This may be my favorite Carnivores video ever

tldr: Ghoul is Herobrine but in Carnivores

I feel that one of the reasons why this tale is so popular (I think that's the right word?) is because of how limited accessible and reliable online information about the Carnivores games is (sort of like how the lack of online information of Minecraft lead to the Herobrine creepypasta being widespread popular).

In a way I love-hate this tale because its making me experience the same tought processes I felt back then playing Minecraft a long time ago.

The Ghoul is actually just a ripped Moschops this whole time.

People who say that the game crashing right as the player died from the ghoul is suspicious, hear me out.

If the ghoul wasn’t meant to really be left in the game, and it’s rarity is possibly due to the glitchiness of it, it actually would make sense for the game to crash upon being killed by this entity, as the game could possibly be trying to load an animation or event that isn’t there. Since there is nothing there for the game to use, the game possibly could crash due to it. If it is hard coded into the game and everything else isn’t, then it actually makes a lot of sense as to why a crash would occur.

so that's why it says the bunkers were breached by a creature of tremendous strength

I've never met another human that's ever played carnivores. Last time I played was probably 15+ years ago and the feeling I got seeing gameplay again is insane.

I was always so creeped out by that one temple surrounded by lava in the first game. My cousin showed me you could jump the gap and it blew my mind.

I always had a weird feeling in that map

As someone who has never played any Carnivores games and has no ties to the series whatsoever, this claim sounds about as convincing as the "sv_hazard_course_ girl_not_wearing_ any_clothes 1" code for Half-Life.

Never hunting on hills EVER again

I love carnivores horror stuff. There’s something about the game being so obviously fake, a video game, that allows me to be fully focused and immersed into it- so when something happens that’s meant to frighten or bother me, it does, and when something is there that really shouldn’t be, it sends shivers up my spine. Great job Tatem, this game pours more fear into me than modern horror.

This is definitely interesting, but I'm leaning towards it being a mod. People have been able to create their own custom creatures and animations for sometime now, plus the fact that the only other person of note who backed him up was a member of the community known for working on mods seems a bit too coincidental. I'd like to believe it though.

I have the idea that maybe the Ghoul was meant to be a hostile ambient creature for some sort of landmark or lore reason, but the devs drifted away from the idea for one reason or another.

But honestly if the Ghoul is just a mod thats been secretly developed to build upon the mystery, I would love to have it to add a bit of extra fear and hesitation to hunts as a super rare spawn to keep us on our toes.

hey guys its me, mr glumbis!! haha!

To think, with the Modders Edition Engine, a mod can actually have a hidden ghoul in the game! A rare animal which you can’t select from the menu, that would be awsome!

Even if you don’t believe it it’s very interesting and cool cryptid /mystery especially for non mainstream game

Imagine if saurian made the "asking a carnivores dev"video after seeing this

I believe the story of the ghoul is an ARG carnivores creepy pasta. think about it the creator contacted Ophious ( a well known canon style modeler) before the official picture of the model was taken. and it's spotted on the OG PC version of carnivores 2 a VERY  heavily modded game. so it's not unlikey that this is an ARG

I miss this era of games so much. When there were constantly mysteries, and unknown horrors rumored to be lurking in every open world game. GTA: SA being the biggest example. The amount of time I spent looking for Bigfoot, Leatherface, the Ring girl, Jason, Freddy, and literally any other creature of the night I could think of, haha.

Me: Turns on debug mode
The ghoul: You weren’t supposed to do that

Something I just realized when reading the dinopedia on the mobile game, reading on Delphaeus Hills: it talks about the archaeology bunker “whose walls and bunkers have been breached by a creature of tremendous strength”. Unlike Fort Ciskin, which mentions the walls falling to specifically “the fury of a T. Rex”, whatever did the damage to the barriers in Dephaeus Hills wasn’t disclosed. I almost feel like it would be. Vengar Fjords, Manya Jungle, and Ravaren’s Bridge all mention ‘dinosaurs’ explicitly with their descriptions, with Nibelungan Paradise mentioning ‘predators’, but Delphaeus Hills just mentions ‘a creature of tremendous strength’. Why not just say ‘a dinosaur of tremendous strength’?

It’s probably talking about the Ceratosaurus or something but this descriptor for the first map just strikes me as odd, especially since the Ghoul is said to be exclusive to Delphaeus Hills. And one of the first supposed sightings was near the archaeological site, interestingly enough.

Do with that what you will, I suppose. It could be innocuous, but it made me look twice after I read it after hearing about the Ghoul. Even if it is all fake, its a fun little detail.