Ghost teleporting to your location

[Peter Pan]

Hey all,

From what I read, the Wraith is the only ghost that can do that.

However, in the smallest map (same as the tutorial house) I found one ghost that was in the car porch, and with my motion detectors in place, it only went as far as the kitchen.
Upon stepping foot into the house again, it immediately appeared as a silhouette in front of me near the hall entrance closet.

After ending the game, it was revealed that the ghost was not a Wraith.

Do all ghosts have the ability to teleport to your location and the wiki was wrong?

[Gweenie]

Banshees can teleport to their target no matter but I have never heard of any other ghost being able too

[Peter Pan]

Originally posted by Spirit of Green:

Banshees can teleport to their target no matter but I have never heard of any other ghost being able too

May I know where you got that information from?

I checked the mechanics from github, and the Banshee only "moves" to the player location, implying it will follow normal moving mechanics rather than a teleport. Only the Wraith has been mentioned to be able to teleport.

https://github.com/azsry/phasmophobia_mechanics

[The Tarnished Tarnish]

Jinn can travel at high speeds? And Tanglewood house isn't very big. You walk slow enough that even if you were at the edge of the ramp of the truck looking at the motion sensor and then started walking to the doorway, would be long enough for the ghost to travel to the front door. If you used that as your evidence for the ghost then you are doing the investigation wrong. You can't use the ghost's actions as evidence. All ghost can do similar things like throw objects, turn lights on/off, and be aggressive. I've had a demon throwing objects constantly, mares turning lights on, and phantoms that turned off the breakers. Their actions aren't telling just the evidence you are there to collect with your tools.

[RequiemsRose]

Originally posted by Burton Guster:

...If you used that as your evidence for the ghost then you are doing the investigation wrong. You can't use the ghost's actions as evidence. All ghost can do similar things like throw objects, turn lights on/off, and be aggressive. I've had a demon throwing objects constantly, mares turning lights on, and phantoms that turned off the breakers. Their actions aren't telling just the evidence you are there to collect with your tools.

Some of them can move quite fast as the above mentioned, though they may be situational (like the revenant only moves fast when it actually sees someone). They may have wandered while you were walking up as they mentioned. Do you remember what ghost type it was? Also worth noting that the motion detectors seem to be finicky, and work best if placed a bit lower on the wall, about hip height. Too high up and they won't pick up much if anything correctly.

I also quoted the above because generally, it is true, you can't base your evidence on the ghosts actions. There are times you don't really have much of a choice though. I played a round where we spent 45 minutes on what should have been a 5-10 minute run because the ghost absolutely refused to give us evidence. The only thing we got the entire time was one emf 5 spike when it manifested about 2 feet away from me. The only thing we had to go on was that EMF and that it just would not leave the lights alone. We might have gotten a spirit box hit when it started a hunt to, but no one was certain of it since we were all running away to hide. We basically just guessed that it was a jinn over the lights and it was right. Never saw any orbs though despite several cameras, and never heard a spirit box reply other than that debatable one.

[Lucifer]

Originally posted by Peter Pan:

Originally posted by Spirit of Green:

Banshees can teleport to their target no matter but I have never heard of any other ghost being able too

May I know where you got that information from?

I checked the mechanics from github, and the Banshee only "moves" to the player location, implying it will follow normal moving mechanics rather than a teleport. Only the Wraith has been mentioned to be able to teleport.

https://github.com/azsry/phasmophobia_mechanics

The problem here is you’re making assumptions about ghost behavior based on wording choices. Ghosts don’t have to physically move to a location to interact with something. They can flip the breaker and interact with props from anywhere. There’s also random events that spawn the ghost model regardless of where the ghost currently is (see the “window event” under the sanity section). Just because it manifests doesn’t mean it walked there or is even actually there.

And all ghosts can teleport, which they do quite frequently when changing states - anytime it mentions “returns to favorite room” it’s not walking back there, it’s an instant change of location or a teleport.

[Peter Pan]

Originally posted by Lucifer:

I also quoted the above because generally, it is true, you can't base your evidence on the ghosts actions.

I agree, but nowhere in my posts did I ever mention that I am basing my evidence based on ghost behavior. I don't know how the other poster arrived at that conclusion.

My post was more about information accuracy (if only the Wraith can teleport, how come a non-Wraith showed itself as a silhouette as I stepped in the house). I just don't understand how ghosts work.

Originally posted by Lucifer:

The problem here is you’re making assumptions about ghost behavior based on wording choices. Ghosts don’t have to physically move to a location to interact with something. They can flip the breaker and interact with props from anywhere. There’s also random events that spawn the ghost model regardless of where the ghost currently is (see the “window event” under the sanity section). Just because it manifests doesn’t mean it walked there or is even actually there.

Well it's a reasonable assumption, I mean ghosts will only turn on lights in rooms they are in, turn on the car alarm if it is in the garage, etc. So if they manifest in front of me, that means they are in that room, right? But if they don't need to be in the same room to trigger events there, then that explains what happened.

[LordFoog]

I just had an odd case where the ghost room was in kitchen of Roadhouse and I ran upstairs and the ghost which was an Oni Teleported up there and killed me.

[His Quivzness]

Originally posted by Aura:

I just had an odd case where the ghost room was in kitchen of Roadhouse and I ran upstairs and the ghost which was an Oni Teleported up there and killed me.

Well done for super necroing this thread!

But to explain your experience, the ghost spawns in a radius of its current position when its starts to hunt. And the radius is a sphere, so one floor up is no problem. The other side of a wall with no doors in it is also perfectly possible. The radius is also kind of large, about 5m or more from my experience.

[Lord_Shaxx(ProjectFW)]

Originally posted by His Quivzness:

Originally posted by Aura:

I just had an odd case where the ghost room was in kitchen of Roadhouse and I ran upstairs and the ghost which was an Oni Teleported up there and killed me.

Well done for super necroing this thread!

But to explain your experience, the ghost spawns in a radius of its current position when its starts to hunt. And the radius is a sphere, so one floor up is no problem. The other side of a wall with no doors in it is also perfectly possible. The radius is also kind of large, about 5m or more from my experience.

in my experience that radius depends on the ghost type like for a wraith or phantom that radius is like 20 m or more while for others the distance was so short it was barely noticeable, now of course this is coming from the latest patches and hotfixes so this could be vastly different info compared to what you guys discussed.

[Watcher Rat]

Originally posted by Lord Shaxx(Feralwrath):

in my experience that radius depends on the ghost type like for a wraith or phantom that radius is like 20 m or more while for others the distance was so short it was barely noticeable, now of course this is coming from the latest patches and hotfixes so this could be vastly different info compared to what you guys discussed.

While it does make a certain sense to necro a thread for a ghost hunting game, this topic was, in fact, from 2021 :p Things have very much changed from when they were talking.

[Ozone]

Originally posted by Gweenium:

Banshees can teleport to their target no matter but I have never heard of any other ghost being able too

The Banshee doesn't teleport.
The only ghost that can teleport is the Wraith.
All the other ghosts will walk toward their target, that includes the Banshee, Demon and Phantom.

Note that ghost events DO teleport the ghost to the event location, but it's usually nearby where the ghost was before (it teleports the ghosts a few meters away). The Twin can also teleport when starting a hunt, for a "Twin hunt".

Wraith can teleport without any restriction of distance in the whole level and remain invisible. That gives an EMF at the target player's location.

[weiss]

Originally posted by Ozone:

Originally posted by Gweenium:

Banshees can teleport to their target no matter but I have never heard of any other ghost being able too

The Banshee doesn't teleport.
The only ghost that can teleport is the Wraith.
All the other ghosts will walk toward their target, that includes the Banshee, Demon and Phantom.

Note that ghost events DO teleport the ghost to the event location, but it's usually nearby where the ghost was before (it teleports the ghosts a few meters away). The Twin can also teleport when starting a hunt, for a "Twin hunt".

Wraith can teleport without any restriction of distance in the whole level and remain invisible. That gives an EMF at the target player's location.

the mimic is capable to mimic the wraiths abilities.
like it got proven in insyms streams.
in his level guide for example copied the mimic to not touch salt while walking over it.
in another stream teleported the mimic like the wraith etc.

[Mandemon]

As far as I can tell, and I could be wrong here, but here is how I understand it.

Smudging a Yurei when it doesn't hunt will teleport it to ghost room and prevent it from leaving. This same applies to Monkey Paw and Summoning Ring, both can force ghost to certain location.

All ghost can teleport to location where they will do Ghost Event. Ghost needs to be physically present, so game will teleport them to their target. However, once the event is over, the ghost must physically walk to the room

Twins can technically teleport. There is only one ghost on the map, but during the hunt game will choose one of the "twins" to hint. If it's the main twin, it will be normal hunt. If it's the lesser twin, it will pick a spot where the lesser twin would be and teleport ghost there.

Wraith can teleport to any player at any time, this will also generate EMF2 signal at the location. Wraiths special effect in this case is that it can teleport to a player, do interactions and leave.

Other ghosts can only teleport when they are forced to move by something or are doing a ghost event. Wraith, however, can at any time teleport to any player for any reason.