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>It's definitely way up there on the tinfoil hat meter, haha.
>Some interesting circumstantial evidence there, although I
>always attributed relative Bolton secrecy as just that...
>relative secrecy. Martin (thankfully) doesn't go too deep
>into each house's history, and it can be (weakly) argued that
>Mormonts and Tarly's are major characters but we don't know
>too much about them either.

It's a little weird even for Martin, since almost all the others houses get some back-story and mentions of their extended family trees. With the Boltons, it's just... Roose. And now Ramsay.

But yeah, it's pretty tin-foil hat territory. You really want to go down the rabbit-hole, read the seven-part "Grand North Conspiracy" theory. Short version: The House of the North aren't nearly as cowed by the Boltons and the Freys as they appear, and they are about to revolt. They aren't impressed with Stannis either (he doesn't respect the Old Gods and is obsessed with Rh'lor), so they plan to install a legitimized Jon Snow as the King as the North.

Now all they need to do is establish who the "Hooded Man" is.