Are ghosts tethered to their room?

[BoxingBud]

Can ghosts wander anywhere in the location or are they limited to around their chosen room?

[Anakhet]

For the most part? Some aren't though so it completely depends on what you're dealing with.

[BoxingBud]

Interesting! Does it depend on their type of ghost or the individual? For example maybe poltergeists can wander far but shades will not. OR could it be that Linda Smith wanders far but Michael Smith does not?

[Anakhet]

Originally posted by BoxingBud:

Interesting! Does it depend on their type of ghost or the individual? For example maybe poltergeists can wander far but shades will not. OR could it be that Linda Smith wanders far but Michael Smith does not?

It's the ghost type. So a poltergeist tends to stay in, or very close to their room but a yurei walks around. Banshees will follow and hunt down the person they target and go a few rooms down. Nice way to rule out things though half the time you find this info out by someone dying.

[HaleyHeartt]

A few friends and I were at one of the farm houses. All of the colder temps, not freezing but below 13c, were in the living room downstairs. We couldn't get any evidence except spirit box, even though we were there for about 15-20 minutes. After a while we just started messing around and joking during hunts. When I died, I noticed that the ghost was actually coming from a bedroom UPSTAIRS and NOT in the room we thought it was in.

Very weird and LONG round, but still had some fun. I think it turned out being a spirit?

[Deluge]

Originally posted by HaleyHeartt:

A few friends and I were at one of the farm houses. All of the colder temps, not freezing but below 13c, were in the living room downstairs. We couldn't get any evidence except spirit box, even though we were there for about 15-20 minutes. After a while we just started messing around and joking during hunts. When I died, I noticed that the ghost was actually coming from a bedroom UPSTAIRS and NOT in the room we thought it was in.

Very weird and LONG round, but still had some fun. I think it turned out being a spirit?

Ghosts doesnt necessary start a hunt in his fav room.
If he was upstairs while starting a hunt then it means he was wandering upstairs at this time.

[BoxingBud]

I'm trying to basically do a challenge where I can't enter the building to find out what or where the ghost is, I can only throw stuff in. Sometimes it works actually! That being said it's good to know that I can use front entrance activity or lack thereof as a possible identifier. Normally I just watch what the ghost does, or doesn't do, and get my answers there. Video cameras still work outside on stands to see orbs in rooms with windows that they can see, and the spirit box sometimes works at the entrance provided it's either it's room or is able to wander through it.

[Domino/DarkEyv]

Some ghosts are "roamers" and like to patrol from one room to another a few rooms away. Others stay completely put and never leave a room unless they hunt.

In the beta, I might have witnessed a ghost that actually full-on moved rooms entirely and permanently in the new Prison map, but I'm not sure. It's hard to tell when you're in Professional, everyone's at 0 sanity, someone's already dead, and chaos is happening.

[Chef Plazma]

On average a ghost will stay within or near the boundaries of it's own room. But some types tend to roam more often than others, such as the Yurei. I think they all have the ability to roam but some are more active in doing so by their nature.

We once had a Wraith who manifested several corridors away from it's room on the Asylum.

[sHoRtBuSseR]

I have had the ghost make the ENTIRE upstairs hallway in high school freezing before. Incredibly hard to locate at that point. After about an hour we just gave up.

[Tenko]

Wraiths can walk through walls. so some can wander, and i dont think its ghost specific. I think its just something ti does sometime if you use salt you can actually track it.

[Nasher]

I think they stay around the room, but I have seen them appear outside of it.

[bowmaster]

depends on the ghosts but some are able to roam the whole map even such ones like asylum.

[Myth Alric]

There is nothing that keeps a ghost in their room. It is just a room they prefer and tend to move to more often.

[SiEgE]

Originally posted by BoxingBud:

Can ghosts wander anywhere in the location or are they limited to around their chosen room?

Every type is tethered differently, but mostly yes.
Every ghost will have a moment of pathing back/teleporting back to its favourite room.
Some ghosts cannot leave their rooms by natural(Jinn) or hunter-induced reasons(Smudging Yurei).
But for the rest, ghosts can roam pretty much anywhere. I had several cases where the ghost would cling on to the first detected hunter(happened to me several times) and follow me around the building, flicking lightswitches, touching doors and stomping loudly, even though I'm not in its favourite room, and, speaking fairly, quite away from it.
And they are also always free to start their attacks from any point of the building(unsure). Because of their love to their favourite room, they'll probably start attacks from it or a position nearby, though.

[󠁳⁧⁧ N1ght_Gu4rd]

As far as I know and have seen during my 116 hours of playing this. All types of ghost roam around at least a little. The only type that roams quite far away is wraith. I once had wraith who had his favourite room on the end of the left wing corridor and he was still touching doors close to the reception. Ghosts start hunts from wherever they currently are, doesn't have to be its favourite room.