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> **何でも** 薄暗いじめじめした所でニャーニャー泣いていた事だけは記憶している。

> はてな **何でも** 容子【ようす】がおかしいと、のそのそ這【は】い出して見ると非常に痛い。

Doesn't make too much sense to me. Can someone explain please? (the sentences
are not related to each other)
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What does this 何でも mean?
The first なんでも is an adverb that roughly means "from what I
recall/gather/heard", "if I remember correctly". It's used as a hedge when you
say something from an unreliable source/memory. Here are what dictionaries
say:

>   * あいまいな記憶や他人から聞いた話など、判断の不確かなさま。また、そのような場合に発することば。たしか。聞くところでは。  
>  (精選版日本国語大辞典)
>   * よくはわからないが。どうやら。「何でも近く結婚するらしい」  
>  (デジタル大辞泉)
>   *
> 《多く、下に「…らしい」「…そうだ［ようだ］」「…という（ことだ）」などの語を伴って》その情報が不確かな記憶や伝聞に基づく意を表す。確か。「何でも無事だったらしい」「何でも明日来るとかいうことだ」  
>  (明鏡国語辞典)
>

The second なんでも seems to mean いくらなんでも/なにがなんでも ("no matter how (you look at
it)") in this context, but なんでも is not used in this sense today.
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(The excellent) 日本語文型辞典 by くろし gives the two following use cases for 何でも.

  1. 何でも好きなものを注文してください。 -> どんなことでも どのようなものでも すべて whatever
  2. 何でも彼女はもうすぐ仕事を辞めるそうです。 -> 後ろに[らしい・そうだ]などの伝聞(rumor)を表す表現を伴って、人から聞いた内容をあまり確信を持たずに伝える @naruto's main meaning.

But I don't see how this second meaning works in either of your sentences.
Semantically it doesn't work, and grammatically it doesn't work because no
そうだ-like closure is appended. So I would go for the " whatever" meaning of the
construct.

> 何でも薄暗いじめじめした所でニャーニャー泣いていた事だけは記憶している。

"In every dark humid place they (I?) were miawing, is all I can remember." is
my best guess.

To understand your second sentence, a key element is [from
HiNative](https://ja.hinative.com/questions/6877003), on the same sentence.
Indeed, はてな is the question mark symbol, so はてな何でも様子 is "question mark like
shape"/"a shape like a question mark, or whatever"/"a twisted shape".

This twisted shape is weird/uncomfortable/funny, so [they] sluggishly/slowly
try and creep [their] way out only to feel extreme pain.

Would that fit with the context?
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