Was The Haunting season 3 teased in the first episode of Bly Manor?

What is The Haunting season 3 about?

Netflix hasn’t confirmed if there even will be a The Haunting season 3 yet, but fans of The Haunting of Bly Manor and The Haunting series, overall, are, of course, already wondering if there will be.

If there is, it’s possible that The Haunting season 3 was teased at the very beginning of the first episode of The Haunting of Bly Manor.

The Haunting of Bly Manor opens with the narrator waking from what we presume is a nightmare involving a creepy-looking woman emerging from a lake. She glances at the door, which is cracked open, before unfolding herself from the chair she’s fallen asleep in to make her way to the bathroom where both the sink and the bathtub are filled with water. Both of which she glances at her reflection in, which doesn’t seem significant until the very end of Bly Manor.

The next time we see her, she’s taken a taxi to an unidentified building in Northern California. It’s some kind of an event venue. She joins a group of people seated at a table on the patio outside. They’re in the middle of a rehearsal dinner. The woman exchanges knowing glances with a couple of the other people there, including the man who is giving a speech to the young couple.

The scene morphs to later in the evening when everyone is sitting around inside in a lobby or a lounge having after-dinner drinks.

The bride-to-be says, “No, I’m serious, we actually refused to stay here.”

The groom-to-be says, “She refused.”

An unidentified female guest says, “I didn’t know staying here was even an option.”

The bride informs her the “castle” has three suites. The exterior shot of the building looks elegant, but nothing like a castle. At least not the kind like are found all over Europe. Also, we know they’re in Northern California.

Anyway, the bride says Jack, her fiance, wanted to stay there for a night before they left for their honeymoon. He wants to just stumble upstairs after the reception.

“But I said, ‘No way, not after those stories,'” the bride says.

The guest asks, “Just the stories? You didn’t see her?”

“No! God no, I didn’t see her,” the bride says. “If I saw a dead woman, a dead nun, no less, crying in the corners, we would not be getting married here.”

Boom. Right there. Was that a teaser for The Haunting season 3? Or, could it have been a teaser for Flanagan’s new Netflix series, Midnight Mass?

Time will tell…