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- The ghosts are only in your dreams... at first. Then they start to invade your home. There's an arm under the bed that drags itself away slowly instead of disappearing like most ghosts, and Needle Women in the mirror, waiting to attack Rei when she's showering.
- In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, a pair of legs can be spotted in the space underneath the stairs one night.
- The fate of the Tattooed Priestess. She is covered in tattoos to bear the pain of other people and is doomed to sleep, without any happy dreams, because their tattoos bear the pain. And then there are the priestesses that failed. They are skinned alive, their body sent to cross over and the tattooed skin is enshrined and prayed over to prevent the sorrow from spilling out. It gets even worse when a file reveals that the forgotten final step to the ritual requires the crossing over of both the priestess and the tattoos to complete the ritual, which means by keeping the tattoos in the shrine, they're shooting themselves in the foot.
- Reika's is worse. Her last memory is seeing her lover being killed in front of her, and that's the only thing she has seen for however long it took for Rei to finally appease her.
- If you think these games can't get any darker or depressing, just remember that the very first ghosts you get to fight after getting the Camera Obscura are a mother and her child, both dead from the Tattooed Curse.
- The Needle Women. They love to sneak up on you in Viewfinder Mode, and all you can see before they attack you are their needle-filled arms about to wrap themselves around you from behind.
- Kyouka Kuze, the Woman Brushing. Creepy on her own, but at one point, she's in the Kimono Room behind a screen. She's not attacking you, so you think, "OK... Guess I can take a picture, right?" The second you do, she'll fade away and reappear right in front of you!
- Her appearance alone is disturbing. Anytime she gets too close to you, especially in Viewfinder Mode, you'll get a nice close-up of her pale white face and smeared eye shadow, making her look like a ghostly female version of the Joker.
- You turn around your camera to continue the fight with her, trying your best to maintain the focus on your target... And promptly pause the game to recover as you see her making a mad dash for you, frantically flailing her arms. And then she vanishes mid-attack.
- The Crawling Woman.
- She attacks in a passage so small that only Miku can fit into it. And Rei encounters her later in the attic of Yuu's room. Very unpleasant for anyone with claustrophobia.
- To say nothing of the face she pulls when attacking Miku as she crawls under the manor's floor. It can easily give a player nightmares for weeks, seeing her gaping mouth and wide-open eyes, shaking creepily left to right as she strangles you.
- Kiriko Asanuma's story in itself is horrible to listen to, as well. She hid inside her closet as two robbers stormed into her home and killed her parents and brother. And then you realize one of her cries is her saying "Let me out!!" in desperation. How long did she got stuck in that closest until she was found?
- Stroller Grandma. She's an entirely optional encounter in the main story (although you do receive the Measure Function for your trouble), comes right the hell out of nowhere, and she cannot be stunned by a charged shot. She only has one attack, ramming her stroller onto you as she charges through your body, but it can easily be a One-Hit Kill if you're not careful, even on the lower difficulties.
- The story the Ghost List provides for her: she was unable to find peace after her grandchild's death, so she dug their body from the grave and put it in the stroller.
- Look inside that thing when she attacks you. You'll see a cluster of human faces.
- The story behind her being in that game also counts. Game director Makoto Shibata revealed during an interview the idea came from an incident in his childhood, where he was playing in the ruins of an old manor (the same manor that inspired him to create the Manor of Sleep) and noticed the figure of a woman pushing a stroller appear out of nowhere.
- After finally subduing Yoshino, Rei wakes up and Yoshino's ghost is right there and grabbing her arm!
- When Kei enters the Chamber of Thorns, ready to properly stake Reika once and for all, he comes into the chamber to see COUNTLESS bodies of priestesses before Reika, and he sees that she had been staked the whole time. And the stakes begin to pull themselves out of Reika's body...
- Seeing the countless bodies of the priestesses becomes even worse when you obtain a file that reveals that there was a final part of the ritual that needed to be performed but was forgotten to time, namely, the crossing of the priestess and the grief-filled tattoos to the other side in order to keep the Rift closed. They've been doing the ritual wrong the whole time. Just how much of the built up sorrow has been festering in the Kuze shrine?!
- Not to mention the creepy and unnatural way Reika gets up when Rei confronts her.
- The fact that the majority of the third game takes place in a dream. Imagine going through the death of a loved one and feeling guilty, then having dreams of a snow-covered, haunted mansion that traps you within it if you follow your loved ones further in.
- The fact that Yoshino was surrounded by the corpses of her loved ones for several days, unable to move, before she was found and rescued.
- The descriptions of the house ghosts back in the waking world.Have you looked under your desk recently? Maybe you should check more often.
- There's a closet you can walk into for an item, but when you turn around, the exit locks and faces and hand prints appear on the walls. Disturbing, horrible moaning starts up... then suddenly stops and you can leave again. Just like the small storage closet in the previous game, it's simply there to freak you out.
- The concept of the Handmaidens. They are the ones who are supposed to impale her with stakes. And all of them are prepubescent. If that isn't creepy enough, one of the maiden's diaries has her talk about her duty and look foward to it.
- in the Manor of Dreams, sometimes you can find human-shaped stains. One of the articles Miku gives to Rei talks about the human-shaped stains in the Kukai Temple, which were revealed to be from mummies sealed in the walls. While the Kukai Temple insisted they were the bodies of saints, other people claimed they were killed for sacrifices.
