Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-121.217.164.118-20130929050443/@comment-67.225.95.149-20150102045608

There were Dwemer ghosts in Morrowind, but not Skyrim.

The likely reason is that Falmer or other adveturers  destroyed all of the dwemer shades they could find in Skyrim, though there still might be some left in unaccesable areas of the cities. There are a lot of collapsed passageways after all.