diff --git a/data/units/Ghoul.cfg b/data/units/Ghoul.cfg
index 9fa41ae2193..bb02ca77208 100644
--- a/data/units/Ghoul.cfg
+++ b/data/units/Ghoul.cfg
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ movement=6
 experience=35
 level=1
 alignment=chaotic
-advanceto=null
+advanceto=Necrophage
 cost=16
 usage=fighter
 unit_description="Sometimes starved and ravenous humans who are forced to eat human corpses awake after their deaths to find that they are trapped in a tortured existence as Ghouls."
diff --git a/data/units/Necrophage.cfg b/data/units/Necrophage.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7b01ada5960
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/units/Necrophage.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+[unit]
+name=Necrophage
+race=undead
+image=undead-necrophage.png
+image_defensive=undead-necrophage-defend.png
+hitpoints=52
+movement_type=undeadfoot
+movement=6
+experience=65
+level=2
+alignment=chaotic
+advanceto=Necrophage
+cost=36
+usage=fighter
+unit_description="Driven by a ravenous hunger for the flesh of the living, Necrophages, attack their with poisonous claws."
+get_hit_sound=groan.wav
+	[attack]
+	name=claws
+	type=blade
+	range=short
+	damage=7
+	number=3
+	special=poison
+		[frame]
+		begin=-300
+		end=50
+		image=undead-necrophage-attack.png
+		[/frame]
+	[/attack]
+[/unit]
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