# Gastly — Daily Pokémon for 2026-10-01

> Day 1497 of the Daily Pokémon archive. Gastly is a ghost / poison-type Pokémon from Kanto (Generation 1). Strange lights betray its presence in abandoned buildings. Its wispy body may appear harmless, but those enveloped in its gas can collapse within seconds.

*Source: https://pokedaily.net/archive/2026-10-01*

## Pokédex facts

- **Name:** Gastly
- **Pokédex number:** #0092
- **Types:** ghost / poison
- **Category:** Gas
- **Generation:** 1 (Kanto)
- **Height:** 1.3 m
- **Weight:** 0.1 kg
- **Abilities:** Levitate
- **Color:** purple

## Base stats

- **HP        :**  30 `████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░`
- **Attack    :**  35 `█████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░`
- **Defense   :**  30 `████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░`
- **Sp. Attack:** 100 `█████████████░░░░░░░`
- **Sp. Defense:**  35 `█████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░`
- **Speed     :**  80 `███████████░░░░░░░░░`
- **Total:** 310

## Transcript

So what if I told you the ghost so many of us were scared of as kids weighs less than the phone in your hand?

In Lavender Town, there's a tower full of Pokémon graves. 

You climb those stairs with that music playing, and something comes at you out of the dark. The screen just says, "Darn! The GHOST can't be ID'd!" Which, when you're eight, is the scariest thing a Game Boy has ever said to you. Your Pokémon is too scared to move, so you do what every kid did and run.

Almost every time, the thing hiding under that word was a Gastly.

It's over four feet of gas that weighs 0.2 pounds, and one strong wind makes its body dwindle away. So when the wind picks up, Gastly huddle together under the edge of people's roofs, right up against the houses of the same people who run from them.
If anybody ever decided you were scary or weird from across the room, you know how this goes. You end up as a word somebody else picked for you, and nobody sticks around long enough to find out the rest.

The game made you work for it, too. To see what that ghost really was, you had to fight through a whole Team Rocket hideout in another city for one special scope, then walk all the way back up those stairs.

Most people in real life never come back for the scope.

But you did. You climbed back up, and when it came out of the dark this time, the screen said, "SILPH SCOPE unveiled the GHOST's identity!" 

And there it was, a little round Gastly with a big goofy grin. For the first time, you could catch it and take it home, and the thing that used to ride out the wind under somebody's roof finally got to come inside.

So if you've been somebody's ghost story for a long time, hang on through the wind.

The right people come back with the scope, and when they finally see you, they're going to wonder why they ever ran.

## Pokédex entry

Almost invisible, this gaseous POKéMON cloaks the target and puts it to sleep without notice.

## Video

- **Self-hosted MP4:** https://v.pokedaily.net/2026-10-01.mp4
- **YouTube:** https://youtube.com/shorts/P0nMS13C-dw
- **TikTok:** https://www.tiktok.com/@mydailypokemon/video/7691707501070257421
- **Instagram:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Dd9LF0pJiZL/
- **Duration:** 90s

## See also

- **Full Pokédex entry:** https://pokedaily.net/pokedex/92-gastly
- **Pokédex (markdown):** https://pokedaily.net/raw/gastly.md
- **This date in Pokémon (Pokémanac):** https://pokedaily.net/pokemanac/10-01
- **This date markdown:** https://pokedaily.net/raw/pokemanac/10-01.md

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*Daily Pokémon archive entry for 2026-10-01. Original publish: 2026-10-01T10:00:00.000Z. Pokédex data from PokéAPI (BSD licensed). Names and likenesses are © The Pokémon Company / Nintendo / Creatures Inc. / GAME FREAK.*