I'm uploading like an hour and a half in 4k 60fps 130 bit rate of me just trying to overload the map after this in forge and custom games singleplayer just trying to force him to spawn in lol i have nothing better to do just spamming in unkillable bipeds and vehicles after poking proj in assembly
Yeah, looks like an unfinished AI to me. Maybe it was supposed to be bots to fill lobbies if they got too low on players. This would explain why it’s so accurate and good at killing players.
I remember playing ghosts of lockout on halo 2. You'd basically crouch in the open container in the flood room for 10 seconds and see if the ghost would show up. Some people would trick people by playing static in their mic and doing a certain connection glitch with trading hosts that would make you slide around. 12 year old me was always creeped out to play alone on lockout. There was a video on here that showed people doing it, but I've never been able to find it again sadly. I'm sure there was a rumour floating around on the containment map too. Love that so many people saw this, check out my other comment about super bouncing, hopefully it gets traction!
Dude I remember being a young kid, running into this.. Thing, I was too scared to play anything by myself on halo anymore, sad thing is, I’ve only ever seen it twice, once on halo 2, and once on Halo reach. Then it was gone, it truly is a ghostly apparition
@@christopherrapczynski204, sure whatever you say, but may I ask? How would you know wether or not someone else would’ve done something? You’re gonna answer, but I won’t after this, enjoy yourself.
Dammit Grif! I told you that eating that moldy closet pizza was gonna have its consequences -- you've been moonwalking into private games and scaring the shit out of people!
I remember reading about the Ghosts of Halo on the Halo wiki when I was a kid, back then people weren't sure if they were even real or not so there was lots of speculation - I think the commonly accepted explanation is players entering a match but not being assigned proper values due to extreme lag or network outages
I’ve actually encountered it too, way back in Halo 2, and once on Halo Reach, at one point everyone thought it was somebody from Bungie messing with us, it was a very intelligent bot. I would love to find it again, but it’s unlikely that you’ll find it in MCC, it’s a rare occurrence according to the video.
As long as he doesn't devolve into super Japanese horror stories, of a guy in Japan, eating Japanese food with his friend Goku, in Tokyo, with his ex GF Yoko texting him from beyond the grave.
I’d be a little more scared if I didn’t know what it was. Basically, recollecting from what I remember, if you are to somehow overload the map/game, a new player will spawn in like that. In Halo: Reach, if you reach full memory, it will cause the new player to be invisible, which explains why the falcon is flying without anyone inside. Now I don’t know why that happens, I just know that’s how it happens. However, I didn’t know that Halo 2 and 3 had this same bug/glitch.
The H2/3 one was different though. It's connection glitch, which can be forced with a lag switch. If a new player joins his armor turns into a base number (so always a S2 in white in H2 or the orange one in H3, even if your model is an Elite). The new player doesn't show up in the list and it appears to glide around. Happened a lot in games of that era! R63, CS and GoW2 were infamous for similar glitches as well! :)
@@he-bear, not spaghetti code. Most of the code for halo is quite organized or what it's supposed to be. Tho prob has some code that is due to time restraints
A lot of it can be attributed to buggy connection. In CE if a particular player is lagging heavily, they can enter a vehicle and it will warp back to where they entered the vehicle every few ticks, regardless of how they try to drive it. All non-hosts will see a Spartan standing in the driver’s seat in the pose as if they were holding an AR, but without weapons, and the host will see the player running in a straight line until they disconnect.
@@sinisterisrandom8537 Halo 2's engine is a freaking nightmare to do anything with, I'm not surprised none of the Bungie staff were ever happy with Halo 2
I’ve played Halo for many years, and in that time have seen many strange glitches. Among those include two Ghosts of Halo. Each had different properties. The first was during a forge session in Sword Base while playing Reach. This one acted just like the ones we all know, missing walking animations, snapping to face different directions, missing name tag, and a penchant for throwing grenades. The second was also in forge, but in Halo 4. I had been messing around on a map I’d been working on alongside a friend. This friend had to leave and triggered a host migration while I was in monitor mode. When it ended, I found myself respawned as a Spartan like I had died, and when I began walking around, found another mysterious Spartan standing right where I had been when the migration started. Strangely this Spartan was an exact duplicate of myself, had no name tag, did not show in the roster, and had no behaviour of any kind. Despite his colours indicating he was on the same team as me (Blue), I was able to assassinate him without issue. Of course, while both of these stories are true, I have perfectly reasonable explanations for both. The first was a friend who joined and had not established a proper connection and the second happened because I had transformed from a Monitor to a Spartan at the same time as the migration triggered, confusing the game. That being said, they’re fun stories to share. Hope you enjoyed the read! TLDR: Encountered 2 Ghosts with reasonable explanations.
This is even creepier when you consider the map your on, lockout is devoid of life, a flood research lab, with a a tube is open, a creature escaped, and no human other than you or your friend. And with this ghost spartan sliding around, looking at you then to kill you. This is one of the reasons I don’t play that map alone
I instantly said "the ghost of lockout" when you were in the green flood room right before you said it. Halo 2 was the best time of my gaming life man.
My favorite theory about the ghosts is just it being leftover from multiplayer testing early in development, hence the lack of any animations. Just a quickly slammed together bot that has like a loop of orders to go through, "Walk, stand, shoot, kill, grenade, jump, repeat", just to make sure all of that stuff actually works and shows in game.
During the Halo 5 Warzone Firefight beta, I ran into my own ghost. He slid around the map and got into vehicles, trying to betray teammates. I should splice the videos together and upload it sometime.
I've actually had this happen to me before the weird thing is I had no xbox live at the time so it could be when someone tries to join when the host has no xbox live
Clicked on it thinking bs but then I remembered. From waaaay back you just reopened some long dormant memories. I forgot all about this, thanks for the reminder.
I remember seeing this as a kid back in the day and not sleeping that night. It appeared in a customs game lobby with a few friends of mine. But i remember it on being on Gaurdian.
Same thing happen to me back in 2010. I was a kid. But I can remember. Me and my friends hand a custom game in guardian on slayer. And it just appeared and was stupid sliding around.
as much as i love the internet and the modern gaming community i sometimes wish we could go back to the early internet days, back when these sorts of rumors in games weren't able to debunk within seconds of entering the game files. there isn't really much mystery like this in modern games nowadays..
i knew i wasn't crazy, i play offline in mcc and either play with my brother or conduct experiments in multiplayer maps and saw a spartan in the background just sliding and decided that it was a random chance easter egg untill it came closer and killed me i stayed on for more experiments with the thing. i killed it with a plasma grenade and sniper but then my game crashed.
As someone with experience writing netcode, my two cents is that just because the nextode might have been extensively re-written, it doesn't exactly mean it won't have the same results when it fails and glitches out. A lot of the signature glitches the bot is known for (sliding, facing the wrong direction, etc) would likely actually be the more lower level code failing to interface with the network code layer, so even if that layer is extensively changed as long as the lower level code functions largely the same it's unlikely to have wildly different results. Also, the initial failure by the netcode to properly register a player can have multiple causes, so even if one bug that caused this might have been fixed in the MCC, it doesn't mean there isn't multiple others that haven't been found. An even weirder possibility is that the ghost is a combination of both the netcode failing to register the player & latent bot code. Completely hypothetical, but something approximating what could be the culprit is the bot code being triggered by having a say, a player with the player id of -1 (due to a failed connection). In this case a player would try and join, be given a disconnection screen but on the match they were trying to join a bot would be spawned.
Once on the 360 before l played online or had internet, l was playing by myself in forge, and l swear l saw a spartan appear around a corner and vanish. l never saw it again.
I don’t think it’s just lockout and blackout. A friend of mine and I saw it on Waterworks. I am truly sorry we didn’t have a way to capture the video, this was like 2006.
I believe this mystery has been solved! its a glitch where an actual player joins the game, but the game doesnt actually show anyone else in the lobby. This results in a weird floating player that can go around killing you + seem like an intelligent “entity”. To the ghost, they have no idea the glitch is occuring so it just looks like a normal game (probably with some irrate behavior due to panick/ player reactions).
Good job man, you actually gave me goosebumps multiple times, excellent use of ambiance and you even convinced me to literally never select lockout as a map solo ever again.
Forgive me if I sound stupid--I don't know a great deal about Halo's code or code in general, but couldn't the theory of the Ghost of Lockout being an unfinished bot be confirmed/disproven if the game's files were searched for such a thing? Has anybody attempted to do such, or is there a reason one can't?
This happened to me once on halo reach. I was waiting for my uncle to jump on and out of no where a Spartan fell on me and killed me and then disappeared
Funny you should mention bots, that’s exactly what the ghost was supposed to be. Bungie was experimenting with Bots in Halo 2 but decided to cut the feature. The ghost of Lockout is just a bugged out bot somewhere in the code that didn’t get deleted. As for the ghost of Blackout, I haven’t done as much research on that one, but I’d imagine Bungie reused some of the code for the map and the bot was included. That, or they found the code that included the bot, and decided to keep it in as a fun continuation of the mystery. Either way, I like how this video-game ghost story is actually real, it’s always fascinated me!
One thing is for sure, 343I could come up with a lore reason for this and use it as an excuse to add actual bots to MCC so that people like me, without access to Xbox Live Gold, actually have a reason to go into multiplayer maps.
I had one of these "ghosts" appear in one of my games in Halo 3 at a map of Foundry. It just dragged instead of walking animations and so and was also orange. After a lot of research with my friends we came to the conclusion it's indeed hackers that break into the match, because this one appeared more than half way into our game.
Ya the perfect precision part was probably just because some script kiddies loaded and aimbot as well as a connection script. Someone in the comments said that there’s a certain connection technique that can cause you to slide around.
From wat I know the supposed ghost are left over multiplayer testing bots that were never deleted and they sometimes spawn in in the old reach there was a lobby on cage that was full of them
Same I think because I died out of nowhere in Monitor Mode while on Blackout on Halo 3 Xbox 360. While Completely Alone I was a child at the time and it was my first time in Forge Mode on Blackout because I wanted to make a Custom Map during my making of the map. I hovered over a fence to left of it right before the screen turned black my Monitor blew up there was no Spartan there either I looked around the whole map to see why I died mysteriously. I couldn't find anything a shiver went down my spine I refused to go into Blackout in Forge Mode ever since 👀
I’ve had one experience with these ghost things I was on sandbox I literally saw a flash of a Spartan at the time I didn’t know what it was now I’m kinda freaked out
There was also a story likely a meme called the ghost of sandtrap people even claimed there was a ghost in highrise map of mw2 pretty funny how that works.
My theory is that maybe this is leftover content for offline AI bots (i.e. like Quake 3, Call of Duty Black Ops 2, Time Splitters, and Counter Strike).
I remember watching that same video about the Ghost of Lockoute when I was a kid. It freaked me the hell out but at the same time..... it intrigued me and it made me want to go hook up my sister's old original Xbox and boot up Lockout on Halo 2 just to try to find it.
I dove deep into this mystery about 8 years ago. One of the only things about Halo that has always both terrified me, and intrigued me. It's because of this that periodically I wander around Blackout solo every once in a while. I'm hoping to get the ghost to shoot some hoops with me.
A long time ago I don’t know a lot I was really young and I didn’t have internet so me and my brother would play sandbox on halo we never finished or really played the story much while we were playing the sandbox in the cave with the opening at the top we saw one of the orb things a player would become when spawning something in moving around in our map when it was only us and the way the map felt with no npcs around made it give me chills because it felt like a luminal space and after talking about it we went quiet and try to find and hear for someone and the entire game was silent the game had absolutely no noise and it was just scary like we were awaiting a jump scare and I swear i saw one too but it was so long ago I really don’t remember slot just vivid memories of it
I sometimes get ghost frag grenades exploding when I play Halo on other maps. For example Snowbound, a frag grenade exploded outside the map in the area where the turrets shoot at you. It appeared a few feet off the ground and was following a trajectory as though it had been thrown by a player. I was playing offline on the 360 version of Halo 3 when it happened I think this ghost in Halo 3 is way more spooky than "real" ghost sightings and is certainly has more evidence. I always thought it might have been a glitched guardian ai that is present on some Halo 3 maps, however there are videos of lone frag grenades appearing on maps like Foundry, where there are no guardiann AI's that are waiting to kill you when you get out of bounds. So to this day whilst even the Halo Wiki does not know for sure what the ghosts are, even to the point in ruling them out as hoaxes, I will always wonder what happened and if Bungie knew it had truly created a monster- A ghost in the machine
The code in the game can be manipulated to do things it shouldn't do which is how you can spawn these ghost things. They're AI driven because it thinks that it's a Bot Player. Apparently there was a time at which they considered having bot players it was scrapped and enough of the code that's currently left in can be manipulated to recreate the Scrapped Content. So yes your literally playing against something that's scarier than a Programmed Enemy AI.
I encountered something like this while playing a custom game on Isolation in H3. A friend invited me to play a modded map of Isolation he had downloaded. During the game we saw the ghost a few times, it was gold/orange and kept killing him, probably because he was the host. Creepy stuff.
I remember this when it was a new mystery. Everyone was talking about it back in the day and everyone went on ghost hunts in lockout. Those were the days.
Think about all the people you’ve gamed with throughout the years, even those guys you had a passing encounter with. Maybe they said something funny on VC, maybe they healed you at risk of their own life, maybe they were following you around and constantly meleeing you despite being on your team. Think about how many of those guys who were just pixelated representations on your screen that all sported some obscure gamertag. Their gamertag might’ve been funny, witty, offensive, or even downright bizarre. Perhaps their gamertag was an inside joke they had with themselves, holding within it some private, sentimental meaning. Think about how many of those guys have since passed away. Maybe you called them a slur. Maybe you friended them and played a few more games. Maybe they were just a pathetic stat at the end of the match as you saw their name ranked with a horrible KD and you wondered how they could play so badly. Maybe now, they simply sit in your friends list as… • _last logged on: over a year ago_
I remember the running theory a while back was that a connection error of some kind reactivated old disabled code that were supposed to be multi-player bots
I played halo 3 when I was little and I found one of these i was confused when happened, it happened twice by the way i didnt get scared because i I didn't understand it
You know, now that you mention it, I do recall once having 2 players like this appear in a custom match on Sandtrap once back in the day... though they disappeared after a while...
It can spawn in Forge along with the Ghost Frag Grenade you just have to manipulate the code somehow and if your lucky it will spawn one. Also he will try to kill you in Monitor Mode apparently he can spawn in Blackout which is even more scary.
@RejectedShotgun So I've found a video from 2018 on UA-cam from the Project chartographer version of Halo 2 and in there, there was a Ghost. I also saw a comment saying that this is in fact a client issue, where sometimes the server and client don't sink up player information correctly and if you leave and join again the client will update. I think it happens a lot in Halo 3 as well as Halo 2 because those 2 games are very similar.
What's weird about this is that the "ghost" made it's way to halo 3, and even reach. As far I'm aware Bungie said that it was campaign ai somehow making it's way to multiplayer maps, if that's true then why didn't they fixed this glitch for the next titles? Kinda weird if you ask me
I remember the early(er) days of youtube. filled with various "Ghosts of Forge" in both Sandtrap and Last Resort (where i first hear of it). But those didn't even present an additional player. Just an activated bubble shield, when playing a completely solo match, or various weapon/equipment sounds, without any additional instances of scoreboard names.
I think it's fake, a hoax, but it'd cool if something like this was added. Like Herobrine. Theres would be a VERY rare chance that on a certain map, with a certain amount of players (less than 5), then something like a spartan that walk around in the background. It appears while in sight, and when out of sight it just vanishes. No running. No shooting. Never attacking. It just walks around, like a lost soul
Wait my cousin and brother would play halo all the time. When I was little I'd get mad so they made up a story about "the man from out of bounds" and well now I'm not sure they made it up
this would make a great game mode if you think about it, players vs the ghost(s) in a battle royal setting except players dont have to hunt down other players and just have to survive
theyre most likely bots, which could have been a planned feature in Halo 2 that never came to be but still had some code written for it. honestly as somebody who loves playing Halo multiplayer but has no friends to play it with, i would love to find a way to replicate this so that i can have 1v1s without needing to schedule a gaming session with someone or going into a public lobby
I had a dream I was playing in a public mp game, and when I respawned, everyone was just gone. Audio was gone. I woke up, unnverved, and went back to sleep. The dream literally picked up right where it left off, and got more and more disturbing. The only dream that really messed me up with how vivid it was, and it got really disturbing.
A little surprised Shotgun decided to go all in on the story aspect and 0% into how to actually do the glitch. But I guess this is all just good Halloween fun for all the newer Halo fans who don’t know the Ghost
@@dr.catherineelizabethhalse1820 I played H2 back in the day with anti noob (the creator of the original video) and he confirmed it was just a laggy happenstance. He had a lot of fun with it when it originally came out, including a few troll videos, but never admitted it was just a product of lag to the public. Great guy though.. Miss playing with him and Maluu.
Now that you bring this up, a long time ago back on H3s Golden Age when I was a kid and at the time I played offline because we'll Never had the money until later on for Xbox Live. But I can remember specifically on Sandtrap there was a player who spawned in on my offline game playing with a couple of friends at the time. But it wasn't a glitch or anything it was a full working AI, it spawned on one of the Pillars in full Hayabusa armor and I remember getting sniped out of nowhere. But I am not BSing any of this it's bloody true
Full Hayabusa that's odd and how did he pick up a Sniper Rifle the Bots were never intended to pick Weapons up because they never implemented that into the code instead they allowed Player Controlled Characters to do that.
@@Ostr0 From my memory, the bot already had a sniper to begin with. It only stood on the sand trap bases at the very top. I wish I had hindsight as a kid to keep a recording of it since it sounds so bizarre.
@kristiangreer1802 It's possible but it would mean that whatever the game was trying to do somehow set the starting weapon to a Sniper Rifle and set the Multiplayer Appearance to Hayabusa Set. It's possible since it trys to fill in information It's missing which would mean a Manipulation of the Code also happened and it jumbled it's Spawn Co-ordinates Starting Weapon and Appearance which is exceedingly rare and hard to make reoccur.
The reason why it could because of that's because in games certain actions etc... Can oddly sometimes change the code meaning that if you know what you're doing you can trick the game into doing something impossible.
Happy Spooktober c:
Happy spooktober :D
- Removed herobrine
it spooky
You sound like locus from Red vs Blue
I'm uploading like an hour and a half in 4k 60fps 130 bit rate of me just trying to overload the map after this in forge and custom games singleplayer just trying to force him to spawn in lol i have nothing better to do just spamming in unkillable bipeds and vehicles after poking proj in assembly
And then Johnson came out with realistic textures and then his eyes turned black and started to bleed.
HYPER REALISTIC BLOOD
ua-cam.com/video/T15IUnp7KrI/v-deo.html
But did he shoot lasers?
Suicide Johnson
Bruh every game creepypasta always has the " stared to bleed...REALISTICALLY "
ahh yes. herobrine.
When a verify UA-camr only has 2 likes:
What is this heresy?
The herobrine before herobrine
I miss herobrine
yeah, wish i met him
I knew he was still out there
bungie was like: how bout we just leave this test bot in here and just give them a mystery
edit: mcc ghost be like
time to tbag
Yeah, looks like an unfinished AI to me. Maybe it was supposed to be bots to fill lobbies if they got too low on players. This would explain why it’s so accurate and good at killing players.
@@BravoTango-vt8em yees
bungie also be like: oh yeah lets just make another one in halo 3 because why not
I remember playing ghosts of lockout on halo 2. You'd basically crouch in the open container in the flood room for 10 seconds and see if the ghost would show up. Some people would trick people by playing static in their mic and doing a certain connection glitch with trading hosts that would make you slide around. 12 year old me was always creeped out to play alone on lockout. There was a video on here that showed people doing it, but I've never been able to find it again sadly. I'm sure there was a rumour floating around on the containment map too.
Love that so many people saw this, check out my other comment about super bouncing, hopefully it gets traction!
Any eerie map in Halo is always scary.
Dude I remember being a young kid, running into this.. Thing, I was too scared to play anything by myself on halo anymore, sad thing is, I’ve only ever seen it twice, once on halo 2, and once on Halo reach. Then it was gone, it truly is a ghostly apparition
Did a lot of old videos get removed from UA-cam or are they just hard to find now?
@@void-master9077 again, no, you didn't. You never met herobrine and your dad doesn't work at nintendo
@@christopherrapczynski204, sure whatever you say, but may I ask? How would you know wether or not someone else would’ve done something? You’re gonna answer, but I won’t after this, enjoy yourself.
Dammit Grif! I told you that eating that moldy closet pizza was gonna have its consequences -- you've been moonwalking into private games and scaring the shit out of people!
XD
Which series ad episode was that?
why are we here
God damnit Grif. I told you to stop sleepwalking
@@Krajenda red vs blue
But i dont think theres an episode of that
I remember reading about the Ghosts of Halo on the Halo wiki when I was a kid, back then people weren't sure if they were even real or not so there was lots of speculation - I think the commonly accepted explanation is players entering a match but not being assigned proper values due to extreme lag or network outages
still skeptical about the whole ghost thing but it def is spooky
Nah ive encountered a halo ghost that fuck annoyed me
I’ve actually encountered it too, way back in Halo 2, and once on Halo Reach, at one point everyone thought it was somebody from Bungie messing with us, it was a very intelligent bot. I would love to find it again, but it’s unlikely that you’ll find it in MCC, it’s a rare occurrence according to the video.
@@void-master9077 no you didnt
@@christopherrapczynski204, whatever you say, doesn’t matter what you think anyways
You have the kind of voice that can tell great ghost stories, or even commentate over scary ghost sightings 👀
number 15
burger king foot lettuce
Channeling the spirit of Night Mind.
@@noodlespark mhmm
He has the voice of G-Man
Deep voices are the best, just sayin'. Not EVERY one is, but still.
I've seen lots of ghosts in halo, I'm not afraid of them. I am however afraid of wraiths.
I ain’t afraid of no ghost
Nor wraiths, but banshees them scary
OH, YOU!
@@TheLoneGamer-ef3vs none of these scare me but halo has given me a healthy level of arachnaphobia dont mess with scorpions
Don't get me started on spirits.
We have the same last name
rejected you should legit to scary stories and stuff like that, you got a good voice for it
Indeed
As long as he doesn't devolve into super Japanese horror stories, of a guy in Japan, eating Japanese food with his friend Goku, in Tokyo, with his ex GF Yoko texting him from beyond the grave.
@@WrittenOffski ?
@@WrittenOffski this is suspiciously specific
You have the perfect voice to do creepypasta readings
You must watch very similar content to me because I see your comments on practically every video I watch
@@bobbobinson7788 possibly
@@bobbobinson7788 ikr
Who are you
He is the ghost of youtube
I’d be a little more scared if I didn’t know what it was.
Basically, recollecting from what I remember, if you are to somehow overload the map/game, a new player will spawn in like that. In Halo: Reach, if you reach full memory, it will cause the new player to be invisible, which explains why the falcon is flying without anyone inside.
Now I don’t know why that happens, I just know that’s how it happens.
However, I didn’t know that Halo 2 and 3 had this same bug/glitch.
Well both Halo 2 and 3 have a lot of spaghetti code similar to Halo: CE
The H2/3 one was different though. It's connection glitch, which can be forced with a lag switch. If a new player joins his armor turns into a base number (so always a S2 in white in H2 or the orange one in H3, even if your model is an Elite). The new player doesn't show up in the list and it appears to glide around. Happened a lot in games of that era! R63, CS and GoW2 were infamous for similar glitches as well! :)
@@he-bear, not spaghetti code. Most of the code for halo is quite organized or what it's supposed to be. Tho prob has some code that is due to time restraints
A lot of it can be attributed to buggy connection. In CE if a particular player is lagging heavily, they can enter a vehicle and it will warp back to where they entered the vehicle every few ticks, regardless of how they try to drive it. All non-hosts will see a Spartan standing in the driver’s seat in the pose as if they were holding an AR, but without weapons, and the host will see the player running in a straight line until they disconnect.
@@sinisterisrandom8537 Halo 2's engine is a freaking nightmare to do anything with, I'm not surprised none of the Bungie staff were ever happy with Halo 2
imagine you're playing a short game of halo 3 with your pals and then Grif from rvb just starts sliding on the floor and beating your ass.
Omg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve played Halo for many years, and in that time have seen many strange glitches. Among those include two Ghosts of Halo. Each had different properties.
The first was during a forge session in Sword Base while playing Reach. This one acted just like the ones we all know, missing walking animations, snapping to face different directions, missing name tag, and a penchant for throwing grenades.
The second was also in forge, but in Halo 4. I had been messing around on a map I’d been working on alongside a friend. This friend had to leave and triggered a host migration while I was in monitor mode. When it ended, I found myself respawned as a Spartan like I had died, and when I began walking around, found another mysterious Spartan standing right where I had been when the migration started. Strangely this Spartan was an exact duplicate of myself, had no name tag, did not show in the roster, and had no behaviour of any kind. Despite his colours indicating he was on the same team as me (Blue), I was able to assassinate him without issue.
Of course, while both of these stories are true, I have perfectly reasonable explanations for both. The first was a friend who joined and had not established a proper connection and the second happened because I had transformed from a Monitor to a Spartan at the same time as the migration triggered, confusing the game. That being said, they’re fun stories to share. Hope you enjoyed the read!
TLDR: Encountered 2 Ghosts with reasonable explanations.
This is even creepier when you consider the map your on, lockout is devoid of life, a flood research lab, with a a tube is open, a creature escaped, and no human other than you or your friend. And with this ghost spartan sliding around, looking at you then to kill you. This is one of the reasons I don’t play that map alone
Spooky.
I always thought it could be the flood creature that escaped and he’s now an infected spartan
Bro it’s a video game map💀💀💀
@@CennoSoldier they have lore to them ya know. Also people just like to be creative.
I instantly said "the ghost of lockout" when you were in the green flood room right before you said it. Halo 2 was the best time of my gaming life man.
I’m surprised I’ve never heard of this
YOU NEVER HEARD ABOUT THIS!?
Same I have never heard of it
@@Sunderbanz322 really? Huh
you must feel like your profile picture rn lol
@@lazychief69 what's rn?
Yay you’re covering the ghost of lockout
Man, I remember first seeing this on ebaumsworld. That brings back memories.
This brings me back to the days of trying to spawn the ghost and being fucking terrified the whole match.
Man I remember this as a kid. 2008 youtube quality made it that much more creepy and real.
Do CoD4's Ghost of Vacant next!
My favorite theory about the ghosts is just it being leftover from multiplayer testing early in development, hence the lack of any animations. Just a quickly slammed together bot that has like a loop of orders to go through, "Walk, stand, shoot, kill, grenade, jump, repeat", just to make sure all of that stuff actually works and shows in game.
Honestly, that makes a lot of sense. It's usually the simple answers that are the correct ones.
I didn’t know about this when I was little, but it’s concept was basically why I was afraid to play any halo map by myself.
During the Halo 5 Warzone Firefight beta, I ran into my own ghost. He slid around the map and got into vehicles, trying to betray teammates. I should splice the videos together and upload it sometime.
Bro do it
I wanna see, please do it bro
Ah yes, the ghost of warzone, otherwise known as that one teammate who betrays everyone.
What he said at the end kind of actually had me laughing 😂
This brings me back to SomeOrdinaryGamers creepypastas. Oooooo the nostalgia!
I've actually had this happen to me before the weird thing is I had no xbox live at the time so it could be when someone tries to join when the host has no xbox live
Clicked on it thinking bs but then I remembered. From waaaay back you just reopened some long dormant memories. I forgot all about this, thanks for the reminder.
I remember seeing this as a kid back in the day and not sleeping that night. It appeared in a customs game lobby with a few friends of mine. But i remember it on being on Gaurdian.
Confirmation?
@@spiderz5145 i recorded it in theater mode but it has been lost ever since. I remember it being called the Ghost of Gaurdian
Same thing happen to me back in 2010. I was a kid. But I can remember. Me and my friends hand a custom game in guardian on slayer. And it just appeared and was stupid sliding around.
Hmm, so it would appear the phenomenon is more wide spread, definitely spooky.
@@angelfuentes6734 I remember being on Gaurdian too
Almost as spooky as The Haunting: Minecraft Roleplay
as much as i love the internet and the modern gaming community i sometimes wish we could go back to the early internet days, back when these sorts of rumors in games weren't able to debunk within seconds of entering the game files. there isn't really much mystery like this in modern games nowadays..
i knew i wasn't crazy, i play offline in mcc and either play with my brother or conduct experiments in multiplayer maps and saw a spartan in the background just sliding and decided that it was a random chance easter egg untill it came closer and killed me i stayed on for more experiments with the thing. i killed it with a plasma grenade and sniper but then my game crashed.
Wait how did your game crash from that. That's weird
This is just bungie’s revenge for 343 making their games buggy in master chief collection
To be fair, this has been documented since before MCC..
@Carlos Emilio 343 bad jokes aren't funny
@Carlos Emilio doesn’t make sense though and wasn’t even funny
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As someone with experience writing netcode, my two cents is that just because the nextode might have been extensively re-written, it doesn't exactly mean it won't have the same results when it fails and glitches out. A lot of the signature glitches the bot is known for (sliding, facing the wrong direction, etc) would likely actually be the more lower level code failing to interface with the network code layer, so even if that layer is extensively changed as long as the lower level code functions largely the same it's unlikely to have wildly different results. Also, the initial failure by the netcode to properly register a player can have multiple causes, so even if one bug that caused this might have been fixed in the MCC, it doesn't mean there isn't multiple others that haven't been found.
An even weirder possibility is that the ghost is a combination of both the netcode failing to register the player & latent bot code. Completely hypothetical, but something approximating what could be the culprit is the bot code being triggered by having a say, a player with the player id of -1 (due to a failed connection). In this case a player would try and join, be given a disconnection screen but on the match they were trying to join a bot would be spawned.
Once on the 360 before l played online or had internet, l was playing by myself in forge, and l swear l saw a spartan appear around a corner and vanish. l never saw it again.
I don’t think it’s just lockout and blackout. A friend of mine and I saw it on Waterworks. I am truly sorry we didn’t have a way to capture the video, this was like 2006.
I believe this mystery has been solved! its a glitch where an actual player joins the game, but the game doesnt actually show anyone else in the lobby. This results in a weird floating player that can go around killing you + seem like an intelligent “entity”.
To the ghost, they have no idea the glitch is occuring so it just looks like a normal game (probably with some irrate behavior due to panick/ player reactions).
Man said “the haunting is back” and then dipped
I would like to see a full on investigation of this. Maybe you could find some kind of code in the map files?
Good job man, you actually gave me goosebumps multiple times, excellent use of ambiance and you even convinced me to literally never select lockout as a map solo ever again.
Forgive me if I sound stupid--I don't know a great deal about Halo's code or code in general, but couldn't the theory of the Ghost of Lockout being an unfinished bot be confirmed/disproven if the game's files were searched for such a thing? Has anybody attempted to do such, or is there a reason one can't?
This happened to me once on halo reach. I was waiting for my uncle to jump on and out of no where a Spartan fell on me and killed me and then disappeared
Funny you should mention bots, that’s exactly what the ghost was supposed to be. Bungie was experimenting with Bots in Halo 2 but decided to cut the feature. The ghost of Lockout is just a bugged out bot somewhere in the code that didn’t get deleted. As for the ghost of Blackout, I haven’t done as much research on that one, but I’d imagine Bungie reused some of the code for the map and the bot was included. That, or they found the code that included the bot, and decided to keep it in as a fun continuation of the mystery. Either way, I like how this video-game ghost story is actually real, it’s always fascinated me!
I like to think it's just Bungie and 343 playing pranks on the Halo community.
So glad you lowered the crosshair for this. Looks so much better!
One thing is for sure, 343I could come up with a lore reason for this and use it as an excuse to add actual bots to MCC so that people like me, without access to Xbox Live Gold, actually have a reason to go into multiplayer maps.
I'm on PC and can't find any Friends so this would just freak me out since you could make 1v1 on Blackout.
I remember doing forge on foundry alone and I heard a frag grenade explode.
Yeah the Ghost Grenade is freaky.
Picture this:
You and your friend are playing halo, but all of a sudden...
*sliding noises*
*What if the ghosts we encountered all those years ago are the fallen players who died while waiting for Halo MCC on PC?*
Ben? Are you there? Did you drown..?
I had one of these "ghosts" appear in one of my games in Halo 3 at a map of Foundry.
It just dragged instead of walking animations and so and was also orange.
After a lot of research with my friends we came to the conclusion it's indeed hackers that break into the match, because this one appeared more than half way into our game.
Ya the perfect precision part was probably just because some script kiddies loaded and aimbot as well as a connection script. Someone in the comments said that there’s a certain connection technique that can cause you to slide around.
Don't worry, it is just Grif and Wyoming having a little laugh.
From wat I know the supposed ghost are left over multiplayer testing bots that were never deleted and they sometimes spawn in in the old reach there was a lobby on cage that was full of them
I remember this... and the ghost of ghost town on halo 3. Id sit for hours waiting with my hair standing up waiting to run out of the room
I had this happen on Foundry during Forge.
Same I think because I died out of nowhere in Monitor Mode while on Blackout on Halo 3 Xbox 360. While Completely Alone I was a child at the time and it was my first time in Forge Mode on Blackout because I wanted to make a Custom Map during my making of the map. I hovered over a fence to left of it right before the screen turned black my Monitor blew up there was no Spartan there either I looked around the whole map to see why I died mysteriously. I couldn't find anything a shiver went down my spine I refused to go into Blackout in Forge Mode ever since 👀
I’ve had one experience with these ghost things I was on sandbox I literally saw a flash of a Spartan at the time I didn’t know what it was now I’m kinda freaked out
There was also a story likely a meme called the ghost of sandtrap people even claimed there was a ghost in highrise map of mw2 pretty funny how that works.
My theory is that maybe this is leftover content for offline AI bots (i.e. like Quake 3, Call of Duty Black Ops 2, Time Splitters, and Counter Strike).
I remember watching that same video about the Ghost of Lockoute when I was a kid. It freaked me the hell out but at the same time..... it intrigued me and it made me want to go hook up my sister's old original Xbox and boot up Lockout on Halo 2 just to try to find it.
I'm not scared of no ghost, but a wraith or phantom would be scary.
I dove deep into this mystery about 8 years ago. One of the only things about Halo that has always both terrified me, and intrigued me.
It's because of this that periodically I wander around Blackout solo every once in a while. I'm hoping to get the ghost to shoot some hoops with me.
A long time ago I don’t know a lot I was really young and I didn’t have internet so me and my brother would play sandbox on halo we never finished or really played the story much while we were playing the sandbox in the cave with the opening at the top we saw one of the orb things a player would become when spawning something in moving around in our map when it was only us and the way the map felt with no npcs around made it give me chills because it felt like a luminal space and after talking about it we went quiet and try to find and hear for someone and the entire game was silent the game had absolutely no noise and it was just scary like we were awaiting a jump scare and I swear i saw one too but it was so long ago I really don’t remember slot just vivid memories of it
I didn't know Herobrine played Halo. He should have told me!
I sometimes get ghost frag grenades exploding when I play Halo on other maps. For example Snowbound, a frag grenade exploded outside the map in the area where the turrets shoot at you. It appeared a few feet off the ground and was following a trajectory as though it had been thrown by a player. I was playing offline on the 360 version of Halo 3 when it happened
I think this ghost in Halo 3 is way more spooky than "real" ghost sightings and is certainly has more evidence.
I always thought it might have been a glitched guardian ai that is present on some Halo 3 maps, however there are videos of lone frag grenades appearing on maps like Foundry, where there are no guardiann AI's that are waiting to kill you when you get out of bounds.
So to this day whilst even the Halo Wiki does not know for sure what the ghosts are, even to the point in ruling them out as hoaxes, I will always wonder what happened and if Bungie knew it had truly created a monster- A ghost in the machine
The code in the game can be manipulated to do things it shouldn't do which is how you can spawn these ghost things. They're AI driven because it thinks that it's a Bot Player. Apparently there was a time at which they considered having bot players it was scrapped and enough of the code that's currently left in can be manipulated to recreate the Scrapped Content. So yes your literally playing against something that's scarier than a Programmed Enemy AI.
Also I'm not sure about the grenade thing but I think I died to a Ghost Grenade I could be wrong and I'm remembering something that didn't happen.
I encountered something like this while playing a custom game on Isolation in H3. A friend invited me to play a modded map of Isolation he had downloaded. During the game we saw the ghost a few times, it was gold/orange and kept killing him, probably because he was the host. Creepy stuff.
I remember this when it was a new mystery. Everyone was talking about it back in the day and everyone went on ghost hunts in lockout. Those were the days.
I love how much you've veen posting recently!
I love your positive vibes. Have a good day
Think about all the people you’ve gamed with throughout the years, even those guys you had a passing encounter with. Maybe they said something funny on VC, maybe they healed you at risk of their own life, maybe they were following you around and constantly meleeing you despite being on your team. Think about how many of those guys who were just pixelated representations on your screen that all sported some obscure gamertag. Their gamertag might’ve been funny, witty, offensive, or even downright bizarre. Perhaps their gamertag was an inside joke they had with themselves, holding within it some private, sentimental meaning.
Think about how many of those guys have since passed away. Maybe you called them a slur. Maybe you friended them and played a few more games. Maybe they were just a pathetic stat at the end of the match as you saw their name ranked with a horrible KD and you wondered how they could play so badly.
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i literally have goose-pimples crawling up and down my spine, like wtf, i will not be sleeping tonight for sure ;-;
I remember the running theory a while back was that a connection error of some kind reactivated old disabled code that were supposed to be multi-player bots
This is literally the Herobrine of Halo
I played halo 3 when I was little and I found one of these i was confused when happened, it happened twice by the way i didnt get scared because i I didn't understand it
When is the second episode of the Haunting coming out?
thanks for the memories of old creepy pastas about the dead brother of notch haunting the game... oops wrong pasta
I think it's bot code. Seems like something Bungie would have messed around with but never finished.
We already covered that it probably is not cus of the new footage
@@foozoi1379 then what do you suggest?
I suggest it might be a sort of bot code that was intentional and meant to be like that, cus all of those moves are very accurate and good
You know, now that you mention it, I do recall once having 2 players like this appear in a custom match on Sandtrap once back in the day... though they disappeared after a while...
I don't remember hearing about this stuff back in the early days except one. "The Ghost of Forge World" it was something very similar to this.
these ghosts are in mcc cause i saw one in the lockout map and i am spooked to this day
It can spawn in Forge along with the Ghost Frag Grenade you just have to manipulate the code somehow and if your lucky it will spawn one. Also he will try to kill you in Monitor Mode apparently he can spawn in Blackout which is even more scary.
How am I so full of nostalgia and terror?
Well done sir. The unmoving Spartans. The unmoving. Locked ghosts.
Or just hackers.
@RejectedShotgun So I've found a video from 2018 on UA-cam from the Project chartographer version of Halo 2 and in there, there was a Ghost. I also saw a comment saying that this is in fact a client issue, where sometimes the server and client don't sink up player information correctly and if you leave and join again the client will update. I think it happens a lot in Halo 3 as well as Halo 2 because those 2 games are very similar.
Somebody ask Marty about it. He might actually tell us if knows anything about it.
Ahh some people in the comments say it just some data disconnect and other players see joined player weird like that
What's weird about this is that the "ghost" made it's way to halo 3, and even reach. As far I'm aware Bungie said that it was campaign ai somehow making it's way to multiplayer maps, if that's true then why didn't they fixed this glitch for the next titles? Kinda weird if you ask me
i remember watching about ghosts in lobbies back when i was a young kid, didnt fucking open a solo forge lobby for months.....
this brought back memories, glad your reminded me of this eerie tale
This guy’s voice is perfectly suited for this topic xD
I remember the early(er) days of youtube. filled with various "Ghosts of Forge" in both Sandtrap and Last Resort (where i first hear of it). But those didn't even present an additional player. Just an activated bubble shield, when playing a completely solo match, or various weapon/equipment sounds, without any additional instances of scoreboard names.
me: "shoot it"
Damn Grif... always ghostin' around
I think it's fake, a hoax, but it'd cool if something like this was added. Like Herobrine. Theres would be a VERY rare chance that on a certain map, with a certain amount of players (less than 5), then something like a spartan that walk around in the background. It appears while in sight, and when out of sight it just vanishes. No running. No shooting. Never attacking. It just walks around, like a lost soul
Wait my cousin and brother would play halo all the time. When I was little I'd get mad so they made up a story about "the man from out of bounds" and well now I'm not sure they made it up
Herobrine is just the ghost of blackout.
Old bot intended for the game removed in later updates.
this would make a great game mode if you think about it, players vs the ghost(s) in a battle royal setting except players dont have to hunt down other players and just have to survive
I was immensely confused until I remembered what month it is
theyre most likely bots, which could have been a planned feature in Halo 2 that never came to be but still had some code written for it. honestly as somebody who loves playing Halo multiplayer but has no friends to play it with, i would love to find a way to replicate this so that i can have 1v1s without needing to schedule a gaming session with someone or going into a public lobby
I had a dream I was playing in a public mp game, and when I respawned, everyone was just gone. Audio was gone. I woke up, unnverved, and went back to sleep. The dream literally picked up right where it left off, and got more and more disturbing. The only dream that really messed me up with how vivid it was, and it got really disturbing.
Why does this make me slightly uneasy 😂
Sends shivers down the spine this thing on Blackout is terrifying
The halo 2 unused AI I find likely, halo 2 had large amounts of unused content like the flood juggs
Just a player who joined and the game never received all of his data, that’s how the glitch happens
A little surprised Shotgun decided to go all in on the story aspect and 0% into how to actually do the glitch. But I guess this is all just good Halloween fun for all the newer Halo fans who don’t know the Ghost
@@Epsilvonic I remember reading about this but I didn’t know we got the definite answer to this?
@@dr.catherineelizabethhalse1820 I played H2 back in the day with anti noob (the creator of the original video) and he confirmed it was just a laggy happenstance. He had a lot of fun with it when it originally came out, including a few troll videos, but never admitted it was just a product of lag to the public. Great guy though.. Miss playing with him and Maluu.
@@charliescene786 That would explain why it's unlikely now. All the other overload glitches are also much rarer in MCC
One time I was playing Halo 3 splitscreen with some buddies and we a saw some wierd purple Spartan on sandtrap ( Xbox 360 btw)
Now that you bring this up, a long time ago back on H3s Golden Age when I was a kid and at the time I played offline because we'll Never had the money until later on for Xbox Live. But I can remember specifically on Sandtrap there was a player who spawned in on my offline game playing with a couple of friends at the time. But it wasn't a glitch or anything it was a full working AI, it spawned on one of the Pillars in full Hayabusa armor and I remember getting sniped out of nowhere. But I am not BSing any of this it's bloody true
Full Hayabusa that's odd and how did he pick up a Sniper Rifle the Bots were never intended to pick Weapons up because they never implemented that into the code instead they allowed Player Controlled Characters to do that.
@@Ostr0 From my memory, the bot already had a sniper to begin with. It only stood on the sand trap bases at the very top. I wish I had hindsight as a kid to keep a recording of it since it sounds so bizarre.
@kristiangreer1802 It's possible but it would mean that whatever the game was trying to do somehow set the starting weapon to a Sniper Rifle and set the Multiplayer Appearance to Hayabusa Set. It's possible since it trys to fill in information It's missing which would mean a Manipulation of the Code also happened and it jumbled it's Spawn Co-ordinates Starting Weapon and Appearance which is exceedingly rare and hard to make reoccur.
The reason why it could because of that's because in games certain actions etc... Can oddly sometimes change the code meaning that if you know what you're doing you can trick the game into doing something impossible.
@kristiangreer1802 Well then it's explained you got really lucky that you got to see a Variant of the Glitch.
The editing that absolutely amazing voice fucking aces
Holy crap, the nostalgia. :L
I remember this. I never knew that video was removed though :(