For many, many centuries, this SPOOK has been used by astronomers and astronauts all over the world as a way to discover outer galaxies and planets within those galaxies.
If you've ever heard of SCPs, this SPOOK would certainly fool you as one, but, actually, apparently, although SPOOKS may seem alive, they are not. SCPs usually turn out to be either alive beings or sentient objects born with the apparent ability to think and/or create. In other words, beings that break the laws of physics and the very building blocks of existence. SPOOKS, on the other hand, were, apparently, never alive... nor were they dead.
Are they dead now? Are they ghosts? Well, I would say not. Usually you wouldn't be able to touch a ghost; your hand would just go right through... it seems that SPOOKS do go through you when they try to touch you... but when you try to touch them, it's like they become solid creatures... which is why SPOOKS were classified in their own species category. They look and act like ghosts of both living beings and objects and they can become transparent and "attach" to you; yet you can touch them as if they are really there. You can give them huggles.
So, why is this being explained now? Why wait until this particular SPOOK to explain this? Simple. This is the very SPOOK that helped us to discover this fact about them. This is the SPOOK that helped us discover what they are... which we still aren't really that sure of.
So, what is it doing in my closet, you may be asking? Who knows... I mean, it can go anywhere it wants... its quirk seems to be that it can inter-dimensionally, and outer-dimensionally, travel. Meaning, it could go literally anywhere... perhaps this also means that there is more than one of these SPOOKS across all existence? But who really knows?
All I know is that the very existence of this particular SPOOK gives me an existential crisis.