So, Sara says the place could be the bad dreams of people who die.

We see a yearbook in the storage room.

We know that the chant is a children's rhyme.

Some scary visions are related to Victor's little sister's drawings, derived from stories from their mother.

The little children are missing patches of hair.

I know these seem disparate, but give me a minute.

I think this entire town is just a twisted dream world.

I think the children in the tower all have cancer or other terminal illnesses.

Someone in another thread said the chant of "Ankooie" could be children trying to say "Oncology." Which would be cancer, again. As far fetched as it is.

I think it's entirely made from bad dreams. Like, I think the monsters are the bad dream of the owner of that yearbook.

They were never real people, they were someone's bad dreams of real people.

I think that if you can get to the lighthouse and wake the kids up, you'll make Fromville disappear. But the nightmares obviously don't want that.

I think there are still elements of good things in the dream world, and the world was initially supposed to be some happy place- like Ethan is always talking about quests. I think there's still little ways to "win" in the world if you can succeed in the quests and follow clues.

Like the teleporting trees are a fun idea you'd find in Narnia, for instance.

I think some of the base elements of Fromville rely on those children and their dreams, so they're locked away to maintain the place. And then new people get brought in to sustain the nightmares.

It's also possible Victor has something to do with the reality of the place, unknowingly.

And if you think this sounds unsatisfying, then join the rest of the hundreds of thousands of people who watched Lost all the way through.

When you introduce this many spinning plates to a plot, I don't think you can have a satisfying ending.

They'll either go with this dream angle, or some fake Nuclear town thing, and everything here is from radiation, and the houses are fake because it was a Schrodinger's box thing where it was both blown up and not blown up at the same time. 🤷‍♂️

Edit: I wrote this in the middle of the last episode of season 2, for clarity.

And now that I've finished the episode, assuming she didn't get 1408'd, then I think those kids being cancer patients fits with her waking up in a hospital.

But I have to wonder - if everyone who dies actually gets set free, like Inception rules, or if this is just a Lost bait and switch.