The Haunting Of Hill House: The True Meaning Of The Black Mold
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The Haunting Of Hill House has many different things that can be taken from it’s ending. By the end of the show we are all convinced that the experiences The Crains had are real and that the house itself is a paranormal entity hell-bent on making them suffer.
But what if there is a completely plausible explanation to the events that happen in the show? What if the one thing that is present throughout is what is causing The Crains to believe that they are being haunted?
Whilst we never get concrete confirmation that this may be the case, it seems completely likely that The Black Mold that festers throughout the house may, in fact, be causing all of the hallucinations and problems.
The Black Mold
The Black Mold is first found by the family in Episode 7. During which, Hugh discovers it spreading behind the walls of the house. The father discusses how dangerous that it is and stipulates that it can cause problems both physically and mentally. The mold keeps them in the house for longer than intended as Hugh knows he must fix it before listing it for sale.
It could be concluded that the mold isin factt causing all of the health and hallucination problems that are rampant throughout the family. The Red Room itself is heavily infested with a massive amount of mold and this could also be the reasoning behind this being the labeled as the house’ stomach.
The Red Room is considered to be the part of the house where every problem resonates from because it is completely filled with it.
The mold even makes an appearance in Shirley’s model house. When it is found in pieces, Shirley turns it over to find the inner walls rotting with the black stuff and this could also be attributed as the cause of the hallucinations that happen in her home.
Luke witness The Ghost of William Hill outside of a mold-infested area, however, he is a drug addict and these visions could be put down to substance abuse.
Even when Hugh returns to the house in the show’s climax, the ghost of Olivia, informs him that they other visions he has had of her during his life are in fact all in his head. This showcases that he can still hallucinate without there being a need for a ghost present.
What I love about the show is that it works either way. The best ghost stories always offer a way for skeptics to put the events aside and whilst I do believe that the apparitions were real it is fun to consider that they may in fact not be. Perhaps the family is, as Steve states, suffering from a mental illness that was brought on by the house infecting them.
Your Thoughts
So, do you think the ghosts in The Haunting Of Hill House were real or do you think the events were brought on by the black mold? Comment below and let me know! - Розваги
Forgot to mention that it also explains how the kittens died so soon. They would have been unable to live for very long with it being so toxic.
deffinition can u explain the white hair lady in the background when the dad discovers the body behind the brick wall
Nah, kittens that young almost always die in the first week without someone who really knows what they are doing.
Hell my sister and I have been taking in fosters since I can remember and we still lost a whole litter last year.
Two died with in days and the other two, two weeks later.
That with a vets help.
Kittens need their mothers. It's hard to replace that.
hp25n9 the creators of the show hid ghosts in the backgrounds of almost all of the episodes. That was one of them.
deffinition I think the kittens were sick prior to being introduced to the house. The mother may have abandoned them because they were sick.
One of the main themes of the show is grief and how messed up a family becomes when they lose a member, especially a mom. So the kittens are a metaphor for the children - being taken out of a toxic place (the shed), but without their mother who died, so they fail to thrive. The phrase, “Kittens need their mother” works both to explain how messed up the kids grew up without her, and Olivia’s reasoning that the kids needed to stay with her in the house.
The mold is Hugh’s Red Room. Everyone got a Red Room except for Hugh right? He was the only one actually trying to get in forcefully, while the others were already in. That’s because their Red Rooms were a place where they would feel comfortable and safe, so the house can keep them. Hugh’s gig is fixing the house, evident by his “i can fix it”. So the Red Room created the mold for him to work and stay working in the house. Evident by the mold’s origin not being found anywhere else so it must be in the Red Room
Also at the end after he kills himself to be with Olivia and Nell there's suddenly no mold in the all white and clean room as he is finally able to pass through the red door.
i can see that
You do not understand black mold clearly
@mom.left.me.at.michaels9951 that's cause he's dead & in a different demention
The other theory is the mold was simply the house giving them a reason they can't move out.
Actually the theori that makes the most sense.
Exactly. That and just to show a reflection of how it is inhabitable for life.
yep broken windows,pipes and the mold being the biggest issue. the house needed more time since they were constantly talking about leaving. i do feel it is a representation of how the red room (the stomach) is growing and spreading since when he ventilated and sprayed the wall it came back twice as bad but i dont know about this channels theory
kronosecw I came to this same conclusion the mold show us that the house dose feed of people it makes them stay the mold was what kept them there longer the house adapted to its needs
@@saundz8791 They were only supposed to be there for eight weeks. The mold made the house unflippable. The storm only hit it etc...
I think the mold is the evil growing from Mr Hill’s remains in the wall. Paranormal mold, if you will.
digitalp0llution yeah I loved it, so
Well thought out
it spread from top to bottom. the red room where presumably poppy killed her daughter with a tea party and where William boarded himself in. both being crazy and leeching into the house. from top to bottom. while spreading more and more because the evil is feasting on so many ppl at once
Paranormold
Actually no. The mold was present BEFORE William did that. The Hills met at a mental institution. The land and probably cross contamination from their families homes...(mold cross contaminated and the fact they were already labeled as "crazy"....they probably mixed the bad location accidentally with bad items...which resulted in mold problems they were not aware of.
Mold is like a spider, it traps you and it's super difficult to leave. "MOLD HOLD" is a term used often with people dealing with toxic mold.
Mold vibrates in a specific way that traps other denemsional realities which is why people who live in mold tend to see spirits and all kinds of crazy things. Check out Archive 81 if you haven't.
How did nobody notice that when the red room was explained it was labeled as the “stomach” and is a part of each of their lives individually ie: dance room for Theo, and it was a culprit for the mold for the dad to stay occupied.
It’s his “red room” if you will.
So, my question is. If the "Red Room" is a reading room, toy room, tree house - why was Stevie able to go into Luke's tree house?
im confused bout that too
If you watch the last episode where Nell is explaining what the red room was to each Crain, you can see Luke asking the question "How do you spell, No Girls Allowed?" But he is talking to himself. Steve isn't there.
I think the black mold represents the horror of the house taking over the family. If you think about it, the mold in the red room was the worst in the whole house and that’s where the most terrifying things happen. And the mold on the vanity represents the horror of Steve seeing his mom turning insane. The basement where the mold was first found was where Luke got trapped. The mold tearing the house apart also represents the family tearing apart.
This theory is completely disproven by the dudleys. Them not staying the night would have no effect if it was mold.
Yes. Plus in episode one mrs. Dudley is telling steven a story about why they dont live on the property and why some others stayed far away from it. I'm sure the mold story didnt get that wide spread haha. Had to be something else. And also the family saw the same ghosts and paranormal activities many times. Mold would not produce things like that that many would see happen at the same time in the same way.
Ya I think def must of ignored a lot of contradicting evidence when he made this theory.
The Dudleys are also tripping balls. They also share the hallucinations.
Not necessarily staying at night, but since they dont stay past dinner anymore they dont stay as long and arent as exposed
@@fernwehtreasures I get what your saying but that wouldn't make a difference. They're there all day so they should experience plenty of hallucinations due to the mold. Plus why would tge hallucinations be worse at night if it was mold? They should be equally strong during the day.
Am I the only 1 that cried so hard at the end
Ciel Phantomhive I cried
Ciel Phantomhive i did as well, this show is so well done...
Had me in tears. Haven't had that in so long LMFAO.
Nope
I cried in most of the parts of the series 😅
I’m sorry but the theory doesn’t work on so many levels. I understand hallucinations but how could mold cause them to see the future?( Nell sees herself in the future, Olivia sees Nell dead etc.). Why would they be affected for such a long time after they left the house?
Aleksander exactly. Also, if it were just mold then their special rooms would have just been hallucination. But Steve physically removes the vanity from the game room to give to his mom. If it were a hallucination, how could he have moved it out?
This theory is trash
@@KayCDani we see the vanity in the room more than once we also see it in theos version. And I think it is also in likes tree house.
I think that the "future" is actually their subconsious. Okay to a child a "ghost" with a bent neck would be terrifying and is also a common type of "ghost" okay then her mother dies. Now she sees the "same" bent necked lady as she got older. This was her longing to die because she needed a mother. But once she becomes happy with her husband she doesnt have that longing for death. When is the next time she shes the "future" WHEN HER HUSBAND DIES.
And I dont think. That the mom saw the future but was actually just visualising the dreams that nell and luke told her.
Loki Ro I kind of see where you’re going with this. But in Olivia’s vision she sees Nell in the red dress she was buried in. And she sees Luke frothing at the mouth in the suit he was actually wearing once he was poisoned in the red room. We already get a sense that they’re special and have some type of psychic abilities. Also, Theo sees Liv bloody and with her head bashed in when she touches her and that’s what happens after the fall. There’s definitely some hallucinations going on, but I think there’s also some foreshadowing and visions of the future woven in as well.
That would be the most boring explanation ever.
Supernatural events usually have very boring explainations. It's why I think people love ghost stories so much, the reality is often unfulfilling.
The mold would not be causing ongoing hallucinations. In fact they would have improved instead of spiraling downwards. The father knew that his version of his wife wasn’t real and he even tells the children that he has done this and that it’s very common among widowers. When they were younger this would be a decent theory but does not hold up when they are older. The little bit of mold on the model house would not be enough to cause people just arriving to have hallucinations.
spiderj8579
The mold in the series could behave differently from mold in the real life.
Youve got to remember that the olivia and her mom were "sensitive". And you know how she gets when they started to suggest she was crazy. Its because she had mental illness. O think hugh created his fake fake(yes i used 2 fakes) wife do to PSTD. And the kids who are probably also a bit "sensitive" still hallucinate do to the mold trips mixing with their "sensitivity" making them have what we in the drug biz called "bad trip flashbacks"
The 3 problems with this theory is first there would need to be a big pipe leek for the mold to be as prominent in the house. Secondly their physical health would be affected like their breathing before they hallucinate. And lastly hugh got rid of some of the black mold in the basement and then the next day it was back like he didn't even touch it. In my opinion the mold is a side affect of the house being haunted.
Olivia had terrible headaches and she was theoretically most affected by the mold...
@@82jp she already has a history of migraines that is associated with her sensitivity with the supernatural
@@conniechen3969 My guess is that it's left unclear intentionally to blur the line between what could be physical causes for the events vs. supernatural ones.
I thought the mold was a reaction from the house because the renovation was almost complete and the family would have left.
1. Luke has been clean for 3 months when he sees the hovering man, unless you're implying the show uses an unreliable perspective which I think we'd all agree is not the case
2. Of all of the holes in this theory, I think Mr. Dudley's story about why he and his wife don't enter the house at night is probably the biggest foil.
Really? How about the hidden ghosts seen throughout the house? Only we viewers see them and not the Crains. I wasnt hallucinating. I have no mold in my house, I promise.
yes the ghost in the basement when their father took out the bricks to kill what he thought were rats you can see a ghost off in the distance by the lights he used to work with
ronald walters plus while his down there he treats the mold and it comes back worse
I think the writers intentionally added the black mold element to ensure that we come away from the story not really sure.
msannethr0pe yeah, I’m nearly finished my second watch through now and if you look at the mold as being the cause there is a lot of evidence to support it
It also gave the writers a reason to ensure that the family have a long term relationship with the house.
That and the mental illness hints.
If it was just regular ole mold then you have to explain where it came from.
A body doesn't have enough moisture in it to make it spread so far and they state there's no pipes to leak there.
Even if so it would take a huge leak at the top floor to have the mold grow the way it did.
Mold and decay are associated with ghost.
They speed things like that up.
*Spoilers*
Here's a theory.
The house is a tesseract, i.e a hypercube that exists in multiple dimensions at the same time. If you die within it you exist within all timelines simultaneously.
I really want to agree with this because I had also considered it, but the main thing that seems to disprove the scientific approach was in episode 6 when a giant dog with glowing red eyes ran through the house. Which I think can only be described as a hell hound. So it makes more sense that the house is more of a purgatory or a sort of hellmouth (if you watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer haha).
Really, that's still a supernatural explanation. How did the house become a Tesseract? It sort of just kicks the can down the road. I do like it as a "mechanism" for time passing strangely there, though. I like to think of the ghosts as being electromagnetic remnants of consciousness. So much of our brain activity is electrical signals, and there's something about the house that preserves the patterns of thought that created a person's personality. A ghost with a powerful presence (like Poppy) could alter the very functioning of someone's brain, or do things like cause the lights to go out. Still, it's a sci-fi explanation at best, rather than scientific.
When it was first introduced I thought the mold was going to be the explanation for all the things the family was seeing, but when the mold wouldn't go away (despite all the things they were doing to get rid of it) I concluded that it was the house actively trying to resist the reconstruction.
But then why would an entity who feeds on humans not want to be fixed up? Wouldn't the house *want* more victims to eat?
h6hfelie i feel the mold is symbolic of the evil in the house. evil is usually portrayed as flithy. plus the dad is the only one who didnt spend time in the red room. everyone else had thier own version of it. i think that is the only reason he was able to save his family or maybe he couldve ended up like William? but he was too focused on flipping the house and selling it.
I mean look at the human versions of the house: Luke you would think would want rehab so he could work through his experiences as a kid. The house wants to have its cake and eat it too: be run down but also demand more victims....but because of that...and time....it becomes this more and more warped malevolent thing.
Mold creating their hallucinations doesn't work. For example nells visions of her ominous future with precision as the bent neck lady contradicts any random hallucinations I ever had taking lsd
i noticed this too! I love that it gives us two options.
Scifikimmi thanks for the comment
nobody noticed the lady with the white hair with a black shirt or dress on did they? its a fast shot but its there if you watch closely after the dad takes the second brink out after his hand was pulled in! watch it and tell me if you caught it!
Nope that theory doesn't make sense at all. I mean I'm open to different interpretations but this is just stupid.
The Dudleys were then hallucinating before the mold started? Several characters have shared hallucinations many many times, and discuss the shared hallucinations. They have hallucinations in cars? In the funeral parlor? Olivia has visions of the future?? How even would the black mold spread to the miniature model by itself? ... Doesn't make sense and it's boring as well. The black mold was symbolic, a visual horror element as well as some kind of paranormal unexplained mystery.
Well no... someone could argue after having a long time being close to the mould, they could have had their brain damaged long term. The events you're describing are all after the house, there is nothing to say they saw ghosts before the house. Either/or it doesnt matter, it's a TV show and either can be real if you want it.
I guess you could argue that if you want, but the show never hinted that the black mold was causing hallucinations, so I don't know why you would. And it still wouldn't explain the shared hallucinations.
It's like if I would say that the Harry Potter universe is just a bunch of people hallucinating that they are wizards because of whatever reason, maybe the mysterious black veil in book 5 is actually alien and is telepathically transmitting hallucinations to people. Or from breathing in a special kind of owlshit bacteria where they all went to school. Or whatever other arbitrary story/theory I want to come up with.
At no point does the tv series hint that the black mold is a science based mold. At no point does it hint that the mold is giving people hallucinations. At no point does it explain why that brand of mold would give everyone hallucinations about ghosts specifically, or shared hallucinations about specific ghosts.
So it's just something the video editor came up with. Not, as he tries to make it seem, an alternate explanation that the writers put in there for someone to figure out.
Maybe the whole show is just a dream that Nell has when she's sleeping the first night at the house. Makes as much sense. And is an equally boring explanation
This was great, thanks.
That's a fun idea for the first half, but doesn't adequately explain their later lives. It also doesn't explain their psychic connection to real events: think Theo's touch ability Luke and Nell's link etc.
Wouldn't make sense, why they keep having these horrible things happen to them as they grow older and leave the house. The answer can't be the mold.
I'm so happy by your insightful thoughts...
How would you explain people hallucinating the same thing at the same time?! Like Theo and Hugh at the funeral or Theo and Shirl in the car, when they see Nell. Or all of them in the red room
It's a plausible theory. Except Nell, as an adult, would see the bentnecked lady while she was awake; not just during sleep paralysis. A few other instances with the others. The black mold in the forever house model isn't something that would occur.
Nah, the drugs explanation doesn't hold well since he'd been sober for 90 days, he has no drugs in his system.
Beatrice Ehret i dont think this guy knows much about drugs and is going by stereotypes. or watched train spotting a few too many times lol
Maybe the mold represents the toxic depression and mental illness slowly taking them over?
I agree!
most haunted houses usually have some form of flith in it to represent evil since evil is unclean.
this was good - so deeeep - so many alternative thought and meaning -
Actually a valid assessment, but I also like the hints that the whole family is running rampant with mental illness. Steven remarks throughout the whole series that the entire family has mental instability.
The Dudley's were intensely religious, which in turn makes their belief structure unbreakable by actual science. They're going to believe in ghosts, evil and the like. Their slope is slippery at the very least. They're also feeding into the delusions, as Mrs. Dudley is mentally unstable herself from giving birth to a stillborn. Thus she hermits her daughter and doesn't allow her to experience the outside world. (Actions of a mentally unstable woman, I'd say. Same with Mr. Dudley for allowing it. Horrible, but a traumatic event can propel this type of behavior.)
Nell "seeing the future", wasn't that at all. She suffered from sleep paralysis since she was a child. Seeing a 'bent neck lady' shadow person your entire life can have subliminal effects on your psyche. The times she saw her were times where she was vulnerable, ie: a child, the death of her husband, possibly the death of her mother. A kid that's grown up with a mentally unstable mother who then commits the suicide? What's that going to do to a child? Think about it. It essentially turned Luke into a drug addict. And then her father abandons the family. She becomes obsessed with death, and without recognizing it, sees her self as the bent neck lady and commits suicide herself. (Suicide can be a genetic factor in people.)
Those saying that this is a boring explanation, aren't giving credit to the fact that the human brain is a paranoid thing. The best quote I've ever heard was: "There are no haunted places, only haunted people."
The family has severe cases of paranoid schizophrenia, manic depression, narcissism, drug abuse and bi polar disorder. All were prevalent in the series. All 'ghost' events were brought on during their worst of times and behaviors.
While that's not fantastical, this is true to life and actually makes for a refreshing, interesting take on mental illness in our world. Same old ghost stories are easy, but when it makes you really look at mental illness for what it is, it's actually quite brilliant. It's still opened ended if you want it to be, or you can see the grey area that is mental illness in a horrific fantastical setting, because mental illness is horrifying to experience.
This is an amazing comment and really well thought out. Thank you so much
This comment is like the essence of the Steven character.
Yes, this summed up exactly what I felt throughout the entire show. Knowing and seeing mental illness of those close to me made this show really hit home. It got under my skin to the point that I had nightmares. Mental illness is horrifying and this show really portrayed it amazingly like no other ever has.
I think you would like a 2005 tv series called "Afterlife" with Lesley Sharp and Andrew Lincoln. It walks a similar line between the supernatural and mental illness. I think it does a fantastic job with it.
You made some excellent points btw.
I agree. While watching, I began to think that it's a combination of the toxic mold and an already existing mental illness. All in all, though, an excellent show. I love how there are moments of joy right when you think there are going to be moments of horror.
but how can you explain the time jumps? when nell as a bent neck lady and olivia seeing her kids grown up and dead, at the same time her older daughter seeing her at the same spot at the embalming area? Did the mold caused it too? maybe it did helped increased their hallucinations
Black mould.... kidding you can't explain that using this theory.
Like I said I believe the ghosts were real but the black mold could also be blamed for it
@@heavyspoilers I had that idea at work but I think the black mould theory may work for the red room? Because there is tons of it inside that room that it must play with their heads.
It was a self-fulfilling prophecy. She subconsciously made it happen in her depressed state. She had a problem with sleep paralysis, and saw things just like many people suffering from it do.
Derpinator i dont feel it was. it was more of a death omen and a side affect of a mothers wish to keep her children safe which poppy twists and corrupts. her older self comes to warn her away from the house as a kid, than at every distressing point of her life. when she is happy with her husband the sleep paralysis slows or stops since he says its been a long time since this has happened but because her future self knows what is coming it starts again. than again when she is planning on going back to the house.
she wasnt depressed before her mum passed or at least showed to be a happy go lucky type child besides the bent neck lady. the death of her mother,being tormented with her future,watching a child die from rat poison and wondering if it was in her cup too, being taken from her dad and than all but ignored and turned away when asking for help because none of them had processed what they went through. all of that made her depressed. which into turn when she went back to the house it uses her happiest day (her wedding day) everyone was there even luke and happy so she happily was swept up by the illusion her mum was giving her to bring her back to the forever home which is hinted in the blueprints she draws of the house. so it was always going to be the mums forever home. its sad because the mum wanted to protect them but become the very seed that grew all of thier issues after that night.
Then how do you explain almost all the characters seeing the future in exact details? For example, little Nell saw herself (bent neck lady), exactly down to her dress. And Olivia saw Nell's dead body laying on the table at Shirley's funeral home.
Though I do agree with you, it could be explained in this way... self fulfilling prophecy... Olivia's fear was their smallest children being harmed by the outside world, so she didn't saw the future, she saw a projection of her fears onto their children's future. Worst of all, she transplanted her fears and her obsessions onto her children. However that theory doesn't explain why young theo was able to see the neck lady too?
Yeah I’m not sure about this theory, yes black mold would cause a lot of issues long term but this would take years of exposure to account for such severe “hallucinations”. I think they intended for this to be a factor but it’s very unlikely in reality.
Ciarrai B the dudleys would be waay worse if this was the theory
I thought the mold was going down the resident evil pathway....causing fungal infections that caused people to go crazy.
Either way, show was well written with a fantastic cast. Well done. Love horror and all I can say is bravo!
But it happened on the first and second night. So the mold wouldn't have worked that quickly. Definitely haunted.
Imo, the black mold was the house's strength growing, the more it feed the worse it got. It could also just be a illusion to stop them from leaving, remember they wanted to flip the house.
Anyway, Hugh sees his wife for years after they leave the house.. Hallucinations wouldn't last even if the black mold was doing it. When he did see her at the end she was simply telling him that it wasn't her he was seeing but the grief causing hallucinations. There are so many other reasons why this theory is wrong. I'm sure others would have pointed out most of them.
I like that you thought this through and it’s a good theory, but I hope it’s not the case. I NEED Hill House to be truly haunted 😊🧟♀️
Melissa Thomas thank you
it is otherwise why does mrs dudley almost go crazy but is saved by not being there at night? if it was the mold both the dudleys would be sick.
What about Theo though? Because she's definitely got some supernatural power that most likely didn't stem from the mold
Tess Gallagher the mum also says the grandma had it too which is how she knew to give her gloves plus she says she is senitive too and gets her creative flair from it saying things like i see splashes of colours but now theres only one i see which is black.
Kayla Scott oh yeah you're so right, I remember that now. Thanks girl :)
The mold seems to be the cause of the hallucinations but maybe it just enhanced the experience with the ghosts.
I also thought a lot about the mold, since it's plausible for it to be the root of the depression. I might be wrong but it also seems like they all coughed somehow when they woke up of their weird dreams, so maybe they inhaled too much and coughing is a result of it, might have some pulmonary affection not bad enough to be noticeable, and the coughing after inhaling made the "dreams" dissapear.
house:"is anything real to you steve""-----self reflection:chew it up digest it and shit it out. even then imitation at best"take people lives, love and pain and eat it"then it is real"=plastic parasite.
Really? Black mold is the culprit? Then how do you explain the ghosts that appearances many years later outside the house?
The mold, if also paranormally, was used to affect the minds of the characters, it reminds me of a similar situation for Resident Evil 7.
Except that 1. The audience sees ghosts 2. The Audience sees ghosts that the characters do not. And 3. The characters see the same ghosts at the same time, for example when Dad and Theo were attacked by Olivia's ghost, it was a shared experience.
Not exactly a film theory, but it is something I considered.
On the other hand, a lot of mold is dark or black in colour, but not all of them are Stachybotrys chartarum or dangerous at all. Even the CDC is pretty chill about it.www.cdc.gov/mold/stachy.htm
How did the father and daughter see the ghost in the morgue then? They hadn’t been In the house for years at that point .. two people can’t have the same hallucination.
Hill House is basically alive, “the red room is like the stomach” like Nell said, it weakens you and makes you susceptible to the Ghosts. The House can cause your mental state to weaken which allows the spirits to screw with you, like Poppy Hill does to several of the characters and other Ghosts... they aren’t hallucinating but actually seeing spirit is, the Dad even explains this as does the director. Hill House is haunted but there is a lot more to it than the eye see’s! I love the series I wish there was more for the Crains in the first season, maybe what happened to the dad and more about the Dudley’s and their daughter, maybe more about the house. I hope they do more stories about the house but I fear they’ll just do a bloody typical prequel lol
And Nellie saw the Bent-Neck Lady at the motel, mold there too?
I like the video, and I really enjoyed the Netflix series, it was very well done. Especially the Two Storms episode, the camera work alone in the funeral parlor was fantastically done, i dare say even a master class and the horror series almost turned into an intimate, dark play upon a small stage. I think the mold was real, and did have its cause half rooted in reality and fed supernaturally by the house, but it was not the source of mental illness of the family.
I started to suspect this during the last couple episodes. It reminded me of the X Files episode “Field Trip” where the mushrooms made people hallucinate so they could then feed on them.
No the mold didn't cause the hallucinations it's actually a supernatural entity it's heavily implied at the end of the series
Do you think the Black Mold was causing the Crains to hallucinate? Comment below and let me know!
deffinition nah
It's a great theory (and would make the show better IMHO) but I think that it falls down when things started to happen to the siblings when they were older. Especially the two funeral home hauntings and the one in the car. If each sibling was alone at the time you could put it down to Steven's reasoning that the mind often sees things that aren't there, but both Theo and Shirley seeing Nell in the car at the same moment makes me think that's not the case.
Although... saying that I suppose it could be explained that the mold simply had long term affects that continued until adulthood. They all had their own mental problems as adults.
I don't know. Subbed anyway. :)
Apparently no one believes this theory! Read whole comment section!
did you love your own comment lol why not pin it?
Anyone else notice the woman in scene as the husband peers through the brink wall with the flashlight? Episode 7 49:47.
If mold was causing the halucinations then how do you explain Hugh was seeing Olivia all the time? Even in cemetery?
I took the that not as a haunting but more his coping mechanism for what happened was just talking to his wife like she was still there. I think he even says at one point he knows she isnt there
Olivia (the real Olivia we see as a ghost in Hill House) actually states that the one he has been seeing wasn't really her and that it was all him.
That was not actually her.
This was also my theory while watching the series. In fact, similar things have happened in real life. Google "salem witch hunt molds" and see for yourself.
And I'm an ex heroin addict and have never hallucinated, and neither has my fiance he was homeless at fifteen and was a heroin addict buy the time he was seventeen he has not seen a hallucination in the whole time he was one he got clean first at 19 and split up with his ex Mrs and relapsed when he was 21 he is clean again now as I am also clean he got clean when he was 22 he is now 24
dat magic mushroom mold scrape that shit off and pass it here :P
I think it would be interesting to merge both scientific and paranormal explanations as to why they had all those visions and thought they were haunted. I totally support the mold theory as the cause of most of the haucinations, however, how did the mold first appear?? I believe the house itself was haunted by all the people who died there, but there must be some kind of paranormal origin that gives the house the power to attract the people in the first place, hence how the mold spread in such an unnatural way.
Okay, but what if the mold is an eldritch monster that can bend time and space AND makes ghosts
No. That’s just dismissing everything. They’d also be sick with lung infections and such.
The house is basically the island on LOST.
I believe the ghost are real, obviously because of the moment when they all saw the dad after he died. Gotta say that scene when Steve walked out and all
The ghost were behind him really gave an amazing view on the evil bit still beautiful nature of the house. I believe the house might not be by nature evil. I believe it to be a type of sanctuary, letting the dead live on. Though it does this in a forceful manner (forcing them to take their own lives) it is quiet beautiful the way souls still live on. This also really drives home the whole "In Hill House you walk together" and with the idea of even though they're dead they aren't gone
I cried so hard ... they deserved better ❤️
The black mold would explain some of the hallucinations but to hallucinate of people that died and lived in the house... no. I don’t know how it work but you hallucinate of something that would relate to you life somehow.
In the end I didn’t see the house as this evil entity. Seemed more like a place where people can be with their loved ones as shown by the Dudley’s and of course Liv, Hugh and Nell. By the end, the house didn’t seem so bad as it did in the beginning. IMHO.
That doesn't explain how the fire was put out when Luke tried to burn it
The Black mold can't explain everything what happens to the Crains after the leave the house. The ghosts are real, but what's important is the meaning behind them... Thanx!!!
Mold creates so many things including mental illness.
Luke seeing Williams ghost has nothing to do with his drug use, he’s been clean, and he also used the drugs not to see them.
Besides that you awesome!
Lmao me and my sister thought the mold was to blame. Like that theory of those crazy girls from The Crucible who were exposed to mold.
Luke wasn't on the bloody drugs when he saw Mr Hill...
Can someone explain why Olivia wrote welcome Home Nellie and then blamed Nellie
Is mold common in haunted houses?
None of these happenings were hallucinations. I'm getting kind of tired of the whole "It was all in their mind" theories. 80 to 90 percent of their problems were paranormal.
I Didn't watch the whole video so maybe this isnt the case, but i stopped right when he said the mold was causing hallucinations
When the man with the hat stares ar Steve I don't get it who is he ? He's not that scary is he William hill or someone else?
l r yeah that’s william hill
William. The same guy who bricked himself inside the wall in the basement. Poppy told us his story during Theo’s hallucination I think. He’s also the guy who came to get his bowler hat from Luke that night and then followed him around on the streets as an adult.
poppy explains why his tall. saying while dreaming he felt small so when he awoke he was tall. at the end you see him at his regular hieght.
I put a page about this theory on the Paradigm Change website (which provides information on the health effects of toxic mold).
paradigmchange.me/hill-house/
so this whole series is a commercial for mold removal?
This whole theory kinda ignores Nell znd everything about the bent neck lady, so no, black mold made ghosts does't work out.
Mold hold. Its a REAL thing. Mold is not a plant nor an animal...it is a very weird thing.
_No_ ...... that is absolutely not the reason.
This pretext you describe completely and utterly removes the context and rhetoric of what the story is trying to convey: which is ‘*Remembrance*’ and ‘*Preservation*’.
The mould is a simple and clever metaphor indicating to viewers that the house’s “wish” is to remain as it is - and nothing is to be disturbed or change.
Another indirect ‘cause and effect’ as desired by the house is showcased by the caretaker ‘Mr Dudley’ pleading with Mr Crain after the death of Mr Dudley’s daughter to let the house remain. It’s a subtle yet effective exposition that is in line with the earlier cue from the mould.
The mould also allows not only for the house’s desire for “preservation”, but more mystery with the figure that we see from the photograph.
This may draw ire but the reason you’ve indicated is definitely not it; if you’ve analysed the full story of the series and what its message is.
Nice, but no. Exposure to black mold takes a long while for any mental issues to affect anyone (it's a slow breakdown of brain cells) and even longer for physical affects. As we all know, the strange events began on night one and continued every night thereafter. Far too soon for mold exposure.
I thought the same thing.
No this theory is completely disproven by just about every episode. Not to mention the climax of the movie
My dad filmed this!
If you can get a copy of "The Haunting of Hill House," read what the author was going through. She started experimenting with the occult, and the book (or something) actually got inside of her head and drove her mad. The book is quite different, not containing a family, but was a dare between several people. (no spoilers)
Heroin is not hallucinogenic.
Both
So what's with all the faces in the background?
Fun the directors were having. A blatant call to Pareidolia, perhaps.
This "explanation" is pathetic. Way off.
REAL
Disagree completely, Nellie and the Dudley's are the smoking gun(s).
lol this dude's theory
This theory makes no sense
everything is open to interpretation .....there is no true answer to this question...it is possible that the black mold made the family hallucinate...sure if thats what you want to believe..but all in all this Netflix series was a family drama with Horror elements in my opinion...
When the father break the wall and found the body in that scene behind him a blonde woman can see there... Sorry for bad english
Sergio..i dont remember that scene..please elaborate??????
It's a good theory, but it kinda ruins the show for me tbh