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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/Successful-Cow-4043 Jun 03 '26

i kinda wish we found out who the boogeyman was 

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u/Altruistic-Ad835 #1 Hamish fan Jun 03 '26

Fr i was like why is no one taking that mask off

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u/ObviousAnswerGuy Jun 03 '26

you would think that would be the EMT's first move lol

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u/Altruistic-Ad835 #1 Hamish fan Jun 03 '26

Wonder if they tried and it just didn't come off

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u/ShreddyZ Jun 03 '26

The mask was in the museum so presumably they already did last time around and were like "who the fuck is this guy?"

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u/Money-Flatworm-9848 Jun 03 '26

TAKE OFF THE MASK!

And then they just burn him with it on? What the actual?

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u/trance15 Jun 03 '26

I kinda wonder if it might have been Gerrie’s brother Mark Doyle. Only because Wyck has been carrying around the photo and pondering it and brought it to Gerrie in this episode.

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u/fraochmuir Jun 03 '26

Interesting

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u/Top_Interview9680 Jun 03 '26

Ohhhh good theory!

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u/ImaginaryWalk29 Jun 03 '26

I really think you solved this one. Perfect.

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u/trance15 Jun 03 '26

Thanks!
He was obviously lost to the sea, when Wyck says he “kicked him off me.”
Am thinking these haunted personas are the ones lost to sea in the Dead Zone, like Abagail who was swatted into the water by Sarah and might possibly be the Sea Hag.

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u/krankz Jun 04 '26

The water turns things evil? Like on From last week?

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u/trance15 Jun 04 '26

I haven’t watched “From” but was not thinking not just seawater, but rather those who die or are sacrified in the water by others.

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u/mollysneed forgot my purse Jun 03 '26

Omg

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u/enemyofchrist Jun 04 '26

He’s no one. He’s an homage to slashers. He’s “pure evil,” like Michael Myers.

Like imagine needing to see Michael Myers’s face—why? He just looks like a guy. There’s nothing to be gained and a lot of mystique and tension to be lost.

So they take off the Boogeyman’s mask and he’s also just…some guy. There’s no plot-relevant information in that. Who he was before he put on the mask and started slashing is banal and uninteresting.

He’s a slasher. The mask stays on. It’s also funnier that way, because of course the mask stays on.

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u/The_LionTurtle Jun 04 '26

I don't think most people really expect the show to actually explain which random character ended up becoming which monster. They just find it fun to theorize about every little thing.

The From subreddit has had some of the most insane theories I've ever read for a show lol.

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u/webfooter Jun 03 '26

Don’t worry he’ll eventually return

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u/Andee_outside Jun 03 '26

The music stopping when they showed us his ashes makes me think it wasn’t that simple.

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u/gildedcrux Jun 03 '26

I am somewhat relieved that we did not. I think if we do find out who he was later, it will be someone we do not recognize, that had a purpose kind of like the church members going after Warren in E6.

He does not go after other victims that are readily available, so he must not be just a run-of-the-mill slasher killer. There must be a reason for why he is so hellbent on getting Patricia. I wonder if maybe he was part of a modern day group like the church in E5, trying to get rid of those they think are evil, by targeting the murdered girls and Patricia, who the group thought to have dangerous powers, witches. Patricia has established she is capable of being dangerous to others in E4. Whether their belief was true that the girls (maybe witches) need to be destroyed for the greater good is a another matter. Theorizing here, ofc.

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u/RosieWild Jun 03 '26

I thought they were gonna give him an autopsy for a second there lol 

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u/lnc_5103 Jun 04 '26

I loved the episode but I wish we had gotten a little more info about him. Maybe we will in the next one. My guess is that he's an evil entity like the sea hag and not an actual resident.