THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES #36 - Taken Ill

MAG036 - Case #0121911 - Nicole Baxter
Statement regarding visits culminating in the fire that consumed Ivy Meadows Care Home in Woodley, Greater Manchester.
The Magnus Archives tells the tale of a funereal worker who discovered some disturbing events going on at an elderly care facility.
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[@Phia525]

“I could’ve ignored it, I could’ve walked away” but cha DIDNT.

[@SolarSeaSlug]

people in horror stories be like:

[@pauldiamond1583]

Well... The ones that do ignore it don't end up giving statements because they have no story to tell

[@NerveUnderscore]

You made me laugh so hard

[@notchickenfriedrice]

lmaoooo

[@racoon_in_ankhmorpork]

Beautiful reference, 10/10.

[@whiterosesj]

Trevor was the name of the vampire killer in episode #10. He also carried a lighter which he used to burn the vampires... 👀

[@jackbelmont4389]

Trevor.....belmont *bloody tears starts playing*

[@jocelynrabinowitz]

How tf do y’all remember the names and stuff 😭😭😭😭

[@epsyblue7714]

Now I'm just questioning Breekon and Hope's alignment. Are they helping Jon, trying to get him killed, or just a neutral party to all of this?

[@whiterosesj]

@@jocelynrabinowitz I have terrible memory, so whenever I hear a name or situation that sounds familiar I go back and try to find it (or use google) and relisten to the episode. It helps me to make connections 😊

[@tmaxgo6696]

@@epsyblue7714 i feel like they are a "hands of fate"/"force of nature" type thing. like they do a part of a larger plan.

[@roadworkahead1668]

i would just like to point out the specific phrase "becoming just a home for those crawling, feasting things" because that's exactly what happened to Jane (first time listener so i don't really know what's happening here so far)

[@Catglittercrafts]

Omg you got a heart from the channel. 😮😮😮😮

[@drzeworyj]

first time listener here as well. I think they all (Jared, Jane, etc.) had an encounter with death and some characters decided to 'live' on, like that soldier who played a game with it and cheated. some of them chose death, probably many of those who testified and died in unclear circumstances.

[@kellanlevi5663]

@@drzeworyj Fifth time listener, not gonna spoil which parts of your comment are right or if it's entirely wrong but I applaud how observant you are

[@hawkgirl9984]

I'm also a first time listener (I'm so glad my boyfriend has a sense for my taste in horror because I'm loving every second of this series) and that's an interesting thing to point out. I don't think I noticed it but now that you mention it, it's definitely a running theme.

[@TheStarMachine2000]

If I had to wager a guess, I would say that are more entities like the Hive out there and that they are at odds with one another. As was the case with Jane, it is possible that they influence people before they want to use them as a form of preparation

[@chrismccoy2252]

oh man, I know this is horror but the whole 'spiteful business owner keeps his estranged partner's name on the door to be petty' thing is hilarious.

[@chrismccoy2252]

its also interesting that he requested a brass container- brass experiences a process oligodynamic effect and sterilizes itself.

[@AngelusAnsell]

Breekon and Hope. When you need your deliveries made to impossible places, and with dramatic timing, we get it there. Breekon and Hope, so reliable, it's downright *spooky*.

[@voidjockey82]

This deserves so much more praise and recognition.

[@hamburgerdog25]

Breekon and Hope, you'll shit your pants we're so fast at deliveries you'll never catch us alive

[@whomstisthis]

Time to make a commercial of this with my cosplay buddy

[@noragami97]

Your picture looks familiar, like Peter Steele meets Paradise Kiss or something. Where is it from?

[@AngelusAnsell]

@@noragami97 google images. i forget what i typed in to get it, but it's nothing special

[@SolarSeaSlug]

What really scared me was when Mr. Sims mentioned how Nicole lost her hand in a "workplace incident"

[@TIGGYQUE]

Yeah, what was that... did she chop off her own hand noticing something... yellow... on her skin?...

[@MasterMagikarp]

@@TIGGYQUE ruh roh

[@user-ku9xx1gw3v]

Yes exactly! The scariest part

[@sniksnak559]

“ I looked to the table and it looks sort of” “ -hypnotic” In my head immediately “ does anyone hear a bell ringing “

[@hamham675]

Where was the table mentioned? Was it in MAG 3?

[@sniksnak559]

@@hamham675 yes and do keep that table in mind for the rest of the series

[@hamham675]

@@sniksnak559 heh, glad I was right on the money about where the table was from

[@mikolaj6246]

holy you just answered comment from a year ago@@sniksnak559

[@LydiosVidias]

I was immediately like NOT THE TABLE NOOOOOOOOO

[@leomorris7573]

this episode fucks me up. not in a scared way but in a "horrifically sad" way. later information heavily implies that the corruption targets people who desire to be loved and here it is devastating a senior care center for people who had no money or family to care for them.

[@candiedblue3507]

:((

[@0nullnil]

:'(

[@albuseisenhorn3385]

It seeks those who are vulnerable

[@SraAlice-dj1en]

dude no spoilers :(

[@erasedexistence4161]

Spoilers man,not cool. Please atleast give a warning

[@nanahuatli2144]

"One thing that eats at me", yeah, it's probably the rot eating your hand. I feel like there's a lot of subtle puns in this series.

[@jenjaminbenkins6075]

By the time they're making the statement, they've already removed it :)

[@DeannaSusanHealy]

@@jenjaminbenkins6075 if I’m being honest I would “lose it in a work place accident” I understand why she did it

[@jenjaminbenkins6075]

@@DeannaSusanHealy Oh yeah me too.

[@hamburgerdog25]

"And thats when the paranoia began to set in..." _- a man who has been legitimately terrified of spiders for literally his entire life, to the point of moving houses just by finding one in his general vicinity_

[@manamisenda2422]

Oh my gosh this woman absolutely cut her hand off I'm so sure and unsure at the same time

[@beltaya276]

yo but remember that episode about the guy who kept losing body parts?????

[@f_mva]

im sure she did it because the itching wouldn't go away

[@spiritussancto]

There's been quite a few severed hands...

[@fiddlesticksmeow6269]

Someone should keep a tally of all body parts lost or severed. Or found.

[@vadimsharanda1052]

And that's probably was the safest option in such situation.

[@chrisradek6693]

He mentioned Trevor, who is the Vampire Killer... and I know of only one girl who has been described as having close-cropped hair. A certain sound tech girl who once worked on a Ghost Hunting show.

[@Nizati]

8 months past, i'm sure you're far enough to know you got it right with Trevor. And we got a statement from the girl in question, but really there isnt enough detail to figure out who it is.

[@violetlily3079]

if it was the close cropped girl, Sara, from the ghost hunting show, she'd also be the one who went missing in 2006(?) during the anglerfish episode (#1)!

[@aplant9980]

No, it was explicitly mentioned that the sound tech (Sarah) was shorter than average- the girl here was 'tall and lean'

[@artofboredom42]

Ok. I dunno how far you are since this comment is three years old and I can’t spoiler comments but I’m 110% sure it’s Julia Montauk, due to episodes 107 and 109 alone

[@alyson2645]

for some reason the thought of that second phone call just really gets me. "come quickly, we've taken ill, we've passed away." maybe it's just because i'm listening to this at half past midnight but that wording rattles my bones

[@vX-ter_]

Id like to give you award you a certificate of bravery as id never listen to the magnus archives that late unless i was pulling an all nighter

[@alilweeb7684]

dude. this is the most terrifying episode ive saw so far. the hole thing SPECIALLY the second call. send permanent shivers down my spine. tf is wrong with this episode that make me feel so sick?

[@americantoastman7296]

@@alilweeb7684 same. Absolutely same. Listening to this at night with most of the lights turned off... Idk what I was thinking. But I know what Im thinking now at least.

[@alilweeb7684]

@@americantoastman7296 in on episode 98 and this still one of the heavier ones. There are some that rivals this but it still one of the best

[@lilaboxx]

@@alilweeb7684 I'm considering coming back tomorrow since it's halb past ten now and i just wanted something to listen to while drawing

[@2001Pieps]

Before the interruption, Jon was talking about the old man and said that he reminded him of Trevor. The same Trevor from episode 10 "Vampire Killer", maybe?

[@ineedmoresalmon2475]

oooh good catch, who would the woman be then?

[@poxrael]

Didn't he save a woman? Worth the second vampire

[@vaishaliwarrier6610]

He did have a lighter too, didn't he? And Jon got one in the delivery too......

[@b-blythe6763]

The woman made me think of Mary Keay

[@Nizati]

A year later, i don't think it's a spoiler to say YOU ARE CORRECT, SIR.

[@minzoon8254]

Genuinely listening for the first time here- could this be a "four horsemen" situation? A guy in The Piper claimed to have seen war, in Cheating Death multiple people have literally met "death", could this be pestilence/plague? Just a bit of speculation.

[@minzoon8254]

I was very, very wrong

[@beltaya276]

@@minzoon8254 i read ur comment and was like 'oooooh that sounds plausible' and then opened it whfsdkjcx im so curious, gotta keep binge-listening haha

[@tomboi941]

i know you said you were wrong but maybe the worms/hives are pestilence/plague

[@ashura3223]

@@minzoon8254 this concerns me very much

[@lottie5598]

i had this thought a few episodes ago, im a first time listener ill update later when i figure out what is happening wish me luck guys

[@sandymcneish7820]

Oh I thought that this was called Taken 3!

[@Kyman102]

Oh thank god it's not just me!

[@Companion92]

same

[@Macey88]

What is it called?

[@Macey88]

Oh wait! I get it it’s called taken ill isn’t it!

[@cigit5722]

Tekken 3

[@jessmess7170]

Brass is considered a spirit friendly, fae friendly, entity friendly metal. It keeps getting mentioned. I wonder if that's on purpose

[@aubarlowe]

WAIT, "FRIENDLY" AS IN "IT DOESN'T HURT/REPEL ANY OF THEM"!?

[@jessmess7170]

@@aubarlowe Correct, as far as I know. Iron and in some cases silver are more of a deterrent

[@aubarlowe]

@@jessmess7170 well, on top of being useful for literary purposes.... guess we know why everyone in Magnus Archives uses brass 😅

[@jessmess7170]

@@aubarlowe XD well yes

[@CamilleChauTempsDesCerises]

How could I forget the basic rule : do not eat while listening to TMA

[@CamilleChauTempsDesCerises]

Funny to see this comment again knowing that, after this, I listened most of the series during my lunch breaks

[@swiftfeathers7028]

Seems like Graham's table turned back up!

[@howeboutthis]

I remember the table, and the spider web design is from the previous tales as well! Yay I love how everything is coming together!

[@vX-ter_]

I remember the table but not the spider web design, would it be ok if you could tell me what episode that was from?

[@howeboutthis]

Omg! I'm SO SORRY, but I don't remember which one it was from! Maybe someone else knows or maybe you can find it on the wikifandom. I'm sorry!!!!😭😭

[@vX-ter_]

@@howeboutthis Its fine, someone was nice enough to inform me that its from the episode where the guy is sent cardboard boxes with body parts which he eventualy loses, the lighter is something he stole from the guy he killed earlier on in the story.

[@mjamin9124]

@@vX-ter_ thanks for saying what it was in your reply, i was wondering too

[@vX-ter_]

@@mjamin9124 no problem

[@missmirko6946]

is the yellow stuff the same as the episode about the antisocial guy with a house full of meat?

[@JacksenRose]

I know it's been a while year but That was Rotten meat, so it very well could be the same type of molding

[@azulBjort_1406]

I came to check the comment's to see if it's safe to eat during this episode... Think I'll wait till I'm not eating anymore 😅

[@cattrickie]

that one was horrifying

[@kellanlevi5663]

Spoilers . . . . . . . . Nope. Gross stuff just happens to be yellow a lot in this universe ig

[@cooperemmerton2692]

It’s a rare for people to reach that age and have nothing to pay for their own care Did a double take and then remembered it’s in the UK

[@frogonthebikeheh]

2:36 She's quoting Seneca here in one of his many letters to Luicio, his son *"Wouldn't someone who cried for not having lived a thousand years ago seem the most stupid of all? It is just as stupid as who cries because he will not live in a thousand years. You did not exist and you will not exist: both things are the same. Neither of those two times belongs to you."* Very big point to the creators of the show💖

[@krishadyn5211]

Oh wow. The same idea was used in Lord Dunsany's Gods of Pegana, spoken by the death god, I think. It was quoted somewhere and I was so fascinated I found the book free online to read it for that. Lord Dunsany was one of Lovecraft's inspirations. Fascinating to know the idea has an older history. :)

[@dannymern6425]

"Are you free?" "Yes" :[

[@Nigamiestmajeure]

"I try to see life as a pleasant holiday from non-existence." Well... that's going to haunt me for a while.

[@ilomilo850]

Same

[@MidniteSpectre]

Ah, yes. I'd like some existential crisis along with some visceral nightmare fuel just before going to sleep at three am, please. Really good thing I do have a strong stomach, or it would have ruined my meal.

[@wingdingdoes6687]

THE BOX FITS INTO THE TABLE IM CALLING IT NOW

[@moonstruckstarlet6607]

What box?

[@kazoo_king_]

Yeah what box

[@wingdingdoes6687]

​@@kazoo_king_ In ep 8 "Burned out" a guy uproots a tree at the house on Hill Top Road and finds a box with an apple inside. The box is described as having the same weblike swirly pattern on it, and the table has a square hole in the middle,,,

[@kazoo_king_]

My gosh@@wingdingdoes6687, you are a genius!!!!!

[@simonstern2572]

Respekt

[@aplant9980]

Maybe I'm paranoid as a first time listener, but it seems like her uncle knows more than he's letting on... not in a sinister way but he certainly understands that the body is bad news and immediately tries to distance it from his son and neice

[@rochelleramirez6363]

God, the descriptions for this statement were so disgustingly visceral. As soon as I heard the word "rot", I knew I had to save this one for when I wasn't eating, and I'm so glad I did. I LOVE how well all the previous statements are all coming together to form one mysterious narrative. The writing for this podcast is wound really tight together, so much so that I feel like I have to revisit old statements just to see what previously mentioned names, locations, and archived objects pop up next.

[@sorreltyree]

This one is so sad. The people at the end of their lives who once had such a lively and fun community formed between them in the absence of any other supports in their life, and then it turns to a sick and festering place of silence.

[@the_next_da_vinci1056]

There was a zippo lighter with an eye on it in ep12 (First Aid) and another one in ep14 (peicemeal) with a topless women on it. Now this one with a spider web. Hmmmm

[@aliyinn3186]

There was another zippo lighter that trevor used to burn the vampires he killed in vampire killer, and trevor did get mentioned at the end of this ep before jon got interrupted

[@yourlocaltheatrekid900]

This may be the first episode I've had to pause the video and just stand there for a second to not freak out. The line "come quickly. We've taken ill. We've passed away." was so damn creepy

[@illithidactivity344]

Absolutely 100% thought that the name of this episode was "Taken Three"

[@dragonblood800]

Same

[@kehlcassidy9562]

Me too! I was wondering how tf I'd missed Taken 1 and 2 xD

[@user-bw6uw9uj3k]

this is such a sad one :( all those elderly people presumably dying horrible deaths and noone even really noticed...

[@levchenkodarya]

3:29 - "Perhaps it's just an unaccountable phobia" Me, remembering what happened to the previous person with phobia: Oh, I have a very bad news for you, my dear...

[@aesynthi6884]

:0 ohhhh the table's from ep.3 "across the street" right??

[@missmirko6946]

yes! the one with gerard key?

[@edelbrosnan6222]

MissMirko // no, with Graham

[@fence7446]

@@edelbrosnan6222 or perhaps Not! Graham

[@lilimia100]

this whole illness business + the white car makes me suspect a Horseman of the Apocalypse reference (doesn't Pestilence ride a white horse?) and honestly i'm weak for those so great job

[@gingahbread4918]

Old comment, but Death is the one that rides a white horse.

[@lilimia100]

@@gingahbread4918 doesn't death ride the PALE horse?

[@gingahbread4918]

@@lilimia100 Yes, that would be the white one.

[@lilimia100]

@@gingahbread4918 no i mean. There's the white horse AND the pale horse, respectively pestilence/conquest's and death's.

[@gingahbread4918]

@@lilimia100 My mistake then, I must have been remembering things wrong.

[@chillinwithfrogs9708]

After my grandmother passing away in a care home and having her funral held last day i did NOT need to hear this. Tma really covers all fears, huh.

[@sammieegoldwand]

The fact that Tim said “Fascinating design on it” in reference to the table makes me thing it’s the table from the episode across the hall Edit: seems like Jon was thinking the same thing lol (Also I’m a first time listener so I’m kinda dumb here)

[@blindseeing]

Do I sense a romance between Martin & Jon....

[@comet8956]

i would but i also see it as more of jonathan kind of taking martin under his wing lowkey but we’ll see lol

[@motherfuckerultimate]

I know right, I ship them so hard AHAHAHAHA

[@comet8956]

wow look at me from two months ago fuckin idiot you hardcore ship them now

[@zilaalapsablue7228]

I too do ship them

[@smokewthedevil]

@@comet8956 ohh how you grew

[@umsammil]

The strainer little “EnD reCording” at the end made me SO excited 😱😱

[@howlitesystem4170]

god the shift from wtnv to tma is wild. everything here is intertwined (like a web lol) and becomes relevant again later in the plot. im excited to see how the story continues

[@Skali4President]

Ooooooooo! Should I watch them in tandem?

[@rednoodle5775]

wtnv?

[@howlitesystem4170]

@@rednoodle5775 short for welcome to night vale, another podcast with some horror elements to it

[@crow7636]

​@@rednoodle5775welcome to night vale, it's another horror podcast but in a more comedic and absurd tones

[@alexwest9015]

@@rednoodle5775 I assume they mean "Welcome to Night Vale", another spooky podcast that has a much lighter tone to it. It's performed like the host of a radio show sharing the news of a town called Night Vale that is absolutely full of paranormal activity.

[@i_dont_know_who_i_am69]

oh welp, she totally cut off her own hand because of the itching, didn't she?

[@just_a_cryptid]

My foot is itchy, should I cut it off?

[@alohahejahe___]

@@just_a_cryptid yes

[@just_a_cryptid]

@@alohahejahe___ ok, will do :]

[@belltowersubductions5104]

Given what she was touching, it's quite possible that it did a bit more than just itch...

[@emmathestonedspider8676]

Anyone else been binge watching these since Red brought it up?

[@alibaba-255]

Yes love overly sarcastic productions

[@Hellhound010]

Indeed

[@Macey88]

I literally commented to thank Red for introducing me to these!

[@Shadowonwater]

I started bingeing them a little before Red mentioned them but I got super excited when she did mention it

[@justinjacobs1501]

Maybe...

[@ddeegan6532]

hits very unpleasantly in a pandemic!

[@sneasnake6368]

Table?? As in Graham's table?? with the lighter, the table, and the pipes, does this mean that all the cases are for some reason coming to the archive?? why? and what's up with those delivery people? Are they good? bad? in the grey zone? my word. still so many questions...I love it :3

[@geeegaewlwlwll9328]

i have been writing down names, phrases and other information i feel is important down in my notes app. this note already containes well over 5000 symbols, and i didnt even finish season one maybe i need to start a word document, there i at least would be able to highlight the most important parts what a pleasure to listen to, i cant wait untill i will be relistening and picking up all the foreshadowing and other details

[@awkwardsauceart]

Wait, wasn't the lighter a thing with that guy who kept losing fingers and stuff? Idk if that's how it's related, it's really exciting to theorize about how things link :D

[@gasmask932]

No, that lighter had a topless woman on it

[@Macey88]

Yeah but, he said it had faded off over the years, so it very well could be.

[@vaishaliwarrier6610]

The vampire hunter, (also named Trevor) had a lighter on him, if Im not wrong

[@abigailpulliam6996]

I currently work in a nursing home experiencing a horrible covid outbreak, and "we've taken ill. We've passed away," is exactly how it feels. Just recovered from my own case of it, which only got me because I had salmonella poisoning, and it took that moment to jump me

[@Ceaseless_Watcher]

Hope you're feeling better.

[@cupcaketv5673]

I really like how they involve so many moments where the statement-givers just get a haunting image burned into their mind, like e.g. here when Alenka tapped against the window rhythmically as if in a trance and, after everything has kind of sunken in for Nicole, she stared at Nicole as if still in that trance until a scream suddenly errupts from her mouth accompanied by a swarm of flies, almost overpowering her voice. I dunno, I just really like how those mind-etching scenes are always described

[@bleepblorpprr]

After the last episodes worm wiggling/squelching sounds in the back, i keep hearing them in this one where they (probably) arent there

[@kathrynshadowen1303]

Before the ep started I read the title and thought it was "take iii", like 3? Spent a moment thinking i had missed an ep. yall im majoring in English and clearly I am the brightest student to ever do so

[@viewyevening8719]

A capital i and a lowercase L have just a single pixel difference look. Il

[@comet8956]

i remember the table existing but i can’t for the life of me remember what happened with it

[@comet8956]

okay i know where it came from now hm

[@alilweeb7684]

dude. this is the most terrifying episode ive saw so far. the hole thing SPECIALLY the second call. send permanent shivers down my spine. tf is wrong with this episode that make me feel so sick?

[@saucevc8353]

"Based on the colour of those sections of skin still whole and unblemished, Mr. Miller couldn’t have been dead for more than a few hours, half a day at most. You wouldn’t have known, though. Large sections of his body were covered in a wet, creamy yellow rash, which… I’m not a doctor, so describing exactly what it did to the flesh it touched would serve no purpose except to start me having the nightmares again. Let us just say that it gave a plentiful home for the flies that swarmed around his body." Hmmm, any relation to the strange yellow lesions in "The Man Upstairs"?

[@Skali4President]

Lmao what if a skinwalker got a cadaver that was already infected???

[@namaschu9418]

NOOOO NOT THE TABLE. BURN IT JOHN, BURN IT PLEASSSSE

[@Macey88]

Hey wasn’t the table also the one from the episode about the guy who the one girl was watching from her window that ate pages from his notebooks and turned into someone else?

[@edelbrosnan6222]

Yep

[@mackenziedillon295]

Across the street. Graham was the man

[@staros4766]

my dad owns and is the main worker of a funeral home. i intend on taking over once he is retired. this one hit different. edit: our funeral home is right next to the house. we live right next to it, the only gap between the buildings being a gate to get into the garden.

[@EmeraldMinotaur]

Why the fuck do I keep trying to eat while I listen to these Edit: oh christ I bit into my fajita as they described the corpse

[@Ilikebats123]

>tfw you actually HEAR the title in the video and realise that this is NOT a horror story revolving around Liam Neeson films.

[@jenjaminbenkins6075]

>Mfw I see some 4channer unironically green texting in KZbin comments >Pic not related.

[@anoelle0019]

Me wondering when Taken 1 and Taken 2 happened 👁👄👁💧❓

[@coremagpie9221]

Another Jon! There are so many!

[@koromoro6682]

John count is up to 7 babeeyy

[@achnav3762]

I kind of want to stop listening to this podcast as much, since I'm beginning to feel uneasy, but I just can't escape. I NEED to know what's gonna happen next. Guess I would be the kind who end up in a bad situation if I lived in this universe. Thankfully, I would be too much of a coward to take too much of a risk.

[@hannahcartwright8190]

Hannah is my name and so the voice talking about a Hannah caught me off guard

[@asterphy]

It’s my name too!

[@Doihavetodothisagain]

This , this is the one that gave me chills.

[@ghostathan]

ok there it is. this one got me. the thought of death and bodies is ok because we try to process them as fast as possible but finding an oozing tainted dead body with the heat and the flies and the smell is very UGH. I thought i was fine because The Man Upstairs was gross but the sheer amount of rotting meat and the creature made it campy . this one was on a different level for me. Hearing of such a lovely place go to hell like that combined with the creepy new director and the dead silence and smell and the FLIES. I've been dreaming about flies after binging this series for three days. People say if you havea fear, the magnus archives has an episode about it. For me its like "You dont know what you're afraid of? We'll find it" That whole time by face was just ina permanent open mouthed grimace.

[@Julian-bq9qv]

THIS is one of the most awesome, chilling stories you have ever done! Forgive my saying so, but it seems to me that some of your older works are a bit better with the scare factor than many recent ones. That is not to be over critical, but you've set such a high bar that it is truly challenging to meet or exceed it.

[@sandymcneish7820]

I agree

[@Rin-qj7zt]

Well, as you continue to listen to these sorts of stories, you kind of get used to them. I think they are about as good as they ever were.

[@rem4197]

I think that's for plot purposes. Like yeah, in the beginning they were setting up the plot too but then it focussed more on the fear factor. Then it slowly becomes more plot driven

[@candiedblue3507]

When will I learn When will I learn that eating during the Magnus Archives hAs CoNsEqUeNcEs

[@ot7biasedmashups]

I really don't know how to feel about the packages... The table is clearly no good although I'm not sure how dangerous it is when you don't look at it. The lighter however... In that episode with the two burnt guys the open eye seemed to be protective. However, it was also on the lighter so??? Now we have a cobweb on it... This could be good because we know that you can burn the worms and my personal theory is that the spider entities are the natural enemies of the worms but I'm just not sure.

[@rome0417]

How wonderful that I'm listening to this as we clean the week after my aunt died

[@lucia_kidtech]

"we've taken I'll we've passed away" ABSOLUTELY THE FUCK NOT

[@leawa]

If I remeber correctly the spiders didn't get along with the worms, so I'm hoping this lighter will save my tired boy John. The table is obviously Grahams and the delivery was made by Beacon and Hope delivery. What is the meaning of this and it's consequences? I have no clue, but I'm here for the ride.

[@halfchiangel88]

The ending where we found out what was delivered gets me so hype for the next episode XD

[@mars6128]

hannah's my deadname (i'm fine saying dw), so hearing it felt really odd and somehow made the story a whole bunch creepier

[@marshmallow3200]

Well now I want to bump into mine just to see how different it'll make the episode feel from what it's supposed to feel like.

[@falconstudios146]

I heard mine in a previous episode I think. I'm sure I'll hear my real name at some point.

[@rotemsosna8893]

um a zippo? like the kind that was given to Angela in that episode where the dude kept getting body parts in little packages?

[@salemtargaryen123]

This episode is giving me such The Mortuary Assistant vibes, which funnily enough is also abbreviated as TMA, just like The Magnus Archives

[@ohmymarbles]

NOT GRAHAMS TABLE??????????? does that have anything to do with that micheal dude we met I wonder

[@lucindajennings148]

Poor people...

[@ginkgomoth]

Tim's voice reminds me of someone from Bee and Puppycat; it's always comforting when he starts talking in the middle of a horror podcast

[@getolde7966]

For my taste, There's an awful lot of housefires in TMA--- I feel like that implies something👀

[@clayxros576]

These fear empowered entities are really being the opposite of subtle aren't they? You'd think....they want to get caught at this point. 300 years right? I wonder if someone is trying to speed up the timetable.

[@Atlas_Young_Lover69]

We should start making Magnus Archives OCs- It would be fun to make up our own statements and things

[@TranslunaryAnimus]

I *have* actually written up a fan statement before. Even if it isn't sent to anyone it's incredibly fun to do!

[@cezar3169]

you dont know how terrified I was about the word ''tap'' and the ending really got to me

[@belltowersubductions5104]

Coming back after all this time, this episode still really sticks with me. This one really messes me up.

[@Ella-gj7vr]

SPOILER FOR SEASON 5 ENDING 26:58 oh no the LIGHTER oh no no no no no

[@St0nek]

The dude: Says the Disease, and ponders why he said it Me, who has accidentaly seen too much of the Wiki:👀

[@poopilydoopily7784]

After piecemeal I rlly thought I wasn't gonna keep listening to this bc it scared me too much (I'm a baby(but here I am anyway obviously)) So I just scrolled through the wiki a bunch and read a bunch of spoiler comments cuz I was still curious anyway and now I lowkey know what happens to everyone in the end and some of what happens in the middle 😒😒😒

[@thedistinguished5255]

the vacation from non-existing is a nice way to view it. perhaps im selfish but i view it like this: im my entire existance, i will never be outside of my body, im my entire world. when i was born, my world started existing, and when i die, my world will stop existing. i dont care how people go on without me, as far as im concerned nothing past my death is real

[@thegaymothman]

I caught myself saying "finally they bring up that fucking table" and if I have to deal with loudly talking about antique tables from a horror podcast within earshot of my neighbours then so do you

[@Mathee]

Me reading the title: "Ah yes, Taken 3..." Jon: "Taken ill." Me: ... That makes more sense...

[@sabresister]

I thought the title was “Taken 3” at first glance and was expecting the episode to just be Jon talking about the Liam Neeson movies 😂

[@stephenderry9488]

Did anyone else think this was going to be an exciting Liam Neeson franchise sequel?

[@SM-dl2ox]

As a former carer myself this episode sounds like it was concocted to be my own personal hell 🥲

[@mayormayo1853]

I thought this was Taken 3 haha but I guess Taken ill is sick too

[@midnights2631]

It's sad a senior place was targeted, especially a place that used to be so happy. A lighter with a spiderweb design? That sounds important.

[@captaind8728]

also I think Josh was the name of a boyfriend in Strange music is it the same Josh or a different one? 🤔

[@trucetruce335]

think it's different but idk

[@RainbowUnicorn2005]

The name Bertrand Miller also sounds familiar

[@SmokeyMountainSuccubus]

Holy fuck that lighter

[@nanuqo2006]

On KZbin mobile the title of this one looks like the roman numeral of “Taken 3”

[@pumpdelicious4731]

I know this comment is way late, but thank you for having the character misspeak the word disease. When characters always say exactly the right thing it feels a little less realistic. Nice touch.

[@voidjockey82]

They shouod have thrown that blasted table out right then and there, Jon knew about it and who delivered it. If they had, then maybe... Damn.

[@poopilydoopily7784]

Why so ominous 😭😭😭😭😭

[@CrazyTimeTraveler]

I absolutely love this podcast