EMF 5 - Ghost Writing - Spirit Box
When smudged, it only hunts after 3 minutes, it will not hunt before. If it hunts after three minutes ONLY AFTER smudging it, it's not a spirit.
NORMAL SPEED

3 Minute timer if needed

EMF 5 - Spirit Box - DOTS
This ghost will never step in salt. The best way to identify this ghost is to set up a line of salt in the ghost room and place a motion sensor pointing across the salt. Wraiths can also trigger random EMF level 2, but I wouldn't rely on that. If you want to make sure it's a wraith, PLEASE do the salt trick!
NORMAL SPEED

Wraith salt set-up

Spirit Box - Fingerprints - DOTS
Phantoms are more invisible than visible during a hunt meaning when they flash in and out during a hunt, they don't show as often as a regular ghost. These ghosts also cannot be seen in a photo taken of them. Sometimes, this ghost can wander to the player and will teleport to the player during a hunt instead of hunting in its ghost room. HOWEVER a banshee and the twins can also teleport, so don't use this as a for sure indication.
NORMAL SPEED

Example of a phantom hunt (@/MelodicBeam) on youtube

Phantom photo disappearance (@/Shuee 01) on youtube

Spirit Box - Fingerprints - Ghost Writing
Poltergeists throw objects more than normal ghosts do, and at that way farther and way faster making it a decently aggressive ghost. The best way to find out if its a poltergeist is to make a pile of intractable objects around the ghost room and waiting for it to make the pile explode. If you're impatient like me, you can cause the ghost to hunt, and loop it around a kitchen island for example, with lots of items on it and see how much it interacts with them. If it barely interacts with anything, its not a poltergeist. Think of it as the ghost that messes with the kitchen cabinets all at once in the scary movies (except the phasmophobia ghosts don't touch cabinets and drawers)
NORMAL SPEED

Plie set-up



Poltergeist throw (@/Barbecue 101) on youtube

Fingerprints - Ghost Orbs - DOTS
Banshee has a special audio that played in the parabolic microphone that confirms weather or not you're dealing with a banshee. There are smaller things to take note of like how often your ghosts is singing during events. This ghosts when playing multi-player chooses a best friend and targets them throughout the hunt until that player is killed, then has a new best friend up until you all die. This is an easy was to find out if your ghost is a banshee or not while playing with friends. As mentioned in the phantom slide, banshees will also teleport to you and hunt right next to its current best friend sometimes.
NORMAL SPEED

banshee scream on the parabolic microphone (@/stonimon Rubifer) on youtube

EMF 5 - Fingerprints - Freezing Temperatures
Jinns do not turn off the breaker, they're more effective when the breaker is on. When they hunt, they speed up when in line of sight with you AND the breaker is turned on. The lights being on or off does not affect a jinn, its based off of weather or not the breaking is on or off. Jinns generally take sanity away from you if the breaker is on and it will drain about 25% of sanity when near it. They also trigger a random EMF 2 at the breaker :p
FAST SPEED - speeds up when in line of sight with you and with breaker on

Spirit Box - Ghost Orbs - Ghost Writing
when dealing with a mare, they are very much obsessed with the lights being off. They turn lights of very frequently. when the lights near a mare are on, they're less likely to start a hunt. When dealing with a mare there's a small chance that the mare will immediately turn the light off after you turn it on. when the lights in its room are turned off, it will hunt at 60% sanity, while if they're on in its room, it has a hunting sanity of 40%.
NORMAL SPEED

Mares light switching ability (@/MelodicBeam) on youtube

Ghost Writing - Ghost Orbs - Freezing Temperatures
Revenant is one of the fastest ghosts in the game when in line of sight with you, hence is why many lable it as the 'scariest ghosts'. The revenant is very slow when its not in line of sight with you (1 m/s) but when spots you moves at a fast speed (3 m/s). I'm also not sure if this is true or not but I was playing with a kid one time and he randomly said "if it writes in the book instantly its a revenant" and it did indeed write instantly and it was indeed a revenant. Your best bet of running from a revenant is having a smudge, other than that, hopefully you can outrun a fast ghost :)

FAST SPEED - Speeds up when in line of sight but it super slow when unseen.

Revenant hunt (not the best but its something) (@/Philohp) on youtube

The most boring *YAWN* ghost *YAWN* in *YAWN* the *YAWN* game.
EMF 5 - Ghost Writing - Freezing Temp
Shade is a very shy ghost. the shade has a lower chance of triggering a ghost event when near it. if you have high sanity this ghost is basically very inactive. the lower your sanity gets the more it interacts but even then it still is very shy. when more than one person is in its room it is not active at all. this ghost only hunts when you're average sanity is at 35%. the best way to rule out a shade is to see if it hunts while you're at 50 sanity. if it does, it can't be a shade. Sometimes during events, it may show itself as invisible. But just because you see an invisible ghost during an event, does not make it a shade. shades just show themselves as invisible more than normal ghosts.
NORMAL SPEED
There's not much else to say, hate this ghost.

Fingerprints - Ghost Writing - Freezing Temp
Demon hunts very very often, and will instantly hunt you The normal sanity it hunts at is 70%. This ghost rarely hunts at any sanity and the smudge stick is less effective on this ghost, only blocking it from its next hunt for 60 seconds instead of the regular 90 seconds after smudging.. The crucifix has a larger radius of 5m around instead of the normal 3m. This ghost also hunts every 20 seconds instead of every 25 like a normal ghost. Pretty active and aggressive ghost.
NORMAL SPEED

instant demon hunt example (@/MelodicBeam)

Ghost Orbs - DOTS - Freezing Temps
Yurei is a sanity drainer. This ghosts is confused a lot with a demon because of how fast it can drain sanity. Yurei HUNTS at 50% sanity but pay close attention to what your sanity says before going with a demon. A yurei can also touch a door twice back to back. This ghost often drains 15% of your sanity with abilities and ghost events. Its the only ghost that can fully shut a door from being wide opened.

NORMAL SPEED - 1.6 m/s

Fully opened door shut (@/Absoluterr) on youtube

EMF 5 - Freezing Temp - DOTS
Oni is active and often interacts with things especially when people are near it. Onis drain more sanity from players than a normal ghost when you touch it during a ghost event, draining a whopping 20% when touching it. Onis are unable to do airball events, therefore you may be able to rule oni out fairly early. If you notice a lot of physical events from the ghost then you should be a bit more suspicious. Onis have a high chance of fully showing themselves in an event instead of manifesting themselves as a shadow or a transparent ghost. The oni has a short blinking period during hunts so its easy to get photos and tell wether or not its an oni.
NORMAL SPEED

Oni hunt (@/Redzoro Gaming) on youtube

Spirit Box - Ghost Orb - DOTS
The DUM ghost. It can't detect your equipment or voice within 2.5m during a hunt. This ghost also can possibly hunt at 80% sanity if you're talking near it. easy.
NORMAL SPEED

Freezing Temp - Ghost Orb - Fingerprints
FORCED FREEZING TEMP ON NIGHTMARE
Fast in the cold! Meaning its super fast in its room due to freezing temps. This ghost is slower in warm areas too. The best way to find this ghost is to tell how fast the ghost is and where it is during a hunt. The movement speed for a hantu is very spotty meaning its slow in some areas and fast in others, due to its speed being adjusted to the room temperature. it's not too hard of a ghost to identify. This ghost is also incapable of turning on the breaker, and likes to turn it off often. During a hantu hunt you can also see its breath when the breakers off, so when trying to confirm or deny if its a hantu just loop it and check for its breath. It can be hard to see however.

FAST SPEED - speeds up depending on temps

Hantu hunt (@/MelodicBeam) on youtube

DOTS - Fingerprints - EMF 5
FORCED DOTS ON NIGHTMARE
Goryo has a favorite ghost room, and it never changes (supposedly). This ghost can only be seen on a camera when you aren't in the same room as it. Meaning you have to go in, set up a video camera, and watch from the van, or hold one up outside of the room at an entry way and look out for DOTS. If you see DOTS with your own eyes and not the camera, its not a goryo. It isn't a huge roamer either.
NORMAL SPEED

DOTS goryo (@/Shuee 01) on youtube

EMF 5 - Fingerprints - Ghost Writing
Mylings are really quiet during hunts, like really quite. Thats the best way to identify them. You can hear them easily but with a parabolic microphone. they often whisper into the parabolic; more often than a normal ghost. If you clearly hear the ghost during a hunt and you arent near it, its not a myling.
NORMAL SPEED

Myling hunt (@/Nic Auth) on youtube

Spirit Box - Ghost Orb - Freezing Temp
Hunts at 60% sanity. But has the ability to hunt at any % sanity. A candle or lighter works as a crucifix for an onryo. The onryo test needs a lighter to do. You place a crucifix and a candle (or more) next to the crucifix. Since the candles work as a crucifix for an onryo, if the REAL crucifix gets used while candles are lit, then it can't be an onryo. If you put three up and they all 3 get instantly blown out then hunted, its an onryo.
NORMAL SPEED

onryo set-up


Onryo set-up in action (@/Doctor Dragon) on youtube

Freezing Temp - EMF 5 - Spirit Box
The Twins is one ghost that send out a decoy during the game. The Twins are able to interact at two different places near the same time. They are a bit delayed from each other but still close enough to count it as being a twin interaction. Its important to know where the ghost room is at all times because the twins can be tricky. The main ghost can throw objects in a 3m range while the decoy interacts with a range of 16m. The twins will leave a curved line going back down on the activity monitor. I will provide an example screenshot.

if you see multiple of these throughout your activity monitor, its very much possible youre dealing with the twins. The twins have a chance to hunt from different locations, this is what determines the speed of the twins. They decoy is faster than the real ghost. This means that when the decoy is sent out, if it spawns in a different area from the ghost room, it will be fast. The real ghost is a little bit slower than normal speed, making the range of this ghost not fast enough to be normal nor slow enough to be normal. unfortunately i was going to add a clip of a double interaction but just like a lot of these, people don't often post interactions and abilities and when they do, its a youtube short (if you didnt know you cant repost yt shorts here). If you do post please let me know so i can add you to this :)
FAST/SLOW SPEED

Raiju hunts at normal speed when no electronic devices are around. However when a raiju is near an electronic they speed up when within a certain amount of meters from a device. Small map is 6m, medium map is 8m, and a large map is 10m. You can turn on your flashlight while looping a raiju if no other electronics are set up to make sure its exactly what you're dealing with.
FAST SPEED - when in range of electronics

Couple examples of a raiju hunt (@/Serpent042) and (@/xsbr13) on youtube

EMF 5 - Ghost Orb - Fingerprints
Obake is a shape shifting ghost that you can spot during a hunt. It changes its sprite at least once per hunt, so if you miss it just try again. This ghost also provides a special kind of evidence, 6 fingers on their hand prints! However the issue with an obake is they do not have a 100% chance of leaving fingerprints. It has a 75% chance to leave fingerprints and does not guarantee 6 fingers on a hand print. It can also have 2 fingerprints on a light switch, and 5 on a keyboard that it interacted with.
NORMAL SPEED
6 fingers on door
2 fingerprints on light switch



















5 fingerprints on keyboard

Ghost Orb - Fingerprints - Freezing Temps - Spirit Box
HAS FORCED GHOST ORBS AT ALL TIMES
This ghost has the ability to mimic any ghost in the whole game. The best way to find a mimic is to look for ghost orbs in its room. It will always have ghost orbs, even after you discover all 3 of its evidence which are originally spirit box, fingerprints, and freezing temps. You can also tell if its a mimic if during hunts it acts very different from its previous hunts. It can be a difficult ghost but once you get the hang of it, its not too bad. the reason i say no matter what to getting orbs is because even when doing zero evidence runs, these orbs still show up unlike forced nightmare evidence that won't show up in zero evidence runs.

Spirit Box - Ghost Writing - Freezing Temps
A moroi is a sanity based ghost. This ghosts speed is based off of your average sanity. It starts off slow and as your sanity decreases, the speed of a moroi increases. it can speed up to 2.5 m/s without getting in line of sight with someone. However, when in line of sight, this ghost reaches a maximum speed of 3.7 m/s making it the fastest ghost in the game. If anything, be scared of THIS bastard. But his slowest speed is 1.5ish m/s. i love this ghost :P
MOSTLY FAST - gets faster when sanity gets lower

Spirit box - Ghost Writing - DOTS
One of the fastest, yet slowest ghosts in the game, this ghosts knows where you are at all times so theres no point in hiding. when this ghost is in line of sight with you, it moves at a whopping .4 m/s and when out of line of sight moves at 3 m/s. This ghost is really easy if you just loop it around an island in a kitchen or a table. You seriously can't hide though, and do not corner yourself otherwise youre done for. A deogen also has a very fun special spirit box interaction that other ghosts dont have, and its a rare audio!

Deogen spirit box audio (@/MelodicBeam) on youtube

Deogen Hunt (@/MelodicBeam)

Ghost Orb - Ghost Writing - DOTS
Thaye is a ghost that progressively gets weaker as your investigation goes on. A Thaye starts off very strong and fast when hunting, but as the game goes along it gets slower and slower over multiple hunts pass by. This is because this ghost is age based. it ages fast throughout the investigation. If you have an ouija board, it would be a good idea to ask what its age is at the beginning of the game and then once more a little later on in the game. If it changes age at all, its a thaye. During a hunt you may notice that its incapable of speeding up naturally from line of sight.
FAST/SLOW SPEED

beginning of the game thaye (@/Khalid) on youtube

Aged thaye/end of game thaye (@/Killjoy) on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K1wfWGAVYg


This clip you can see him ask the ouija board how old the ghost is at the beginning (0:05) and then you can skip to (6:20) see the thaye has aged throughout the game (@/Lycan Zephy) on youtube

For those curious and don't feel like going through every item waiting for whats next to unlock:


Just reach about level 16 for all starting Tier 1 items :p

Level 19 - Flashlight Tier 2

Level 20 - EMF Reader Tier 2

Level 21 - Ultraviolet Light Tier 2

Level 23 - Writingbook Tier 2

Level 25 - Photo Camera Tier 2

Level 27 - Spirit Box Tier 2

Level 29 - DOTS Tier 2

Level 31 - Parabolic Mic Tier 2

Level 32 - Sound Sensor Tier 2

Level 33 - Video Camera Tier 2

Level 34 - Tripod Tier 2

Level 35 - Flashlight Tier 3

Level 36 - Thermometer Tier 2

Level 37 - Crucifix Tier 2

Level 39 - Sanity Medication Tier 2

Level 41 - Igniter Tier 2

Level 42 - Incense Tier 2

Level 43 - Salt Tier 2

Level 45 - Motion Sensor Tier 2

Level 47 - Firelight Tier 2

Level 49 - Headgear Tier 2

Level 52 - EMF Reader Tier 3

Level 54 - Spirit Box Tier 3

Level 56 - Ultraviolet Light Tier 3

Level 57 - Igniter Tier 3

Level 58 - Sound Sensor Tier 3

Level 60 - DOTS Tier 3

Level 61 - Video Camera Tier 3

Level 62 - Tripod Tier 3

Level 63 - Writingbook Tier 3

Level 64 - Thermometer Tier 3

Level 68 - Salt Tier 3

Level 70 - Photo Cam Tier 3

Level 72 - Parabolic Tier 3

Level 75 - Motion Sensor Tier 3

Level 77 - Sanity Medications Tier 3

Level 79 - Firelight Tier 3

Level 82 - Headgear Tier 3

Level 85 - Incense Tier 3

Level 90 - Crucifix Tier 3