LDS Teachings about Ghosts Most people who want to know whether Mormons believe in ghosts, however, are asking a more specific question. In popular culture, the word "ghost" conjures up concepts of ectoplasm, haunting, or spirits of the dead who can't "cross over" to the afterlife. Mormonism does not believe in this type of ghost. LDS theology says that all spirits, once separated from their bodies at death, automatically go to a place called the spirit world. At the second coming of Jesus Christ to the earth, all the spirits in the spirit world will be resurrected (rejoined with their bodies) and go to a kingdom of heaven. LDS theology gives no reason to suspect that the spirit of any deceased person would remain earthbound or have trouble "crossing over."