The Final Sighting

[Wooden Plank]

After killing God, Heather breaks the fourth wall, starts crying over her loss, walks away and... turns around and appears to look at something. What could it be? She looks straight forward, so God's body is ruled out.

[Necrotard]

HERP! I wondered too.
http://silenthillcommunity.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=431456

[NarooN]

Yeah I stand by my post in that topic. Won't be turned any other way unless the devs themselves come outta the woodwork and announce what it was, lol.

[JaneTheNurse]

She's looking at Valtiel who, as a last-ditch effort to keep the nightmare going, is doing a strip-tease in front of her.

Obviously.

[cameroncrogers]

Wait. Maybe when she looks back and gasps... maybe claudia didint die... and maybe she possesses heather. Which would make the possessed ending canon, because douglass betraid claudia like vincint did, so she possessed heather to go kill douglass. Then she did. So maybe its the canon ending? or maybe the developers didint finish the game. Maybe after she kills the god, it gets back up at that point and you were to fight it again maybe? idk.

[NarooN]

Possessed isn't really canon since Douglas is mentioned a few times in later installments (all of which take place post-SH3), one of them mentioning how Douglas revealed the cult and pretty much was responsible for their true end.

Anyway, Claudia got pwned, there's no doubt about it. The reason the God resembles Alessa is because that's what Claudia's vision of God was, because she loved Alessa so much. So yeah, even if Claudia was "alive" in the God, she was dead for good once Heather obliterated her. I'm sure they finished the game, because in no interviews (to my knowledge) did they mention about a second end-boss fight or anything.

[Purramid_Head]

It was suggested that someone called Heather's name. My theory is this person was Harry. (Who else was alive down there with her?) I know an official source suggested that, I think its in Lost Memories.

[firecrest]

^I think you misinterpreted Lost Memories. Heather is the one calling out "Dad".

In the novel version, it is Valtiel.

[Purramid_Head]

^I think you misinterpreted Lost Memories. Heather is the one calling out "Dad".

In the novel version, it is Valtiel.

No I am not.

Ending Analysis

After God was dead, what was it that she saw?

summary: After Heather has defeated the monster, all of her stress and
tension seems to loosen at once and she breaks down crying while calling
out for her father. However, immediately afterwards she senses that someone
is there and looks back over her shoulder. After this, Heather returns to
where she left Douglas and cheerfully discusses how her assumed name is no
longer necessary.

IMAGE: after the battle
Heather kicks the monster in the head and puts the church behind her. Valtiel
is already nowhere to be seen.

So she didn't hear her name, she sensed someone. But no one is left alive.

[NarooN]

Yup, definitely Harry.

The one thing I wondered about is...is Harry trapped in the Otherworld? Or was he finally at peace now that most of the cult was defeated, and Cheryl found out the truth about her past? The fact that you see a copy of his room, with the bedsheets removed, a few possessions left behind, and a blood trail leading to the door suggest he was roaming the Otherworld.

It seems odd that the blood trail was there, from the bed though. Maybe it went *from* the door to the bed, where he left the note and such? He clearly died either on the roof or in the chair in his sleep.

[SiLeNt_DaRkNeSs]

I think I heard that in the Silent Hill 3 "Making of" video, one of the members of Team Silent says that there was supposed to be a baby crying. Can't remember completely on it though...

Edit: So, I watched it again, and I found out that it wasn't talked about, but actually shown. if you want to see it, here it is. It's in the end:

[Shadedarkan]

Uh, she was looking at the credits? The end of that video shows her looking back, but not what the focus of her attention is.

To the previous post, Harry is most certainly not trapped in Silent Hill. He returns to his world at the end of SH1 and dies in Portland in SH3, but there is no evidence to suggest that power that permeates the Toluca Lake area was allowed to imprison his essence.

[NarooN]

Uh, she was looking at the credits? The end of that video shows her looking back, but not what the focus of her attention is.

To the previous post, Harry is most certainly not trapped in Silent Hill. He returns to his world at the end of SH1 and dies in Portland in SH3, but there is no evidence to suggest that power that permeates the Toluca Lake area was allowed to imprison his essence.

Harry was killed midway through the game, it's plausible that he was trapped in the Otherworld until Heather finished off the God and the cult members were all dead.

And the "power of the Toluca Lake" area is irrelevant since it has been shown time and time again that people can manifest that power outside of Silent Hill; there doesn't seem to be a distance limit or anything (see: Silent Hill 4, Silent Hill 3 itself, Homecoming, etc.)

The BoLM suggests she sensed something, or someone, who else would it be besides Harry?

[Shadedarkan]

Uh, she was looking at the credits? The end of that video shows her looking back, but not what the focus of her attention is.

To the previous post, Harry is most certainly not trapped in Silent Hill. He returns to his world at the end of SH1 and dies in Portland in SH3, but there is no evidence to suggest that power that permeates the Toluca Lake area was allowed to imprison his essence.

Harry was killed midway through the game, it's plausible that he was trapped in the Otherworld until Heather finished off the God and the cult members were all dead.

And the "power of the Toluca Lake" area is irrelevant since it has been shown time and time again that people can manifest that power outside of Silent Hill; there doesn't seem to be a distance limit or anything (see: Silent Hill 4, Silent Hill 3 itself, Homecoming, etc.)

The BoLM suggests she sensed something, or someone, who else would it be besides Harry?

Well, I was referring to Silent_Darkness saying that they didn't talk about it, they actually showed it. I didn't see anything being shown that we hadn't already seen. As to Harry, his presence being there doesn't mean he is trapped. If it were indeed Harry that she felt I am more inclined to believe it to be a sign to her that he was watching over her through all of it.
Seemingly, there is no distant limit. Beings born or spending a long time around something emitting energy inevitably absorb some amount of it. The Silent Hills that didn't take place right on Toluca Lake were still within a close proximity. The farthest place was Ashfield at half a days drive and we still don't know if that half day is from sunrise to noon or an actual 12 hours.
Expanding more on that. The events in SH 4 and even the beginning of SH 3 were highly localized. Without the vast potential energy of the Toluca Lake area to draw from the effected areas of those Silent Hill games taking place elsewhere is very limited. One could say Shepherd's Glen is the exception to this, but the reality is that Shepherd's Glen is most likely only 25 to 30 miles from Silent Hill.

[NarooN]

Which is still a great distance, yet there's no indication that the "power" or anything is weakened due to the distance.

[Doddledandy]

I've wondered this many times as well, but then I thought, "If it was something important or shocking enough, wouldn't Heather have mentioned it to Douglas or at least showed some sort of emotion in her face after she got out of the church?"

[NarooN]

Heather wouldn't necessarily *have* to mention it to Douglas.

[Doddledandy]

Heather wouldn't necessarily *have* to mention it to Douglas.

True. I was just speculating.

[Another]

They originally put in the sound of a baby crying. They later removed it though. Heather was supposed to hear a baby cry in the ending scene, but they probably never changed the scene.

This bit was taken of the Silent Hill Wiki

"Initially, Heather was supposed to hear the wail of a newborn baby in the Otherworld at the end of the game, implying God has been reborn into a new host. Though it was removed from the game, creator Masahiro Ito confirmed the baby is part of canon. It is unknown who the baby is.
Although the sound itself is removed from the game, according to Ito, Heather seems to hear it, which is the reason why she turns her head at the end of the game. "

Well, there you have it. :3

[NarooN]

So she sensed the kid, but then just leaves it there, lol? Guess she wanted nothing to do with it. This could be the plot for a future SH game. "Random cult member appears out of nowhere and snatches up God baby."