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2. While at boarding school, Miles receives a drawing from Flora that reads, "Come home." The same message was written in crayon to Nell on the walls of Hill House. Later on, it's revealed that Olivia also wrote, "Welcome home."Oct 13, 2020

Standing on the ledge of the tall staircase, Nell is pushed by her mother's ghost, causing her to fall through time as a broken necked woman (THE BENT-NECK LADY), seeing herself from the opposite perspective as a child, during her husband's death, and when she bought drugs for Luke.Oct 24, 2018

Here is one thing we know: Nell Crain dies in the first episode. Suicide. She climbs a spindly, spiral staircase, ties a noose around her neck, and then she falls. As a child, Nell Crain has paralyzing night terrors in which she envisions a Bent Neck Lady.Oct 10, 2020

She touches a couch, feeling a sense of something dark. She lies on it and falls deeper into whatever memories it holds. Whatever it is disturbs Theo. ... Down in the funeral home morgue, Theo goes to see Nell's corpse.Oct 12, 2018

Nell soon suffers from depression and feeling the Bent-Neck Lady is somehow responsible for Arthur's death, she returns to the abandoned Hill House alone. ... In reality, this is really Nell tying a noose around her own neck, and she soon falls from the spiral staircase and dies.Jun 11, 2019

Hugh is the only Crain who never enters the Red Room — and there's a reason why. In fact, it's what makes all the events of Hill House possible. ... That's because Hill House's goal isn't to scare the Crain family away — it's to subsume them.Oct 31, 2018

While Bly Manor sees the return of some of the Hill House cast members, there are no major narrative connections between the two. They are both self-contained stories that exist in different worlds. Bly Manor contains no explicit references to the story of Hill House throughout its 9 episodes.

The only Crain family member with the power to feel other people's (particularly dead people's) emotions with the touch of her hand, Theo wears gloves throughout the entire series in order to protect herself from the unwanted chill. That is, until the end, when she finally takes them off, presumably for good.Oct 31, 2018

She counts them out loud, touching each one, just as Luke instructed her to do as a child. Later, Nell wakes up in sleep paralysis, and sees Luke sprawled out on the ceiling.Oct 27, 2018