Elh: The Luigi's Mansion Mystery Left Unsolved for 20 Years 

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Elh is real 2021.

I think him being a placeholder for bogmeyer is probably the safest bet. It doesn't help that they both look like they are liquid based, slime to be specific. And with the attacks and particles added on, I think what happened was either somebody looked at this and thought it would be too scary for Luigi's Mansion, and then changed it to bargmeyer, or thought the boss would probably be too hard, so they went with something easier. Either case, what a great find

Maybe Elh could've been the balcony boss since you get the ice ability before going there, and maybe one of the unicorn statues could've been fire while the other remained ice, with you having to switch between the two during his battle. Elh could've also meant elemental

Elh, has now become the ghost that is a ghost to many casual players

I think it would have been so terrifying and awesome if Elh ended up being a sort of Nemesis or Mr. X type enemy. Just constantly stalking you throughout the mansion, or many the chase would have been triggered by something?

2:37 - "If we sacrifice Toad to the Elder Gods, we can raise ELH" is the greatest introduction ever

My theory on Elh: If I remember correctly, there is an unused cave area (or something similar) that would be outside the mansion. Since only one part was finished, I'm assuming that Elh would have been the boss of the cave, but Nintendo scrapped it.

I think the reason why Elh has only fire and ice related effects is because he is meant to be made of water himself, which is where his flowy movements and attack would come into place, completing the element trio

My idea is that Elh would have had several appearances, with different elemental powers, and would've blocked the way. Then you'd use whichever element matches him to pass.

It's possible that Elh was supposed to be a more human-shaped ghost or not even supposed to be a ghost at all. Maybe Luigi's mansion developers once had the idea of monsters and poltergeists.

Funfact: the status where Luigi would scamper on the floor moving backwards is actually from a cut ghost that would turn invisible and jumpscare Luigi causing a cartoony looking text bubble to appear and Luigi's health to drop to half of what it currently is. This enemy's concept would be reused in the sequel: Dark Moon, with the main difference being the scampering and remarkable health drop being cut.

Here's how I think he'll be like if he got in the game: Elh is a spiritual elder that was made by Egadd, who jumbled up several ghosts. Elh walks around in wetlands and mansions until the creature finds an victim to kill and drag somewhere..."private" Appears: after you kill about 9000 ghosts, on top of the mansion When you succ Elh: After he gets out of your grasp, he spawns 3 ghosts Attack animation: lashes forward at you and attacks Attack animation #2: shoots you with white ink, blinds your screen Attack animation #3: malfunctions and shoots an icicle out of his chest that makes your skin softer (you take extra damage) Attack animation #4: malfunctions yet again, spreading 3 medium sized lava pools for 7 seconds. I didn't really play L's Mansion, so give me more ideas in replies!

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Elh could have been an enemy encountered solely during the blackout as well. Could make that section a little more engaging than just a bunch of ghosts spawning

given how each major special key is guarded by a boss ghost... it honestly makes me wonder... would van gore (probably messed his name up) have originally given us a normal key which led us to Elh, or would he have somehow been the creator of such a horror? as... the key before king boo was a special one, and to me personally... it felt anticlimactic to obtain, meaning that... maybe this creature from beyond... was the original guardian of such a key?

Elh looks like those spooky aliens in Mario Galaxy that can only be viewed from afar, up on a cliff. As if they came from the same base.

I wonder if Elh isn’t an early Bogmire and instead just another major boss, like all the act bosses would’ve been nonhuman

Elh reminds me of something from The Flood (from Halo)… the way it looks the way it moves. It all gives me the same vibe.

Kid me was already terrified of Luigi's Mansion as is. If this thing was in the game, I never would've finished it

Looking at this Elh guy makes the Mother Brain music from Super Metroid play in my head.

maybe it was a boss that was scrapped in favour of Boolossus, in case they realised a bit too late that there weren't enough rooms in the mansion to hide all 50 boos? or a stalking enemy during the blackout portion of the game designed to funnel you into the basement while also acting as an obstacle to get there? something could have been inside of its torso, perhaps a flame or an elemental core that provided light for this reason. heck, maybe Luigi was supposed to fit into the chest, and it's a ghost mech suit?

Elh, backwards is hle could that mean anything? Probs not but idk

The scuttling backwards animation was probably going to be used when Elh appeared if he was a boss

Personally I've always felt it was going to be one of those wondering the halls type bosses where luigi would have to avoid him in some places and lure him into the right spot to damage him or making progress anotherway like smashing barriers The walk cycle seems like it would be just barely slower than Luigi's running speed and it's damage attack reminded me with the idea of knocking something over to hurt it like a heavy bookcase or a ceiling fixture It could've used elemental attacks to temporarily block off corridors but they could be accessed sooner if you have the opposite element While it would actual deal damage to luigi by hinting him down and giving him a good slapping Then once certain conditions have been met it would end with a quick boss fight where it would hurl elemental attacks at luigi or something

I’ve watched all your Luigi’s Mansion videos because I love your passion for the game. I must of completed the first one atleast 15 times, it’s short but amazing especially for the time it came out. Luigi’s Mansion 3 is great but it just doesn’t have the atmosphere the first one had.

That elh was a prototype of Bogmire is probably the most plausible theory IMO

I never heard about this ELH before, this is really interesting and creepy, I hope someone gets their hands on a beta copy and see if there's more about this creepy dude

One of the most creepy facts in my opinion is how it’s just “lost” in the files

Also vacuuming each cloth material and uncovering everything you can interact with does nothing , humping every thing doesn’t do anything either other than the casual money flying out

He just wants a hug. Look at those arms

Elh is probably made of some kind of elemental goop or slime, he just looks like a bipedal liquid.

I wonder if maybe the ONLY way of damaging Elh was elemental attacks? I haven't played much of this game, and not in a while, but the idea is that you suck up the ghosts' hearts, right? With that twisted cage at its midsection, maybe Elh didn't have a heart to target, and you had to find other ways to beat it.

you know what this reminds me of? The final boss of pikmin 3

His melting, tied-up appearance reminds me of the amalgams from Undertale, who also looked completely white.

Late to this but I bet Elh was supposed to be a plant type monster you find in or around the courtyard, perhaps half Fire Flower Plant and Ice Flower(is that a thing?) Plant as to mix the upgrade items into the Mario universe.

Has anyone thought that elh could be a friendly ghost. Like maybe you would need to summon him for help in certain parts and he follows you or maybe it could of been what you played as in multiplayer.

sort of feels like anything could happen with the release of metroid dread. Catch ehl as the bog boss in luigi's mansion 4

My two favorite cut enemies in ANY game is Elh and The Cremator from hl2

I think he was the normal Design for the shadows of the second Boss but they didnt want to make the Elements in the Arena so they dropped him in the Files unfinished

I hope this enemy finds its way to the mario series one way or another! I do often wonder what it would look like if it had textures.

Elh...like the letter L? Like a personal nightmare of Luigi's. The whole rising out of the floor thing makes me think it comes from the shadows, maybe Luigi's. If I designed Elh, in context with Luigi's Mansion and it's inspiration from Resident Evil, I would make Elh a stalker like enemy, something that chases you from room to room, Luigi's Mansion's own Mr. X. It's THAT terrifying if a presence and has a striking figure.

Elh's arms and attack pattern remind me of the Mamuta enemy of the Pikmin series. Could be a scrapped enemy that went over to Pikmin instead.

Maybe we're looking at this in the wrong way. What if Elh was never meant to have a texture. The unused sound file for it sounds like super natural whispering characteristic of a ton of ghostly creatures without a mouth (slenderman anyone) and it's actually way more complete than we think. Or maybe it's the case of ocarina of time where Elh was used to map out the attack patterns of a boss but at the time the devs wanted two elements instead of one

My theory is that it's an invincible enemy that follows you around the halls when you get close.

i think he was supposed to gaurd a door and the elements were to counter any attacks threw at him and you had to hit him with a certain object found in the room

Part of me thinks it could have been the final boss before Nintendo decided to go for a more “familiar” or fitting final boss Think about it, he controls the elements so you probably have to use them against it The “hurt” animation would be more in line with such too

Such a coincidence that i played Luigi Mansion both normal mansion and hidden mansion two days ago !

I imagine Ehl being this dark brown monster with glowing yellow eyes

Elh uses multiple types of elemental attacks Elh Elhement Coincidence, I think not!

It would be cool if Nintendo somehow use him in the next Luigi's mansion or in the very least explain what he was suppose to be.

It's just a pre build of bogmire. I mean look at them side by side

Luigi: "That one's going in the vault. ...AAAAAAND it's gone."

All I need is a little bit of dolbinzayneack’s voice to cheer me up!!

I have the feeling that he was a boss based of a Blooper, kinda like Sunshine...?

This game man. A deep staple in my book of life

Still waiting for a Luigi's mansion cod zombie map. It would be awesome

Elh Maybe ElementaL Head? Or something Because the theory that this is just a mix of every elemental ghost makes sense

I like the idea that Elh would be like the Nemesis in resident evil 3

What if Ehl was a boss you fought to get Mario's star but he got scrapped?

Bro.... it just hit me that this game is 20 years old 😭

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0:16 is no one gonna talk about how the ghost have 200 health?!

It's the flood Juggernaut, he was cut in Halo 2 and Luigi's Mansion

Mabye Elh is just one of the weird shadow figures from Mario Galaxy 2

He looks like those Halo 3 Infection form, that allied with Chief and Arby. (He even looks ready to say the dialogue.)

Hmm... So his name is Elh yea? Could be short for Element or an odd spelling of such. The theory of being a combination of the elemental ghosts would make a lot more sense as a result. Perhaps sort of like a precursor to Boolossus? Showing the player that ghosts can combine together?

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the spine like things in the middle could have been like tree branches

That kinda makes me think of a two headed thing, like the twins in BZRK

How Elh haven't been in any Luigi's mansion yet

with the many beta nintendo stuff that has leaked in the past I really hope Luigi's Mansion's Beta and many mysteries can be discovered someday, specially that animated FMV cutscene

ngl the whole time i had in the back of my head "what if elh was a recurring chaser enemy that you couldn't beat up like the water wraith from pikmin 2", which would make sense as to why the character was scrapped because a chaser enemy might not mesh well with a game 85% comprised of narrow halls, unless luigi could hide somewhere via something like the crouching mode also not to mention, the way elh enters the set could be used anywhere, so hypothetically luigi could be exploring somewhere in the mansion and elh would surprise him by rising out of the ground, prompting luigi to have to run and hide it's a fun theory imo and would have made for a sick obstacle

"A ghost that exists, never to be seen" - until someone comes out with a leaked beta version of Weegi's House that was stolen from that data breach a while back. Wouldn't doubt it. But who knows?

Now I want elh playable in the next mario side game

I was thinking. maybe Elh could have been something similar to Nemesis and Mr. X from the Resident evil games. a very powerful enemy that would roam around the mansion and you had to try and avoid him to try and figure out a way to weaken him enough to suck him up.

Do you think an item was supposed to be inside the cage part of his abdomen? Like a key?

Imagine Elh was planned to be the Nemesis of Luigi's Mansion, a monster that hunts you down and ambushes you when you least expect it, for all we know Elh stands for "Evil Luigi Hunter"

I feel old knowing that’s we can now say this game is 20 years old

Elh’s sidestep makes me think it could’ve been some kind of bodyblocking enemy. Maybe an early check for if Luigi had a certain element, where it would have an elemental core connecting its body parts that would have to be destroyed so Luigi could move on, and the reason it has multiple elemental effects is because it would have had three variants, one to be taken down by each element Luigi got as he unlocked the rest of the mansion, either that or it was an ice-only enemy and it had an effect for burning away. Probably got replaced because it was so big and clunky for the game’s tight rooms and halls, and they changed the concept to elementally charged doors, and gave the core shields to regular enemy variants later in development instead.

They always ask “what is Elh?” but they never ask “how is Elh?” :(

I wish we could see a fully done model. “L” has such a unique figure compared to the other bosses/Ghosts.

The crawl was shown off once at the beta it was used by Luigi when he was scared from behind

I truly believe that the atmosphere.of Luigi's Mansion was planned to be far darker than the final product. In addition to this creepy Elh character, one of the unused bits of audio sounds down right demonic !

Kind of sucks that they didn’t even decide to revive and finish him in the 3ds port of Luigi’s Mansion as such a tough late game enemy or even a secret boss of sorts maybe, it would have been really cool to finally see it finished and fully functional

Elh is much larger than any other ghosts we've encountered Boolossus: seriously?

You know how early an enemy has been scrapped when there isn't even a texture made for it

He's a hell valley sky tree

Based on the aggressive behavior from Elh’s animations, the fact that he doesn’t get sucked up, and he can rise through the floor, I can see him as being a pursuer-type enemy. With his access to different elements, he could be fought at different points in the game until his driven off and comes back later in the game.

2:37 "So, if we sacrifice Toad to the Elhder Gods we can rise Elh from his corpse at the start of the mansion. "

I feel that’s the whole point of his name even. ELement, “Elh”. Maybe he was just a test or placeholder to see how the elements in the game were handled Edit: I completely agree that he was indeed more then just a placeholder for elements my bad I worded that poorly. What I was meaning was possibly his name “Elh” was a placeholder that’s a direct hint towards his function and characteristics. I think he was a scrapped boss with elemental abilities that you had to use certain elements to combat him with(depending on what he was using). Either way, his model is really cool and it’s a bummer we’ll never get to see him fully realized. Sorry for the confusion everyone!

2:37 I can't believe Nintendo was able to get away with adding the feature of sacrificial acts without getting into any controversy Also, don't you mean..... "Elh-der gods"

You should look through dark moons files,haven't seen anybody do it.

The fact that Elh is completely untextured is probably the creepiest part about him in my opinion

I always thought he looked tree like. Remember that one video where you found spaces in the mansion where it almost looked like you could go into the forest? Maybe that’s where this enemy would come from?

Grasping at straws: Maybe he could've been found in the cave was found out of bounds? It kinda makes sense as it was scrapped meaning he would be to. He might have been a boss there.

I think he was one of a few things. Either A. He was gonna be the bogmire fight as you have to two elemental medals needed at that point, B. What Boolossus replaced or my wild theory C. An early Van Gore. He seems to have paint brushes for arms and his twisted appearance seems to fit the name, and was possibly removed for being too dark

i like to imagine Elh like a mid game boss/enemy the fact that he uses only fire and ice means he could be defeated using only the first two elements and he could've been some sort of introduction to the ice element

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Real question is, what foes Elh even LOOK LIKE if he has a texture. Doe she have goofy lookin eyes above the holes? Is he purple? Or whatever.