In what came as quite a surprise to viewers of The Mysterious Class, the ghost in class 4 has already been revealed, despite the fact that there were still five episodes to go.
Meanwhile, the show makes unexpected turns as another student pretends to be the ghost in order to terrify their fellow students and make their own claim to fame.
The drama continues to excite in TREASURE’s third and fourth episodes of their web drama with accusations of witchcraft, a spell cast by a shaman, and the reveal of the ghost.
Despite the fact that the other twenty members of the classroom don’t know who the ghost is at this point in the series, their identity has been revealed to the show’s viewers. And the ghost is – Haruto!
Read on below as we recap and review the third and fourth episodes of The Mysterious Class, and what all of the clues were that Haruto was the ghost.
The publication of this article was unfortunately delayed due to unforeseen personal circumstances with the author. We would like to apologize for this delay.
Ford Carter watches The Mysterious Class on YouTube
The Mysterious Class Episode 3 and 4 Recaps
“Can a ghost wear a cross?”
The third episode begins right where the second episode left off. Doyoung and Yedam stand over Asahi, accusing him of being the ghost. Asahi lifts the sleeve of his shirt, though, revealing a tattoo of a cross. He also has a crucifix around his neck. Asahi was never the ghost after all – just a devoutly religious student. The curse he placed on the picture? A prayer to God, hoping to send Satan, the demon, and the ghost away from the class. His hands? Asahi just runs cold.
In the dormitory common room, a few of the students are watching a horror movie. While they watch, they discuss why they thought Asahi was the ghost. Junghwan comes to the realization that if he had been filming the crow smashing into the window, he could have uploaded it to his YouTube channel and had a dramatic increase in the number of views he gets. He gets up and leaves.
In their classroom, Junghwan runs into the school’s security guard, who is looking at the window and wondering what has happened. As Junghwan informs him, the guard says that he has fixed it for now. After the guard leaves, Junghwan starts a live video on his YouTube channel about the ghost and tries to find ghost energy through an app for his audience.
Then, mysterious energy appears and begins to float around the room, and Junghwan captures it on his tablet. As it disappears, however, he turns around, looking for it again, before it mysteriously appears right in front of him, charging at him as if to attack. A shocked Junghwan leaps back, before going to chase the energy, which has left the classroom.
“I’ll see how you treat me first”
In the dorms, in what appears to be a dream, Jaehyuk has fallen asleep studying. A weird, black goo covers his face, and scribbles appear on a piece of paper, before an alarm goes off, waking him up, and both disappear. Jaehyuk shakes his head awake.
A disappointed Jaehyuk does not come top of his class on some homework and is scolded by a teacher. Tired of his haunting dreams, he decides to approach Yoshi. Before he can speak with him, though, a group of classmates comes up the stairs. A polite Haruto bows before the security guard, who looks back at them as they climb the stairs.
In the classroom, Hyunsuk spreads salt around his table. After Jeongwoo steps on his salt line, he admits that the salt is to keep the ghost at bay. Ghosts, as Hyunsuk claims, are afraid of salt, and will therefore not come near it. Jeongwoo asks for Hyunsuk to spread some salt around his table if he has any left – not that he’s afraid, of course.
“Haruto”
Doyoung marches into the classroom, phone in hand, and approaches Junghwan. On his phone, Junghwan’s YouTube channel, now focused on the search for a ghost in their classroom, appears. Junghwan now has two-hundred subscribers. He says that it isn’t like he showed the students’ faces, as it was filmed in an empty classroom. Junghwan and Doyoung go head to head, with Junghwan accusing Doyoung of interfering in his personal broadcasts, and Doyoung warns Junghwan to watch out.
Yedam asks the ghost to show himself, and Asahi says that the ghost is there, pointing towards Haruto with his head. He even mentions Haruto by name. The others deny Asahi’s claim. Haruto has been seen eating, and even spoke to the security guard. There’s simply no way it could be him.
“It’s a tea that’ll help you sleep. You seem like you’re not getting enough sleep lately.”
In a quick flashback to when Jaehyuk and Yoshi left the hallway, the latter gifts Jaehyuk a spell. Yoshi’s mother, it turns out, is a shaman, and he had her put extra work into a spell she wrote on a card. Jaehyuk’s nightmares started in March, when he first moved into the dorm, although they have been getting gradually worse as time went on. Jaehyuk promises not to tell anyone that Yoshi’s mother is a shaman, and places the spell on the bottom of the bunk above him.
As Haruto comes into the room, he offers Jaehyuk some tea, one that will help him sleep. As Haruto lays down on his top bunk, though, the spell activates, and he starts to burn. He hops down off the bunk and leaves the room, informing Jaehyuk he just needs to use the bathroom, and to head to sleep first.
As it turns out, Asahi wasn’t wrong. Haruto IS the ghost!
In the classroom, Haruto looks in the mirror at the burns on his skin, and the audience is gifted with an insight as to some of his past actions as the ghost. When he was eating in the dorms with Hyunsuk and the others, he was only pretending to eat. The bowl he threw out still contained all of the food. At the beginning of the drama, with the spell, he flicked his finger in order to move the pen. This is how the classmates first became aware of a ghost at all.
“I’m back in the classroom where ghosts come out. Will ghosts come out in the middle of the day?”
Picking up the day after the third episode ends, Jaehyuk approaches Yoshi and thanks him for his mother’s charm, as it worked. He brings up the idea with Yoshi of attaching some of the spells to the door of the classroom, before heading to class.
In the classroom, Junkyu comes in with a massive teddy bear, which he plans on giving to his “honey” for their 100 day anniversary. While this happens, Junghwan looks at comments on his YouTube video, where people ask what happened next in the follow-up to his ghost-finding app video.
In the line for lunch, Yoshi accidentally bumps into Haruto’s back, causing him to wince from the pain. Meanwhile, Junghwan starts another live video from the classroom, but is unable to find any mysterious shadows anywhere.
“All the teachers here are so weird.”
In music class, their teacher is called away for an emergency with her car. Without the teacher in the classroom, the metronome at the front of the class starts to tick. However, no-one has set it going. The students try to stop it, either by just holding it in place or throwing it to the floor. The metronome continues to tick faster and faster, no matter what they do. Junghwan begins to film the occurrence. But as the bell goes, he is the only student who immediately gets up to leave.
Of course, Junghwan was behind it the entire time. He’d stolen the remote control for the metronome, and had been hiding it in his pocket. The ghost was never controlling it at all from the remote in his pocket. And it was all for views for his YouTube channel.
As the students begin to worry that the ghost might begin to attack them, Haruto promises that the ghost would never harm them, but Doyoung cannot guarantee that.
More strange occurrences keep happening. A framed picture of the famous screaming face falls from the wall in front of the students, glass shattering. Even Junkyu’s teddy bear for his honey turns up in a cupboard it didn’t belong in, seemingly covered in blood, as Junkyu’s previous song from earlier in the episode is played on repeat. A freaked Junkyu throws it to the floor and stomps on it, desperate for it to stop.
“This is the final warning.”
That night, Junkyu hops into bed with Jihoon, worried about what had happened to his gift. Meanwhile, in Haruto and Jaehyuk’s dorm room, Jaehyuk realizes that, despite the lighting in the room, Haruto fails to cast a shadow. This confirms his suspicions that Haruto is, in fact, the ghost.
After Junghwan posts his ghost-related video to YouTube, he is confronted by class president Doyoung once again. Junghwan blames the entire situation on Doyoung for not telling the teachers, to begin with, demanding that he must be hiding something from the rest of them.
Yoshi’s shaman mother has gifted him two more charms for getting rid of the ghost. He gives these to Jaehyuk, who doesn’t know what to do with them, now that he recognizes Haruto as the ghost.
After Doyoung leaves his dorm room (which he shares with Junghwan), Junghwan goes into his phone and prepares to play a prank. He hopes that this will put Doyoung in his place. His plan fails to come to fruition, however, as Haruto instead targets him. Haruto makes his phone ring with a warning message to stop terrifying the other students.
The Mysterious Class Episodes 3 & 4 Musings
This was, quite honestly, not where I saw this episode going at first. My original thought was that, as the drama played out, more suspects would be eliminated from potentially being the ghost. The further along we went, the more information was revealed, and the fewer characters it could be.
Now, however, everything has been thrown into a lurch. As the audience, we now already know who the ghost is, with still five more episodes to go. How could the drama keep going?
There’s still a lot to figure out. How does Asahi know? How can the security guard see Haruto? And, the biggest question of all, why is Haruto a ghost, to begin with?
Many fans were certain of Haruto from the beginning. His poster featured the O and the X beside him before the drama came out. And honestly, who doesn’t know how to get into their locker at school?
The ghost isn’t the bad guy?
Junghwan coming across as the bad guy in The Mysterious Class was completely unexpected for fans of TREASURE as a group. In real life, he’s relatively shy, and doesn’t show as many of the characteristic traits as the maknae of other groups do. But Haruto’s cryptic clue that the ghost would never harm the other students comes to mind, bringing many fans to wonder if he is in fact there to protect the class, rather than to terrorise them.
Episode 4 does feel a little like a filler episode. But it certainly ends on a cliffhanger. A part of me hopes and believes that this will be the only episode that fills as filler-y as this one. The show so far has shown exceptional pacing for such a short drama.
This episode notches the halfway mark for the drama as well. Four down, four to go. And there should be a lot coming in the next four episodes as the mystery around The Mysterious Class begins to unravel.
TREASURE’s acting has been put to good use in this drama. Hopefully, YG Entertainment can see the massive potential of this group featuring in dramas. They could allow members to go off into acting alongside their singing careers. Maybe even showcasing the acting talents of the full group in a proper, full-length, television broadcast drama.
Were you surprised by the reveal of the ghost in The Mysterious Class? Let us know in the comments below, or on our socials.
Episode 5 of The Mysterious Class comes out at 10.00 p.m. KST on Friday.
The author would like to once again apologise for the delay in the publication of this article to both the editorial team and the readers.
Photos: Screencap from TREASURE YouTube channel
[wpedon id=”3227″ align=”center”]
TXT Yeonjun
December 21, 2021 at 12:31 amHaruto Watanabe is the bad guy~