"I told him I found him to be un-haunt-able, uninhabitable even for ghosts.  He seemed offended.  What I did not tell him was that he was actually like a termite that find its way inside the walls of a house.  And the termite, like a perfect houseguest, has a sense when it's stayed just long enough.  Just long enough to have pushed the house to its absolute brink.  Then it goes and leaves the house empty, eroded."  From The Hearing Test by Eliza Barry Callahan, 2024.

"The building has been unhaunted."  From The End of a Rainbow by Rossiter Johnson, 1920.