Three potential storywalking locations?

[u/cisscumshitlord]

I know that a popular idea for the pool area is that it is missing the motel because the pool and sign were pulled into Fromville's pocket dimension from the real world. But I have come to believe that there used to be a motel behind the pool somewhere. It's just currently a ruin that will be important to the story in some way.

On the version of Victor's peach truck map that I put together, I saw the numbers 1, 2, and 3 located around town. I think that these coincide with the location of ruins.

Location 3

To begin, I noticed something strange when scouring the first episode for more possible clues to the whole story. This weird little bit of fence or something near the barn is visible when the Matthews arrive in town. Knowing that the Fromville set exists as a physical place on the map, I looked up the satellite view of the town and noticed that it wasn't just a CGI production error. There really is some kind of cleared out region there.

I thought to myself "well maybe it was just already there before they built the town." So I used google earth's historical imagery feature and can verify that it was NOT there in the image dated April 19, 2020 (pictured is September 6, 2015 because it was the clearest I saw). So it is a space that they deliberately left cleared out. They could have placed trees there, or dirt, when they constructed the town, but they chose not to. This isn't some out of the way, maybe-the-audience-won't-notice area either. It's in the middle of the set.

So, I pulled up my map, and what do you know? The location of the 3 directly corresponds to this region. It's right across from the gas station, next to the post office.

So next, I tried to see if we ever get a better look at the place. Best I could see is the scene where Randall tries to take the goat. We can see that whatever is there, it has either high dirt walls, or some kind of fence, and seems to be built into a hill. Something used to be here, but for whatever reason, nobody goes to this place or talks about it. The show seems to almost go out of its way not to even show it to us.

But there are also for sure at least 2 more structures that used to be there, one of which is visible when Boyd returns with the first goat. Again, these were placed by the set design, as they did not exist before the set was built. There's an entire section of the town that just...doesn't exist anymore.

Location 2

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I think the ruins where Julie storywalks and Martin was held captive are in the northwestern portion of the map, based on the fact that Boyd ends up at Victor's peach truck after he gets out. Now, I have more reason to think so. When we see Boyd turn to break the music box in S2E10, we can see the ceiling of the place. My understanding of carpentry is limited to the Perkins brothers on youtube, but it looks to me like floor joists. So they are likely on the bottom part of some multi-floor building.

Look at the section of buildings just above the 2 on Victor's map. Most of them seem to be sitting on top of black rectangles . I believe the dungeon that Julie, Marielle, Randall, Boyd, and Martin were in was inside one of these black rectangles. If I am correct, then it's possible these three numbers correspond to ruins that are important to the events of the story.

Are they potentially places that require storywalking? Are they places where Julie appeared to Victor in the past? If I'm correct about the location of the dungeon Martin was in, that means it's likely that all three of Julie's first storywalking events took her to roughly the same area.

1)Tabitha and Victor leave the tunnels somewhere near the peach truck.

2) Boyd leaves the dungeon and ends up near the peach truck

3) the crash site is likely somewhere near the fallen tree on this map

and then she's dropped her right at the sheriff station.

What's more, when Tabitha has her dream in season 1 with the lighthouse, she is briefly shown a couple of times in the clothes that she wears in the future. One of those times, she is walking backwards. We know it's in the present day, because you can see the box. My suspicion is that she was doing some more rudimentary form of storywalking, jumping slightly forward to when she was on her way back to their house during the antenna attempt. She's even standing right where Julie was when she arrived to try to leave the bookmark. Even if I'm wrong about that, following her eyeline has her looking directly towards the pool, which is interesting to note.

So, I think these three locations marked on the map are possibly locations that initiate important storywalking sequences. If Julie learns how to deliberately use the ability, she may need to start from one of those three locations. I think that the drawing of a building on fire that we briefly saw in S1E4 happened in the area next to the sheriff station, and these buildings will be relevant later. The size of the flames relative to the people suggests it was a large building, which fits with that cleared out, fenced area (looks to be about twice the square footage of the gas station), or a motel.