Dress to Impress Ghost Hunting is a Halloween minigame where you use a light to stun ghosts and a vacuum to catch them for seasonal Candy. It arrived with the October 17, 2026 update and gives you another way to earn Halloween rewards without spending the whole session on runway rounds.
If your flashlight keeps hitting ghosts but your Candy balance isn’t changing, you’re probably stopping before the capture stage. A ghost needs several shocks before you can vacuum it up, and a nearly exhausted tool can let you down right as it becomes vulnerable.
How to start Dress to Impress Ghost Hunting
Dress to Impress Ghost Hunting is one of the Halloween activities available from Freeplay. Join the official Roblox game, switch to Freeplay and enter the Ghost Hunting minigame instead of queuing for a normal fashion round. If you haven’t visited Freeplay recently, it’s the mode with an open area for activities outside the regular dressing and runway timer.
Players on launch weekend sometimes had to leave and join another server for the minigame to appear. That is worth trying if the Halloween shop and other activities are available but Ghost Hunting is still missing from your Freeplay session.
How to catch ghosts with the flashlight and vacuum
The Dress to Impress Ghost Hunting loop has two parts. First, face a ghost and use the tool’s light to shock it several times. Once the ghost has taken enough shocks, it can be vacuumed for Candy. The light alone doesn’t finish the job, which is why the reward might not arrive after your first hit.
- Approach a ghost and turn your character toward it.
- Use the flashlight to shock it, keeping the light aimed as it moves.
- Recharge your tool when the meter runs low or fills too far.
- Continue until the ghost becomes vulnerable to the vacuum.
- Keep the vacuum trained on the ghost until the catch completes.
- Check your Candy balance and move to another spirit.
Some larger ghosts take longer to weaken. If the creature keeps moving after your first shock, it hasn’t necessarily bugged out. Keep working through the stun stage, recharge when needed and wait for the capture opportunity.
What do the green and white bars mean?
Keep an eye on both meters while you’re hunting. The green meter is connected to using the shock function. The other meter builds as you use the equipment. Letting it reach its limit can interrupt an otherwise promising catch.
In Dress to Impress Ghost Hunting, the easiest habit is to recharge between targets and again before trying to vacuum a stubborn ghost. It is better to spend a moment resetting the tool than to discover you cannot finish the capture after the hardest part is done.
How to aim on mobile
Mobile players can have a particularly awkward time with Dress to Impress Ghost Hunting because moving the camera doesn’t necessarily turn the avatar. Line your character up with the target before using the flashlight, especially if the beam keeps missing. If the light doesn’t reach the ghost directly in front of your screen, adjust where your character is standing and which way it faces.
Try walking around the target until the tool points toward it, then activate the light. Follow the on-screen prompts for shocking, recharging and vacuuming rather than assuming a PC key guide applies to touch controls. With larger ghosts, keep enough distance to turn your character without losing your view.
Can you catch the same ghost as another player?
Yes. Other players can join a capture when a stunned spirit is ready to be vacuumed. You may find it easier to tackle large ghosts when several people are nearby, but you should still finish your own interaction and check that the Candy has registered.
Dress to Impress Ghost Hunting works as a repeatable activity during the Halloween event. You aren’t limited to a single ghost per visit, and players have been returning to the minigame without a long cooldown. That makes it useful for collecting seasonal currency between other activities.
How much Candy does Dress to Impress Ghost Hunting give?
The Candy reward follows a successful ghost capture, not every flashlight shock. Payouts can differ depending on the spirit and the current Halloween event balance, so a single catch is not a reliable number to multiply across an entire hour of play.
If you’re mainly farming Candy, Tarot Cards is another strong Freeplay option because it asks you to match pairs rather than chase ghosts. Both feed the Halloween currency shop, while the Baddie Pass uses its own XP progression from normal play and quests.
Dress to Impress Ghost Hunting not working?
If the ghosts won’t catch, check three things before restarting. First, face the ghost with your avatar, especially on mobile. Second, keep shocking until the vacuum step becomes available. Finally, recharge the tool before its meters reach their limits, particularly when you’re dealing with a bigger spirit.
If Dress to Impress Ghost Hunting itself is missing, rejoin Freeplay in a fresh server. The Halloween 2026 event runs through November 7 at 4pm UTC, so you have time to complete more sessions before the seasonal activities finish.
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Official game: Dress to Impress on Roblox.
