1. ok I have never been proposed to I don't know what hand the ring is supposed to go on u didn't have to come for my lack of relationship like that LMAO 2. holy shit I did not know there's confirmed corona cases in boro (not sarcasm) 3.

I’m sure if EA saw all this they’d be like “Ooh.. so.. yeah it wasn’t that deep but this is cool, guys.”

"she does look exactly like Bella" honey, that's The Sims 3, everybody looks the same

the ultimate theory: alex plays sims IS alexander goth retelling his story/theory on everything that happened to his mother

"We are sims kids, if there is an inch, we'll run a mile" this cannot be anymore true than it is

“My entire existence is self isolation” I have never related to a quote so much before

Oh God, it's happening people, it's happening! Oh God. Everybody stay calm!

If The Sims 5 don’t have a Storyline like The Sims 2 , don’t have the progression of the Goth Mystery, and don’t have Mathilde like a random Girl who showed up at (Insert a future pleasant view name here) without knowing where she is and who she is, WE SIGN A PETITION FOR EA’S SHUTDOWN

All the sims 1-3: hella lore and storyline Sims 4: ain’t got nothin for ya hun

WHY IS THE SIMS 2 SO ICONIC?? It's literally a perfect game. The Lore! The gameplay! I-CO-NIQUE henny!

"'The Bella Goth mystery has been SOLVED'' Me: *gasp* *shookth* *Instantly clicks*

I was watching this and my husband was catching snippets of it, when he pipes up with "Wait, why is she acting like The Sims has a backstory?" I have to divorce him now, surely.

My non native english speaker mind heard: "I AM DEVELOPING A CULT" And honey, I'm in for it...the Bella worshipers (?

Idk if it's related, but on the sims 3 there is also a book called "Where is bella?"

all i heard was “I GOT YOUR PICTURE IM COMING WITH YOU DEAR MARIA COUNT ME INNN” after the cough in the beginning

I don’t know if anyone has mentioned that Cassandra has a memory of Bella being abducted by aliens, someone probably has said this but I can’t remember. Also mortimer also has it but his memory is positive whiles Cassandra is negative

Noo don't read that quickly, my brain has to take all of that info, when you're reading this quickly it can't obtain all the info

The biggest mystery is how Cassandra went from Medium skinned (TS1,TS2) to Light Skin (TS3 onwards)

Bella Goth is called 'Cora Van de Kerkhof' in Dutch. 'Van de Kerkhof' literally means 'From the Graveyard'. Edit: Another thing, In the sims 3 where Bella is a child, she is called 'Cora Vrijevogel', Vrijevogel means 'Free Bird'

In the French version of the game, it says "the Caliente sisters arrived precisely the day before Bella disapearance".

this is proper true crime, right down my allyway

Completely unrelated to the Goths, but I got this screen in the sims 4, cause one of my sims is a painter, and it was talking about painting a picture from 2 George Landgraabs, both from different timelines, and if you hit okay it says that your sims changed the timeline and congratulates you....had myself FREAKING OUT

Maybe “died in a mysterious pool ladder accident” mean that he died swimming after the pool ladder got deleted

Maybe EA didn’t add lore to the sims 4 because they were absolutely stunned at us going this far with Bella lol 😆

So I've had a little trouble following, but my understanding of basic beats ofthe theory is: - Bella was newly pregnant when she was abducted. The abduction was a random occurance, no foul play. -aliens couldn't figure out what to do with her so they dropped her in lunar lakes -she has her child and gives her up

Nobody: Plumbella: ~êëh~

I know the person who wrote this tumblr post and she's so happy you did a video on it, she's in a Facebook Sims group boasting about it 😁

So that means... The Sims 4 is also part of the story line, this alternate reality is how the story continues

SHUT THE FRONT DOOR I swear if this is clickbait hen

Forget the Legend of Zelda, Dragon Age and the Elder Scrolls, the Sims is the game where players be swimming neck-deep in the lore sauce! :D

It’s true that if a male gets pregnant with himself it will always be a girl. The Sims team probably did this with Daniel Pleasant, and that’s why Angela and Lilith don’t look half Asian.

I think the time travel aspect of this theory makes sense. Here's my theory: what if Skip Broke was the always-born-a-baby-boy, since he cannot break out of the timeline? His clone was sent to future by Michael Bachelor which kind of 'enabled' him to marry with his mother. Yes, he eventually dies in a tragic accident; but every time you start a game in Pleasantview he is born too. It's like Oedipus the King in an endless loop; the mother always marries the child from the future and later when he dies, the mother gives birth to him at the present-day time. Why did the aliens kidnap Bella? Well, in the end, she is blood-related to Michael Bachelor. I'm not so sure about this but at that period she was captured wasn't she the only Bachelor alive? This utterly bizarre technology that Michael practiced back in the day may have grabbed the aliens' attention and they might be looking for answers from a person who is blood related to Michael. Or is it that this unresolved loop in the timeline could have produced its effects on aliens' time and resulted in a time warp? I think the the background story in the Sims series is heavily influenced by the concept of time, if not we wouldn't have witnessed so many invasions or other alien stuff constantly intervening in daily life in the sim world!

Nah they weren't divorced, the Strangetown Bella is a clone, that's why she doesn't have the ring

Also honestly. This game is 80% storytelling and if you're a good enough story teller you can make anything make sense so the fact they released Sims 4 in the state that it was/is baffles me.

I really, genuinely hope they bring back the story aspect to the Sims 5 and make it a well thought out thing for people to follow.

You should really do a play through of the Sims 2 in the PSP. There’s a lot of juicy details about Bella there. And a very spicy detail about why she married Mortimer 🌶🥵👀

omg after getting the notification i automatically clicked... bella's mystery is basically one of the most important ones there is

Omg bella’s lullaby from twilight playing in the back 😂

I’m now going to find every excuse I can to use the phrase, “Guys, gals and non-binary pals,” in my everyday speech.

this makes me miss the lore so much :( i think thats why sims 4 is so disappointing for me personally

“I’m self-isolating anyway” Darling, that’s called being an introvert

And THAT’S what you missed on GLEE!

There’s quite a few holes in this theory, such as that Mortimer and Bella apparently don’t get along. This is because when you try to resurrect a pre-dead sim, they always have no personality points whatsoever. Also, why would Mortimer write a full book about Bella if he didn’t love her anymore? However, the Sims 2 for PSP does reveal that Bella doesn’t love Mortimer. On another note, resurrecting Bella (or any other predead sim) with the Resurrect-O-Nimitron will also corrupt Pleasantview (all of the premade hoods ship pre-corrupted, but you can get clean versions of them), so please don’t try it. If you really want to resurrect Bella, I highly suggest only doing so through SimPE. Edit: just realised “Where’s Bella?” wasn’t written by Mortimer. Oops.

I find it amazing how a fan was able to connect the sims 4 to the rest of the sims timeline in a way EA could never. So creative The lore and backstories is what I miss most in these games. Please bring it back in the sims 5.

*Deadly Virus Coronavirus* Extroverts: “NOOOO I WONT BE ABLE TO SPEAK TO ANYONE OR LEAVE MY HOUSE” Introverts: “I’ve Been Preparing For This Since I Was BORN”

Plumbella: that’s a very vanilla way of putting it Me: so basically sims 4 in a sentence This is the most likes I’ve ever gotten thank you all your all so beautiful have a lovely day/night 💖

I have a PSP game where Bella has left her husband and says she had married him for his cable TV. But is that our Bella, or a clone? It doesn't say who her husband was. And she's suddenly and desperately trying to leave town. I never managed to find out if it says why she's leaving. (It could just be because her house is haunted.)

I feel like Bella and Mortimer were one of those relationships which was built on friendship more than romance.

As soon as I saw the title I clicked on it 😂

Omg hens, She is the next Sherlock Holmes 🥑

I'm so heartbroken they were childhood best friends 😭 what happened there. Never forgiving Mortimer 😭😤

following this theory, this could mean that alexander could possibly be emit relevart?

Alexander definitely knows more about Bellas disappearance. I replayed the sims 2 recently and unintentionally sent Alexander to university alone and guess who the adult in the little clip was who dropped him off?? BELLA!!! I need answers plumbella can you please investigate this for yourself?!

I love your videos. And it makes me kind of sad to say, that without discovering your videos I would never have realised how much history some of the families have, because I’ve always played the games in Finnish. As a kid (like over 15 years ago) I started with the first Sims game and the Goths were named Mortimer, Bella and Cassandra. In the Sims 2 their names were translated (Mortimer=Janus and Bella=Johanna) so I never knew they were the same people. This has apparently been the case with many other families throughout the Sims games. But all in all, thank you so much for making all these videos and for educating me. I thought I was a Sims veteran but apparently not a very good one :D

"mcr: famous last words" i just about died and its only 20 seconds in

This theory seems kind of plausible, but I have an explanation of a less supernatural character. Brace yourselves, it is a long story: Willow Creek. Alexander is in Grade School and Cassandra Goth is a teen. Their stay-at-home mom Bella decides it is high time to find a job so she starts working in the Intelligence Services. Not long after she gets promoted to a Field Agent and starts going on secret missions, explaining her frequent disappearances. When one of those missions goes terribly wrong, Bella’s identity is compromised. Concerned that her family might be exposed to danger, Bella takes the hardest decision of her life - to stage her own disappearance for the sake of her family’s safety. She carefully plans how to do it, so that Mortimer will never try to look for her. She leaves all of her belongings behind, takes a small amount of money in order not to raise suspicion and decides to move to a place that would not appear on any map. A place that was a long kept secret of the Intelligence - Strangetown. But before that she had to make up a story of what happened to her. So she went to Don Lothario’s house. She asked him whether they can watch the stars together from his observation deck. Don, seeing an opportunity to finally seduce Bella, agrees. While stargazing he makes a move on her, but she tells him that if she had a drink she would feel more comfortable. So Don goes to the lower deck to mix some cocktails while Bella is stargazing through the telescope. When he goes back to the observation deck Bella is gone without a trace. Several days later the police is frantically searching for Bella Goth. After weeks of searching no clues were found and people started to think that Bella was abducted by aliens. Eventually the case was closed. Strangetown/Strangerville. Shortly upon her arrival Bella found out she was pregnant. 9 months later she gave birth to a baby girl, she named Mathilde. Years pass and Mathilde starts asking questions about her father. To make sure Mathilde will stop digging, Bella tells her that her father died in a tragic accident. More years pass and Bella’s enemies are long dead. Maybe it is time for her to move back to Willow Creek. Willow Creek. Bella travels back home to find that Mortimer is happily married and has a son with Dina Caliente. Cassandra has ended up with Don Lothario (weirdly enough in my Sims 2 version Don did not leave Cassandra at the altar) and they are expecting their first child. Alexander wrote a book about his mother’s story that turned out to be a bestseller. At this point Bella realizes that her return will cause a chaos in the lives of her loved ones so she decides to disappear forever and move on as her family did. She moves to Lunar Lakes with her daughter. She eventually dies of old age and is never reunited with the Goths. The end. :)

I love the idea of us a community taking a small thing like this, making it a conspiracy theory and actually solving it😂

"my entire existence is self isolating anyway" can relate 😅 your videos cheer me up in under 30 seconds 👌

If you get Alexander to go to college and Mortimer is already dead he won’t arrive alone like Ophelia who loves with her aunt Alexander will arrive with...... BELLA GOTH

Trying to wrap my old grey cells around why because when I play Bella in Sims 3 and never let her marry or procreate with Mortimer the entire history of the Sims in the entire series is not forever altered. After all as players we tend to believe we are thier God guiding thier lives and thier futures. And now my brain hurts from the attempt to sort all of this out!

I clicked fast because I had no idea there was a mystery. I never interact with townies lmao. Now I wanna know

Seems legit, the sims team did say ts4 is an alternate reality, so that little alt reality bit at the end does make sense as well.

“I was gonna say it didn’t age well, but did it ever look good?” 💀💀💀

8:29 honestly the Twilight music has me cracking up 😂💀

My god I LOVE your reactions, the way your pronounce and enunciate is EVERYTHING it makes it so much more interesting. Pls gimme more of your amazing voice

I read this this morning! I was sooo shocked that someone’s actually done the research on this and my soul feels happy now.

I’m waiting for the Sims update where Sims have trouble discerning accents from other towns. Just like the UK.

My school has been closed for the best few weeks due to Corona and I have my final exams in like a month so as ridiculous as it sounds your videos help a lot with the stress. Bless your beautiful soul and your lovely accent

jesse ur literally my fav youtuber. just thought i’d tell you i built a massive town in my Sims2 & all homes and community lots are built by me. :)

I've been craving some Bella Goth draaaama!☠️

“It’s not corona!” 😂😂😂😂thanks for updating us

I love your videos, you have so much energy. I've been feeling down and this is perfect

Ahh I LOVE your hair that violet/purple colour!!! Really does suit you Jess!! 💜

i’m so confused henny my tiny brain cant comprehend all of this-

“My entire existence is self-isolating anyway”, iconic and also what I’ve been preparing for my whole life 😂😂😂

This is really good! I’m so glad I’m not the only one who is super into the lore and story aspect! I miss it in TS4!

Omg lol, I had no idea Sims actually had LORE. I just thought their little characters and families were there if you couldn’t be bothered to make your own Sims! XD I literally have never played any of the main families, I replace all of them with my own Sims. The more you learn, wow.

Well when someone goes missing....they always look at the spouse first for a reason...🤷🏻‍♀️

Thank you for the video Plumbella :) its initially only because i like watching your videos that i even know about these sims-es lore and i love it :)

plumbella: Bella Goth automatic translator: belicoff

Just wanted to say. I LOVE your content Jesse!! Specially when you get your parents on 🤣🤣. Hope to see them again soon haha. And Thank you for INSPIRING me to create my own channel!!!!!

Me: *spent a good 30 minutes reading this post last week* Also me: *watches Plumbella read it anyways bc I love her*

I’ve just stumbled across your account, and I absolutely love you!! You make me laugh so much. 💖

I really love that idea that Sunset Valley is an alternate reality version of Pleasantview. That makes so much sense in my head.

this is the perfect content to watch while i isolate myself in my apartment

Literally just dropped everything to watch this!! I cannot wait!

That subtle My Chem edit absolutely sent me. Also liked this video before I watched it

the way plum says book is the best. just adorable

when u said that thing about americans claiming to be irish bc back 10 generations someone was irish and on behalf of ireland we have mad respect for u

"guys, gals, and non-binary pals" should be a standard form of address for everything omg

OMG I'm so glad you covered this! I just read this theory last night and I totally believe most of it!

I think I’m going to use this in my sims 4 save where I’m recreating all the families from the timeline from the other sims games. Especially since it will be super easy to recreate them all with some time.

As someone with an English degree, a simile is a comparison between two things using the phrase "like" or "as". For example, clouds are like cotton candy. A metaphor is a comparison NOT using "like" or "as".

"my entire existence is self isolating anyway, so either way, we're sound" MOOD

I can’t believe I found this before you made a video. I read the whole tumblr post and threw my phone onto the bed and stared into blank space for ages. My best friend was visiting and was like ‘wtf dude’

I just spent a ridiculous amount of time reading the whole actual post and going through Alex's account (had to find it bc my phone said, "nah we acktually will Not be taking you to the post itself thank you buh bye") and I am feeling SO INSPIRED RN TO MAKE SIMS CONTENT more than I have been in AGES,,,,, HOW DID I NOT SEE THIS VIDEO SOONER I HAVE BEEN SUBSCRIBED LITERALLY SINCE BEFORE THIS VID AND DIDN'T SEE IT UNTIL JUST A FEW HOURS AGO 😭😭😭😭😭😭

I really hope in the sims 5 we got more lore again because i really miss it, it made it wayyy more interesting

Your hair looks so good. Much unicorn energy 🦄🦄🦄

Found this one year after you uploaded this. I didn't realize how deep the lore got. If they put lores back in with Sims 5, I hope they continue them with the children. Bella and Mortimer passed away, and now Cassandra and Alexandera have their own mysteries as young adults. Have them both the same age in the same household in the beginning of Sums 5, and have the community buzzing how that happened. They can do something different with all families who have children, and single families are elders or soon to pass away.

to be honest before this i never hooked with any lore but now im in for the drama, mystery, thrills, action, and romance..thank you plumbella for introducing me to a whole new world