If anyone is confused I think I know the answeres: They started as a happy family. Every time Maya opens the door, the crow helps her escape to her imagination. The mother dies of a car crash leaving the father depressed and the kids didn't know till later which lead to Aaron pushing his anger on his sister because she looks like his mom. Green eyes and orange hair, and everytime he sees her, it reminds him that his mom his dead, forever. Aaron doesn't want to talk about his feeling since he didn't want to appear weak to his sister and because he thinks she wouldn't understand. The more the hate from her brother, the more she dislikes going into her imagination. The crow brings her to it as she feels like she must do this even though she doesn't want to. He brings her doll to the roof and she follows in order to get it back. He slaps it and is in anger because he wants to hurt her more but he also wants to share his feelings. She tries to comfort him but he slaps her away. He accidently pushed her since he didn't realize she was standing on the edge. The father becomes more depressed and uses the shovel to bury the girl then he locks up the son because hes not just angry, it's because thats all he has left. When the player (the child from across the street) discoveries Aaron who is locked up, the father or the neighbor gets mad because he thinks the player was about to call the police, to take away his son. The player grows up and the shadow represents the son since he was stuck in that basement for who knows how long. Possibly died from starvation and dehydration since the father must've died or probably killed himself. After waking up, the player feels peace knowing the house with the neighbor is dead, meaning he is safe. Edit: There is another end to the neighbor. The neighbor lives after being saved by the player. I do not have any theories that can be right or absolutely wrong because I have not seen that end. But my theory above is for only this playthrough.

Neighbor: depressed because his family was killed and son went crazy Me: moves into town and repeatedly breaks into his house and throws trash at him

Only og hello neighbor fans can like this comment

6 minutes through and i already started crying..... He treated his sister so bad after thier moms death.... I feel so bad.. 😭

It’s kinda clear now the neighbour was a very kind guy.

Everyone asks where's the neighbor but nobody asks how's the neighbor

So, I just realized the doll looks exactly like the neighbor’s wife. This is a tragic story though

The Neighbor is not a bad person he just lost everything 😕💔

Me: •feeling bad for the boy at 5:21• The commercial right then and there: *crispy, cheesy! New Ritz cheese crackers!*

Kinda scary how a happy man with a happy life can just out of the sudden break into pure rage from his depression

The writers did a awesome job in the story line. I wasn't (and I'm sure other weren't) expecting this dude to turn basically into a lunatic after his loses. It does something to you after watching this - seriously.

To me, the Shadow Man represents fear, resentment, darkness -- everything we see as a dark "shadow." At the beginning of the Final Act, the player still has a "shadow" in his heart from the trauma he experienced with the neighbour as a kid (represented by the Shadow Man haunting him). In the end, he was able to face the Shadow Man and overcome it, leading to the "EXIT" (i.e. moving onwards in life). While we see the neighbour at the end, barricading himself from the Shadow Man but trapped in the house. His only way to the "EXIT" (i.e. moving on) is by facing the Shadow Man (the darkness and shadow in his life), and overcoming it. It seems like, in the end, he was never able to. The scene where the neighbour trapped in that house with the Shadow Man was really quite sad.

All these years we hated the neighbor but we know his past now 😪

The neighbor kept thinking about his wife’s death, he never realized what was going on around him

Bro throughout my Entireee life I thought that the hello neighbor series was just a game to play. However today when I finally beat the hide and seek version I found out that the entire series was connected and led to a truly depressing story kinda makes me wanna drop a tear. Another name for this series could be “the tragic story of the peters family”because it went from a family of 4 to just one man with a secret backstory.

Bro she got kidnapped by a crow

Me now knowing his story and feeling bad: Also me: stealing all his food and putting it in my fridge

NAMES: You:Nicky Roth Neighbor:Theodore Peterson Wife:Diane Peterson Daughter:Mia Peterson Son:Aaron Peterson Hotel:Trivago.

Thanks for making this movie, The Gaming World!

5:34 HAD ME PISSING WHEN I WAS PLAYING IT LIKE SHES JUST TRYING TO COMFORT HIM AND HES LIKE “oh I’m sorry for pushing you away *pulls out gun*”

Me: **feels bad** Also me : **steals tv and music and stuff and food from him**

I feel so bad for The neighbor, he child dies, his wife dies, it’s just so sad..

here's the true story, so here, we got Aaron, Maya, Diane and Theodore. they are a family. so Aaron and Mya play hide and seek everyday before dinner. one day the parents were missing and left the kids home alone. then the dad came back saying that the mother died. Aaron is furious about this and Mya plays another hide and seek game to cheer him up. Aaron then starts abusing Mya. the dad mentally grounds him. Then they play one more game. they were at the top of a balcony and Aaron puts his anger on Mya. Aaron then accidently pushes Mya off the balcony and Aaron gets locked up in a room. Theodore is by himself after his whole family is gone. Nicky Roth then moves and is curious about him. so he kept going in the house but got pushed. Nicky hated this as a child and as a grown up got revenge on the neighbor and put him in a little house. Nicky lived a normal and happy life. Theodore's life was miserable and half ended. in the hello neighbor show Nicky and his friend actually try bringing Aaron and Mya back. sadly the neighbor was not happy.

I feel like crying when I Remember the times of the first alphas and betas, when everything was just a sussy neighbour hiding something under his stairs, all the theory video's, where people would uncover secrets behind the scenes of the game, or would glitch it out completely to see everything hidden from the player

I always thought the neighbour was some mad man going nuts and locking a child in a basement but its actually just sad ;

This just proves how one an event can impact and change your life forever. Unfortunately, the neighbor had to suffer

Growing up is realising the Neighbor was always a good guy

Hello Neighbor is LITERALLY that guy.

is it just me or almost all villains in horror games have sad backstories

This is actually emotional i couldn't stop crying. A happy innocent man lost his family. My god, 100 likes on my comment love u guys

I feel bad the neighbor. He just wanted a happy family. He went on a drive with his beautiful wife, crashed, and as you saw in the movie. He tried to save her, but it was too late…. His son went mad and it was because of the car accident. He hated his sister because she looked just like his mom. He was filled with anger that he threw his sister’s doll out of her hands into the abyss. He didn’t realize his sister was on the edge, and with anger pushed her. In the movie she slowly falls to her death, and you can tell on the boy’s face, that he messed up. In Act 1, you can see the neighbor is hiding something… his son. He’s the only family member he has left….. his son probably died of something. It could’ve been anything. But the worst part, is that you can go from such a happy life, to something you never want to be part of. This movie really made me break a tear. All neighbor wanted was just a happy family….

❤❤❤❤❤😢😢 that was a sad story ❤❤

4:27 wait gloves aren't part of his body?

*that moment when you realize that they’ve been wearing the same clothes everyday*

7:55 The reason why the crow didn't save Mia was because when Aaron hit the doll it fell right? So when the doll was falling, the crow saw it and thought it was Mia. So it went down and grabbed it and went through the window. Remember in a hello neighbor hide and seek trailer, the doll was falling and at the end of the trailer the crow went through the window and grabbed it.

This and the books have the full story. Mr. Peterson is the neighbor’s name. His full name is Theodore Masters Peterson. His son’s name is Aaron and his daughter’s name is Mya. In the first Hello Neighbor game we play as Nicky Roth as a kid in the first two acts and as an adult in Act 3. These are their names in the books.

The neighbor was just a good guy but when his wife died he became depressed and his daughter also die I wish no one can ever have this life... And so sad when the neighbor's son just got alone , and where did the neighbor go did he die too?

Who else just wishes the neighbor and his family just just had a happy life T^T

"It's like the beginning of a Disney movie." 8:06

This got me crying☹️😥

😭 currently crying right now. and i am the only one who feels bad for the sister? 😢

Mom:Dead Mya: Dead Aaron:Prison at home for killing his Sis Dad: In big Sad depression His son was all he had from his family i was crying inside like if you agree and also dont mess up with your feelings :( ;(

19:20 I feel that the music gives it that touch, and on top of that I like it a lot.

I feel so bad for the Arion but the neighbor and Mya

At first I always thought that the neighbor was just a creepy evil guy, but now I will look at him and the game differently. This made a tear go down my face 😭

Poor him he just wants to show his sadness he lost his life family too you would not like that like if you would feel the same

Теперь мы знаем всё историю про соседа

This full story mode is sad it almost make me cry.

This is the full Hello Neighbor story: Once upon a time, there lived this young, happy family who had nothing to lose. A dad, a mom, and 2 kids. The mom was very nice and loving to her family, and did the cooking and cleaning, and the dad worked a respectable job and made good money. The 2 kids, brother and sister, got along very well. They played together all the time. One day, the Dad and the mom had to leave the house by themselves for a normal reason, like to go to the bank, or something like that. A few minutes after they left, the Dad got them into a terrible car accident, killing the mom. At dusk, the Dad finally returns to his house to see the kids in shock that he left them for that long. He told them about the accident, and that their mother is dead. They tried to carry on with their lives, but it was difficult. Especially for the boy, who became insane, and started treating his father and his sister poorly. One day, he was so angry, that he told the sister to come onto the roof with him, and then he pushes her off the roof, killing her too. The father, devistated, decided to lock the boy in his basement for life so he wouldn't have to go to prison, and puts up signs that say "Simming" kind of like "Missing" to make people think his kids are missing, instead of "dead" or "locked away." The little boy was very clever, and escapes from the basement through the hatch on the other side of the house, and runs away from home forever. All in this same day, The father's neighbor's child playing in the street happens to come across the house as the father locks the little boy in the basement. The father captures him, because he does not want him telling the police about what happened. The child escapes, and the next time we see him in the game, he is all grown up. He gets a letter in the mail at his apartment in the city saying his parents passed away, and he inherents the house he used to live in. But he does not want to live next to someone who captured him years earlier, so he decides to resolve this conflict once and for all. He infiltrates the neighbor's house, which appears to have "some" add-ons done to it. He conquers his fears about everything that has happened in his life up to now. He faces off against the neighbor, and finally succeeds. He wakes up from a dream to find out that there were no add-ons done to the house, and gets information from his other neighbors that the neighbor disappeared out of nowhere years earlier. So we don't know what happened to the little boy, or the neighbor, but we do know that the player lives happily ever after, and doesn't dwell in the past ever again. The end.

Everytime where the crow brings the girl: [0:54] The Trip [2:17] The Crime [3:44] The Fire [5:46] The Winter [7:36] Creepy Place [7:41] Savior

wait at 7:35 everything gets big but the sister gets pushed off, its still a pretty big fall but its still pretend isn’t it? Like in all the other ones, it was just pretend. The sister could have survived the fall.

Does anybody realize this is kinda close to the afton families backstory

This makes me never want to mess with the neighbor again.

The scene when the chair falls means their mother dies at that moment. Very sad. 😪

9:47 After waiting to the last possible minute to do your homework:

SO THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING. They moved in a new house there was 2 kids that loved to play then the neighbor crashed which caused the mom to die then the boy went crazy (anger issues) so the boy hid the girl's toy so the girl had to look for it. When she found it the boy was very disappointed so the boy pushed her which caused her to die too. then in the original game the player sees the neighbor putting a boy in the basement which is the son. The neighbor was actually trying stop his son from hurting anyone else or to go to jail. So the player thinks that the neighbor is a kidnapper but in the backyard you see a grave and that is where the girl died. And the shadow is actually the girl trying to get revenge on her brother and the girl was making the player hallucinate to prevent the player reaching his brother.

Damn. this makes me think about the whole game differently.

everyone: the video me: captions in the begining

Who eats bread with a spoon 😂😂😂😂

I can't stop crying from when the daughter fell 💔😭

I feel like the brother is getting to addicted to hide and seek……

Awweee poor hello neighbor but think noodles saved hello neighbor AND I WAS HAPPY HE SAVED HIM!!

It’s truly sad because Arron didn’t mean to push his sister off it was actually an accident ad you can see by he’s sad when she falls

The little girl did nothing I’m crying inside why would he do that

Now that I realize the neighbor's story, I just let him capture me all the time.

I started crying about the neighbor having to go through painful life

Никки настоящая легенда, смог справится с детскими травмами

17:37 this part hurts my feelings

The Neighbor was such a sweet guy but he just got insane bc of his familly deaths.....

This game really hit me in the feels when i played it

Here's my theory- after act 1, you don't really hear any screaming. This is because the neighbors' son, whom he locked up to keep him out of trouble from the police (and puts up missing posters to hide that), died. He realizes this in act 2 and didn't know he would die because he was so concentrated on the grief. He locks the main character up to pose as his son because he has no one left. In act 3, it is all in the main character's head. The soul creature is the neighbors' son.

I really love Hello Neighbor, and the story of it is just so sad. Honestly, it reminds me of how I coped with loss and makes me never want to get angry with my siblings again. The behavior of the children is pretty realistic, how Mya is sorta too young to recognize the loss of her mother, and Aaron doesn't understand how she isn't effected as much. He's depressed, angry, going through loss. Mya tries to relive old times before their mother died, and Aaron agrees, but in a twisted sort of way that makes things not as fun. He starts hurting Mya, taking out his suffering and pain on her. By the end, when they were playing on the roof, he's so frustrated with how she seems fine with the loss that he shoves her. He doesn't realize that he pushed her hard enough to knock her down. His face is just pure shock and I doubt he realizes what he's really done until much much later. Also, I used some sound effects from this to make a lo-fi beat. If you're feeling sad about this and want a song to put your feelings into music, maybe check it out? Here's the link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kLWpi7eYu6_OnWg.html I used some bass in there that Hello Neighbor is so known for. This isn't meant to be a promotional comment, I just kinda want you guys to enjoy my music. You don't have to subscribe or like, please just enjoy. Thanks :)

Wait, question... What was with the brother? Did he kill the sister on purpose? And why did he suddenly hate her? I'm so confused. Edit: so what you guys are saying is... He got *mad* about his mom dying so he starting hating her sister? Oh yeah that *totally* makes sense...

I missed this game😭

0:55 she really said Adios

This is so sad I didn’t realize that this is why he’s so mean☹️

From what i gathered Yes the little girl died. And thats who he burried in the backyard. He then locked the sun up in the basement for 1 of 2 reasons. 1 he was so angry with him an locked him down there to punish him. 2 it was punishment but more so to keep him out of trouble with police or whatever, didnt want his son to be put in juvi or some maybe. Then he posted missing signs so ppl wouldn't ask questions about what happened to the daughter and son. Us as a character caught him in the act thats why he wants to catch you so bad so you wont tell authorities. This would make a great movie adaptation.

4:27 - At least he still has his kids! 11:13 - Oh, wait...

Ahh, so he put his son down there because his son was becoming aggressive....because once you see the story you realize its screams of rage, not screams of terror

8:48 I'm gonna cry now.

Mano chore muito a música do início da vontade chorar, mas o final é mais triste ainda

I always used to watch this 😭

Who eats sandwiches with a... s p o o n

5:38 when he realized what he did I cried cause that was so cute 😭😭

Cool vid but you forgot the alternate ending where you save the neighbor

8:25…IA’M CRY….THIS IS SAD STORY AND ME….

Part of the neighbors story when his son killed the girl the neighbor was scared of his son so he locked his son in the basement Like for more

1:39 this scene hit me so hard knowing its gonna be their last time doing that.

Me : *exists* The neighbour : and I took that personally

His story is too emotional😢😢😢

So... The neighbor was a good guy? EDIT: I already understood that he was a nice person and got bad. Stop commenting for getting likes please, because I ALREADY GOT IT, DAMN IT

The look in the brothers eyes when he realized he pushed his sister 😭

Poor guy, he lost his happiness, his daughter, his wife, his son, he lost everything just by a car crash.

😭 i love hello neighbor ❤❤❤❤😭

Its sad how neighbor loses all members of his family😢

How come the crow keeps lifting the girl up when she goes out Side?

THE CC/!?!? LMAOO

“I’m just doing this for fun, definitely not bored at school” best captions ever.

I get it the neighbor is helping you He doesn’t want you in the basement because He’s afraid he will hurt you

8:01 damn this is the toughest part to get through... ;(