I don't think one child survives every cycle... and here's why.

If that were actually a rule, then when Victor arrived in Fromville as a child, there should have already been an adult survivor from the previous cycle—someone who survived as a child and grew up in the town.

But there wasn't.

That also explains something else: no one knew what the Man in Yellow really looked like. If a previous child survivor had existed, they would've recognized him and warned everyone long ago.

I think Victor was never supposed to survive. Just like Eloise, he was meant to die. His survival is what made this cycle different.

It could also explain why the Man in Yellow now disguises himself. Victor knows his true appearance, so revealing himself would expose him immediately. In previous cycles, there may have been no need for disguises because nobody had that knowledge.

So maybe Victor isn't proof that one child survives every cycle...

Maybe he's the exception that broke the cycle.

What do you think? Did Victor change the rules, or do you still believe one child survives every cycle?

#FROM

One of the oldest and most viral theories about fairies in the series *From* — which we've discussed many times — but some key points were extracted from Season 4 that were very important. First, we know that Episode 1 contains a lot of answers. In this episode, Ethan tells Julie that the fairies are coming from the Lake of Tears to heal Norman, but we still don't know exactly who the fairies are?!

Now, in Season 2, we had a mysterious man named Martin who was afraid of the ballerina music box being played. Martin, first of all, made a deal with Boyd — that Boyd would pull him up with the rope, and in exchange, Martin would hang himself, or rather, free himself. This trait is exactly seen in the Man in Yellow, who loves making deals. Also, ever since Martin's worms were transferred to Boyd, the voices in Sara's head said "he's laughing at us" and "he's been freed." We hadn't seen the physical presence of the Man in Yellow before Season 3, but we don't know how else he was present — and even the showrunners said the Man in Yellow was there from the very beginning. So it's possible he existed in another form as the worms, and when they touched Kenny's arm, the voices in Sara's head said that "he" — the one who had touched Kenny's arm — was very excited.

Martin did exactly with his blood what the Man in Yellow did with Clara (*my blood is your blood*), and it seems Season 4 was setting up for this. Also, the Man in Yellow in the barn reacted to the ballerina figurine, and Martin was also afraid of it. But the important point is that Martin told Boyd, "They're coming" — but who did he mean by "they"? There's a famous poem that the boy in white told Elgin in a dream: "They come, they touch, they break, they steal — unless you stop the music..."

First, this song is related to the fairies, and second, everything he said matches the Man in Yellow: "They come" (the Man in Yellow), "they break" (he killed Elgin), "they steal" (the talisman stone), and "they touch" (the priest — he knocked him unconscious and woke him up with a touch).

We saw the Man in Yellow get scared when he saw the ballerina figurine, and I've always talked about the picture on the back of the ballerina figurine, which relates to the Fairy Palace. So now we can strongly assume that the physical presence of the Man in Yellow started from Season 3 onward, and before that, the worms were part of him. And Martin's "they" referred to the fairies who imprisoned him with the music box — the same fairies Ethan said were coming from the Lake of Tears.
Also, after that, the yellow-clad man's interest in teeth and collecting dental calculus might actually be something like a dark spirit.

This theory will be a bit long, so thank you for bearing with me.

First of all, remember the mysterious music from Season 2? Elgin said the boy in white told him that whenever they come, they have three purposes, and they move slowly, slowly.

They are coming, they are touching, they are breaking, they are stealing—unless you can stop the music.

First question: Who is coming?

In that music, it says "they are coming," and coincidentally, Martin tells Boyd in the dungeon that he has to leave before the music stops—they are coming, and the monsters are just the tip of the spear!

Now we have Sofia in the barn, and she reacts upon seeing the ballerina figurine and touching it.

First of all, this old nursery rhyme refers to malevolent fairies, and "they" are the Dark Fae.

Second, do you remember that in Episode 1, Ethan mentioned the fairies of the Lake of Tears? Behind the ballerina figurine is the location of the Disney Fairies castle, and the camera zooms in on that scene.

What's even more interesting is that this song exactly describes the Man in Yellow: "They are coming" — "They are touching" (first, he touched the priest and knocked him unconscious) — "They are breaking" (he broke the egg and revived Roger's corpse) — "They are stealing" (he stole the talisman stones).

The boy in white had told this to Elgin in a dream, and now we know that the Man in Yellow and the boy in white are playing against each other. It seems this was a warning from the boy in white about the Man in Yellow, and it's clear he doesn't state things directly.

The people from the town first see a fallen tree on the road, along with crows, and then they enter this town that has magical trees.

What if Martin is actually the Man in Yellow, who was imprisoned by the fairies of the Lake of Tears and the good fairies along with the ballerina music box, and Boyd freed him? This might be a bit confusing, but based on the Man in Yellow's behavior, he does exactly what Martin does.

Also, the Man in Yellow collects teeth—a tooth collection that steers everyone toward the Tooth Fairy. What if the original townspeople made a deal with a Fae to become immortal and turned into these creatures that are sensitive to sunlight?

Furthermore, there's a character named Clara who makes a deal with the Man in Yellow—her name references fairies—and the black eyes of the Man in Yellow point to the Dark Fae.

I swear this was a plot thread for season 1 but they have never used it again, its very strange that they had concepts that they just never returned to.

So many tooth references that made it look like everything is a trip FROM the dentist.

MIY is the tooth fairy or the representation of Ethan’s damaged teeth that was extracted.

BIW is the white tooth Ethan’s gonna grow again.

The phrase “Looks like I’m going to win this time” is the way of telling Ethan already knows how to brush his teeth. No wonder MIY is represented by decayed teeth.

And pulling out the bottle tree? That’s the tooth being pulled out.

And the lightning? You already know how it feels when your tooth is pulled out right?

And the roots? That’s far how the damage goes.

And the tunnels? The cavity inside the tooth.

And the monsters, that’s what you get when you don’t take care of your tooth.

And why do they smile? That’s what you get when you brush your teeth.

And the cycle, that’s how many times a tooth was pulled out.

In the dream, Jim died. But in the real world, the S1E1 is the giveaway when Tabitha said Norman is not dead because it’s not real, and Julie is not kind because he teased Ethan in his sleep. And when Ethan wakes up, Jim is back to cheering him on.

Wildly enough, Angkhooey is just how you pronounce “My toothey” when you have a missing tooth inside your mouth.

Remember the tooth Ethan, Remember to brush your teeth. 💁🏻

Ok hear me out.

Tabitha and Miranda both had 2 kinds. A boy and a girl each.
Mirandas daughter Eloise died the night of the massacre.
Original Tabithas daughter was sacraficed.
Could the BIW be original Tabithas son who wasn't sacraficed and whos spirit still lingers in this place? Acting as the counter positive for this place. That is why he knows so much. Bc he was there from the beginning.

Both Victor and Ethan have a special connection to the BIW, as to each other. Almost like brothers.

ok ok, I know what you're gonna say. Tabitha had 3 kids.
But what if, Thomas death was caused by the entity that controls fromville?
Thomas rolled off of the changing table when the phone rang. Who else controls phones? -The man in yellow.
Almost as if to make sure that Tabitha arrives with only 2 kids in fromville. Because that's the status quo.

idk, just some thoughts

So how many monsters are there that we’ve seen like even one time? And considering Fatima is being one of them from now on possibly not all of them are original people who did the sacrificing. Any of them stand out as the unlucky ones like Fatima? For me maybe the teenager who approached in the first episode asking if she remembers him and the woman in the window that said “we dont wanna be like this”. Is it ever mentioned how many people were there in the beginning?

The apple symbols in the series appeared exactly when the characters were about to do something important.

In the episode where the voices in Sarah's head told her to kill Ethan, several apples are placed next to her.

In the second episode, when Julie wants to leave town, Fatima offers her an apple.

In Season 4, Episode 9, when Sofia goes to Sarah's house, she picks up an apple from beside several apple slices and a knife next to it.

Also, in many other scenes, the apple symbols appeared, and I don't think they're coincidental.

Now, in the show's opening credits, the painting of Ellis and Fatima resembles the painting of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and the reference to the apple reminds me of that same story.

The two trees—the Tree of Life and the forbidden Tree of Knowledge—all of this reminds me of the phrase "knowledge comes at a price" from the Man in Yellow, or the cutting down of the bottle tree.

God warned Adam and Eve not to eat from it, but they were deceived. Isn't this the same scenario as the Boy in White warning them not to cut down the tree?

They ate from the Tree of Life and fell. We know the monsters made a deal with something terrifying because they were promised they would live forever.

Also, in one of Victor's paintings, next to the Man in Yellow, a red creature could be seen—or the blackening of Sofia's eyes and the hanging of a ram alongside Jim's corpse directly point to a demonic and ancient entity. Is the series rewriting that narrative?

Furthermore, after Adam and Eve fell to Earth, they had two sons named Cain and Abel. When Cain killed his brother, God sent a raven to show him how to bury him.

In Episode 8, when Boyd sees the deaths of Tabitha, Jade, and Kenny in his hallucinations, the sound of crows is heard—and Julie's dialogue in the first episode, where she said they call this murder of crows.

Is this an ancient cycle, and are Tabitha and Jade Adam and Eve?

Sorry if this has been discussed already, I never seen it when the episode came up and I just tried searching again.

But when Tabitha is in Victor and Eloise's room, their wall paper is peaches. Also theres a globe similar to Kenny's. I wouldn't be surprised if alot of the things in the room are connected but im just not making the connection.

In Ethan's storybook, when Julie and Randall were examining it, this page was very important. First of all, the repairman in this storybook is wearing exactly the same clothes that Kristy wears. I said, isn't it strange that the repairman was a repairman in the storybook, while Kristy is a doctor?! Also, there are magical mushrooms at the bottom of the illustration, or perhaps a bookmark symbol, and that firefighter helmet that Sophia was holding in Episode Nine. But what's more important is the spider monster that has several teeth above its head. This exactly reminds me of the Yellow-suited Man. Could this be a clue to identifying the true identity of the Yellow-suited Man, and is his real form actually a spider? Pay attention to the teeth of the Yellow-suited Man, and also the teeth of this spider monster in Ethan's storybook.

By where we are now, we know that this cycle has been going on for a long long time and we also know that the place that is fromville now was always that because the original sacrificed children were buried in that exact forest. So how did the new buildings come? From flashbacks of victor we see that the spinning thing and the diner were new enough and weren't rusty meaning they had to have been built relatively recently. Also in previous cycles they likely didn't have houses like they do now so did people hide at night then build houses in the daytime that they couldn't use? The only other place my mind goes is that maybe after every other cycle the town kinda does a reset and brings in new buildings which would add to that one question about the horse statue thing in the colony house. But the issue with that is that it's also established that one child survives each cycle, we know it was victor and now it's gonna be the Mathew's kid, so how would that happen if someone was still living there. Is there anything I missed maybe?

OK I'm convinced now ONE of the ruffle people (earliest settlers 1506) Were (was) theres 3 paintings one by the window looks male and has maybe 2 heads? These rufflenecks as of season 4 ending are totally unseen and unexplained, but obviously important.

Far Right one looks female maybe. Original priest of the town who offered the immortality bargain. (Given the incantations MIY speaks) Who else would have known latin? - (not the we know the incantations ARE latin) but it follows to me that the language of the rituals Sophia is speaking is latin or reverse latin (associated w spells/witchcraft/hermeticism/kaballah)

- The direct mention of Abraham story after the The Bloody Bag, Jim, the Abraham story ends w a Ram being offered instead, the odor being "pleasing to god" So Bloody bag was fulfilling the ritual? For the monsters for some reason. I mean they could have just hung jim in the barn. Why was the bloody bag necessary? w animal parts? I think the motel sign and pool area are the ALTAR of some kind of sacrifice ritual. - Just a joke to tease the people? - There being goat parts and the mention of Abraham tells me there is more there. PLUS "Star Magic" one of the biggest unexplained plot threads, so much intention, and then it lighting up "ANSWERS" There is so much intention about the Motel sign.

almost every other person in the paintings has been explained - except for the ruffle neck (persons) - The taller one w the graves looks a bit like sophia TBH. But the smaller one that looks male looks like there is a skull next to his head.

So maybe the big bad ancient evil is the SPIDER, MIY was originally one of the rufflenecks? and the motel sign is where the altar was. And you say WAIT they were killed the children in the CHAMBER. If so

WHERE ARE THE SLABS? We saw the slabs twice but they not where the bones are now. Convo w jade tom about the heart being deep within the most defended. maybe that chamber was just the most defended place? =

there seem to be more monsters than original sacrificed children Perhaps they are roped in in "games" like Fatima

Summing up the "ancient evil" BIG bad is the SPIDER (both Martin and Abby Mention greater evil IN THE FOREST)
MIY is one on the 1506 Rufflenecks - Maybe they were Husband and wife, Maybe spoke latin, maybe were priests, maybe the wife was a witch, they become agents of the ancient evil. Who else would know Latin or spells? / rituals. Maybe there was only one.
Sophia's Black Eyes led me to believe she is an agent of the SPIDER.
MALE ruffleneck almost looks like there is a skull next to his head. perhaps he was the BIW.
and they both got involved w the Spider and the grand bargain.

Anyhow that's my big theory.
Spider- Unexplained, Rufflenecks - Unexplained, Motel Sign/ Bloody Bag Unexplained.
More monsters than ankooey kids unexplained, missing slabs unexplained. I wouldn't describe 1506 as "ancient" so it HAS to be that the rufflenecks encountered the spider, and that's where the grand bargain of eternal life was offered/ accepted. MIY potentially a ruffleneck w some knowledge of latin, maybe a witch. Bloody Bag of animal parts was some kind of ritual for the Monsters / Necessary, not just distraction.

It would have had more emotional impact and would actually give Mari's character something more decent to work with
Her and Kenny could go through their shared loss together

Mari was barely relevant to the story - I didn't feel sad when she died because she'd left no impression on me whatsoever
Also what's the point of Bakta? Her character is probably the most pointless

Did they just gradually appear by magic, over time? Could any of the current town have existed at the time the children were sacrificed? Possibly colony house?

I'm wondering whether there used to be periods when everyone had been killed and then the town would update itself before letting new people in. However, because Victor has been there for so long the town hasn't made any big changes for a while. It's unlikely we'll get an answer but it would be intresting to see how different the town may have been in Jade and Tabitha's previous lives.

I compiled a master list - brace yourselves, it's a long one - of questions I thought of while watching the show from Season 1 all through Season 4.

You can use this list to form your own theories.

I will definitely be planning a rewatch to answer some of them. I have my own theories but I'm curious what you come up with. Please let me know in the comments!

For this reason, I kept the questions as open as possible.

I'm still having fun and am hoping for a Season 5 spectacle with lots of answers! Even if we don't get all questions answered, I'm confident the key plot points will be revealed.

Questions about Fromville

• What is the meaning of the series title FROM?
• Whát is Fromville?
• Who made Fromville or how did it originate?
• Where is Fromville located?
• How do people teleport to Fromville from different places across the US?
• How do you get out of Fromville?
• Have people escaped Fromville in the past? 
• How does day and night and the passing of time function in Fromville?
• What factors determine the climate/the seasons in Fromville?
• Where does the railway lead - the one you cross when you enter Fromville?
• What factors determine which people will end up in Fromville? (aside from Jade and Tabitha)
• What is the purpose of these people being in Fromville?
• What afterlife is there in Fromville after you die?
• Where are the souls of the deceased in Fromville and how do you free them?

Questions about the Monsters

• How many Monsters are there?
• Are the Monsters a kind of fairies or fae?
• What kind of people where the Monsters before they turned into the creatures?
• What can we learn about the people who became Monsters from the objects found in the basement of Colony House and the Diner's storage room?
• Did the Captain Monster ever have a boat and can the Fromvillagers use it to escape Fromville?
• Jasmine the Monster says: “It wasn’t my choice to be this way”. Were the people forced to become Monsters?
• Who or what did the Monsters make a deal with to gain eternal life?
• Did the Man in Yellow create the Monsters?
• Why do the Monsters smile? 
• Why are the Monsters screaming again from Season 2 onwards?
• How do the Monsters communicate with one another?
• Why do the Monsters collect the belongings of former residents of Fromville in their tunnels?
• Do the bones keep the monsters in the tunnels?
• Why are the Monsters scared of the music box theme when they approach the RV?
• Who made the talismans?
• Why was Fatima the one who became pregnant with Smiley?
• How does Elgin know Fatima's baby isn't Fatima's?
• How does the connection between Fatima and the Monster work?
• How does Fatima control Smiley?
• How can Fatima influence the other Monsters?
• Will Fatima change into a Monster permanently or can she shapeshift?
• Will Fatima's afflication make her evil?
• Why is Fatima turning into a Monster herself?
• Why did Smiley murder Marielle? 
• A Monster says to Julie: "Julie, don't you recognize me?" Who is this?
• Which Monsters exist in Fromville besides the creatures that come at night? 
• Who or what is the red Monster depicted in the cave drawings?

Questions about Colony House

• Who bricked up the door in the basement of Colony House?
• What is really behind this door?

Questions about the Town

• Why is there a gas station located in a town where no one can leave?
• What is the origin of the Rendez-Move trailer next to the sheriff's office?
• Where is the motel that is mentioned on the sign?
• What is the meaning of the 'Star Magic' sign and how did it disappear over time?

Questions about the Farway Trees and the Bottle Tree

• How many Farway Trees are there in Fromville?
• How did Julie end up in the root cellar after going through the Farway Tree? 
• How do you know the destination going through the Bottle Tree?
• What factors make you go to the Lighthouse?
• How did Dale end up in the pool when going through the Bottle Tree?
• Why was it at some point no longer possible to use the Bottle Tree to get to the Lighthouse?
• Who put the bottles in the Bottle Tree?
• Did the Children write the numbers on the pieces of paper in the bottles?
• What is the meaning of the numbers in the bottles?
• Can you go through a Bottle Tree when on a Storywalk?
• Victor notices the Bottle Tree has moved. Was the Bottle Tree originally not above the burial chamber?
• What is the meaning and function of the original Bottle Tree art installation in the real world?
• What is the meaning of the tree across the road, right before entering Fromville?

Questions about Boyd

• Why is Boyd important (to torture) for the Monsters / in Fromville?
• Who or what left talismans and livestock in the woods?
• Why was Boyd the one to find these things?
• What is the cause for Boyd's hallucinations of Father Khatri?
• What other effects do the spider bites have on Boyd, besides his initial weakened state?
• Who is Abby in Boyd's hallucinations and what is her role in Fromville?
• What is the meaning of Boyd's hallucination of Abby stuck in the spider web tree?
• Why does Abby's hand from the grave pull Boyd down?
• What is the meaning of Boyd hallucinating about everyone being dead in the woods, except Abby who has blood running from her mouth?
• What is the meaning of the wedding ring with the infinity symbol and the wedding picture of Boyd and Abby in the viewmaster?
• Ellis was out in the evening, according to Abby's letter that Boyd kept. Where was Ellis?
• Boyd meets Martin in the dungeon. Who is Martin and why is he important?
• Martin talks about 'they', but they are not the Monsters. Who are 'they'?
• Martin talked about Abby: "It's all just a dream." What is the backstory between Martin and Abby?
• How did Martin get the worms in him?
• How do the worms in Boyd's blood work?
• Boyd uses the phrase 'Tip of the Spear', as Martin did. Will Boyd become the new Martin?
• Can Boyd return to the dungeon with a torch and get more answers?
• Boyd resuscitates Donna succesfully. What influence does Boyd have on Fromville?
• What does the polaroid of the white lakeside house mean for Boyd?

Questions about Tabitha

• Thomas died as a result of the phone ringing and distracting Tabitha and Jim. Who called and indirectly caused his death?
• Several people (Tian-Chen, Tabitha and Sophia) cut themselves on glass shards. What does this mean?
• Tabitha has a flashback of Miranda driving an AMC Hornet car through Fromville and noticing two (blurry) people at the gas station. Who are these two people?
• How did Tabitha end up in the real world when she was pushed from the Lighthouse?
• Little Jade about Tabitha's fate: "For Tabitha, it's worse." What happens to Tabitha at the end of each cycle?

Questions about Jade

• What did Jade actually create before ending up in Fromville?
• Did Jade as a software-developer unknowingly design Fromville?
• Why did Jade have hallucinations about Tom specifically?
• How will Jade succeed in taking the dead with him, and especially Tian-Chen whom he promised, when escaping Fromville?
• Is the safeword 'capricorn' Jade's star sign?
• What does the star sign capricorn mean for Jade's fate?
• Why did one of Jade's past lives drink blood from a skull?
• What is the meaning of the spiders crawling from the skull?
• During his mushroom trip, Jade also sees a big spider crawling on the ceiling lamp in the tunnel below Colony House. What does this mean?
• Why are just Jade and Boyd seeing spiders during hallucinations?
• Little Jade points Jade to the door in the basement of Colony House. What is the meaning of this in relation to changing Jade's fate of the townspeople killing him?

Questions about Victor and his drawings

• Victor's drawing: snowglobe. Does Fromville function like a snowglobe?
• Victor's drawing: yellow and blue house. Whose houses are these?
• Victor's drawing: white figure surrounded by black. Who is this and where are they?
• Victor's drawing: girl with sketchy black hair. Who is this?
• Victor's drawing: big clock / lighthouse (unclear). What does this drawing portray?
• Victor's drawing: house with two orbs left and right. Does Fromville have multiple suns?
• Victor's drawing: large eye crying into a lake. Does Victor secretly know about the Lake of Tears?
• Victor: "Water is creepy." Why is Victor scared of water?
• Is it true that the trees move and if so, what are the consequences of the moving trees?
• Why is Victor scared of Jasper the ventriloquist doll?
• Why did Victor need to hide in a place Christopher didn't know about?
• Victor only found parts of supposedly Eloise. Did Eloise die or did she escape Fromville?
• Victor tells a story about Mrs. Davis who bought her son a toy car she saw in a magazine. The car would make her son smile, but both Mrs. Davis and her son died. Can Fromville reach out to the outside world to lure people in?
• Victor mentions making a scarecrow in the likeness of Ethan's dad and Ethan mentions thinking of scarecrows in a field. What do scarecrows have to do with Fromville?

Questions about Henry

• Why did the Boy in White want Tabitha to get Henry into Fromville?
• Is Henry's song on the piano 'Leaving on a Jetplane' a reference to Lost?
• Henry tells Victor to remember Miranda's beautiful voice. Why is remembering Miranda's voice or songs (like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star) of importance for escaping Fromville?
• Henry (after drinking Sophia's blood) to Jade: “I will promise you, the only thing you will cause is pain.” Is this a message from the Man in Yellow?
• Eloise isn't present in Henry's hallucination; instead she is on a plane. Why didn't MIY create Eloise in Henry's hallucination?
• Why does the Man in Yellow want Henry to kill Victor?

Questions about Ethan, Julie, storywalking and books

• Ethan's drawing: Boyd, Ellis and Fatima at a flag and a small house. What kind of structure is this?
• Ethan's drawing: yellow house with a yellow tree next to it. Whose house is this?
• Ethan's drawing: blue house with a yellow tree next to it. Whose house is this?
• Ethan: "I've never seen what things look like on the inside before." Why does Ethan ask this weird question?
• Ethan says that 'a man wears a suit to show his respect'. Is Ethan becoming the new Man in Yellow?
• Does Ethan see Jim's ghost at the RV or is he being deceived?
• Ghost Jim keeps looking over his shoulder at the forest. Wat is after him?
• Can Julie save Jim and how?
• What is the meaning of the book 'Flight of the Cromenockle'?
• What is the book Flight of the Cromenockle about?
• Is 'Flight of the Cromenockle' an anagram and what is the solution?
• What came first: Fromville or the books that contain information about storywalking?
• How does bookmarking work?
• What other unexplainable events could be influenced by one of Julie's storywalks?
• Why did Julie enter the tunnels after her visit to the dungeon?
• Why did Julie end up at the RV at night during her second storywalk?
• What is the importance of the ruins in relation to storywalking?

Questions about Sara

• Why did Tobey have to die?
• Who is meant by the message 'Kill the Boy'?
• Why is Sara in particular chosen as a victim for MIY's manipulations (voices)?
• Can Sara also hear the voices of the dead, like Abby's voice?
• Who dragged Sara and Boyd's tent in the woods?
• What is the significance of Nathan's ceramic snowman?
• How does the breaking and repairing of the snowman figurine affect Fromville?

Questions about the Boy in White

• Who is the Boy in White?
• How and why is the Boy in White aging?
• Victor saw the Boy in White for the first time when he came out of the root cellar and everyone was dead. Why did the Boy in White appear? 
• Boy in White: "It's angry now." What is 'it'?
• Why did the Boy in White send Boyd into the dungeon with Martin?
• Why did the BIW want Victor to collect objects from the dead to keep in a buried suitcase?
• The Boy in White told Victor he needed three things: food (canned peaches), to imagine not being alone, and ... What was the third thing?
• How can the Boy in White appear in the real world to Tabitha?
• What does it mean when the Boy in White says that there's not much time left?

Questions about the Man in Yellow

• What are the origins of the Man in Yellow?
• Is the Man in Yellow inherently evil?
• What is the link between the Boy in White and the Man in Yellow?
• Is the MIY the cause of the Matthews' house collapsing and can he conjure storms?
• Did the Man in Yellow find Fatima's molar?
• What does the Man in Yellow do with the collected teeth?
• What is MIY planning to do with Jim's tooth?
• MIY to Jim: "But they're not your children anymore." What does this mean?
• Who is the man the MIY is eating from when Julie storywalks to the massacre in Victor's time?
• What bodypart is he eating?
• Why does the MIY eat corpses?
• Kenny awakens to find Sophia standing outside at night. What was the Man in Yellow doing while Kenny was sleeping?
• Why does Sophia smell certain objects?
• What did Sophia put in Kristi and Marielle's drinks when she serves them in the clinic?
• Why is Sophia scared/shocked when she sees the voodoo totems?
• Who was Sophia as a human before the Man in Yellow stole her appearance?
• Is the RV a special place for the Man in Yellow and in what way?
• What happened between the Man in Yellow and Tabitha/Miranda during past cycles?
• What is the motive for MIY not wanting to kill Jade and Tabitha yet?
• What is the great pain MIY speaks of, that will follow after digging up the bones?
• At what moments in the past was Clara helping the Man in Yellow as his pawn?
• Did the Man in Yellow also persuade others in the past to do his bidding?
• Why is it important to the MIY that Fatima transitions quickly into a Monster, by drinking Clara's potion?
• MIY has the same veining Fatima is showing. Will Fatima become a creature like the Man in Yellow?
• Does the MIY always steal all the talismans at some point?
• Sophia didn't check Clara's bag. Did Sophia actually put áll the talismans through the Farway tree?

Questions about Lighthouses, Boats and Anchors

• What is the purpose of the Lighthouse in Fromville?
• Where is Boyd's boat and (how) will he use it to escape?
• Is Boyd's and Sara's Lighthouse the same as Tabitha's Lighthouse?
• How many Lighthouses does Fromville have?

Questions about the Ballerina and the Music Box

• Why does Elgin hear the music box?
• Why does Kenny see the music box?
• 'They touch, they break, they steal.' Who are 'they'?
•  Sara: "It needs them to stay." What wants to keep the three people locked in the dungeon and why?
• Why did the music box ballerina dance backwards instead of forwards?
• What would have happened if the music box music stopped before Boyd left Martin?
• What is the meaning of the worms coming out of the ballerina's mouth in Boyd's hallucination in the chapel?
• How will the three people die if the music box continues playing?
• Who thuds the floor of the RV when the music box tune stops playing?
• Sophia sees a ballerina statue in the Diner's storage room and looks angry or worried. Why is the ballerina a threat to the Man in Yellow?
• Marielle see 4-digit numbers in the ambulance during a hallucination. What do these numbers mean?
• How are the numbers from the Bottle Tree connected to the music box?
• Marielle says there's something ancient in Fromville, that lives off the suffering of others. What is the 'something ancient'?

Questions about the Woman in the Kimono

• Who or what is the woman in the kimono?
• How is the music box connected to the woman in the kimono?
• Wat is the connection between Elgin and water/drowning?
• Elgin has a hallucination where the kimono-woman has sand in her hands. What does this mean?
• Who knocks in the closet of the root cellar to lure Elgin inside the secret room with the red door?
• Whose body is in the corner of the room behind the root cellar?
• Will Fatima turn into the woman in the kimono?

Questions about Fatima's Golem

• How will the Golem come to life?
• Will the Golem be good or evil?
• What will the Golem do?
• Why did Fatima create the golem nów?

Questions about the Giant Dolls

• Who buried the dolls in the lake?
• How does Tabitha know the lullaby before the Giant Dolls attack and what does the song mean?
• Why don't the talismans protect against the Giant Dolls?
• Why do the voodoo totems work against the Giant Dolls?
• Who made the voodoo totems?
• Two Giant Dolls survive the settlement attack. Will these dolls return later to attack? 
• Who sewed Roger's mouth shut and sewed buttons on his eyes?
• Roger is killed fairly quickly by Elgin with one of the voodoo totems. Why did Sophia bring the Roger puppet to life?

Questions about the Lake of Tears

• Where is the Lake of Tears located?
• Why is it important to find the Lake of Tears?
• What is the significance of the Brundles in Fromville besides being a recreational lake?

Questions about the Dog

• Is the dog good or evil?
• Who is the dog's handler?

Questions about the Crows

• Are the crows flying in a certain pattern?
• What is the meaning of the murder of crows at the fallen tree?
• What is the meaning of rats eating a dead crow in the tunnels?
• Why is Sophia afraid/angry at the crows flocking at Pastor Dunne and Jim's funeral?
• What are the crows warning the people about?
• What is the meaning of the wounded starling?

Questions about the Symbol

• What does the Symbol stand for?
• How many versions of the Symbol are there?
• Ethan: "The symbol can make you do bad things." How does Ethan know this and how does the symbol influence people?
• Jade creates a web that represents the Symbol. How is the Symbol connected to the spiders?

Questions about the Cycles

• Does Victor know how the Cycle ends?
• What happens at the end of the Cycle?
• What causes the death of all the people in Fromville at the end of the Cycle?
• A carroussel goes round and round and symbolises the circle of life and eternity. How does the carroussel horse end up in Colony House?

Questions about the Children

• What language is 'Anghkooey'?
• Who were the parents of each of the Children?
• How were the Children sacrificed?
• Who was the one who told the Children a story that gave them hope?
• How can they save the Children now?
• Where is the tower the Children were locked in?
• What needs to happen with the bones of the Children in order for the people to escape Fromville?
• Will everyone who died be free, once the Children are saved? 
• Will Fromville cease to exist when the Children are saved?
• What is the connection between the wooden tower-puzzle and the Children?
• Are the Children's bones an anchor and in what way?
• Sophia says 'how you do something, is just as important as what you do'. What ritual is necessary to free the Children?  

Other Questions

• Where does the power come from?
• Why do the lights flicker from time to time in Fromville? 
• (How) do people heal faster in Fromville?
• Kenny's dad: "Look at the mess he made." Who is 'he'?
• If you compare Fromville to a game of chess, who is which piece?
• What is the meaning of the stone circle Father Khatri hid his personal belongings?
• Why did the Grand Rapids Runner bus arrive (carrying Marielle, Randall, Elgin, Tillie and Bakta)?
• What is the symbolism behind the owls Elgin crocheted with his grandma?
• Was Tillie evil or bribed by the Man in Yellow?
• Did the Man in Yellow create Tillie?
• How is it possible that Tillie knows things she couldn't have known?
• Tillie to Fatima: "You have to run." What does Fatima have to run from and how does Tillie know?
• What was the barred window in the tunnels used for?
• In the tunnels a wooden ball knocks down the tower puzzle. What does this mean?
• Who threw the ball?
• What type of building were the ruins before?
• How did the ruins become ruins?
• Why was the girl called Kelly pinned to a tree and who did that?
• What did Kelly hear that caused her to scream all of a sudden?
• What is the link between corporal Brian Kelly and the people Brian and Kelly who got stuck in from?
• What is the connection between the spiders and Fromville?
• How did Marielle become addicted to drugs?
• When and how was the settlement built?
• What were the red rocks close to the settlement for?
• Who knocked on the settlement huts at night?
• What is the meaning of the yellow moss growing on the voodoo totems at the settlement? 
• What's the story behind Danny and Shay's truck in the empty pool?
• Who put the trap in the woods that Kristi gets caught in?
• What are the embellished crosses for, hanging in a closet in the shed?
• Who puts the messages on the Diner's letter board?
• "Hope is the thin(g) with feathersl that perches in the soul. R" What is the thing with feathers?
• "A … sings th. tunes without the words and never stops at a… fo.ever is composed of n.ws O D L" What's the second word and the word before 'forever', and what is the meaning of this message?
• Who manipulates the Diner's radios in playing songs?
• What is the meaning of the song 'Blue' from Joni Mitchell?
• What's the picture of the 1974 Rendez-Move calendar from and where was it taken?
• What is the meaning of the circled March 30th and the questionmark at the 31th?
• Whose initials are M.P. on the post office rubber stamp?
• What's the link between Pastor Dunne's car with license plate 3XOLOI5 and Eloise?
• Who sends the messages through the polaroid camera?
• Who wrote 'Troy' on the ambulance and what does this mean?
• Why is Kristi unable to find the epinefrine shot in the clinic when it's right in front of her?
• What is the meaning of the rat crawling out of the corpse's mouth in the Matthews house rubble?
• Why did Randall carve a wooden skull?
• Why did Donna have a heart attack?
• What did Donna see while being unconscious / near death?
• What is Patty's role in Fromville apart from causing chaos and being afraid?
• Who or what is causing the poltergeist-phenomena and what does this mean?
• During the poltergeist at the Matthews' house a book titled 'How the Light Gets In' flies through the air. What does this clue mean?
• What are all the fears of the deceased stuck in Fromville?
• What is causing the weather changes in Fromville after uprooting the Bottle Tree?
• What is causing earthquakes?
• What is the meaning of the red lightning(storm)?

Enjoy !

Now we know that the main goal of the original people was to achieve immortality, and we have a reincarnated couple who have come here again and again. Also remember that little Jade said these are just some of the versions of your reincarnations, so this reincarnation is much more ancient and older. But here's my theory:

This series repeatedly references fruit (apples). In the first episode, Ethan eats an apple in the car, Fatima offers an apple to Julie, and when Sarah hears voices telling her to kill Ethan, there are several apples next to her, plus many other scenes. Also, everyone knows that the original painting of Ellis and Fatima closely resembles Adam and Eve.

In fact, the series' story is a cycle much more ancient and older than what Marielle mentioned. The monsters sacrifice others to achieve immortality, just as Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Immortality to become immortal and then *fell*. The reference to "the fall" has also been mentioned several times by the cast.

The Garden of Eden was known for the Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Immortality. In the series' story, after the bottle tree was cut down, the death situation became much more severe, and the Boy in White warned not to cut down the tree. He's definitely not just a little boy—the writers themselves said his growth was part of the series, and also Sarah told Boyd in Season 2, "I don't think he was just a little boy." Also, when Tabitha asked him why his appearance changed, he said, "Those are the wrong questions." It's completely clear and obvious that the Boy in White is God and the Man in Yellow is the Devil. This is an ancient father-son relationship where the Yellow Man wants to prove that humans are fragile and sacrifice their own children.

This is a game—a game between souls controlled by these two forces—and Tabitha and Jade clearly play the roles of Adam and Eve. The final conversation between the Yellow Man and the White Man was reminiscent of humanity's submission to the devil throughout the world—that humans are always influenced by demonic forces ("I always admire your optimism").

In the painting, and also in the opening credits, the Boy in White has exactly a crow drawn over his mouth. Even in the credits, after the White Man appears, the image shifts to crows around his mouth.

Before Megan died in the first episode, she said, "I also ask you to take care of my soul." Also, we saw the Yellow Man eating a liver—which symbolizes the human soul—and collecting teeth, so it's very clear that souls are controlled by these two forces.

The crows might be the souls of dead people, coming from the direction of the Boy in White according to the painting, which is why Sofia was afraid of them.

Regarding the numbers 4 and 7—since the town's capacity is 47, and Father Katri's theory references book 74—this points to the 4 main figures in the game: Tabitha and Jade (Adam and Eve), the White Man and the Yellow Man (God and the Devil), and the 7 sacrificed children.

I usually have FROMville epiphanies after 2 AM, today I was watching World Cup play off when it hit me 😂😂, here is my partial theory about how Julie interacts with the physics of FROMville and how the entire time/physical travel could be connected, just focusing on Julie perspective for now:

1. FROMville is pocket universe , as per FROMville physics professor Dale🤓 Past, present and future all exist simultaneously. So what can be inferred from that these timelines exist in different layers, unlike our timelines in our world, which are sequential or linear.

2. Jade drew something to that effect on his bar board in S4.

3. Julie so far can time travel or "story walk", (I find the play on words so entertaining because story doesn't only mean a tale but can also mean floor (that's why Fred the elevator mechanics was such a smart reference).

4. Elsewhere in FROMville we see where physical travelling is possible, which is the entry to the world itself: somewhere on the (many various) road you suddenly enter the town after you see the fallen tree. So Travelling in vehicles, (car, boats, canoes whatever was drawn in the tunnels) is the means to transport people through physical layers or dimensions.

5.therefore: if Julie the time traveler, actually drove a car she will have better command of story walking. The plot line about her not getting her driver permission is not minor and they spent time explaining it.

6.Therefore I'm willing to bet that we will see her driving in S5 and that will facilitate this time+physical travel.

7.As a matter of fact, She was about to do that in S3 but cicadas attacked Randall just about when she was going to drive and that derailed that possibility, not a coincidence if you ask me. At all!

1. Therefore therefore therefore, the boat has its iconic importance to exiting FROmville, (exiting a dimension to another) but I still haven't put the whole scenario together. Maybe because a water vehicle was the original vehicle, they need to come a full circle?..hmmmm 🤔

I have much bigger physics theory but maybe I'll know how to frame it when another epiphany hits me in the final match 🤣

when i originally watched the show i always thought the dogs were a part of the "good side" kinda like the boy in white but now i feel like its not. after the newest season we know for sure that there is some entity higher than the man in yellow and the boy in white, aswell as the fact that the cycle happens over and over again so my theory is that the dogs act as the higher entities way to make the story progress. every cycle needs to have someone find the stones, boyd found the stones with the help from the dogs, the dogs also stopped victor and the kid from reaching the boy in white in ep4 possibly in order to keep the boy in white from moving the story along faster than its meant to. it could also mean the dogs act as surveillance possibly letting the entity know whats happening around the area if thats something you may believe.

im very sure that the dog isnt on the side of the man in yellow but it also doesn't seem to be on the side of good either, feels more like a tool to keep the cycle continuing in the right way.

I got curious and decided to scroll all the way back on FROMS instagram posts, just to see if the ‘the end is at the beginning’ thing also applies to that, even though i doubt this has anything to do with anything.

Who crashed the 2 cars in the first post below?? Cause i know the green car is not the RV and who is hanging out of the windshield?? Has Victor seen that happen before and forgot?

Also in the second post below is titled ‘The Monster’ was that drawing done by Victor? if so does that mean he has met or seen the entity that takes the form of the MIY and Sophia??

Maybe i’m just crazy but i’m sure i haven’t seen these 2 drawings in season 1, seems it’s time to do a rewatch 😂