THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES #13 - Alone

MAG013 - Case #0161301 - Naomi Herne
Statement regarding the events following the funeral of their fiancé, Evan Lukas.
The Magnus Archives tells the tale of a grieving partner who encountered events most eerie following the untimely passing of their betrothed and a disconcerting meeting with their family.
Starring: The Archivist - Jonathan Sims; Naomi Herne - Katie Davison
Writer: Jonathan Sims
Director: Alexander J Newall
Editors: Alexander J Newall, Murray Porter
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[@f0b618]

I find it funny that the episode called ‘alone’ has another voice actor

[@Lily-ge4tm]

Same.

[@arianewinter4266]

yeah, the irony of haveing the first episode that introduces a second voice actor being called alone ^^

[@lolcactuspro8723]

Yea nice pfp btw

[@aviendhaandreoli4078]

Wow John has gotten so good at impressions I completely believed he was a girl

[@frogonthebikeheh]

Ikr? Jon's best, his abilities are growing ✨

[@phosismyb1tch717]

@@frogonthebikeheh the way you said that seems... suspicious🤨

[@frogonthebikeheh]

@@phosismyb1tch717 It was meant to be that way 😏

[@avet9413]

@@frogonthebikehehA bright green glow ✨✨✨

[@frogonthebikeheh]

@@avet9413 Very bright, green, glow that can be *_sEeN_* from afar

[@hannahcartwright8190]

I WASN'T PREPARED FOR A NEW VOICE EVEN IF IT WAS JUST A CLIENT

[@averagejoe1468]

I KNOW

[@chimedemon]

AHH

[@cheyannewilkinson6924]

Me either I had to check with Spotify to make sure I was on the right thing

[@DeannaSusanHealy]

@@cheyannewilkinson6924 this is KZbin?

[@ReddyD]

@@cheyannewilkinson6924 same, I thought I clicked something while drawing lol

[@LTcreed]

Her describing how she was before she met Evan hits uncomfortably close to home lmao

[@Dragon-Slay3r]

There you area aka the tree thanks guys Hi five!

[@gc6929]

Me @ the Lucases: “LEAVE HER ALONE!” Me: “wait...” Me: “NO WAIT LET ME REPHRASE THAT”

[@silverquill101]

LMAOOOO

[@albuseisenhorn3385]

Too late~

[@Cati_Offical]

She got poofed

[@avet9413]

Me hearing the name Lukas:

[@ShizakuIzaiyoi]

y'all notice that every episode of this series contains the line "I dont know what I expected..."? This one drops it twice.

[@amranth5946]

YES I thought it was just me picking up on sentence fragments too much but there’s been one in every episode so far-

[@ShizakuIzaiyoi]

@@amranth5946 Spoilers from season 5: Its still happening

[@allie_678]

I never noticed until now.

[@fruitygarlic3601]

Since all of the episodes were written by the same guy, they share a lot of quirks. Expect lots of acrid smells and cloying, on top of the intentionally repeated phrases.

[@otter502]

Oh that's interesting, I never noticed before, but now that you say it yeah that's interesting

[@rem4197]

I love how Jon talks to her he’s like “well I was GOING to give you privacy lady but”

[@gc6929]

Petition to give Naomi Herne a hug:

[@ahorribleterribleperson]

Where to sign

[@azulBjort_1406]

(づ￣3￣)づ 💖💖💖

[@merlin_ambrosius4470]

(✿❛◡❛)

[@Dragon-Slay3r]

@@ahorribleterribleperson on the ass

[@cupcaketv5673]

Honestly tho

[@linkguist6861]

You guys...she already made the statement and now they are just reading it. Thats why she said she wanted to skip the part she wrote about Evan's death. Thats why it sounds like she's reading...because she is.

[@starshinegroup3047]

She isn’t. It’s beholding

[@roland4240]

He literally says "we can transcribe it later" They tried doing it with a digital recorder but it didn't work. So they are doing it on the tape recorder

[@JoKad17]

@@roland4240 That is the case but also not really the main reason. Isn't it odd how she really didn't want to talk again and yet she did anyway?

[@maryagrimm8412]

looking at this comment when you know that Jon is canonically able to make people talk like that

[@jenjaminbenkins6075]

@@maryagrimm8412 don't spoil

[@BARKZIM]

I love the fact that SHE proposed to HIM, i hate the social “rule” of the female being proposed to, small thing but it means a ton

[@waffleartz8581]

right!! as she should

[@albuseisenhorn3385]

tis a very progressive cast

[@bbew2914]

same with the whole guys gotta pay on dates, the one who asks is the one who pays

[@Dragon-Slay3r]

His name is the t tree

[@cupcaketv5673]

Exactly

[@TIGGYQUE]

"his black suit hanging off his body like sagging flaps of skin" wow that's some interesting and ingenious description

[@cassiemoyles4177]

I think my favourite trope in magnus archive fanfiction is the fact that everyone rewrites Naomi's story so it ends positively. Just fantastic lmao

[@Nizati]

I'm so glad i'm not the only person who is like. "THIS girl in particular deserves good and I want to know more."

[@gavinsvoyeur771]

there is such a thing as magnus archive fanfic ?????

[@IsisWard1]

​@@gavinsvoyeur771 So, so much. Check out ao3

[@valeriyav2149]

​@@gavinsvoyeur771 plenty of them too 😂 Jon and Martin's VAs even did a reading session for some of them

[@melissaharris3389]

Jon continues to dream of Naomi Hearne right up through season 4. So, I'd say she survived her encounter with the Lonely until the Eyepocalypse. She might have even been an avatar after the change as she'd been marked by an entity.

[@cupcake_smoothie]

Do I _really_ want to listen to this one while I'm home alone? Do I _really_ want to do that? The answer, is for some reason, yes.

[@voidjockey82]

Being alone is never the problem, only when you suddendly aren't anymore.

[@thegaymothman]

​@@voidjockey82I have been binging TMA all day, and this has got to be the scariest phrase I've heard

[@MollyGill-pn7nq]

Do I really need to watch this at 12 at night? In the dark? Yes. Yes I should

[@a_jae_doe]

me re-listening during a blackout in winter

[@googleyoflolz9930]

That last part is grammatically incorrect. It should be : "The answer is, for some reason, yes." A similar sentance structure : "The door, which was made of wood, opened very slowly."

[@damascusfletcher8929]

"I don't want to be alone." *Dated a Lukas*

[@Nizati]

To be fair, it was a Lucas who broke away from his fam. He understood lonliness more than anyone.

[@myneighborsnorlax3780]

This is the first one where see a truly elusive supernatural phenomenon.....the archivist has a heart

[@suzerainty4192]

so her fiance's family are all vampires, right? Or at least part vampire? None of them speak and they wanted to be alone with the body....

[@aliviabowler5423]

That’s a good point

[@johnpears9558]

I come from the future and no they’re not vampires

[@lilliannicole1293]

John Pears thank you future john

[@nobaharuchiiattempts4050]

Like what the Vampire Hunter said.

[@aesults4872]

the dad spoke at first, so i dont think so?

[@lilgukkie124]

I've been listening to these recently, a new fan in the Magnus Archives world, but this one gave me the most discomfort out of them all so far. I didn't even realize that this was episode 13 until I finished listening to it and decided to call it a night for the audios. I finished listening at exactly 3:13 am, and am now refusing to sleep. Despite the chills, I'm obsessed with the series and excited to see more

[@beholdthegriffin5488]

Ooh, pro tip! Watch a stupid video or whatever after if you feel uneasy. Like, the horrors of the universe are out there, but I just watched one dude ram into a glass door and shatter it. We’re frighteningly mortal and dangerously stupid, but sometimes stupidity veers from *too stupid to live* to *too stupid to die.*

[@ascendedbyhubrys_760]

@@beholdthegriffin5488 You are my hero.

[@lordtoademort8124]

@@beholdthegriffin5488 personally I just grab a knife for a few moments, the spookies best be prepared for a brawl if they come a-lookin' for me

[@umi9325]

@@lordtoademort8124 don't grab a knife. what if u end up like ep14

[@lordtoademort8124]

@@umi9325 his problem wasn't because of the knife though, his problem was that he didn't let the spell take it's proper course.

[@starshinegroup3047]

Ah, our first look into the Lukas family! Seems like they have a history of marriages ending early! One way or another!

[@AJ-pq5zx]

This is fucking hilarious given the Elias and Peter divorced memes

[@strawberrys0da714]

@@AJ-pq5zx Elias: Ah, Miss Herne is the lucky one. Her relationship ended with a Lukas' death. Peter: Elias I want another divorce.

[@cml3250]

This is so funny I just notice that the tone in which Jon speaks sounds a lot like Snape from harry potter lmao and I can't stop hearing it

[@darcieclements4880]

The cliche skeptic

[@Violet111]

For first time listeners, yes people don't normally talk like this, but there is an in-universe explanation. You just have to wait and find out :) (doesn't mean you have to think the writing is perfect though, I agree that this one feels a little awkward)

[@camiepotatopattie8754]

Blind watchers?

[@Violet111]

@@camiepotatopattie8754 People going through the series with no spoilers. Probably should have said blind listeners though haha

[@alessiapalma8823]

English isn’t my first language but what do u find weird in the way she talks? At first I felt like she wasn’t a very good voice actor but idk if that’s what you’re talking about. I figured out written statements sound better bc they’re less spontaneous. If u try to write down a genuine speech it sounds awful and full of useless words/phrases

[@StargazerSkyscraper]

@@alessiapalma8823 Well, the problem for me (a native English speaker) is because it's very poetic and descriptive, in a way a real person retelling a traumatic experience wouldn't speak, especially to an investigator or archivist (i.e. "I felt the prickling damp flow in and out of my lungs; it was cloying and heavy..." and so on). Most people doing such a thing would try to be as very direct and literal as possible, without any flowery descriptors, similes, or metaphors to obscure the facts, because such things obviously don't help the case. Try telling a very personal and difficult experience of your own to a voice recorder app, play it back, and you may see what I mean. I don't think it's a language-specific thing, but more just something that certain people notice and others don't.

[@alessiapalma8823]

@@StargazerSkyscraper oh okay thank you! I thought it was just something we have to suspend our belief on because otherwise the podcast wouldn’t be eerie and you wouldn’t feel caught up

[@akalimist]

this is my sixth time relistening. i only just noticed evan's last name and the fact that naomi was left *all alone*. I'm so stupid man

[@GreatvalueSerotonin]

I’m on my third and I’m right there with you lol , can’t wait to see what else I missed

[@InsidiousClouds]

Yeah it took me 3 listen throughs to notice lol

[@doxxed0367_]

Idk why, but every time the intro music ends i always envision that thumping sounds to be something falling down the stairs :/

[@trucetruce335]

It's warehouse lights switching on.

[@alicepatton3040]

It's Martin tripping

[@Catnip_Noob]

It always sounds like stage lights turning on at the beginning and then turning off at the end for me.

[@thesewinggeekmiri9029]

YES although I've been imagining something falling down a deep, black pit, hitting the sides as it falls

[@something5559]

I always thought of it as footsteps.

[@thatoneperson2731]

I was listening to this in class while I was working with a friend, when I heard another voice I nearly jumped out of my seat. I got so ecstatic about there being another voice actor, I accidently punched my friend in excitement

[@zacharyperlee4179]

and that's what you call punch-happy

[@timeforamunch2616]

How do you punch somebody in excitement?

[@levchenkodarya]

@@timeforamunch2616 by doing this - ＼(￣▽￣)／. And, if they, for example, are standing behind you or sitting close enough next to you, their face might be at the trajectory of your fist.

[@Homesicktraveler]

​@Дарья Левченко "with all due respect, your honor, that child's face was in the trajectory of my fist"

[@theprideling]

To everyone who says she sounds like she's reading: you're absolutely right but also well... I will say what I can without spoilers: There's a good, in-universe reason all statements sound like a well-written story, even when they're coming directly from the subject. You'll just have to stick around to find out why ;D

[@epsyblue7714]

Let me take a wild guess. What they say is not what's written on the statement.

[@ritamartins3996]

@@epsyblue7714 I assume you know the reason at this point.

[@yeetusdeletus84]

NEW VOICE NEW VOICE NEW VOICE AAAAAAAA

[@emilyrichmond1751]

i jumped so hard when she started talking, was not expecting it at all

[@OfficialLuni]

Currently my first time listening to this series, and as I'm listening to this episode, I am in a car, in the middle of nowhere, with no signs of civilization in sight, other than the cars driving by me. Not only that, but there is fog in the distance. Very strange coincidence that really makes this story come to life for me lol

[@naturevalleygranolabar5696]

The scariest part of this episode is listening to it as a lonely student at the university of leeds who frequents the chemistry building

[@Rin-qj7zt]

it's sooo goood.. omg listening to these on halloween would be perfect. the stories are so... captivating.

[@Companion92]

I feel so bad for her

[@Onlyblissfulthinking]

I'm going back through and relistening to all the episodes currently. I'm absolutely mind blown by how almost every episode has a role to play later on. It has me even more on edge than I was on my first listen through. There is soooo much stuff that I had no idea how significant it was actually going to end up being to the story. You guys did such an amazing job! 🖤

[@GreatvalueSerotonin]

It makes me realize how not observant I am lol

[@rosemarycat5]

I'm re-listening to this one having finished season 4. Spoilers below: So here we have the first mention of the Lukas family. It's interesting to me now looking back on the description of the family together as a unit (kind of), but we know from Peter that the family was only ever really together at funerals. Makes me wonder if Peter was one of those described here. The Lonely. Forsaken. This show is really good.

[@melissaharris3389]

Peter Lukas would have been at sea on The Tundra at this point.

[@lorenam2430]

Oddly enough, this is the episode that really got to me so far. Might be the new voice, might be the imagery of the tale. Who knows. All I know is that blankets are nice to snuggle into when freaked out.

[@lucindajennings148]

Poor girl

[@friakula4763]

AHHHH I LOVE THIS SERIES SO MUCH THAT VOICE IS SO SOOTHING

[@courtjester6375]

Listening to this while it heavily rains is amazing, 10/10 recommend

[@lostcryptid1212]

It's midnight here, everyone's asleep except me, and I'm about to listen to an episode called 'Alone'. Good idea me Edit: God, I really liked this episode, definitely not what I expected. I feel like there's a lot that went above my head though, guess we'll see!

[@JoKad17]

Sooo, let's discuss spoilery stuff for people on second hearing who know about those Lukas fellows. [SPOILER ALERT] Did she unwittingly kill him? She was a lonely person and the Lukas are drawn to lonely people. They started to get closer and closer and she didn't feel alone anymore. Then she proposed him and he shortly after died seemingly at random, from congenital causes. Is it possible that the Lukas hava a sort of kill switch that terminates them if they ever grow too attached to someone? Of all the Lukas Evan is the only one we see absolutely reject the lonely and apparently the entity took exception to that and made his fiancé very, very lonely.

[@elizabethpemberton8445]

I see it in a more ironic, tragic way. Evan, a very social, outgoing person, was a black sheep and outcast of the Lukas family. Naomi was pretty clearly marked by The Lonely, and Evan, social or not, was still drawn to her for that. Then he tried to save her from it - consciously or not - and almost succeeded. The Lukas family is stated later to dispose of its disappointing children. Perhaps they first thought that that nice Lonely girl would isolate Evan and pull him back to The Lonely, at least long enough to get a new generation going, but as Naomi began to make friends and even proposed to Evan, they gave up on that and decided instead to kill him - just another traditional disappointment disposal. Then they sent Naomi into The Lonely, from which she was able to escape only through actively defying the Lukases as an entity and thinking of Evan (thinking of a loved one is shown on several occasions to be effective in escaping The Lonely), perhaps hallucinating his voice and perhaps actually getting some sort of last message from him. But it seems likely that she'll be back there sooner than later. That all of this is in episode 13, before they had figured everything out Entity-wise, is quite impressive.

[@biancamlf288]

@@elizabethpemberton8445 This is a bit off-topic, but Naomi's entire story is incredibly sad. Especially considering that she never does truly escape the Lonely until after 200. She deserved better. On that note, however, it is interesting how Evan fought so hard to not become his family only to have that be the potential reason for his demise. Doesn't deal with real world trauma, my ass.

[@horizonpenblade1288]

I definitely think the Lukases killed him for being close with someone, whether that was a supernatural kill switch or just murder/chucking him into the nearest fear domain im not sure. But yeah "congenital disease" is a great way to imply that the family killed him.

[@Nizati]

I got the vibe that the family either killed him or he was a sort of sacrifice to keep in the Lonely's good graces. As she heard his voice in that forsaken place, it makes me think that his soul is unfortunately trapped within there now, and he made the ultimate sacrifice to push her out to freedom. If that is the case, I hope the mega-event in the end kinda freed him.

[@melissaharris3389]

Yes. I've always thought that Evan Lukas's 'congenital heart defeat' was Lukas family speak for actually having a heart. He was either banished to die in the Lonely by a family member or was killed directly by it for 'stealing' Naomi.

[@Mel-tf5rl]

I’m coming back to this episode from #23, I keep on falling asleep while listening and missing episodes, jon sims your voice is too soothing:/

[@clockworkmonsters8590]

It is currently 5:30 pm and very very foggy outside my window, so the atmosphere has been provided for this one!

[@albuseisenhorn3385]

Love reading the comments having heard up to the very last episode. Living again vicariously though others theories and wonder and their... fear...

[@flyingflamingflamingos3793]

So yea, I love the new voice, but, normal people dont talk like this lmao, it just throws me out of the immersion yk? "Then all the anger washed over me and I threw the hump of plastic onto the ground where it sank into the mud", like yea that's what someone writing it would write, but a normal breathing person would just "I got pissed and threw my phone"

[@jonchill7588]

Man I was thinking the same thing. Had a hard time keeping focus with thisnone

[@IvySonnet]

Ah, well - I actually regularly speak like this - especially about things of intense emotion. ^.^ Off the cuff, the other day, I stated that a piece of fabric had about the virility of an 18th century eunuch. . . I generally spend my voice on more positive items, but that one sticks out in memory as my comment was then sent off to someone and I hadn't meant for it to be a criticism, I had just vehemently not wanted to wear the damn thing.

[@IvySonnet]

Statement redacted, even my poetic ass started giggling a bit at "hungry grave"

[@connorm4817]

Nobody in any of the recordings talk like actual people though?

[@jonchill7588]

@@connorm4817 we'll most of the time its just Jon recording written statement's, which is why this spoken statement by someone sounded a little too descriptive. To be fair though. I think they realised this, because most spoken statement's after this one have a little more feel to it.

[@foodforfaeries]

So... The Graves were empty because they were all at the funeral, right?

[@CamilleChauTempsDesCerises]

Ooooh ! That makes sense

[@catdn7011]

this just might be my favourite statement given, its the only one that managed to make me genuinely cry

[@vantannie9291]

honestly been putting off listening to magnus archives even though the first episodes were very fun...simply because i'm a little bit of a scaredy cat LOL but god it's so good!!!!!!!! hopefully this time i'll keep listening

[@emilyneff3168]

Sooo goooood! A new VA!

[@biohazardg1rl]

if anyone else is listening for the first time, please be so careful when going through the comments. while most people are thoughtful enough to provide a spoiler warning if their comment needs one, a few others don’t care and will just comment spoilers under other people’s theories with no prior warning. just happened to me so make sure to read with caution

[@darwi_briste4624]

@RustyQuill Needs captions please!

[@birdy3671]

i had forgotten that part of the conceit of this podcast existing in audio form is that they're cassette tapes recording statements that can't be recorded digitally. idk why naomi seemed so offended by old audio formats. i had hoped we'd hear from the assistants at some point, so i'm glad to hear other voices on this show, much as i've been enjoying the regular narrator. naomi's voice actor did a lovely job with the story, but a nitpick that bothers me is that with the statements the narrator reads, i can suspend my disbelief and imagine that everyone who comes to the institute takes their time with their statements and organizes them into as coherent a narrative as the can as they're writing them down. with this statement given directly, i would expect a much more disorganized retelling, with all the er's and um's and self-corrections of trying to recall a memory. that said, this was a sad little ghost story. the reverse 'up' at the beginning with naomi and evan's romance was so sweet, and the unpleasantness with his the lucus family was really weird. the image of the endless graveyard was really vivid, and the voice of naomi's dead fiance guiding her back to safety was really lovely. i don't really think the way the narrator responded to her story warranted the way she stormed out? it didn't seem to me like he was being dismissive, he just told her what next steps the institute would be able to take and gave her advice that anyone dealing with grief and trauma could use. i think naomi's the second or third person to say that the institute is somehow disreputable, and i'm interested to see why that is!

[@theprideling]

I know I've commented this already but there's a good, in-universe reason all statements sound like a well-written story, even when they're coming directly from the subject. Of course it's fair that it takes you out of the moment and breaks your suspension of disbelief, but I promise that there's a payoff for this. There's hints of it throughout but they really smack you in the face with it on episode 100 hahaha

[@Renni_Jay]

To everyone saying she sounds unnatural, you have clearly never spoken to an anti social loner who thinks they're above everyone else. They talk like this. And yknow, talking about traumatic things dramatically is a way some people cope, and since she was just reading her statement that she already written, it's not that surprising it's flowery.

[@minuspi8372]

Where did you get that she thinks she's above everyone else? To me she just sounds socially anxious and resigned to her loneliness.

[@Renni_Jay]

@@minuspi8372 She talks just like every single self proclaimed loner who's like "Yeah so what if no one likes me? I didn't like any of them either" who pretends *they want to be alone* because no one wants to be around them. Also yknow, based on how she talks to the other person in the audio like she's *above him* because she thinks she is.

[@minuspi8372]

@@Renni_Jay Sounds like you're a very social person who doesn't understand people who are genuinely most comfortable being alone. They don't like people because they're overwhelming, and people don't like them because they're "boring". She's supposedly been to a bunch of other people about her experience, all of whom rejected her out of hand, and now it seems like The Magnus Institute, who are supposed to investigate incidents specifically like this, are rejecting her too. Anyone would be frustrated.

[@albuseisenhorn3385]

In this case there is an in-universe reason you'll learn of it later

[@maneskinned]

@@Renni_Jay LMAO youre unintentionally funny af

[@xultra_violetx]

Ohmygo s hh h h I'm relistening to the series over again for the first time and it's I n s a n e how much everything links up and is foreshadowed so early on... This series is so well done I efihdsgjfuok

[@darcieclements4880]

I rarely return to stories, but this is my second time through too. It is good in different ways the second time through

[@andrewclarke5972]

I've always thought it funny how personable a tone the archivist read these in (obviously for the entertainment of the listener) but it's even funnier at how inpersonable the current person is of their recounting it's a bit off-putting too but maybe that's the point

[@GreatvalueSerotonin]

Doe’s future you have any thoughts on this looking back?

[@dedicatedsparrow8932]

WAIT I DIDNT CATCH EVAN'S LAST NAME FIRST TIME AROUND JT MAKES SO MUCH MORE SENSE NOW I wonder if Peter was there 😂

[@epsyblue7714]

Could you remind me who Peter was again?

[@dedicatedsparrow8932]

@@epsyblue7714 yeah! Evan (Lukas) was the boyfriend, the one whose funeral it was. Peter has not yet shown up at this point in the show, so just...remember names and you'll see :)

[@epsyblue7714]

@@dedicatedsparrow8932 Oh. Ok thanks.

[@Just_a_Dimension_Hopper]

Nah he's living the pirates life

[@user-de5se8ig6b]

I LOVE HER VOICE ACTING ITS AMAZING!

[@ODST122]

It’s a shame this doesn’t get more hype

[@lunanight0214]

First time listening to this series so the way i WHIPPED my head over from the new voice baffled me.

[@Loki023]

I jumped at the break in the pattern-- but gosh! This is a trip!

[@brokenmir5164]

Is it just me or do characters die of heart problems quite often? Is it a coincidence or... Because MAG9 showed that hearts are important things, so I thought..

[@joehoul]

Wandering through thick mist that's illuminated by no light source in particular? Looks like we got a case of SilentHill-itis.

[@mandeehartman6191]

This one is my favorite so far, I feel like it ties all the loose ends together in a way that gives you some answers but also let's you fill in the blanks for others

[@barborazahradnickova6145]

spoilersss Why did Evan die? Was it due to supernatural causes? Was it because the Lucases just aren't meant to be in relationships - are they being punished with death if they are not alone? What did the Lucases want to do with Evan's body? Did they want him to accept the Lonely and become an avatar? Did he? The father said that his son is dead, so perhaps he didn't, but then, how could Naomi hear his voice? Did he sacrifice himself and became an avatar just to help his wife escape? That would make this episode even sadder...

[@greygoose8803]

the fact that he died of a genetic heart issue, since his family is tied up with the lonely which he rejected, makes me think it was definitely the lonely lashing out at him at the prime moment to feed itself with naomi's resulting despair. maybe it even influenced them getting together since she leaned towards it even before they met. it just reminds me too much of gerard's dying of a sudden illness that happens to symbolically (as his cancer was in his brain, brain=knowing) tie into a fear that he was linked to but didn't properly serve as an avatar.

[@alixhuether8543]

wait why is jon talking to the statement giver isnt he just archivist that goes over them at the end? but eh whatever its good podcasting

[@magie-com-au]

he reads out written statements that people have left!

[@FelipeFerreira-wk5nv]

he is the head archivist, responsible for archiving people statements and keeping everything organised, but the person that had this position before him was not the most organized person by what he says; therefore, he needs to organize everything, read and re-categorize things

[@connorm4817]

Because hes a person?

[@nalinmalhotra3319]

@Shreyas Misra Also didn't he states in a previous video that he'd ask to hear the new statements made before the research takes place from now on.

[@dustmitey8745]

SPOILERS "It made me feel utterly forsaken" the way my jaw DROPPED! There r so many mentions of the fears in these early episodes

[@regivera8853]

Has to be one of my fave ones so far !

[@Ifailedeverything]

That’s actually explained later on if you keep listening 😉

[@AngelLustZombie]

damn i like this show a lot but this episode really drags on doesn't it? like "i found myself lost on a road and i panicked... then i found myself lost in a graveyard and i panicked... then the chapel was an open field!" i dunno how to describe it. it's a very "and then and then and then and then" story instead of events naturally leading to each other. edit: after getting further into the show i do understand why a lot of this is relevant with later plot points but i still don't think this episode is a particularly well written one. not gonna ruin my overall opinion on the show though, it's typically pretty good

[@kwasichan722]

Maybe they did it to make it seem more like a confused person was telling the story or something

[@AngelLustZombie]

@@kwasichan722 i mean more the story itself was rambly and boring not the way she was saying it. like nothing actually "happened" she was just seeing a bunch of stuff and walking around. you know what i mean? like the part at the beginning with the creepy family was really good but after a while they kinda lost me

[@GiubileiFernando]

I know what you mean, like a haunted house more than a story. I think it's more noticeable in this story compared to others because of the number of unresolved threads or red herrings. The creepy family doesn't play a part after she leaves and it's hard to connect the events with the death of her fiance too. I think its because its stuff that you have to decipher in following episodes.

[@SnakebearerMaria]

I love that there is a canonical explanation for this 'plot hole'

[@AngelLustZombie]

@@SnakebearerMaria no one said it was a plot hole, just that we didn't like how it was written

[@fluffsnake]

Jon's voice is so much more fitting to these stories though, I already miss it :"D

[@mayormarshmallow]

Lonley

[@Agno97xD]

I mean i know she's supposed to be all over the place, but damn she is all over the place, at times she's robotic like reading from a script with no acting whatsoever, treatingg traumatic events like an english assignment, other times she's flawless

[@baszko6152]

Ok it looks like she for some reason popped into purgatory or limbo for a moment here

[@kohtea]

i was painting when the new voice startled me lmao

[@HexagonPankake]

"it's all in your head"- jonothan sims, Librarian at the Ghost Library

[@rikkucollins205]

Considering their obviously overwhelming connections and influence, I find it odd that "no one takes them seriously". Federal agencies struggle to operate at their level. They must be doing a fantastic job of keeping their true power confidential for a place you just visit.

[@wywrd_mtnt]

well the thing with supernatural and out of the ordinary stuff is that you're inclined to dismiss it as sth you've imagined or that can be easily explained in another way. quite like jon is doing almost every single time, which is an interesting and hypocritical stance from someone that works where he works. and the reason for this is because we as humans are inclined to fear the unknown or the unfamiliar so we try to explain it away. therefore let's say a regular random police officer wouldn't actually look for help in an investigation in a society of people documenting paranormal events, since that is something we associate inherently with it being dumb or impossible. like the institute doesn't hide what they're doing from the law or sth, but most people believe it's bullshit since this is the regular response we all have. and the number of people who have encounters with something possibly supernatural not only in tma but also in real life is much lower than the one of people who don't, so of course the majority wouldn't take them seriously. plus there are some other things that keep the institute specifically out of sight and out of mind when it comes to regular people but those are spoilers so I'm not gonna mention them. sorry for the rant, I just really enjoy this aspect of the story a lot and got carried away skdjfj

[@thesplund7107]

It turns out this entire time The Archivist was just doing voices cause the tapes messed up

[@loserinc.4180]

mild spoilers i guess I'm re listening for the 4th time now, and her comment about how Evan's casket seemed too big for him, combined with her experiences later in the story, may indicate that his family wanted to trap her in the coffin with him, almost as if to say ''you don't want to be alone? we'll make sure you aren't''. Might be nothing but it stuck out to me this time. Also given the Lucas family traditions it doesn't seem like something they would gladly do so to speak.

[@marylii04]

Continuing with mild spoilers I'd say the casket thing wasn't meant to trap Naomi with Evan, but rather emphasise that he belongs to the Lonely. I mean, there was more space in that casket, but Evan still was alone

@@marylii04 Yes, it seemed like Evan was the "black sheep" of the family. The sociable friendly guy in a family of loneliness worshippers.

[@Chaji_bkd]

Relistening this and just realize at the near end when the fog appers that what is this episode really about. It suddenly make so much sense now and i just tried so hard not to tear down in my workspace. Naomi and Evan deserve a real nice ending.

[@BlackReshiram]

oh i love this lady's voice she sounds so cute and fun qwq

[@crenshaw12]

havent listened yet but i happen to be on this one at the same time i happen to be home alone for the first time in foreverrr so i checked the synopsis real quick to make sure it wouldnt get to me lol

[@ambersioux]

im pretty sure that the word utterly has been said in every episode

[@l0vket]

Her speeding over her fiance's death is just the funniest thing to me I'm sorry 🤣

[@princesssuccubratxo3404]

Spoiler alert below....3rd time listening to this series....so don't read if you don't want SPOILERS!!!! She said Evan LUCAS....like Peter LUCAS the family of the LONLEY....???? Im just saying... they don't like outside people shes never met them ???? Just a thought.

[@theprideling]

THIS REPLY ALSO HAS SPOILERS This might have been one of Peter's siblings that left the family. He did say that the family only ever got together for funerals. Peter may have even been there! It's kind of sad that Evan attracted someone who was already been marked by the lonely.

[@callumdougherty5339]

Another voice? Unsettling!

[@Nizati]

You know, of all the one-off Magnus stories we here, this is the one I really wish we go back to but don't. I vibe with Naomi's story alot. I just want to know if she's ok now. Her story is also one of the first looks into the much bigger picture too. If she had any idea how deep the Lucas family rabbit hole goes, would she have stuck around to try to get revenge? I really wish she came back. Edit: .... also curious if Peter was the father... iykyk. Might be why someone so in line with the lonely was able to take on another so easily.

[@viscerator68]

Empty coffin????? Episode 2 ??????

[@jinx17]

The narrator sounds so much like Poe in a game called Shapeshifting Detective, in which he hosts a radio show that reads stories or talks about spooky things

[@AnaLuiza-bb3hy]

this is fr one of the saddest statements of tma . like top 10

[@ManderB81]

Why isn't there closed captioning on all of the videos?

[@cactusc9519]

could be an annoying youtube quirk? i know i've had to sort of personally contact them to let me closed caption some of my videos due to some sort of thing. rather annoying, imo. they may have to directly e-mail a bug report to get it fixed. they may or may not have noticed. but yea, a youtube weakness. *grumbles* > .

[@captaind8728]

Jesus Christ poor girl 😣

[@milomystique]

YEEEE ANOTHER PERSON!!!

[@leiyashan3111]

Has the Magnus Institute ever really solved a case? 😆

[@sebastienmccarthy1483]

Spoiler: That’s not the purpose of the institute. The purpose of the institute is for the eye to feed on the fear of statement givers

[@leiyashan3111]

@@sebastienmccarthy1483 lol ik this was 10 months ago i've obv finished it at this point 😆

[@moniquita720]

WHY DO I FEEL SO FUCKING SPOOKED.

[@user-gz2hy2wu5g]

22:55

[@unicornilluminati9019]

They probably had to stop listening to do something else and this is a bookmark No idea why people liked it tho

[@chimedemon]

Perhaps... it’s to give a simple curse to those who read it.... a mysterious time that doesn’t seem to have any correlation with anything else... but maybe... we’re all doomed now...

[@Ceaseless_Watcher]

Something very Carnival of Souls about this one.

[@mistydevillier2197]

Aaahhhhh, Lucas!!

[@0nullnil]

13 episodes in and I have forgotten a lot of names but there's always something tying them together. A lot of symbols and stuff. I looked into it and there's these different entities and Elias is sus? That's all Ik and I intend to keep it that way. Just so I learn stuff as I go.

[@voidjockey82]

I wish you a most enjoyable and frightening journey! Keep out on the look, you're on some good leads there but try not to spoil yourself.

[@Nizati]

Best way to do it. Try to avoid the comment section if you can.

[@laureloneiros1500]

Alone, Dunca and a minkaS in the dark

[@folykl]

d...dan gheesling?

[@orrinreese3350]

Man it sucks that a relative died... oh hey a free meal -the Lukases

[@sanguiniue]

Not a bad voice actress . Seen far worse asmr on youtube. But its clear she is reading off something

[@pugjuice8462]

All of the voice actors on this podcast have few official voice acting experience so I'd say it's impressive how much they can do without that

[@moonissick1344]

it’s supposed to sound like she’s reading something because she is. it implied in the beginning

[@downhere5413]

Intentional or not, it has nothing to do with the voice actor and more to do with the writing.

[@theworstmaid]

gee i wonder why it sounds like she's reading

[@downhere5413]

@@theworstmaid exactly 💀

[@kings.a.w8587]

Got to give props to experienced voice actors because

[@Arya-el9ps]

*insert mitsuki's nobody*

[@casper6212]

I forgot there was a mention of the lukas family so early on