Not the prettiest schematic but decided to put together the timeline for the pre-series events, for fanfic writers and other folks like me who were curious at what exactly was going on, since a lot of it is explained vaguely, even in journal 3 itself.
Couple of comments:
Time is not to scale
Red = events with unconfirmed dates within the last two (black) concrete dates given. Structured so that earlier events are listed earlier with a '-', going off the position within the journals (before/after other events)
The events that occur in 1983 all occur when it's clearly winter, so early in the year
F refers to Fiddleford, because it's easy and shorter.
Sources: Journal 3, Book of Bill and the GF fandom wiki timeline.
A date given for Ford's investigation into ghosts and the Northwests, something seemingly unimportant, I would theorize is likely due that is due to that directly after ghost investigation Ford is frustrated about his work, and Bill offers the portal schematics.
OK I JUST CAME UP WITH A CRACK THEORY BUT I MIGHT BE RIGHT:
ok so I’ve seen some ppl say that phone girls name is Calla or Lily bc we all know her dad gave her a calla lily right before he went and offed himself and that there is calla lilys on the cover of tgg
BUT I’ve always disagreed with both partly bc I don’t think she gives of Lily vibes and also bc I speak Spanish and calla, in Spanish means to be quiet or shut up…WHICH IS WHERE THE THEORY COMES IN
WHAT IF: the flower was a gift/ sign from THE Hawthorne (maybe Tobias, maybe the OTHER Hawthorne) that led to Phone girl’s dads suicid3.
The flower was meant to be a sign to signal to her dad to be quiet BY ki11ing himself….bc idk if you guys know but lilys are funeral flowers. It would have been a threat like “shut up or die, or shut up AND die”
Also I thinks this can be supported by the fact that Tobias sent flowers to his funeral….calla lilys maybe.
Looking at it like this maybe it’s creepy that he gave his daughter a funeral flower that was meant to shut him up but maybe it was meant as a warning to her.
Sidenote: how does she know it was a calla lily? Did he tell her as he gave it to her? Bc if so that might also suggest that he understand my hypothetical meaning behind this flower, and understood the threat. Or did she maybe see them at the funeral and someone told her the name of the flowers? Does she come from a gardening family lol? Just how?