There's a ghost haunting deviantART again!

This is the trail I followed yesterday. Bare in mind Firefox reveals things that other browsers hide.

1) Found out about the ghost from the news article ^zilla774 posted. On mouseover, the word messages reveals "trail start" and word community reveals "ninja!" which means the trail starts at...

2) $spyed
Inside his journal Pumpkins is rhyme. On mouseover, the word late reveals "it's all relative", on Witches reveals "o" and on Halloween Fun reveals "three times the man Fella is..."
Well it's all relative indicates it's a relation and if one times a man is his Father, two times is his Grandfather, three times is his Great Grandfather leading us to...

3) ~GreatGrandFella
The one behind last year's hauntings!
In his journal No Rest for the Wicked he's been sent another rhyme.. On mouseover, the word trouble reveals "c", the word cauldron reveals "sticky treat" and the word sweet reveals "ray of Night".
Another word for a ray of night is a moonbeam, leading us to...

4) $Moonbeam13
MmmMmm Pie she lists recipes for sticky treats in her journal. On mouseover, the word vanilla reveals "backbone", the word whipped reveals "prints" and the word cream reveals "l"
Spine is another word for backbone, and one of the prints control quality staff is...

5) $spinegrinder
Who has also received a message from the ghoul, displayed in his journal. On mouseover, the word minx reveals "l" and the word Fi reveals "m".
Now, Fi has a capital letter, where as the rest of that line (baring the start) do not.
Fi + minx? Why it could only be...

6) $chix0r
Fiona, self proclaimed minx0r, who isn't happy that she's been involved in the ghost's game.
In her journal is a rhyme. On mouseover, the word pantyhose reveals "e"
She says "This is one insane mixed up ghost"
If you mix up insane and one you get...

7) `insaneone
In his journal is another rhyme. On mouseover the first town reveals "c" and the second reveals "#". He also talks about clowning around.
# denotes a chatroom, and clowning, with town repeated? That can only lead to...

8) #Clowntown , lolly's chat room.
In the title of Clowntown are the words "THERE ARE NO CATS IN BELGIUM"
Which when put into the dA search engine gives us a User ID by...

9) `alyn
In his journal he has a rather silly rhyme. On mouseover, the word nerves reveals "creative" and the word style reveals "t". He also says "Wire me to the electrics" and "This is like a funk rush to my body."
Creative, style, wire, funk rush.
Hey isn't there a Creative staff member called...

10) ¢wirestyle
His journal talks about Funkrush, his range of awesome t-shirts and also the message from the ghost. On mouseover, the word stock reveals "new" and byrd reveals "h"
New, stock, byrd... isn't there a new stock gallery director called...

11) ^oibyrd
In her journal is another rhyme. On mouseover, the word glitches reveals "medal" and itches reveals "i". She also says "oh my cosh" and "the daddy of all clues"
which can only be...

12) ^coshdaddy
The medal mentioned in the previous clue now obviously relates to the little spook on coshdaddy's page which on mouseover reveals "Three words hide me". His journal shows another riddle and on mouseover the words two by two reveal "v". If you think about the words in the poem to be instructions i.e. "Searching" and search for "Lost Castle", "Devil Hunter", "Monkey King", "Winterfall", "Queen of Eternity" or "Sinner" you will find at least one picture is by...

13) =noah-kh
And now "Two by Two" is an obvious reference too. There's a poem in his journal on mouseover, the word embrace reveals "semantic". Semantic relates to Semantics, which is the meaning of words or synonyms. A synonym for "embrace" is "kiss" and the poem describes a snake.
Leading us to...

14) ^serpentinekiss
In her journal is another poem. On mouseover, the word pirates reveals "Flowers for Milady" and candy reveals "t". Remembering that we searched the words with capital letters to find noah, searching "Flowers for Milady" reveals a deviation by...

15) ^y2jenn
And the ghost has grafittied her journal! On mouseover the words in the poem Scarecrow reveals "find me" and Guards reveals "popular".
Well the Scarecrow's just asking to be found, and if you search "Scarecrow" in the dA search engine, the most Popular deviation is by...

16) *sideshowmonkey
Who has found a message embedded in his journal. On mouse over the words nothing but numbers reveal "r". The poem also mentions "searching for clues".
Back to the dA search engine, which reveals there's a deviation called "Nothing but Numbers" by...

17) @isabelucha
Her journal shows that she's been spammed by the ghost. On Mouseover, the word Devil reveals "e" and the word Delicious reveals "t".
Devil Delicious? How about...

18) `devilicious
The latter poem in her journal reveals clues on mouseover, the words mince pies reveal "spilling blood attractively" and the words staring reveal "c".
Spilling Blood Attractively, saying that another way could be...

19) ^bleedsopretty
Her journal has another poem. On mouseover, the words The Countess reveal "July 1974" and unravelled reveals "u".
July 1974, another way to say that is 7.74, which leads us to...

20) ^zilla774
Who has a deviation called Countess Bathory, on which there is our next clue.
On mouseover the word skin reveals "a covering of more than one pixel deep" and Taunting reveals "e".
A covering of more than one pixel deep.... depth.... skin...hang on a minute...

21) ^depthskins
His journal show's another poem. On mouseover, the word raven reveals "t" and fairy rings reveals "Laugh Out Loud".
That can lead to no other than....

22) $lolly
Whose journal has a rather worrying message. Have we lost our beloved Fella?
This just in! Fella kidnapped!

Trail Two - The Kidnapping.

We have three outstanding pieces of information in this case:

"Three words hide me"
"Frank returns, from the Bowels of dA"
and the letters: o c l l m e c t h i v t r e t c u e t

But those don't make sense!
Oh! I just recieved an anonymous note! All it said was:
"_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _e _ _ _ _ _ _"
I don't know what that's meant to mean, but maybe it concerns those letters.

We've found out they spell "The Collective Rectum"
and going to thecollectiverectum.deviantart.com we find fella locked in a cage surrounded by a timed bomb that will go off on midnight on halloween if we can't stop it!

We've found a clue in

@kyza's journal. On mouse over the word tumbling reveals "h" and tetris reveals "d". The words Tumbling and Tetris and searching "Pavement of Stars" on dA lead you to...

`cei- whose avatar is tetris and whose journal contains the next clue. On mouse over restart reveals "h" and quit reveals "w". Restart and Quit lead us to...

@shutdown whose journal contains a bizzare entry about predatory plants. On mouseover the word female reveals "o" and fangs reveals "w". Female with fangs... rephrased, that gives us...

%fangedfem whose journal talks about a cross word she's stuck on. On mouse over the word prank reveals "t" and virtual reality reveals "d". Prank in Virtual reality, rephrased gives u...

¢eStunt whose journal talks about a weird pop-up. On mouseover the word amiss reveals "t" and code reveals "e".
Below Par, and something amiss both refer to something that is...

^imperfect in her journal is another clue. On mouseover cherry reveals "w" and corpse reveals "i". Cherry Corpse, could that possibly be a...

^dedredhed in the bottom of her journal is the next clue. On mouse over Pinky reveals "a y". I remember Pinky being fond of saying "Narf" which leads us to...

@Narfmaster in his journal is a rhyme. On mouse over nightly reveals "u" and knighty reveals "L". But only the "nighty" part of "knighty" is underlined. Leading us to...

^nighty whose journal has another crossword style clue. On mouse over Ni! reveals "o" and Amphipironinae reveals "a". Now, I don't know what that word means, but on looking it up on google it's a Clownfish. I'm sure that was specifically chosen as reference to nemo. Nemo + Ni =

@Nenimo in whose journal is a rather silly rhyme. On mouseover messiah reveals "m" and Four reveals "g". Messiah, four, could that possibly be...

=JesusIV in whose journal is a message from the ghost. On mouseover Faltering reveals "i" and fumbling reveals "e". Faltering and fumbling and talks about delays, rephrased that could be...

^hesitation whose journal features a poem. On mouseover languorous reveals "n" and behind reveals "v". Langourous Behind, which rephrased is...

=lazybutt whose journal shows he's been spammed by the ghost. On mouse over Superman reveals "t" and photograph reveals "n". Only the "Super" part of "Superman" is underlined. Isn't there a gallery director in photography called...

^superkev near the bottom of his halloween journal our trail continues. On mouseover leatherface reveals "i t" and hidden reveals "news". It talks about fella dressed up as leatherface from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. If we search through the news articles we find one by zilla774 called...

Halloween Wallpaper Contest in which there is fella dressed up. On mouseover Skins reveals "k" and Theme reveals "f". Skins and Themes... could that lead to...

^abe-x the GD of skins and themes. In his journal is our next clue. On mouseover cyclone reveals "t" and Vapour reveals "o". Cyclone and Vapour, that leads us to...

@tmpst24myst whose journal contains only a clue. On mouseover groundfrost reveals "n" and haunted reveals "o". Someone said they saw a clue on....

`nebu's page, who has her own website called groundfrost.com. Going into her journal on mouseover son reveals "e" and grandfather reveals "i". Not the son, not the grandfather, must mean he's the father. Father of a ghost? That leads us to...

^Ghouldaddy in whose journal we continue our search. On mouse over scripted reveals "d" and help reveals "d". It talks about scripted help and asking questions, also refers to a robot, or bot.

If you go to devart and ask the mnbot "Who do you love today?" It says "I kuschelirmel"

^kuschelirmel whose journal lists the next clue. On mouse over, look reveals "n" and reveal shows "e". Look and reveal, maybe we have to search? If you search for "The Dragons Lair" or "The Fairies Vale" both will have one thing in common, a deviation by...

`cosmosue in her journal is a riddle. On mouseover Sun reveals "u" and sheepish reveals "i". The answer to the riddle is that "Born in the spring Sun, Eleven sibling stand beside me" means it's a month of spring. And the other descriptions are traits. A zodiac sign maybe? How about...

^Aeires in whose journal is a short poem. On mouseover the word Motley reveals "r" and Curiosity reveals "s". Trying to find his Motley, Curiosity. If we put "Motley Curiosity" into the dA search engine, there's only one deviation...

Hazel Curiosity by me! My surname is Motley by the way . My clue is on the deviaion and on mouseover the word hat reveals "f" and curse reveals "i". And it says "Someone gave their hat away and became a Clever Entertaining Actress didn’t they!" hats are ^ and denote gallery directors on dA. Clever Entertaining Actress is CEA which also stands for Copyright and Etiquette Administrator. Isn't there a deviant who changed from GD to CEA?

It's ©damphyr in whose journal is the final clue.

___ _ ___l_ _a__ _____ a___ ____ __, __ it _____’_ __r y__ _e_____g _id_!

Fitting all the letters into that that we've collected it makes:
"And I would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for you meddling kids!"
Which when said on *thecollectiverectum stops the bomb.

Congrats to *KarenB for stopping the bomb.

The wrapping up of this story will commence tomorrow

This ghosthunt brought to you by ^zilla774, $chix0r, =maxwell-heza and the childrens television workshop

STORY HERE

THANK YOU ALL FOR PARTICIPATING!