This is specifically a Spelunky 2 theory; I don't think it applies to the first two games. Also may include serious spoilers.

Now, I came up with a theory as to why the Ghost attacks you, lore-wise.

Firstly, let's take Eggplant World into account. The Ghost doesn't "spawn" there, because she's already there, floating above her own grave as evidenced by the Camera!

Given that Eggplant World is pretty much a safe zone if you don't manage to SD via throwables or whatever, I think the Ghost is actually trying to SAVE the Spelunker's soul by somehow guiding it to Eggplant World instead of killing them just for kicks, and the process is simply easier if she disposes of the Spelunker's body, hence why you gib when you're caught by her.

Magmars might provide some extra evidence; the Journal states that they may be the trapped souls of past spelunkers who've died in lava.

I'm not entirely sure how to tie Curse Pots into this theory, but maybe it simply alerts her to the location of whoever broke it, and the usual three minutes consist of her blindly searching for the Spelunker.

In short, the Ghost killing you is a misguided attempt at leading the player to the one safe place in the Caves, so that their soul doesn't become trapped in the worse areas.

What do you guys think?

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I was playing Spelunky 2 WITHOUT A CUSTOM SEED. I started my run as usual, but i die to the ghost. Ok, I'll start a new one. I wasn't baffled until I saw that the run WAS THE EXACT SAME AS MY LAST ONE. I'M PLAYING NORMAL SPELUNKY!!!! HOW RARE IS THIS???

That one player online whos AFK so you curse them for ghist shop then he starts to play and kills all the players bc he mad

This is my first episode for spelunky lore so i decide to start with the cavemen and the temple and the olmec cult because why not so this is who this will work this lore info will come from all three spelunky games being spelunky classic,HD and the second one and DISCLAIMER some of this lore will be my thought and opinion based on the research i conducted and with that out of the way let's take a dive beneath the waves.

Okay where do we find cavemen, well funny questions nearly everywhere in every stage of the game. Now i noticed this first in classic we see them wandering about in the dwelling,then in the jungle they became very more common,next we go to the ice caves finding them encased in ice and finally the temple were we find a special breed of cavemen,Hawkmen which seem to be in some sort of olmec cult. But where did hawkmen go we don't find them in spelunky 2 which actually surprised me and confused me.So going deeper we find out that olmec curse that was supposed to trap speunklers olmec was just a small part of it. And so this leaves me with a theory i believe that cavemen are getting smarter through out the progress of the spelunky series why do i believe that one cavemen shopkeepers were not in spelunky HD.and father more they didnt add that cavemen could carry items even being able to off handley active them.maybe the fact that cavemen got smarter was why they drifted away from olmec all together i mean it makes sense maybe in a future spelunky; game there will be a certain item that will make all cavemen in the game passive to you but i honestly don't know.

Now before i tie in the cavemen theory with the jungle theory, let's go over a few things.First take my lore theory with a grain of salt you know.(i'd really enjoy it to hear your opinion in the comments) so first lets go over the holes in this theory ( there was just one major one) when we fight olmec in spelunky 2 we find that the cavemen are still worshiping olmec which would mean they still hold olmec to a leader to some extreme.

Now onto the good stuff. I was playing spelunky 2 and I noticed that there are some brick are wall hidden under the growth of vines in the jungle. My first thought was maybe the ruins of the haunted castle but I believe it may be the black market more likely. But the haunted castle does have some brief lore expectations. First we find two unique enemies, the black knight and teh green knight. Now the thing is when you break their armor, guess what you fine inside a CAVEMEN. So maybe the cavemen were actually immortal honestly i don't know but here the chain of event i think happened.

First I think Cavemen were not that smart and prepared for the Deep caves but over time in the dwell they started to build traps and draw art on the walls following their big leader. Eventually Cavemen spilt up to make there own groups are tribes (tiki men and witch doctors) to live in the dangers jungle now at the time they took a interest to olmec worshiping him and the most cavemen with the knowledge of olmec became hawkmen doing everything to protect olmec and the temple but eventually they started to get tired and bored and with olmec kill some of their fellow cavemen they left the temple and eventually left olmec all together father that cavemen did a lot of things like setting up shops and learning how to adopt to the harsh conditions of the ice caves making warm campfires to prevent them from getting frozen in ice some cavemen sought out power and eternal life but got cursed within the haunt castle. And they prolly were afraid of the spuinkler but now over time there starting to get passive (Cavemen shopkeepers) and eventually learn how to pick up items but still have trouble properly activating them. So what could this mean for the caveman's future honestly i don't know maybe the shopkeeper fear of their growth of setting up shops and maybe a war idk but thanks for reading and id be happy to hear from you PLEASE COMMENT

Huh so i decided to up the diffculty in a classic no gold run by getting to teh city of gold without any gold and let me tell you robing the black market was hard asf and now that i did it idk how ima beat the shopkeeper bc i cant use bombs in the city of gold

I cant belive i robbed the black market (no cheats lmaf fr) with no gold and as playing as tunnel man no im in the ice caves so yeah BOOOOOM im a classic pro ngl but trust me beating omlec is gonna be much harder thougth my plan is to use my 67 bombs to do it safly so if anyone has tips please tell me :)

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Is it true shopkeepers might make items more expensive if you're playing as Princess Airyn? I have heard that somewhere but I'm not sure if it's true

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How to fix this pixel deformation effect? Playing in window doesn`t help, graphic settings are too simple. Wiki uses not deformated screenshots, so i guess there should be a way.

P.S. Or, maybe, I should play original non-HD version? Tell me someone please.

(sorry for so badly cut screenshot)

I was attempting a city of gold run and I had 56 bombs, the sceptre, and the hedjet, and then I died when I fell into a lava pit.

Also, found a glitch revolving around the black market.

If you anger a shopkeeper without killing them, and manage to trap them somewhere, you can steal everything else in the black market without being killed.

My dad just looks at stuff here lol