Okay, having a major senior moment here. A while back, I saw a post on how to get the ghosts to spawn in the Garamscythe watereway. I believe it involved entering the waterway from the Barhiem passage. Do the ghosts spawn in the #10 channel or the #11? How are the sluice gates supposed to be set? HELP!!!
Thanks from a FF mom!

Yeah, you'll want to enter Garamscythe from beyond where you fought Zalera. I don't remember the exact sluice gate configuration but I do have an idea you could try: Close all the sluice gates before you go to Barheim. Then, when you enter the waterway from Barheim you should get a "default configuration" that keeps you from getting stuck and isolated from Lowtown. Ghosts and garchimaceras spawn then... I think.

Thanks for the info. When I can get the 15 year old out of the PS2, I'll give it a try. Right now she's playing zenosaga 3. Once school starts I'll have better access.

Yeah, you'll want to enter Garamscythe from beyond where you fought Zalera. I don't remember the exact sluice gate configuration but I do have an idea you could try: Close all the sluice gates before you go to Barheim. Then, when you enter the waterway from Barheim you should get a "default configuration" that keeps you from getting stuck and isolated from Lowtown. Ghosts and garchimaceras spawn then... I think.

Went in last night and tried several different configurations for the sluice gates. The one that worked was to open all of them and then head in from Barhiem passage. The ghosts spawn in the #10 channel. With all the gates open though, you have to leave the way you came in. That isn't necessarily a bad thing if you are leveling up your characters.

I found that by the time you were going in and out of barheim without dying easily the exp. wasnt sufficient