Ghost Identification Guide (DEILDEGAST ADDED)

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Introduction – How to Identify Every Ghost

Note: don't try memorise everything all at once, just learn as you play with this guide
  • This guide will help you recognise:
    • Individual ghost abilities
    • Ghost speed and sanity thresholds
    • How it interacts with players and the environment
    • Forced and optional evidence
    • Audio and visual cues

  • By observing carefully, tracking events, and using the journal effectively, you can determine the ghost type quickly and confidently.

    It will not tell you what evidence is require for each ghost, just check using the journal, this is so you know how to identify a ghost without having to use evidence. Even useful in lower difficulties when getting evidence is tricky or the ghost is not cooperating

    All this information is factual


Aswang

  • Instantly ends a hunt upon entering an occupied official hiding spot
  • If this ends a hunt, the ghost will path to that player's last location at the start of the next hunt
    • Can occur during the grace period
  • Reaches max LOS speed in 8.66s instead of the standard 13s
  • Hunts at 50% sanity
  • Normal ghost speed is 1.53 m/s

Banshee

  • Can only use a female name and ghost model
  • Hunts at 50% sanity, but hunt checks are based on the target’s sanity, not the team average
  • Normal ghost speed is 1.7 m/s
  • Has an increased chance to perform Singing Ghost Events
  • Has a unique Banshee scream detectable with the Parabolic Microphone
    • 33% chance when using the Parabolic
  • Will only hunt its target unless the target is outside the investigation area
  • If the target dies, a new target is immediately chosen
  • Ghost events reduce sanity by 15%
    • Normal ghost events reduce sanity by 10%
  • Can move directly toward its target while in a DOTS state
  • Has a 66% chance to roam to its target without producing EMF

Dayan

  • Can only use a female ghost model and name
  • Becomes faster when players are moving and slower when players are standing still
  • Hunt sanity thresholds depend on distance and movement:
    • 65% sanity if a player is near and moving
    • 45% sanity if a player is near and standing still
    • 50% sanity if players are further than 10 metres away
  • Ghost speed changes based on distance and movement:
    • 2.25 m/s when a player is within 10 metres and moving
    • 1.2 m/s when a nearby player is standing still
    • 1.7 m/s when players are further than 10 metres away
  • Has line of sight speed-up only when more than 10 metres from any player
    • LOS speed-up does not apply once within 10 metres

Deildegast (NEW)

  • Hunts at 50% sanity
  • Starts each hunt at 3.0 m/s
  • Ghost speed decreases by 0.1 m/s for each unique non equipment item picked up or interacted with since the previous hunt or hunt attempt
  • Can slow down to a minimum of 0.4 m/s after 26+ unique interactions
  • Counted interactions include picking up non equipment items, interacting with objects, light switches, the breaker, and taps
  • Each unique item only counts once per hunt cycle
  • Items do not need to be near the ghost or inside the investigation area
  • Ghost speed is locked once a hunt begins
  • Hunt speed resets to 3.0 m/s after every hunt or hunt attempt
  • Does not gain speed from line of sight

Deogen

  • Hunts at 40% sanity
  • Speed changes dramatically based on distance:
    • Very slow when near a player: 0.4 m/s
    • Very fast when far from a player: 3.0 m/s
  • YOU CANNOT HIDE FROM A DEOGEN
    • It always knows the player’s location
  • Has a 33% chance to produce a unique heavy breathing response through the Spirit Box when within 1 metre
  • Spirit Box is a forced evidence for a Deogen

Demon

  • Has the ability to hunt at any sanity
  • Normal ghost speed: 1.7 m/s
  • Crucifixes are more effective against a Demon:
    • Tier 1: 4.5 metres
    • Tier 2: 6.0 metres
    • Tier 3: 7.5 metres
  • Smudge sticks prevent hunts for only 60 seconds
    • Normal duration is 90 seconds
  • Can begin another hunt after 20 seconds
    • Normal cooldown is 25 seconds

Gallu

A Gallu cycles through three distinct states:
  • Normal State
    • Speed: 1.7 m/s
    • Hunt sanity: 50%
    • No special traits

  • The Gallu will enter its Enraged State if any of the following occur:
    • Steps in salt
    • Is incensed
    • Uses a crucifix

  • Enraged State
    • Speed: 1.96 m/s
    • Hunt sanity: 60%
    • Crucifix range reduced by 2 metres
    • Cannot disturb salt
    • Enraged State lasts until the end of the hunt

  • Weakened State
    • Speed: 1.36 m/s
    • Hunt sanity: 40%
    • Crucifix range increased by 1 metre
    • Can Disturbs salt
    • State lasts until it steps in salt, is incensed, or uses a crucifix

Goryo

  • Hunts at 50% sanity
  • Normal ghost speed: 1.7 m/s
  • Cannot change its ghost room
  • DOTS can only be seen through a video camera while the player is in a different room
  • DOTS Projector is a Forced Evidence for a Goryo
  • Rarely wanders away from its ghost room
  • Interacts with DOTS more frequently than other ghosts

Hantu

  • Hunts at 50% sanity
  • Speed is affected by temperature and breaker state:
    • 2.7 m/s when it is snowing, the breaker is off, and it is in the ghost room
    • 1.4 m/s when the breaker is on and the room is warm
  • Has an increased chance to turn the breaker off
  • Cannot turn the breaker on
  • Shows visible freezing breath when the breaker is off
  • Does not gain speed from line of sight
  • Freezing Temperatures is a forced evidence for a Hantu

Jinn

  • Hunts at 50% sanity
  • Normal speed: 1.7 m/s
  • Never turns off the breaker
  • Speed increases to 2.5 m/s if a player is 3 metres away, in line of sight, and the breaker is on
  • Reduces nearby players’ sanity by -25% if the breaker is on while using an EMF Reader
    • Leaves an EMF 2 or 5 at breaker

Kormos

  • Completely blind and cannot gain true LOS
  • Detects players through sound and electronics
  • Footstep detection range depends on movement speed
    • 10m while crouch-walking
    • 15m while walking
    • 30m while sprinting
  • Cannot detect stationary players who are not making noise
    • Can still kill players by randomly pathing into them
  • Moves toward the player's last detected location
  • Gains Pseudo-LOS speed when detecting footsteps within 5m
    • Reaches up to 165% of its current speed after 13s
    • Loses accumulated speed when the player is detected beyond 5m
  • Retains accumulated speed between movement states

Mare

  • Hunts at:
    • Lights OFF: 60% sanity
    • Lights ON: 40% sanity
  • Normal speed: 1.7 m/s
  • Cannot turn on lights
  • Can turn off lights immediately after they are switched on
    • Effective within 5 metres of a player
  • Has an increased chance of Light-Breaking Ghost Events
  • Changes ghost room more often if the light is ON in the ghost room

Mimic

  • Mimics any ghost every 30–120 seconds
  • Forced evidence: Ghost Orbs
    • The Mimic will always have ghost orbs even though it is not a part of the 3 evidence, this is because it counts as a ghost ability and not an evidence so never rule out the Mimic if it is Ghost Orbs
    • Copies speed and sanity for hunts from the currently mimicked ghost

Moroi

  • Hunts at 50% sanity
  • Speed scales with average sanity:
    • Higher sanity: 1.5 m/s
    • Lower sanity: 2.25 m/s
  • Can reach up to 3.71 m/s with continuous line of sight
  • Can curse a player using:
    • Spirit Box
    • Parabolic Microphone
    • Sound Recorder
  • The curse causes passive sanity drain
  • Incense delays hunts for 7 seconds
    • Normal duration is 6 seconds
  • Sanity pills remove the curse
  • Forced evidence: Spirit Box

Myling

  • Hunts at 50% sanity
  • Normal speed: 1.7 m/s
  • Footsteps and vocal sounds cannot be heard beyond 12 metres
    • Normal hearing range for ghosts is 20 metres
  • More active on the Parabolic Microphone and Sound Recorder

Obake

  • Hunts at 50% sanity
  • Normal speed: 1.7 m/s
  • Has a 6.66% chance to change its ghost model on each blink during a hunt
  • Has only a 75% chance to leave ultraviolet evidence
  • Can leave unique fingerprints:
    • A six-finger handprint instead of five fingers
    • Two fingerprints instead of one on light switches, lamps, and TV remotes
    • Five fingerprints instead of four on keyboards and prison cell doors
  • Has the ability to reduce fingerprint duration by 50%
    • Normal fingerprint duration is 2 minutes
  • Forced evidence: Ultraviolet

Obambo

  • Switches between Calm and Aggressive states:
  • Calm State
    • Hunts at 10% sanity
    • Speed is 1.45 m/s
  • Aggressive State
    • Hunts at 65% sanity
    • Speed is 1.96 m/s
  • State changes every 2 minutes
  • Starts halfway through the Calm state after entering the building

Oni

  • Hunts at 50% sanity
  • Normal speed: 1.7 m/s
  • Blinks slower during hunts, making it highly visible
  • Cannot perform the Airball Ghost Event
  • Ghost events drain 20% sanity
    • Normal ghost events drain 10%
  • Performs ghost events more frequently
  • Becomes more active when more players are nearby
  • More likely to appear as a full ghost model during events

Onryo

  • Hunts at 60% sanity
  • Hunt sanity is reduced to 40% when near lit candles
  • Normal speed: 1.7 m/s
  • Attempts a hunt after blowing out 3 candles
  • Candles act as a crucifix within 4 metres
  • Killing players increases the chance of a hunt after a candle is blown out
  • The only ghost that can extinguish the same firelight twice within 20 seconds
  • After 2 deaths, blowing out a candle causes a 100% chance to hunt
  • Blowing out additional candles further increases the hunt chance

Phantom

  • Hunts at 50% sanity
  • Normal speed: 1.7 m/s
  • Blinks slower during hunts, making it appear almost invisible
  • Does not appear in photos or video
    • Exceptions include DOTS, translucent, and shadow forms
  • Disappears immediately after a photo is taken, including during DOTS
  • Randomly wanders toward a player and leaves EMF level 2
  • Players lose sanity at a rate of 0.5% per second while within heartbeat range

Poltergeist

  • Hunts at 50% sanity
  • Normal speed: 1.7 m/s
  • Can throw multiple objects at once, appearing as a small explosion of items
  • Drains 2% sanity for each item thrown
  • During hunts, throws an item every 0.5 seconds
  • Item throws have higher velocity than other ghosts

  • Explosion throw types include:
    • Direct throw
    • Levitate then throw
    • Levitate then drop
    • Levitate then throw directly at a player

Raichu

  • Hunts at 65% sanity when near active player electronics
  • Hunts at 50% sanity when electronics are off
  • Speed increases to 2.5 m/s when near active equipment
  • Normal speed is 1.7 m/s
  • Disrupts electronic equipment within 15 metres
    • Normal disruption range is 10 metres

Revenant

  • Hunts at 50% sanity
  • Normal speed is 1.0 m/s, making it the slowest ghost
  • Speed increases to 3.0 m/s when a player is detected through:
    • Voice
    • Active electronic equipment
    • Line of sight
  • Once accelerated, it remains at that speed until reaching the player’s last known location

Shade

  • Hunts at 35% sanity
  • Normal speed: 1.7 m/s
  • Cannot perform Singing Ghost events
  • Appears as a shadow during 66% of ghost events
  • The only ghost that can appear as a Shadow Ghost on:
    • Summoning Circle
    • Music Box
    • Monkey Paw events
  • Will not hunt in the same room as a player
  • Will not perform ghost events in the same room as a player
  • Cannot perform ghost events at 100% sanity
  • Avoids interactions that produce EMF 2, 3, or 5 in the same room as a player
    • Includes writing, blowing out candles, and other interactions
  • Will not blow out candles in the same room as a player during a hunt

Spirit

  • Hunts at 50% sanity
  • Normal speed: 1.7 m/s
  • Using incense increases hunt cooldown to 3 minutes
    • Normal cooldown is 90 seconds

Thaye

  • Ages every 1–2 minutes if a player is in the same room
    • Otherwise waits 30 seconds before attempting to age again
  • shows age change when using a Ouija Board throughout the investigation
  • Youngest State
    • Hunts at 75% sanity
    • Aggressive - more active
    • Speed: 2.75 m/s
  • Oldest State
    • Hunts at 15% sanity
    • Hunts less frequently
    • Speed: 1.0 m/s
  • Does not gain speed from line of sight

Twins

  • Hunts at 50% sanity
  • Speed depends on interaction range:
    • Standard range (3 metres): 1.5 m/s
    • Extended range (16 metres): 1.9 m/s
  • Triggers from motion sensors, stepping on salt, and Spirit Box responses only occur at its physical location
  • When the first ghost does an interaction, there is a chance for the second to do an interaction further away (~0.5 seconds delay between them)

Wraith

  • Hunts at 50% sanity
  • Normal speed: 1.7 m/s
  • Cannot step in salt
  • Can teleport to a player giving a random EMF 2 or EMF 5
    • Walks back to ghost room afterward
  • Not slowed by Tier 3 salt

Yokai

  • Hunts at:
    • 80% sanity when talking in the same room as it
    • 50% sanity normally
  • Normal speed: 1.7 m/s
  • Hearing distance is 2.5 metres and less during hunts
  • Becomes more active when players talk near it

Yurei

  • Hunts at 50% sanity
  • Normal speed: 1.7 m/s
  • Can shut a door and reduce the sanity of nearby players by 15% if a door is in the same room
  • Can touch a door twice
  • Smudging it will trap it in its room for the duration of the incense (90 seconds)
  • Only ghost that can interact with an exit door outside hunts and events (so can it interact with the exit/entrance door when it is not hunting)
  • Can fully close or open doors
    • Do not confuse with door slamming, which is done by all ghosts
    • Yurei doors will not shake before closing

Conclusion

  • Keep track of ghost behaviours carefully. Timing, location, and player proximity often reveal the ghost type.

  • Combine observations over multiple rounds if needed, as some things only appear under specific conditions or may take a while for the ghost to do them

  • Always double-check with the journal to ensure your evidence matches the ghost before making your final identification. If you have evidence.

  • If any mistakes are made or there have been changes, let me know by commenting

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