Hill House

Nellie returns to Hill House

**Hill house** is the titular location in *The Haunting of Hill House*. It is a promiment setting within the show, as it is the mansion the Crain family move into in order to renovate and sell in order to build their own home.

However, due to unexpected repairs, they have to stay longer, and begin to experience increasing paranormal phenomena that results in a tragic loss and the family fleeing from the house.

## Red Room

The Red Room, referred to as the stomach of Hill House by Eleanor Crain, is located in the center of the mansion and is believed to be locked by the Crain family.

In *Silence Lay Steadily*, the final episode of *The Haunting of Hill House*, it is revealed by Nell that each member of the Crain family has actually been in the Red Room many times before without ever knowing. She explains how it has put on different faces such as Theo's dance studio, her own toy room, Olivia's reading room, Steve's game room, Shirley's family room, and Luke's treehouse in order for them to be still and quiet while it "digested".

## Ghost sightings

The house has an ability to trap and manipulate the souls of all who die on its property, influencing more people to join the spiritual plane of the house. There are several ghosts seen at the site, but only a few have been identified and granted:

* **Jacqueline Hill -** Daughter of Hazel and younger sister of Edward. She died when she was still a child, "falling" on the cement while the house on the hill was being built.

* **Jacob Hill -** Founder of Hill House. His dear wife led him on "A Dark Path of His Own Creation.” He died of suicide by falling out of a window.

* **Eugene Hill -** One of Poppy and William Hill's children. It is revealed by Poppy that he became paralyzed and speechless without explanation before dying of unknown causes in his arms.

* **Unnamed daughter of Poppy and William Hill -** Poppy mentions that her daughter had severe respiratory problems that eventually led to the girl's death.

* **William Hill -** The original owner of the house. He walled himself inside the basement, where he died in 1948.

* **Poppy Hill -** One of the original owners of the house and clinically insane just like her husband. She is one of the most manipulative and dangerous souls in the house. The reasons of death are unknown, but presumably it was announced in 1948.

* **Edward Hill -** Son of Hazel. He died charred in his mother's secret basement.

* **Hazel Hill -** William's sister and Poppy's sister-in-law. She ended up dying of an unknown disease at an advanced age in the mid-1970s.

* **Unnamed child of the Dudleys' -** Clara and Horace's first child. The baby was born stillborn after Clara spent most of her pregnancy working long shifts at the house.

* **Abigail Dudley -** Child of the Dudleys. She was fatally poisoned by Olivia Crain under the malevolent influence of the house and Poppy Hill in 1992.

* **Olivia Crain -** One of the last owners of the house. Under the influence of the house, she committed suicide by jumping off the top floor balcony in 1992.

* **Nell Crain/The Bent-Neck Lady -** Youngest daughter of the Crain family and former resident of the house. She was manipulated by the house to commit suicide by hanging in 2018.

* **Hugh Crain -** One of the last victims of the place. Committed suicide by an overdosing on his heart medication in 2018.

* **Clara Dudley -** One of the old house servants who offers her services to each new family that settles there. She ended up dying naturally of old age in 2020.

## Trivia

* The exterior shots were filmed at Bisham Manor in LaGrange, Georgia.
* Hill House was invented by Shirley Jackson in her novel The Haunting of Hill House, and was also the setting of both feature films inspired by the book, The Haunting (1963) and The Haunting (1963).