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How to Complete Paranormal Activity in Destiny 2

When there's something weird and it don't look good, who you gonna call?

Paranormal Activities is a rare event that can be quite confusing! Here’s how to find and complete Paranormal Activity in Destiny 2.

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How to Find and Complete Paranormal Activity in Destiny 2

So, once you’ve completed the Final Shape campaign, there’s a chance that Paranormal Activity will spawn randomly on your map while you’re in the Pale Heart. So far, we haven’t been able to establish a rhyme or reason for when these spawn, but for me they first started to appear after I obtained the Alone in the Dark quest from Micah-10 and I would get a new one each time I cleared a Cyst for that quest. You can get this quest by completing the three Convalescence quests she gives you.

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However, it does seem like there’s a set order to how Paranormal Activities spawn. The order of Paranormal Activities seems to be:

  • Transgression
  • The Blooming
  • The Impasse
  • The Lost City
  • The Lost City Outskirts

Though, it’s likely there are quite a few more. That being said, here’s how to actually complete the Paranormal Activities when you find them.

For Paranormal Activity: Transgression, once you’ve reached the room in the temple, you’ll find a Ghost circling the room and a Ghost you can commune with. Commune with the ghost and observe that there’s a red cube to your left and a blue cube to your right.

Stand on top of the pyramid and shoot the red cube with a dark-aligned element. So, a gun that uses stasis or strand. Next, shoot the blue cube with a light-aligned element. So, a gun that uses arc, solar, or void.

You can’t move out of the circle that’s created when you shoot, which is why you have to stand at the top of the pyramid. If you do this successfully, you’ll knock out a paracausal geometry for the Transcendent triumph.

And while other Paranormal Activities will be in different places, the way to solve them is always the same. You must be within view of both the blue and red cube. Then, you must shoot the blue cube with light-aligned energy and the red cube with dark-aligned energy.

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You’ll be “tethered” when you do so, which means you’ll have a circle of space that you can move around in. Use this to your advantage to complete each paranormal activity.

Some Paranormal Cubes are difficult to find! One of the trickier ones is the Paranormal Activity: Impasse in Destiny 2, which, as you can see, requires you to look over the ledge behind the pyramid while standing on a pillar. The red cube is on the obelisk itself, tucked away and hard to see. Fortunately, you can use the circling Ghost to get a good idea of where the cubes are. They will always be within the circle the Ghost is making.

Completing a Paranormal Activity in Destiny 2 will give you two Pale Heart Engrams, 3,000 Glimmer, and 400 experience points.

Destiny 2 is available now.


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Daphne Fama
An editor at The Escapist, Daphne Fama has been in the industry since 2022. She spends an inordinate amount playing games and has a soft spot for horror, FPS, and RPGs. When she’s not gaming, she’s a published author and member of the Horror Writers Association with a novel coming out in 2025. In a previous life, she was an attorney but realized she could be happy instead.