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- Near the beginning, Mio is seen in profile and a hand places itself on her shoulder. Thinking it's Mayu, she puts her own on it to comfort her. Then Mayu walks past her. But the hand is still there.
- Sae in her entirety! Her laughter is pure Paranoia Fuel, especially when you can hear her behind doors but can't see her. And it gets worse in the seventh chapter, where she is chasing Mio through the Tachibana house, trying to kill her.
- There's a small cutscene when Mio enters the Great Hall with Mayu partway through the game. Go ahead, take a picture of Mayu after the scene. Unlike most pictures that mean nothing, hers remains as is for a bit. Then it gets darker and you can see dozens of bloody, cut-up arms circling the edge of the picture and all of them are grabbing towards Mayu. Completely optional. Completely terrifying.
- Peeking Child and Armless Woman. The first is in the Kiryu place and simply pops up in the small window in front of you, when you were probably looking at that item beneath the window. The second because she comes after an almost inconspicuous dangling arm. Approaching the dangling arm will have her flop down from above, her cut-up face in your full view.
- After beating the Osaka house and heading into the dressing room for the save point, the save point stops working right after you use it. And that only happens when a ghost is nearby... By the time you realize what's going on, a woman's ghost is slowly crawling out of the box in the room and you cannot leave, until she is defeated. On her own, already pretty creepy, but when this game came out The Ring was still fresh in one's mind.
- Late in the game, you finally gain access to the storage shed where Itsuki is being held. Upon entering, you see his lifeless body hanging from a noose. Inspecting the window from the inside of his cell, you'll see that it's rusted shut and not been used, nor even opened in ages.
- In the Tachibana house, you can find what appears to be a figure wrapped in up in blankets and sitting upright. Mio wonders if it's the doll, but when you leave, you hear a distorted "Stay with me..."
- The Wii edition added something extra to it. There's an item to obtain at the thing's feet. Grab it, and the whole thing collapses. Not very loud, but startling all the same.
- The Kiryu twins. Particularly when you're looking for the family crests to escape the village and enter a hidden closet. One of them is in there. Just sitting there. Then she moves and you can hear her neck and limbs snapping and popping.
- "WhydoIhavetokillWhydoIhavetokillWhydoIhavetokillWhydoIhavetokillWhydoIhavetokillWhydoIhavetokillWhydoIhavetokill."
- Falling Woman. She was running from the Darkness seeping from the Abyss and ended up dying when she, in a moment of blinding terror, jumped off the top of the stairs in the Kiryu's Clock Hallway. She tends to appear by screaming and falling through the ceiling.
- Right after encountering the Falling Woman the first time, the game plays up your paranoia. Entering the next hallway, a piece of wood will fall to the ground. Sounds like nothing, but after having just encountered the woman, your nerves are on edge.
- The Tachibana house has a small storage closet on the second floor with an item inside. After going in and grabbing the item, you can hear a girl's voice saying "Help me." If you look through the camera, you find it written all over the walls. And the door locks if you try to leave. Eventually, the voice fades and the door opens and you can leave. It serves no purpose. It's a room that lures you in, just to freak you out.
- You can find pairs of disembodied legs walking through the village at certain points. Just strolling.
- Chitose's death, which also doubles as a Tear Jerker. Due to her vision problems, she accidentally trapped herself in a crawlspace of the Tachibana home and died there; either naturally or when the Darkness arrived. And she's maybe ten years old at most. And many of the locations she can be found hiding in have "Help" or "Big brother" scratched into the walls. Multiple times.
- The Kusabi. His appearance is utterly terrifying, he's surrounded by fog in which you can make out distorted skulls at times, and the haunting background music consists of him groaning in agony. And he has a One-Hit Kill. Then you find out how he's created: an outsider is sacrificed through the means of the Cutting Ritual, which consists of slicing the person over and over and over, giving them a slow and agonizing death. Most people don't even survive that part. If they do, they are bound and thrown into the Abyss while still alive. Near the Abyss, you can find a crack to look into and see a failed Kusabi.
- Just looking at the Kusabi in Viewfinder mode shows you several ghastly faces screaming from behind it.
- Also, don't bother trying to photograph it; your Camera Obscura can't banish the Kusabi. Your only option is to run.
- The Frozen Butterfly ending in the Wii remake. Just... everything about it. Mio is about to strangle Mayu like the ritual dictates, but she snaps out of it at the last second and breaks down, saying she could never hurt Mayu. Upon hearing this, Mayu says she always knew that Mio could never hurt her... then breaks down into utterly psychotic laughter in the same manner as Sae, as a horrified Mio falls to her knees and realizes this was also how Mayu acted when she broke her leg as a child. Mayu promptly corners her in an unsettling manner, saying that they'll always be together in the village, just the two of them, her hands go to Mio's throat, and the scene cuts to black before anything happens. However, the next scene shows Mio lying motionless onto Mayu's lap, implying Mayu strangled Mio to death instead. And it gets worse. After the credits play, a final scene is shown where Mayu plays in a room full of dolls, and applies makeup on MIO'S SEVERED HEAD. Mayu proceeds to kiss Mio's head which, somehow, is able to shed a single tear.
