The Haunting of Hill House

Trivia: Almost every episode of this series contains scenes where ghosts can be seen hiding in plain sight.

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Trivia: Hugh is played by Henry Thomas in flashbacks sequences. Thomas famously played the lead character Elliot in Steven Spielberg's "E.T." as a child actor in the 80's. As a reference to this fact, in the first episode, Young Luke is seen with an "E.T." lunchbox in one scene.

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Trivia: Series creator and director Mike Flanagan is married to Kate Siegel, who plays the older Theo. Siegel has appeared in almost all of Flanagan's film and television projects.

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Trivia: In the original novel, the characters Eleanor, Theo and Luke were not siblings. In addition, the characters Steven and Shirley didn't exist in the original novel. This series - a re-imagining of the novel - made the main characters into siblings and added Steven and Shirley to broaden the cast a bit. Shirley is named after Shirley Jackson, who wrote the novel.

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Eulogy - S1-E7

Other mistake: While working in the basement, the young Hugh Crain gets his right hand sliced badly by a fan. When the story next jumps forward to the present time, the first thing we see is Hugh grabbing a handful of dirt with the same hand and there is barely a scar on it.

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