History WMG / NancyDrew

The Bosinny family circulated the Beast legend, and used a wolf-head costume to maintain it over the centuries, as a way to discourage superstitious peasants and nosy outsiders from snooping around the Penvellyn estate. This was particularly important during the decades when a non-initiate was head of the Penvellyn family, and during the interlude between Elinor's execution and Philippe's reclamation of the property.

Brenda Carlton in Alibi in Ashes says the events of Old Clock happened in River Heights, not "Titusville" as stated in Old Clock itself. Nobody contradicted her about it, so it does seem to be true. The game we play is a dramatic retelling of an event from a few years before Alibi in Ashes, but set in the 30's and in a different town because the narrator (something no other ND game has) thought it would be more fun.

In some moments of the game, when you stumble upon some puzzles, objects or gameovers, there is a magpie who sits at the scene, shouts and quickly flies away. It seems to follow you. When you find Malloy family tree [[spoiler: in the tower]], there are magpies sitting on its branches. Celtic mythology is mentioned in the game, and it is known that Celts believed in reincarnation - in fact, the circle in the famous Celtic cross symbolises the circle of death and rebirth. The magpie is probably the reincarnation of some of the Malloys, watching over you.

[[WMG:The Poppy Dada painting seen at the ebd of Secret of the Scarlet Hand incorporates Koko Kringle bars because...]]

[[WMG:The Poppy Dada painting seen at the ned of Secret of the Scarlet Hand incorporates Koko Kringle bars because...]]

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[[WMG: ''Ghost of Thornton Hall'': Clara was the product of incest.]]
* See [[http://mistermetropolis.tumblr.com/post/51006469701/splashofpixiedust-nancythedrew-can-somebody here]] for the full theory.

[[WMG: Clara was the product of incest.]]

"For one thing, Essex does not have moors. Fens (wet-lands), yes; moors, no. Therefore, the house should be Blackfen Manor. Worse, Penvellyn is not an Essex name - especially not one that would have survived from the 14th century. This story belongs in Devon or Cornwall - on Exmoor or Dartmoor! Where they have moors, dark manors, rumours of beasts, and ancient families with names like Penvellyn!"

[[WMG: Nancy and Ned are the [[ReincarnationRomance reincarnation]] of Frances Humber and Dirk Valentine.]]
* She ''did'' find the treasure he left for her. It just took longer than he thought it would. (And this theory would make the ending even more of a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming than it already is.)

...She began a relationship with Sonny Joon. It can't have lasted long, of course. There's 'pretentious avant-garde artist' weird, and then there's ''Sonny Joon'' weird.

[[WMG: 'Sonny Joon' is the pseudonym/resplendent destiny of a [[{{Exalted}} Sidereal Exalt]].]]

[[WMG: ''Waverly's'' Mr. Harris is a reference to RaidersOfTheLostArk. He is actually Indiana Jones.]]

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** [[FridgeHorror How many second chances does it take before she's just dead? And back-to-back ones within the regeneration period would kill ''any'' Time Lord.]]

[[WMG: Nancy is being reincarnated by [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Hanyuu]] in the Second Chance scenarios.]]

* Think about it. In "Ransom of the Seven Ships" we get to see Bess and George's faces and [[spoiler: the bad guy gets away.]] Then in "Trail of the Twister" there is specific continuity, where P.G. Krolmeister gives Nancy a trip to Japan for solving the case. During the Japan case, Nancy hears of a castle in Germany that scared off a ghost expert (leading to the expert quitting her job). The next game is going to take place in a castle in Germany. Tell me that there's not something suspicious going on. Just tell me.

Bess has always been described as being overweight, even if the actress playing her was thin. More recent versions of the character have been depicted as always trying to lose weight, but never able to shift "that last five pounds". Heck, at the end of the computer game ''"Alibi In Ashes"'', Bess laments having staked out the ice cream parlor that the suspect visited, because she had to keep her cover ''all day''.