Some really random questions

[=AoD= Captain]

Silent Hill 2: Obscure Questions

1. Can you hit any other of Toluca Lake's shores while in the row board? Or Find anything? Or at least see any of the shore? Other than the Hotel or course. (1m 47s best time btw )

2. Why do the boat ropes in Rosewater Park stretch out taunt as if something is on them pulling on them?

3. Does anyone know the backstory behind the Swamp/Stone monument on Lindsey street a few houses down from where you get the wrench and letter? It is in the median between the sidewalk and street and talks about this whole land being a Blood Swamp, cursed or something.

4. I spent 5 hours wandering around all the streets and found 10 times the supplies listed in any walkthrough or on an map on the internet, does anyone want to know where it all is?

5. Are there any other references to "those who died of illness, lying beneath the lake"(monument is rosewater park) and the "sinking ferry boat story" in any of the other SH games? And what are those stories all about. I know that the statue with the key buried under it is the same Jennifer Carrol as St. Jen pictured in the Chapel in SH3. Also, what about the monument in the park about the guy on a horse and some hero stuff?

6. The island shown on the main lake map (SE of the hotel, closer to N shore than S) is the island James goes to in REBIRTH, right?

7. Is there a full map anywhere put together by someone that shows ALL the areas from all the game and how they are geographically related? I want a big picture view. If not, I will start that project immediately.

AND: Did you know there is a sign on the outside of the prison (you can see it after beating Eddie from the save spot on the barrel on the pier going towards the boat) that says "People aiding or concealing escaping prisoners are subject to persecution"?

Thanks for you time, sorry for the questions.
Thanks for you time, sorry for the questions.

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Also, where is the part of Toluca lake in SH4 where you overlook the lake on the map from SH2, anyone take a guess?

And is the Neely's bar window note about the hole any relation to SH4?

[Spider]

My theory is that V.2 and V.4 are more linked then people think.

I believe that Neely's bar was a portal for the reporter who lived in the apartment before Henry and that the reporter left the message of there being a hole there.

As well, during V.2 James jumps down many holes (mainly in the prison) as an allude to his descent into madness. V.4 sees Henry jumping through holes to stop the madness of a character introduced in V.2.