The Baphomet Idol is the name of a small, mysterious and ancient statuette resembling the mythological demon Baphomet and it plays a major antagonistic role in Return to House on Haunted Hill, the sequel to the 1999 horror/thriller film House on Haunted Hill. It is responsible for keeping the ghosts of everyone who died in the Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute for the Criminally Insane trapped in the haunted mental hosptial.