🚨Obviously there are MASSIVE spoilers ahead for both The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor!🚨
1. First, when Flora greets Dani at Bly Manor, she tells Dani that she was "expected," which is the same thing Olivia says to Nell before she dies in Hill House.
2. While at boarding school, Miles receives a drawing from Flora that reads, "Come home." The same message was written in crayon to Nell on the walls of Hill House.
3. When Hannah returns to the bonfire, Owen tells her, "Our moments are supposed to be like...," but they can't think of how to finish the sentence. If you're a fan of Hill House, you can connect this to Nell's iconic line about confetti.
4. Also, Hannah almost uses the confetti line again when she tells Henry to tell Owen that she loves him. Creator Mike Flanagan even confirmed that Hannah's next word was going to be "confetti."
5. Peter tells Miles that he will be "tucked away in the forever house" — in Hill House, Olivia uses that phrase to describe the dream house she wants to build for the Crains.
6. Of course, Flora having a dollhouse of Bly Manor and being protective over it is reminiscent of Shirley building a model of the forever house after Olivia died.
7. When Peter is trying to convince Miles to let him take over, he says that nothing sad will "ever touch" him again. Olivia says a similar thing to Hugh when she tries to keep Nell and Luke in the Red Room.
8. When Hannah keeps returning to her memory with Owen in the kitchen, she says, "I'm having the strangest of dreams," which is something Olivia says a lot in Hill House.
9. Also, Miles uses this exact line after he was "tucked away" by Peter and reveals to Hannah that she's actually at the bottom of the well.
10. In Episode 3, Peter explains that there are specific keys that open certain doors inside Bly. In Hill House, Shirley is obsessed with finding the correct key that opens the Red Room.
11. Also, Peter says that people are like "locked rooms," thus comparing them to a house. In Hill House, Nell does the opposite and compares the house to a person or monster.
12. The color red was prominent in Hill House because of the Red Room. In Bly Manor, there are nods to that color with Dani's backpack, the wall where Viola's and Perdita's portraits are hung in Bly Manor, and more.
13. The door knocker on Bly Manor appears to be in the shape of a lion, and the doorknobs in Hill House also have lions on them.
14. When Henry is being haunted after kissing Charlotte, his creepy doppelgänger hovers over him in the same way that the Bent-Neck Lady appeared to Nell while she was sleeping.
15. Flora learns a secret that "dead doesn't mean gone," which is similar to what Nell tells Luke while he's trapped in the Red Room.
16. When Miles/Peter forces Hannah to look at her body, all she can say is "No," which is the same thing Nell says right after she dies and becomes the Bent-Neck Lady.
17. Before Charlotte leaves town, she tells Henry that she can "fix it," which is a nod to Hugh in Hill House, who uses that phrase when he finds Olivia's body.
18. When Peter tells Rebecca he was here the entire time but she couldn't see him, the same thing happens to young Nell during the storm in Hill House.
19. When Eddie is hit by a car and dies, Dani cries over his body the same way Nell did with Arthur in Hill House.
20. When Dani is haunted by Eddie, his eyes are seen as balls of light, which is similar to when Luke saw the bowler-hat man turn into Olivia.
21. Dani tells Jamie that she can feel something inside her and that it's "matching her movements," and in Hill House, Nell tells her siblings that the monster inside her feels her "tiny movements."
22. When Dani begins to feel the Lady of the Lake take over, she almost strangles Jamie in her sleep before leaving. In Hill House, Olivia almost cuts Hugh's throat in her sleep, too.
23. Dani's heartbreaking fate of becoming the Lady of the Lake haunts her the same way the Bent-Neck Lady haunts Nell before she dies in Hill House.
24. Although Jamie doesn't realize it, Dani continues to visit her after she's gone into the lake, which relates back to Olivia's speech about how journeys never end if you love someone.
25. And finally, Jamie continues to tell her and Dani's love story so that Dani's memory will live on; and in Hill House, Olivia says that when people die, they turn into stories, so it's as if they are still here.
