Easter 2025 Event Guide: Cursed Hollow

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ"Qui chasse deux lièvres n'en prend pas un..."
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ"He who chases two hares, catches none...."

Welcome back to another guide and happy holidays!
It's that time of the year again, for you to wash, but also for the first yearly event in phasmophobia. The Forest Spirit has returned, and yep… it’s our job to banish it. Again. This year brings some fresh changes: community and personal rewards, a rotating map pool, and gameplay modifiers during your investigations. (Don’t worry — I cover all of that later!)

We will need to head into any of the 9 maps that is being haunted and track down totems to destroy them and bring out the Forest Spirit to be banished.

Fair warning, though: the Forest Spirit doesn’t take kindly to anyone messing with his things — playing with the totems might just have some… adverse effects...

It'll probably be fine though, so let's get started!

This guide was made in collaboration with GameWatcher! Go check out what I wrote for them on their site, It's free too read but also helps me with my work <3[www.gamewatcher.com]

Before getting started, we recommend visiting the event board by the van. There, you'll find everything you need to know about the event, including how long until the event ends and requirements for participation, such as:

• Identify the ghost correctly
  
• Complete optional objectives
  
• Find and reveal any forest minions

You can also track your progress toward both community and personal rewards—yep, you can earn both now! Even better, rewards are automatically claimed as you unlock them.
The rewards available for this event include the following items:

• Community Stage 1 - Event ID Card and Badge
  
• Community Stage 2 - Upgradable Event Trophy

• Stage 1 Personal – Foil Event ID Card
  
• Stage 2 Personal – Trophy Upgrade 1

Stage progress is based on points—you'll earn them by doing things like identifying ghosts and tracking Forest Minions. This what you'll get for different tasks:

The Cursed Hollow event has a pool of nine maps, with four active each day—though sometimes only one may rotate. Active, haunted event maps for the day are marked with a Nest icon on the map board, and redecorated by the Forest Minion and Spirit you need to find. Only these marked maps grant event points and progress.

Tip: Recently they changed it so a 0x Multiplier (such as 'friendly ghost' will give you zero points, so if you do a custom make sure it's at least 1x!

And no, not the despicable me ones.

The first step is finding the nests scattered around the map. These are often tucked into corners or near furniture—sometimes accompanied by jars of fireflies—and sometimes filled with broken eggs. There is no difference in how it looks, they all can spawn a Minion.

To reveal a Forest Minion, you’ll need to first place a D.O.T.S device near a nest. I recommend using Tier I, but Tier 3 D.O.T.S is also effective (Albeit slow.) Not every nest is occupied, but if you listen closely when you're nearby, you might catch a faint chittering or whispering sound—that’s your cue to set up your D.O.T.S!

Once you hear it, either shine your D.O.T.S directly at the nest or, if you're using Tier II or higher, set it up on a nearby wall and let it scan the area. If a small jackrabbit is present and exposed it'll do one of three things:

Tip: You dont need to take a picture, just expose that bad boy/thing

That's more or less it for the Minions. You get points for finding these minions but they also slightly effect the Forest Spirit, which seamlessly segues us into the next part:

Bleasdale Famrhouse map was commisioned by jaysartzs on insatagram, go check them out!

There are two rewards that can be earned by the community during this event. As of 21/04/25 both have been completed and should already be available for you!

Community Goal 1: Forest Spirit ID Card & Badge
Points Required: 5000000
Community Goal 2: Upgradable Event Trophy
Points Required: 10000000

As previously mentioned, the other part of this event is earning personal rewards. Points are earned the same way as before: identifying ghosts, finding minions etc. The poitn requiment for the personal rewards arent as huge but stil may take a bit of time.

Tip: The progress bar may freeze, but you’re still earning unlocks. It’s a known bug and usually fixes itself after a few games

Personal Goal 1: Upgraded Forest Spirit ID Card
Points Required: 300
Coming Soon!

Personal Goal 2: Trophy Upgrade I
Points Required: 800
Coming Soon!

Personal Goal 3: Trophy Upgrade II
Points Required: 1800
Coming Soon!

Personal Goal 4: Trophy Upgrade III
Points Required: 3300
Coming Soon!

For Alex, my dearest friend, who bought me Phasmophoia 5 years ago
and has always been there for me even though I'm an emotional tool.
Love you <3

Author
Harry Squires

Map Cutouts
Phasmophobia Maps - High Quality[phasmo.karotte.org]

Bleasedale Farmhouse Map drawn by
Kieko<3

Trophy Reward picture reaearch
Rogue

Insight into reward points
LukasLKB

Warning of the updated difficulty fix
Luminous

And a huge thank you to anyone else that commented, reacted and favourited this guide, I'm ever so grateful and really hope it helped you finish the event. If you'd like, check out he first official guide i wrote here for Gamewatcher[www.gamewatcher.com] Also a huge thanks to Taer, Ant and peps for their creative insight early on in this guide <3