u/BuccalFatApologist

We learned in the previous season that the residents of the town made some kind of deal with an evil entity, sacrificing their children for immortality.

We generally assume that the monsters are these townspeople. They can’t be easily killed, and are reborn if they die. Immortal, but cursed.

What if that assumption is wrong?

We’ve met two other technically ‘immortal’ people - Tabitha and Jade. They die, but they are always reborn and return to the town.

So what if *everyone* in the town is a reincarnation? And they keep coming back to the town again and again, life after life, to be punished and destroyed for their sin? Immortality, with a terrible catch.

Bonus theory: What if the monsters are their children? Sacrificed and enslaved by evil, with the sole purpose of tormenting the parents who traded them for eternal life? There is something childlike about them. They seem to play with the townsfolk. They smile. They make stacks of stones and draw on walls and follow rules that don’t seem to make sense. Maybe these are the children that need to be saved to free everyone from Fromville.

It’s definitely not a “solves everything” theory, and I’m sure it’s been mentioned before, but I thought it was worth bringing up as food for thought.