Haunting of Hill House, some have to die for others to live #12

 I recently watched the show The Haunting of Hill House. In it a family grapples with their experiences and loss that they faced while living in Hill House. Many of them had supernatural experiences and faced personality changes through the experiences that they had and the effect that the house had on them. Over the summer that the family  spent there their mother began having these terrible headaches and eventually ended up snapping, killing a local child and trying to kill her twins in the process. The father is able to get his five children out of the house unharmed. However, when he goes back for his wife he discovers that she killed herself thinking that she was dreaming after realizing that she killed a child. Years later one of the children goes back to that house now abandoned and is also killed by the house but it once again looks like a suicide. In the finale of the show when the rest of the kids return to the house their dead sibling helps guide them making sure that they survive the house. She turns into the spirit guide helping them on their journey of forgiveness, growth, realization, and understanding. It makes them realize what happened to their mother and sister and the fact that they didn't leave them, but were instead killed by whatever was living inside that house. They also come to terms with the fact that if they hadn’t died and been able to guide them they all would have died in that house and been stuck there forever.

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