A girl and her Chansey on a quiet walk through the woods. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
"What's this? Something... so peculiar should... make... off with... the mot... What does this mean?"
—Cheryl, reading a note before she and Chansey are attacked and terrified by a ghost girl.
Cheryl and her Chansey have lost their way in Eterna Forest. They stumble upon an Old Chateau, which is nothing like it initially appears to be.
This episode contains examples of the following tropes:
- Adaptational Villainy: In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, the butler and girl ghosts are eerie, but harmless. Here, they are very dangerous.
- Continuity Cavalcade: This episode foreshadows events in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl.
- Cute Ghost Girl: Subverted with the one at the end. She seems innocent enough, holding a stuffed Buneary doll, but quickly proves she's just as malicious as the ghostly butler when she makes a nightmare face.
- Darker and Edgier: The short might be one of the darkest moments in the entire franchise.
- Haunted House: The Old Chateau at first seems normal, aside from the disembodied giggling girl.
- Halloween Episode: Released just three days before Halloween 2016, and is loaded with
Nightmare Fuel. Later, as Cheryl and her Chansey were following the butler to their room, he vanishes into the floor only to reappear as a purple cloud that takes the form of a giant Haunter. When the two wake up in the foyer on a sofa, they run into a ghostly little girl. - Nightmare Face: When the ghost girl laments that Cheryl read a note, she allows the chalk-white features of her face melt away into a dark, sharp-toothed horror.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: The painting in the foyer has eyes that glow red when Cheryl and Chansey are led past it.
- Spooky Painting: In the Old Chateau foyer, there is a painting of the butler. As Cheryl and Chansey are led past it, its expression changes into a leer as its blues eyes take on a red glow.
- Uncertain Doom: Cheryl and Chansey wake up on a sofa, see a Cute Ghost Girl who promptly makes a nightmare face, and the episode ends. Made worse by the fact that the episode's place on the series timeline is ambiguous.
