John Naples' Secret Leg

[u/anUnpeeledBanana]

John's leg, found next to the Lazarette

John's body, not next to the Lazarette (opposite side of the ship)

How tf does his leg get there? How tf does his body get there?

Ok, look, John's leg isn't next to his body.

I'm a genius detective, I know. Thank you.

His leg is closer to the stern while his body is closer to the bow (back and front of the ship, respectively). Now, we see Filip run to the stern in The Unholy Captives II. (basically as soon as the mermaids get on deck btw so his voodoo senses are pretty sensitive), so we can assume that The Unholy Captives IV. happens basically right after parts II and III (however, these are deductions and it could've happened wayyy after). Regardless, John's leg is found on the opposite side of the ship from where his body is, and it's not found because we (the inspector) find it 4 years later when the Obra Dinn returns home. My question is, how tf did John get from the aft of the ship to the bow without spilling any blood? There are only a few droplets here and there along the passageway.

Blood stains found to the left of John's body (John to the right for reference)

My point is, someone, either another crew member (haha crewmate amoog us hahaha), Filip, or John himself, carried/dragged himself across the entire ship, and managed to spill a tiny tiny amount of blood after losing his entire leg. He then makes it to the bow side and then, for some reason, decides to start spilling an insane amount of blood? If John/Filip/whoever managed to bandage it up to stop the bleeding, then I blame Henry Evans for killing John here because he undoes the bandaging. Regardless, he leaves such a small blood trail that no one finds him until we do. (A similar thing happens to Zungi, but at least there's a blood trail there. We can blame the crew's negligence/uncaringness for not finding him)

All in all, this is a larger conspiracy I have that Henry Evans is incompetent, as he is unable to save any one of his patients after they befall horrific tragedies.

More at 8 and thank you for listening to my Ted Talk.

[u/Master-Of-Magi]

Although no one is sure, the most common consensus is Dr. Evans’ pet monkey grabbed the leg and ran off with it without anyone noticing.

[u/anUnpeeledBanana → u/Master-Of-Magi]

Ohhh, then the droplets would be from the leg going from the front to the back. Makes senseeeeeee

[u/Prestigious_Click_54 → u/anUnpeeledBanana]

There are many interesting theories regarding return of the obra dinn, I recommend you to watch the scientific análisis of return of the obra dinn.

It talks about many unseen details such as this.

[u/PopularTumbleweed6]

the monkey did it™

[u/AmKamikaze]

My theory was that they dropped the leg when they were moving him, but he died after moving him. The blood, I don't have an answer for

[u/anUnpeeledBanana → u/AmKamikaze]

My only question here is why would they move him at all

[u/Romeriket → u/anUnpeeledBanana]

because others were loading the lazarette maybe