The Jackal (Thir13en Ghosts)

""When a fire broke out in the asylum, everyone but Ryan escaped. He chose to stay behind and meet his deserved fate.""

- Cyrus Kriticos, regarding the Jackal.

Ryan Kuhn, defined by the Black Zodiac as The Jackal, is a major character, yet minor villain in Thir13en Ghosts. He is the eleventh ghost in the Black Zodiac, needed by Cyrus Kriticos to open the Ocularis Infernum (Eye of Hell) and gain infinite power. He was portrayed by Shayne Wyler.

Backstory
Ryan was born in 1887 to a prostitute. He was born with an extremely dangerous mental disease that made him have a lust for murder, rape and women. Wanting a cure, he was sent to Borehamwood Asylum to be treated, but after horribly attacking a nurse, he was locked away in a padded room, bound to a straitjacket. After many desperate attempts to escape, which costed him his fingernails, Ryan was permanently bound to his straitjacket by the doctors, who tied it so tight that it contorted his limbs in a gruesome manner. Still fighting, though, Kuhn ripped the jacket until the doctors finally locked his head in a metal cage and sealed him in the basement. He then grew to hate any kind of human contact, screaming in agony and sometimes cowering whenever approached. After a fire broke out in the asylum, everyone but Ryan escaped, in an attempt to face the flames. Needless to say he did not survive the fire. Many years later, his ghost was captured by millionaire Cyrus Kriticos, and locked in a containment cube that was sent to the basement of Cyrus' "house" (the Ocularis Infernum).

Ghost
As a ghost, Ryan is incredibly frightening. The metal cage he was locked in is still on his head, with the front bars ripped outwards. His skin is severely burned and scarred, and he has a long, black hair. His straitjacket is completely ripped and wasted, and his hands are horribly hurt, especially in his fingers. He is weel known by fans as the most aggressive ghost of the group, and also the most reccuring ghost in the movie.