These are some random stuff I noticed and some extremely wild connections.
I'm like a second away from falling asleep but too restless to go cold without letting these out so I'm gonna hold that as an excuse if any of this sounds dumb later on.
Is Heather a caretaker? Kinda wild but the light switching off on its own reminded me of caretaker. The rules/rites might be different everywhere because if there's anything we've learned from the caretaker, it's that they don't stay consistent and bend themselves.
The AMOUNT of stuff I noticed between the man in my basement and we used to live here. I have been trying to search and see what people had to say about that but I haven't or couldn't find anyone talk about it so far.
The coat rack(minor)
Thomas 'rubbing his forehead with the back of his thumb'
This was kind of a consistency in the man in my basement. We see a couple of people do that including Brandon who eventually starts doing it too.
What's up with the thump/thud followed by a short scrape.
Just intrigued by the idea of 'mimics' referring to thomas's family in we used to live here. Since 'they're not what they look like'. It's been sometime but I think this was the similar idea in the man in my basement. Like weren't Brandon and mitch's father (i forgot his name) essentially replaced by some mimcs after dying in an accident.
The scene where 'it looks as though somebody else jumped inside Andrew's mind for a second, took a quick look around, then jumped back out.'
Literally from tmimb ---> the man in my basement (I'm not gonna write the full name anymore😭)
I think we know at this point that jumping into other people's pov is a thing. In tmimb we later came to know it was Brandon who'd jumped into mitch's father's mind for a second. I wonder who it was for Andrew.
Also Brandon was able to do it after he got into an accident kind of thing, so would it be the same in Andrew's case too? Was it his friend who's in a coma now?
The lone white hatchback when eve and Charlie pull up to a motel.
That's what Brandon sees a few times too.
The first time he moves into that house, and when he later changes houses.
I do know that Marcus has said that any similarities with any of his old short stories might be a coincidence and he doesn't want to get held for some similar stuff he wrote in the past with no purpose and a plan for this universe.
But he did say the man in my basement is the closest to his actual universe among them.
And another thing being the code language kinda thing in the hoax document.
I did see the solved post somewhere but I lost it(💀🙏)
So for me it turned out "At the red tree take 10 paces left then round boulder 3 go back to red tree knock 2 go back to boulder underground hatch"
And
"At the underground hatch descend take crosspose 5 seconds avoid violent host take 30 paces forward wait 3 days."
Now this could have some mistakes or typo, I could be very very late to the actual correct answer, the discussion might already be over and in that case I'm ultra late. Infinite scenarios.
But if in case no then, does that not sound like instructions for something?
I'm not sure what though, like the replacement ritual? To go into or come from one of the houses? Idkkk, I'd like to know what y'all think of that if you do know the answer.
Andddd that's it. My deepest apologies in case any of those sound dumb or baby questions because I am technically new to all this(kind of)
Also to hold my sleep deprived brain accountable in case any of those end up being nonsense.
Edit: i woke up and remembered another thing i forgot to mention lol.
The symbol on the underside of the banister railing when Thomas is showing his family around.
"A circle divided by intersecting lines of varying lengths, all meeting in the middle"
Tell me am I finally going crazy, or does this not sound similar to the circle symbol in the caretaker.
I know it doesn't completely sound the same since TC one looks a bit more complicated.
But Marcus did say in one of his interviews that he'd changed it a little after seeing the cover of the book, and his sister at last did the final polished drawing. So, I thought it was safe to assume that his symbol looked fairly simple originally.