The Delphaeus Hills Ghoul

Carnivores 2, a game where you go to an alien planet and kill dinosaurs

But sometimes it feels rather creepy, as if you were hunted by someone else. This is the story of the Delphaeus Hills ghoul.

One day I decided to revisit the vanilla Carnivores 2, without mods and other stuff. As I started the hunt on parasaurolophus, I immediately felt the presence of evil on this map. I brushed it off, thinkining that I was paranoid of randomly spawned carnivores, and I was right - an allosaurus started running at me. I took out my pistol to shoot it, but the attack didn't happen. The allosaurus just ran past me at very high speeds, as if it was scared of something... I found that very strange, but could it be a pathfinding error? After killing my "first" parasaur, I evacuated. And on the third second of evacuation process I saw something in the distance. Few gray moving pixels emerging from the swamp. No creature in C2 was that gray. Could it be a graphics error? On my next hunt I tried to avoid the swamp. I took out my radar to see the locations of stegosaurs, and I kid you not, the stegosaurus near the swamp started running. Should I say that I was on another edge of the map? The dot then disappeared. A thing that should happen only if dinosaur had died. I quickly killed a stegosaurus near me and evacuated.

After few hours of grinding and not hunting on Delphaeus Hills, I finally had enough points to purchase the rifle and its sniper cousin. I knew that I had to learn what was hiding in the swamp. So I started a hunt and headed for the swamp. When I reached it, I saw at least 10 dead dinosaurs inside it. The wounds on them were oddly realistic, but that wasn't the scariest part. For some reason I felt the odor of rotten meat in real life, as if I was in that swamp. Disgusted by the sight, I tried walking away.. but I died. I felt massive pain in stomach.

The camera was moving very slowly, it seemed like it didn't want to show me my killer, but eventually it did. That's when I knew that the allosaurus running past me, few gray pixels and stegosaurus dying were not glitches. I was killed by a large grey creature with muscular arms and body. Its head was rather small, but quite reptilian looking. And as it ate my corpse, I experienced the stomach pain again. The game crashed and I blacked out.

I called the creature "Delphaeus Hills Ghoul". If you are reading this, then take the story as a warning, because this can happen to anyone.

Investigation by u/carnishunter113 on Reddit
Post 1:

Delphaeus Hills Ghouls - Real or Unreal?
Hello fellow dinosaur hunters! So after seeing the iceberg image posted in this subreddit some time ago, I became rather intrigued by some of the items mentioned in the image, specifically the Delphaeus Hills Ghouls. Over the past few weeks I have dedicated my spare time to exploring the Hills of Delphaeus, scouring the landscape for any possible evidence to substantiate these bold claims.

It's been almost 200 excursions in both regular and observer mode, dawn, day and night, but I have yet to see any concrete evidence that would prove the existence of these Ghouls. I think if I do over 300 hunts without seeing anything significant I will move on to other mysterious entries on the iceberg but for now the Delphaeus Hills Ghouls are top priority. Wish me luck, fellow hunters, and I will report my findings soon!

Post 2:

UPDATE on the Delphaeus Hills Ghouls
Hello once again fellow dinosaur hunters! I come with great news from my investigations into the Carnivores conspiracies. As you may know from my report, I have been searching for the ghouls purported to inhabit Delphaeus Hills. At the time of my previous post's writing, I had found nothing and was about ready to quit the investigation.... until tonight. I was at the radar base, when in the distance, I saw a ghoulish creature. It was very far away, and by the time I noticed it was too late, as it ran away before I could get a picture of it. So, all I have for you is an artistic representation of what I saw. What I know is that it is a tall, bipedal creature which appears to possibly be a green, reptilian version of the Yeti. I added a circle around it so it's easier to see. Since it was spotted so close to the radar base, I have a possible explanation for its mysterious presence. Perhaps the radar in question (which I have also pointed out in the picture) serves as some sort of ghoul attraction device. I will be conducting further investigations around this area to see if my hypothesis is correct. With any luck, we may just capture an image of this ghoul. Wish me luck, fellow hunters!

Post 3: Hello there fellow hunters. I would simply wish to confirm to you that I am indeed a real life human being and not the creation of another human being as has been purported in this post. I am entirely unconnected to any of the persons you have mentioned above within your post. However I have been inspired by some of their own posts, such as the iceberg and Far North Beta 0 (I have even been checking the Carnivores Far North page at 3 AM to see if any strange happenings occur), and as such decided to create a reddit account in order to log my various findings in the games of the Carnivores Saga. I have simply been lurking for some time and have only recently decided to create an account for the purpose of posting here what I have seen in the game. By the way, I am continuing my investigations on the Ghouls rumored to inhabit the Hills of Delphaeus, though I have yet to see anything once again. Happy hunting once more!

Post 4: Hello fellow hunter, this quite the intriguing discover that you have made. I myself have not been able to spot the Delphaeus Hills Ghouls for a certain amount of time, and I had begun to doubt if I had truly seen what I had believed I had. However, now that other great hunters such as yourself have spotted the creature with your own eyes, I must say that I am no longer doubting the existence of the creatures known as the Delphaeus Hills Ghouls.

I must ask however, did you see the Ghoul at the distance that it is drawn, or is it simply a close up of what you had seen from a distance. If the former is true, it is the closest sighting of a ghoul yet. Even if the latter is true, it is still quite the astonishing discovery, as it proves the Ghoul of Delphaeus Hills is present even in the mobile ports of the games. Perhaps it is something hardcoded in the files that managed to sneak its way into the port? Perhaps the devs intended to remove the creature but made a mistake somewhere, making it a very rare spawn. It is a strange creature, and I hope to see more of it soon.

I am still investigating the swamps of Delphaeus Hills to see if there may be any Ghoul presence there, as it seems to be definitive near the radar station. Good luck hunting.

Post 5: Hello fellow hunters, tonight I bring you news I believe shows irrefutable proof of the existence of the strange creatures known only as the Delphaeus Hills Ghouls. I had begun getting tired of my expeditions and searches in the radar base, so I figured it was time to research another landmark within the Delphaeus Hills, the swamp. This area had always seemed a little bit creepy to me, and I had rationalized that it may be another potential Ghoul hotspot. I had been searching for days, doing nothing but sitting around for hours and loading the map hundreds of times, when suddenly, my eyes fell upon a shape in the distance.

To my shock, a Ghoul of Delphaeus Hills was staring directly at me, standing upright as it had in my previous encounter with the creature. As I pulled out my camera, it began running away, but this time it was not speedy enough to escape my photography. Of course, the image is slightly blurred from my frantic attempt to get a photograph of the Ghoul, but I am of the mind that it shows the creature well enough. Truly, I believe this is an amazing finding for the community as a whole.

I have also talked to some people within the community for any other information about these "ghouls", and I managed to get in contact with Carnivores modder Ophious, creator of Far North and Migration. He told me that he first heard about the ghouls while on the 2nd Saga Forums, which have since been deleted. He said someone had also seen them in the game, and while most people did not believe a word he said, a few others agreed with the user. He later told me he had gotten a glimpse of the Ghoul while creating Far North, reporting that he had seen the animal on Moraine Domain. This would tie into my theory that the Ghoul is somehow hardcoded into the 1st map of Carnivores, and could reasonably appear on any 1st map of a mod using the Carnivores 2 Engine. I will keep you all updated on any future sightings.

Investigation by u/jamescoolcrafter15 on Reddit
Post 1: Nice illustration! I also have a possible theory, and that is what if the ghouls are the previous human inhabitants of the outpost? We don't really know what happened to the outpost, so this is possible. Maybe there are some clues leftover to what happened inside of the bunker.

Post 2: DinoHunt Corp. hasn't yet disclosed to us the contents of the barrels.

Post 3: If you've been paying attention to this subreddit, you know that u/carnishunter113 is a user searching for the Delphaeus Hills Ghouls. But is this really a real person?

If we look at the profile of this user, we can see they made their account on the same day they uploaded the first post on the Delphaeus Hills Ghouls. The only 2 posts on the account are the posts about the Delphaeus Hills Ghouls. They've never replied to any comments or spoken in any other subreddits.

My guess? This is most probably u/LilGreenGhoulsBud. The name checks out with the content about ghouls. On a less probable note, it could be u/TheGreenSpyGuy or even u/UnexpectedCalamity (most probably not).

That is just my theory on who it could be. No doubt it is a throwaway account. The problem is, why would someone make a throwaway account for something as minuscule as this. Not like you'll receive any consequences. This is why I think it could be one of these people.

Post 4: So the user u/carnishunter113 claims to have seen supposed "Ghouls" on the island of Delphaeus Hills. At first, I was on the edge about whether they were real or not, but I saw something today which freaked me out.

So I was on the island, specifically searching around the chasm and the deserted archaeological outpost. While looking at the buildings from a distance, I thought I saw something. No, scratch that, I saw something. I was taking photographs at the time, but I can't seem to find any evidence of the humanoid showing up in any of them.

Today, I returned again to take a photo of where I saw the ghoul, and to draw what I saw onto the photo. My carnivores crashed and severely lagged out my phone (this is not a joke) before I could get a good picture. Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter has never crashed before on any device of mine.

Here are the photos I've managed to get, starting off with the photo containing an illustration of what I saw, and the rest being photos relating to the outpost.

Although I wonder what it is I saw, I hope that I do not see it again.

Post 5: It most definitely is in the PC versions as that is where the rumor originated but I don't play on the PC version much myself so I haven't seen it there. I would think this is a map ambient, but... Something's off. It's like I have this feeling in my gut that it's something completely different. An ambient would be spotted more, it wouldn't hide like this. It wouldn't have movements like what I saw. I don't recall any creatures in Carnivores being able to poke there hand around the corner like this. This is something far bigger.

Post 6: But the crates would need to be radioactive for that, and out of all of the hunters I've spoken to I don't recall any of them talking about any radiation-related injuries.

Post 7: I was using my camera at a distance, the photograph is zoomed up. I also was thinking the same thing about the possibility of the ghouls being ported over from Carnivores 2 to Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter.