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[Randoman96]

[freyathedark]

I just have a hard time believing that a house could disappear that completely and yet still leave behind a chimney.

It probably doesn't have anything to do with the plot, but it's fun to speculate about anyway XD

[Randoman96]

[morscata12]

Just an observation: the chimney has some loose connections to the red tower. They are both man-made structures built in an Operator forest. They were both abandoned and left to deteriorate. They are both related to fire (one was a fire department climbing wall, the other was a fireplace's chimney).

[Timur]

[Geneaux486]

[freyathedark]

[WhyYouBawwing]

[Camero]

As people have pointed out, it's a bit odd that the rest of the house is gone but the chimney is still there--I don't think that suggests that the assumption that it is part of a house is unwarranted. Rather it begs the question, WHY is the chimney still standing--since we are in a rather supernatural kind of mojo with this series, there's a good chance that the explanation is something a bit nuts.

As for the identity of the building, I recall Alex's ghost story to Jay mentioned "the 1800s" which to me seems a good a time period as any for someone to decide to live in the middle of the forest, so the structure is likely from that time. I'm leaning towards it being residential rather than commercial(i.e. who would build a funeral home or a hotel in the middle of the forest? A cottage in the woods, however, is more plausible). It's possible that the house belonged to some distant relative of Alex's, though that sounds a little hokey. But it would make sense with enttry 37 suggesting that he was "marked" from birth--maybe his whole family was.

[pepsikola963]

isnt it kind of ironic that a tree is growing out of a place that burns wood? Kind of takes me back to the "revival" of that dead dog. I know it sounds kind of stupid, but hey, it's a theory.

Also, just because people have claimed it's a chimney (which it most likely is), that doesn't mean that it's a chimney in the story. Just a thought...

[WhyYouBawwing]

Those four (OOOOH! SPOOKY DEATH SCARY BOO!) types were just every kind I thought of while typing the post. As for including the funeral home I figured "why not?" I was also trying to think of buildings from that time period and I've always imagined that morgues used to be built outside towns so people wouldn't have to think about the morgue's existence. In regards to which kind of building I personally think it was, I don't have one yet.

[bobthecrusher]

the chimney is completely incased in brick, but it's built into a huge tree, indicating that it was a huge tree when it was built, it's possible that they used it communally.

[Xof]

[foxgreen]

[Geneaux486]