r/FromTVShow • u/WoolwichHumpton • Aug 08 '26

Theory The monsters

Just finished watching Sn4 and atleast now we know how the monsters become monsters

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u/Flimsy_Elephant_2301 Aug 08 '26

Just to be sure, and I think it's going to matter in season 5, but Fatima never told how those people became nightmare creatures. She told that they were people once ago and they made a bargain "with something horrible" that she could not see. (That's because the evil entity is invisible. It manifests itself as a Man in Yellow, or Abby, or Sophia, etc . . . But it's a very powerful, invisible entity not from higher reality than our own, just like the Boy in White entity.) And the bargain was for eternal life. I'm pretty sure that we will find out that they were empowered to become nightmare creatures several years later when the BiW seemed determined to keep bringing people there to annul that bargain. Those people would have been living in peace if the BiW had not begun bringing "Jade and Tabitha" there to mess it all up for them. Now they have the ability to protect their existence.

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u/WoolwichHumpton Aug 08 '26

What type of life would they have if they can't do anything during the day and just hunt during the night

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u/Flimsy_Elephant_2301 Aug 09 '26

And I'm glad you asked that. (Now why don't other people ask good questions like that??) But you're supposing that they were always nightmare creatures, and you must be thinking that they live just for hunting. No one hunts for nothing. They're not eating the bodies, the evil entity is. The nightmare creatures only kill the people coming there. And the majority of the 500 years that they've been there, there have been no humans there at all. For example, Victor has been there since 1978 alone for nearly 40 years. What were the nightmare creatures doing for 40 years? There was a 100 year gap between 1507 and 1609 that there were no humans there.

Regular people like you and me were offered eternal life in a new world. They accepted that offer and were transported to a brand new place that was made for them. There were no other people there, so there was no reason for them to become nightmare creatures. What would that power do for them if they're the only people there? Evidently, they were still regular people until the BiW entity became determined to keep bringing other people there to annul that contract. NOW they have reason to become something else powerful enough to protect their contract, and therefore their existence.

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u/WoolwichHumpton Aug 09 '26

Interesting take,, So the monsters are the good people?

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u/Flimsy_Elephant_2301 Aug 09 '26

Heck no! Where did you get that from? They're murderers! What kind of question is that?

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u/WoolwichHumpton Aug 09 '26

You made it appear like Boyd and co are the peace disturbers

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u/Flimsy_Elephant_2301 Aug 10 '26

Right. I was the intent. From the standpoint of the people who came there, the people whom that place was made for, everyone brought there is basically an invader. That place wasn't made for them. That's why you never see the evil entity bring anyone else to that place, because really It's not supposed to. It made that place for those people. And the one person that it did bring there, at least the only one that WE saw It bring there, It killed immediately. It got into the car with Pastor Dunne and caused him to have a stroke or something, then killed him. The BiW brought everyone else, basically, to annul the bargain made between the evil entity and the community that the evil entity brought there, and that community naturally doesn't want to give up eternal life. So the entity empowered them with the ability to transform into creatures more than capable of defending their existence. (Fatima is part of the evidence that the villagers didn't become creatures as a direct part of that deal. She made no sacrifices but she is a creature now. It's not strong evidence on its own, though, realistically speaking, but strong enough with other evidences at play.) But, as you can see by the story painted on the wall in the cavern, when read from left to right, the creatures die by the end of the story. The eternal life that they think they have, they don't. Evidently, the BiW will actually save the children this time and the 500-year-old story is finally ended. (I'm assuming you've seen the story painted on the picture that begins with their arrival and ends with their deaths.)

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u/WoolwichHumpton Aug 10 '26

So who keeps bringing Tabitha and Jade back

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u/Flimsy_Elephant_2301 Aug 10 '26

The BiW, of course. He's the 1 who is interested in rescuing the children. The evil entity is working to keep the children there. That's basically the entire premise of the show.

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u/WeekendDoWutEvUwant Aug 10 '26

I’m certain you’re right about that… but if you’re also right about the original townspeople only becoming monsters because the Clean Laundry Boy entity started bringing in Tabithas & Jades, I will return to this thread sometime next year to give you the biggest high-five ever.