化ばけて出でる

expression, ichidan verb

appear as a ghost; return as a spirit

Used when a dead person's spirit appears in the living world, often with a sense of haunting or seeking revenge. The expression is a set phrase combining 化ける (to transform) and 出る (to appear).

• 恨うらみを残のこして死しんだ人ひとが化ばけて出でるという話はなしはよくある。

  There are many stories of people who died with a grudge returning as ghosts.

• あの屋や敷しきには、昔むかしの主しゅ人じんが化ばけて出でるらしい。

  It seems the former master of that mansion appears as a ghost.