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[[JerkassGods The Bishops, The One Who Waits,]] [[VillainProtagonist and possibly the Lamb]], while not the nicest gods, at least did their job, and the animal-people grew to prominence. By the Mae's time, even the Lamb, who is possibly also the Janitor, is now on his last legs, while the Astral Cat doesn't care and the Black Goat [[AlmightyIdiot possibly isn't sapient like the Bishop where]], and as not under the fridge tab, not holding up his end of the bargain, [[FairPlayVillain which the Bishops at least did.]] As a result, [[EndOfAnEra the age of animal-people is coming to an end.]]
Human and Skeletons, meanwhile, still have a healthy pantheon of Gods, aiding and sponsoring them. As a result, they grew to prominence as well.
Human and Skeletons, meanwhile, still have a healthy pantheon of Gods, aiding and sponsoring them. As a result, they grew to prominence as well.
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[[JerkassGods The Bishops, The One Who Waits,]] [[VillainProtagonist and possibly the Lamb]], while not the nicest gods, at least did their job, and the animal-people grew to prominence. By the Mae's time, even the Lamb, who is possibly also the Janitor, is now on his last legs, while the Astral Cat doesn't care and the Black Goat [[AlmightyIdiot possibly isn't sapient like the Bishop where]], and as not under the fridge tab, not holding up his end of the bargain, [[FairPlayVillain which the Bishops at least did.]] As a result, [[EndOfAnEra [[EndOfAnAge the age of animal-people is coming to an end.]]
Human and Skeletons, meanwhile, still have a healthy pantheon of Gods, aiding and sponsoring them. [[DawnOfAnEra As a result, they grew to prominence aswell. well.]]
Human and Skeletons, meanwhile, still have a healthy pantheon of Gods, aiding and sponsoring them. [[DawnOfAnEra As a result, they grew to prominence as
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[[WMG: Combing the two, the reason for animal-people's fall was [[DeathOfTheOldGods all their gods disappeared.]]]]
[[JerkassGods The Bishops, The One Who Waits,]] [[VillainProtagonist and possibly the Lamb]], while not the nicest gods, at least did their job, and the animal-people grew to prominence. By the Mae's time, even the Lamb, who is possibly also the Janitor, is now on his last legs, while the Astral Cat doesn't care and the Black Goat [[AlmightyIdiot possibly isn't sapient like the Bishop where]], and as not under the fridge tab, not holding up his end of the bargain, [[FairPlayVillain which the Bishops at least did.]] As a result, [[EndOfAnEra the age of animal-people is coming to an end.]]
Human and Skeletons, meanwhile, still have a healthy pantheon of Gods, aiding and sponsoring them. As a result, they grew to prominence as well.
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[[WMG: VideoGame/CultOfTheLamb, meanwhile, is a distant prequel]]
The main religion, that Pastor Karen is a priestess of, is a wildly different descendent of the Lamb's cult. The Black Goat is either an old god (though not necessarily one of the Bishops) trying to get back old ground or a new arrival try to do the same thing the One Who Waits did by trying to make Mae a vessel.
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[[WMG: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTv9jjf3zI Revenant Hill]] is a distant sequel of Night in the Woods]]
Some sort of apocalypse (possibly tied to the last games CosmicHorror elements) happened devolving the [[FunnyAnimal inhabitants]] into [[NearlyNormalAnimal animals]] allowing humans and [[FriendlyZombie skeletons]] to become the dominant species and technology regressing to the 1920's. Twigs is very obviously Mae's descendant and the broken, overgrown statue she is perched on at the start of the trailer looks like its out of the first game.
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** Unlikely, since everyone is that way even before she remembers the game exists. Also, she explicitly points out that the mascot for Fiascola is a fox, and also several features, such as beaks, get mentioned explicitly. The FurryDenial is strong with this one!
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** Unlikely, since everyone is that way even before she remembers the game exists. Also, she explicitly points out that the mascot for Fiascola is a fox, and also several features, such as beaks, get mentioned explicitly. The FurryDenial DenialOfAnimality is strong with this one!
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[[WMG: Gregg wrote Weird Autumn after Mae left for uni]]
It's established that he writes most of the band's original songs. Mae's favourite season's Autumn, and her outfit is all Autumn colours
Of all the cast she's closest to Gregg (Bae mentions that she took to hanging around with him, and he's the first person she asks after after getting home) and they have very similar personalities. Allow a bit of artistic licence [[spoiler: about the Borowskis' troubles with their mortgage]] and the lyrics fit the interpretation that he was inspired to write it because he missed his friend.
[[WMG: Bae's opinions on Gregg and Angus's relationship is actually about her friendship with Mae]]
Her comments on them being the only two gay men in town call back to the conversation she and Mae have in the "Proximity" hangout (which boils down the "wow, would we even be friends if we didn't have to hang out together as kids?"). As does the way she sums up that Angus "parents" Gregg (she's effectively spent the hangouts trying to keep Mae out of trouble and helping her grow up a bit).
She seems resentful of the fact that she and Mae stopped being friends until the events of the game (complaining that she was hanging around with Gregg; not to mention the low opinion her other friends have of Mae), so it's obvious the loss of friendship hit her harder than Bae let on.
While it's obvious they both value one another's company (platonically or romantically), it's likely that Bae feels insecure about it, and concerned their personality clashes will once again drive them apart.
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* At first, the [[spoiler:kidnapping of a teenager after Harfest seems to be random, like they just picked a kid who was alone and not paying attention, looking at their phone. Which could be true, but on a second playthrough, this troper went into the trolley tunnel the day after the party, and saw that town council squad talking with Aunt Molly about the graffitied Possum Springs mural on the wall. They were super upset about it since it was a historical mural, claimed that they were treating it as a 'terrorist act', and asked Molly to check out any 'dirtbag teens' as suspects. Considering that Harfest happened only a few days later, and that the council is definitely part of the cult, it's very likely that the teenager Mae saw kidnapped was the actual person who tagged the mural. Even more damning, the council actually got upset when Molly told them the most the tagger might get was a fine and some jail time...almost as if they had a worse fate planned...]]
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* At first, the [[spoiler:kidnapping of a teenager after Harfest seems to be random, like they just picked a kid who was alone and not paying attention, looking at their phone. Which could be true, but on a second playthrough, this troper went into the trolley tunnel the day after the party, and saw that town council squad talking with Aunt Molly about the graffitied Possum Springs mural on the wall. They were super upset about it since it was a historical mural, claimed that they were treating it as a 'terrorist act', and asked Molly to check out any 'dirtbag teens' as suspects. Considering that Harfest happened only a few days later, and that the council is definitely part of the cult, it's very likely that the teenager Mae saw kidnapped was the actual person who tagged the mural. Even more damning, the council actually got upset when Molly told them the most the tagger might get was a fine and some jail time... almost as if they had a worse fate planned...]]
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** Also during that night, after [[spoiler:Aunt Molly orders Mae to get in the car, we FadeToBlack, and then to Mae's nightmare. Mae wakes up in bed, not recalling her aunt being at the scene of the kidnapping. Did her aunt ''knock her out'' the way the kidnappper knocked out the victim Mae saw?]]
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** Also during that night, after [[spoiler:Aunt Molly orders Mae to get in the car, we FadeToBlack, and then to Mae's nightmare. Mae wakes up in bed, not recalling her aunt being at the scene of the kidnapping. Did her aunt ''knock her out'' the way the kidnappper kidnapper knocked out the victim Mae saw?]]
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** She says a lot of very cryptic things to Mae whenever they run into each other, telling her to be careful, bad things could happen to 'people like you', and other things that sound vaguely threatening. While it could just be that Molly knows something suspicious is going on and wants her niece to be safe, it's very easy to read her warnings as Molly being a member[[spoiler: of the cult]] and trying to get Mae to shape up so she won't be targeted by the others. On top of that, [[spoiler: when Mae is chasing the ghost/cult member, Molly shows up when Mae is having her staredown with it. Once you know it's not a ghost, odds are unless it suddenly ran away the moment Molly got within range, Moly would have been able to see it too. Molly's dialogue isn't that of an annoyed cop who's tired of her niece running around at night, it's one of a cop who is aware that something is dangerous and is ordering Mae to back down. Did Molly see a fellow cult member and pretend not to notice them, banking on Mae thinking it was a ghost in order to get her to think she really didn't see anything?]]
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** She says a lot of very cryptic things to Mae whenever they run into each other, telling her to be careful, bad things could happen to 'people like you', and other things that sound vaguely threatening. While it could just be that Molly knows something suspicious is going on and wants her niece to be safe, it's very easy to read her warnings as Molly being a member[[spoiler: of the cult]] and trying to get Mae to shape up so she won't be targeted by the others. On top of that, [[spoiler: when Mae is chasing the ghost/cult member, Molly shows up when Mae is having her staredown with it. Once you know it's not a ghost, odds are unless it suddenly ran away the moment Molly got within range, Moly Molly would have been able to see it too. Molly's dialogue isn't that of an annoyed cop who's tired of her niece running around at night, it's one of a cop who is aware that something is dangerous and is ordering Mae to back down. Did Molly see a fellow cult member and pretend not to notice them, banking on Mae thinking it was a ghost in order to get her to think she really didn't see anything?]]
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** Germ, a loner with odd sensibilities who hangs out with bums, would be an ideal target for [[spoiler: the cult's human sacrifice.]] Its entirely possible that, once it became clear that Germ would be too difficult to capture, they gave up on him.
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** Germ, a loner with odd sensibilities who hangs out with bums, would be an ideal target for [[spoiler: the cult's human sacrifice.]] Its It's entirely possible that, once it became clear that Germ would be too difficult to capture, they gave up on him.
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Mae has been shown to have [[spoiler:both disassociation and to have possibly spoken directly to the Black Goat, possibly twice]]. Though its hinted that her disorder was a result of past influence, what if she kept sane because [[spoiler:she had already seen nothing but meaningless shapes out of existence twice before, slightly numbing the effect, even if it wasn't completely effective]].
* And on that note, what if her grandfather had the same disorder, but went unchecked due to lack of modern medicine, [[spoiler:possibly leading to him potentially joining the cult]]?
* And on that note, what if her grandfather had the same disorder, but went unchecked due to lack of modern medicine, [[spoiler:possibly leading to him potentially joining the cult]]?
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Mae has been shown to have [[spoiler:both disassociation and to have possibly spoken directly to the Black Goat, possibly twice]]. Though its it's hinted that her disorder was a result of past influence, what if she kept sane because [[spoiler:she had already seen nothing but meaningless shapes out of existence twice before, slightly numbing the effect, even if it wasn't completely effective]].
* And on that note, what if her grandfather had the same disorder, but went unchecked due to lack of modern medicine, [[spoiler:possibly leading to him potentially joining thecult]]?
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Mae has seen other [[spoiler:god-like creatures]] in her dreams, some of which (like the sky-cat) are apparently very powerful and knowledgeable, and consider living beings like may to be little creatures of little interest/worth. If the [[spoiler:Black Goat is really a deity, then it must be very weak to not only ''need'' human sacrifices at all, but also need to beguile and bribe humans to give them to him]]. It's also been noted that even with the [[spoiler:cultists performing their sacrifices,]] the town is still dying, implying that either It is trying to conserve its energy, or It is incapable of actually doing anything.
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Mae has seen other [[spoiler:god-like creatures]] in her dreams, some of which (like the sky-cat) are apparently very powerful and knowledgeable, and consider living beings like may to be little creatures of little interest/worth. If the [[spoiler:Black Goat is really a deity, then it must be very weak to not only ''need'' human sacrifices at all, but also need to beguile and bribe humans to give them to him]]. It's also been noted that even with the [[spoiler:cultists performing their sacrifices,]] the town is still dying, implying that either either, It is trying to conserve its energy, or It is incapable of actually doing anything.
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* Another way of seeing it: Molly tolerates the cult and their murders because it making her job much easier to do. Take Casey for instance, who's cooking meth and probably dealing other drugs on the side. Now imagine him either (a) dealing drugs to the local residents of Possum Springs and making things even worse for them or (b) if Casey pissed off the wrong bad people outside of Possum Springs and those same people decided to follow him back to Possum Spring. Picture the chaos that could happen. Since the cult members only killed the nobodies and bad influences of the town, offing people like Casey is a "huge" help for her. The only thing she has to do is fill out the missing person report and case close.
* Another interpretation could that Molly may have simply lacked any evidence linking anyone as a member of the cult, the cult members (barring possibly Eide) seemed very good at keeping their identities and operations a secret and if any of them have connections to the police department, they could have known enough about Molly's patrol movements and habits to stay several steps ahead of her whenever she tries to investigate them. Plus some may argue the cult's very nature (worshiping an EldritchAbomination hidden in abandoned mines that demands living sacrifices and causes natural disasters) may fall under RefugeInAudacity, and therefore anyone Molly tries to explain the cult's existence to may not take her seriously, and there's a chance if Molly tried to tell Mae about the cult at her first day back in Possum Springs, Mae might assume Molly is just telling a story to scare her into going on the straight and narrow.
* Another interpretation could that Molly may have simply lacked any evidence linking anyone as a member of the cult, the cult members (barring possibly Eide) seemed very good at keeping their identities and operations a secret and if any of them have connections to the police department, they could have known enough about Molly's patrol movements and habits to stay several steps ahead of her whenever she tries to investigate them. Plus some may argue the cult's very nature (worshiping an EldritchAbomination hidden in abandoned mines that demands living sacrifices and causes natural disasters) may fall under RefugeInAudacity, and therefore anyone Molly tries to explain the cult's existence to may not take her seriously, and there's a chance if Molly tried to tell Mae about the cult at her first day back in Possum Springs, Mae might assume Molly is just telling a story to scare her into going on the straight and narrow.
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* Another way of seeing it: Molly tolerates the cult and their murders because it making her job much easier to do. Take Casey for instance, who's cooking meth and probably dealing other drugs on the side. Now imagine him either (a) dealing drugs to the local residents of Possum Springs and making things even worse for them them, or (b) if Casey pissed off the wrong bad people outside of Possum Springs and those same people decided to follow him back to Possum Spring. Picture the chaos that could happen. Since the cult members only killed the nobodies and bad influences of the town, offing people like Casey is a "huge" help for her. The only thing she has to do is fill out the missing person report and case close.
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* Another interpretation could that Molly may have simply lacked any evidence linking anyone as a member of the cult, the cult members (barring possibly Eide) seemed very good at keeping their identities and operations asecret secret, and if any of them have connections to the police department, they could have known enough about Molly's patrol movements movements, and habits to stay several steps ahead of her whenever she tries to investigate them. Plus some may argue the cult's very nature (worshiping an EldritchAbomination hidden in abandoned mines that demands living sacrifices and causes natural disasters) may fall under RefugeInAudacity, and therefore anyone Molly tries to explain the cult's existence to may not take her seriously, and there's a chance if Molly tried to tell Mae about the cult at her first day back in Possum Springs, Mae might assume Molly is just telling a story to scare her into going on the straight and narrow.
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** [[spoiler: It's possible he's some kind Lovecraftian investigator there to put a stop to the town's paranormalactivity.
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[[WMG: The song Weird Autumn is about [[spoiler:missing people]] ]]
The song implies it's about someone who moved away suddenly. [[spoiler:But it could be inspired by people in the town that have gone missing (because of the cult). The line "Out on Arbor street, I saw Autumn leave/Her family drove away" mentions nothing about Autumn herself getting into the car with her family, and could instead be symbolic, meaning that since her family has moved out of town after her disappearance, the last trace of her if gone.]]
[[spoiler:The lines "Hey man, have you seen her around? Have you seen her today?" also seem odd. Why would you ask someone if they've seen her if they knew she moved out of town? Perhaps they think she ran away and might still near nearby.]]
[[spoiler:It's also mentioned that the house can't be sold and stays empty. Sounds like a stigmatized property. Perhaps related to a chain of disappearances?]]
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* Another interpretation could that Molly may have simply lacked any evidence linking anyone as a member of the cult, the cult members (barring possibly Eide) seemed very good at keeping their identities and operations a secret and if any of them have connections to the police department, they could have known enough about Molly's patrol movements and habits to stay several steps ahead of her whenever she tries to investigate them. Plus some may argue the cult's very nature (worshiping an EldritchAbomination hidden in abandoned mines that demands living sacrifices and causes natural disasters) may fall under RefugeInAudacity, and therefore anyone Molly tries to explain the cult's existence to may not take her seriously, and there's a chance if Molly tried to tell Mae about the cult at her first day back in Possum Springs, Mae might assume Molly is just telling a story to scare her into going on the straight and narrow.
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[[WMG: [[spoiler:The cult members sacrificed themselves to the Black Goat after the cave in.]] ]]
[[spoiler:They were all in the same chamber when Mae and the gang left (minus Eide). They'll run out of air, if nothing else. Once they realize they're never getting out, they'll throw themselves in the pit since there's nothing else to do, and they're never getting any other sacrifices down there anyway.]]
[[spoiler:Suppose the Black Goat is real. After such a large meal (remember, he only asked for one person occasionally) he may get full and hibernate or otherwise stop harassing the town for a while. Apathy probably won't save a rust belt town. but at least disaster is less likely to strike for a while.]]
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[[WMG: This is for the theories that made their way to the fridge page that were proven to not be accurate after later DLC, so they aren't really "fridge" anything anymore.]]
* At first, the [[spoiler:kidnapping of a teenager after Harfest seems to be random, like they just picked a kid who was alone and not paying attention, looking at their phone. Which could be true, but on a second playthrough, this troper went into the trolley tunnel the day after the party, and saw that town council squad talking with Aunt Molly about the graffitied Possum Springs mural on the wall. They were super upset about it since it was a historical mural, claimed that they were treating it as a 'terrorist act', and asked Molly to check out any 'dirtbag teens' as suspects. Considering that Harfest happened only a few days later, and that the council is definitely part of the cult, it's very likely that the teenager Mae saw kidnapped was the actual person who tagged the mural. Even more damning, the council actually got upset when Molly told them the most the tagger might get was a fine and some jail time...almost as if they had a worse fate planned...]]
** Talking to Lori Meyers in the epilogue reveals that [[spoiler:she was the one who tagged the mural, so thankfully that theory is disproved, but it's still extremely likely that her tagging the mural is what drove them to kidnap someone only a few days later. She says she didn't even have a specific reason for doing the graffiti- and of course she had no idea that her petty vandalism would indirectly lead to someone being killed...]]
* It's possible that [[spoiler: Mae's aunt is a member of the cult. They recognize her voice ''immediately'', and her aunt shows up just as Mae finishes pursuing the kidnapper. There's also the fact that you never see her in the Epilogue, which only adds to the horror. Mae may have condemned her own aunt to starve to death in the darkness.]]
** Combined that [[spoiler:she shows up just ''moments'' after the severed arm at the diner is found...]]
** Also during that night, after [[spoiler:Aunt Molly orders Mae to get in the car, we FadeToBlack, and then to Mae's nightmare. Mae wakes up in bed, not recalling her aunt being at the scene of the kidnapping. Did her aunt ''knock her out'' the way the kidnappper knocked out the victim Mae saw?]]
** After Harfest [[spoiler:Mae's aunt emphasizes the fact the kidnapper Mae was chasing would not have been able to escape unless they could walk through a solid fence. She does this until Mae expresses doubt in what she saw. Walking through walls is the one explicit unusual power of the cultists.]]
** Not to mention [[spoiler:the gang avidly hides from the police in Gregg and Angus's apartment after the run-in at the mines. Considering that they recognized some of the voices, there's an eerie possibility she was the one they were hiding from...]]
** Let's suppose the above theory is true, how will Mae react if she realizes that [[spoiler:she condemned her aunt to starvation, and that her aunt helped murder her friend Casey and cover up the crime?]]
** And then there's the other side of this theory: if she isn't [[spoiler:part of the cult, she has to at least have some idea of what's happening.]] It's clear from the speech she gives Mae outside her house about the things that happen around town that she knows things aren't normal. She has to know about [[spoiler:the disappearances, even if they are people that wouldn't be missed too much, and although she is doing her best to protect the townspeople, she either doesn't know about the cult or can't stop them. So the two possible interpretations of Aunt Molly are that she's A) slowly killing off the people she's sworn to protect, or B) aware that something is picking them off, even if she doesn't know what, and is powerless to do anything about it.]]
** Well whaddaya know [[spoiler: In the epilogue of Weird Autumn Edition she's alive and well and was (probably) never involved in the cult to begin with.]]
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[[WMG: This is for the theories that made their way to the fridge page that were proven to not be accurate after later DLC, so they aren't really "fridge" anything anymore.]]
* At first, the [[spoiler:kidnapping of a teenager after Harfest seems to be random, like they just picked a kid who was alone and not paying attention, looking at their phone. Which could be true, but on a second playthrough, this troper went into the trolley tunnel the day after the party, and saw that town council squad talking with Aunt Molly about the graffitied Possum Springs mural on the wall. They were super upset about it since it was a historical mural, claimed that they were treating it as a 'terrorist act', and asked Molly to check out any 'dirtbag teens' as suspects. Considering that Harfest happened only a few days later, and that the council is definitely part of the cult, it's very likely that the teenager Mae saw kidnapped was the actual person who tagged the mural. Even more damning, the council actually got upset when Molly told them the most the tagger might get was a fine and some jail time...almost as if they had a worse fate planned...]]
** Talking to Lori Meyers in the epilogue reveals that [[spoiler:she was the one who tagged the mural, so thankfully that theory is disproved, but it's still extremely likely that her tagging the mural is what drove them to kidnap someone only a few days later. She says she didn't even have a specific reason for doing the graffiti- and of course she had no idea that her petty vandalism would indirectly lead to someone being killed...]]
* It's possible that [[spoiler: Mae's aunt is a member of the cult. They recognize her voice ''immediately'', and her aunt shows up just as Mae finishes pursuing the kidnapper. There's also the fact that you never see her in the Epilogue, which only adds to the horror. Mae may have condemned her own aunt to starve to death in the darkness.]]
** Combined that [[spoiler:she shows up just ''moments'' after the severed arm at the diner is found...]]
** Also during that night, after [[spoiler:Aunt Molly orders Mae to get in the car, we FadeToBlack, and then to Mae's nightmare. Mae wakes up in bed, not recalling her aunt being at the scene of the kidnapping. Did her aunt ''knock her out'' the way the kidnappper knocked out the victim Mae saw?]]
** After Harfest [[spoiler:Mae's aunt emphasizes the fact the kidnapper Mae was chasing would not have been able to escape unless they could walk through a solid fence. She does this until Mae expresses doubt in what she saw. Walking through walls is the one explicit unusual power of the cultists.]]
** Not to mention [[spoiler:the gang avidly hides from the police in Gregg and Angus's apartment after the run-in at the mines. Considering that they recognized some of the voices, there's an eerie possibility she was the one they were hiding from...]]
** Let's suppose the above theory is true, how will Mae react if she realizes that [[spoiler:she condemned her aunt to starvation, and that her aunt helped murder her friend Casey and cover up the crime?]]
** And then there's the other side of this theory: if she isn't [[spoiler:part of the cult, she has to at least have some idea of what's happening.]] It's clear from the speech she gives Mae outside her house about the things that happen around town that she knows things aren't normal. She has to know about [[spoiler:the disappearances, even if they are people that wouldn't be missed too much, and although she is doing her best to protect the townspeople, she either doesn't know about the cult or can't stop them. So the two possible interpretations of Aunt Molly are that she's A) slowly killing off the people she's sworn to protect, or B) aware that something is picking them off, even if she doesn't know what, and is powerless to do anything about it.]]
** Well whaddaya know [[spoiler: In the epilogue of Weird Autumn Edition she's alive and well and was (probably) never involved in the cult to begin with.]]
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