Just like the Haunting of Hill House, Bly Manor is stuffed with creepy, secret ghosts
watching events from the shadows.
Yippee-ki-yay, movie lovers, I'm Jan and in this video I'll be revealing all the hidden
ghosts I found in Bly Manor, where to find them, and explaining their connection
to the Lady of the Lake and Flora's dollhouse.
Spoilers ahead, of course, so take care.
In the first episode just after Dani arrives, as Flora shows her around the house and they
go up the stairs, you can spot a figure wearing a hat lurking in the corner.
This is the plague doctor ghost and you can see him move his head ever-so-slightly upwards
as if observing Dani's arrival.
The plague doctor is introduced in the eighth episode when he comes to the manor to diagnose
Viola's sickness.
He's killed around a decade after her death when he accidentally wanders into the path
of the vengeful Lady of the Lake, while the manor is being used as a quarantine
location after a plague outbreak in Bly.
You can see him next reflected in the mirror of Dani's room, after Miles wanders in.
And when Dani is having dinner for the first time with Mrs Grose and the children,
you can see the plague doctor's beaked mask, brown coat and gloves just behind Miles and
in front of the dining room door.
He seems to quickly disappear once the camera moves to a wider shot.
Later after Flora has finished her bath, she opens the door to her room and you can see
the silhouette of the creepy ghost.
Then, after Dani tucks Miles into bed, the doctor reappears inside the bathroom.
And when Dani walks through the bathroom, you can see his reflection in the mirror.
As Dani puts Flora to bed, the plague doctor can be seen hiding near the window in her
bedroom.
Later that night, you can spot his beak-shaped mask in this shot here as he silently watches
Dani coming out of the kitchen; and then he's here at the end of the corridor.
The next day, after Miles shows Dani the spider, he appears at the end of the garden.
Then as Dani and the kids go back to the house, he's lurking outside the manor in this shot,
at the same time that Peter Quint's ghost first appears to Dani.
At lunch, the plague doctor appears almost in plain sight in the kitchen fireplace.
The next time Dani puts Flora to bed, the plague doctor is watching on yet again, this
time from the corridor.
And when Miles comes to ask Dani for a fan, he's back to lurking in the bathroom.
This next appearance is very slight, but you can just spot his hat reflected in the walk-in
closet room mirror here.
He also later watches Dani emerge from Flora's room after she was locked in the closet by
the children.
And then at the very end of the first episode, the creepy profile of the ghost appears in
the garden.
There's a spooky moment in the second episode when Dani descends into the basement to recover
Flora's Lady of the Lake doll.
As she turns off the light and leaves, hidden in the pile of discarded old dolls, you can
spot the Doll Face Ghost sitting up.
This ghost is the little boy that Flora discovered playing with her dollhouse.
He gets his name "Doll Face Ghost" from the mask that Flora took from another doll in
the attic and put on him as she said his face was unfinished.
The boy became a ghost when he was killed by the Lady of the Lake during one of her
walks to her daughter's old room.
You can spot his ghost standing at the end of a corridor on the ground floor while Dani
is looking for Miles in the second episode.
In the third episode, you can just make out his nightgown here outside the door as the
police officer goes to leave.
And then moments later, he's back in the house just behind Dani.
The next morning, as Dani's getting up, you can spot him lurking in the shadows.
And in a super-creepy moment, he appears in the mirror of Flora's bedroom where he turns
his head as Dani walks past.
And you can see him move his head as he watches Dani leave Flora's room after she kisses her
goodnight in the fourth episode.
You can also see him crouched in the corner of the kitchen here.
Which must be one of his favourite hiding spots because he's back there in the fifth
episode.
And during one of Mrs Grose's time loops, the little boy ghost pops up behind some furniture
in the main hallway.
Also hidden in this shot to the right of the staircase is the ghost of the vicar, sombrely
looking on.
The vicar was the second victim who accidentally found himself caught in the Lady of the Lake's
deadly path.
And he appears again in the fifth episode in the bathroom between Flora and Miles's
bedrooms.
In the third episode, as the police officer is leaving you can spot a hidden ghost standing
to attention at the back of the entrance hall.
We don't know exactly how this soldier died, but during one of Flora's memories, while
she was tucked away, her uncle Henry tells her about a ghost he once knew at Bly Manor.
"I had a friend when I was your age, too.
In this house, in fact.
He was a soldier, and I was very afraid of him, until I gave him a story."
We don't know if Viola's ghost killed this soldier or if he died of some other cause,
however, during the Second World War, the British government requisitioned large country
houses and estates to serve as part of the war effort,
and it's quite possible that this soldier was someone working at Bly Manor at the time
who was unlucky enough to cross paths with the Lady of the Lake.
He also appears behind Miss Jessel as she plays with Flora's dolls.
A nice detail in this scene is that the camera very briefly sharpens its focus on the soldier
doll just before he shows up behind Rebecca.
This next one is tricky to see, but you can spot the soldier for just a split second when
the lightning flashes in the kitchen while Rebecca and Peter are talking together.
The soldier ghost also appears again towards the end of a corridor just after the doctor
who's come to check on Flora leaves.
You'll need to watch this scene carefully because when the doctor was talking to Dani,
the corridor was empty but after he leaves the ghost is now there.
And in the fourth episode, he's creepily watching Dani outside while she burns her former fiancé's
spectacles in the bonfire.
Then in the sixth episode, as Dani chases Flora up the stairs into the attic, you can
spot both the soldier ghost and the vicar ghost looking on.
The eighth episode reveals the dark backstory of Viola and Perdita,
and midway through just before Perdita goes to ask Arthur to open the trunk, as she descends
the stairs, the portrait of her dead sister seems to come
alive and there's a little angry sound in the air.
Some other creepy apparitions that are harder to identify include these hands grabbing onto
a chair while Mrs Grose and Owen are eating in the kitchen,
meaning there's a ghost hiding under the table, and judging by the sleeves, it's probably
the Doll Face Ghost.
There's an unknown ghost at the back of the entrance hall in the fourth episode wearing
what looks like breeches and knee-high socks.
And that same figure appears in the doorway of the chapel when the Wingraves arrive home
in the fifth episode.
And there seems to be a ghost lurking at the back of this corridor which looks like it
might be the Doll Face ghost, but it's a little too blurry to be sure though
the hidden figure definitely wasn't there earlier on the same day.
There's also a ghostly figure just behind Jamie, while she and Dani are out looking
for Peter Quint.
And its long, light-coloured robe suggests it could be the Doll Face Ghost again.
And there are even more plague doctor ghost appearances to look out for on top of the
ones I mentioned earlier.
When Dani bends down to pick up Flora's faceless doll, as she gets up there's a blurry figure
reflected in the mirror that wasn't there before.
Judging from the brownish colours, it looks like the plague doctor again.
In the second episode, the masked doctor can be seen spying on Mrs Grose and Jamie over
here.
And as Jamie comes back in the house, he's right at the end of the corridor.
During the game of hide-and-seek in the second episode, you can spot the doctor lurking near
a window in a room where Dani goes to look for the children.
And during the game, the ghost of Miss Jessel is watching in the background while Dani's
back is turned.
In the third episode, while Dani, Mrs Grose, Miles and Flora are talking to the police
officer who's come to investigate Dani's sighting of Peter Quint,
in the background you can spot the outline of the plague doctor's distinctive beaky mask
as he observes the scene.
And in the fourth episode, you can spot the creepy hat and beak crouching by the desk
in the study as Dani walks past with a bottle of wine.
And there are even a few secret ghosts when characters aren't at Bly Manor.
It's not immediately obvious, but the backpacker that comes out of the room Dani's staying
in at the hostel in London is very likely another hidden ghost.
Notice that Dani's room is for two people, but only one bed is made up,
and it's unlikely anyone else has been staying there as she's been using the sheets from
the second bed to cover up the mirrors in the room.
Another ghost outside the manor you might have missed is the ghost of Edmund who appears
very briefly in the window of a taxi that rushes past Dani in the first episode.
I also have a theory that there could be some ghosts haunting Miles's boarding school.
These two priests in the headmaster's office while Miles is being reprimanded seem strangely
silent throughout and not really necessary for the scene.
And when the camera cuts to a different angle, the priest to the front of the desk seems
to no longer be there.
Likewise, when Miles goes to the school's chapel to read a passage from the Bible, there's
a mysterious man painting the wall.
He seems like an unnecessary character to add to this scene given Miles has no interaction
with him, and I suspect he may be a ghost as well, similar to the clock-fixing ghost
in Hill House.
Like Dani's backpacker ghost, these figures may simply be there to add to the oppressive
sense Miles already feels from the ghost of Peter Quint.
An interesting detail is that all the hidden Bly Manor ghosts we need to look out for throughout
the season appear as dolls when Flora introduces Dani to her dollhouse in the very first episode.
Notice that Rebecca Jessel's doll is behind Flora's bed, which is fitting as the ghost
of the dead au pair has been taking possession of Flora.
Similarly, Peter Quint's doll is hiding behind the wardrobe in Miles's bedroom.
The plague doctor is in the bathroom exactly where he appears as Dani walks through the
room.
The Doll Face Ghost is down in the entrance hall, where he appeared in the fifth episode.
As is the soldier ghost who appeared there in episode three.
Perdita is in the attic, which is where she was killed after opening Viola's trunk of
clothes and jewels, and she's the ghost who Flora tells to be quiet in the second episode.
I haven't seen the dead vicar in the dining room [as he is here], but presumably he's
lurking around there in a scene somewhere
And Mrs Grose is the doll with the red top and green skirt.
Sneakily, this doll is an early clue to the fact that Mrs Grose is already dead and is
actually a ghost at this point, something that isn't revealed until the fifth episode.
The other three dolls are for characters that are still alive:
Flora, Miles and Dani.
As we later find out though, Flora and Miles have already been possessed by ghosts;
and Dani will eventually become possessed as well by the Lady of the Lake.
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And to discover even more things you missed in The Haunting of Bly Manor and easter eggs
which connect it to The Haunting of Hill House, tap here to watch my upcoming video on that
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So, did you spot any other hidden ghosts this season?
And what were your favourite details in the show?
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