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** Most of the songs have a depressing or disturbing edge to them. "Weird Autumn" is about the singer's fascination with a strange girl who just disappeared, and how they wish they'd gotten to know her. Recent addition "Tick Tock" is about the inevitable progression of time, and how there's nothing to do but make peace with the idea of aging and death.
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* You check the library's microfiche before embarking on your ghost hunt. If you read the non-ghost related stories, you get the history of Possum Springs...and it's not a happy one. For all the older residents talk about the good ol' days when everyone had a job, it's clear that there ''were'' no good ol' days -- just a history of dangerous working conditions, exploitative bosses and downright lethal terrain.
** Back when it was a mining town, mine bosses decided not to alert two miners to the gas pockets in the areas they were about to dynamite. The resulting explosion killed and maimed many miners, including one poor fellow whose body wasn't discovered until long after his widow had taken their children and moved back to their home country. His funeral had to be handled by the pastor.
** A year after the accident, the bosses had ''still'' not implemented the safety measures required by law. The miners decided to go on strike. The bosses called in the National Guard...who started firing into the crowd after being taunted by local youths. Their indiscriminate attack killed not only many striking miners, but two children who'd been delivering their father's lunch.
** A bizarre gas leak caused disturbing visual and auditory hallucinations for residents in a particular area which subsequently had to be evacuated...but not before a young boy had drowned himself because he heard someone or something "calling" him.
** Jenny's Field. You don't get this story from the microfiche, but from Mae's mother while on an outing. Jenny was a little girl who was out walking with her mother when a sinkhole opened up beneath her. Her mother, walking just behind her, [[AdultFear saw her daughter vanish into the ground]]. [[NeverFoundTheBody They never even recovered her body.]] What caused the sinkhole? The mines that had been built beneath soft, boggy ground with props that weren't up to the job.
** Back when it was a mining town, mine bosses decided not to alert two miners to the gas pockets in the areas they were about to dynamite. The resulting explosion killed and maimed many miners, including one poor fellow whose body wasn't discovered until long after his widow had taken their children and moved back to their home country. His funeral had to be handled by the pastor.
** A year after the accident, the bosses had ''still'' not implemented the safety measures required by law. The miners decided to go on strike. The bosses called in the National Guard...who started firing into the crowd after being taunted by local youths. Their indiscriminate attack killed not only many striking miners, but two children who'd been delivering their father's lunch.
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** Jenny's Field. You don't get this story from the microfiche, but from Mae's mother while on an outing. Jenny was a little girl who was out walking with her mother when a sinkhole opened up beneath her. Her mother, walking just behind her, [[AdultFear saw her daughter vanish into the ground]]. [[NeverFoundTheBody They never even recovered her body.]] What caused the sinkhole? The mines that had been built beneath soft, boggy ground with props that weren't up to the job.
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** While a sweet moment in general, it is quite a TearJerker when Mae's mom reveals that Mae is the only successful child after ''many'' miscarriages. It's implied the parents have tried for ages to the point of giving up, only for Mae to make it through. It makes not only her parents concerns for her well-being much more understandable, but adds an entire new [[AdultFear point of view]] about how they must have felt when [[spoiler: Mae almost died in the woods and then later disappears in the middle of the night to go to Gregg]].
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** Bea is working a dead-end job and [[spoiler:envies her former friend Mae to the point of hating her for having the life she couldn't. Her mom's death certainly hasn't helped her, either. It's also implied that one of her co-workers at the Ol' Pickaxe attempted to or succeeded in sexually assaulting her as a teenager, and she still has to work with him every day as he's pretty much their best worker.]]
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** Bea is working a dead-end job and [[spoiler:envies her former friend Mae to the point of hating her for having the life she couldn't. Her mom's death certainly hasn't helped her, either. It's also implied that one of her co-workers at the Ol' Pickaxe attempted to or succeeded in sexually abusing, her, maybe even raping her, abusing her as a teenager, and she still has to work with him every day as he's pretty much their best worker.]]
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** Bea is working a dead-end job and [[spoiler:envies her former friend Mae to the point of hating her for having the life she couldn't. Her mom's death certainly hasn't helped her, either. It's also implied that one of her co-workers at the Ol' Pickaxe attempted to or succeeded in abusing her sexually abusing, her, maybe even raping her, as a teenager, and she still has to work with him every day as he's pretty much their best worker.]]
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** Speaking of Germ, his reason for why he doesn't believe in ghosts.
--> '''Germ:''' [[spoiler:[[WhamLine My brother would've visited.]]]]
--> '''Germ:''' [[spoiler:[[WhamLine My brother would've visited.]]]]
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Officially debunked by one of the devs here: https://curiouscat.me/bombsfall/post/218021734
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** Mae upon returning to her friends after nearly dying decides to [[spoiler: Sacrifice herself to the cult because she's tired of fighting and running. She wants to die . Had Gregg not showed up she might have been sacrificed herself.]]
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* This little happy [[http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/320/101/141.png story]] from 4chan.
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** [[spoiler:[[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Now in song]] [[https://soundcloud.com/tvma/i-want-it-to-hurt-lyrics-by-mae-borowski form.]]]]
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** Mae is a WomanChild and a college dropout that left due to feeling constantly alienated, only to return to her dying home and learn almost everyone wants nothing to do with her or only remembers the bad things she's done to them or others. Gregg seems to be the ''only'' person who's happy to see her return, minus her parents, and even then, after coming back, her binding with her friends ends up causing them trouble (reawakening Gregg's crimeloving attitude which causes friction between Gregg and Angus, accidentally letting slip on a party Bea invited Mae to that Bea never went to college, causing Bea to run away). [[spoiler: Then it's revealed Mae is severely mentally ill (and can't get the proper treatment because the doctor is highly incompetent), has done things that have only alienated her further in the past,]] and then the woods start acting up...
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** Mae is a WomanChild and a college dropout that left due to feeling constantly alienated, only to return to her dying home and learn almost everyone wants nothing to do with her or only remembers the bad things she's done to them or others. Gregg seems to be the ''only'' person who's happy to see her return, minus her parents, and even then, after coming back, her binding bonding with her friends ends up causing them trouble (reawakening Gregg's crimeloving attitude which causes friction between Gregg and Angus, accidentally letting slip on a party Bea invited Mae to that Bea never went to college, causing Bea to run away). [[spoiler: Then it's revealed Mae is severely mentally ill (and can't get the proper treatment because the doctor is highly incompetent), has done things that have only alienated her further in the past,]] and then the woods start acting up...
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** Regardless of who you end up confessing her side of the "Killer" incident to, Mae, still concussed from nearly getting shot and falling into a ravine just a few days prior has left her weak and feeling completely useless.
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* One of Mae's doodles in her journal is, "THOUGHT: Come back to life, Granddad." It's also a CrowningMomentOfFunny, since it's accompanied by a sketch of her grandfather as a zombie, but it's a hint towards just how much Mae misses her grandfather, someone who obviously loved her very, very much.
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* "Die Anywhere Else," while [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic awesome]], is also pretty sad if you look at the lyrics. It's a desperate plea not to live an extraordinary life, or even live much of a life at all -- just to wind up someplace that's ''not'' Possum Springs.
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*** [[spoiler: Bea implies in the Epilogue that when the two move to the city, Angus will leave him upon seeing he has "more options", which is either cruelly ignorant or depressingly accurate depending on how you interpret her statement.]] On the optimistic side, if you go with Angus to the park, he reveals his backstory, and based on where Gregg fits into it, they might have a more important bond than Bea understands. If you follow his plotline instead of Bea's their relationship comes out stronger than it started.
*** Depending on how the story plays out, he can also go from [[spoiler:a relatively upstanding and happy-go-lucky guy despite his aforementioned issues, to a jaded, cynical asshole who commits petty crimes against people who trusted him for kicks. All because of ''your'' influence.]]
*** Depending on how the story plays out, he can also go from [[spoiler:a relatively upstanding and happy-go-lucky guy despite his aforementioned issues, to a jaded, cynical asshole who commits petty crimes against people who trusted him for kicks. All because of ''your'' influence.]]
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** Talking to her after the fight when she's at work, and it turns out she's still mad at Mae. Instead of telling her about her day and what she's doing, all she has to say is a curt, "...I'm busy."
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* When Bea is driving a drunk Mae home from the party in the woods, Mae starts reminiscing about better times when they were kids, and tells Bea to say hi to her mom for her... [[spoiler: Before Bea angrily tells Mae that her mom died of cancer in her senior year and lays into Mae with a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech brutal speech]] for forgetting about that and dropping out of college when Bea never got to go in the first place, driving Mae to tears in the process.]]
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** It gets much worse later on when you find out [[spoiler:Mae really ''did'' have a good reason.]]
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* The BookEnds of Mae's journal. "R.I.P., Granddad" to [[spoiler:"R.I.P., Casey."]]
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* In a strange way, [[spoiler:the cultists of the Black Goat. Yes, they sacrifice minorities and people they deem "useless" to the town to an {{Eldritch Abomination}}... but they make it very clear that they don't ''enjoy'' doing this. They simply feel that the constant sacrifices are [[IDidWhatIHadToDo necessary in order for the town to return to prosperity]]. Mae even realizes that the cult is made out of people who have "lost something"; and they're trying to reclaim it anyway they can. It doesn't in any way possible justify their actions, of course, but it does provide an interesting explanation of why they do them.]]
** Even worse is the fact that [[spoiler:the sacrifices ''aren't working''. Even a quick glance at the state of the town shows that it's still in a downward spiral, even if it's a slow one. This offers up at least two explanations for this: one, the Black Goat is either unwilling or unable to support the town anymore, no matter what sacrifices are made in it's name. Or... there was never a Black Goat in the first place. All the talks of the Black Goat "singing" to people are nothing more than people getting affected by hallucinating gasses, with other people forming a cult around it. So all the rites, all the deaths, all of the 39 people that have been sacrificed? It's most likely been {{All For Nothing}}.]]
** Even worse is the fact that [[spoiler:the sacrifices ''aren't working''. Even a quick glance at the state of the town shows that it's still in a downward spiral, even if it's a slow one. This offers up at least two explanations for this: one, the Black Goat is either unwilling or unable to support the town anymore, no matter what sacrifices are made in it's name. Or... there was never a Black Goat in the first place. All the talks of the Black Goat "singing" to people are nothing more than people getting affected by hallucinating gasses, with other people forming a cult around it. So all the rites, all the deaths, all of the 39 people that have been sacrificed? It's most likely been {{All For Nothing}}.]]
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