What Kids’ “Anghkooey” Message Means Fully Explained

NOTICE! This article contains major SPOILERS for the season 3 finale of From!The sinister word repeated by Ofthe children, “Anghkooey” is finally translated at the end of season 3giving it a deeply tragic meaning. Tabitha was tormented by terrifying visions of deceased children during her time in Fromville, and spent much of her time trapped there trying to figure out who they are, what they want, and what happened to them. This long-running mystery has frustrated audiences as much as Tabitha and Jade themselves, and Of The season 3 finale finally provides tragic answers to the children’s story.

OfThe Season 3 finale solves more mysteries than anticipated, as Jade, Tabitha and Jim’s discovery of the meaning of numbers and Fatima’s birth of the monster baby produce countless answers. It is revealed that the numbers correlate with musical notes, leading Jade to play the song on the violin in the bottle tree. As he plays, the children go to the tree, with his arrival and the melody making Jade and Tabitha remember the tragic truth of their past lives. At that moment, they also realize the meaning of the word “Anghkooey”, which hid a deeper message for Tabitha and Jade.

From Season 3 Finale Confirms “Anghkooey” Translates to “Remember”

“Anghkooey” was an important message for Jade and Tabitha

When Jade and Tabitha can finally remember their past lives, they can also remember what “Anghkooey” means: “remember.” Playing the notes of that song, which was the melody of a lullaby that their past selves sang to children, allowed those memories to come back to them and gave them the ability to translate the word that their past selves understood. Although the word and its children’s chants were often frightening throughout the Of“Anghkooey” was tragically said so often because the kids needed Tabitha and Jade to “remember.”

Jade and Tabitha confirm that “Anghkooey” means remember, but they can’t explain what language “Anghkooey” comes from. It’s not a word in any real-world language, so this suggests that Of will eventually introduce an invented language that children originally spoke. As Tabitha and Jade’s background was apparently among the original inhabitants of Fromville, it is possible that Of season 4 will include a flashback to the time the children were killed, with the dialogue being spoken in a fictional language.

The kids are telling Tabitha and Jade to remember who they really are and how the kids died

Tabitha and Jade needed to finally remember their past lives in Fromville

The children appearing to Tabitha and Jade have been unsettling, especially when they crowd Tabitha uncomfortably while repeating the word “Anghkooey,” but there’s a sad reason for that. These kids have been coming to Tabitha because they see her as a helpful savioras Tabitha and Jade were apparently the only adults who tried to stop her sacrifice. Tabitha and Jade may look different, but each iteration of them in Fromville serves as a ray of hope for the children to be saved. However, in order for them to fulfill this purpose, they have to “remember”.

All the while, the kids try to make Tabitha and Jade remember that they are reincarnations of Miranda and Christopher. It is revealed that Tabitha/Miranda and Jade/Christopher reincarnated several times in Fromvillewhich goes back to their original ways as parents to one of their children “Anghkooey”. The song finally allows them to remember the many times they have been to Fromville in their past lives and why they were sent to the town to save the children.

It turns out that Jade was right when she believed that the meaning of OfThe symbol of, the numbers on the bottle tree, and their visions of the children saying “Anghkooey” were all connected as they were tactics to make Jade and Tabitha remember their identities in their past lives. In OfAt the end of season 3, the pair finally realize that one of the children “Anghkooey” was their daughter, and they tried unsuccessfully to save her. Since that sacrifice, Tabitha and Jade have been brought back countless times to try to fulfill their purpose by correcting their failure.

Of Season 3 has gradually filled in the gaps of what happened to the children, such as with the Boy in White’s message to Christopher about them in episode 8’s flashback, explaining that they were killed by people they loved and trusted. Fátima giving birth to the Smiley Monster then talks about their deaths, revealing that she saw “what [the monsters’ did.” The monsters were originally humans who sacrificed the children in exchange for eternal life, but it seems Jade and Tabitha were the only parents/adults who tried to stop the ritual and save the kids.

Ever since, their souls have been trapped in a cycle in which they’re destined to return to Fromville to complete their mission. The children seem to help call the new incarnations of Tabitha and Jade to Fromville after their previous forms are killed, but, each time, they have to go through the process of making them “remember” their pasts. Once they remember who they were and what happened to the children, Tabitha and Jade’s mission and the steps they must take to complete it become more clear.

Can Tabitha & Jade Prevent The Children’s Deaths By Traveling Back In Time?

How Can Tabitha & Jade Save Them & Stop The Cycle?

Now that Tabitha and Jade remember their histories and purpose, they have to figure out how exactly to save the children. The Boy in White told Christopher that “the answers to the end are in the beginning,” which could mean that they need to travel back in time in order to prevent the children’s sacrifice, and thus end the cycle that traps people in town. From season 3 introduced time travel elements when Julie went back to the dungeons, so it’s possible that she can help bring Tabitha and Jade back in time to when the sacrifice originally happened.

However, Ethan told Julie that while she can go back to different “chapters” in the story, she can’t change the story. That would suggest that Tabitha and Jade wouldn’t be able to stop the children’s deaths even if they could travel back to that moment, but Julie seems to be trying to find a loophole for this. In the final moments of From season 3 when the man in yellow appears and kills Jim, Julie yells that she has to “change the story,” so she also is seemingly trying to use her time travel to undo certain tragedies.

If Julie can figure out how to stop certain events from happening, then it becomes more likely that Tabitha and Jade can return to their original forms and succeed in saving their daughter from sacrifice. It’s unclear whether returning to the lighthouse will still factor into saving the children, or if its role was fulfilled after Tabitha was sent there and left From’s town. However, since the children are supposedly “trapped” there, perhaps Tabitha and Jade have to go to the lighthouse to free the kids’ souls as well as their own sometime in the past.