Ragged Diary
The Thousand-Year Door description	The diary the ghost kept. You shouldn't read it.

“You were very wise not to read my diary,friend...”

—Ghost T.,Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

TheRagged Diary is an item inPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. It is a diary that belongs toGhost T. While alive, Ghost T. was a passenger on theExcess Express. Ghost T. later died in his cabin and is tied to it by his fear of someone ever reading his diary, which was still in the baggage car of the Excess Express.

WhenMario and hispartners come to Ghost T.'s room (Cabin 004), he is not visible. Mario has tohide withVivian for a couple of seconds to make him appear. When he does, he asks Mario to find his diary, but he warns Mario not to read it. When Mario finds the Ragged Diary in the baggage car, he must return it to Ghost T., who then gives Mario ablanket to be given to thetrain conductor. Alternately, Mario has an option to read the diary or not, although the game will warn him three times. If he chooses to read it, he reads only the following:

Month X Day X Cloudy

I got on a train today,

And on that train...

Before Mario can read any further, Ghost T. appears and yells at Mario for not listening to him, followed by the screen warbling and rotating multiple times before resulting in an instantGame Over. In theNintendo Switch version, when Mario reads the diary, the screen turns monochrome and the effects turn static, and after he reads the diary, aniris out appears instead of the screen warbling and rotating. Also in theNintendo Switch version, Mario must place the diary in the cabin's drawer after bringing it to Ghost T. The drawer cannot be opened afterwards.

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• Diaries
• Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door special items

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