  A vacuum instability due to a massless ghost in a hidden sector can lead to
an effective equation of state for dark energy that changes smoothly from
$w=-3/2$ at large redshifts, to $w\approx-1.2$ today, to $w=-1$ in the future.
We discuss how this ghost can be the Goldstone boson of Lorentz symmetry
breaking, and we find that this breaking in the hidden sector should occur at a
scale below $\sim$10 KeV. The normal particles that are produced along with the
ghosts are then predominantly neutrinos.
