Warning: Spoilers ahead for Yellowjackets season 3, episode 7!Yellowjacketsseason 3, episode 7 explains what’s been going on with the “screaming” noises throughout the wilderness, confirming that it’s not some supernatural force but instead, it’s just frogs. Even well into three seasons, there are still plenty of unanswered questions regarding the mysterious wilderness. The mysteries deepened, however, when the wilderness seemingly started “screaming” in season 3. Interestingly, the screaming wasn’t something that just Lottie or anotherYellowjacketscharacterenvisioned, the sounds were heard by all.
While Lottie has been known to manipulate others into channeling the forces of the wilderness, the screeching noises became more interesting when Ben and Mari were revealed to have heard the sounds too. Later, the rest of the survivors heard the sounds again outside the cave when searching for Ben. Instead of letting the mystery linger,Yellowjacketsseason 3, episode 7unveils the source of the wilderness' screaming noises with an episode appropriately titled “Croak.”
Yellowjackets Season 3 Episode 7 Confirms That Frogs Were Making The Wilderness' “Screaming” Noise
The Odd Noises Are Not Caused By Something Supernatural
Yellowjacketsseason 3’s “Croak” opens with somewhat of a backstory surrounding the strangers introduced at the end of the previous episode. The events backtrack three days earlier from the ceremonial feast to honor Ben, showing that the strangers, Hannah and Edwin, are on an expedition to study Artic Banshee frogs as part of a special event, alongside their guide, Kodiak.Yellowjacketsreveals that the screeching scream heard throughout season 3 is coming from the frogswho have recently woken up for a mating event.
The frogs' screeching is their mating call, something that’s never been recorded in history, and it’s loud enough to carry throughout the surrounding area for the others to hear.
So, after all the speculation surrounding what was making the disturbing noises, it was coming from the wilderness, just not in the way we expected. Rather than some peculiar supernatural explanation or assumption that the wilderness has come alive, it turns out thatthe frogs Hannah and Edwin are studying had been frozen for seven years before waking up for the mating event.The frogs' screeching is their mating call, something that’s never been recorded in history, and it’s loud enough to carry throughout the surrounding area for the others to hear.
ThroughoutYellowjacketsseason 3, the screaming has been viewed as a warning, as if the screeches were the wilderness' way of communicating. Lottie considers them a sign, reiterating how crucial it is to listen to what “it” wants from them. Though the screaming noises don’t turn out to be connected to the powers of the wilderness, the frogs inhabiting the wilderness still end up altering the group’s fate inYellowjackets' ’90s timeline. If it wasn’t for the frogs and their significant mating event, Hannah and Edwin wouldn’t have been in the area with Kodiak in the first place.
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Studying the species nearby leads the travelers to cross paths with the survivor camp, which turns into a battle afterLottie kills Edwin with an ax. While Melissa gets severely injured and Hannah ends up becoming the new prisoner, it’s unclear what the group will do with Kodiak. Still,it doesn’t sound like the outsiders will get the group closer to being rescued.So even if the frogs don’t directly harm the group, their existence ends up affecting the survival journey, with the group making the situation worse. In a way, maybe the screaming wilderness inYellowjacketswas a warning.
