Here Are All of The Haunting of Bly Manor's Scariest Moments — Good Luck Sleeping Tonight

Updated on 10/24/2020 at 12:10 PM

Sometimes I lie awake at night wondering if the Bent Neck Lady from The Haunting of Hill House will be hovering above me the minute I close my eyes. While The Haunting of Bly Manor does include a lot of Easter eggs calling back to the original series, it's far more of a gothic love story than it is a ghost story, as Flora would put it. The jump scares in Bly Manor are few and far between, but they're used to tell the story of Peter, Rebecca, Viola, Perdita, and all the other ghosts at the manor in a way that's just as poetic as they are spooky.

Of course, there are still plenty of hidden ghosts in otherwise innocent scenes, and a few haunting moments that still have me reeling whenever I think about them. For the benefit of your sleep schedule, I've gone through each episode and compiled a list of all the show's creepiest moments to keep an eye out for, or to skip over, totally up to you. Check out all of The Haunting of Bly Manor's scariest scenes ahead, and be sure to keep an eye out for the Lady in the Lake.

Episode 1: The Great Good Place

15:08 — Edmund (the man with the glasses) appears in the mirror as Dani leaves the hostile.
22:00 — Miles watches Dani change through her bedroom door.
47:25 — Miles and Flora lock Dani in the closet before bedtime, inducing a panic attack.
51:15 — Flora and Miles stare down at Dani eerily from their respective bedroom windows after she storms out of the house at night, making her question their intentions.

Episode 2: The Pupil

4:44 — Dani goes downstairs to get Flora's doll from the laundry room. Nothing jumps out at her, but the doll is sitting in the center of the room as if it had been propped up by someone.
The episode focuses heavily on Miles's time at boarding school, during which he falls out of a tall tree (13:10) after being warned several times not to climb any further, chokes one of his classmates (15:00), and kills a bird (19:55) in search of its "key." This behavior could be explained by Flora's ominous "come home" note, which might have encouraged him to be sent home.
32:20 — Miles pulls Dani aside to give her a bouquet of flowers he tore out of Jamie's garden as an apology for locking her in the closet the previous night. At the same time, he caresses her cheek and tucks a lock of hair behind her ear, speaking in a hushed voice that warns Dani something isn't right.
37:23 — The ghost of a woman (possibly The Lady in the Lake) is standing in the doorway of a room while Dani is playing hide and seek with the children.
39:48 — Upstairs, Flora stows away in the attic during hide and seek, where the Wheezing Woman (Perdita) appears behind her, gasping on the floor. Flora shushes her and moves on with the game.
40:28 — Miles chokes Dani before running away to find a hiding spot.
41:33 — Peter's face appears in the windows at the end of the game (42:53), alerting Dani that an intruder might be lurking on the grounds.

Episode 3: The Two Faces, Part One

1:17 — The episode kicks off where the last left off, and we see Peter's face in the window again.
27:23 — When Dani can't sleep at night, she turns to see a bloody hand grasping at her bedsheets. It's implied that this vision is related to the ghost of the man with the glasses.

Episode 4: The Way It Came

This episode focuses heavily on Dani's backstory and gives insight into Edmund, aka the Man in the Mirror. During the story, Edmund's ghost makes several appearances behind Dani (7:28 and 35:32) when she looks into mirrors, most notably during the wake when she sees him place his hand on her shoulder (36:04), sending her into a fit of tears.
14:02 — Dani sees Peter's ghost lingering outside the house and chases after it.
28:35 — Edmund is hit and killed by a car, and Dani screams as she runs out of the car to check on him. His twitching hand is a mirror image of the one Dani saw on her bed in the last episode.
Later on, Dani is unable to sleep and leaves her room at night against Flora's wishes to make herself some tea and snack on a few cookies. Flora awakens to see Dani's doll out of bed in her dollhouse and alerts Miles. Together, the siblings race downstairs to distract Dani while the Lady of the Lake makes her rounds across the foyer (46:12), knowing that Dani will not survive if she enters the Lady's path.

Episode 5: The Altar of the Dead

13:05 — In one of Hannah's memories, Miles tries to push Jamie off the ladder without explanation, only stopping when Hannah comes over to intervene.
21:09 — During one of Hannah's time jumps, the Lady of the Lake can be seen lingering outside of the mansion.
39:32 — The Lady of the Lake appears on the second floor of the house and drags Peter by his throat into another room, choking him to death.
39:49 — Soon after, we see close-ups of the Lady's face as she drags Peter's body outside into the lake.
42:02 — The ghost of Rebecca appears behind Hannah as she watches the lady drag Peter into the lake.
47:43 — During another time jump, Miles — possessed by Peter's ghost — pushes Hannah down a well to her death. The scene is followed by close-ups of Hannah's twisted body and dead face staring at a crack in the well, which explains the crack she often sees on the walls throughout the manor.

Episode 6: The Jolly Corner

3:41 — Uncle Henry's alter ego appears in his office when he is alone at night, haunting him and us with his creepy ear-to-ear smile (21:14).
12:17 — Later, Flora wakes up from her nap and notices a ghost child lingering at the end of her bed. When she chases after the child, she finds that he has no face, making her scream.
25:13 — At night, Dani is tucking Flora into bed and sees the faceless ghost child playing with her dollhouse out of the corner of her eye. When she turns for a better look, the ghost is gone.
1:00:33 — Flora gives the ghost child a new face.
1:02:26 — Dani sees Rebecca sitting on the edge of Flora's bed at night.
1:03:26 — Miles, possessed by Peter, knocks Dani out from behind, rendering her unconscious.

Episode 7: The Two Faces, Part Two

1:42 — Dani is tied up in the attic and starts to panic and scream as Rebecca and Peter possess the kids.
33:05 — Peter, possessing Rebecca, sees his own dead body decaying at the bottom of the lake as he drowns her.
52:23 — While tucked away, Miles, possessed by Peter, forces Hannah to look at her own dead body at the bottom of the well.
56:38 — At the very end of the episode, Dani drags Flora outside to escape from Peter and Rebecca. As Flora argues with her about not wanting to leave Miles behind, the Lady in the Lake appears and drags Dani away by her throat, just like she did to Peter.

Episode 8: The Romance of Certain Old Clothes

26:12 — Perdita chokes Viola to death.
35:09 — During the tale of the Willoughby sisters, Viola's ghost stays trapped in the chest of clothes she's left behind for her daughter. When Perdita goes upstairs to dig through the clothes with plans to sell them all, Viola's ghost hands shoot out of the sleeves of her dress and choke Perdita to death. Soon after, Arthur finds Perdita dead with her eyes rolled back.
40:13 — Viola wakes up as a ghost and sees her true dead face in the mirror, quickly covering it again with a sheet so she doesn't have to confront her reality.
42:18 — Later in the episode, we see Perdita's death scene again from Viola's perspective.
48:40 — Toward the end of the episode, Viola ruthlessly snaps the plague doctor's neck, trapping another ghost at Bly Manor.
50:41 — Viola returns to kill the little boy who eventually become the faceless ghost child that has been playing with Flora's dollhouse.
52:16 — Viola drags Peter's body into the lake again.

Episode 9: The Beast in the Jungle

4:27 — Hannah comes back to the current time to see Dani being dragged away by the Lady in the Lake.
7:03 — The Lady in the Lake carries Flora toward the water while she shouts for help.
7:59 — When Uncle Henry visits Bly Manor to check on Flora, the Lady in the Lake chokes him half to death, allowing his ghost to speak with Hannah before she dies.
11:03 — Dani watches in terror as the Lady in the Lake carries Flora into the lake, and allows the ghost to enter Dani's body as a means of saving Flora.
24:49 — Dani's plan works, but in the years following, she is haunted by the spirit of the Lady, who resides inside of her and shows up in her reflection. Throughout the rest of the episode, Dani keeps her eyes open for signs of the Lady (31:03), gasping and panicking when she does see her (33:14).
35:40 — After telling Jamie she thinks her time is drawing to a close, Dani has a nightmare. When she awakens, she finds that she was about to choke Jamie but managed to stop herself. Terrified, she writes a note saying goodbye and returns to Bly Manor one last time.
37:50 — At the end of the episode, Jamie returns to Bly and dives into the lake in search of Dani, where she sees her partner's body lying lifeless at the bottom of the lake.