Ghastly Gibus

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Shoot over my bones, and I shall visit upon you a haunting the likes of which you have never seen. — Zepheniah Mann

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The Ghastly Gibus is an unlockable headwear item available to all classes. It appears as a slightly damaged, black gibus hat with the top nearly detached. In a similar fashion to the Gentle Manne's Service Medal, the first possible method of getting this hat was to be one of the first 10,319 people to visit a hidden web page. The alternative method, through which it can be still be unlocked, is to complete the Ghastly Gibus Grab achievement by dominating a player wearing the hat.

The Ghastly Gibus may be renamed and painted.

Related Achievements

Ghastly Gibus Grab Dominate a player wearing the Ghastly Gibus to earn your own.

Trivia

• The initials "ZM" are embroidered on the inside.
• The gibus, also known as the opera hat, was invented in 1800–10 and named for its inventor, a 19th century Frenchman. It is a man's tall, collapsible top hat, held open or in shape by springs and usually covered with a black, silky fabric.
• The ghost of Zepheniah Mann can be seen wearing this hat while haunting the event version of Harvest.
• The Ghastly Gibus is somewhat similar to the Scotsman's Stove Pipe.
• The hat may also be a reference to "gib", a term used when a character in a video game is killed in a very gory way, often scattering the characters various body parts apart.
• The amount of people who obtained a Gibus hat from the secret webpage, 10,319, is the date of Halloween 2009, 10/31/09.
• If you received your Gibus from the secret webpage, it is possible to use an item manager (such as the debug view on TF2items.com) to view what number your Gibus is.
• Although there were 10,319 original Gibuses, none of these hats report what number they are.
• This hat cannot be crafted with a second hat to make a new hat in the same way that most class specific hats and misc items can be.
• It was possible to obtain two Ghastly Gibuses: by finding one through the hidden web page, while the giveaway was in practice, and by earning one with the achievement (though this serves no practical purpose, as the Gibus cannot be currently crafted into anything else, and one single Gibus can be worn by all classes at once).
• The Gibus was misspelled "Ghostly Gibus" in the TF2 Official Blog. However, it was probably just what the Soldier thought it was named.
• More players (about 96%) own the Ghastly Gibus than any other hat. [1]
• Because of how common the hat is, modelers tend to only make their custom hats replace the Gibus.
• As of the Mann-Conomy Update, this hat is unable to be traded but can be painted.