Eric was the boyfriend of Bela Arondekar who spent Christmas with her at Woodstone Mansion.He first appears in the Ghosts special The Christmas Spirit.
Biography[]
Eric gives Bela a ride to the mansion for Christmas and gets invited to celebrate the holiday. He is just friends with her, however, he is shown to have a crush on her. He owns his own architectural firm in Boston, they just did a new wing at the hospital.
After his Pop Pop died, his Nana said that she could still talk to him and nobody believed her. However, Eric believed her and believed in ghosts. When Bela informs him of the house being haunted, he is amazed to hear he and his grandmother were right about the supernatural. After a little convincing, he agreed to be possessed by Trevor to make Bela happy. He initially thought that they needed to do a seance but instead agreed to being electrocuted. However, that never happens with instead Sam gets possessed by Thorfinn.
He attempts to leave with Jay Arondekar convincing him to return to the mansion. He was going to leave his car for her to leave whenever she wanted. He attempts to get possessed by Trevor but instead dies. He is seen as a spirit and then materializes as a ghost.
Despite just dying, he is casual about his situation and meets Trevor who thanks him for trying. While Bela is crying over his body, he remarks on the unfortunate timing after she voices her regrets of not giving him a chance. He then meets Flower who introduces herself and reveals her death before he sees Alberta and Sasappis at the same time. However, his death was short-lived as he was revived soon by Thorfinn, who was possessing Sam. Eric's ghost goes back into his body and Bela takes him upstairs to his bed.
Much later, Jay calls him "deeply unstable" which makes Bela like him more, indicating that she might date him.
In He Sees Dead People, Eric pretends that he could see the ghosts. Eric closes the laptop and flips the iPad over to ensure Trevor can't warn Bela or Jay. The ghosts' are angered by the charade and immediately report this to Sam when she comes back after the bachelorette party she was going to attend was cancelled. Eric walks in and tries to say that he was talking to Pete, only to see Sam and start stammering. Sam later pulls Jay aside and informs the latter that Eric is unable to see ghosts. Eric comes in a few moments later, he attempts to guess that Pete is in the room, but Sam dismisses him.
Trivia[]
- Eric knew about Trevor as Bela talked about him with Eric.
- In his time as a ghost, he meets the latter and comments on how he's impressed by Trevor's jawline like Jay was.
- Trevor calls him a total tool and its heavily implied that he's a people pleaser doing what Bela wanted because she wanted him to.
- However, Trevor warms up to him after seeing how far he went for Bela's sake and liked his comment on his jaw.
- Through his meeting with Bela, he has discovered the manor is haunted and meeting the ghosts.
- Jay remarked that he should have made Eric sign a waiver, so as to not get sued.
- Eric briefly became the youngest of the ghosts, ironically taking Trevor's place.
- He's a skilled gymnast as mentioned in He Sees Dead People.