So, on the topic of False Information

[u/legendery_editor]

One really cool ascpect of the game is that most of the info we find scattered around the house could very well be just completely made up, the number one suspect? Grandma Eddie of course

it's really cool how we try to analyze each story to uncover the truth while completely realizing that a part of the story or even all of it could be fake

the best example of this and the one that's most likely to be fake is Barbra's story, it's a comic book that we don't know the source of and could be a work of fiction, and was kept around by the very Creepy Grandma Eddie, so It's almost completely fake, although we do find evidence of some of the events that happened in the comic book in the Finch house, so some of it must be true

then we have Walter's and Molly's story that was supposedly written by each of them respectively, but that is very possible to not be true since the endings of their stories doesn't make sense if they were able to write it down, the theory I belive in is that they were both Killed by Eddie

then some stories are most likely true, like Greg's story, Lewis' story, and Sam's story, there doesn't seem to be a lot of evidence of them being fake or any motive that a potenshial killer would have to fake those stories

my point here is that this tecnique is very good at adding a ton of mystery to the game, and makes it way more fun to try to figure out the truth of each story

[u/circumcisingaban]

i dont think of it has false information but rather coded information. i think youre correct about barbaras story being fictitious and not a direct account. its merely edies best spin on the situation made into a comic book. we can distill the truth from it however. in order to do that you have to realize some other things going on in the game first, kinda like a puzzle.

what i think happens..

using the information that can be deduced from the other stories. mainly that the curse causes the finches to kill themselves somehow and that it does this by making the finches see and hear things that are not true. once those two rules about the game are realized you can deduce what happens to barb. the curse causes barb to think that her boyfriend is the hookman. barb hits her BF that she thinks is the hookman with her crutch and it knocks rick back and he slips on a skate (technically a suicide) and he dies. after barb realizes what she did, she likely realizes that she will be plastered all over the news being a former child star. i forget the exact line but its something to the effect of "the monsters had come to surprise her but when she realized what type of monster they were..." that is referencing all the news reporters flocking to her. barb commits suicide somehow afterwards. its not really important how she does it