The most significant ghost among all of the ghosts that Kingston and Brave Orchid enumerate. Sitting Ghost, also called “Boulder,” first visits Brave Orchid when she is in medical school. It is the only “ghost” that is fully described. The ghost is something with “many wide black mouths,” a being that is “dangerous,” “real,” and “mysterious.” Brave Orchid recalls an instance in which the ghost briefly killed her, but she “returned” to medical school, outwitting it and other ghosts—Wall Ghosts—that sought to divert her from her rightful path. She refuses to give in to Sitting Ghost, refuses to relent to the pain that it seeks to inflict and refuses even to acknowledge its power, which kills “babies” and “cowards,” but not “a strong woman.”