Spirits

**Spirits** are beings and common enemies encountered in (Mario) The Music Box (Game) and (Mario) The Music Box -ARC-. They roam in certain areas in the games and will be hostile towards the player, should the player ever come in contact with them, and kill them.

## Types of Spirits

Spirits are usually humanoid, but they can also appear as possessed objects. In ARC, they can also appear as floating spheres of flame, and, with the help of Toadston's lenses, can be shown to be colored either blue or red (Luigi possesses this ability naturally without the aid of Toadston's lenses); blue indicates that a spirit is benevolent, while red indicates that a spirit is hostile. Some others may be animalistic wraiths such as the wolves and the bear that roam in the forests of Evangeline—being entirely black in color with only glowing eyes and fangs being discernable features.

## In-game

### Spirit Characters

* Alice
* Alfred
* Rosa
* Marie
* Anna
* Serina
* Aria
* Evie
* Rae
* Leo
* Mercy
* Beatrice
* Marchionne
* Luciano
* Aurora
* Norma
* Ted
* Toadston
* Emi

### Enemies

**Fake Door**

(Original Version Exclusive) Found in the Foyer as the very middle top. Poses as a door and kills the player by crushing them.

**Girl In The Bathroom**

Will appear after finding the music sheet in the bathroom. If caught by her, she drowns the player.

**Hallway Spirit**

(Original Version Exclusive) Encountered once on the way to the Garden Area. When hiding in the closet and if chosen to peek, she will pop up in front of the screen and kill the player.

**Bed Spirit**

Sleeping on the bed in the small room in the Right Wing area will lead the player to a game over. An unknown spirit will place Mario in a box (presumably a coffin) and bury him alive.

**Fake Door 2**

When playing Luigi for the first time, he will come across a door in the second floor's Hallway that has arrows pointing to it. If Luigi dared to enter the room at this point, he will be killed with his blood splashing through the doorway. The remastered version changes this death to have something drag Luigi inside and kill him.

**Fake Mario**

A spirit in the form of Mario with a pitch-black face encountered a few times only as Luigi. The player must escape him with the button mashing system. If failed to do so, Fake Mario will strangle Luigi to death (first encounter) and hang him (second encounter).

Crooked-Necked Spirit

Appears in -ARC-. Appearing in the first residence in Evangeline that Mario enters, he has a crooked neck. It is hinted at that he hung himself in his home, though his reasons for doing this are unknown. He is very likely based on the Crooked Man from the indie RPG Maker game of the same name.

## Theory

* While these spirits (not including the fake doors and Fake Mario) do not serve much of a purpose other than killing the player, these spirits could possibly have played a part in the rumors as the people who have gone to the mansion and never returning since Alice and Riba's family were people already living there. These people could have been those who attempted to investigate the house over the years but ended up dying.
* In one certain point where Mario reads a note, it is said that the spirits of those who die will return to haunt the area they died at; this could be the areas where the people who attempted to investigate the house could have died at. This could also be a possible theory that in these unnamed spirits who kill the player could have also died in a similar manner; such is shown when the girl in the bathroom drowns Mario and she sings how she died in a similar manner.