This chapter examines a series of stories circulating in contemporary print and visual culture about “ghost nets” and “ghost gear,” fishing equipment that has been lost, abandoned, or discarded at sea. Insofar as they employ spectral imagery to depict the material consequences of fisheries mismanagement and evoke compassion for whale suffering, these texts represent environmentalist ghost stories. They also testify to the complex, emotional entanglements among human and more-than-human organisms. Some of these ghost stories illustrate what Donna Haraway calls “staying with the trouble” or “living and dying in response-ability on a damaged earth.” Others, attest to the importance of “making kin” or cultivating relationships with more-than-human persons. Taken together, these spectral whale tales represent two different, yet viable, approaches to dealing with the precarity of life in the Necrocene.