Board Thread:Fanon: Season 8 & Beyond/@comment-35205453-20180529023609/@comment-25375217-20180706025842

Nick Branson wrote: Truest Believer wrote: [Theory] John is killed by Leota (I don't know if this happens in the Haunted Mansion, I didn't watch it :P) and his spirit stays in the house...? Um.... Close-ish. I won't comfirm or deny. In the Haunted Mansion movie, Edward Gracey is the master of the house. In the past, his fiancee committed suicide, so later when Jim and Sara Evers show up and Sara looks just like Gracey's fiancee, he thinks she is her reincarnation and tries to get her to remember her past life. It eventually turns out that the butler did it Gracey's butler murdered Gracey's fiancee because he thought Gracey would give up his inheritance for her and plans to murder Sara, too. Sara briefly dies, Gracey's fiancee's ghost shows up, possesses her, kisses Gracey, which somehow revives Sara, Gracey and his fiancee go to heaven while the butler is damned to hell.

There's no character named John that I'm aware of, but I'm inclined to think John will be a combination of Jim and Gracey, based on his name and the script tease and John and Jim are fairly similar names. I'm not sure what exactly that would mean, since Cecelia can't die. Maybe John will sacrifice himself after Leota tries to take Cecelia for one reason or another? Regardless, I definitely expect him to end up stuck haunting the house, like Gracey.