly presence that had its roots in the historical village of Nagaga and a natural disaster that occurred there. The second ghost appeared as a revenant of a young man who lost his life in Cyclone Winston and in the following weeks proceeded to haunt his village, Nayavutoka, in northeastern Viti Levu. The chapter pays particular attention to how ghosts, understood as one type of monsters existing in Fiji, emerge in ways that make them intrinsically linked to place and consequently become effective harbingers of environmental threats and change.
