A theory about the storm that Flight 828 vanished in explains every disappearance on Manifest. In the beginning, the show’s main characters were focused on trying to comprehend how they returned five years after their plane flew into a storm. Since then, several more disappearances have further confounded the passengers.
Before long, it became evident that the people aboard Flight 828 weren’t the only victims of the phenomenon that caused them to miss out on five years. They now know that under different sets of circumstances, an untold number of people have shared their fates in the series. Not only did they disappear and come back after lengths of time, but they also experienced the Callings and received their own Death Dates. Each group, regardless of their differences, appears to be part of the same mystery that’s currently plaguing the Flight 828 passengers. What’s not clear though, is what binds them all together or what exactly happened to them.
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Ben’s working theory onManifest is that each person who disappeared actually died and was brought back to life. To him and a few others, the recovered wreckage of Flight 828 serves as proof that they were resurrected by a higher power. However, other moments in the show suggest that resurrection has nothing to do with what happened to the passengers. However, there is a theory that would make sense of every disappearance on the show, and it relates directly to the storm that launched the show’s biggest mystery. Here’s why the same storm from the pilot episode may be directly responsible for all of Manifest’s disappearances.
Over the course of the series, Ben, Michaela, and Saanvi have learned much
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