u/Necessary_Floor4186

I've read a lot of theories on this subreddit, as well as on YouTube. However, I've decided to take a very different approach by building several sub-theories around one main idea:

Miranda is the creator of Fromville, and the town is nowhere near the solution people currently think it is.

Some of what follows may sound absurd, but perhaps it can open the door to alternative ways of thinking alongside the strongest existing theories.

Miranda

In my view, Miranda was originally some kind of cult leader.

She is actually the one who built Fromville with the help of the people who followed her—people who are now the monsters. Stay with me; the reasoning will become clearer.

I imagine Miranda as someone heavily influenced by the spiritual movements of the 1970s hippie era, while also possessing genuine supernatural abilities from birth.

She dreamed of Fromville before it existed and then imagined it into being. The evidence, to me, lies in the paintings she made while still living in the real world (see the episode where Tabitha visits Victor's father). Those paintings were visual representations of her dreams and visions.

In ancient pagan cultures, dreams were often viewed as messages or glimpses of the future. Think of King Nebuchadnezzar's prophetic dreams about the fall of his own empire. Over time, Miranda became consumed by her visions. Eventually, they drove her to leave her husband and gather enough followers to build Fromville.

The town itself reflects her paintings. That's why so much of it feels illogical: the motel sign despite there being no motel, the police station that isn't really a police station, the pool, and so on.

The Nature of Fromville

Fromville is inhabited by multiple spirits, each with different abilities.

Above them all stands a greater entity: a Demiurge (or perhaps the Devil himself). This being controls Fromville through power that was unintentionally granted to it when the original inhabitants sacrificed children.

Because the timeline only spans from the 1970s to the present day, I don't think there have been multiple reincarnation cycles. There has only been one.

The acid-trip sequence where Jade sees multiple reincarnation cycles, in my view, is not evidence of many real cycles.

I think it’s more likely a distortion of the commonly accepted idea that Fromville involves some form of reincarnation or repeating patterns.

Jade is clearly trying to build a coherent theory from fragmented visions, and the more he tries to organize them, the more the meaning expands in his mind. Psychedelic mushrooms could easily amplify this effect by mixing memory, symbolism, and interpretation.

So rather than showing multiple actual cycles, these visions might just reflect a single underlying event being interpreted in an increasingly complex way by Jade.

Victor

Victor is essentially a child trapped in an adult body.

This explains his difficulty communicating and behaving like a responsible adult. He refuses to grow up because of the trauma of witnessing half the town dead in the streets.

He remains the same introverted child who draws pictures and obsesses over seemingly insignificant things, such as tracking the movement of the trees.

The Monsters

In French, when someone feels deep shame, we say: "You'd want to hide underground."

That's why I believe the former residents now live beneath the town. They are consumed by shame.

Shame for what?

Most likely for believing Miranda's false prophecies. After years of communal living, they gradually chose to exist in the shadows, symbolized by the underground tunnels and the coming of night.

Why are they now immune to death?

Because of the child sacrifice ritual.

The settlers may have believed that keeping their children alive threatened the survival of the community. They sacrificed—and possibly even consumed—them as part of a ritual.

This would parallel sacrificial traditions in the Torah, where animals (often lambs) were offered to God, drained of blood by priests, and then eaten. This may connect to the slaughtered lamb found in the sack during the episode where Jim is discovered dead.

The fact that the children appear bloodless could explain their pale skin and hair loss.

The Man in Yellow

The Man in Yellow is simply a former resident of Fromville.

He likely died long ago but was later reincarnated or possessed by one of the spirits that inhabit This particular spirit may have the ability to leave and re-enter bodies freely, or even transform into different forms depending on the clothing or identity it chooses to adopt.

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I have more topics to cover, but I have to leave for work now. I'll continue developing this theory later and discuss the following subjects:

\- The Spider

\- The Lighthouse

\- The Kimono Lady

\- The Bearded Cave Man

\- The Story Walk

\- Jade's Role

\- The Anghkooey Children

\- The Dolls

\- The Boy in White

\- Thought-Creation Powers

\- The Ghosts of the Dead

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