Well, I checked just now in new game, and the sounds are not there. But I also checked the averholm Orchard, and there is at new game, only a barn, the spooky atmosphere only appears after we do the “Growing Tree” mission I guess. Maybe the creams also only appear after certain missions are done.
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I didn’t check it in a new game yet, but the last times I were there in my world 1, there also were no such sounds at bunker 666.
Problem is we only know for sure if we play all missions from scratch. But that would be cool to do while we wait for something new. Hopefully some more narrative to fill in gaps of info.
I wonder why this was added. “Dead trees on top of a cave” set piece. In the cave you can see the roots coming through the cave ceiling. They died because of lack of water and nourishment. Not a good place for trees to grow. There’s death inside the cave as well.
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b.t.w. I’m also a pro Voice over.
So if you need me, I’ll do GZ VO’s for free 
The pugilist enigma
I strongly believe that this photo of a pugilist is another dev tribute. The photo is prominently placed in an Iron Church scene in Room 301. While it might be mistaken for a picture of the Pope of the Iron Church, the likeness isn’t quite right. It seems possible that a developer who like boxing, and who worked on the Room 301 scene left the company, and that the GZ-Team included his photo as a tribute.
Please discuss if you have other ideas.
Additionally, Room 301 features the typical Iron Church weights together with “Stick!” graffiti. This suggests that the “Iron Church” faction is also responsible for the Swedish warning texts (“Stick!”) found throughout the GZ-world, similar to the several hunter sword scenes we encounter.
After re-examining all the different clues about the identity of the person behind the growing tree faction (apple murders) I am now quite sure that we can definitely identify the Guy based on Lore clues.
Spoiler
The person behind the apple murders in Kenneth Larsson who currently resides in the ringfort.
Kenneth must have gone crazy because of what happened to his family.
The most compelling evidence is that Kenneth’s family home at Pärlsjövägen 1 is the same address where The Growing Tree asked people to bring apples in exchange for food and other resources.
Kenneth in his role as Apple murderer wore a gasmask and raincoat to avoid recognition, however his tenger build and height fit that of the teenager Kenneth Larsson.
- Motive
His parents and brother Hendrik vanished from their car
and his Aunt: Dr. Ingrid Granqvist got murdered in her kitchen
It’s still not clear to me why Kenneth resorted in killing humans and not machines, and why the peculiar apple rituals? And if the name “The growing Tree” has a deeper meaning or not.
His victims range from Swedish military, Soviet military, Resistance members, Iron church members/ civilians)
Please discuss…
I guess it’s a mix of madness, bad experiences and revenge, but I’m no profiler.
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I am not a profiler either, but we still could speculate why the murders on humans. Together we know more. 
I don’t know if the apple murderer has the full picture of what led up to Cataclysm day, but if he does he might blame the military and Holberg for making FNIX happen.
Maybe he also blames the Averholm Apple Cider company for escalating the power struggle between humans & FNIX. That company’s family are probably the leaders of the Iron Church and that might be a reason for the apple rituals?
I had some more thought about “The Growing Tree” Faction. He thinks he’d save this wretched world with his rituals. What if the Apple ritualist did not kill people, but was making use of the corpses which are found all over the place? Would that not be more believable?
So what do you think; does the guy kill people for his rituals or is it likely that he uses corpses?
Then there is the case of the murdered (fraternal) twins, where we needed to investigate the clues to find out more about the twins and solve the double murder.
1st clue: The twins were both shot by a single shot to the back of the head at point blank range. So not by machines, nor by an axe.
2nd clue: We find a Blackmail letter, it says:
We know!
Tuesday evening by the beach near the hunting club.
Do you see yourself as a rough business competitor?
Do your hunting buddies Per-Erik and John know?
51% shares in the hotel if the takeover gets through
or no Björntunet at all for you. Meet us at Bergahyttan
tonight 23:00
Be on time Ingvar Larsson
Lisa and Louis"
3rd Clue: On Dot-Matrix printer:
“We don’t want to play with you anymore, Daniel.
We don’t want to play with you anymore, Daniel.
We don’t want to play with you anymore, Daniel.”
- What did Lisa & Louis know, that Ingvar was the Axe murderer?
- Are the dead fraternal twins Lisa & Louis?
- What is the significance of the dot matrix text?
Please discuss