The Mystery at Fairline Hill Estates - What Really Happened Here? 

There's only one thing that's got me worried.. There's no bathrooms in any of the houses..

"Power Armor stations" are used to lift engine blocks pre war. Post war they are just repurposed for Power Armor

*How Ox plays FO4:* "Why are the safes unlocked? Why haven't they been looted?" *How I play FO4:* "Sweet, unlocked safes!"

Can we just talk about how freaking perfect his voice is to tell these stories?

"everyone except the dlc companions talked abut the scene" Even dog meat

Pint sized slasher probably killed everyone

The dead guy shooting from the window might be an homage of Ben from Night of the Living Dead (68), who shares the same fate.

My Theory: Everything there belong to the post-war settlers. As the whole Minuteman collapsed, settlements become unsafe and the people are moving away in haste (just like preston did). The ghouls on the 6th house are pre-war house owner who the settlers didn't bother to kill because it's safely locked and fortified.

I think it's a Tranquility Lane easter egg personally. The boarded up house can reference the Failsafe simulation room, which was supposed to be off limits and protect Braun from its activation. But it might just be a stretch.

Its sad that you cant turn that plase in to a settlement

I think the fortified house is a Night of the Living Dead reference. Feral ghouls are basically zombies. They overran the settlement, and the survivors tried to fend them off by fortifying the house.

You're reading more into what x6-88 says than is actually there

That theory seems to fit. But X6 mentions that it is strange that there were no longer people. You'd think he would be less puzzled if the people were taken by the institute. Perhaps there was a synth recollection and it scared off the rest of the settlers. *shrugs* either way, that place reminds me too much of tranquility lane XD where freaken Dr Braun is a little girl standing in the middle of the play ground XD

Bunch of people below are saying X6 couldn't have been sent to recover an escaped synth and kidnapped the settlers here, because he seems surprised there are no people. What if he WAS the escaped synth? What if X6 tried to run away but was captured -- and for some reason still has a faint memory of this place after being repurposed by the SRB?

Hey man, I recently started watching these lore videos of yours and they have definitely inspired me to redownload all the fallouts and play back through them. Magnificent content you're making here, a good blend between a walkthrough and a lore lesson that is combined together in a way that keeps it engaging and easily digestible to even someone unaffiliated with the franchise. I know this is an older video and you may not see this comment, but keep up the good work.

I have another option for the post war...hear me out "Aliens" No really...think about it Everyone goes poof no blood No new body food left uneaten guns sting as if some one was just loading them Mutilated cows the cows are not the NORMAL dead Bramin used, when Bethesda wants a dead eaten cow they have two models for it one with it side ripped open and one desiccated and drained of blood. Why use normal cow body so the heads can be knocked off and body parts can be missing. :P anyhow just a theory... Pre war story reminds me of the night of the walking dead, guy is stuck in a hose zombies of people he knew in the other room cant bring him self to kill them gets shot looking out a window by passing by "zombie" hunters could be a Easter egg nod to that

I know this is 4 years later but, I agree with you to an extent. I feel like since The courser Says there were people when he first went through that he snuck in to take the runaway synth and seeing the synth disappear suddenly the settlers got scared thinking they were next and left the town to live elsewhere and quickly

I think that the Power armor repair stations are These cranes you youse to putt engines into cars

This reminds me of the simulation town in fallout 3 where you have to find your dad in the town

I believe that it could be possible that the Courser came looking for a Synth, and 1 of 2 things could have happened: • He didn’t happen to find one, but perhaps since the settlement may have been hiding one or just out of fear, they left the settlement in a hurry in case the Institute returned. • He did find a rogue Synth and captured it, and perhaps the people there found out about it or saw it. This caused them to panic and immediately leave the settlement.

Huh, I pass through that place a million times and never thought there was a mystery to it.

This area reminds me of Tranquility Lane from Fallout 3

X6-88 mentioning he was there before is curious, but I think his comment on the fortified house being a good place to hide a synth was just him making an observation. My theory is that there is no real story and Bethesda just wanted to have a creepy, unexplained mystery location in their game that players could speculate on.

This place reminds me of that place you go in fallout 3 when u enter the simulation. Same sized circle street

Post war settlers got driven out by the Yao Guai, didn't have enough people or weapons to defend it so they left in a panic. It's amazing what you forget to grab when you're in a rush. Ghouls and skeleton were a family as you suspected, but I reckon after locking his family up so they couldn't hurt anyone, he shot himself to stop from turning feral himself. My two cents

This place always reminds me of Tranquility Lane in Fallout 3

Oxhorn the detective... you made Nick Valentine PROUD!!!

I just realized that Fairline Hills Estates looks exactly like the VR neighborhood from Fallout 3 where the little girl makes you torture the other people

Unrelated but that place actually plays a role in the America Rising 2 mod. It’s nothing major but it does have a spot in the story

Maybe this was where Glory was hiding with the synth that Curie occupies after completing her quest. Or at one time they occupied this place with other settlers before she was spooked by something causing her to go further into hiding.

Oxhorn trying to put the ball on the seesaw was adorable

The runaway synth theory is confirmed by the creation club. Install the art deco creation, the quest takes you to the place, and there is a dead course in one of the houses.

Interesting mystery here... I think the nearby trader Eleanor is key to this, as well as the raider boss Bosco at DB Tech. A note in Eleanor's camper indicates she was formerly part of his crew (or maybe he was a part of her crew?), but she does not want to return. She has a secret compartment in her camper with significant firepower, better than anything she keeps laying around, and she's leveled as a Veteran or Raider Boss, with skull mark if player is less than 30. Eleanor and Teddy the dog are allies.... Bosco caught rabies from another raider's dog (Torque). I'm not sure what to make of all that though. Sure the raiders would have taken the contents of the safes... but would Eleanor? She already has soooo much ammo and supplies. Also, I'm not sure if this is a factor but the safes had no fusion cells in them, right? I forget in my playthrough if they did or not, i'll need to check. That might support the synth theory since if they wanted anything it'd be fusion cells and may have no interest in other ammo types. Also, I think suicide is a factor in this whole sordid tale, somewhere.

Your theory that a synth was hiding there is also backed by the two ravens you see sitting on the playground. The institute uses Synth-Ravens as surveillance cameras to look at places in the commonwealth. Maybe they suspected the railroad to use this place as a synth hideout again.

At 7:28 there was deathclaw hide in the suitcase. An indication of it being postwar. Maybe this group was strong since they were able to take down a deathclaw.

I think it makes more sense that x6-88 would maybe kidnapped one settler, the run away synth, but an institute kidnapping spooked the entire town into leaving.

My guess was the 2 skeletons at the park where kids who found a mini nuke and accidently set it off and people tried to run but there was no time and it hit the whole settlement, the cows where just lucky enough to be far enough away from the blast

Rearranging the all the LAST LETTERS of each listed combo spells SUZI, and rearranging all the FIRST LETTERS spells LAND.

Isn't this also just uphill from the hospital and Fallon's?

Found this place today. The seesaw's still work perfectly

Hold on, 88 says that it's strange that there's no one there, as if he expected there to still be people, the institute obviously had nothing to do with the entire settlements disappearance.

"Used to be a small settlement here. I'll mark it at your map"

The two 10mm bullets in house 3 might be laid out because they didn't want to face what was outside and wanted to take a shortcut down to the lobby if you know what I mean, but didn't at the last second.

To save on storage, sometimes people put their furniture out when they don’t need it.

Oxhorn: hmmm lets examine how the skeleton is lying down and read the letters on these toy blocks to see if we can get any clues Me: nonchalantly run over everything in power suit

Maybe this was X6 88s home before he was brought back to the institute which would explain why he was there and how he knows a synth could have hid there?

Probablem with Institute theory. X6 says "Strange.." So he doesn't know what happened

I am a bit vague on my memory, but somewhere in the game or in FO3 there was a simulation with all the residents in a simulation of this exact town

*Ox finishes casing an innocuous little location* *I check time left in the video* “Still another 10 minutes of analysis? That’s an ox horn video for you!”

Maybe that the Fairline Hill Estate was populated only by synth and few human, that the man killed in the house was a railroad agent and the ghoul were originally synth, we know that synth can become ghouls

Im going to assume that X-6 was there because of a synth that had escaped, had gotten their mind wiped, and tried to live in Fairline estates with the other settlers. X-6 came and retrieved him/her/it because they are a robot.

It looks like the guy layed backwards on the crate with the pipe pistol next to his hand has shot himself then fell backwards on the crate in the boarded up house

Towards the beginning I believe you said that you were never here, when you opened the first unlocked safe. But the you said usually the "glowing one spawns here in my other encounters." So either you didn't explore the house with the safe but did explore the fortified house or I've been lied to.

See this is my problem with fallout 4. They have so much awesome stuff in its world, but you hardly ever see anything happen. It's all already happened. What happened at the Fairline Estates? Don't know, but it's already done and over with. Just like almost everything else in fallout 4.

Doesnt this village look like the one in the simulation the lone wanderer rescues his father from in fallout 3?

Early Retirement quest from CC has coursers tracking down Synths at Fairline

The guy in the house was at a last stand with adversaries we'll never know, and he locked his family in that room. He defended them until the end but then they turned into ghouls, so he shot himself and they've been there ever since What makes this area far more eerie is the fact that unique scary music plays here that plays nowhere else in the entire game, every companion is deeply unnerved by the place and a whole community staying there recently vanished with no explanation. There is something deeply wrong with this place, and it might have something to do with the tranquillity lane connection

So this is really late but I'm always finding new things in Fallout 4 that I've never found before in each playthrough. Recently I've started playing again and I'm doing a Raider / Institute playthrough . Your idea that the Institute attacked can be heavily supported. Because by the castle there's an abandoned settlement where there's all kinds of razorgrain growing and synths laying down as if they're dead but depending on your Allegiance they might not attack you. But the place is completely empty. you'll either find dead bodies or no people at all.

I thought this was a story about a huge mutated crowd attacking a town....no

Maybe after their neighbor (secretly a runaway synth) was taken in the night, the rest of the settlers got scared they’d be next and left

I think this is a miss. X6 obviously doesn’t understand why there are no people there anymore. The institute has definitely done something to at least one previous resident of the town given X6 has been here and is worried about more runaways hiding out here but it’s not in the Institute’s character to quietly kidnap an entire town and X6 and/or Deacon would know about that if that had happened.

Sup. I know, i'm super late, but I think those power armor stations were once engine lifters, used by mechanics to more easily get to other car parts under the hood. Nevertheless, those lifters were and are suitable for repairing and modifying power armor too, so they were also used by miltary men, wearing power armor

I am always baffled that feral ghouls apparently don’t need to eat. Lots of locked up ghouls exist without food. They should have starved over 200 years. Except we know from the ruins under boston airport quest ghouls do eat so it is a contradiction. Of ghouls need to eat, if they want food, if being fed can keep them underground, why do the locked up ghouls not starve to death.

Maybe the Yao Guai came to the town and the people fled quickly? Of course as we see, the Brahmin didn’t make it. The 10mm pistol is a red hearing, but maybe the owner forgot it or knew it doesn’t have the stopping power to down the beasts, so leaves it in favor of safety.

Okay so I must be having some sort of mental breakdown at the moment because this place scares the shit out of me. When I found this place the first time my hair stood up on the back of my neck before Cait even said "Somethings not right". One of my friends decided to scare me not knowing I was already terrified and I almost shot him......... Nice job Fallout

"they move their prize furniture into the streets" or...using logic they were likely killed on moving day as they had just unloaded the last of their furniture to move into their dream home when the bombs dropped. Van in the driveway, furniture in the street.

Well if you look at the suitcase it has deathclaw hide in it so it means it has to be from after the bombs

I think the skeleton in the window who was shot is post war because the pistol next to his corpse is a pipe pistol, and to my knowledge pipe weapons are post war

Plot twist: Preston Brain is a settlement and needs your help.

Thanks for a pretty bedtime story! I suppose that mistery of that place makes it remarkable. Once you explain everything using cold logic, the magnificent magic and mistery are gone. So just leave it as it is.

My guess is that the man or girl on the oxplosives box was defending his house. The ghouls were his family and he wanted to save them. The man went crazy from the grusome views and suffers from multiple personality disorder from wverything so he locks his house so he doesnt leave his family. This is my first time making stoty so sorry if it soinds weird and sorry for the mispells

I feel like the most likely excuse for what happened pre-war was that the man's family turned into ghouls and he was likely following them. He couldn't bring himself to kill his family so he locked them in that room. He then took his own life instead of turning and set up the booty traps not to defend the house from raiders but to discourage people from stumbling into his family members and letting them loose to kill or be killed. He didn't create the ramp either but rather the settlers that came in later noticing the hole in the side of the 2nd floor and wanting to avoid the trouble of breaking into the place. They then discover the ghouls, get freaked out wondering why someone did that, and decide to flee not knowing if there is more ghouls around since feral ghouls rarely are found in such small numbers in a location. They didn't get much set up so it wasn't a big deal. They were rushed though in leaving so left behind a lot of their valuables in town. Between these events is when everything the companions mention takes place. X6-88 had shown up looking for information on a target most likely, but there was no run away synth amongst them. Why would he not have checked out the fortified house then otherwise or they defused the traps at the fortified house already before you arrived? Instead he just passes through while the place is still unable to be explored and the ghouls still locked away in the room. A curious settler or two figure out how to get in after, freak out from their find, and the whole town evacuates out of fear of a feral ghoul population being near by.

My first theory was that this was in some relation to Tranquility Lane from Fallout 3. The cul-de-sac, the playground in the middle, and the six houses around the who thing. But Tranquility Lane was a simulation. And, depending on how you played Fallout 3, Tranquility Lane was shot up by the Chinese. (which would explain the barriers in the street and all that jazz.) Fallout 4 takes place in 2287, and Fallout 3 takes place in 2277, only 10 years before Fallout 4. These have to be related, the cul-de-sac with the houses and the playground in the center, the barriers everywhere, and the fact that it takes place only ten years after Fallout 3. Maybe Dr. Stanislaus Braun based his simulation around Fairline Hill Estates. Maybe it's just a coincidence.

a few points: the furniture might also have been moved by the post-war settlers. maybe they wanted to use the couch as a more comfortable alternative to the benches. maybe the other parts of furniture were supposed to be turned into firewood and have been dragged out of the house to make it easier to hack them into pieces. a similar thing for the unlocked safes that had some stuff inside. maybe the post-war settlers unlocked them, took out whatever they wanted and then used them as storage for their personal belongings. i don't really see any indication that all of the safe's contents are entirely from the pre-war owners. if x6 had played a part in the vanishing of the post-war settlers, i'm sure he wouldn't be suprised to see them gone. he'd already know how they vanished and where they went. he probably was there at some point to look for a synth but there's simply nothing to suggest the institute actually had anything to do with the vanishing of the settlers. it is certainly possible, but there really isn't any evidence that supports this. maybe the yao guai came and the settlers simply ran away from them? no real evidence for that either but just as likely as the "the institute did it" theory. the family of the guy in the house could also have been locked up before they turned into ghouls. maybe he just wanted to protect them from looters so when he saw the looters coming, he told them all to get into the bedroom and, not having enough time for anything better, he just put the chains on the outside of the door, hoping that, if he dies, at least the chains will buy his family a little more time to find a way to escape. however, while the looters did kill him, they never found a way into his house (appearently the little ramp-thing has been built by post-war settlers, as you said), and even after the looters had left, the mans family was still too frightened to leave the relative safety of the bedroom so they stayed there until they had turned into feral ghouls.

I think he locked his beloved ones in the house after they turned to ghouls and protected them against the settlers till they killed each other!

The man Lying on the explosivs crate got shot in the chest, stumbled backward, tripped, and bled out to death.

It’s possible that a prewar citizen dragged out furniture they didn’t need anymore to the curb for them to be either taken by someone who needs them or to be taken to a garbage dump.

When I first came here it was nighttime and there was a light coming from a second floor of the 6th house.

I’m actually pretty happy it isn’t a settlement anymore. It would probably need my help,

Preston annoyed them so much, the settlement packed up and snuck away from the commonwealth in the middle of the night.....

This moment when places like this aren't available as settlements, but shitholes like Murkwater and Zimonja are 😬 This place is a perfect candidate for settlement and needs only some turrets and crops - I'm salty everytime I travel through it 😥

You have a very soothing voice, I work nights and struggle to sleep during the day, putting your videos on helps me sleep so thank you.

I dont think Institute did it. X6 is also confuzed why there arent people there. He may hav been after a synth but he didnt do anithing to those people.

Preston: huh, the last time I sa-ANOTHER SETTLEMENT NEEDS YOUR HELP

Big crow came down and ate every one to the bone That what the thumbnail suggests Im disappointed that there was no evidence on giant mutated crow.

Only problem with the "Institute did it" theory is that X6 is confused. He fully expected people to be there. If the Institute had taken them he most likely would have known. He may not have said anything to you about it but he would know. Instead he sounds puzzled. Also the G1s wouldn't leave the fusion cells behind. Not when their reactor is having issues. The ballistic munitions? Sure. But not the energy ones. I like the idea but it doesn't add up.

Fairline Estate had to be a Tranquility Lane easter egg from fallout 3

I'm still frustrated to the fact that you couldn't launch the ball up at the end of the video

Oxhorn - "As soon as they see you, they attack" pulls out a 5-pound missile launcher from his back pocket and blows them to ashes.

Here’s my theory. A group of settlers arrive at Fairline Hill. Included in that group, a ghoul family. A couple of days after they settle in, 3 of the ghouls start turning feral. So instead of killing them because he can’t bring himself to do it, he locks them up in a bedroom and keeps them secret from the other settlers. One of the settlers starts to hear the sounds coming from the house and people notice that the 3 ghouls went missing. After further investigation, they find the ghouls in the bedroom. They try to get the man to kill the ghouls or let them kill the ghouls. The man refuses and decides to fortify his house so the settlers can’t get in to kill the ghouls. After he opens fire on a settler or 2, they decide it would be best to just leave the settlement. Weeks after they leave, the man becomes severely depressed and shoots himself with his gun. The brahmin would just wander in and would be eaten by passing Yao Gui. And the 2 skeletons at the playground were just killed when the bombs dropped

Am I the only one who finds it strange there are no bathrooms?

[edit: In Bunker Hill Tony mentions “that settlement (someone) mentioned? Wiped out.” When talking about why he should fight the Institute. This has got to be Fairline Estates.] [second edit: eh that was probably University Point. But it could be Fairline maybe?] The problem with your theory is that it assumes X6 88 played a part in the disappearances. But, X6 88 couldn’t have been involved, because he is just as surprised as anyone else that no one is currently living there. If he had a hand in the kidnapping the entire town then he would not have been surprised. Now, that doesn’t mean the Institute wasn’t involved, but it means X6 88 himself wasn’t.

This gives me tranquility Lane vibes, Because of the red dog house, the 6 houses, playground, and monkey bars. Maybe, this area was used as a model for tranquility Lane for vault 112. Probably not true, but it's just a guess.

the only thing wrong with your theory is that X6 was confused that there weren't any people there

*hears about nuclear war*....*takes furniture* :|

@Oxhorn While I like your theory about the guy in the fortified house, there's just one problem. If Raiders or looters killed the man, why are all his weapons and ammo still there? Why didn't the settlers take them? And if the settlers got up to that room, why would they just leave the man's corpse draped over a explosives crate? My guess regarding the man in the house is: He shut his family in that room to protect them and was ready to defend his property when he realized that his family was becoming ghouls. He knew there was nothing he could do for them, he couldn't kill them cause they were his family. So, he killed himself. Put the pipe pistol under his chin and fired. My guess on the settlers is they started to set up shop there, that's why there's so few traces of their presence there, then they ran off when the bears showed up. Maybe they lacked the firepower to kill the bears. Maybe they figured it would be best to cut their losses and run rather than stay and die. Maybe they had just built the ramp to that room when the bears showed up. That's my theory anyway.

Cosworth's line made my heart sink.

10:00 perfect place for a run away... MIRELURK DEN

I think power armor stations were used to lift cars before the war.

I think the explaination is much simpler: Remember those bugs in a jar in Skyrim? You could find these rare items and players speculated that they had some hidden meaning, like each bug being symbolic of some trait or event and together they'd form a prophecy about Bethesda finally making and releasing a game that actually went through quality control. But no... no hidden meaning, no secret quest, just something Bethesda initially planned to put into the game and then just didn't, but they didn't delete the bugs in the jars. I think the ex-settlement at Fairline Hill Estates is the same: A part of the game Bethesda simply didn't finish or cut partially from the game, leaving players mystified. It's fun to speculate about these things, but most of these things in games are caused by development constraints, having to meet deadlines or developers simply forgetting them.