#hauntingmelissa

Mansion staircase, fairly sure that it's Emma ascending the stairs. The outline of a missing painting tells me it's her.

Orange flare next to the 3 is a floating artifact of the menu and some weird timing on my part :)

Portal Objects:

Some sort of rope in the top left corner, possibly draped over the iconic Fedora. Likely its the rope over  black and white version of the head bag

A strange grey form across the bottom edge. Can't figure it out...any ideas?

Characters (in order of appearance)

Melissa Strogue

Brandon Hessner

Emma Zeiden

Goth Girl

The Visitor (Fedora the Explora)

Old Hag

Farley Mason 

Mrs. Carroway

A cavalcade of unnamed weirdos in the room upstairs

Did you see that?

Brandon gets his iPad wallpapers from the same strange website that Emma uses

The division of Melissa's being is manifesting itself... *not covered by AppleCare

Emma has an Area 51 bumper sticker... the truth is out there

Emma is reviewing her data and/or checking this tumblr

Emma discovers a portal very similar to the one that represents each of our chapters. The geometric shape is also very familiar.

Goth Girl is haunting her iPad!

It's not a party without this guy

Melissa loses her mind and her footing

Things start to kick up a notch here. The Dark Hearts theme music comes in and we start crossfading between Emma and Melissa. There is clearly a correlation between them. 

The Old Hag, Gray Granny, Lost Lady, whatever you want to call her delivers some interesting news. They have been waiting for Melissa to come BACK, that Melissa can't run from WHO SHE IS, that none of US can, and also the BEAST needs FEEDING.

Upstairs we find that we've finally caught up to some of the promo photos posted by Haunting Melissa on twitter, instagram, and tumblr.

Cahoots Confirmed! We knew there was something up with Mrs. Carroway and now all doubt has been cast aside (not that there was much doubt left, she's nuts). 

Farley Mason! The Man in the Cloth Mask! Carroway looks quite pleased with herself...arghh! Who is that man in the back on the left?

Farley gets his first real look at Melissa #notStoked

At this point those crossfades between Melissa and Emma really start to show a divide. A dilapidated, unkempt version of the Mansion. Weathered and full of leaves.

Emma's trip up the stairs has far less artwork than Melissa's. This is either a TIME difference or a REALITY difference...or BOTH

More "similar" differences [DSE ALERT: I never noticed until this viewing that this chair starts sliding backward...]

We REALITY jump back to Melissa's dimension and FtE gives us some interesting information: Melissa ran away and tried to forget before, Katherine tried to hide from this, Melissa has a choice to accept what is inside her which is apparently a Dark Heart that is a doorway. Whatever it is, it's trying to come out of her!

WHO ARE ALL OF THESE PEOPLE!!! I see some of the usual suspects, Carroway, Fedora, Old Hag, Goth Girl, but who are the rest of these weirdos?

Emma can't handle this maddness

Fedora the Explora takes over the screen to give Emma an ominus warning about how Farley went looking for the TRUTH and the TRUTH is what they FEED THE BEAST!

Naturally Emma hits the bricks and when she falls down off the porch she sees (maybe she does maybe not) Melissa standing in the doorway...

and then she's gone!

Sitting in the very same chair that moved earlier we find Melissa...

So much awesomeness in one chapter! We're getting close to the end and it appears Farley doesn't have much time left. The existance of alternate realities and/or timelines is very apparent now. It's best if we all rewatch everything with this new point of view. After the chapter 25 entry I'll be doing broader analysis putting together all of the information I've gathered and received from submissions to attempt a more coherent theory.