Mystery·Open
The Symbol
A crooked, antler-like glyph that predates the survivors and recurs across both timelines.
Updated through S1E1
A distinctive symbol — a stack of lines resembling antlers or a rune — appears carved on a tree at the crash site before the girls arrive, and recurs for decades after: scratched, tattooed, and mailed on postcards.
What's confirmed in canon
S1E1The survivors find the symbol already carved into a tree — it predates them.
S1–S3The symbol recurs across the wilderness and follows the survivors into the present on postcards and bodies.
Where the community lands
The symbol is the show's oldest unexplained object: it was there first, which means someone or something used this wilderness the same way before the team ever crashed. Its origin remains the deepest unsolved thread.
Still open
Q1Who carved the first symbol, and when?
Q2Were there Yellowjackets before the Yellowjackets?
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