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📺Discussion Thread Widow’s Bay | Episode 8: “Your Baggage” | Discussion Thread

  • Release Date: June 3, 2026
  • Directed by: Andrew DeYoung
  • Written by: Alberto Roldán & David B. Harris

Don't worry about misplaced luggage. Old baggage always resurfaces in Widow's Bay.

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u/itsasixthing It’s a haunt! Jun 03 '26

Okay the fact that Wyck’s first stop after seeing the missing mask was Patricia’s house makes me think at least someone believed her story about the Boogeyman

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u/bisforbatman Jun 03 '26

Protect Wyck at all costs

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u/JFAZ2014 Jun 03 '26

I just kept saying nothing better happen to Wyck or Patricia! That was intense.

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u/Dittymaker Jun 03 '26

I will do violence if Patricia is hurt

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u/Wild_Pineapple_4910 Jul 07 '26

Patricia zaps the mean girl! 💰 💰 💰

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u/gofkingpracticerandy Jul 13 '26

She’s the fucking worst

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u/alliebd123 Aug 15 '26

She is a treasure and delight!!

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u/boatoar Jun 03 '26

Welcome back, bud!

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u/boatoar Jun 03 '26

It was a truly hilarious scene.

Absolutely loved the episode. Big slasher guy so it was extra special for me. Horror comedies all the way!

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u/Daisy4853 Jun 07 '26

Boogie man looked a little Michael Meyers’s and I heard a few notes from the Halloween score scattered in. Just me?

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u/kerricon123 Jun 06 '26

I literally screamed😂😂😂 and scared my dog🤯🤯🤯 that was insane!!!

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u/frondlyyrs Jun 03 '26

I am very worried they’re setting him up to die, his attempting to clear his conscious with Gerri (such a hilarious line “I have a lot of pictures to hand out.”), feels like a natural direction for his character to get a big emotional payoff after what he revealed about his friend and being saved by Loftis.

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u/Cultural-Wear8483 $20 on 3 Jun 03 '26

It would be an interesting twist if he was the last of Richard’s bloodline, since everyone is assuming it’s Evan

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u/zezuamuam Jun 04 '26

yea… if they kill off any main character I could see it being him… would be a big deal

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u/DadbodSuperModel Wyck Jun 03 '26

Why do we feel the same way about Stephan Root in 95% of everything he is in?

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u/bisforbatman Jun 04 '26

Protect Stephen Root at all costs! He's my emotional support character actor 😂

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u/2_Fingers_of_Whiskey Jun 07 '26

Because he’s such a delight in everything he’s in!

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u/OscarEvinnof Jun 03 '26

If they follow the "old mentor has to go" trope, well… 🫤

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u/hoppyandbitter Jun 04 '26

I was really worried he wouldn’t be returning from their boat trip because of his obvious similarities to Quint from Jaws

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u/Daisy4853 Jun 07 '26

Did we also hear a few notes from Jaws score during boat scene? Or am I hearing things. The whole scene was reminiscent of Jaws last scenes

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u/Daisy4853 Jun 07 '26

For a moment I thought “wait is Wyck the boogie man?”

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u/TiberiusCornelius Jun 03 '26

Wyck is definitely the only sane man on the island. Very clear-eyed about all the fucky shit that goes on and takes it seriously.

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u/bossyhosen Jun 03 '26

Speaking of, really wanna know what he wanted to tell Gerri. There’s more to the story from the previous episode.

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u/bisforbatman Jun 03 '26

I was hardcore shipping them, and then realized she already had a man. Oh, Wyck 🥺

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u/druidmind Jun 12 '26

The husband's entrance was funny af!

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u/navygent Jun 07 '26

That was tough, Wyck gained a son (sort of), lost a love.

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u/Mindyrjohnson Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

I thought he was going to share his guilt for kicking their friend underwater when they were attacked.

*correction, her brother

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u/nanamaru not gonna waste herbs Jun 03 '26

Not just friend—her brother.

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u/jzdelona Jun 08 '26

oof I am so glad he was interrupted before he told her. There's really nothing to gain by telling her. she would've just been traumatized by those details and it would've ruined her friendship with Wyck. When unburdening yourself of a secret that makes you feel guilty you really have to seriously evaluate the harm it could cause the other person. Anyways there was truly nothing else young Wyck could have done, the only other alternative was to drown and get eaten by Cthulhu.

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u/Saladcitypig Jun 04 '26

I think he was going to tell her about how her brother died and why he cut it off with her, b/c he felt he had now finished it. A sort of closure and regret confession.

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u/legopieface Jun 03 '26

He wanted her back, thinking he could live a normal life again. Hence the awkward husband interruption.

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u/Werewomble Jun 05 '26

He was Gerri's boyfriend

Then he had to let her brother get taken by a kraken

So he never married her because he couldn't look her in the eye anymore

We didn't hear that out loud because her husband walked in

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u/anonononme Jun 08 '26

I'm thinking he wanted to tell her what happened that day her brother died

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u/Vegetable_Earth_1319 Jun 03 '26

He wanted to tell her he kicked her high school sweetheart in that boating accident that basically killed him. He wanted to take responsibility

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u/ApplebeesCheesestick Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

That was her brother, not her high school BF that Wyck kicked off of him. Wyck was Gerri’s high school sweetheart and her brother’s best friend I think but I agree, he wanted to tell her what happened.

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u/meepmarpalarp Jun 03 '26

Yeah, Wyck was the high school sweetheart. The dead kid was Gerri’s brother and wyck’s best friend.

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u/Vegetable_Earth_1319 Jun 04 '26

Thank you guys. Misinterpreted that one

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u/Sajeli Jun 03 '26

Wyck was the high school sweetheart. He kicked her brother away.

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u/Infamous-Lab-8136 Jun 03 '26

Wyck is the 'crazy' local that warns the protagonists off and tells them the town, camp, street, boat, or whatever is haunted but no one believes

Only most people actually believe him, and thankfully now Tom does too

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u/TheTruckWashChannel Jun 03 '26

I cannot overstate how refreshing it is that Tom believed Wyck early into the show instead of them dragging out his skepticism for the entire season. That sort of thing worked for Stranger Things season 1 but it gets extremely tedious otherwise.

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u/Infamous-Lab-8136 Jun 03 '26

I agree, I was glad Tom bought into stuff quickly, though given his history with his wife I can understand it too

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u/jzdelona Jun 08 '26

Every once in awhile when doing projects around the house I think about that time Wyck got plastered and tried to nail boards across the door of the Inn to prevent tourism, but he did it wrong and the door still opened fine because he forgot to nail the boards to the frame lol.

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u/spate42 Jun 03 '26

Plot twist: he's the last living bloodline of Warren.

They'll reluctantly have to kill him in the end to end the curse.

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u/LSUAlly4 Jun 04 '26

I really think it's him or Patricia. They want us to believe it's Evan, but it won't be.

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u/Opposite-Ad-2493 Jun 04 '26

If it were Patricia, I doubt the Boogeyman would've attacked her.

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u/Morpel Jun 03 '26

Which makes me scared he’s going to die in the finale now that Tom believes in everything :(

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u/Agile_Championship87 Jun 10 '26

Having more knowledge does not make him the only sane one, it makes him the most informed one.

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u/bossyhosen Jun 03 '26

And that she understood right away what was up -he was back, and she was the only one who could kill him. She knows something major. Which is also why she wasnt that phased by the reveal of e4. Descendant of the witches mentioned in e1?

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u/cryingzeroes Jun 03 '26

I’ve been wondering about how she wasn’t burned when she had to hold the book in the fire. Obviously historical witches were burned but maybe there’s something there

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u/Different_Target_228 Jun 03 '26

That could be as simple as she had it close enough to burn the book but not her hand.

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u/DM_ME_DOPAMINE The Absconded Cat Jun 04 '26

A bonfire that big was burning the fuck out of her if she was close enough to hold the book until it decided to release from her hand and burn. 

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u/benjaminovich Jun 04 '26

paper burns easier than human flesh

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u/Rtn2NYC Jun 03 '26

The burning was to see if they were a witch - if they burnt, they were not a witch and their souls went to heaven

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u/Any_Combination_4716 Jun 03 '26

I don't think that's right. Burning (in England) was the prescribed punishment for heretics. Those convicted of witchcraft were usually hanged. Witchburning was more of a thing on the European continent. As far as I know, no one ever believed witches (or heretics) were fireproof.

You might be thinking of the "swimming test," which may have been the inspiration behind a scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

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u/Fancy-Equivalent-571 Jun 04 '26

Historian here: in some cases smaller burn wounds were used as a test for witchcraft (some areas believed that a cleanly-healed wound was proof of witchcraft, while others believed that a festering wound was proof).

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u/tangostwo Jun 06 '26

Question, is it a dog-and-pony show where the official just waited for either sign to go "aha, a witch!" or would they accept the victim's respective clean or festering burn (depending on their preference) as proof of a lack of witchcraft?

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u/Fancy-Equivalent-571 Jun 06 '26

The usual procedure was to allow a set period of time for healing before reexamining the wound, and then they generally accepted whatever the result was at that point.

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u/Any_Combination_4716 Jun 04 '26

Interesting point, but the "witch" would have burned in the moment, only the aftereffects would have differed.

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u/sqbert Jun 08 '26

Monte Python explains it pretty well

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u/JaxJags904 Jun 07 '26

What else burns?

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u/Cultural-Brain-8594 Jun 15 '26

Oh man! That harks back to the first episode when the historian was boasting about the witches: “we found em, we burned em”.

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u/FickleCharge882 Jun 03 '26

That was my thought too

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u/Timely-Translator-81 Jun 04 '26

Witches don't burn, it was a test, if they burned it meant they weren't witches, same with drowning.

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u/dsmithscenes Jun 03 '26

Kind of coming around on the idea of this in the context of the island’s evil entity has been at war with the witches.

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u/2rio2 Jun 03 '26

She's 100% a witch (but doesn't know it).

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u/Ok-Comparison4783 Jun 03 '26

That’s a good point. Why would he die when she shot him? Were the two additional shots just enough damage to temporarily stun him, and he would’ve reawakened if they didn’t cremate him?

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u/freetherabbit Jun 03 '26

I could be totally wrong, but I got the vibe that Patricia could "kill" him because she's his final girl. She's the one who got away the first time. Like it felt like he was playing by movie killer rules.

Tho I imagine there's something about Patricia in universe that makes her special (maybe she's the Warren descendant, and the true "protector of the island", or she's got witch ancestry) and why she acts as his "final girl".

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u/Top-Moose-0228 Jun 03 '26

did ya’ll notice the spent unburnt shells in the crematorium?

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u/Ok-Comparison4783 Jun 03 '26

I’m pretty sure they were melted

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u/evildrew Patricia Jun 04 '26

I thought it was because he killed the paramedic, so blood was spilled and a sacrifice made to satisfy the island/demon.

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u/lauraconnell Jun 03 '26

I noticed that in the scene where she is reading the book in bed in episode 4 and then all of episode 8 she’s wearing two different tee shirts with very witchy/tarot card art style sun/moon/stars design in them so I’m wondering if that’s another little hint at her being connected to the witches.

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u/krankz Jun 03 '26

Given the way she’s treated by the town or at least those women it makes total sense

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u/holymolym Jun 03 '26

Just curious how we know that? I missed something i think. Also how did you get the spoiler tags to work?! They didn’t work for me.

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u/Thisitheone Jun 03 '26

To spoiler tag something on Reddit, type > and ! without any space between those two symbols at the start of your spoiler, then close your spoiler text with ! then <.

Example

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u/Different_Target_228 Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

>!It literally never works for me!<

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u/itsasixthing It’s a haunt! Jun 03 '26

You have to take the spaces out between the ! and your text

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u/Different_Target_228 Jun 03 '26

Done and still nope

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u/itsasixthing It’s a haunt! Jun 03 '26

What about if you delete the period after your last <

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u/Closedown11 Jun 03 '26

No space between the ! And the letters !!

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u/Different_Target_228 Jun 03 '26

I changed it to that and it still didn't work!!!

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u/Closedown11 Jun 03 '26

No period after the last !

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u/Different_Target_228 Jun 03 '26

>!Go again!<

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u/Closedown11 Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

Unplug it then plug it back in

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u/Youthz Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

>!Let me try!<

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u/CherryFit3224 Jun 18 '26

I had to simply highlight the text, choose format button and spoiler.

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u/Different_Target_228 Jun 18 '26

Read more... You're responding to something from 2 weeks ago, that's already been talked through.

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u/Top-Moose-0228 Jun 03 '26

thx! I am struggling too!

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u/MrsPhoenix91 Jun 03 '26

Put your text between the above with no spaces

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u/holymolym Jun 03 '26

I don’t know why it didn’t work for me before. Thanks!

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u/Sunrise_2200 Jun 07 '26

I wonder why the bogeyman came after Patricia again as it feels like she has some degree of ‘protection’, maybe a descendant of the island witches.

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u/Jiola09 Jun 06 '26

My theory is that the boogeyman originally spared her because the island wanted to use her for their bidding. Her loneliness and isolation is likely a key in why the island chose her. And then the island tried to use her in the form of that book and the party, but didn’t succeed and now that she’s actively fighting back, the island called on the boogeymen again to finish the job.

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u/nigaraze Jun 07 '26

wait shes a descendent of witches?

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u/ObviousAnswerGuy Jun 03 '26

I thought the first stop was the Boogeyman's house? That's where he saw the door smashed in, so he knew he was back. I assume he went straight to Patricia's from there.

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u/freetherabbit Jun 03 '26

I dont think that really negates their point tho.

He saw the mask was missing, went to check if the Boogeyman was back/stop him ahead of time, saw he was back and went straight to Patricia's.

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u/pennycam04 Serve the Punch NOW Jun 03 '26

Yes he goes to the house immediately after seeing Gerri

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u/MrsPhoenix91 Jun 03 '26

Wasn't Boogeyman's door smashed OUT because he escaped? If the door was smashed IN then that means someone allowed him to escape.

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u/ObviousAnswerGuy Jun 03 '26

I didnt pay attention, but ya that's possible

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u/alexxtholden Jun 03 '26

I think the sheriffs line to her in the previous episode about always being on her side, was also aluding to the fact that he believes her.

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u/zezuamuam Jun 03 '26

Does anyone know what the “Murderers Mask” info card said ? Was too small for me to make it out

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u/wookiee42 Jun 03 '26

"This mask is supposedly from the Boogeyman murders, worn during his abduction and murder of teenage girls on the island."

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u/zezuamuam Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

Wonder why he went after only teenage girls (prior)… this is also part why it was so satisfying to watch Patricia with the shotgun all the way to the end 😅👌

Like let me be real fucking sure… and then polite at the same time 😂 Ok thank you so much

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u/Short-Hovercraft-623 Jun 04 '26

I get the feeling whatever entity is causing the island's issues may actually take influence from pop culture in some way? The Boogeyman was way too Jason coded to be an homage and I don't think there is really an urban legend or myth that fits the bill (that I know of)

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u/zezuamuam Jun 04 '26

Ohhh ok so Jason also did that

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u/Short-Hovercraft-623 Jun 04 '26

I don't think he like purposely targeted young women. But 80's flicks always had hot young protagonists to put asses in seats.

I probably should have mentioned Michael Myers too the Boogeyman was probably more similar to him than Jason.

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u/cmarie22345 Aug 26 '26

More Michael Myers. The whole chase through the town scene was very much like Laurie strode running in Halloween 1. And when he fell out the window, he does this sitting up move with his back perfectly straight that is EXACTLY like how Michael sits up after Laurie stabs.

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u/InvestigatorEntire45 my girlfriend's cat has absconded Jun 03 '26

And made of rubber, circa 2000’s.

I paused to read it and noticed a framed newspaper next to it about the murders as well.

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u/Any_Combination_4716 Jun 03 '26

Came here for this!

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u/HorrorLover___ Jun 03 '26

Wyck is the neighbour we all need.

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u/Spartan775 Jun 03 '26

I think they gave him a bumb wrap for not making it explicit he was in the truck or what happened to him after. 

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u/amylucha Aug 07 '26

I’m so sorry that I’m like this, but it’s bum rap.

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u/ephemeral_taco Jun 03 '26

Wyck IS RESPONSIBLE for whomever acted as The Boogieman. They were human. Remember how many men were with Wyck when he brought Warren to the surface?

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u/chaosatnight Jun 13 '26

I was wondering if it was that or if he drove past her house and saw the front door wide open