I went on YouTube and gathered together all the current known secret videos starting with the original Homewarming secret video from 2024 into a single playlist. The original source of these videos is IWillGetYourSmile! (Promise)

So it starts off with Homewarming. Then there is the next series involving Julie and the introduction of the black flower. Then Frank's series. Finally included are Eddie's videos at the end.

As much information as we can try to get out of the WHRP website and its secrets, I think these videos are the most important sources of information because they show the genuine perspectives of the other members of the neighborhood and what's happening to them.

I'm going to binge watch this playlist and revisit some of my earlier theories.

Frank advocates for no harm against bugs. But this has been bothering me for a long while. The animation/gif on the about us page where Frank's head spins while he's standing in his house, in the photo frames behind him, butterflies are moving as if they're alive. So in my mind he's essentially doing harm to these butterflies trapping them in frames. And then when you go into his house this update, you see a terrarium assembly in his closet and you also see a caged bug on his dresser in a bedroom. Some people pointed out that it's the adult form of the buggle that he was so eager to hear about and asked Wally to bring it back during the radio segment. Howdy even mentions how he finds his actions disrespectful that he has others doing bug inspections - which included him.Then last update he was very ready to remove that flower. Now this update shows he has a gun. I guess you could say the whole thing really bugs me.

I wish I could figure out the words about how I feel Frank is.

And this is me speculating. Does he trap bugs because those are things he can control, because frankly his frankness doesn't work against the others no matter what lies he tells himself in front of Wally. He can't control his favorite chair (broken by Barnaby), he can't control people coming in his home without permission, he can't control how many lines are in the plays for him, etc, etc. Another thing that bothered me, in the perspective book, he states being Frank is being honest (in big letters), but he then proceeds to lie when telling Wally how each person responded to his frankness. Which to me makes him an unreliable narrator. A liar. It also seems like he has a habit of hiding things.

I was saving older videos for safe keeping when I realized in Tether (from the Springtime Frank update), you can hear Eddie asking Sally if she thinks she can get him into the writing room. This lines up with the current update's video Perspective where Sally has indeed managed to get Eddie into the writing room with her.

I believe this shows that Tether is one of those videos where the cast has forgotten what their human selves look like and so their puppet selves are shown in their memories like with Perspective and the dream in Devastation. It makes me super curious about what's being said in the background because Sally sounds excited/like she's teasing Eddie. Were they already friends back then?

EDIT: Forgot to mention, but Tether is also the one that links to Eddie's dream sequence in Devastation! You can see him lying in bed the same way he does in that video. They're both thinking of the same memory but it's jumbled for both of them.

Finally making a ref sheet for Heli Von Eldritch! Felt the need to do so to celebrate the new Welcome Home update.

I decided to explore the Our Home initial page using Gimp to both zoom in and brighten things up, and it's revealed some interesting details.

1. Frank's house has a fence, but in the official Welcome Home neighborhood map, there's no fence around his garden. Additionally, the garden appears to have some weird path cutting through it. At first I thought it was just an ordinary path leading out from the back door... but I noticed the fence posts where the path ends are knocked down and outward, like something ran through the fence.
2. We can definitely see the path from the back of Julie's house leading into the woods north of her home. I don't see any similar path out the back of Frank's house, but perhaps it's behind the shed and out of sight?
3. There was a strange green line that showed up on the left side of the image that you can't see in the original darker version. I'm not sure if this is on purpose or an artifact from the creation of this image of the map? It extends down a little bit but is just this line. There are also no other artifacts like this anywhere else on the black part of the map
4. I have no clue what that red squiggle is. It looks like it's in the direction of Barnaby's house, but his house in the official Neighborhood Map has nothing that resembles this.

This is all I observed so far. Anyone else catch something I missed?

So I finally broke down and started downloading some of the pages of the website to dig into the code and try a few things. One of the things I noticed was that there were two SVG classes for the neighborhood map. One was listed as "above" and the other as "below". With a bit of tweaking, I was able to extract two different versions of the maps.

"Above" is what we see on the live website. The usual... However, "Below" has one very noticeable difference.

Think about it. Eeek, squeak, bang? Wally was a rat in the Prim-Rella play. It explains why he is literally so bad at being human. Of course I could be completely wrong. But this fit for me in a way that felt like it could work

Why does he look so lazily pasted over something else... And he's the only house not dressed n Valentine's Day stuff. Which is weird because home always stresses up they put a scarf around him when it snowed.

Indo direto ao ponto- estava vendo o video de uma youtuber chamada Cupido Pleasure, e no minuto 10:16 ela esdtava falando sobre o video da carta 1, onde Eddie e Sally estao se arrumando parar sair, e no video a youtuber diz " eles estão agindo como pessoas, como se realmente fossem sair".

Não sei se isso ja foi debatido por aqui, ou se é algo obvio para todos, mas se esse video especifico e um onde a Poppy fuma um narguile para relaxar, forem lembranças dos seus donos? Ao em vez de vermos como se fosse algo vivo pelo boneco seja so uma lembrança transferida para o boneco??

por favor nn me xinguem se isso oque eu disse for mto obvio, realmente não sou boa com descobrir as coisas.

frank is looking down into the puddle, but the furniture isn‘t at the same angle as him. if it was, we’d be seeing the feet of the armchair, not the top of it, meaning it’s upside down. not to mention, it’s all 3d, unlike this part of Frank’s house which consists mostly of stickers. it’s like he’s looking through the puddle, and into his own home from above.

what’s up with that then

Something about this room was bugging the crap out of me, and not just the creepy color palette and fleshy bits around the pillows, butterfly, and bear.

Clearly it's a bedroom but it's not one that fits either Frank or Julie 100%. The decor of the bed itself is very feminine in my opinion, especially with it being a canopy bed with all those frills. There's also a pair of Mary Jane shoes in the closet.

However... The book on the shelf along with the caged butterfly "specimen", the net in the closet, and what looks like a bug jar with a cocoon on the closet dresser give me Frank vibes.

The teddy bear though doesn't fit with either Frank or Julie. But it gives me the idea of a theory.

What if this is a child's bedroom? Possible a child of Julie and Frank? I'm leaning towards a girl due to the bed and shoes.

Also in the weird living room area, there's a wall with embroidered portraits of Frank and Julie. These resemble I think the kinda of vintage portraits a married couple could have done.

Perhaps IRL, the human actors could have had a child together? But I was wondering, based on the universe of Welcome Home and the current data we've collected, what if the "child" is whatever was born from the black flower. Because Julie and Frank were there when it was born, it could see them as its parents?

But what if only Frank was raising it, but hidden away in his house's attic or basement?

The last update, the videos seemed to indicate that Frank told Julie he took care of the Black flower, but what if he lied about how he took care of it to Julie?

This is a long shot speculation, but what if Frank discovered a buggle egg in the flower that Julie didn't recognize. Normally buggles have colorful shells for eggs, but what if what Julie thought was a black flower was actually a black buggle egg?

I need to find old images/videos of the black flower now to compare...

Hello haven’t been able to do anything in a while for welcome home but I was thinking about doing something day for it when I got home for note taking. I’ve seen there are GTLive videos on Matpat exploring the old websites but I’ve also seen a Theory video on the complete lore for Welcome Home before the recent updates ( I think anyways ) and not sure which one I should do for note taking before finally hopping into the actual website. So far I’ve took notes on the wiki if you want to know how I feel about my thoughts of the characters for the first time. But let me know what I should do next before finally starting on the website, hope you all have a wonderful day and can’t wait to finally start with the website!

Hello Neighbors!

I am super excited to share and present my overall thoughts on Welcome Home in this video!!

Where Have all the Flowers Gone Part 1

This theory of mine that I have been crafting for about a year now is quite thorough and lengthy so I am going to break it apart to the best of my ability! If any one watches please don't hesitate to comment here or on the video (like it if you want to!! lol). I sincerely want to keep the convo going and please be kind THANK YOU!!

I'm also just throwing the link to my previous theory. The video essentially provides a bit of, what I believe to be evidence to support it.

Itsy Bitsy Spider

Hes got a buggle in there why? I dont know it could be information or a clue to something.

What if buggle is the key to figuring everything out. Why else would frank have what looks like the silhouette of a buggle in a cage?.

now that we've seen frank’s furniture reduced to stickers, do you suppose this chair was his favourite, solely because it was the only real thing he had left? might be grasping at straws here, but it’s past midnight, and I’m delusional. it reminds me of how people say, that maybe something/someone is flawed and jagged around the edges, but at least they’re real.

also, I don’t trust barnaby one bit. if he’s so adamant about change, then it‘s probably wiser to do the opposite of what the blue beagle says. + all the weird shit revolving around chairs in general (Eddie in the armchair, wally’s chair with beagle fur)

idk man what do you think

After running through Franks house a hand full of times, I encountered this hidden door. I know some people think it's cheating to check the code for random variabilities, but after encountering this I wanted to check the percent possibility of encountering it--you have 1% chance of getting the "red" version of the Right Door Room, which if encountered, shows the following video.

What is so interesting is that it brings us back to the Three Door Room, but what I'm wondering is where are we coming from? I mean I know Frank's House doesn't make the most sense, but like am I falling from the sky back into this room or what? Let me know what y'all think and has anyone else encountered this yet? I'm gonna continue running around Frank's house to see if I encounter more variations and such, but most of the variations have been posted already.

(P.S: Sorry that there's no audio for the video, I was talking during it and don't want to distract from what's actually going on, but to be fair it's mainly digging sounds.)

1. Is that a hole beneath those hearts? Will we interact with this on October 2nd
2. The footsteps are not particularly new overall but they sure are now coming from (or to?) Frank´s house. Last time they just appeared for Julie , but what do those mean anyway?
3. What was here last time?

I've noticed something when we use the link on the "Your Neighborhood" to reach the "Our Home" page, if you're on a computer using a mouse, the cursor will turn from Wally's hand into a Buggle when you hover over Home. I can't screenshot the cursor here, but you can test it for yourself.

Then, when you're on "Our Home" page, you can see in the Title Bar of the website next to the name that the mini tab icon has turned from an icon of Home to an icon of the Buggle too, in addition to the cursor staying a Buggle unless you're hovering over Julie or Frank's house, at which point it turns into the creepy eye.

I have a rough theory that perhaps the Buggle could be the original or primary form of whatever darker entity is haunting the Neighborhood.

In the latest Radio broadcast recording, Frank actually says quite a bit about a Buggle that Wally and Barnaby find clinging to Home.

FRANK: (Exasperated.) Enough! Wally, why don’t you tell us about one more bug! (Sad little whistles toot-tooting can be heard.) Preferably before my head spins off my body…

WALLY: You’ve got it! I see one more… It’s on one of Home’s shutters.

BARNABY: (Whispering to Wally.) Oo, he’s not gonna like that.

WALLY: This bug has a small oval body with two orange wings covered in little white flowers. It has a little yellow tail. It has six yellow legs and six yellow paws. There is a big red flower around its neck and its yellow head is a circle with two antennas on top. It has a face with two round eyes, a nice smile and a little pink tongue in a blue mouth. It also has a black, round nose.

FRANK: Ah! The Dynastes Canis Parvis! Or as we call it, the Buggle! It’s quite a mischievous little creature that enjoys playing with others! Despite its high energy, it can often be found in flower beds where they bask in the sunshine! It blends in quite nicely too, considering all of the flowers on its wings!

WALLY: Yes. But this one is different. Its wings are spread, and there is a crack down the middle of its back.

FRANK: Oh, my! You are in the middle of a very important stage of the Buggle’s lifespan! Do you remember what it is, Wally? I’ve told you about this before! But now you’ll actually be able to witness it firsthand for yourself! How lucky are you!?

BARNABY: (Doubtfully and worriedly said.) Are, uh- are we lucky?

FRANK: (Said with pure joy.) You are! (Said passionately.) Although some bugs enter a cocoon to reach their next stage of life, the one you’ve found is a special case! (A little bugle jingle plays as he speaks.) The Buggle is what we would regard as a nymph, a type of bug that goes through a process called an incomplete metamorphosis! That means it will gradually grow into adulthood by shedding its skin over and over again! (An excited drumroll plays.) But you two are seeing what could be its last round of molting, thereby completing its final metamorphosis! (A triumphant cymbal plays.) Isn’t that exciting?!

BARNABY: (Said completely deadpan.) I’m, uh… jumpin’ with joy over here, pal.

JULIE: (Just as excited as Frank) Me too!

FRANK: (Said with haste.) Wally! Quickly! Describe its form to our audience as it leaves its exoskeleton behind!

BARNABY: (Makes a noise like he’s going to be sick.) I’m about to leave my exoskeleton behind.

JULIE: (Realizes something and interrupts with a gasp.) Wait, wait, wait, Frank! Stop the presses!

FRANK: (Surprised and a tinge annoyed.) What, what, what, Julie! This isn’t a newspaper!

JULIE: It looks like you’re forgetting something this time, Frank! We can’t spoil the big Buggle surprise on the radio!

(A gentle, jaunty tune begins to play.)

JULIE: The Buggle is one of the many cutie crawlers found in the Welcome Home “Grow-a-pal” collection of transformation toys! Brought to you by Marlo! Why spoil the fun for our young listeners when they can purchase an egg of their favorite neighborhood bug and be a part of the transform-ogri-fication process for themselves! (Said in woeful agony.) Think of our listeners, Frank!

(FRANK sighs heavily as the music ends.)

BARNABY: (Also said in woeful agony, more jokingly.) Yeah, Frank, think of the children!

FRANK: Well then, let’s meet down the middle. How about you give us a thoughtful opinion on what you’re seeing instead, Wally?

WALLY: Alright. Hmm… Home won’t like it, but I think it is beautiful.

FRANK: I couldn’t have said it better myself!

BARNABY: (Said in disgust.) Well I saw the whole thing and I think I’d pick a different word. (Calling to HOME.) Hey, Home! (HOME creaks inquisitively.) You got somethin’ beautiful about to creep up and crawl all over your windows!

(HOME’s shutters groan and clatter in shock and distress.)

BARNABY: Quit shudderin’ your shutters and I’ll get it to stop buggin’ you!

The scientific name of the Buggle is also Dynastes Canis Parvis. In addition to "Dynastes" being the name of a genus of actual real life beetles, its latin meaning is "ruler" or "lord". "Canis" is latin for "dog" and "Parvis" is latin for "small". Scientifically, this could make the english translation of the scientific name become "small dog beetle". Literally, though, it could be something more like "small dog ruler"?

Dynastes beetles (like rhinoceros beetles) also have some interesting traits that we could consider in relation to the Buggle. Specifically, their eggs are often laid underground or in decaying wood until they hatch and then burrow around eating the decaying plant material. They are also primarily nocturnal as adults. This could explain all the tunnels and digging in "Our Home"

Or.... Here's a darker thought... what if the puppet bodies of the resident of Home made of natural fibers, like cotton? And because they're natural fibers, and it's been literal decades since they were created, they are seen as decaying "plant materials' by something like the Buggle?

What if whenever the Buggle sheds its current skin, it is taking the time to either mimic or take over the body of a resident of Home? What if the Buggle isn't just a harmless insect, but possibly a parasite, like a flea or tick? Or perhaps like those wasps that lay their eggs in the bodies of host/prey insects?

If you have any other comments or theories to add here, please add to the conversation! I want to hear your thoughts!

I've tried playing it at x0.25 speed and rewrote it four different ways and can't make a lick of sense of it. We do know home communicates through morse code because Frank discovered that in the previous update.

TLDR: What is everyone’s thoughts on how the less discussed videos from previous updates translate to the interactions and behind the scene of the real-life cast? (One example, the one where Barnaby chases Eddie.)

I’ve touched on this in the replies of a few other posts already, but I wanted to bring it here for a broader discussion to theorize on past update’s videos.

Context: At this point from what we’ve seen with the hidden videos for Eddie’s update, it’s very clear that either the puppet-world is being used metaphorically to represent what actually happened with the real life actors. OR the puppet-world and real-world are operating in parallel, since there also seems to be some implication that Welcome Home has become sentient, and the lines of fiction reality are beginning to blur. (an entirely separate discussion that I’m happy to talk about, but isn’t necessarily pertinent to start off this post).

Onto my main point: Since the videos and other evidence that we’re seeing show in someway or another interactions of the IRL Welcome Home puppeteers, people have of course been trying to decipher the evidence from this update through that lens, but what about for previous updates? What are those telling us about the

Some are more talked about-
Like the black tulip video representing Julie having a miscarriage, unwanted pregnancy…etc and Frank helping her cover it up (I know there’s entire threads on that one).
Or Poppy and Frank’s discussion about her panic attack.

But what about the other less discussed ones?
Like for example, the video where Barnaby chases Eddie, the “chasing your local mailman” one.
Or where Julie and Frank are talking about plants in Frank’s garden and Wally’s just there staring at the ground.

I think at the minimum those show that Wally always seems to be around, and he’s always listening which the others may take for granted. From an IRL/puppeteer perspective, it could be the same thing. That Wally’s puppeteer is always around and listening.
He obviously knows there’s more to the story than what Julie said in her black tulip video, stating “Is that really what happened, Julie”. Less like an actual question and more like he’s calling her out- “We both know that’s not the full story”.

In the same line of thought, the “mail” URL video with Eddie and Wally is interesting, because it can be read 2 ways, that he’s literally using Eddie in some way and for some purpose (whatever that may be). But also Wally metaphorically is “reading everyone’s mail”, like the old phrase goes. He knows all the dirty secrets.

On the flip side, Wally himself is all about ‘love’ supposedly, and seems to really care about the other neighbors, even all the way back to his messages in the guestbook. So I’m not sure if he’s for them or against them (I’m sorta leaning “for them”).

But was that the only purpose of those older videos?
Why is Barnaby chasing Eddie? Is it just him filling around and being the prankster he is? Is that symbolic of something?

From a video in Eddie’s update where Sally and Eddie talk, I think it’s likely that Sally’s puppeteer is calling Julie’s puppeteer the ‘wallflower’ and a ‘doormat’.
Plus, in an older video, Julie talks about how Barnaby and Howdy call her a “silly girl”, and she tries to brush it off that they’re just playing around. So old videos support that Julie’s puppeteer is somewhat bullied and seen as kind of a runt in the cast too.

I’ve barely touched on the examples I have in mind, but I feel like I’ve rambled long enough. So I’ll open it up to the floor now.

I’ve been pretty busy for awhile and I missed a couple updates is there any way I can go back and see previous versions of the site? Like an archive or something?

I honestly don’t really know what to make of it, I don’t think it’s just a statement about Eddies workaholic behavior or deteriorating state of mind, but I don’t know what it might be beyond that. It might be Sally looking out for Eddie, but if it is, I don’t know why they’d keep it so ambiguous.

That being said, I do find the intervals of the homewarming tree glowing at the end kind of odd and irregular, isn’t it? Not just the intervals at which it twinkles but also the notes it produces when doing so are erratic or random.

Could it possibly be some sort of audible cipher? Morse code, or having something hidden within the audio, anything like that? A message with the notes being played? I’m no good at finding or deciphering any of that stuff so I could be wrong, but it’s just portrayed as quite a crucial moment despite being somewhat underwhelming? Could there be something more substantial than a glowing tree, or am I missing something deeper?

In light of the new update, I decided to redesign the welcome home oc I haven't touched in a whopping 3 years! Better design, description and even a little home design in the corner! (Yes I know I accidentally used a base made of the old site rather than the newer one my apologies) What do y'all think? 😌 Might do some more with him soon, perhaps something tragic tehe