Phasmophobia’s roster of ghosts has steadily grown over the years, which means there are likely some that are more familiar to you than others. One of the later additions to the game is the Deildegast, which arrived on July 21, 2026.
Like all ghosts, this entity is rather unique, which means there’s an array of specific evidence, plus some other behaviors, patterns, and clues you can watch out for to identify it. If you want to be ready to face this ghost in any contract, here’s how to identify a Deildegast in Phasmophobia.
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Deildegast evidence in Phasmophobia
The Deildegast has three official types of evidence you can look for to identify it, which are Ghost Writing, EMF Level Five, and DOTS Projector. In all standard contracts, you’ll always be able to capture all three. Certain weekly challenges or custom matches may hide evidence, though, so you may sometimes need to identify it with less.
Here’s how to capture all evidence types required to identify a Deildegast.
| Evidence | How to get |
|---|---|
| Ghost Writing | Place a Ghost Writing Book anywhere around the ghost’s favorite room. Then, wait for the ghost to write in it. Any drawing or writing in this book counts as Ghost Writing evidence, as only ghosts who have this as an evidence form can perform this action. |
| EMF Level Five | Use an EMF Reader to capture an EMF Level Five reading. This is generally easiest to do while in the ghost’s favorite room. Turn on the EMF Reader and walk around the area to check for it. Anytime the ghost throws something, performs an interaction, or otherwise engages, an EMF Reading may occur. All ghosts can give EMF Readings, so only those that reach EMF Level Five count as actual evidence. |
| DOTS Projector | Find the ghost’s favorite room, then place a DOTS Projector down anywhere in it. Witness the ghost pass through the DOTS Projector to officially get this type of evidence. You can witness a ghost walking through DOTS in person, through a handheld Video Camera, or through a placed Video Camera from the truck. |
Deildegast behavior, patterns, and clues in Phasmophobia
In addition to its main, officially recognized evidence that is steady and reliable, the Deildegast also possesses an array of other behaviors, patterns, and clues you can watch out for. These are less concrete, which makes them tougher to catch. Still, these extra details can be quite helpful during tougher investigations, so here are all other abilities attributed to the Deildegast.
- The Deildegast always has the upper hand at the start of an investigation, as nothing has happened to slow down its speed at this point.
- The Deildegast is generally a fairly fast ghost, moving at about three meters per second as its base speed, almost the same as the Revenant.
- The Deildegast gets fixated on items that are misplaced, which means you can move items to slow it down. This process must be done outside of hunts, and you’ll always want to move multiple items to activate this debuff. You also need to move items that are part of the house, not your own equipment.
- The description for the Deildegast says that both living and deceased players can slow down the ghost, which means all players can throw items to help make this ghost weaker.
- The speed of this ghost seems to decrease by about 3.3 percent with each item you move.
- The lowest speed you can get the Deildegast down to is about 0.4 meters per second. This requires you to move around 30 items.
- The Deildegast sometimes seems to slow itself down by throwing things, too.
- This ghost does not speed up with line of sight as most others do, which means it doesn’t get quicker once it has a player within its sight.
There are plenty of other tricky ghosts that might be haunting the location you’re at if you determine it’s not a Deildegast. Some other ones you might want to work on identifying are the Aswang, Kormos, Obambo, Gallu, and Dayan.
