Ahhhh when my window was not in fullscreen, I was not seeing the ghosts. When I tried the game the first time, I was just seeing what looked like a red lump(the Nothing?) and I clicked on it like my life depended on it, which is probably why I died even quicker during the sequence. While I did find the game very challenging (thank you for implementing save and load haha), I liked that the ghosts' random and perhaps more frequent appearance added a sense of urgency and panic when navigating the area!