Phasmophobia Ghost Types

1. Spirit

Evidence

• EMF Level 5

• Spirit Box

• Ghost Writing

The Spirit is a type of ghost in Phasmophobia. They are unique among other ghost types for not having any distinctive strengths.Spirits are very common ghosts. They are very powerful, but passive, only attacking when they need to. They defend their place of death to the utmost degree, killing anyone that is caught overstaying their welcome.

These are the strengths and weaknesses as listed in the journal:

Weakness: A Spirit can be temporarily stopped by burning Incense near them.

Activity

When Incense is used near a Spirit, it will not be able to initiate a hunt for 180 seconds instead of 90 seconds with most other ghosts. Like other ghosts, this will not prevent cursed hunts. This delay will also apply if the Spirit was smudged during a hunt.

Spirits have no other special behaviour.

Strategies

With no special powers, and a harsher reaction to Incense, Spirits serve as a baseline to measure other ghosts against. With their behavior not being especially unique amongst the ghosts, its overall lack of defining traits can confuse investigators; therefore, unless clear evidence is established, a Spirit can be easily mistaken for another entity.

The main (and usually only) way to test for a Spirit without using evidences is to lower the average sanity to below 50%, and smudge the ghost while it is not hunting; if it hunts before the three minutes is up, it is not a Spirit. If it hunts only after three minutes, it is very likely (though not conclusively) a Spirit. Note that if it hunts within the first minute of the smudge stick being used, then the smudge stick did not work, and the player should attempt to smudge it again. In Nightmare/Insanity difficulty, players should wait for a hunt or a burnt crucifix to confirm that the average sanity is low enough.