The Pit of Dispair

The Void of Dispair (Also known as Holes and The Vold) is a common obstacle in the Phantom Mansion seiries. It looks like a swirling tunnel that has some white sparkles been absorbed in. Its color is same as the color of the chapter. The Pit of Dispair can also been seen thought Cracked Floors.

If Hector walks into it, he will fall into it and this level is failed. It can be covered by pushing a box into it, and it will be able to walked safely.

Trivia
The Void of Dispair is actually the background of the screen, in which the map you can see (like floors, walls, and etc) are all above the Void, so the Void is blocked by them, and the spaces that will cause a pitfall are actually invisible tiles so you can see the Void below.

If the graphic of a level is failed to load, you will see the map is full of the Void, but you can still walk above it, like walking on the invisible bridge, the walls that originally it has will disappear too, means you can collect all souls very easy. But that glitched level may be not able to completed become the exit may become failed to loaded too.

When the game itself is started, just after the intro, you may see the Void too for a very short while.