Haunted is a secret chapter in Slender: The Arrival.
This chapter can be accessed by playing Prologue. In the chapter, make your way to Kate's House. Outside of the house, there is a swing set. After interacting with it, proceed into the house and play the piano until it plays the first few notes of "No Friends", accompanied by the text "This sounds familiar". Walk outside the house and up to the missing person poster of Charlie Matheson Jr. on a tree. Doing so will cause your screen to distort, and the level will load.
Overview[]
Once the level loads, text will appear on screen saying "I'm lost, can you find me?". You will then start the level outside of Kate's House with much of the environment missing, improper textures and basic lighting.
The entire level is focused on playing a game of hide-and-seek with Slender Man. Frequently throughout this level, your screen will distort and you will be teleported to another location on the map. Eventually, you will find Slender Man in one of the rooms of Kate's House. The screen will turn black, and another line of text will appear on the screen saying "I like you, I want to play a game.". This will cause the same level to load again, but with a different objective.
Once the level loads, there will be text on the screen saying "I will find you instead". You must now hide from Slender Man, although he will again by teleporting you to different location around the map. Moving through doors will cause sounds associated with The Chaser to play. Once Slender Man "finds" you, he will teleport you to the back of the house, where you will be on fire and Slender Man will be walking towards you from different directions. One he reaches you, the screen will show the missing poster of Charlie combined with the Slender Man's face before turning black, saying "You are dead"; thus ending the level.
Trivia[]
- The name of the level comes from the game files. The fake menu is named "99_HauntedMenu" and the level itself is named "99_Haunted".
- The level's associated scripts are referred to in the game files as "Creepypasta".
- It was once thought that the level was accessed by playing Prologue, walking up to the Charlie Matheson Jr. poster, exiting the level, and repeating the process two additional times. Although this was technically correct, it was simply correlation as this method of accessing the secret level was in fact a bug. The bug has since been patched as of the Anniversary Edition, requiring the player to access the level through the proper method.
- If you press "Start Game" after completing the level, a new level will load that shows the camera looking up at the sky and the screen distorting. Eventually, the audio distortion will get louder until Slender Man's death screen appears.
- After "soft-locking" the game in the last static camera shot, opening the console and writing "toggledebug" in the very little time you have will cause the console to answer with "Why would you want to do that?". If you try to activate any other command, the game will instead respond with "Debug Mode not activated".
- During this level on the main menu, if you click "Stage Selection", all of the images for the different stages will be changed to the missing poster of Charlie Matheson Jr. Attempting to use any other options aside from "Start Game" will not work, and the selected option will change itself to read "Start Game", along with a message appearing. The message differs depending on which alternate option is selected:
- "Options" will give the message "I like it this way".
- "Extras" will give the message "I only need you".
- "Credits" will give the message "I'm alone".
- "Exit Game" will give the message "Don't leave me".