Noise in Prison

[shootzombies]

I was just wondering this, in SH2 there is a part while your walking through Toluca Prison when you can hear a strange growling in a cell. Now I know what your already thinking- its a Patient demon right? Well when you shoot at it, it makes noises that sound almost human- kind of disturbing. I believe this occurs in the southern cell block (not the first cell block you go through at the start, the second). Now what I want to know is who exactly you guys think that man was? It may not have any significance, I mean it could have just been put in there to scare the player a bit more but its just interesting to me. Thoughts?

[=AoD= Captain]

I know it is invisible, and that you can kill it, and that it makes some very strange noises and actually says something too. Other than that, I don't know what it is.

There are two of them aren't there? Different cells.

[shootzombies]

There may very well have been two of them, but for some reason this guy really stood out to me. Perhaps he was the prisoner from the 1820's that you read about when you first enter the prison? Its just a theory though. I mean I understand that the significance of the note was to screw with you and make you believe you were back in the 1800's; and you really could have been considering just how messed up Silent Hill is. Perhaps though it also had something to do with this strange "creature" that resides in that cell?

[Starwars]

I don't personally believe it, but one could connect it to what Vincent says
"They're monsters to you?"
Overanalyzing I would say, but eh.

I don't think I ever shot that guy. Didn't know you could until I had finished the game.

[Alessa]

I always believe that many unexplainable happenings in Silent Hill are some kind of residual haunting. A strong memory of what used to happen in the town back then.

Why you can kill it but not see it, I don't know. It just seems to be alive, in a way...

In short, I have no clue.

[ItBreathes]

I don't know the reason he's there, but I remember reading about him in the translated memories site. He must have some importance, since he made the "creatures" page.

[UberRetnuh]

I know the guy you're talking about. I made the mistake of being hopped up on a 12 pack worth of caffeine and playing with the lights out. Only scene in Silent Hill 2 that ever scared the bejeezus outta me. I always thought he was saying "Oonsenrow" or something.

It could mean any number of things. The fact that he was locked in a cell should be an allusion to the fact that perhaps he was a prisoner, although why James would resurrect him and nobody else (assuming one believes that he created everything in Silent Hill as I do, at least for his venture through) eludes me. In all likelyhood there is a possibility he is just there to be spooky. I thought the heavy footsteps odd too. From the way he walks around his cell, he sounds like a beast.

[shootzombies]

I know the guy you're talking about. I made the mistake of being hopped up on a 12 pack worth of caffeine and playing with the lights out. Only scene in Silent Hill 2 that ever scared the bejeezus outta me. I always thought he was saying "Oonsenrow" or something.

It could mean any number of things. The fact that he was locked in a cell should be an allusion to the fact that perhaps he was a prisoner, although why James would resurrect him and nobody else (assuming one believes that he created everything in Silent Hill as I do, at least for his venture through) eludes me. In all likelyhood there is a possibility he is just there to be spooky. I thought the heavy footsteps odd too. From the way he walks around his cell, he sounds like a beast.

Uber, could you perhaps clarify what you mean by saying that James created everything in Silent Hill? Do you mean that he created everything unknowingly or what? See I'm one of those people who believes that Silent Hill is the entity that has control over what the protaginist sees and does in the town.

[=AoD= Captain]

The unseen prison monsters are saying "ritual" from what I can tell and have read.

I think Uber may be referring to the fact that everything James experiences in SH is draw from his psyche.

[Alessa]

Maybe James feels unconsciously guilty and that was his psyche's (or the town's) way of making him realize about things... You know, you do something bad, you go to prison.