WelcomeHomeExplorer

Exploring the rabbit hole and secrets hidden within the Welcome Home website

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Greetings and Sunny Salutations!

I was introduced to the idea of lost media in 2022 with the lost media pilot with lost live action Backyardigan pilot called Me and My Friends and while I must admit I don't watch Youtubers such as Blameitonjorge or LSuperSonicQ as much as I did 2022-2024 but it was just enough that I was introduced to a show called Welcome Home. A puppet show that was aired at the tail end of the 60s to the mid 70s. I fell out of this lost media loop for about 3-4 years but I have returned and I have more info on the website on neocities.

Anyways I hear that there are rumours floating around about shady happenings regarding the website itself having wierd pages that lead to conversation or issues the cast are having often seeming very personal and as if the puppets are alive. That this is being orchastrated by Wally Darling. At first I was completely skeptical I thought it was a big hoax made to scare people but as I looked through the website too and I am starting to think something is off. I will be posting all the oddities I have but it will start with the Frank Frankly update so if you have anything from before I'd love if you would share through the ask box that is open and if possible I will credit you for it.

This is the website link down below if you want to explore the website and check if said rumours are true

I also do art on another account

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Disclaimer: This blog is in no way connected to the Welcome Home ARG created by Clown Illustrations. This won't give any secrets or lore. This is just for fun, homeage and creativity. This was no association with the website.

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This is boys, the moment has finally arrived. Through constant searching and some help through guides we've received our trophy.

The title of the video is called… it actually doesn’t have a name outside of being congratulated and being told that it was our trophy. The video starts out with Frank checking out on the flower that Frank dug up for Julie in Specimen R. Noting how it hasn’t moved from the shed. Many who are a part of this restoration community have noted how it looks like a body bag. Frank soon goes to write in his journal only for him to remember how he had lost his old journal and had to get a new one from Howdy. He seems to have forgotten that fact and berates himself due to that. He mentions seeing a butterfly but having no memory of said encounter. He then goes for a glass of water while his inside voice berates him for not being able to remember. His internal thoughts berate him again for leaving the journal unattended. He soon forgets his pursuit of water when he realises that turning the tap doesn’t provide any water.

 He turns to read a book only for the book to seemingly be unable to open.His inner thoughts soon puts it to being Barnaby playing a cruel joke by entering his house without his knowledge causing Frank to go into a panic about him going through his stuff as he rushes to the window facing the shed to reassure himself that the creature hasn’t moved at all. He’s becoming incredibly paranoid and seems to be spiraling, berating himself for not remembering the events of Specimen R, being unable to help Julie, unable to help anybody. He soon spirals wondering if maybe having one less gaudy looking flower would be bad. He soon goes to open the door only to see a red letter and the video ends. 

This is my reward, I'm left with a fear in the bottom of my heart. What has happened to Frank, I am unsure of what his fate may be and what will be of him when the next update rolls around. Something is horribly wrong with this show. They were right, there might of been a reason this show was left to be forgotten and rot, only a fleeting memory of those who watched it over 5 decades ago.

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So sorry for the late upload but I have finally found the final piece of this puzzle. Our trophy is just within reach but I need to explain the final piece of this puzzle, this goose chase whatever you want to call this. Now this one is an interesting one as you can't find on the surface of the website but by digging in the code of the storybook section where you will find a riddle that goes like this:

' I know something you don't it is two words long

The first word is sweet, The second is a flower, Intertwined they call to mind, The face of a neighbour he pretends not to know.'

Now with the help of the internet I found out the answer to the second word was lavender... where have I heard that before. This gives you a video called Wow What a Whopper! Specimen C. In this video it seems to show Sally Starlet staging a production of Sweet Briar which is just the story of Sleeping Beauty. You can hear Sally and Eddie talking in the background then hear radio static which allows us to listen in on Frank’s thoughts. He complains about Julie constantly going off script through the production but isn’t too upset since Sally isn’t breathing down his neck, however he does critique how he’s always forced into some role of a prince that only says two lines, never being something else in her stories at least he isn’t paired up with Barnaby.

Eddie soon appears in front of him and asks to see if he could help “fix” his costume. Frank agrees, so he fixes his costume and comes back up sweaty and with his hair in a mess. This fixing of Frank’s costume seems to leave him dazed out of his mind. We soon go back to Frank’s thoughts and well he seems really pissed off about it talking about how he's pushing him around, acting non-chalant and only caring about the production he continues his complaints about he has seemingly forgotten about him. He soon has to face down Julie and break the curse with true love’s kiss. However in the video Julie keeps on switching with Eddie while you can hear Sally narrating in the background. Frank shows hesitancy at having to kiss Julie until she messes up and hugs Frank. 

Now I had some help from the internet and lavender is often steep in queer culture so if we put two and two together this seems to confirm that Frank and Eddie are in a secret relationship that they have to hide from everyone else because it’s the 70s do I need to say less. This is an interesting direction this story is going and I’ll put my two cents on this after I receive our trophy. Peace out and may the sun shine brightly.

All of the pieces to the puzzle have been found.

I can claim our prize.

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Now this one is going to be short

This takes place with Frank Frankly playing a game of chess with Home in which he wins again but how can home win but have no hands to move the piece... interesting. He soon suspects Home of having cheated at the game. This makes Home slightly cross, Frank says that Home wouldn't cheat as he is the nicest Home in the neighbourhood. Yeah cuz he's the only house in the neighbourhood that is sentient or sapient. I don't really know the difference too well. He seems to be having some sort of convo with Home. Now I don't know what Home is saying so I may need some assistance here. After the chit chat home behaves very erratically causing Frank to calm him so he can communicate the issue. Frank moves towards us (the camera) to simply find that it is a bug. Only for Wally Darling to grace us with his appearance. This is the only time that I saw Wally interacting with another neighbour.

Wally is surprised that Frank was able to talk to Home and understand him as well. It's then revealed that Wally is unable to understand Home at all. He tells Wally that he uses morse code in order to understand Home. Wally doesn't know what morse code is. Frank explained that it is an alphabet composed of dots and dashes or for Home various sounds he's capable of making. He says that he's willing to teach him. Wally agrees and the video ends.

This one was a much lighter one.

Pieces found:

5/6

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This one that I found gives me some concern about hte behind the scenes of this show and may show what caused things to go so wrong with this show and its sudden disappearance from live TV.

This video recording starts out with the usually merry Julie Joyful in some sort of distress when Frank find her near a flower and ask if the that thing came from Springtime to which Julie murmurs that she wasn't supposed to walk this way unsure of why she did that action we notice that the image infront of us is a black flower that hasn't bloomed. This is bad news for Julie Joyful as it is stated in the show and on some areas of the website that all rainbow monsters are supposed to be capable of making flowers bloom. This inability to do her role in the Neighbourhood is causing an extreme level of distress. Frank tries to minimize how bad it is claiming that it's only one closed bud but to no avail. Julie's self seems to be tied to if she can open a flower. Julie says that the flower was calling to hear and that she can hear it. She soon corrects herself and says that she can feel it calling to her however she doesn't know what it wants. Frank doesn't understand and thinks its ridculous and is concern with the possibility of someone hearing her talk that way. Julie responds with 'like you' and starts to break down crying. Frank starts consoling her saying things like its alright, work has been getting to her, there's a way out and that she is simply tired. Frank then thinks of a solution and walks off screen

Julie seems to compose herself until Frank returns with what I assume is a shovel and a plan to just dig up the flower and hide it leaving it to wither and die. This send Julie into hysterics begging and pleading with him not to do it. Frank ask her if she would like to continue the endless cycle of wandering into the woods and keep talking to nothingness wasting tears on what cannot be solved. Julie retorts with that 'it isn't nothing.' Frank says that he sees her everyday before the clock tower calls its curfew for the day and suspects that the other residents notice it as well. Julie still pleads but Frank tells her that this is ultimately unhealthy for her to keep on doing stating that 'he will hide it in the potting shed and then they can leave it behind and keep it a secret.' This response causes Julie to resign and let Frank dig out the flower but states that she doesn't want to watch. Frank agrees and tells her that she can leave.

TLDR: Julie can't open a closed bud and as a result is very distressed. Frank consoles Julie, he leaves for a bit. Comes back with a shovel planning to dig it up and let it die. Julie and Frank go back and forth. Julie resigns and lets Frank dig up the flower.

So now we are starting to see that there are problems in the world of Welcome home that are hidden to us on this website. Julie seems to have an extreme link to her capability to make flowers bloom and her self-worth with this flower seemingly not wanting to bloom this sends her into a tizzy trying to make the flower blossom leading to severe mental strain that Julie puts on herself. Their seems to be a culture of being a pure pinnacle of perfection. Now I didn't talk about this earlier but in the area called our home you can only access Julie's house and when you look inside and go to her vanity drawer you will noticed what seems to be a burnt spoon, this makes me suspect that Julie may be abusing heroin which is concerning. This world that was once merry on outside seems to harbor a rotting core that calls forth to me to truly see its seedy nature below.

Pieces found:

4/6

Have to get to bottom of this...

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Ok so I am uploading one of my findings of the website and sharing it to you and I know it's been so long but this one is interesting it's called Hook, Line and Sinker. Specimen P.

In this video Frank is shown going to Poppy's house after dropping off a blanket that Poppy made for her. Frank stays oveer by her hhouse for a while, while Poppy ask if he wants tea she specifically says that she has lavender which will be important later due to my research into lavender. I'll explain that when the time comes. Frank notices that the cupboard and pantry are both tied up and locked 'as if something was going to jump out at her at any moment. She also jumps up at the sound of her kettle whistling which shows that she as a character seems to be quite anxious. Frank notices that Poppy has a new teapot and um. Just watch the video if don't want me to spoil it.

So you don't mind or you've seen it before so um how do I expain this so Poppy has a bong yeah I'm not joking when I say that. Frank literally ask if she trying to get him high. Like I didn't see this coming. My first time I burst out laughing how was I supposed to imagine that her of all people having a bong. She it helps her to calm down. So back to dumping out the videos contents.

It's noted that Poppy tells Frank that she does have trouble falling asleep, stay awake in her bed for hours. Frank ask her about a day where Sally was setting up a play and Poppy seemingly had a mental breakdown of sort and was found on the floor screaming. Poppy seems to not be fond of remembering what happened that day havng not known what had gotten in to her to do that in front of everyone. Frank seems to think that using the bong caused that to happen only for Poppy to reveal that it's only used on weekends and days off she thinks that the mental spiral was a result of daydreaming she reported hearing what sounded an animal trapped in a crawlspace and that she was rambling about a door she then laughs it off remembering the look on Ron's face during the whole ordeal of utter concern and worry. Frank retorts saying that everyone was worried

Poppy wants to leave it in the past chalking it all up to not having eaten lunch early enough that day or that is was just to hot. Frank questionss that notion. She ask Frank if he would refrain from metioning this again in order to keep the peace in the neighbourhood and Frank obliges to that request.

Ok so excluding the bong this shows that something is horribly wrong behind the scenes with the puppets having a mental breakdown imagining things that are not real and seemingly brushing it off as nothing afterward also it seems that the puppets have a life of their own outside of the show so can they move around without their puppeteer or are the puppets just stand ins for the puppeteers I am not sure but this is the info I am getting from this.

Have a good day and may the sunshine brightly!

Pieces found:

3/6

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HOORAY

I have recorded almost every single piece of the puzzle except for the final part. Just need to do some slight editing and everything will be merry!

Have a goodnight and may the moon glimmer on you!

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Ok so I did some looking before this video so this video is the 2nd time looking through the website. I decided to film my 2nd time afterwards because me clicking on random things in hope of finding something is gonna be a heck of a bore.

Now starting the video called I'm proud of you. Specimen E. Frank Frankly seems to be taking a character called Eddie Dear home from some event call HomeWarming? I wasn't there when that event happened so I am greatly lost and confused but seems to be something like Christmas based on what the cast is wearing.

As he leads Eddie out and he tries to leave we see that there is nothing but an abyss waiting for him which is confusing but I'll comment on it later. When he was about to exit he was stopped by Julie Joyful which makes some amount of sense seeing how Julie Joyful is often paired with Frank as both a comedic and romantic foil. You then hear some sort of radio warbling but he changes his thoughts to that of uncertainty seeming to forget what she said but it seem to be (I am about to paraphrase): Let's eat drink and be merry! However Julie wasn't there the grasp was way to storng for Wally's more gentle approach. It was Wally who said the same thing and grasped his hand.

At the end though he tugs away from Wally's grasp and falls into the nothingness realizing that it was only him holding him back. He soon struggles to remember how he got himself into that situation in the first place.

Now while I must admit that I have been and I think that I am very poorly explaining the content of the video. It should be noted that he was attempting to help Eddie go home but when he responded no not the post office which I am confused by, doesn't Eddie live in the post office. I don't know what Homewarming is, What's going on with Eddie's home and Frank failing memory but I'll try and piece together what the hell is going on?

Anyways, Have a very good day and may the sunshine brightly!

2/6 pieces found

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Um oh my god where do I start?! Well I can start of with finding out that the roach in front of home was called 'dog' and that there was an audio recording of Wally talking to us on the NEWS page courtesy of @thegreatandlovelydescent giving me this info. He talks about a game he played last time regarding Julie Joyful, however I wasn't there for it so someone will have to catch me up to speed. He said that the game was called HUNT and that I must find my trophy using my 'dog' and that if it's in pieces that he'll put it back together again. I seemingly found one but...  I don't know what the hell is going on.?! How is Wally still talking to us to play some weird and unnerving game. Don't get me wrong Wally's a nice fella but something off shouldn't he be unable to communicate, his shows's been cancelled for over 5 decades and where are the others?  He also mentioned home which could allude to them still being there.

I can't leave this site though I need to know, I must know what happened behind the scenes of the show to see how everything unravelled the way it did, with no traces being left, what happened to cast and those who worked on the show excluding it's creator Ron Delaine. I might... no I will find my trophy. I noticed whenever I find a piece of it the hand icon that is usually for interactable objects on this site it turns into an eye and it seems to be Wally's signature and I might also find my trophy by following that 'dog'.

So let's follow that dog!

Pieces found:

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Does anyone know what that roach thing that's infront of Home is for or if its part of the website. Any assistance would be lovely!

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This is the first thing that I found to be odd on the website I was trying to get back to the frontpage through the home symbol on the neighbourhood when I was transported to an area called our home the only house I could enter was Julie's house and after exploring the interior for a while I clicked on this butterfly I think and I digitally squished it and it made a sound. You should hear in the video but it felt real, very real and I got unerved, and then I got a video called Finish It. Specimen A. with instructions on what to do but it seems incredibly cryptic. Is it just a wierd bug or someone hacking into the website. I'll look into this website more later in the day to see if there are any more things off with the website.

Have a very good day and may the sun shine brightly!