Phantom Mangle

Phantom Mangle is a hallucination in Five Nights at Freddy's 3 and one of the six phantom animatronics in the game.

Physical Appearance
Phantom Mangle has a similar model Mangle done in the second game (FNaF 2) but with a burnt appearance, possibly foreshadowing the fire that broke out in the establishment. It lacks eyes and instead has pin-pricked, white pupils. Phantom Mangle appears to have half of its left eye missing although it could be obscured by something else.

Appearances
Phantom Mangle appears exclusively on CAM 04 and, when it appears in the office, it will be behind the window and to the left. Phantom Mangle only appears from Night 2 onward, as do all the other phantoms. Phantom Mangle sometimes appears on CAM 04 hanging from the ceiling and, once spotted, will start emitting a loud, garbled sound.

When the player retracts the monitor, Phantom Mangle will rise up behind the window and remain there, playing the same distorted sound. Because of the loudness of the noise, the player will be unable to hear Springtrap's audio cues. After a few seconds, Mangle will drop down from below the window, thus ending the hallucination and triggering an audio error. If the player does not switch cameras after a certain period of time as passed, Phantom Mangle can, and will, force the monitor down.