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Spoilers Ahead!This article contains uncovered spoilers. It is recommended that you browse the official Welcome Home website fully before reading this article.
The Welcome Home website itself archives the Welcome Home show itself, but darker things lay hidden in links and codes meant for visitors to decipher. This page is for these pieces of data, but not for speculation.

*Note: This page is not for speculation, theories, fanon, or comparisons.*

## 12/25/23 Update

The mysterious commands from the last update were finally answered and followed by who seems to be Wally himself.

* "Write Hello.": Wally writes with his respective red crayon the word "HELLO" below the command. Moving the cursor above it reveals the text "Hello".

* "Write "OK."": Wally arranges the different stickers and banners of his friends in the page to form "OK", quotation marks included, like if it was a collage. Inside the O in OK, Wally makes a doodle of a smiley face, and moving the cursor on top of the doodle reveals the text "I did not write it. I did something else. I know who these neighbors are. Do you like them too?". Around the page and mostly below the "OK", the rest of the banners and GIFs are duplicated and sticked around in a chaotic fashion. If you zoom out of the site, you can see that Wally also formed a house made of stickers around the right eye hidden in the website and a pixel art of Home and Wally.

* "Reverse this image of Sally.": The image of Sally is flipped so the back of the scene is seen instead, revealing a drawing of Sally behind the curtain. The name of this new image is titled "Ididnotunderstandyou Does this help you\_.png", and moving the cursor above the image shows the text "I did not understand you. Does this help you?" as well.

* "Move Barnaby.": In the "MYSTERY AUDIO" section, the "Barnaby" name is moved outside the borders of the page and turned upside down, and can only be found by zooming out of the site. Wally also makes a doodle of Barnaby above it, and moving the cursor there shows the text "Do you like Barnaby here?".

* "Turn The Playfellow Exhibition upside down.": All the time the "The Playfellow Exhibition" is writen in the page, these are found upside down. Wally also makes a doodle of a Christmas tree with an eye, and moving the cursor above it reveals the text "I did not know what to do. I think I am correct. Is it Homewarming where you are? Happy Homewarming."

* Fortunately, all hidden offset letters pages were not actually deleted, and all the urls have "nodelete" instead of "delete" in all of them. For example; "yxwvoe", that changed to "yxwvoedelete" previously, is "yxwvoenodelete" now. (yxwvoenodelete - ywxoevnodelete - woxyvenodelete - voywexnodelete - eovwxynodelete)

## 11/21/23 Update

Several images around the website of the characters dressed in their Halloween costumes returned to their original appearance. However, this is not the only change made in the website, and several commands or instructions have appeared in random pages. As of now it is unknown what they mean.

* In the main page, under the "Website Updates!" section: "Write Hello."
* In the Stickers page, next to the "Neighbors!" title: "Write "OK.""
* In the Sally page, above Sally's image: "Reverse this image of Sally."
* In the Transcripts page, next to the "MYSTERY AUDIO" title: "Move Barnaby."
* In The Playfellow Exhibition page, above the "The Playfellow Exhibition" title: "Turn The Playfellow Exhibition upside down."
* In all the hidden offset letters pages (yxwvoe, ywxoev, woxyve, voywex, eovwxy), the urls changed so they now have written "delete" next to them. For example; "yxwvoe" is now "yxwvoedelete".

It should be noted that if users access the website from certain devices, usually on mobile, Home will be positioned lower in the Neighborhood page, revealing the vortex behind Home and making it seem like it is bigger. This is probably just a format error that happened after the update.

## 10/13/23 Update

The site received a Halloween update on Friday the 13th, with new images of the neighbors in different Halloween costumes, new recovered merchandise and audio, new secrets and a hidden video.

### Video 00 (Julie, Frank, Barnaby, Eddie, Sally)

Like the dialogue videos in the previous update, this video is accessible by clicking a Halloween themed bug that appears in the Transcripts page, below the "Happy Haunting to Boo and Yours!" storybook record. Here, Julie, Frank, Barnaby, Eddie, and Sally talk with each other in what seems to be a Halloween party.

This video shows a table set with licorice allsorts and candy apples. In the audio, the neighbors discuss the Halloween festivities. As their voice begin to overlap with one another, the video begins to distort and turn dark, and an apple in the top left corner of the screen begins to shake. There is a brief close up of one of the treats on the table before the camera turns to its original position. The apple stops shaking and a bite mark appears on it. The video returns to normal, and Barnaby approaches the video (at this point implied to be from Wally's point of view), to check on the apple Wally was supposed to be guarding. Barnaby accuses Frank of taking a bite of the apple, comforts Wally, and asks him what he wants to eat. At this point, the audio pitches downward and distorts, and the visual glitches. The video ends.

### Happy Haunting to Boo and Yours!

In a part of the "Happy Haunting to Boo and Yours!" audio found in the Merchandise page, Sally tells a scary story to the others, but no transcript exists for this part because her words could not be heard clearly by the Welcome Home Restoration Project team. The WHRP asks us, the listeners, to try and decipher what she says: *"[Sally’s Audio is inaudible. If listeners can make out the audio, please help to decipher it with us and your fellow fans. Thank you.]"*

## 7/22/23 Update

This update came with a significant increase in content on the website, including the addition of audio clips of each neighbor on their character page in the Neighborhood, a page for Playfellow Workshop merchandise, and an exhibition of the artifacts recovered by the WHRC.

### Dialogue Videos

The 7/22 Update came with video files of dialogue between different characters, accessed by clicking on brightly colored bugs hidden throughout the website. They appear to be from the perspective of Wally, and end when his name is spoken, with the voice speaking his name distorting much deeper than the speaking voice of the character. There are 14 of these files in total. Each one contains a transcript that can be read by highlighting the space below the video.

#### Video 1 (Poppy and Howdy)

This video is found by clicking a moplike rainbow colored bug on the Media page. This video shows a ball of yarn, some embroidery thread, and other knitting supplies with a background of deep blue fabric patterned with small pink flowers. In the audio, Howdy delivers some yarn to Poppy's house, who is startled by his visit. She is knitting scarves for every neighbor, and thanks an unknown presence for their help in this endeavor. Howdy surprises her with a yarn spinner, and leaves. Poppy turns to her helper, revealed to be Wally, and asks for help figuring out how to use the yarn spinner.

#### Video 2 (Sally and Poppy)

This video is found by clicking a blue and green beetle that hides above the navigation menu on the Exhibition page. The video is of a fabric-covered table with a red apple, a wooden goose with a smaller yellow goose silhouetted against it, bread on a plate with yellow decoration, and a teacup resting atop a plate and doily. In the audio, Sally discusses the creation of a "dangerous" cake for her next play with Poppy, who solicits details such as tiers and flavor. Sally, having not considered flavor at all, asks Wally his opinion on the matter, and the video abruptly cuts out.

#### Video 3 (Howdy and Sally)

This video is found by clicking a green snail with a hand-shaped shell that hides at the top of the fourth page of the Guestbook. It appears next to the title of the page. The video is of a zoomed-in cereal box and a can of beans in Technicolor red, orange, yellow, blue, and white. These items are visible in the art of Howdy's store. In the audio, Sally discusses the purchase of potatoes with Howdy, who sells her on "Bubble Blast Instant Mash", "Old McDonald's Porridge Oats", "Bouncy Yellow Bread", and "Sunshine Cereal". However, the oats seem to be the only thing that is accurately named, as the Bubble Blast may be soap flakes, the Bouncy Yellow bread may be a sponge, and the Sunshine Cereal may be wood chips and sawdust, based on Howdy's mumbled bookkeeping. The audio ends when Howdy notices Wally, and asks him for his order.

#### Video 4 (Barnaby and Frank)

This video is found by clicking a purple bug with yellow wings found on the "What's Welcome Home?" page. The video is a zoomed-in view of several red, blue, yellow, and orange clothespins stuck into the ground, with a squashed tomato on the right side of the frame, and an upside-down blue clothespin on the left. In the audio, Frank tends his garden while Barnaby cracks jokes and makes various garden puns. This agitates Frank, who sends Barnaby away before making an exasperated comment to Wally.

#### Video 5 (Barnaby and Eddie)

This video is found by clicking a red, orange, and yellow butterfly that lands next to Eddie's name on the Transcripts page. The video is a zoomed-in image of several letters scattered into a bush, with a jagged red key sticking out of the bush. In the audio, Eddie catches someone (revealed at the end of the audio to be Wally) to deliver letters to, and falls over. He gushes about being accident prone, and is caught by Barnaby, who nearly runs him down, yelling about a missing kazoo order. Barnaby stops to chide Wally about giving away his ambush, and the audio ends.

#### Video 6 (Julie and Frank)

This video is found by clicking a green butterfly with a number of eyes on its wings on the Merchandise page, next to the section titled "Currently Unknown Records". The video is of the same clothespins from Video 4, but with a swollen yellow beefsteak tomato replacing the the upside-down blue clothespin on the left of the video. In the audio, Frank frets about beetles that are eating his tomatoes, as Julie makes light of the situation. As she continues, Frank also begins to lighten up, and their attention turns to their noses, and then a potential trip to Howdy's shop. The audio ends when Julie asks Wally to help them come up with a joke as payment for Howdy.

#### Video 7 (Eddie and Julie)

This video is found by clicking a bouncing red and yellow worm on the first page of the Guestbook, sitting within Zip's submission. The video is of a piece of paper with a pie with four holes and a slice missing, a red spiral, a red butterfly, and a picture of Wally drawn on it in colored pencil. There are also red, green, blue, and pink colored pencils on screen, as well as what may be paper-chained construction paper. The paper has the word "BREEN" visible on it, written in blue. In the audio, Julie and Eddie discuss the pie charts of their business, Everything Incorporated. Julie pulls rank, discussing her pay, and Eddie complains that he is unpaid. Julie threatens to fire him after a short unguided tirade about the products of the business, but is interrupted by a phone call from "Mr. Billynilly" who states that the company is broke due to all of their office supplies being eaten. Julie throws a tantrum, and Eddie reveals that the caller is Barnaby, handing off the phone to Wally as the audio ends.

#### Video 8 (Eddie and Frank)

This video is found by clicking an orange beetle that appears from the flag of Eddie's post office on his character page. The video is of several brightly rainbow-colored paper chains made of construction paper. In the audio, Frank appears to help Eddie with an emergency, revealed to be a beetle that was tampering with Eddie's paper chains. Frank jokes sarcastically at Eddie's panic, asking him to calm down. The audio ends with Frank asking Wally if he is afraid of the beetle.

#### Video 9 (Frank and Poppy)

This video is found by clicking a blue and green bug that appears on the right side of the navigation menu on the Neighborhood page. The video shows a red tic tac toe board shaped like an apple on the left of the frame, with green and yellow apples serving as Xs and Os, and a white decorated plate sitting on a doily to the right of the frame. These items sit on a table covered in lacework. As the video continues, a tray of muffins and a flower-patterned handkerchief are placed into frame. In the audio, Poppy and Frank go back and forth about a new recipe Poppy is trying out. Poppy frets over Frank's safety in the kitchen, and Frank discusses how the recipe could benefit his butterflies. The video ends with Frank asking Wally's approval of how safe they are in the kitchen.

#### Video 10 (Julie and Sally)

This video is found by clicking a gif of a shrugging orange mantis at the bottom of the About Us page. The video is of a play script that reads:

EXTERIOR, DAY: BALCONY

A LARGE CROWD GATHERS BELOW CHEERING GLEEFULLY. A HUSH FORMS, THEN, THE MAIDEN FAIR WIWTH GOLDEN HAIR GREETS HER KINGDOM AND ASSERTS HERSELF AS THE NEW QUEEN OF HER DOIMAIN.

MAIDEN (triumphant): AS QUEEN OF THIS LAND MY FIRST DECREE...

The script has a yellow sun, a red apple, and a blue bug with a domed back and big black eyes drawn on it. In the audio, Julie (here called "Juliet") reads the part of the Maiden, going far off script and working in her "breenberries" from Video 7 and exasperating Sally. They go back and forth about the character of the Maiden, and reach a compromise. Julie begins listing her favorite colors in order as a tired Sally grumbles to Wally (here called "Walliford") about the difficulties of artistic collaboration as the audio ends.

#### Video 11 (Julie and Barnaby)

This video is found by clicking a bouncing blue spider to the right of the header on the Stickers page. The video is of out of focus tree leaves rustling in the wind, with a bright red dot on one of the branches. In the audio, Julie tries to prove to Barnaby that she can crack a joke. Julie defends herself by citing Frank as thinking she was funny, Barnaby discredits him and instead remarks that Howdy is funny. Barnaby simply does not believe her, and pretends to be in pain when she does crack a joke. Julie, frustrated with his acting, asks Wally what he thought of the joke, and the audio ends.

#### Video 12 (Howdy and Barnaby)

This video is found by clicking a napping blue caterpillar to the right of the header on the News page. The video is of 3 scoop[s of ice cream in a sundae glass with a strawberry on top, and a red and white striped straw in it, with a silly straw and a spoon in the background on a gingham napkin. In the audio, Barnaby listens amusedly to Howdy as he lists off a great number of family members getting into various unfortunate situations. After this, they have a good laugh, and Barnaby discusses his mother, his only known family member. The audio ends when Barnaby asks Wally's thoughts on the strawberry soda he is drinking.

#### Video 13 (Howdy and Eddie)

This video is found by clicking a rainbow beetle that scuttles onto the header of the Guestbook page after a few seconds. The video is of several apples, three of which are painted pink, blue, and purple, respectively. In the audio, Eddie thuds into various objects in Howdy's shop, all the while talking to him about the things he still has to do that day and dropping off goods for Howdy's shop, as Howdy half listens. Howdy signs for the new goods, and reminds Eddy of the bowling ball delivery he has yet to make to Julie (here called "Jewels" by Howdy). Loaded with the bowling balls, Eddie stumbles out, and Howdy remarks to Wally about how talkative and clumsy Eddie is as the audio ends.

#### Video 14 (Barnaby and Home)

This video is found by clicking a gif of a skittering cockroach on the woxyve page. The video is of a canvas, with a thick squiggle of white paint sitting on top of a red circle. Barnaby jokes with Home about his conversation with Frank in Video 4, and about Howdy's family woes discussed in Video 12. Home reacts throughout, squeaking and shuddering. The video glitches at the very end, when Barnaby notices that Wally has stopped painting, and calls him by name. Wally's name is completely obscured in the audio, and the video cuts to black and becomes inaccessible unless you reload the page.

### Wally Audios

The second half of this update concerns audios of Wally scattered through the website, accessible by clicking gifs of images being drawn in crayon over different parts of the website. These drawings are not the work of the WHRP, as discussed in their News page, and are likely the work of Wally. The titles of each of these files create two sentences. The sentence reads: "I will help you understand, neighbor. I will find a way soon." Each site contains an audio file and a gif of a spinning record. The spinning record in the "Neighbor" link glitches in place. Each audio file has a transcript in highlightable text below it.

Regular Record AnimationGlitched Record Animation
* "Welcome Home". Found by clicking on the Home doodle on the main page.
* "You're the Most". Found by clicking on the blue flower doodle on the Wally page.
* Wally notices you can hear him. Found by clicking on the yellow tulip doodle on the What's Welcome Home page.
* Wally will speak to you even if you can't see him. Found by clicking on the smiling heart doodle on the You page.
* Wally asks about your house. Found by clicking on the house doodle on the Exhibition page.
* Home speaks in Morse Code. Found by clicking on the red spiral doodle on the So Below page. (.... . .-.. .-.. ---) translates to "Hello".
* Wally teaches you how to draw eyes. Found by clicking on the star doodle being made by Wally in the Stickers page.
* Wally asks about your eye color. Found by clicking on the red and blue tulips doodles being made by Wally in the What's Welcome Home page.
* You have looked into each other's eyes many times. Found by clicking on the Hello speech bubble doodle on the Guestbook page.
* Wally cannot see despite you drawing his eyes many times. Found by clicking on the doodle of three hearts on the About Us page.
* Wally asks you to let him in. Found by clicking on the telephone doodle on the ywxoev page.
* "LET ME IN." Found by clicking on the doodle of five white stars on the 404 Error page.

### Additonal Updates

#### Wally's Phone Call

Clicking the red button in the "It's-For-You!" Talking Telephone Toy that appears in the Merchandise page leads you to a phone call with Wally in a page called "phone" but titled "duet."

#### Crack the Code

Clicking the last "answer" word in The Playfellow Exhibition page will lead you to a page with the URL "crack-the-code", titled "password please", with a picture of scrawled brainstorming notes on a sheet of paper.

Clicking the notes leads to a photo of a red safe. Clicking the safe redirects you to a password entry page. The correct password: BSPJW

The password is the first letters of Barnaby, Sally, Poppy, Julie, and Wally, the answers to the Worksheet paper in The Playfellow Exhibition page: 1. Who’s the funniest neighbor? 2. Who shines brighter than any star? 3. Who is the biggest chicken? 4. Which neighbor talks to the flowers? 5. Who is your best friend?

Entering the correct password opens a staff only page filled with notes on the Exhibition and the effects it is having on the members of the Welcome Home Restoration Project.

## 1/14/23 Update

In this update, another puzzle is added. Several letters are placed significantly higher or lower than their line in scripts throughout the website, and they can be used to unlock secret pages. There are also pieces of hidden or obscured text, discovered by highlighting a page, clicking a specific word, or through other means.

### Hidden Text

#### About Us

* To be honest, we were drawn in unexpectedly. All of the information found on this website was extracted from documents that had been uncovered in brightly colored envelopes. We are thankful to be the first to jump start this journey! But it hurts.
* When I unwrapped the first letter, I felt it. I heard it. Open. Open. Open. I want it out. I’m going to get it out. I hoped that this website would grab the attention of someone who has seen this show before and could tell us more about it. If this wasn’t possible, then we wanted to be the first to showcase this lost piece of media to help spur on the search for its existence. Many of our guest book signatures have talked about seeing this show before, so this is a good sign. It mean it is inside of you too, then. Does it hurt?
* Unfortunately no. We have yet to receive footage from the show, nor a full catalogue of all the episodes. We have estimated that the last air date for the show was in 1974, but only because it is the most recent date listed on a script. The numbers are so hard to read. Sometimes I can’t see them.

#### Guestbook

In the page number 6 from the guestbook appeared new hidden message in two of the empty boxes. With new updates, these boxes have been filled with different normal guestbook messages, but the hidden messages still remained below despite the changes. As more pages were created with new updates, the first message has stayed and duplicated itself on the next pages, and currently appears in page 6, 7 and 8. The second message has moved to the current last page, number 8.

* Wally: You're looking for me. Silly. Silly.
* W a L L y: You won't write back.

### Offset Letters

These letters are:

* Y in “year” on the homepage under the “Website Updates” section
* W in “Wally” on the “What’s Welcome Home” page
* X in “expand” at the bottom of the Neighborhood map
* O in “About” from the “About Us” page
* E in for the “News” page
* V in Wally’s “I love you,” on page 5 of the guestbook signature page.

there are 5 combinations of these letters that lead to hidden pages within the site. Each one, except for "eovwxy", is titled "try again". "eovwxy" is titled "answer".

* yxwvoe: The 404 message for the website with altered text. Clicking on the phone takes the viewer to the duet page, containing an audio file that can be played in-browser. The file is a voice (unnamed in the highlightable transcript text below the file) singing "Beautiful Dreamer" by Roy Orbison to Home. The voice says it was only taught part of the song by Barnaby, and Home approves.

* ywxoev: An image of Home, with a non-looping gif of different pictures of Wally’s eyes overlaid where Home's windows would be. Beneath this gif is a shaking gif of the word "OPEN" in sharp handwriting. In the 7/22/23 update they added a telephone doodle next to it, clicking on it would lead to the "way" audio.

A gif of Wally's eyes that pauses on the image where his pupils are largest.

* woxyve: A scene from the Welcome Home Show overlaid onto itself several times, with the Welcome Home logo placed randomly on screen. In the script, Wally muses on not knowing what to paint that day. In the center of the page is a non-looping gif of each of the neighbors' eyes that pauses on Wally's each cycle. Wally's pupils grow larger, taking up his entire eye before the gif turns completely red and does not loop. There are distorted images of the *Welcome Home* logo around the page. Since the 7/22/23 update, there's also a cockroach roaming around, clicking it leads to the "14-14-bh" dialogue video between Barnaby and Home.

Pictures of the Neighbors of Welcome Home cycling through, pausing on Wally each time. His pupils grow larger, until the gif turns completely red.

* voywex: A message slowly being typed across the screen. Within a few seconds of opening the page, Wally’s eyes appear and trembling as he stares at the viewer. The message reads: "Hello. You're there. I can't see you. Can you see me? Then stay quiet.".

* eovwxy: The "answer" page. A video of TV static. About 40 seconds into the video, Wally’s eyes can briefly be seen rolling upwards through the static. The camera sways throughout the video, which ends as footsteps are heard and the camera moves closer and closer to the TV before the video abruptly ends. There is some decipherable speech through the static, such as laughter as the camera moves closer and closer to the TV. It has yet to be fully cleaned up.

## 2/14/22 Site Launch

The Welcome Home website launches. It has 4 main pages: Town Map with Character Sheets for each Neighbor that appear when you click on their house, a working guestbook, and two overview pages, one in-universe version that explains the premise of the show and its disappearance, and one summarizing Clown's project.

There were 3 secrets available when the site launched :
1. Clicking on the “you” in the introduction paragraph above the map takes you to a page titled “You.”. This page appears as a blank title board, where the phrase "Wally is your best friend" slowly populates. After the 7/22/23 update, a doodle of a heart appears, and clicking it leads to the "you-1" audio.

2. Clicking just beneath Wally’s house on the map takes the visitor to a page titled “So Below”. This page contains an image of Wally with his back to the viewer, reaching a hand up to one of Home's eyes, which shakes as a gif. After the 7/22/23 update, a doodle of a red spiral appears below, and clicking it leads to the "neighbor" audio.

3. When accessing the site on mobile, Home does not appear, and a void is visible where it usually sits.

Former map.Current map after the 7/22/23 update.

## References

1. ↑ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Keq8fUnF6VplVQpW78I1kr0Km74YSRs0Ytjmm6juUhA/edit