Ghosts

A charming little thought just sprung into my head and so I sprung out of bed so that I might get your thoughts on it. I was thinking about ghosts and the spiritual world and all the different accounts we have of ghosts (some people hear footsteps and other times just doors open by themselves. Or other times people feel or see the ghost but don't hear it. And yet other times ghosts have picked things up while others have trouble touching tangible things). So my question is this. What if the traits of these ghosts are determined by the sins the these people committed in their life on earth? For example, say a man often stole things and now as a ghost he cant pick things up. Or another man would break into places (houses, stores, cars etc) and now as a ghost he cant move through walls. Is this too much like purgatory?