THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES #12 - First Aid

MAG012 - Case #0121102 - Lesere Saraki
Statement regarding a recent night shift at St. Thomas Hospital, London.
The Magnus Archives tells the tale of a hospital nurse who had to deal with a serious case of raised temperatures when two strange patients were admitted to their care.
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[@torchstelechos8368]

Jon sounded physically pained that Martin was correct. Lmao.

[@Comment3230]

Ikr

[@frogonthebikeheh]

Jon nags so much about Martin's work, it's so ironic

[@user-bp9s]

cant lmfao.what people love to indulage and spread the word

[@skyclaude8847]

Well I guess we now know what Gerard meant back in page turner when he said I've seen worse when he picked up the hot trashbin

[@drewdeathless]

I was trying for the life of me to remember who he was. When they mentioned the book I thought of that story but am only now realizing he was the son. Thank you 😩

[@lonewaffle231]

Oh shit yeah he did that. Its funny to me that I dont remember the name but I guessed correctly that, thats the story he is mentioned it.

[@cawareyoudoin7379]

Martin does not in fact speak polish, and neither does Jon (it's said more like vey-paah-latch", than wepalatch). "Wypalać" in polish means "to burn out". I cannot believe my language came in handy. Edit after 4 years, because I just noticed I was unclear: "wypalać" *can* also mean "cauterize" or "brand", but it's not the first meaning that comes to mind.

[@gretablackwell495]

Connected to episode 8?

[@merlin8046]

Ha! To dobrze mi się wydawało 😊

[@cawareyoudoin7379]

@@gretablackwell495I don't remember what ep.8 was, but I reckon you already know that everything might be connected...

[@cawareyoudoin7379]

@@merlin8046 Słuchanie jak ludzie z krajów anglojęzycznych mówią po polsku jest prawdziwą rozkoszą XD

[@merlin8046]

@@cawareyoudoin7379 Czasem też torturą haha Jak miło spotkać rodaka pod anglojęzycznym filmem

[@tonio1377]

given i suck at remembering names it feels im going to have troubles keeping up with the plot T^T

[@illusionhong18]

Hdhdh me

[@edelbrosnan6222]

I'm weighting everything down. It's hard at this point.

[@jonathanmejia346]

I cannot for the life of me remember names

[@domrat1550]

It's like 'Dark' all over again. I need to write all the names down.

[@lhumyaki]

same. Luckily people in the comments are there to mention the names that comes back

[@Teddy-hp9zy]

Seems to me that Gertrude Robinson wasn't as disorganized as she seemed...

[@takeoats]

women in stem ✊🏻

[@albuseisenhorn3385]

a strange and bizarre catalogue system almost like she's hiding something~

[@malteasermidnight7200]

@@albuseisenhorn3385 more like she's trying to reveal something.

[@lolamay9574]

she’s a woman in stem

[@alixhuether8543]

list of podcasts to listen to at night while sewing

[@ivetta8498]

I paint while listening to this 👀

[@nanahuatli2144]

I knit.

[@piratehalfdroid7370]

I listen to alot of podcasts while i go through my day

[@bluechord2928]

I'm embroidering

[@LittleBitch-bi3fx]

IveeDoodle me too

[@tuna9847]

It seems to me that the eye symbols were protecting Gerard. I'm assuming that the eye pendant he wore protected his head from being burnt and his eye tattoos protected his joints. Is being watched the key? Could this be connected to Graham Folger who was alive until Amy Patel stopped watching him? And his notebook which had "keep watching" over and over again? So now, with nurse Lesere Saraki. At the end, when she gets the feeling of being watched. Is it inherently ominous or is she actually being protected?

[@katziliaf]

Makes sense. The theory reminds me a bit of this Eastern legend I once read, though I dunno how it was called again. Basically, a Buddhist monk accidentally insults a bunch of demons. So, they invite him to their festival to play his instrument as payback, but a god tells him it's a trap. The demons will tear him to pieces once they see him. But the God helps him. He covers every piece of the Monks body with holy writing, which renders the Monk invisible. However, like Siegfried, the god forgotten the ears of the Monk. Night arrives and the Monk goes to the festival. He is nearly invisible, playing his instrument which seems to come from everywhere. The demons howl that they can't track him down. At one point though, they see his floating ears. Clever as they are, they piece together that the Monk is protected by holy writing that cover his entire body. Angered over their failure, they gleefully rip the Monks ears off as it's the only thing not protected. Or something. I tried looking it up, but I can't find the legend. But I know that it's often showing up when you get into more obscure legends.

[@cassidyho939]

@@katziliaf That's an interesting take on the Japanese legend Hoichi The Earless. The one I remember is that he was a blind but skilled minstrel whose skill on the biwa could bring many to tears. He was guided by a gruff samurai into what seemed to be a grand house of a daimyō. His music is met with high praise, and he is asked to return the following evening. Hoichi's friend , who is suspicious, follows him....only to find the minstrel playing his biwa furiously in the middle of the Amidaji cemetery. Realizing that Hoichi had been bewitched by ghosts, the priest vowed to save his friend by painting Hoichi's body with the kanji characters of the Heart Sutra for protection. He was also instructed to remain silent and motionless when the spirits called upon him. The "samurai" indeed returns, and calls for him...but can find no sign of Hoichi- save his ears. With that, the "samurai" tears off the minstrel's ears to offer as proof to his "lord" that he was not remiss in his orders. Remarkably, Hoichi had not cried out despite his injuries ( probably from shock). When the priest returned, he realized in dismay that he had neglected to write the sutra on Hoichi's ears. Nevertheless, Hoichi not only recovered, but went on to become a famous musician.

[@cakeday4058]

I just started watching, but isn’t the pendent the same kind as the one the mother was wearing in Episode 9? I remember Julia saying that it was left on the kitchen counter before she went missing.

[@user-is1fg2zo4v]

@@cakeday4058 the pendant was actually for the people's church of the divine host! different than the one mentioned here =)

[@rauls.g.2518]

@@user-is1fg2zo4v and given the relationship of the people's church with the eye symbols, and how their logo is a closed eye, and more spoiler thingies that are important for that antagonism, they're actually opposites One is an eye, always watching, while the other is a closed eye, never seeing anything, only darkness

[@Gwenobbie]

I have troubles with remembering names, especially with only audio, and it's only very late in the seasons that I discovered that it's GERARD Keay and not Jared. There's another important character named Jared, and it was so confusing to me!

[@tearez13]

Don't worry Ur not the only one

[@heresthadude1080]

Yeah there's only one character who pronounces Gerard's name more understandably for rhotic English speakers

[@moustachedgink]

And in this time subtitles says: Jared Key

[@kissshotheartunderblade655]

this was why I read the transcripts instead lol. At least until Season 2. The initial audio run was difficult for me. I couldn't focus, couldn't remember anything. I have a very hard time with audio

[@midnights2631]

Saaaaame.

[@jamespeterson101]

I haven't listened past this, but anyone else here still new to this whole thing? All I can think with "the lightless flame," is in episode 8, "Burned Out," when the guy said that he was just getting hotter and hotter even though there was no heat there.

[@fauxclaws]

I was thinking that to! though i'm a year later then you lol

[@zGabaz]

@@fauxclaws same, and I am also late

[@abandonFandom]

👁)

[@Angel-ni2yn]

👁

[@Alsarnia]

?????

[@Lu-be7rk]

comments: jared me, crying: please dont call him that

[@arianewinter4266]

. . . well it is extreamly hard to get name spelling right, if you never read but only ever heared them. Especialy in a language like english where a whole lot of latter combinations can sound pretty much the same. Jared vs Gared, Jaime vs Jamie, Amy vs Aimee, Zoe vs Zoey, Layla vs Lailah . . . I get you, but rationaly one can not blame anyone for it ^^.

[@azulBjort_1406]

@@arianewinter4266 spoilers for season 4 I'm pretty sure they were referring to the fact that he asked John to refer to him as Jerry instead of Jared, That he always wished his frends to call him that.

[@arianewinter4266]

@@azulBjort_1406 Possible Though Gerard and Gerry is how they are supposed to be written. Jared is the flesh avatar and another person entirely . . . but the audio does not make it that clear

[@azulBjort_1406]

@@arianewinter4266 yeah I know, you're right✌️

[@arianewinter4266]

@@azulBjort_1406 and there are a lot of, how dare you getting it wrong comments while honestly, yes, it is wrong, but unless you look it up you can not know

[@thedistinguished5255]

"christmas seems to bring out the side of people that.. leads them to a hospital" lmaoo that is so funny

[@royalknightsleipmon2345]

To anyone listening to all of this for the first time, trust me on this, it is so deeply worth it to go back once you've finished everything and listen through a second time. This is my second time listening to the series and I'm picking up on so many details I didn't understand the first time.

[@annimatesstuff]

This episode is so rewarding on the second listen through it amazing

[@emilybarclay8831]

I’m on listen like 3 or 4 and I’m formulating a mega theory about the exact timeline that the entities originated

[@derinscarlat716]

Could the eye pendant here be linked to the eye pendant the mother left behind in A Fathers Love?

[@sumitrana2420]

It was not an eye pendant and was definitely silver All pendants were This one had eye and was of brass

[@Iquey]

It was a hand with a closed eye, so similar to a hamsa design.

[@derinscarlat716]

Ahh okay, thank you!

[@jasonschuler2256]

Not sure how far you are at this point, but it's important to note that the eye was closed in "A Father's Love".

[@DarknessTheNightFury]

There is a connection though but just not the pendant. Gerald was the one who painted the eye in the earlier episode about the book with Mary's ghost offering old dusty tea to the MC.

[@marinao4412]

this man cast a fearsome fire spell just to get some peace and quiet to sleep in and I respect that

[@megancress1384]

making some brainless art while listening to this sounds good and all, until i realize there's a point in the pulse of my left hand that has *really* thin skin, so thin that i can see the faint pulsing of blood in the vein below. Can't even ignore it with all the creepy pulsing stuff in these stories, i can't believe i'm being scared by my own heartbeat

[@voidjockey82]

Looks like the Flesh got another one...

[@katelynna10000]

This is the first episode that gave me a legit chill up my spine. That final bit about the single frame with the eye really got me. I feel like this is not the last we'll hear of Jared Key... or his mother

[@sergantpeepeepants8800]

Wasn't his name Gerard? (I mean I also know he prefers being called Gerry but still)

[@calamity2383]

@@sergantpeepeepants8800 that’s definitely what it sounds like

[@a.b.cooper4807]

@@sergantpeepeepants8800 it sounds like Jared to me, but I found in another comment that it's supposed to be Gerard. It could be an accent thing. (I've only heard the American pronunciation, which sounds like "jeh-rahrd" or "geh-rahrd")

[@archivalsystem]

@@a.b.cooper4807 It's canonically Gerard, apparently Jonny had a bit of trouble with it in early episodes; the rest of the staff gave him a fair bit of playful guff for it later on!

[@a.b.cooper4807]

@@archivalsystem Thank you!

[@maneater2066]

"better Beholding than the Lighless Flame" Are those like two covenants for two different entities that hate each other's guts? And if so, Gerald Keay is a member of the covenant of the "beholding" (judging from the tattoos and his painting at Mary's home) and was trying to sabotage the other one's ritual? This is all very interesting

[@humanname99]

was this your first listen? jfdshfsdhdks I had no grasp of the plot here I'm so impressed,

[@maneater2066]

@@humanname99 Yeah, actually lol, but it's not like I understood anything this early, I was writing notes on every episode to try and remember anything important and was basically grasping at straws; I'm on season 4 right now so I stopped bothering with notes, but I guess I am proud of how largely right I was.

[@hiddenace1953]

@@maneater2066 Same. I'm still here at season 1 with this episode but I have to be making my notes

[@albuseisenhorn3385]

Good idea, will help you though after about 3 series in its easier to get things sorted haha. Jared was speaking to the nurse when he said better the beholding than the lightless flame - one would have killed her (notice all the things beginning to boil and get hot from the man's chanting) the other would let her live even if there are... repercussions

[@sandymcneish7820]

Oh yeah that guy from Pageturner

[@princessarisnowball8463]

The burn marks but no fire remind me of the Raymond ghost in construction episode earlier

[@someoneawesome8717]

An excellent observation

[@beholdthegriffin5488]

Lmao she’s just like yeah go for it when she sees that saline boil. She’s really did say I have a limit and you have just crossed it

[@biancamlf288]

I find it more funny how she was over all the eye stuff. The tattoos, the necklace, I would say that that was her breaking point.

[@solonserenity4067]

Jared Key....am I reading too much into this or is there an over arching plot hidden in these stories? Ugh, I can't get enough! Lol

[@Rin-qj7zt]

i believe there is, but i forgot which previous statement he showed up in

[@rowan945]

wasn't Jared Key the vampire killer in episode 10?

[@rowan945]

never mind I'm mixing him up with someone else

[@toastghost9145]

@@Rin-qj7zt Gerard Kaey last showed up in Episode 4: Pageturner, wherein he destroyed the paranormal book Ex Altiora.

[@Rin-qj7zt]

@@toastghost9145 oh! him! thanks! that sheds a lot of light on what happened. i guess he's searching for these kind of books and destroying them. wonder where they came from.

[@toadstooldarling9937]

so.... strange chanting.? growling of a beast? eye pendant? definetly connected to fathers love.

[@beetlbrite]

I wasn’t paying half attention to this then I heard hair dyed black and I went OOP

[@beltaya276]

wowowowow what is there a connection i missed??

[@nathanielhymller5795]

@@beltaya276 Back from ep 4

[@io_online]

HeLp I can't remember why black hair is important or when Mr Key dude showed up before hand-

[@user-gp8hy2tf9f]

Listening to season 1 again and I got really excited that “Yes, for you, better beholding than the lightless flame” makes perfect sense now :D

[@emgomez5863]

Wait so what does it mean?? I forgot everything😭

[@Yohannai]

@@emgomez5863 As far as I can guess, which power to end up cursed by. Cursed by Beholding by helping Gerard or cursed by the lightless flame by helping the nameless man. (I have finished the whole series, but this isn't really spoiler, since she talks about being watched since that event in this very episode)

[@FromAsgard32]

The pronounciation of this Polish word was so off that I had to replay it like 20 times before I heard anything that would make sense... Hearing English-speaking people use Slaving languages is always an interesting experience :D "palacz" would be a person who smokes (like cigaretts) or who adds coal to fuel something e.g.; and "wypalać" does in fact mean "to mark something by burning it", but also "to burn out" (e.g. a forest or to burn out creatively)

[@arianewinter4266]

. . . I find slavic languages extreamly hard, I have not even a clue where to start with an attempt at pronounciation. To me the notoriously obscure welsh, despite less contact is way easyer, japanese, all, ok, frensh . . . I am not good but understandable but no chance at all at slavic languages

[@FromAsgard32]

@@arianewinter4266 Yeah, Polish is rather difficult, sometimes even if you're a native speaker, because grammar can be very tricky xD I assume that for most people the pronunciation is hard due to all the s/ś/z/ź/ż/sz/cz/rz etc. sounds appearing close to one another all the time. I'm gussing that for many people it would be hard even if they'd know all the rules, because it's not common in many languages to have so many clusters of sibilants per sentence. Like in that common tongue twister: "W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie" where there are at least 10 sounds like that packed in 6 words. I'm not sure if other Slavic languages are this extreme, though. I feel like there are easier ones than Polish (the ones that sound softer) to pick if someone wanted to learn :D

[@LittleBitch-bi3fx]

Pendant with an eye..? Like the mom in a fathers love...

[@Am_Potato]

That's what I was just thinking!

[@chicky6471]

So many juicy foreshadowing details!

[@isabella-zx2dc]

upon relistening to the series, did anyone else hear the static at 18:22? its subtle and only starts/ends when gerard talks that one time but ohhh man

[@parasitone0814]

Maybe it is a secret that it means that it's a cut or something I think I could make an investigation out of this

[@aubarlowe]

so! Mike, the actor for Tim, said in a livestream that that was used as a signal that someone was using powers in season 1!

[@samparker9631]

I know this is long past time, but there is also static in the episode piecemeal that I didn't notice, until I wasn't driving and listening

[@Chrom4Prez]

The description of the bottles boiling and exploding in the machine was so cool.

[@Angel-ni2yn]

YUH THAT'S MY REACTION TOO LIKE I WANT THE VISUALS OF IT THO! I WANNA SEE IT P O P!

[@wonderwhatsgonnahappen579]

Ok, i only knew Gerard Keay for like two episodes now, and i already know one thing. Keep him away from anything that's flammable.

[@dedicatedsparrow8932]

Gerry (Gerard) was "discharged into the care of his mother"? Yeah. I'm sure it was Mary 😂

[@someoneawesome8717]

Lol but we both know she was comparatively better to Gerry than his actual mum

[@OhHoneeBee]

Spoilers for up to mag 160 God, this is SO satisfying to listen to with perspective. There was stuff on the Lightless Flame and the Eye in season one?? I knew they were implied but them being mentioned by name was a nice shock. All of the little things from the first dozen episodes that become relevant later are sooo nice to see slowly being put together. I didn’t even realize that NotThem was mentioned before season two. Honestly Jonny and his team do such a fantastic job with this series and I love every second of it.

[@Amalgemotion]

Hearing the Beholding name-dropped this early was *chilling* in a re-listen.

[@skullape3281]

The Beholding was actually naem dropped even before this in the trailer

[@dragonfied321]

Minor Spoilers for the overarching structure of the story. "Better Beholding than the Lightless Flame" makes so much more sense on the second run. Beholding is the Eye, and the Lightless Flame is the Desolation. "For you, better to observe then to intervene"

[@aegri1847]

Hello, first time listener here. I just want to say that you should put a spoiler warning before the comment for the other people. Thank you for your time.

[@dragonfied321]

@@aegri1847, Thanks for the polite comment. This isn't actually much of a spoiler at all, as its just bynames for The Powers that are the focus of the stories. This is the first time the Lightless Flame appears, but not so for Beholding. Aside from that, the "spoiler" is far too vague. You wouldn't even begin to see why, as that *would* be a spoiler, but by the time you got to my comment you should have passed a dozen of the big ones. This story is several years old, and if you don't want spoilers, than try not to read the comments.

[@aegri1847]

@@dragonfied321 Thank you for clarifying. I'll try to keep that in mind.

[@kumud9827]

ITS GERARD NOT JARED

[@dedicatedsparrow8932]

Or Gerry

[@arianewinter4266]

thats not very hearable though. English is a wonderful lnguage that makes a lot of wastly differently spelled things sound identical, Aaron and Erin for example

[@fevre_dream8542]

An eye, a web...is there a friggin Zippo lighter for every fear?

[@empanado8304]

LITERALLY MY THOUGHTS HWBAJDVWJRHHEF

[@emilybarclay8831]

First episode was about cigarettes, maybe the entities just like a bit of baccie

[@user-de5se8ig6b]

"dude its the EYE PEOPLE again." me saying this to my papa that was very bewildered.

[@Styx_Ineffable]

Thinking Back to page Turner. Now we know what Jared ment by he had worse burns. Also I don't think Gertrude Robinson was so disorganised afterall

[@annimatesstuff]

I don't remember page turner that well, what "worse burns"

[@nobaharuchiiattempts4050]

Is this nurse could be the same nurse in Burned Out? Is Jared Keay the same Jared Keay in Pageturner? Is the pendant the pendant as the pendant in Father’s Love? I am trying to remember all the names. Graham was also a name mentioned many times in the stories. I just realize how much these stories could relate to some kind of a cult that started way back in 1920 during of that in The Piper episode. The eye in Pageturner could be the same design of which of the pendant in Father’s Love. I am so interested to actually know know if these stories have connection to each other.

[@TheNitpickChick]

Without going into spoilers: 1. The nurse from Burned Out was named Anna or Annie, I believe, and thus is a different nurse to this statement giver. 2. Yes, this Gerard Keay is the same man from Pageturner. He will be showing up quite a bit. :) 3. The pendant from Father’s Love was a hand with a closed eye. While it doesn’t specify what design Gerard’s pendant was, Gerard isn’t one for closed-eye symbolism. It is hard to keep track of all the little details the first time through, as you don’t yet know what’s truly significant and what isn’t. But yes there are MANY connections between the various statements. As you learn more, I would highly recommend re-listening to the early episodes again. It’s amazing how much they set up this early in the series! 😁

[@nemnyoom]

honestly, i'm relistening to some episodes for background noise, and i think gerard is one of the nicest characters?

[@TheNitpickChick]

Gerard is indeed a good bean. 😌

[@mimkyodar]

@@TheNitpickChick Best bean. Yeah, I see you Martin fans.

[@birdy3671]

"obviously there's a lot to unpack here" uh yeah man there sure is. this was a juicy one! more of jared key (or gerard? it sounds like jared the way the narrator says it) being potentially morally dubious but also maybe heroic? he allegedly killed his mother, and the statement giver here watched him kill the chanting man, but clearly there was more to the situation with his mom, and here i'm pretty sure killing the guy was the only way to stop everything from burning/boiling. 'beholding' and 'the lightless flame' sound important, are they rival cults? the people's church of the divine host hand closed eye symbols associated with it, but assuming that's different from beholding and all the eye imagery jared's rocking, then that's 3 supernatural cults. happy to hear the narrator (begrudgingly) admit that martin was right about something, and pleasantly surprised that the footage they recovered actually corroborated the statement giver's story, even if there's no clear explanation for why.

[@oracleiscool]

dont know if you continued this series, but if not i'd suggest you listen to episode 111! :)

[@dragonfly._.doodles]

I have a best friend named Gerard, he introduced me to this show and I’m slowly experiencing it for the first time, he’s giving me little hints and I’m just giving it all my theories in Instagram dms and all it’s responses are basically summed up by ;D and I was very exited to meet Gerard for that reason. I’ve seen his fanart so I know eyes have major significance and it just keeps telling me “if you think it connects it probably does” which is a theorists dream. Ps if you see this Gerry go get some water you Eldridge Rilakkuma💛

[@TooManyEditsProductions]

My friend showed me this series and we would listen to it in the car together and she'd constantly tell me "remember that name"

[@NyloElLobo]

It's dark, late Thursday. It's raining in the city, and I'm coming home from the gym. Watching the rain in the golden street-lights, from under the roof of the busstopp, while listening to this calm, disquieting horror is so moody!

[@fish3977]

"I am being watched" Feels like killing the fire wizard cursed the medic in some manner to be watched. "For you, better beholding than lightless flame" as Gerald said

[@yeetusdeletus84]

Perhaps what Gerard did to the book also happened to him Because he burnt it remember? Perhaps the only thing protecting his face were the eyes, maybe it's a protection sigil we don't know about? I'm not quite done the video yet so I'm not too sure

[@namaschu9418]

God no I am HORRIBLE with names, how am I supposed to get all the secret connection :

[@hamstrbaxtr]

First time listener, I'm noticing patterns with sleep, dreams, fire, injuries, eyes, senses, and intoxication. Also, GERARD!??? Edit: the lore of this series is seriously on another level, woah...

[@caitlynlewis3757]

Ah yes, my favorite stories to listen to at night while i paint.

[@Loki023]

Reporting from Quarantine 2020. This has quickly become my play list when I'm cleaning. So glad I finally found this title, even though the train is reaching it's destination. Better late than never, as they say.

[@damien678]

oh hey i started this series in 2020 too

[@azulBjort_1406]

I started about four months after it ended 😅

[@cactusc9519]

here from 2022 and 2023 babey! : )

[@woodrifted]

@@cactusc9519 and I just started a re-listen!

[@CamilleChauTempsDesCerises]

I started a week ago

[@Methus3lah]

SPOILERY COMMENT So I think that Saraki was about to be taken by the Desolation, but Gerry gave her to the Eye instead. We see several times throughout the series that promising oneself to one fear can save one from another. Mike Crew promised himself to the Vast to escape the Spiral. Burroughs was saved from the Desolation by (????????). Anyway, that’s why she feels like she’s being watched. She’s promised to the eye.

[@zhyza]

so Jared Key and his leather book are from Pageturner, and isn't the eye pendant mentioned in A Father's Love? I believe the mother had one like that.

[@elizasnow9661]

The mother’s seemed more like a hand of Fatima, but it’s closed. The hand of Fatima has an open eye in the middle of the hand and is often for protection. Maybe the closed eye symbolizes a lack of protection?

[@LovedandTheLover]

She had one a closed eye, slightly different

[@koykoyonly1628]

His apparent disdain for this Martin fellow amuses me XD

[@knelly7132]

Can we take a moment to appreciate the episode summaries? 😂

[@annimatesstuff]

"a serious case of raised temperatures" lol

[@breadstick8623]

OHHH I JUST NOW CLOCKED THAT THAT WAS GERARD FROM PAGETURNER

[@eccentricPacifist]

It occurred to me on my second listen through of the series that all the patients getting up, filing out, and then returning several minutes later... was a fire drill 😂 I don't know if this was intentional or just something my brain decided to have a laugh at but considering all the Lightless Flame business and the fact that there seemed to be no other specific reason why this happened I feel like it may have been on purpose.

[@eabhaishere4558]

Listening to these with shitty headphones that cut out if you move your head too much honestly adds to the creepiness

[@jadynnkotch1833]

The eyes seem to be linked in every episode. It's like some.... Illuminati type of thing. And every time and eye comes up, it isn't good ://

[@Rime_in_Retrograde]

Jared Key's definitely giving me some Harry Dresden vibes; kinda shocked when the narrator said he was dead... like, I'll believe that if he really doesn't show up again later.

[@camiepotatopattie8754]

Stopped listening to this like 3 weeks ago due to busy, found an animation for like episode 78 and need to know more about the “not” creatures. So now I’m here, listening to episodes again.

[@juniper-moss]

It's so funny to go back to old episodes when you know the podcast up until the recent point. Because I'm sitting there like... SPOILER FOR LATE SEASON 4 / SEASON 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jon for fucks sake, be nice to your future boyfriend.

[@TheCrimebaby]

Its 1 am, sure hope this isn't too scary

[@Borrelli521]

This should be a tv series.

[@no-ze7iu]

another similarity: all the witinness reported feeling watched after the incident

[@no-ze7iu]

girl if only you knew

[@maybe0rdinary]

SERIES SPOILERS This really makes me wonder what Gerard might actually have to do with the Desolation. I'm relistening to these few episodes (it's Gerry loving hours) and knowing he at least has some kind of protection and aid from the Eye, maybe he was assisting the Web in this way? Gerry isn't a monster hunter, just a book guy, so what did this particular unnamed Desolation avatar have to do with Gerry, the Eye, and the Web? Does it have anything to do with Agnes, maybe? And why was Gerry hellbent on THIS one? I don't remember when he brings it up again

[@bridgetb.7965]

**spoilers obviously** this actually ties into basira's first statement. she was first sectioned after she made an arrest on diego molina, the guy who was brought in with gerry here. when he was arrested, diego had an unnamed book bound in red leather with him. one of basira's colleagues tried to destroy the book while it was in police custody and was later found dead in a bath tub of boiling water. the police couldn't make the arson charge diego was arrested for stick, so he was released and went on to encounter gerry. i don't know think they said if diego even actually got the book back, but i'm pretty sure it's what gerry was looking for, and things just got really out of hand for him.

[@biancamlf288]

@@bridgetb.7965 I didn't even realise that. This series is why I have such high standards when it comes to setting up plot points/foreshadowing. What the fuck.

[@linkguist6861]

Gerard sounds hot no cap

[@linkguist6861]

Also how can he do into the care of his mother of she's dead?!

[@Mekabear1991]

My first thought was THAT'S WHERE I WAS BORN!

[@moonlight_scribe]

The eye tattoos and I knew right away who that definitely was.

[@darlingrosiebun8952]

Eyes keep popping up like the eye on the old lady's wall, the eye pendant and now eye tattoos

[@baszko6152]

As native pole I was double checking if I heard wypalacz correctly as you don't hear polish often in outside media

[@takeoats]

NAW NAW NAEW THE CCTV KINDA GOT ME

[@jaydengoodlad2364]

the eye side of things is giving me foreshadowing vibes. My partner got me to start listening to tma after i mentioned Nikola to him (i think thats their name) and that i thought that they seemed cool, but i had no clue as to what they were from the 10th episode also gave me major foreshadowing vibes too. Damn, i hope nothing bad happens to Jon

[@rileymichael2694]

holy SHIT jared key is back??? duuuude this podcast is incredible, i can't wait to see how it all connects!!

[@calebdouglas2512]

This was 9 months ago. How far through are you now, and are you still enjoying it?

[@paulinathompson1239]

Ever just whisper the opening "The Magnus Archives" as John says it? is fun

[@tracycraft2546]

This series has me bingeing! I simply cant stop till I get to the very end!

[@lakeyawheeler1695]

Thanks for sponsoring fascinating horror. This is how i found this channel. Binging as many episode as i can in a day

[@kalger1469]

OH MY GOD GERRY

[@linkguist6861]

Remember the house construction guy got that fever feeling too

[@BIG.BIG.J]

oh yeah, it's all coming together

[@lordbaphie]

For the first time, I began to understand the people who hesitate on liking something because of the number it's currently in. You cannot blame me for still not pressing the like button when it has exactly 666 likes. Uggh, this is my true nightmare

[@mywetaresocks_8959]

yes, it was a very good choice to listen about burning skin while eating my meal

[@JoKad17]

If you are a first listener I may recommend you avoid listening to statements with certain trigger warning in the description or well meaty or insecty or diseasey titles. You'll understand in time.

[@Iquey]

13:05 listening to this on my work break with vending machines in the staff room lol.

[@fluffsnake]

if the eye is a bad symbol and Gerard is supposedly a good guy, why does he have eyes tattooed all over his body skfhfh obviously it didn't help in protecting him much if that was the idea

[@FlyingBisonSuperiority]

The eyes might be the reason he’s still alive

[@sophiemcswag]

it’s the freaking book man. what was his name again uhhh Gerard Keay? i think? oh no

[@sophiemcswag]

it was, i guessed before he said it. oh well.

[@TopOceanKitty_Gacha]

this was a bad Idea listening to this at like 23:00 at night 💀

[@pawsitivetimz2906]

I was recently recommended this and found it is nice to fall asleep to or clean to. I enjoy this series very much

[@eluvianii]

I like how both of the times the demon's name is said the sound distorts a little

[@mayormarshmallow]

Desolation

[@alchemicpunk1509]

And Beholding.

[@mayormarshmallow]

@@alchemicpunk1509 yeah

[@LovedandTheLover]

Shhhhhhh

[@medsm3113]

relistening to the episodes makes me shiver. such foreshadowing!!

[@shayo1171]

Everything makes so much sense now after listening again, how come I missed so much foreshadowing?!!!!

[@nickieBurke]

Do you guys keep checking the comment over and over thinking "yooooo did you guys see the fuck just went down!?"

[@midnights2631]

The moment I heard the second victim had dyed black hair made me realize who it was.

[@sp4ce_174]

I’m starting to sense a theme with the eyes and tentical things cults and stuffs and just things pulsing?? Weird wors

[@peryiad]

I....I need the names of all the characters from episode 1-12 😭

[@calebdouglas2512]

Go to the Magnus Archives Wiki. It has detailed explanations of all the connections in every episode. Lots of spoilers though, so only read if you've got to season 4.

[@peryiad]

thank youuu 🤧💛

[@calebdouglas2512]

@@peryiad no problem. Let me know if you find anything interesting

[@heresthadude1080]

S5 spoilers 18:39 I have a feeling he said something similar to "Ceaseless Watcher, turn your gaze upon this wretched thing"

[@r3d._.p4nda]

Glad this is on KZbin, now I can listen to this in class

[@Firehazardmon]

Poor Martin what did he do to deserve that treatment?? 😭😭

[@mimkyodar]

Be completely useless. He won't amount to anything in this institute

[@beckyhambly1061]

gerard key?? as in the same one from page turner???

[@spiranomad]

Good thing you're keeping tabs on names.

[@q44444q]

Welp, I shouldn't have listened to this and expected to sleep afterwards :c scariness of this podcast just took a steep step upwards

[@mimkyodar]

Wait... if that wasn't actually Mary Keay ... I know EXACTLY who his "mother" was

[@LichenJuice]

*spoilers i guess??* i wouldn't count it as a spoiler but since someone asked I wonder if the Web "helped" with this one... The whole making people leave thing doesn't sound like something the Eye could do, and, given the whole thing between the Web and the Desolation, it would make sense. I love relistening to older episodes now that I know wtf is going on lol Also I forgot the way Jon used to speak in S1 tdxhfnsvyubuwigbxdw-

[@aubarlowe]

you should put a spoiler warning here

[@cezar3169]

i was so scared 'cos I was at the part where dude #2 stabbed dude #1 and it was sizzling and shit and an asmr ad (y'know the ones where instead of normal ads it was one of those videos that was like 25 mins long) and the asmr started sizzling and I nearly shit myself