Ghosts of Halo

Ghosts are unusual players that have appeared in online, multiplayer games in Halo 2 and Halo 3. Apparently controlled by no one, they attack players at random. Some reports claim the "ghost" takes the appearance of it's intended victim. Sometimes an inexplicable scream can be heard when the ghost enters the game.

Introduction
Ghosts prefer to use plasma grenades to stick in-game players, always successfully sticking them, and having an unlimited supply of plasma grenades. Behavioral patterns are inconsistent, as Ghosts will sometimes ignore players completely, and at other times will aggressively pursue players.

Ghosts do not walk like most players. Instead, they simply glide across the map without moving their legs. They will glide up various ramps and jump off of ledges. The ghosts are usually indestructible, impervious even to an assassination hit from behind. However, it has been reported that ghosts have been killed.

Most interestingly, Ghosts do not have a gamertag, do not appear on the score screen, and do not have an apparent controller.

Recently, newer ghosts have been spotted, mainly on Sandtrap. Rather then actual players, they are vehicles, mainly Mongooses, Warthogs, and Hornets, but sometimes Ghosts and even Wraiths, which move on their own accord. However, it could be that 'ghost characters' are controlling these vehicles.

Sometimes, ghosts are simply objects that appear "out of thin air". Grenades that appear and explode, even vehicles that appear and usually fall a great distance are considered ghosts. Possibly created by 'ghost characters' using Forge.

The pelican on Valhalla seems to be where the most ghost sightings occur often.

History
A video appeared on Youtube in July of 2006 by a user named AfRoSaUcE who claimed it was over a year old and made by Jump Tactic's Anti Noob (the link and the full description of the video is shown on the Ghosts of Lockout). It really was old, first appearing on mythica.org. It quickly became popular and speculation was raised that it was some form of mod. AfRoSaUcE denied the allegation, believing it to be a network problem. (Although, if it was a network problem, there would be slim chances of it actually saying "Killed By Guardians" when a player is killed by it).

Since the video's first appearance, several new videos have surfaced, with characters who do have gamer tags, running animations, and the like. However, a number of mods have surfaced with players controlling characters without these which can obviously be seen, but not on Xbox Live. Recently a player called Shadow has claimed that it is not impossible for this to occur on an Xbox without any sort of System Link or Xbox Live. His "Ghostly" encounter is as follows:

Other "ghosts" have appeared on other maps. One such occurrence was the "Ghost of Turf" found and filmed by clan HollywoodHalo. This ghost displayed all characteristics of the Lockout ghost (no Gamer tag, sliding across the floor, no weapon animations). The most interesting thing about this occurrence is that two ghosts appeared. It was this that revealed that these ghosts were caused by extreme lag.

"Supernatural" Abilities

 * Can sometimes make Wraith mortars or any other type of weapon, fire out of the ground as in the Guns N Roses 86 incident.
 * Are sometimes invulnerable to attacks.
 * Do not need to look up or down.
 * Do not have the walking animation.
 * Glide across the map, jumping from towers.
 * Can perform tricks and super jumps with ease.
 * All grenades have a auto-stick ability and appear be thrown whilst looking the opposite way. Therefore there is no way to avoid them.
 * Can teleport anywhere on the map, at any given time
 * Have the ability to mimic movements.
 * Take the shape of anyone they meet.
 * Seem to have a mind of their own.
 * Can be docile or aggressive.
 * Always hit when shooting.
 * Have unlimited ammo (however it does have reloading animation)in all guns and can change guns with extreme speed.
 * They only appear during Forge on Local Play, but have also been sighted on Xbox Live and normal Forge (no Live connection).
 * Can choose whatever weapons they want, even if the map has specified weapons sets.
 * Can be a Monitor, Spartan, or Elite.(In most cases it's "playing" as Spartan character)
 * Have omni-directional vision.
 * Known to be transparent at times.
 * Can appear as yellow or red dots on your radar.
 * Can throw objects and Equipment out of thin air.
 * Always stay facing the way they spawned.
 * Can have their own color, even if the game is a team game(team slayer, etc).

Theories

 * Caused by extreme lag. This may be particularly true when players are joining the game.
 * Caused by "standbying".
 * Caused by a network problem coupled with a mod.
 * Created by Bungie to keep the game moving (although it should be noted that ghosts appear in seemingly random games).
 * Created by Bungie as a tie-in to their Alternate Reality Games (i.e. Cortana Letters, Ilovebees, Iris, etc.)
 * Bungie entering into people's games on Xbox LIVE and using a ghost character to confuse people. This could be explained by the Ghost of Blackout, as seen on a Youtube video, where the ghost acted human and could be killed. When killed it respawned at a spawn point.
 * A game bot created by Bungie when it was in alpha mode, to practice, but never deleted.
 * Two different online games running on at the same time in the same map, but ending up in the same server.
 * Caused when someone leaves the game (start menu, leave game.), their Spartan 'dies' in game. This may explain why people only see a ghost after the person they were playing with exits.(as in the xJeffGordon24 incident.)
 * Random, misplaced programming for game that Bungie had put into it by accident such as "Player Throw Grenade", "Player Kill Player", etc.
 * Possibly a mis-programmed and discarded anti-cheating program, not entirely deleted.
 * Some say it may actually be a real ghost, though this is highly unlikely.
 * Some hackers have reported AI codes in maps, codes similar to Brutes.
 * Bungie may have put an AI into Halo 2 and halo 3 disks, which explains the appearances, and the fact that the majority of games played are offline.
 * Some reports of ghosts may be hoaxes.
 * Some sightings may be attributed to peoples minds playing tricks on them.
 * Deleted sections of game code which have correlated and caused a loop animation or related bug.

Ghost Sightings

 * Please note: The following sightings are based off of eyewitness accounts, and should not be considered as fact.

Ghost of Lockout

 * The "Ghost of Lockout" is a mysterious occurrence that haunts the Halo 2 multiplayer map, Lockout. It has been in many YouTube videos, the most famous being the Ghost of Lockout. The Ghost of Lockout seemingly prefers to use grenades and always sticks the player. The ghost seems to slide instead of walking and can throw grenades behind itself. This video was the first of many more appearances of the Halo Ghost.
 * While playing a Juggernaut game (named Ghost of Lockout), 8 players were chasing the Juggernaut (Made to look like a real Ghost). One of the players saw something move in the green room.Presumably it is "The Lockout Ghost", as tt the time the Juggernaut was at the sniper tower. He instructed all the other players to go down there and back him up (since it was practically invincible), before he was stuck and killed.The players continued to shoot down into the green room until one was killed by an unknown weapon. After killing the second player,the ghost ran forward and past the players. They chased it up a grav lift and found nothing, even after searching the entire map. Even when inviting 7 more people and staying up all night long, no one could find anything.
 * A video on YouTube (made by AfRoSaUcE) showed two players (anti noob & The Underdogg) on XBL were playing a custom game. The first part of the video shows one player (The Underdogg) went to go eat. So the other player decided to "jump around" for a bit. After one player went AFC, the other crouched and walked to a wall. As soon as he turned around, his friend had a plasma grenade stuck onto him. After he exploded, a white spartan was gliding to the corpse and threw another grenade without seeing anti noob. The second, third and fourth part all show the ghost sticking anti noob (each time) and The Underdogg (shown only once). During the final part, anti noob is being pursued by the ghost, until he runs into a corner. The ghost glides past him and the player hides behind a barrel. As he shifts to the side to check if the coast is clear, the ghost is standing right behind the barrel. The player (assumingly panicking) pushes the explosive barrel at the ghost. The barrel does not expode and the ghost sticks the player.
 * Another incident a person called Shadow Dragon was killed by no'one and it never said a message so got a few friends and looked and saw a gold and red coloured spartan in which wouldnt die and killed nearly all the players except for ShadowDragon his friend and his cousin which was on XBL ShadowDragon is still investigating and annalyzing yet when the incident happend ShadowDragon heard manical laughter but it was only the red team his friend was on blue and listened to his but no laughter so the friend went to ShadowDragons headphone he heard it

Ghost of Turf

 * The Ghost of Turf was filmed by the clan "Hollywood Halo", this video is rather odd because two ghosts were in it and even more strange because the two ghosts were shooting at each other, ending in one of the ghosts dying. This is very strange because these ghosts are killable while ghosts in other videos are not and during the video there were two white-armored Spartans that lost connection. Therefore extreme lag may have caused the two players to become ghosts, however, it is still unknown why the 2 ghosts were in a firefight.

Ghost of Beaver Creek

 * On Halo 2 Vista, a lone Elite was waiting for his friend to start a server on a custom map so he could download it. During his waiting, he walked up to the ledge with the sniper rifle and noticed a blue Spartan slide toward him, sword cancel off him, then kill him. The weapons set was human weapons only, and in the history of other players in the server, only the friend who left, who had blue armor but was also an Elite.

Ghost of Midship

 * A Spartan (Brownie556) was playing Slayer on Midship with his friend before he had Xbox LIVE. The Spartan killed his friend with a Shotgun and just as his friend died, the Shotgun-wielding Spartan randomly dropped dead. It was claimed that the Spartan was killed by the Guardians. No one else was in the match.

Ghost of Ivory Tower

 * Two Spartans were messing around in the back hallway when the host killed the second player by the end of the hall. A ghostly figure, an exact copy of the second player, who was still respawning, appeared out of the wall, ran towards and through the host, and ran into the wall at the other end, disappearing. Neither players had Xbox LIVE.

Ghost of Coagulation

 * During a match of One-Bomb Assault on Halo 2 Vista, a Spartan was seen wielding a bomb and sliding across the map. Strangely, the Spartan was orange and was holding the bomb while blue team was arming it. Its gamertag did not show on the player list, and no other player had orange for their armor color.


 * A teal/blue Elite Ranger supposedly roams the upper cliffs surrounding the gulch.

Others

 * There have been several other ghost sightings on other maps such as Ascension, Headlong, Terminal, Backwash, Containment using a Sniper Rifle, Burial Mounds, and most likely all the other Halo 2 multiplayer maps.

Halo 3 Ghosts
Most Halo 3 Ghosts come in their custom colors and armor. They also have energy shields, and can pick up weapons. If you're lucky, you can kill one.

Ghost of Avalanche

 * While trying to get out of the top of the map in a Hornet, a lone Spartan saw a Banshee outside of the boundary, which instead of firing plasma from the wing tips, shot Fuel Rod cannon shots.


 * During matches on Xbox Live (mainly during the first few days prior to the Legendary map pack's release), a scream would be heard spontaneously in the red base.


 * When trying to make a map variant in Forge, 2 players were attacked by random Spartan Laser fire. This occurred in the middle room of Avalanche. ( http://www.bungie.net/stats/halo3/screenshot_viewer_popup.aspx?gamertag=Ace%20Hwk&ssid=37978300 )

Ghost of Blackout

 * As soon as April 15 of 2008 (release date of the Legendary Map Pack), a group of players in Forge posted on several forums that they had seen a black Spartan just like those described in previous stories run from the bottom of the stage (where the shotgun is) into the fan/grav lift and get launched up. When chased, the "ghost" was nowhere to be seen.


 * There is a video on Youtube that contains footage of a Ghost, however, that ghost isn't indestructible so it is unconfirmed whether this is a true ghost or not. The ghost acted almost human-like, toying with the players and was killable. This helps support the theory that the ghosts are in some way actual players.


 * On May 12 a single player in forge was just playing around waiting for his friend to arrive in the game when he saw a black semi-transparent figure in security armor standing on the 3rd floor of the sniper tower. He claims it just stood there and didn't move, and that he spawned a sniper rifle and shot it thinking his friend joined the game.  When he shot it threw a plasma grenade and stuck him.  He tried to talk to it thinking it was his friend but he didn't answer. He then checked the scoreboard and saw that no one in the party.  After searching the entire map his friend then joined.  He asked his friend if that was him but he just said he didn't know what he was talking about.  After reviewing the tape in the theater he noticed the ghost had its gun down and he was currently signed into Xbox Live.  He took a single picture of the ghost but no video.


 * Another appearance of a ghost of Blackout was when two Generals and a Brigadier were playing FFA Slayer. The ghost was orange with default armor and C.Q.B. body.  It threw Plasma Grenades through it's back and stuck them every time.  It was wielding a Battle Rifle and meleed at the same time it was shooting.  The Generals could just barely kill him.  There may also be many more appearances and Blackout may be the most common map for the ghost. This could be because of it being a remake of Lockout, where the ghost sightings began.

Ghost of Cold Storage

 * When forging with freinds (demin892, halo wars xoxo,and masashi kishimo) zangor13 saw a power drainer recharging and nobody else could see it.(this may be the first ghost sighting of cold storage buis highly unlikely)

Ghost of Construct

 * On March 16th of 2008, two Spartans were forging on this map and found a Power Drain (activated but not affecting shields) floating in the air. Only one Spartan could see it in their Theater and in the game. Later in that game they found a random, 2D shadow moving through the bottom area of the level. As they approached it, it disappeared. One of the Spartan that couldn't see the Power Drain lost his connection. But was easily able to connect to the game again. It wasn't until a little more than a month later that the Spartan that couldn't see the power drain could finally see it in the other Spartan's Theater (he saved the video in-game).


 * On May 31st of 2008, three Spartans, Ownikron, Jasx4, and Ownikron's guest, were overloading the map on Forge when a random grenade appeared. The Ghost was seen in blue armor with a Hayabusa helmet, Security shoulders and Katana body. He threw many grenades, but the only person ever hit was Ownikron's guest. When killed, the game said he was betrayed. Everyone was on the level below when extremely fast grenades flew by Ownikron's head while he was on the level above. All grenades had flown through walls.

Ghost of Foundry

 * April 15th, three friends were playing Infection. A transparent Elite appeared and killed all three. A message appeared, saying "killed you". The Elite's Gamertag appared like this: 000-1173437/7/074535346264635. This code makes several references to aspects from the Halo storyline: Bungie Day (7/7/07 or simple 7/7), 343 Guilty Spark's number, and Master Chief's service tag (117). Upon further Xbox LIVE investigation, the gamertag was not found. Also, the code contains repeated use of the number 7, Bungie's favorite number. Someone claims to have decoded this with a codeing system. They claim that is decoded into GUARDIAN.


 * April 11th, 3 Spartans were playing on a forged map when a Spartan with all orange Mark VI armor appeared and started attacking them. The ghost did not appear on the player list and the 3 other Spartans had gray and pink colors.  Strangely, the ghost had most of the characteristics of the Ghost of Lockout.  You can see the video here:   (However, notice that this ghost can be killed.)


 * Once, while playing on Forge Gman9091 saw an unknown spawn happen and no one appeared, not even a body.


 * Once, |3lind Sn1per was forging when a fire bomb grenade was thrown at a box he was using. When he went to see what threw the grenade, he looked at a ghost (vehicle) and after 2 seconds, it killed him when boosting. When investigated in Theater, he couldn't see anything that could have caused this.


 * There has been one Ghost Monitor sighting on Foundry near the vertical pipes near the letters VOI.

Ghost of Ghost Town

 * On April 20th of 2008, two Spartans were forging on this so called "creepy" map (on gloomy feature). One deployed a Bubble Shield and it kept recharging itself (deployed near the pitch black gloomy tunnels). Only one Spartan could see it until both watched the Theater.


 * On May 1st of 2008 a lone Spartan was forging when shields recharged in thin air. The Spartan was the only player that time and the shields recharging were only seen in theater. It happened again when the Spartan with his friend tried to catch it.


 * On June 15th of 2008 two players were forging, a Sergeant and Gunnery Sergeant (dragonfableplayer). When they were about to end the game, the Gunnery Sergeant saw a black Spartan surrounded by a green mist, the Gunnery Sergeant was about to tell his friend but he ended the game. However, a few minutes later, they reviewed it in the theater but there was nothing there.

Ghost of Guardian

 * There have been people claiming to have seen a green, transparent Spartan on this map.


 * On January 6th 2008, a lone Elite was stuck next to the active camouflage power-up. He was offline.


 * Two players were playing by themselves in a slayer game, one saw a figure go around a corner. Later the player saw a Spartan with a Rogue helmet slide on the floor and the Spartan stuck him. At the time, they were both Elites and nobody had joined the game.


 * One player in offline Forge game was standing near the active camouflage like the one stated above, there was only one Brute Spiker across from the camo. Then the player looked away for a few seconds (that allegedly) seemed like hours, then he looked at the Brute Spiker again and there were 2. Another two seconds later the 2nd one disappeared. (This may be a multiplying ghost) after exploring the whole map no other players were found.


 * On an XBOX Live match, there were five players playing in Rumble Pit, all Spartans. One of these Spartans was moving through the blue room on the map, and was about to jump from that room into the one where the grav lift ends, yellow, near the cloaking. But then the player stopped walking, froze with its shield flaring, and stood there. The player then started moving again and started to shoot wildly around. Suddenly, out of no where, they died. That player says that they couldn't move when they stopped, and that a red Spartan was standing on the other door frame, shooting at them. When reviewing the game in theater, no bullets were fired except for the Spartan being attacked, and there was no red Spartan anywhere in the game.


 * In a 3 vs. 3 game with all players as Spartans, an Elite showed up on blue team. It did not attack the blue players. As with most ghosts, it was not shown in the player list. It had the abilities that these ghosts usually have: Sliding, always hitting even though facing other directions, etc; although it was possible to avoid its grenades, and it also reloaded its Assault Rifle. Later on in the game, a red team Spartan appears, copying the actions of the Elite, with the exception that it attacks the blue team and ignores the reds. Neither the Spartan, nor presumably the Elite have a Gamertag. The video in which this is shown can be seen here.


 * Three Spartans (ONI recon and two friends) were playing forge and were all wearing blue armor. Player 2 kept getting red dots on his radar, and players 1 and 3 kept briefly seeing a blur or a faint green spartan. They were building when it reappeared and weapons began to disappear. The last sighting was when blurs of green began crossing the screen and then they quit. The host didn't have XBL.

Ghost of High Ground

 * On December 6th 2007, a lone Spartan was shot with a Spartan Laser while going up the beach on High ground. Later viewing of the video showed no Laser or player except the Spartan previously mentioned.


 * On March 22nd 2008, two friends were playing Forge on High Ground. They were doing system link and hadn't been signed into Xbox Live. One was a blue Spartan and the other was an orange Elite. The Spartan player was walking up the beach when he saw another blue Spartan in the tower where the Spartan Laser is located by default. No other player had joined the game. The "ghost" shot the Spartan Laser at the player on the beach, but missed. When he looked back at the tower the ghost moved down from the tower. After further investigation he noticed the Spartan Laser in the tower was still propped up against the wall. He picked the Laser up and saw it was still at one hundred energy. The whole time the Elite remained in the back of the base and saw nothing of the ghost. The ghost was not found after looking around the level.


 * On Jan. 29 a lone Spartan was in Forge mode and had been in it for quite a while - he looked up towards the beach and saw several grenades go off, he could hear someone up in one of the trees, and then heard something like a Spartan Laser shot - except it was hardly noticeable. The Spartan was the only one because he doesn't have Xbox Live and he was never killed.


 * On April 21, 2008 one player was performing the casper glitch, then saw a white Spartan glide past him. The player decided to kill himself to see what/who its was, but no one was around. He went back to where he did the casper glitch and the crates he used were gone, except one, but within 2 secs it sank into the floor. This player was not signed in to Xbox Live.


 * On June 3, 2008, a lone Elite was trying to make a fat kid map, when he was shot by a spartan laser. The player had closed the party, and when watched in theater a spartan laser spawned in midair and shot the monitor elite. the player had invulnerability on.


 * While a lone spartan [Killray064] was putting a Grav lift in front of the closed gate in forge the gate opened. When he switched back to player mode where the gate was it closed on him, but since there's no closing animation it just suddenly shut killing him(This could be like the haunted vehicle glitch but instead the terminal was haunted).

Ghost of Last Resort

 * A lone Spartan was playing on a Forge match and began seeing faint enemy lights. Not long after that he was killed by an unknown source.  When viewed in theater nothing could be found.  The player didn't have Xbox Live.


 * A lone player on Xbox Live was in Forge mode when a Bubble shield activated from nowere. Upon further investigation on theater mode, the source of the shield was unseen. see here


 * Two Spartans on the blue team were scouting their forged map for any ghosts. After about five minutes, everything on the map disappeared. They got atop a high location to see anything, both saw a zombie-colored elite in front of them. Both were stuck in the face. They were playing Team Slayer.


 * Two friends, both of them Spartans, were forging for a future Machinima series, when without warning, seven Spartan Laser shots attempted to kill them, one player looked past the turbine to see a "ghost" wearing a Hayabusa helmet, EVA shoulders, and a Mark VI chest piece, just like the player who viewed it, straight down to the colors and symbol, looking straight at him. The ghost stood there for approximately 7 seconds before the turbine passed it, and it disappeared without a trace. It should be noted the ghost wielded an Energy Sword and a Spartan Laser.


 * A single Spartan was in Forge mode. He placed some objects, and changed from the Monitor to a Spartan. He looked at his motion tracker, and saw a red enemy blip. When viewed in Theater, no "enemy" could be seen.


 * Two friends, one Elite one Spartan, were trying to do the flying crate glitch on the beach, when a frag grenade appeared out of thin air and exploded underneath the two players. No other players had entered the game and both players where in the Monitor mode while the grenade appeared. After further investigation no source of the grenade was found.


 * Whilst playing on Forge with his own Crimson Elite in Monitor mode, a player was making a high tower with all different things near the two Mongoose's. The tower fell and when he turned back into player mode he was shot 8 times rapidly with a Plasma Pistol his shields were completely depleted even though the player had 3x shielding, when he looked in Theater he saw a Brute Chieftain wielding a Plasma Pistol, he then faded off the map. It unknown if it is even possable to have a Brute on a Multiplayer map.


 * Some Spartans and an Elite were messing around in the power room, when a Spartan threw a Power Drain, which activated, but didn't affect shields and kept on recharging, like a Deployable Cover. This may have been a glitch.


 * A Purple Spartan was playing around on forge. He didn't have Xbox LIVE, and he only had one controller; the one that came with his machine.  He was NOT in edit mode and was inside near the two Fusion Coils.  He threw a Fragmentation Grenade at them and they disappeared.  Approximately four seconds later, the fusion coils and activated frag grenade spawned above his head, fell, and he was, of course, "Killed by the Guardians."  The player, called CBStudios, did not have an XBox 360 Hard Drive (Due to the fact it was an XBox 360 Arcade which doesn't come with one), so he couldn't save the film. Upon trying it again, the grenade and fusion coils did not disappear and respawn, they just exploded and said that he had committed suicide.

Ghost of Narrows

 * While playing in a offline match with a friend on a custom map the first player was going through the man cannon when they bumped into each over and he fell to his death about 2 seconds later the second player was going through the man cannon then a plasma grenade came up from the ground or the lower bridge and he got stuck and was killed though it said "Stephen117 stuck you". Stephen117 is the first user. It said this even though Stephen117 didn't throw a plasma grenade and was still waiting to respawn.


 * In an offline match, two spartans and an elite were trying to lower their weapon to make a Machinima, when a pink and yellow elite ran past them. Then 5-10 minutes later he walked around the corner where he had turned before and shot all of them with a shotgun. But the strange thing is that it shot rockets not a normal shotgun blast. When viewed in theater nothing was there.

Ghost of Rat's Nest

 * On April 4th, 2008, a lone Spartan in a Forge game was hit by an exploding barrel while riding a Mongoose. Although the exploding barrel was already worked into the map, the player had set invincibility on him order to make forging easier. Later, in the same game, he was killed once again in Monitor mode (once again, invincible) while away from any kind of danger or edge of the map. During this death, the sound of an exploding Plasma Grenade was seen and heard, though the replay only saw the player dying without an explosion. Both deaths were counted as "Killed by Guardians" kills.


 * On May 23, 2008, a lone spartan was playing around with a Spartan Laser, when he heard and saw the light of another spartan laser charging, but not fire, he was on Live but no one had joined or left, and he was in monitor mode.

Ghost of Sandtrap

 * A lone spartan was playing forge when he saw a grunt holding an energy sword walking around in circles,when the spartan walked up to it,the ghost slashed him and it said "killed by the guardians".On theater mode only a floating energy sword was seen.


 * There have been reports of glitches during custom matches in which an activated Spike Grenade was seen twirling in 360 degree motion and levitating towards Aegis Fate off of the map. This scenario has been commented on as a "less harmful Ghost appearance". These may be glitches making the game think that they are the mines.


 * Two Spartans were fooling around on forge when a Orange Elite ran across the field and into the ruins. Both of the players followed it but when they got inside the ruins the Elite had vanished without a trace.


 * On December 20th 2007, A lone Spartan was forging a map for his friends. Out of nowhere, A green Spartan wearing Katana body, E.O.D. head, and E.V.A. shoulders was floating above one of the large tower spires. The player looked up, and the "ghost" looked down at him. Five seconds later, the ghost threw what seemed like an endless supply of plasma grenades at the player. The ghost threw them so fast that the player's XBOX crashed after he was killed. All   that was stated when he was killed was "killed by". The player didn't have XBOX LIVE and he was the only one on the player charts.


 * 2 players were in an offline match ,where they claimed to see a transparent yellow Spartan with a Spartan Laser by the outer wall. They were riding a Mongoose past when they caught a glimpse of it and were soon after destroyed by a blast from none other than a Spartan Laser. On another occasion, in an online battle, 3 players claimed to have seen and been killed by a Spartan with a Spartan Laser. With further investigation conducted by the players, there was no Spartan or weapon that the laser beam had emanated from.


 * On December 9th 2007, a lone Spartan was seen in an Infection gametype on Sandtrap. The Spartan had a mind of its own and could cut people off in a Warthog. The video was reviewed and a Spartan was found all gold with a Katana, EVA head, and Security shoulder pads.


 * On Martin Luther King Day 2008 A lone Spartan was playing on Alpha Zombie in Sandtrap when he found an Overshield in the sky dropping things like the game was Forge. At first it seemed fun even though the Overshield dropped an equipment case on him, but then the Overshield dropped a medical crate on him and it killed him. All it said was "Killed by the Guardians". Investigation revealed nothing: however he did notice that normal Overshields contain floating red items and a white glow inside it but the ghostly Overshield did not. (This could be the an "Orb" ghost of Halo 3 like the ones stated in real life).


 * During an Infection match, a party of about 14 or 16 players repeatedly dealt with lagging and poor connection until every player had committed suicide through unknown causes leaving a lone spartan with an ODST helmet, EVA shoulder pads, and CQB chest plate alive inside of the burial chamber of the main structure. The lone spartan then checked outside of the structure to witness rampant unmanned vehicles and turret-less Scorpions roaming across the map. The spartan managed to avoid his demise from several turret-less warthogs until he reached the Albatross assembly area where he defended himself for five minutes straight against ghost players which included two silver and green standard spartans. After the last minute of the round, the spartan was splattered by a unmanned Hornet that approached him as if it was being dropped and respawned several times until it landed on him stating, "Killed by Guardians". When the second round started, all of the players respawned but, lagged constantly as the previously mentioned lone spartan scrambled his way back to the smaller structure next to the chamber and the second assembly area where he spotted an orange Spartan with an EVA helmet, Hayabusa shoulders, and Hayabusa chest plate with a Katana run the minefields of the map without detonating a single mine until he breached the Forerunner barriers just seconds before the match ended.


 * A lone Elite was forging on top of the big ruins, when a Warthog without driver splattered him. Nothing was found afterward.


 * A lone Spartan was playing and was driving through the dunes in a Mongoose, when another high-speed Mongoose collided with him. It had no driver. Later, while Forging, the player was hit by a spray of Spiker bullets. There was too much of them to be only coming from one gun. He died instantly, and it said "Killed by the Guardians". Then his Xbox crashed. Later inspection shows a Spartan dual wielding Spikers running toward the player while shooting at him. Strangely, the next time he played, He saw the same ghost, only it was just walking around. Then it disappeared.


 * Also in another game zephspacer2 and his brother were playing Tower Wars and one of them was killed by a Brute Shot. The other player was on the smaller tower and he was forging at the time and there was no possible way of a Brute Shot killing him because he was out of range. When it was checked in theater it revealed a 2D flying Brute Shot at extreme speeds flying vertical and it fired but the projectile came out of the ground and killed him. Later in the game the other player was shot by a Spartan Laser, in theater it showed 3 lasers coming out of the ground and 2 of them aiming at the second tower to the Aegis Fate and the other laser was aiming at the player.


 * Once in a off-line Forge match, Mongooses began spawning from mid air where no one had placed them. then when the host stepped under them it said "Killed by the Guardians".


 * One Spartan was scouting his own version of Sandtrap when he saw the items he had placed in the Elephants falling out of thin air in the middle of the map. When he looked for the Elephants he found one of them with everything in it but when he looked for the second, there was no trace of it. Also, the boundary lights were missing and occasionally large "friendly" lights appeared on his radar. Viewing a saved film showed that there was no visible source. The player was not in Forge at the time or in Xbox Live.
 * A lone Spartan was Forging offline when he saw something fall from the sky. It was only a glimpse. In Theater the things were shown to actually be some Mongooses spawning in Mid-Air. When he looked around him there were also 2 Scorpions and a Wraith falling from the sky. There was also a small orb looking like a Monitor, but it disappeared after 3 seconds.


 * Two Spartans were playing split-screen offline slayer on a Forged Sandtrap one player was in a Mongoose driving by the minefield the other player was on top of a tower via a Banshee.As soon as the player in the Mongoose was sniped by the other player an explosion suddenly threw the player off the tower. Investigation in theater revealed that a mine from the minefield suddenly spawned behind the player on the tower who was nowhere near the minefield.


 * Two Spartans and an Elite were overloading Sandtrap with land mines offline in forge when one player went to check if the minefield was off. Two Mongoose's fell right where the player was standing. When viewed in theater the Mongoose's were shown to have spawned out of thin air.


 * One Spartan was setting a pair of Wraiths, when, while setting the 2nd Wraith, the 1st was flung across the map, and was also damaged; but before it hit the ground. The player didn't have Xbox Live.


 * On April 18th 2008 two Spartans, TymeDaHog and Jay Jay Chubb, were scouting a custom made map in an offline game when a Sentinel Beam killed TymeDaHog. After reviewing in Theater, they saw that the beam came from the edge of the map.


 * A Spartan was Forging on Sandtrap and pulled off the Elephant glitch. He activated the message and returned to where the Scorpion but it was gone and the turret was sticking out of the ground.  He turned around to see a Scorpion spawn outside the boundaries of the map.  The player was offline.


 * In an invite-only Infection Match, four Zombies were spying on the Last Man Standing when they heard the sound of someone getting into a Warthog, when one Zombie turned around he saw a driverless Warthog heading straight for the four of them. The Warthog continued to follow and Splatter the players until few minutes before the game ended. The map was a Custom Gametype with only Elephants and Mongooses.


 * On April 27,2008 two friends were playing Forge Sandtrap ghost hunting when a Mongoose was spotted on radar being moved like that of a Monitor but with a much brighter light.


 * One Spartan was playing an offline Forge session and then before the player edited the map in the way he wanted it a Mongoose fell out of the sky and killed him. The description of death said "Killed by the Guardians".


 * One Spartan in offline Forge was playing local when his friend had to go to the toilet however he signed out so the lone Spartan was on the air lift and for quiet a while then saw a random Spartan shoot him with a Spartan Laser, luckily he missed then ran for it. The lone Spartan chased him(the guy who left was a blue Spartan)he said the Spartan he pursued was not blue but orange,an orange Spartan and of course once again gliding,after 6 minutes of pursuing, he lost the orange spartan and went back to the lift,the stuck in the face with a Plasma Grenade the death said "The Guardians Stuck You".


 * Several players were playing a customized Sandtrap when a random Mongoose fell from the sky in the middle of the map. The player who made the map didn't remember placing the Mongoose and when trying to deleted it could not find where it spawned.


 * Two Spartans and an Elite were making bases in the ruins, crashed Phantom and Crashed Albatross. One of the Spartans was going through the minefield on a Mongoose, when he saw another Mongoose, floating in mid air. He flew up to it, and it fell. All other players where tending their bases. In the same game, the 3 players were driving around in a Gauss Warthog, when the driver caught a glimpse of an Elite running from the Elephant, into the Albatross. The Elite was Green, and they were all on red team. They parked next to the Albatross and got out, when their 'Hog exploded behind them. They then noticed that the Elite was wielding a Spartan Laser and Rocket Launcher. They were then shot with rockets.


 * Two spartans (ONI recon 111 and friend)were in an offline game scouting a racetrack on forge they had made, when one of the four Mongooses disappeared. Both were in player mode when it happened, they were running to get to another mongoose. After five minutes it hadn't respawned. One of the players (the host) turned into the monitor and flew up to the center of the level, only to see the missing mongoose outside the map boundaries at the foot of the giant mound. Neither of the players had Xbox Live.


 * A red Spartan was simply having fun on Forge by himself when a huge friendly contact appeared on the radar. After a number of seconds the contact disappeared. He was alone in the match and the network was local,the Spartan was on red team but red blips were appearing on radar and blue team were not playing.He then started seeing a mysterious orange Spartan, similar to other claims. The Spartan was driven to quit after the incidents continued.


 * On the 29th of May, one lone Spartan, was flying a Hornet Aircraft on a Forge map he made. He saw a red Spartan wearing Mark V armor run across the map. Seconds later he was blown up by a Spartan Laser. Upon inspection on Theater mode he found that the Ghost disappeared after the sighting. He had XBox Live on a closed Party by himself.


 * Jasx 4 claims that a spartan came out of the back of the ship where there's an opening. The spartan then came to the map and was a ghost. NOTE: Ownikron and Jasx4 have realized that overloading the map can cause him to appear.


 * On June 9th, 2008, a lone Spartan with all Hayabusa armor was forging offline for a secret map to show his friends. When he was blocking off the long tunnel, he was stuck with a spike grenade and died. He has invulnerability on and was playing local.


 * April 13, 2008, two players in Forge were beginning to create their own machinima. As they finished, the first player, a blue-orange Elite, WarLord Wango13, saw a poor-camoed, white colored Spartan holding what seemed to be a shotgun and spartan laser. The Spartan shot, killing the second player. As soon as the elite looked to see his comrade and look back at the figure, he died. The reading told him that he was betrayed by "McSwishy", an earlier account of the second player, SwishierMonster. During theater, the laser can be seen, but the Spartan is in the form of a monitor.


 * On June 28th, a lone spartan was attempting to perform the secret message cause by flipping the elephant. As soon as he got on the scorpion tank, the scream of a spartan (the screams cause by death in multiplayer) was heard. Upon further investigation there was no one else to be found on the map and the scream was not heard in the theater replay of the moment.


 * 2 spartans were overloading the map with trip mines when a mongoose spawned out of nowhere and made the trip mines explode. The result had killed one of the players. Investigation later had proved that no one else had joined the game.


 * Pyrofire93, Bigmon11(who was on the same Xbox as pyrofire93) war hog 12541 and Zeo1137 were ghost hunting and Zeo was overloading the map while pyrofire93 and bigmon11 were on turrets and war hog was in a ghost on the other half of the map. Pyrofire93 and Bigmon11 both said they saw a blue orb smaller than an active camo but bigger than a plasma grenade float past. When Pyrofire93 asked if anyone but them saw it, bigmon11 said he saw the word guardians above it is if it had a gamertag. Investigation in theater showed no such sighting anywhere.


 * During a ghost hunt on sandtrap zangor13 and a friend where overloading the map (this was on Xbox Live) when suddenly three mongooses dropped out of thin air near the sniper spawn, luckily none of the players where near it.the video can be found on zangor13's fileshare under the title "Ghost Gooses".


 * On July 1st, 2008, a lone Spartan was playing on forge and was attempting to create the perfect Halo Baseball Field when two Firebomb grenades went off over his head, he crouched then jumped away from the explosion when two Sentinal Beam shots attempted to kill the Spartan, but the Spartan dodged the bolts quickly when a Spartan Laser shot pierced him in the head and another shot struck him in the rear. When the player died, it said, of course, "Killed by the Guardians." This player had not been on Xbox Live, which shows he was completely alone.

Ghost of The Pit

 * A ghost was seen on The Pit. The only two players were trying to overload the map with Trip Mines. One player's Xbox 360 crashed forcing him to leave and reboot. The second player turned and saw a new third Spartan phasing out of Active Camo and was stuck with a Plasma Grenade in the face. All this time the third Spartan was looking away. The second player's system then crashed too.


 * Players have claimed to hear mysterious maniacal laughter in numerous areas of the level. This might just be a sound effect built into the level, as playable characters do not laugh.


 * A possible ghost was seen where a player with an energy sword ran head on at another player and the other player did not shoot him. The first player then lunged and even though the other player kept on running the first player was killed and thrown away as if he was the one sliced with the sword. The game credited the kill to a player who had previously logged out of the game.

Ghost of Valhalla

 * Another Ghost haunted ABC949 and Guns n Roses 86 while they played on Valhalla. Right when they started, Wraith mortars shot out of the ground and 3 yellow dots appeared on Guns n Roses 86 radar while only 2 on ABC949. This video will not be on Guns n Roses 86 file share but on ABC949's


 * On June 15th, Guns N Roses 86 was walking by the downed pelican when 2 blips appeared on his radar. one seemed to be coming from the cockpit of the pelican. This video is also in his fileshare.


 * Whilst playing on Valhalla, Guns N Roses 86 & BloodBrothers14 were forging around when mysteriously 4 Wraith mortars came out of the ground as soon a player named "MC Pajama Daddy" quit the game. Right after the phenomena, a yellow dot appeared on Gun N Roses' motion sensor, but no one was there. The dot stayed there for around 30 seconds and then vanished leaving both players shocked at what they had just seen. The video of this occurrence can be downloaded from Guns N Roses' file share.


 * On June 11, while trying to find a ghost, a Spartan was shooting the Pelican with a sniper rifle, and then committed suicide. When he respawned he was being shot at by sniper rifle rounds.


 * On March 8th 2008 during a CTF match on Valhalla several Spartan laser shots were fired even when there was no one there.


 * A supposed ghost haunts the crashed Pelican, walking around it, holding an Energy Sword.

Investigation revealed no image of the actual ghost in Saved Films.
 * There have been several sightings and deaths caused by a ghost on Valhalla in a Ninjanaut gametype. A transparent Spartan with an Energy Sword appeared and killed everyone within the map. Only Swords and Assault Rifles were available in the game.


 * On March 31st 2008 a phantom "friendly" contact showed up on radar. Only one person was playing on a closed match. Video was viewed by the player and someone else.


 * On April 4th, 2008, a lone Spartan in Forge mode was placing Trip Mines in close proximity to the Pelican, was suddenly killed by the "Guardians" when a nearby Plasma Grenade exploded. Further investigation revealed nothing, but a Spartan dying. Oddly, he died a good one to two seconds before the Mines exploded.


 * A Spartan was trying out a new map variation which had a Wraith in it and he went over to a Grav Lift and all of a sudden a Frag Grenade went off on the Wraith. Luckily, the Spartan was not killed or even damaged. Review on theater has shown nothing other than a Frag Grenade spontaneously spawning in mid air.


 * On April 13th 2008 two Spartans, TymeDaHog and Jay Jay Chubb, were Forging in an offline game when a large friendly blip flashed three times on both radars, even though they were on opposite teams and were not moving.


 * Two players were Forging offline(User:Omar-065 and User:Pink Bitch), when a steel standard Mark VI Spartan appeared out of nowhere ran past the players, jumped, and disappeared. When the players looked in theater mode, the game lagged when the ghost should have appeared. The spartan had a default AR, and his gamertag was full of random numbers, apparently coding of some sort.


 * On April 15th a lone Spartan forging placed 20 Trip Mines by the crashed Pelican. A little while later a shot was heard and the Mines exploded and the Spartan saw a figure in Hayabusa armor run away from the scene.  A search turned up nothing. Further investigation from the theater turned up no results but the exploding Mines.


 * On a Matchmaking game, Team Slayer, Red vs Blue, a player, dedted7 was waiting for another player to come out of cover when he saw a Black Elite run from the crashed Pelican with a Spartan Laser and Gravity Hammer. He watched it and was suddenly killed by a Spartan Laser beam. He was constantly shot with it for the rest of the game. The game was Shotty Snipers with no other weapons available. All players were Spartans and every player was killed by it.


 * A lone green SPARTAN was forging and did not have Xbox Live. He died by an Elite player though has no elite profiles what so ever. He tried to find the source but couldn't.


 * A lone Spartan was messing around with fusion coils and they randomly blew up and he died. When investigating he saw a figure on the pelican but his shot was about a foot or two away from the barrel.


 * A lone spartan was in forge and had spawned beside the pelican, a normal sized friendly blip came on his motion tracker and moved at walking speed, it went horizontally and then went behind the player then disappeared.


 * Once in a 2 player ghost hunt, 1 player was watching the Pelican with a sniper rifle while the other was approaching it. The 2nd player was killed by a Beam rifle round that came out of the pelican while the other player tried to shoot at it but was killed.


 * Some players reported seeing a Spartan with a Rogue helmet sticking people with plasma grenades. When they were stuck, they could hear unexplained maniacal laughter. The players were all Elites and the party was closed.


 * During a Red vs. Blue Team Slayer game involving six players (system link), all spartans. Two blue players were in a wraith, turret and cannon, when an enemy blip appeared on the motion tracker of one (turret), but not the other. But only one blip. The player fired in the general area, and then saw a poor-camouflage white elite, armed with a sword and spartan laser. The turret player fired at the elite, but could not kill the elite. The elite then vanished, but reappeared a few seconds later by the pelican, now visible to both players, as well as a red player in a hornet. All three began to fire at the elite, with no damage being done, until it vanished again. The teams called off the match and began to search the map, when it was sighted again by the lake/ocean. Again it was assaulted, by all six players this time, wielding the Wraith, the Hornet, a Battle Rifle, and two Assault Rifles. The elite was facing backwards, when suddenly a Scorpion tank fell on one of the players, and immediately sank into the ground, leaving behind the players body. Within the next 3 seconds, both of the other foot players were stuck in the face, the wraith was destroyed by multiple plasma grenades on the body, and the hornet player was killed by a spartan laser. All kills were done with the white elite facing backwards, and the spartan laser and grenades came through his back. All six players respawned, but the elite was nowhere to be found. No white elite player was seen on the scoreboard, and it was a Red vs. Blue game. The Elite had no name or Service Tag.


 * On June 27th, 2008, after gathering information and listening to stories told by Spartan-777, drummeraaron went searching for the ghost of Valhalla. He got in a Scorpion and drove by the Red base. His friend drove by the Blue base in a Mongoose and saw a Red Spartan standing in the doorway, which then disappeared. Further searching revealed nothing. They tried to overload the map by laying tripmines, then suddenly, sniper shots destroyed the mines. A red blip appeared on the radar, but no one was there. They played around for a while, then the Red Spartan returned. Drummeraaron zoomed in on it, but it vanished. He later walked into the middle of the map and was hit by a sniper shot. He returned a few minutes later, where he was hit by another sniper shot. A shadow passed over his head. He ran to the Blue base and was hit by a Spartan Laser shot that seemed to eminate froma nearby rock. They walked into the middle of the level and were injured by a random frag grenade. They quit the game and looked back on Theater, which showed nothing.

Games

 * Halo 2
 * Halo 3

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