diff --git a/IO/IOSS/Testing/CMakeLists.txt b/IO/IOSS/Testing/CMakeLists.txt
index 5a71e5c020e45695491613febf9c2a3b2fed7b1a..44923a0811258979c3e8ddfd51b590e4b0fa7d3f 100644
--- a/IO/IOSS/Testing/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/IO/IOSS/Testing/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ set(datasets
   Data/Exodus/ExRestarts/blow.e
   Data/Exodus/ExRestarts/blow.e-s.001
   Data/Exodus/ExRestarts/blow.ex-timeseries
+  Data/Exodus/ghost.ex2
   Data/Exodus/hello_world_fix-d_frf.frq
   Data/Exodus/RubiksCubeWithRotations_gold.g
   Data/Exodus/SAND2020-4077_O-tri6sWFace2.exo
diff --git a/IO/IOSS/Testing/Cxx/CMakeLists.txt b/IO/IOSS/Testing/Cxx/CMakeLists.txt
index 0828c8d692367c3ab275c653315a22cb155c2dc8..42ee4f0426b4d754e7c93ab374162bd8d16c0aec 100644
--- a/IO/IOSS/Testing/Cxx/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/IO/IOSS/Testing/Cxx/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ vtk_add_test_cxx(vtkIOIOSSCxxTests tests
   TestIOSSNoElementBlocks.cxx,NO_VALID
   TestIOSSTri6.cxx
   TestIOSSUnsupported.cxx,NO_VALID
+  TestIOSSGhostArray.cxx,NO_VALID
 )
 
 if (VTK_USE_LARGE_DATA)
diff --git a/IO/IOSS/Testing/Cxx/TestIOSSGhostArray.cxx b/IO/IOSS/Testing/Cxx/TestIOSSGhostArray.cxx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ebe4c6a3a3e258c7bddf5f1e0d5b274c909bfb85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/IO/IOSS/Testing/Cxx/TestIOSSGhostArray.cxx
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+/*=========================================================================
+
+  Program:   Visualization Toolkit
+  Module:    TestIOSSGhostArray.cxx
+
+  Copyright (c) Ken Martin, Will Schroeder, Bill Lorensen
+  All rights reserved.
+  See Copyright.txt or http://www.kitware.com/Copyright.htm for details.
+
+     This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
+     the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
+     PURPOSE.  See the above copyright notice for more information.
+
+=========================================================================*/
+
+#include "vtkCellData.h"
+#include "vtkDataSet.h"
+#include "vtkDataSetAttributes.h"
+#include "vtkIOSSReader.h"
+#include "vtkLogger.h"
+#include "vtkPartitionedDataSetCollection.h"
+#include "vtkTestUtilities.h"
+#include "vtkUnsignedCharArray.h"
+
+#include <string>
+
+int TestIOSSGhostArray(int argc, char* argv[])
+{
+  vtkNew<vtkIOSSReader> reader;
+  char* fileNameC = vtkTestUtilities::ExpandDataFileName(argc, argv, "Data/Exodus/ghost.ex2");
+  reader->AddFileName(fileNameC);
+  delete[] fileNameC;
+  reader->Update();
+
+  auto pdsc = vtkPartitionedDataSetCollection::SafeDownCast(reader->GetOutputDataObject(0));
+  auto dataset = pdsc->GetPartition(0, 0);
+  auto cd = dataset->GetCellData();
+  auto ghostArray =
+    vtkUnsignedCharArray::SafeDownCast(cd->GetArray(vtkDataSetAttributes::GhostArrayName()));
+  if (ghostArray)
+  {
+    // Check the values in the ghost array - first should be 0, second should be 1
+    if (ghostArray->GetValue(0) != 0)
+    {
+      vtkLog(ERROR, "First cell ghost value was not 0");
+      return EXIT_FAILURE;
+    }
+    if (ghostArray->GetValue(1) != vtkDataSetAttributes::DUPLICATECELL)
+    {
+      vtkLog(ERROR, "Second cell ghost value was not 1");
+      return EXIT_FAILURE;
+    }
+  }
+
+  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
+}
diff --git a/IO/IOSS/vtkIOSSReader.cxx b/IO/IOSS/vtkIOSSReader.cxx
index 885655477ce266959c86c76075b59e2cac70bcf7..34218f0a6dceddeda66bd690ce1f454314464745 100644
--- a/IO/IOSS/vtkIOSSReader.cxx
+++ b/IO/IOSS/vtkIOSSReader.cxx
@@ -2119,6 +2119,17 @@ bool vtkIOSSReader::vtkInternals::GetFields(vtkDataSetAttributes* dsa,
       {
         dsa->SetGlobalIds(vtkDataArray::SafeDownCast(array));
       }
+      else if (fieldname == vtkDataSetAttributes::GhostArrayName())
+      {
+        // Handle vtkGhostType attribute specially. Convert it to the expected vtkUnsignedCharArray.
+        vtkNew<vtkUnsignedCharArray> ghostArray;
+        ghostArray->SetName(vtkDataSetAttributes::GhostArrayName());
+        ghostArray->SetNumberOfComponents(1);
+        ghostArray->SetNumberOfTuples(array->GetNumberOfTuples());
+
+        ghostArray->CopyComponent(0, vtkDataArray::SafeDownCast(array), 0);
+        dsa->AddArray(ghostArray);
+      }
       else
       {
         dsa->AddArray(array);
diff --git a/Testing/Data/Exodus/ghost.ex2.sha512 b/Testing/Data/Exodus/ghost.ex2.sha512
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a149df785a36bb371e8e7da9f7bfd8726b84312d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Testing/Data/Exodus/ghost.ex2.sha512
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+45528e62b204d9c01cc2984f8373b7bb08f7e4902221b37d39d9c568892641c8d5622b73d23355c25fdbf71daf188b29f52471647a90c78955e15a30e43a17f1