History WMG / TheLostCrown

The date of Nigel's recruitment and on the package Hadden sends for him are from 1978, yet Nigel is clearly from our own time (clothes, hairstyle, references to the Middle East and TV celebrity chefs, etc). Hadden's note from the package suggests it was written ''after'' their phone conversation, even though he refers to the package having already been sent that morning ''during'' that discussion. Much of this can be reconciled if Mr. Hadden is actually observing Nigel by mystical means ''from 1978'', and [[WriteBackToTheFuture leaving directives]] to Hare and Crow that they can carry out in 2008.

First, in the painting of the four Agers, Thomas and Frederick's images are burned after being thwarted by Nigel, leaving two figures, one of whom is holding the sickle used to bludgeon Hardacre. There's a fifty-fifty percent chance that the man holding the sickle is William. The man holding the sickle appears to be the youngest of the four, and William died of Tuberculosis at the age of thirty-one. Also, the ghost of Verity church warns that a dangerous ghost called William is going to 'chop off his head' if Nigel doesn't leave the crown alone, implying that he is in possession of a bladed weapon of some sort. All these points suggest that William is the man holding the sickle in the painting, and he used that sickle to kill Hardacre.

The documents Nigel stole depict a supernatural SwirlyEnergyThingy very similar to the one in [[spoiler: Ganwulf's tomb]]. Letting Nigel get interested in the Lost Crown was just a sneaky way to gain access to one of those.

[[WMG: Hadden never wanted the Crown in the first place.]]

There's a note left behind by the Dowerton station master in ''Dark Fall: The Journal'', which says the station is being shut down and its staff will need to find work elsewhere. Embittered at having to fire everybody, the Dowerton station master returned to his birthplace in Saxton, and took up a post at its (much smaller) train station. He's relatively unaffected by the spookiness of Saxton because he'd already gotten used to such things in Dowerton.

There's a note left behind by the Dowerton station master in ''Dark Fall: The Journal'', which says the station is being shut down and its staff will need to find work elsewhere. Embittered at having to fire everybody, the Dowerton station master returned to his birthplace in Saxton, and took up a post at its (much smaller) train station.

Normally, they wouldn't bother to start plaguing a would-be Crown-hunter until the trespasser got dangerously close to its hiding place, which is presumably why they hadn't killed Hardacre years ago. However, the Hadden photos of the Chasm had enough of a supernatural aura of their own to worry the Agers: they ''know'' the other ghosts in the region have information about the Crown's location, and the photos' presence implied that ''this'' treasure-hunter might try to communicate with those ghosts, so the Agers tried to head off Nigel's investigation by scaring him off in Hardacre's guise.

The date of Nigel's recruitment and on the package Hadden sends for him are from 1978, yet Nigel is clearly from our own time (clothes, hairstyle, reference to the Middle East, etc). Hadden's note from the package suggests it was written ''after'' their phone conversation, even though he refers to the package having already been sent that morning ''during'' that discussion. Much of this can be reconciled if Mr. Hadden is actually observing Nigel by mystical means ''from 1978'', and [[WriteBackToTheFuture leaving directives]] to Hare and Crow that they can carry out in 2008.

The figure Nigel follows keeps fading away, too quickly for the fog to account for it. Hardacre later denies having met Nigel, and repeats many of the same things he'd appeared to say on the Harbour Wall. If the Agers have been watching Hardacre for years to make sure he isn't getting close to the Crown, they'd know his usual turns-of-phrase when he chews out rival treasure-hunters to run them off and/or creep them out. We know they can shift from their appearance in life to columns of black smoke, and they're clearly more powerful than the other ghosts in the story, so adopting another person's form may not be beyond their abilities.

Normally they wouldn't bother to start plaguing a would-be Crown-hunter until they got dangerously close to its hiding place, which is why they hadn't killed Hardacre years ago. However, the Hadden photos of the Chasm had enough of a supernatural aura of their own to worry the Agers: they ''know'' the other ghosts in the region have information about the Crown's location, so tried to head off Nigel's investigation before it'd really started by scaring him off in Hardacre's guise.

The figure Nigel follows keeps fading away, too quickly for the fog to account for it. Hardacre later denies having met Nigel, and repeats many of the same things he'd appeared to say on the Harbour Wall. If the Agers have been watching Hardacre for years to make sure he isn't getting close to the Crown, they'd know his usual turns-of-phrase when he chews out rival treasure-hunters to run them off and/or creep them out. Normally they wouldn't bother until a would-be Crown-hunter got dangerously close to its hiding place, but the Hadden photos of the Chasm had enough of a supernatural aura of their own to worry the Agers: they ''know'' the other ghosts in the region have information about the Crown's location, so tried to head off Nigel's investigation before it'd really started by scaring him off in Hardacre's guise.

After Nigel occupied Harbour Cottage, she couldn't use it anymore, which is why [[spoiler: Mr. Tibbs was strong enough to escape her at the Hut]]. Then she framed [[spoiler: Gruel]] to deflect the investigation when Nigel and Lucy uncovered evidence of her crimes.

Nigel hears a distressed cat's ghostly meowing from inside the chest in Harbour Cottage, yet the person arrested for the catnappings ([[spoiler: Mr. Gruel]]) didn't have a key to that place. Morgan did have one, so could have used the Cottage to hide the kidnapped cats until they were weak enough to handle easily and she could sneak them into [[spoiler: the old Net Hut]]. One of the cats was left in the chest too long, and suffocated, creating a meowing ghost. After Nigel occupied Harbour Cottage, she couldn't use it anymore, which is why [[spoiler: Mr. Tibbs was strong enough to escape her at the Hut]]. Then she framed [[spoiler: Gruel]] to deflect the investigation when Nigel and Lucy uncovered evidence of her crimes.

Nigel hears a distressed cat's ghostly meowing from inside the chest in Harbour Cottage, yet the person arrested for the catnappings ([[spoiler: Mr. Gruel]]) didn't have a key to that place. Morgan did have one, so could have used the Cottage to hide the kidnapped cats until she could sneak them into [[spoiler: the old Net Hut]]. Then she framed [[spoiler: Gruel]] to deflect the investigation when Nigel and Lucy uncovered evidence of her crimes.

The date of Nigel's recruitment and on the package Hadden sends for him are from 1978, yet Nigel is clearly from our own time (clothes, hairstyle, reference to the Middle East, etc). Hadden's note from the package suggests it was written ''after'' their phone conversation, even though he refers to the package having already been sent that morning ''during'' that discussion. Much of this can be reconciled if Mr. Hadden is actually observing Nigel by mystical means ''from 1978'', and [[WriteBackToTheFuture leaving directives]] to Hare and Crow that they can carry out in the future.

The date of Nigel's recruitment and on the package Hadden sends for him are from 1978, yet Nigel is clearly from our own time (clothes, hairstyle, reference to the Middle East, etc). Hadden's note from the package suggests it was written ''after'' their phone conversation, even though he refers to the package having already been sent that morning ''during'' that discussion. Much of this can be reconciled if Mr. Hadden is actually observing Nigel by mystical means ''from 1978'', and leaving directives to Hare and Crow that they can carry out in the future.

The documents Nigel stole depict a supernatural SwirlyEnergyThingy very similar to the one in [[spoiler: Ganwulf's tomb]]. Letting Nigel get interested in the Lost Crown was just a sneaky way to gain access to one of those.

The documents Nigel stole depict a supernatural SwirlyEnergyThingy very similar to the one in [[spoiler: Ganwulf's tomb]]. Letting Nigel get interested in the Lost Crown was just a sneaky way to gain access to that.

His name is never stated, so he could be Oliver's kid brother. The real Oliver might be home sick, or he could be sitting this year's contest out so his little bro can have a shot at winning.

[[WMG: The little boy with the camera isn't really "young Oliver".]]