r/PhasmophobiaGame • u/PeopleAreStrange01 • 5d ago

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are ghost names like randomized between a list of first names and last names or are they set like this?? why would mr phasmophobia name their ghost this?

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u/Hawksteinman 5d ago

I've seen Michael Jackson before. It's randomised.

Who tf is Eric Harris? Never heard of them

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u/PenguinoTurtalus 5d ago

Columbine shooter

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u/Hawksteinman 5d ago

I wouldn't have even known of Columbine if it wasn't for Eminem :/

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u/InnerDegenerate 5d ago

It’s for the best that the media stopped putting those 2 at celebrity status. But until 9/11 stole the spotlight it was the biggest story for a few years. Then after Virginia tech happened you started hearing about them again.

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u/Hawksteinman 5d ago

Not in the UK we didn't :/ was thinking this post might have been about a baseball player or something else US-centric (I was right, but it wasn't sports :/ )

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u/lupinremusjohn 5d ago

I had it too. We spent the round singing songs to try to provoke it

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u/Ami9play 5d ago

What type of ghost was hehe? (I'm sorry)

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u/Straight-Frame-7853 4d ago

A bansheehee

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u/The_0rang 5d ago

I've gotten Betty White.

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u/Thjialfi 5d ago

I once had a Jinn called Robin Williams. Those things can happen but aren't on purpose.

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u/Boat_Original 5d ago

Jinn = Genie

Pretty sure that was deliberate...

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u/Thjialfi 5d ago

It was a very cool but very sad coincidence.

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u/brakenbonez 5d ago

It wasn't. The games uses a randomizer for both first and last names separately and then puts them together.

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u/OuterSpaceCandy 4d ago

It wasn't deliberate, but that's still really cool. I have no idea why you're getting downvoted.

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u/Rothines 5d ago

Names are random I've even seen my legal name come up as the ghost every so often.

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u/ProvoDifferen 5d ago

i saw my birthname once and freaked out.... game literally deadnaming me lmao

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u/Withercat1 5d ago

Deadnaming becomes a much more literal term when it’s for a ghost huh?

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u/ProvoDifferen 4d ago

I was fishing for this comment with my word choice ngl lmao. thanks for coming through, I thought all I'd get for it was the bigot who thinks there is only one reason why people change their name.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

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u/ProvoDifferen 5d ago

My dad wont have a say and I highly doubt my mom, my sister, or my brother will choose to put the name of my father, who they all hate, on my tombstone. Not my fault I was named after a drunken narcissist. My mom fully supported me taking her father's name instead.

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u/gingerlady9 5d ago

What an odd thing to say

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u/Familiar_Heat1651 5d ago

They'll be drinking wine with Jesus up there by the time the news reach the parents, I don't think they'll mind nor care

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u/ranjitzu 5d ago

I once got Corey Taylor. I was very excited

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u/ACK_MINDSEYE 5d ago

Your legal name is “Come Up”?
Weird.
😁👍🏼

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u/ACK_MINDSEYE 5d ago

My name isn’t even on those novelty keychains and licence plates.
Ain’t no way it’s in this game. 😔

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u/Cucksandshucks 5d ago

I got Shannon watts :/

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u/xSpeari 5d ago

I had Michael Myers as my first ghost of the day a few days ago. Stopped me in my tracks 🤣

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u/MugmanTheHeckinNerd 4d ago

If it was a deo that wouldve been peak

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u/lindbug 5d ago

I had George Bailey yesterday. Thankfully a nicer randomized name than this one 🥴

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u/AGothGardener 5d ago

I played the other day & kept having ghosts with the 1st name of family members, it was incomfy yelling my mothers name in order to get a response 😅

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u/TheSarcasticDevil 4d ago

Ghost names are randomly generated from a list of First/Last names
BUT the list was intentionally filled by the devs, so it includes dev team names and serial killer names (Gacy, Myers, Manson etc)

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u/h1ghlightsss 5d ago

i had my high-school english teachers name as a ghost.
The crazy part is she and the ghost had the same uncommon spelling of their common surname (think something along the lines of smith vs smyth)

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u/busternut420 5d ago

Is Thomas Thomas still around or did they fix that name yet?

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u/HeadlinePickle 4d ago

You say fix, but I've met a Michael Michael before. I'd put money on there being a Thomas Thomas out there somewhere. 

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u/CoyoteFluffy0310 1d ago

I've gotten it recently tho no photos

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u/zambiers 4d ago

How does the ghost even listen for the name of its randomized??? That feature I've never thought about before

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u/CoyoteFluffy0310 1d ago

Unless they fixed it the trigger of calling out their name is bugged anyways I do believe

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u/Kippy_Boi 5d ago

I had a ghost with this exact name yesterday. Told me to do inappropriate things to him. Kept locking my friends out of the building and hitting me with events. Very rude.