Estas são as criaturas esqueléticas. Estes são homens transformados em criaturas devido à magia dos caminhantes Brancos (chamados de Outros nos livros). Estes estavam guardando a caverna do corvo de três olhos dos outros para entrar. Eles são iguais a um wight normal e atacam criaturas de sangue quente. Estes parecem ser esqueletos porque os caminhantes brancos reanimam cadáveres não queimados que estão em um estado de pouco mais que esqueleto. Eles estavam deitados em um estado imóvel esperando para atacar alguém que alcançasse a caverna de Três Olhos de Corvo.
Estas criaturas perto da caverna eram originalmente homens do Vigia Noturno que perderam suas vidas como parte de seu dever e mais tarde se voltaram para as criaturas pela magia dos Caminhantes Brancos. Estes pareciam homens mortos com carne pálida e pele negra nos livros.
That was when his shout became a scream. Bran filled a fist with snow and threw it, but the wight did not so much as blink. A black hand fumbled at his face, another at his belly. Its fingers felt like iron. He’s going to pull my guts out.
But suddenly Summer was between them. Bran glimpsed skin tear like cheap cloth, heard the splintering of bone. He saw a hand and wrist rip loose, pale fingers wriggling, the sleeve faded black roughspun. Black, he thought, he’s wearing black, he was one of the Watch . Summer flung the arm aside, twisted, and sank his teeth into the dead man’s neck under the chin. When the big grey wolf wrenched free, he took most of the creature’s throat out in an explosion of pale rotten meat.
Excerpt from Chapter Bran II A Dance with the Dragons
Os Wights normais nos livros são descritos como lentos e desajeitados, queer. Mas na adaptação do programa, o diretor Alex Graves transformou os homens mortos em esqueletos como uma homenagem à famosa lenda dos efeitos especiais Ray Harryhausen, no filme de 1963 Jason and the Argonauts . Ele declarou em uma entrevista para Variedade :
When I read the outline, I called David and Dan, I went straight to Hollywood and met them and I said, ‘Are we talking about the zombie guys that we’ve been doing or could these guys be viciously dangerous?’ They said, ‘Oh, yeah, that would be great.’ So they go across this snow plain and skeletons start to come out of the snow, à la Ray Harryhausen, who we sort of privately dedicated the sequence to. They come out of the snow at 90 miles per hour, and they are there to kill Brandon and Jojen before they get there, and they’ve been waiting for like a thousand years. Nobody knew about the sequence and it [wasn't] in any of the marketing, which is the most brilliant marketing move I've seen.
Many more skeletal wights are seen in Season 5 episode 8 Hardhome.