The Ultimate Ghost Guide for Phasmophobia [EN]

Evidence - To identify a ghost, you need to find different pieces of evidence.

Hunt sanity - Every ghost can hunt only when the average sanity is below a certain point. You can also use this to identify the ghost you're dealing with.

Speed during hunts - Every ghost has a certain speed during hunts, measured in m/s, the standard speed is 1.7m/s.

Ability - Almost every ghost in the game has a special ability that you can use to tell what ghost it is.

Tell - A tell is something that confirms the ghost type, for example, if a ghost doesn't hunt before 180s after getting smudged, it's a Spirit (or a Mimic).

Elimination - An elimination is the opposite of a tell, it's something that lets you confirm that it is not a certain ghost type. For example, if the ghost hunts before 180s after getting smudged, it is not a Spirit.

Evidence: EMF 5; Spirit Box; Ghost Writing.

Hunt Sanity: 50%.

Speed during hunts: 1.7 m/s.

Tell: After smudging the ghost, it will wait 180s before hunting, instead of the regular 90s.

Elimination: If the ghost hunts less than 180s after getting smudged, it is NOT a Spirit.

Evidence: EMF 5; Spirit Box; D.O.T.S.

Hunt Sanity: 50%.

Speed during hunts: 1.7m/s.

Ability: Can teleport to a random player, leaving an EMF 2 on that location.

Tell: Wraiths cannot step in the salt.

Elimination: If the ghost steps in the salt, it is NOT a Wraith.

Evidence: Spirit Box; UltraViolet; D.O.T.S.

Hunt sanity: 50%.

Speed during hunts: 1.7m/s.

Ability: Can ROAM towards a random player and leave an EMF 2 when it reaches the player.

Tell: If the ghost disappears when you take a picture of it and you can't see it in the "Ghost" photo, it is a Phantom; Phantom is almost invisible during a hunt, due to it blinking really rarely.

Elimination: If you can see the ghost in "Ghost' picture, it is not a Phantom; If the ghost does not disappear when you take a picture of it, it is not a Phantom.

Evidence: Spirit Box; UltraViolet; Ghost Writing.

Hunt sanity: 50%.

Speed during hunts: 1.7m/s.

Ability: Poltergeist Explosion - Has 3 variations:
Levitate and drop - multiple items in a small range will start floating slowly and then will fall back to the ground.
Levitate and throw - multiple items in a small range will start floating slowly and then will be thrown across the room.
Throw - multiple items in a small range will be thrown across the room.
Each one of these variations will have decrease nearby player's sanity by 2% per item thrown; Throws items much more often and with more force during hunts.

Tell: None.

Elimination: None.

Evidence: UltraViolet; Ghost Orbs; D.O.T.S.

Hunt sanity: Whenever its target's sanity is lower than 50%

Speed during hunts: 1.7m/s.

Ability: Chooses a random target; Every interaction with the Parabolic Microphone or the Sound Recorder has a 33% chance to give a unique scream instead of a whisper. This scream has at least 3 variations, click on the numbers to hear each variation.

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Tell: Will only pursue its target during a hunt (if the target is inside); The Banshee Scream.

Elimination: None

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Evidence: EMF 5; UltraViolet; Freezing Temperatures.

Hunt sanity: 50%

Speed during hunts: Normally 1.7m/s; When a player is in LOS and is further than 3m away, 2.5m/s.

Ability: With the breaker on, the ghost can drop the sanity of players who are near the breaker by 25%, leaving an EMF 2; With the breaker on, the ghost will speed up during a hunt if a player is in LOS and is further than 3m away.

Tell: With the breaker on, the ghost will speed up during a hunt if a player is in LOS and is further than 3m away.

Elimination: If the ghost turns off the breaker, it is not a Jinn.

Evidence: Spirit Box; Ghost Orbs; Ghost Writing.

Hunt sanity: If the lights in its current room are on, the hunt sanity is 40%; If the lights are off, the hunt sanity is 60%.

Speed during hunts: 1.7m/s.

Ability: Can immediately turn off a light switch or a lamp that has been turned on by a player within 4m of the ghost; Cannot turn on any lights (excluding TVs and Computers).

Tell:

Elimination: If the ghost turns on a light switch or the breaker, it is not a Mare.

Evidence: Ghost Orbs; Ghost Writing; Freezing Temperatures.

Hunt sanity: 50%

Speed during hunts: Normally 1.0m/s; If the ghost detects a player (radio, electronics, LOS or voice chat), will immediately speed up to 3.0m/s. Does not speed up with LOS.

Ability: Prey Hunt - Speeds up when detects a player.

Tell: If the ghost is slow, but speeds up when it detects you, it is a Revenant.

Elimination: If the ghost is normal speed, it is not a Revenant.

Evidence: EMF 5; Ghost Writing; Freezing Temperatures.

Hunt sanity: 35%.

Speed during hunts: 1.7m/s.

Ability: If the ghost is in the same room as the player, it will not hunt or a ghost event; If the ghost is in the same room as the player, it will not blow out candles or write in the Ghost Writing book.

Tell: Shade is the only ghost that can appear as a shadow ghost model on the Summoning circle, Music box and Monkey Paw events;

Elimination: If the ghost does any interactions resulting in EMF 2, 3 or 4 in the same room as the player, it is not a Shade; If the ghost hunts when the average sanity is above 35%, it is not a Shade; If the ghost does a ghost event when the average sanity is 100%, it is not a Shade; If the ghost blows out a firelight while hunting in the same room as the player, it is not a Shade.

Evidence: UltraViolet; Ghost Writing; Freezing Temperatures.

Hunt sanity: Can normally hunt only when the average sanity is below 70%; Can hunt at any time with the Doom Slay ability, even at 100% sanity.

Speed during hunts: 1.7m/s.

Ability: Doom Slay - the ghost can start a hunt at any point of the game, regardless of the sanity; After hunting, a Demon can hunt again after 20s, instead of the regular 25s; For a Demon, all of the Crucifixes have 50% more range; Can hunt 60s after being smudged instead of the regular 90s.

Tell: If a ghost hunts above 80% sanity, with every player's sanity is above 50% and no firelights have been lit, it is a Demon; If a ghost hunts before 90s after getting smudged, it is a Demon.

Elimination: None.

Evidence: Ghost Orbs; Freezing Temperatures; D.O.T.S.

Hunt sanity: 50%.

Speed during hunts: 1.7m/s.

Ability: Can fully open any door in one try, dropping nearby player's sanity by 15%; When Yurei is smudged, it cannot leave its room for 90s.

Tell: If the ghost closes or interacts with the exit door without doing any ghost events or hunts, it is a Yurei.

Elimination: If you smudge the ghost and it leaves its room before 90s, it is not a Yurei; If you see the ghost open a door gently and not all the way, it is not a Yurei

You can know when the ghost left its room using motion sensors or salt.

Evidence: EMF 5; Freezing Temperatures; D.O.T.S.

Hunt sanity: 50%.

Speed during hunts: 1.7m/s.

Ability: Drains 20% sanity during ghost events, instead of the standard 10%; Cannot do the "airball' event; Opposite of a Phantom, more visible during hunts than usual.

Tell: If the ghost is super visible during hunts, it is an Oni.

Elimination: If a ghost does the "airball" ghost-event, it is not an Oni.

Evidence: Spirit Box; Ghost Orbs; D.O.T.S.

Hunt sanity: Normally can hunt below 50%, but if someone is talking in the room with the ghost, can hunt below 80%.

Speed during hunts: 1.7m/s.

Ability: Almost completely deaf during hunts, detection distance is 2.5m smaller than usual.

Tell: During a hunt, turn on your flashlight, radio or just talk. If the ghost doesn't go towards you or goes past you, it is a Yokai.

Elimination: During a hunt, turn on your flashlight, radio or just talk. If the ghost comes right to you, it is not a Yokai.

Evidence: UltraViolet; Ghost Orbs; Freezing Temperatures.

Hunt sanity: 50%.

Speed during hunts: In warm rooms - 1.4m/s; In cold rooms - 2.7m/s; Does not speed up with LOS.

Ability: With the breaker off, will have visible freezing breath coming out of its mouth during hunts; Can not turn on the breaker; Has Freezing Temperatures as a guaranteed piece of evidence.

Tell: If the ghost randomly speeds up and slows down during hunts without being influenced by electronics or the player, it is a Hantu.

Elimination: While the breaker is off or broken, if the ghost doesn't have Freezing breath, it is not a Hantu; If the ghost turns on the breaker, it is not a Hantu; If the ghost speeds up with LOS, it is not a Hantu; If on 1-evidence or 2-evidence runs you don't have Freezing Temps as evidence, it is not a Hantu.

Evidence: EMF 5; UltraViolet; D.O.T.S.

Hunt sanity: 50%.

Speed during hunts: 1.7m/s.

Ability: Has D.O.T.S. as guaranteed evidence; D.O.T.S. can only be visible on a video camera and if there is nobody near the ghost; Cannot change the ghost room.

Tell: Take a video camera and sit outside of the ghost room, pointing the camera on DOTS. If you see the ghost do D.O.T.S on a camera but not with your eyes, it is a Goryo.

Elimination: If a ghost changes the ghost room, it is not a Goryo; If a ghost does DOTS and you can see it, it is not a Goryo; If on 1-evidence or 2-evidence runs, you don't have D.O.T.S. as evidence, it is not a Goryo.

Evidence: EMF 5; UltraViolet; Ghost Writing.

Hunt sanity: 50%

Speed during hunts: 1.7m/s.

Ability: Footsteps and vocals cannot be heard from further than 12m away, instead of the usual 20m; Whispers in the Parabolic Microphone more often.

Tell: During a hunt, if you can't hear the ghost between 12m and 20m, it is a Myling.

Elimination: During a hunt, if you can hear the ghost between 12m and 20m, it is not a Myling.

Evidence: Spirit Box; Ghost Orbs; Freezing Temperatures.

Hunt sanity: Normally can hunt below 60%, but if it blows out a Firelight 3 times, it will immediately initiate a hunt, regardless of the average sanity.

Speed during hunts: 1.7m/s.

Ability: Will try to hunt after blowing out a Firelight 3 times; Cannot light fire sources; If there is a Firelight within 4m of the ghost, instead of hunting, it will blow out the fire source.

Tell: If the ghost blows out the same Firelight twice within 20s, it is an Onryo; If the ghost tries to hunt after extinguishing 3 firelights, it might be an Onryo.

Elimination: If the ghost lights a fire source, it is not an Onryo; If the ghost doesn't hunt after extinguishing 3 fire sources, it is not an Onryo.

Evidence: EMF 5; Spirit Box; Freezing Temperatures.

Hunt sanity: 50%.

Speed during hunts: The Slow Twin - 1.53m/s; The Fast Twin - 1.87m/s.

Ability: Twin interaction - interacts with 2 objects at the same time, causing the activity graph to have a really really small curve;

I don't know if it's a bug or a feature, but Twins can hunt on top of a crucifix. Because there are 2 twins on the map and they both have different locations. Sometimes when one twin is trying to hunt while being on top of a Crucifix and the other Twin is not near a Crucifix, the Twin that is trying to hunt considers the location of the other Twin, who is not on top of the Crucifix, resulting in it hunting on top of the Crucifix.

Tell: If during hunts, the ghost is rather slightly faster or slightly slower than usual, it is The Twins; If there are interactions away from the ghost room frequently, it might be The Twins; If you see a Twin Interaction on the activity graph, it is The Twins. If the ghost hunts on top of a Crucifix, it is The Twins.

Elimination: If the ghost has normal speed during hunts, it is not the Twins.

Evidence: EMF 5; Ghost Orbs; D.O.T.S.

Hunt sanity: Normally it can hunt below 50%; If there are active electronics near the ghost, it can hunt below 65%.

Speed during hunts: Normally has a speed of 1.7m/s; If there are active electronics near the ghost, it speeds up to 2.5m/s.

Ability: During ghost-events and hunts, causes electronics to disturb at a 15m range, instead of the usual 10m; Speeds up near active electronics during hunts; Can hunt earlier if near active electronics

Tell: Place turned on electronics near the ghost room, hide and wait for a hunt, if the ghost speeds up when near electronics, it is a Raiju; While the ghost is hunting, you can throw an electronic on the ground to not give up your location and start turning it on and off, if the ghost starts speeding up and slowing down, it is a Raiju.

Elimination: If the ghost does not speed up near active electronics, it is not a Raiju.

Evidence: EMF 5; UltraViolet; Ghost Orbs.

Hunt sanity: 50%.

Speed during hunts: 1.7m/s.

Ability: During a hunt, Obake can shapeshift into a different ghost model for a single blink and is guaranteed to shapeshift at least once per hunt; Can leave a unique type of fingerprints: 6-fingered prints on doors, 2-fingered on light switches and 5 fingered on children's cribs, prison-cell doors and keyboards; Has a 25% chance to not leave a fingerprint when interacting with a door, lightswitch, etc; Has UltraViolet as guaranteed evidence.

Tell: If the ghost leaves a unique print after an interaction, it is an Obake; If a ghost has the UltraViolet evidence but doesn't leave a print upon interaction, it is an Obake; Place a single pile of salt and wait until the ghost walks through it, if after walking over it, you hear a missed step, it is an Obake. (e.g. step...[]...step, instead of the usual step...step...step.

Elimination: If a ghost doesn't have UltraViolet evidence on 1-evidence or 2-evidence runs, it is not an Obake.

Evidence: Spirit Box; UltraViolet; Freezing Temperatures; Ghost Orbs.

Hunt sanity: Depends on the ghost that it is Mimicing.

Speed during hunts: Depends on the ghost that it is Mimicing.

Ability: Every 30 seconds to 2 minutes, Mimics any ghost, including its behaviour and abilities. Will always show Ghost Orbs as an additional piece of evidence, even on 0-evidence runs.

Tell: On 0-evidence, check the ghost room for Ghost Orbs, if you see Ghost Orbs, it is The Mimic. If the ghost's behaviour changes after a hunt, it is The Mimic.

Elimination: Check the ghost room, if you don't see Ghost Orbs, it is not The Mimic; If the ghost doesn't change its behaviour, it is not The Mimic.

And remember, it is always The Mimic, unless proven otherwise.

Evidence: Spirit Box; Ghost Writing; Freezing Temperatures.

Hunt sanity: 50%.

Speed during hunts:

Moroi's speed during hunts is based on the average sanity

Ability: Places a curse on a player when heard through Parabolic Microphone, the curse passively drains player's sanity 2x faster; Changes speed based on the average sanity, making it possible for him to reach 3.71 m/s with LOS; Incense blindness during hunts is increased by 50% (7.5s instead of 5s); Moroi has Spirit Box as guaranteed evidence.

Tell: If you hear the ghost being fast during a hunt and then speeding up with LOS, it is a Moroi; If after hearing a whisper through Parabolic Microphone your sanity passively drops even when you are in a well-lit room, it is a Moroi; Drain your sanity to around 40%, wait for a hunt and take sanity medication, if the ghost slows down, it is a Moroi.

Elimination: If the ghost has normal speed at all times, it is not a Moroi; If on 1-evidence or 2-evidence runs you don't have Spirit Box as evidence, it is not a Moroi.

Evidence: Spirit Box; Ghost Writing; D.O.T.S.

Hunt sanity: 40%.

Speed during hunts: If Deogen is further than 6m from a player, it moves at 3.0 m/s; If it is 2.5m or closer, it moves at 0.4 m/s; Does not speed up with LOS.

Ability: When a player is within 1m of the ghost, has a 33% chance to give Heavy Breathing through Spirit Box, click here[static.wikia.nocookie.net] to hear the Heavy Breathing; Is a bit more visible during hunts; Deogen has Spirit Box as guaranteed evidence.

Tell: You cannot hide from it; If during a hunt you hear the ghost blasting towards you at 200 mph and then slow down when it is near you, it is a Deogen.

Elimination: If the ghost has normal speed, it is not a Deogen; If the ghost tries to hunt above 40% sanity, it is not a Deogen; If the ghost doesn't go straight to you during a hunt, it is not a Deogen; If on 1-evidence or 2-evidence runs you don't have the Spirit Box evidence, it is not a Deogen.

Evidence: Ghost Orbs; Ghost Writing; D.O.T.S.

Hunt sanity: Depends on the age.

Speed during hunts: Depends on the age.

Ability: Starts the contract with 0 age and every 1-2 minutes tries to age. If a player is in the room with the ghost, it ages, otherwise, it waits 30s and tries to age again.

Tell: If you have an Ouija Board, ask "How old are you" and wait a little, then come back and ask the same question again. If the age increases, it's a Thaye. However, if the age decreases, it's The Mimic; If the ghost is slower and slower with each hunt, it's a Thaye.

Elimination: If the ghost has normal speed, it is not a Thaye.

Here is a table about Thaye's hunting sanity and speed based on its age.

If you see any mistakes leave a comment and let me know, I'll correct it right away!