The Thing From Episode 3 Is Definitely The Tree Banshee, And It's A Stand In For The Unused Witch Idea

The thing from episode 3 is definitely the tree banshee, and it's a stand in for the unused witch idea he had for UG

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SM 7 in October 2025 (probably)

How y'all feeling about that?

I'm personally 100% fine with it, apparently I have unnaturally good patience when it comes to this show so waiting 1.5 years really doesn't seem bad to me, that's almost the time we waited for SM 6 after all

Also with the fact that the people working on it definitely need a while to rest after creating that half-hour beast, and apparently Pelo's wanted to make this really bad since SM3, I'm happy with however long it takes to make the next episode as good as it can possibly be, it'd be horrible for anyone to be overworked

I'll be fine with the current food we've got for that long, I'm like the Beldam from Coraline, I can wait

And who knows, we might get another Spooky Short between now and October 2025!

I'm currently losing my mind over Hollow Sorrows with @crossover-enthusiast, but rest assured, when I'm capable of properly functioning, I will share ALL the important thoughts I have on the episode as of now.

Also, it's pretty weird to see that while I was wrong about there being a second demon, I was right on many finer points of the episode and it even supports some of my personal HCs

The Tree Banshee theory

This is a theory predicting the role of Spooky Month's most enigmatic monster, one many fans might not even know about yet, so sit back and enjoy!

Watching HS for a second time, Gregor's pose here stuck out to me, so I went back to check my hunch...

Yep, he's in the same pose as the figure on the left wing of the gate. But what about the tree like figure on the right wing?

Well, for that, we turn to the movie theatre, many fans know about the demon priest poster that foreshadowed HS back in TT, well we see a very interesting poster for a second in episode 6

"The Forest Sight", huh?

Now for the clencher, we turn to an image from the arg

The same eye patterns, and a ghoulish being I've come to call the Tree Banshee, you might remember it for it's scream in TT or for an illustration of it in the book from the TT arg.

I believe this entity also somehow benefits from sacrifices made to Eyes and that it will be a/the major monster of a future episode, which lines up well with my idea of Roy's episode being about him chasing Skid and Pump into the woods, where they get lost.

I'm actually not sure Evermore is in the cult, mainly with them establishing his gun control thing while the episode makes a point of Ignacio having a gun.

I think Evermore is just a pretentious idiot and that the cult (possibly through Garcia) is basically running the town for him.

Wait

Did Father Gregor die?

I thought he was just being indoctrinated

We honestly don't know atm, it's pretty heavily implied he was sacrificed? But we don't see him die, and considering the last time we didn't see a character die he turned out to be alive (Streber), there's always a chance.

I hope he's not dead lol

He indeed is, in fact, in TT, you can see planks of wood leaning by the door of the church, meaning it was likely unfinished at the time

Wait

Did Father Gregor die?

I thought he was just being indoctrinated

We honestly don't know atm, it's pretty heavily implied he was sacrificed? But we don't see him die, and considering the last time we didn't see a character die he turned out to be alive (Streber), there's always a chance.

I hope he's not dead lol

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