THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES #25 - Growing Dark

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  • MAG012 - Case #01519014 - Mark Bilham
    Statement regarding the events that culminated in a visit to Hither Green Chapel, London.
    The Magnus Archives tells the tale of a young man whose partner’s friend seemingly found religion in dark places and under strange, somewhat disturbing, circumstances.
    Starring: The Archivist - Jonathan Sims
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  • @megancress1384
    @megancress1384 Před 3 lety +2581

    I know that torch is just the british way of saying flashlight but every episode involving one i still imagine the characters holding an actual burning torch

    • @rachelwaln4728
      @rachelwaln4728 Před 3 lety +40

      Same

    • @epsyblue7714
      @epsyblue7714 Před 3 lety +98

      Oh I had assumed the torches were lanterns.

    • @mun_404
      @mun_404 Před 3 lety +7

      Same

    • @briawilson9200
      @briawilson9200 Před 2 lety +4

      Same !!!

    • @puffy1169
      @puffy1169 Před 2 lety +30

      I had to Google it, cause i did the same thing xD
      Funny enough i should be taught British English by school and I'm more familiar with American xD

  • @andrewclarke5972
    @andrewclarke5972 Před 3 lety +1850

    If I had a dollar for every time he said "I would ignore/disregard this if it wasn't for..." I would have 25 dollars, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it has happened every time

    • @MagnusThiHan
      @MagnusThiHan Před 2 lety +182

      nah. every time the books are brought up he goes "jesus christ this bullshit"

    • @Alex-tx7ih
      @Alex-tx7ih Před 2 lety +102

      Probably cherry picked. We're being shown the more interesting episodes; he's apparently working full time trying to catalogue everything, so I imagine most are just duds.

    • @calamity2383
      @calamity2383 Před 2 lety +55

      @@Alex-tx7ih
      You are actually correct, he only reads ones that he at least mostly believes

    • @ashtasheran6970
      @ashtasheran6970 Před rokem +24

      @@calamity2383 Major spoilers for the later season
      We only hear the ones that are true bcs the Web is pulling the strings he recorded much more statements than that what we hear (well that is in the first 2 seasons cuz he definetly didnt care about his job in season 3 and 4) in digital media but the ones we hear always had their files corrupted by the Web wich made it so John had to record them with the tape recorder wich is an artifact of the Web

    • @calamity2383
      @calamity2383 Před rokem +12

      @@ashtasheran6970 yeah I know don’t worry :) I meant he only records ones he knows are true
      I actually finished mag last week! But I already had spoilers for everything lmao

  • @toastghost9145
    @toastghost9145 Před 5 lety +2059

    May 15, 2015 was a busy day. The chapel started screaming, Gertrude died, and I had a birthday party.

  • @karenlinares7541
    @karenlinares7541 Před 3 lety +640

    If i had realized that the lightbulbs were unscrewed then i would scream wildly at how much money i wasted at changing them

  • @conandenz8413
    @conandenz8413 Před 4 lety +2091

    I literally start screaming every time I hear anything related to Jurgen leitner, an eye, or any bugs in this series. Just like "ahhh yes. A symbol. Hmm i wonder what the symbol is? Could it be an eye?" "a symbol of an eye" "DAMNIT!"

    • @neroquin
      @neroquin Před 3 lety +122

      Also burning. So many things burn.

    • @kinghydra4225
      @kinghydra4225 Před 3 lety +77

      And worms.

    • @calamity2383
      @calamity2383 Před 2 lety +33

      May I introduce you to the Jurgen Leitner
      rant?

    • @conandenz8413
      @conandenz8413 Před 2 lety +17

      @@calamity2383 introduce me? i know it by heart :D

    • @hawkgirl9984
      @hawkgirl9984 Před rokem +4

      Honestly same. Anytime I hear a story that connects to leitner i get super excited and listen even more intently

  • @amandafrazier9724
    @amandafrazier9724 Před 2 lety +858

    So there are two significant eye symbols: the closed eye, which seems to be a cult symbol (here, and A Father's Love)and the open eyes, which seem to be a protective ward (First Aid, and the Black Forest ep). There are also frequent instances of a finite space becoming temporarily infinite or at least larger and distorted (the cave, the sky, the graveyard/fields, and here, the dark/chapel.)
    Damn, this show is good.

    • @emilybarclay8831
      @emilybarclay8831 Před rokem +42

      Idk how far you’re in now but **SPOILERS**
      The closed eye is The Dark, and the open eye is The Eye. They’re kinda natural opposites given that one depends on obscuring, hiding and the other depends on being exposed and seen. The Eye may not directly harm you physically but it is definitely NOT a protective entity unless you’re the archivist

    • @holycarp1676
      @holycarp1676 Před rokem +13

      @@emilybarclay8831 or otherwise a servant or follower of The Beholding
      also the symbols of The Mother of Puppets and The Watcher are the closest to protective symbols

    • @melissaharris3389
      @melissaharris3389 Před 2 měsíci +4

      ​@holycarp1676 I wouldn't say any of the entities are protective. They are possessive, though. Visibility wearing any symbol of a power may discourage some avatars from attacking while conversely encouraging others. They act more like warning signs and badges of alligance.

  • @fred_______
    @fred_______ Před 4 lety +1578

    Most people; Bible verse
    Mark, an intellectual: *Bible quote*

    • @masonwindu6370
      @masonwindu6370 Před 3 lety +51

      Truly top of the line big brain Mark possesses

    • @WiIIowisp
      @WiIIowisp Před 2 lety +86

      bible lyric

    • @nateds7326
      @nateds7326 Před 2 lety +19

      I'd like to think that it's actually Markiplier now.
      *This is big brain time*

    • @rilla5058
      @rilla5058 Před 2 lety +5

      A scripture

    • @togahimiko8083
      @togahimiko8083 Před 6 měsíci +2

      i heard one person call it a bible lyric-

  • @korickarmstrong3468
    @korickarmstrong3468 Před 3 lety +890

    So, something I don't see a lot of people talking about is the number of "sudden heart failures" we see across this series. I think we're up to like, 4?

  • @b-blythe6763
    @b-blythe6763 Před 3 lety +725

    im so worried about that "spinach" Cathy ate

    • @user-vh8qn6zh3p
      @user-vh8qn6zh3p Před 3 lety +122

      Might've been those worms

    • @ann-margretparke9525
      @ann-margretparke9525 Před 3 lety +182

      Never eat what you can not see. Picked up a sandwich in the dark once, took a bite and 'yuk', it was covered in ants. Think that was the sort of scare they were going for. Could have been anything in that bowl.

    • @jaderush4141
      @jaderush4141 Před 3 lety +35

      The dishes they served in Resident Evil 7?

    • @_mel_9953
      @_mel_9953 Před 3 lety +54

      @@ann-margretparke9525 Oh my god that’s terrifying, I’d just pass out right there. Hope you were alright after that

    • @alessiapalma8823
      @alessiapalma8823 Před 3 lety +45

      @@user-vh8qn6zh3p OMG you are right 🤮🤮 I thought it was like intestine which wouldn’t be too bad considered it’s a thing ppl eat as a delicacy in some places but those worms.. poor Cathy

  • @bugjams
    @bugjams Před rokem +716

    I love that characters in TMA can be so painfully aware that something is wrong but also too Britishly polite to be rude and say something about it. It's like,
    "Yeah my flatmate started singing in tongues, unscrewing all the lightbulbs and also I heard sounds from her room when she wasn't home. Said something about joining a new religion. But I wouldn't want to make a fuss about if, I might come off as rude!"
    This setting would 100% not work in an American setting. Guns would start going off like fireworks the moment something spooky happened.

    • @Idran
      @Idran Před rokem +23

      After this comment, I'm very curious if you've reached episode 31 by now :3

    • @levchenkodarya
      @levchenkodarya Před rokem +18

      Sounds like the typical medic student for me

    • @iamaunicorn1232
      @iamaunicorn1232 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Thats un-American. We report them to the cops so the cops can shoot them. Unless you're in Texas. In Texas you hunt bad roommates like prarie dogs.

    • @AnotheraccountonYTlovesyouall
      @AnotheraccountonYTlovesyouall Před 5 měsíci +14

      Well we wouldn't want to be rude now would we? At most we may ascend to true Britishness and become extremely passive aggressive but only in dire circumstances. Who are we to control how others live their life?

    • @Bip4rl0
      @Bip4rl0 Před 4 měsíci +6

      Spooky?! 😡

  • @dannymern6425
    @dannymern6425 Před 4 lety +916

    The plot chickens

  • @jeemsers
    @jeemsers Před 4 lety +1277

    "The lightbulbs kept blowing"
    I find it interesting that the exact same wording is being used as in the episode with the serial killer dad, even though the character telling this story knows that's not what happened at all. It seems awfully deliberate.

    • @nanahuatli2144
      @nanahuatli2144 Před 4 lety +173

      I'm working under the assumption that anything that seems like a connection is a connection. It seems like that kind of story.

    • @crepezzzzz
      @crepezzzzz Před 3 lety +113

      the serial killer dad and natalie were both doing weird, culty things, specifically during the night, perhaps they knew eachother?

    • @minty7945
      @minty7945 Před 3 lety +37

      Yeah and every time there's odd chanting I connect it to episode 9. There was some of that in episode 12 too

    • @senormooples2354
      @senormooples2354 Před 2 lety +36

      I feel like I remember that in a fathers love, Julia mentioned that they were blowing, I assumed that that means she was present and saw that the bulbs would just turn off but then again she was a child so maybe her father was unscrewing them since both stories have parallels on growing darlness

    • @vighneshravindran3270
      @vighneshravindran3270 Před 2 lety +17

      @@crepezzzzz Its the same cult Julia's mother was in.

  • @dirtyraccoon3014
    @dirtyraccoon3014 Před 2 lety +341

    People in the comments, thank you so so much for catching little details and helping me remember names. I have terrible memory lol

  • @jvg9349
    @jvg9349 Před 3 lety +328

    Nobody has mentioned the stripped wallpaper. This could just be a coincidence but it reminds me of the episode with the priest. One of the houses he visited had wallpaper stripped from the wall and the word mentis.

  • @2001Pieps
    @2001Pieps Před 4 lety +638

    So the eye is related to the cult referenced in episode 9 "A father's love".

    • @a_blitz
      @a_blitz Před 4 lety +91

      The eye has been referenced several timed not just in gather's love but yeah i think that it was first mentioned there

    • @dawhandaonli5925
      @dawhandaonli5925 Před 4 lety +66

      Jared Key is also covered in similar tattoos

    • @nanahuatli2144
      @nanahuatli2144 Před 4 lety +100

      @@a_blitz Yeah, but I think A Father's Love is the only instance before this episode where the eye is *closed*. I'm going to assume this is important.

    • @ano2959
      @ano2959 Před 3 lety +18

      What about the episode first aid? Didn’t a guy have tattoos of eyes? Or did i mishear it

    • @darlingrosiebun8952
      @darlingrosiebun8952 Před 3 lety +25

      There was the lady covered in eye tatts too and the drawing of an eye on her wall someone made for her

  • @imakedoodleslol
    @imakedoodleslol Před 4 lety +833

    oh my god her mum dying of 'heart failure' has a whole knew meaning with this cult knowledge we learnt about in ep 9. that totally flew over my head the first time.

    • @ZeroOhClock
      @ZeroOhClock Před 3 lety +20

      Wait... explain ?

    • @tillyeh2866
      @tillyeh2866 Před 3 lety +192

      Zero 'O Clock might be something to do with how the father in ep9 was killing women and ripping out their hearts for a ritual ? a weird ritualistic focus on hearts ?

    • @ZeroOhClock
      @ZeroOhClock Před 3 lety +51

      @@tillyeh2866 Ahh! I forgot the specifics of what he was doing. Thank you!

    • @trucetruce335
      @trucetruce335 Před 3 lety +65

      tilly eh wasn’t just women

    • @rotemsosna8893
      @rotemsosna8893 Před 3 lety +20

      holy shit i didn’t even think of that! good catch

  • @rotemsosna8893
    @rotemsosna8893 Před 3 lety +509

    so there’s the same cult as mentioned in “a father’s love” and i could be reaching with this, but the same motif of darkness in that episode, where in “a father’s love” there’s the wave of darkness that shuts off the street lamps, and in this episode he mentions the streetlights/ his car lights being too dim as well as Natalie unscrewing the lightbulbs and darkening her room

    • @sydneyknoll7199
      @sydneyknoll7199 Před 2 lety +33

      Does anyone else think this might have been the thing that stole the sister in the caving ep?

    • @christianmoralesortiz4688
      @christianmoralesortiz4688 Před 2 lety +3

      @@sydneyknoll7199 most likely

    • @emilybarclay8831
      @emilybarclay8831 Před rokem +4

      @@sydneyknoll7199 SPOILERS
      That was The Buried, but The Buried and The Dark, the subject of this story and Father’s Love, are naturally quite similar and overlap a lot. Just like how The Stranger, The Spiral and The Web are so often associated with each-other. These entities are parts of the same whole, according to some. So there’s naturally overlap

  • @aesynthi6884
    @aesynthi6884 Před 4 lety +900

    as an american, it took me almost the entirety of this episode to realize "torch" meant "flashlight" lmao

    • @aoife8977
      @aoife8977 Před 4 lety +42

      Shoe's on the other foot now lmao. Weird the differences between what's basically the same language lol

    • @late_prince8945
      @late_prince8945 Před 4 lety +68

      At first, I thought that they are really using ,,torch,,

    • @Companion92
      @Companion92 Před 4 lety +22

      I'm german and I had the same problem XD

    • @fred_______
      @fred_______ Před 4 lety +14

      So am I so every time they torch it tajes me a split second to think if the right kind of torch

    • @em-wg7xg
      @em-wg7xg Před 4 lety +41

      as a non native english speaker i was so confused by how often they used torches lmao

  • @Dani_1012
    @Dani_1012 Před 2 lety +281

    Things that so far are related:
    - Closed and opened eyes from "A Father's Love"
    - Striped wallpaper from the priest episodes, could be skinning people again...
    - The chapel from "Alone" and the German tomb episode
    - Yet another person that died of "heart failure"
    - light bulbs not working and darkness from "A Father's Love"
    - places suddenly growing large or reducing in size, like "Lost Johns' Cave" among other episodes
    - things crawling out of holes/worms, like Martin's hella creepy episode...
    I wonder how they're going to tie everything together

    • @Sxcheschka
      @Sxcheschka Před 2 lety +10

      I wonder indeed, hee hee, relistening for like the 5th time lol.

    • @non-bb4756
      @non-bb4756 Před rokem +3

      Same I love this so far

    • @thegaymothman
      @thegaymothman Před 10 měsíci +4

      Very late to this but just to ask, who else died of heart failure? I vaguely remember the guy's dad from "Dreamer" but is that it?

    • @marcellesantana5813
      @marcellesantana5813 Před 9 měsíci +3

      @@thegaymothmani think the girl who got exorcised by the “cannibal” priest

    • @nehirbilmenegerekyok4473
      @nehirbilmenegerekyok4473 Před 3 měsíci +1

      ​@@thegaymothmanalso Evan Lukas in ep13

  • @tearez13
    @tearez13 Před 3 lety +214

    creepy chapel in the middle of a cemetery? that sounds familiar...

    • @saurabhsharma6939
      @saurabhsharma6939 Před 3 lety +33

      "alone"

    • @SolarSeaSlug
      @SolarSeaSlug Před 2 lety +24

      That's exactly what I was thinking. I'm willing to bet it's the same one from the episode with the car crash lady and her fiancé's funeral

    • @aybukebulat
      @aybukebulat Před 2 lety +13

      And the one in the Germany when the man found an old cemetery

  • @fitz9358
    @fitz9358 Před 3 lety +304

    who drives to check out a creepy possible gathering place for a cult that is some ways away from the closest town in the middle of the night by themselves??

    • @tomboi941
      @tomboi941 Před 3 lety +78

      Mark Bilham apparently

    • @alicepatton3040
      @alicepatton3040 Před 3 lety +39

      Someone who is whipped af for his girlfriend

    • @f_mva
      @f_mva Před 3 lety +56

      istg the only smart protagonist so far was the lad from the closed box story

    • @jaderush4141
      @jaderush4141 Před 3 lety +25

      What about the Anglerfish dude?

    • @maguc5906
      @maguc5906 Před 3 lety +39

      @@jaderush4141 most of the protagonista have been decently smart people all things considered

  • @farahch7466
    @farahch7466 Před 3 lety +501

    Mark has the same surname as one of the students who got killed, Christopher Bilham, from MAG020 Desecrated Host (the one who wasn't eaten). Could be pure coincidence but at this point I feel like you really can't overlook anything in the series lmao

    • @ano2959
      @ano2959 Před 3 lety +66

      Omg, i suck at remembering names but yea! Like good job finding this out!

    • @azrielspringer546
      @azrielspringer546 Před 3 lety +9

      I was thinking about that too

    • @farahch7466
      @farahch7466 Před 2 lety +27

      @Ida Juelsson the priest who was possessed then killed and ate the skin of 2 students

    • @farahch7466
      @farahch7466 Před 2 lety +26

      @Ida Juelsson not an inconvenience at all! i love the show and i have a whole google doc listing names and episodes because of how complex it gets haha!

    • @glassesinthetub
      @glassesinthetub Před 2 lety +12

      @@farahch7466 I was wondering if you could share your Google doc with me 😭 I'm having a hard time with names myself

  • @levchenkodarya
    @levchenkodarya Před rokem +76

    I'm surprised that it was a *medical student* who thought of Natalie's behaviour as strange, considering all the strange things that I was doing during being one myself. For example, I would sing our University anthem (it's on Latin) out loud, not turn on any lights besides my table lamp (which saved me quite a lot of money for electricity bills) and come to my flat with a bag of bones...

    • @TIGGYQUE
      @TIGGYQUE Před rokem +9

      lol if only people knew how hungry med students become at the anatomy lessons ahahahah
      but you know joking about wanting to eat meat while looking at some preserved hand with muscles and tendons is okay but methodically unscrewing lightbulbs juuust a little so they don't work...
      (also I still don't consider accidentally eating human skin cannibalism)

  • @CristopherNigh
    @CristopherNigh Před 2 lety +84

    Notable (possible) clues marked by a blind listener:
    -Hear failures (lots)
    -(perhaps?) Two cults, eyes open or closed.
    -Failling lightbulbs.
    -Bilhem, like the killed.
    -The rich "religious" family from Alone, and their creepy chapel-cemetary.
    -

  • @beltaya276
    @beltaya276 Před 3 lety +244

    God that is definitely the same cult from ‘A Fathers Love’, and the same song ? Possibly? From ‘First Aid’.
    Also.... this may be a stretch but i noticed a parallel from Lost Jons Cave of the scenery around you changing in pitch black darknesss.. with a hand involved. Hmmhmmmmm

    • @starshinegroup3047
      @starshinegroup3047 Před 3 lety +15

      Same cult, different song, unrelated to the cave

    • @beltaya276
      @beltaya276 Před 3 lety +5

      @@starshinegroup3047 hahaha ik im caught up

  • @rain-qb2xv
    @rain-qb2xv Před 3 lety +146

    the imagery of someone singing in another language outside your room at night time is honestly really fking creepy

    • @TIGGYQUE
      @TIGGYQUE Před rokem +8

      *remembers that 90% of her country population is obsessed with American and British bands and badly butcher lyrics while singing with the headphones on* yeah creepy...

    • @aneta3098
      @aneta3098 Před 5 měsíci +3

      I mean depends on the country, guess in UK, US and such it could be

  • @frostflaggermus
    @frostflaggermus Před 3 lety +100

    "Nee Alesund is a small town in Norway"
    As an actual Norwegian, this sounds like a really weird name. Unless.... could you mean Ny-Ålesund? (i googled and it turns out it's a real town too, all the way up at svalbard, with a permanent population of around 35 people. neat!!)
    Å does sound rather different from A, but since he's britishly clueless and only reading it out, I'll forgive it.

    • @Enithyla
      @Enithyla Před rokem +15

      I live in Ålesund- thought it said near Alesund, was terrified then really confused until i realized he meant Ny-Ålesund!
      I originally though the subtilitets got it wrong then i heard Norway and basically screamed XD
      Now i know how those who live in London and the areas previously mentioned felt :P

  • @aimeesmith3505
    @aimeesmith3505 Před 4 lety +221

    I don’t know if I’m reading too far into it, but I think the church is the same one as in Alone

    • @Alexandra-lj5dr
      @Alexandra-lj5dr Před 3 lety +52

      My thoughts exactly! Or at least a similar situation as both times it was dark and the place ‘morphed’ into another. And both times the people gained help from unexplainable sources (this would be Mark suddenly feeling his phone and Evan telling Naomi to go left). This helped both of them get back into reality. Also we can’t ignore the fact that while in those places, beings tried to get both Naomi and Mark to stay (the open grave for Naomi and the fingers for Mark)

  • @toadstooldarling9937
    @toadstooldarling9937 Před 3 lety +180

    okay so....theres alot of eye symbols yes. but I feel like theres a difference between the closed eye one and the open eye one. or atleast some reason, I dont think theyd make note of it if it wasnt important

    • @artimessnow3950
      @artimessnow3950 Před 3 lety +55

      An open eye opens investigation, curiousity, a want to 'see the truth'
      A closed eye could be an invitation to ignorance, and to be 'kept in the dark'
      ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • @archermon373
      @archermon373 Před 2 lety +13

      Opposed factions?

    • @TheNitpickChick
      @TheNitpickChick Před 2 lety +1

      👀

    • @emilybarclay8831
      @emilybarclay8831 Před rokem +1

      I ain’t spoiling but you’re onto something 👀

    • @toadstooldarling9937
      @toadstooldarling9937 Před rokem +5

      @@emilybarclay8831 I love looking back at my comments after listening to the whole series, like "haha yeah you go buddy"

  • @eskay4023
    @eskay4023 Před 3 lety +129

    "Night's gonna last for a very long time" I got shivers

  • @brokenmir5164
    @brokenmir5164 Před 9 měsíci +8

    it's interesting that the closed eye appears in the episodes about darkness. We often see eye symbols, but the closed eye was only in the ninth episode. Does that mean the darkness is against watching, making your eyes close?

  • @cendre4605
    @cendre4605 Před 10 měsíci +16

    "Anything your phobia is, there is a Magnus Archive episode about it", they say... Didn't think it could apply to my very specific phobia of lights not working / not being as strong as they should for no apparent reason and abnormally vast spaces in total darkness-

  • @labrat_1
    @labrat_1 Před 3 lety +162

    ok so about the gertrude thing at the end, when asked about why she died everyone just said she "died while working" or something like that. She may have died to that cult while doing more envestigating into that statement. also im a new listener so no spoilers pls

    • @davv6628
      @davv6628 Před 2 lety +14

      Also a new listener. That all makes sense and I agree. It's the only thing that makes sense and with this series it seems there aren't ant coincidence but rather only connections

    • @getolde7966
      @getolde7966 Před 2 lety +18

      As a new listener, I strongly suspect she was murdered by intervention of something supernatural, possibly one of the many cults in this series. Someone wanted her gone and I partially suspect it has something to do with Elias.

    • @rilla5058
      @rilla5058 Před 2 lety +12

      @@getolde7966 Same, I'm getting a slightly strange vibe from Elias. Might be misplaced but eh

    • @ErrorNotFound-nl1sh
      @ErrorNotFound-nl1sh Před 2 lety +4

      New listener too, remember what it said in the dreamer episode, I think, about her dying in the line of duty...

  • @RoseMultiverse
    @RoseMultiverse Před 4 lety +158

    *The entity like a boomer:* Damn kids and their new fangled technology!!

  • @bro_im_tired
    @bro_im_tired Před 9 měsíci +7

    Everytime he says, "statement ends" im reminded of the fact that, for the most part, its just john voicing these statements. But the tone is so different and sometimes im just rly invested in the story that i forget its not another person talking.

  • @craterface2940
    @craterface2940 Před 4 lety +169

    23:28 awful pronunciation of "Ny-Ålesund" took a while to figure out what place he meant. but yeah, its on "Svalbard" a group of islands about halfway between Norway and the north pole. so yeah pretty far north. do what you wish with this information :)

    • @JesseColton
      @JesseColton Před 4 lety +20

      I only know Svalbard as the place childrens daemons were being stolen from them in His Dark Materials

    • @TheDanishGuyReviews
      @TheDanishGuyReviews Před 4 lety +12

      What else could a native English speaker do? They can't say å.

    • @jackolantern9034
      @jackolantern9034 Před 3 lety +6

      places rlly far north tend to have winters where the sun doesn’t shine so everything is in complete darkness for half the year, so that might have something to do with it

    • @ghouletteren
      @ghouletteren Před 2 lety +5

      Ah yes, the scary scary place of Ny-Ålesund where nothing happens apart from the occasional polar bear sighting. Still fun that they mentioned my home country in this episode ❤️🇧🇻

    • @Enithyla
      @Enithyla Před rokem

      @@ghouletteren I live in Ålesund so i got a double scare untill i rememberd there was a place called Ny-Ålesund XD

  • @alessiapalma8823
    @alessiapalma8823 Před 3 lety +159

    Guys what if the closed eye drawing turned into an open eye when all lights are off, kinda cool like they’re watching u when u can’t see.
    But I feel more like there are two cults, one of the opened eye one of the closed eye. The open one protects u from the dark arts of the closed one (remember how in first aid the eye tattoos protected the guy from the lightless flame?). Also in the Black wood episode (that german name sch smt) in the tomb there were open eyes as to protect the place. Also in a father’s love the dad was scared when he realised his wife hadn’t her opened eye pendant on her, which I suspect protected her.
    And what about pageturner, Gerard Kaey had a painting of a GREEN open eye on his wall, and he seemed to be in the good cult bc he helped out the main character and burned the evil book (the one with human skin pages) and also in first aid he had killed the man evoking the lightless flame.
    Omg too many references to fit in this comment. Plz let me know what u think about this theory

    • @saurabhsharma6939
      @saurabhsharma6939 Před 3 lety +31

      you have connected the dots my friend...i like it..I feel too that the state of eye makes a difference.......I wonder if it connects to that blackwood man without eyes...

    • @jasonschuler2256
      @jasonschuler2256 Před 3 lety +43

      Small correction: the pedant the wife left behind in “A Father’s Love” was a CLOSED eye, not an open one.

    • @emilybarclay8831
      @emilybarclay8831 Před rokem +8

      Without spoiling anything, the closed and open eyes are for different cults but one thing you got wrong is that the open eye ain’t protecting no one lol

    • @biancamlf288
      @biancamlf288 Před rokem +6

      It's not black wood but black woods/forest (literal translation of Schwartzwald, an actual forest/area in Bavaria). The only Blackwood is Martin, but judging how this was a year ago, I'm sure you know all this by now.
      (Commenting for first time listeners.)

  • @noyes1382
    @noyes1382 Před 4 měsíci +3

    I recall people saying that there’s a magnus archives episode for every type of fear. As someone who’s always been afraid of empty darkness and who is currently watching this in the dark, this one definitely got me on edge.

  • @Rin-qj7zt
    @Rin-qj7zt Před 5 lety +138

    it's all coming together.. =O

  • @weirdhails3802
    @weirdhails3802 Před 3 lety +76

    Really loving how all these stories are beginning to tie in with each other in various ways

  • @tris_dublagens
    @tris_dublagens Před 7 měsíci +4

    I just paused the episode to get out of bed and take a shower when I heard a "crunch" under my feet... it was a spider nedlees to say I'm terrified now

  • @martinag5479
    @martinag5479 Před 4 lety +142

    I thank both CZcams's automatic subtitles and whoever did the transcripts on the web. I'm Italian (my English isn't that great) and I can't understand that much if I listen only.

    • @dendakrmelova1201
      @dendakrmelova1201 Před 3 lety +13

      hi! here are transcripts for all the episodes, i think that coul help snarp.github.io/magnus_archives_transcripts/index_reverse.html

    • @nopeimout3182
      @nopeimout3182 Před 3 lety +1

      Oh ciao, I'm Italian too :)

    • @martinag5479
      @martinag5479 Před 3 lety

      @@nopeimout3182 Omg quindi sei italian*?

    • @nopeimout3182
      @nopeimout3182 Před 3 lety +1

      @@martinag5479 Yup! Figo incontrare altri italiani qui! Non ne ho visti molti.

    • @martinag5479
      @martinag5479 Před 3 lety +1

      @@nopeimout3182 Scusa se ti chiedo, puoi scegliere di non rispondere, ma quanti anni hai?

  • @cringeworthy4755
    @cringeworthy4755 Před 10 měsíci +4

    "Someone had been unscrewing them."
    NOPE-

  • @charmii4475
    @charmii4475 Před 2 lety +58

    First time listener! There seems to be a similarity in each episode's horror that could be categorized. The current one is related to darkness, same as "a father's love." Then some related to insects (squirm, arachnophobia, colony). And in "Schwartzwald" the coin's flipside had sumn that translates to "for the silence" and the servant that took the coin died in a brutal way that exceeds human violence (remember vampire killer, how the vampires prey and dont speak at all?) Also this might be a bit of a stretch but "Burned out and First Aid" might worship something that relates to fire. Last and this might count as a spoiler but ive seen comments from freefall and strange music about "the vast" and "the stranger" respectively? And these somethings might be worshipped by diff cults?
    Tl;dr There are different horrors that can be categorized and each have their own cult. E.g. The darkness, the silence, the insects (?), sumn related to fire, and *spoilers i saw from comments* the vast, and the stranger.

  • @thestrongestjoestar8342
    @thestrongestjoestar8342 Před rokem +12

    "..the lightbulbs kept blowing..."
    Me who heard this while jogging: *STOPS*

  • @jakebrill5990
    @jakebrill5990 Před 4 lety +88

    THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE BONNET LMAO

  • @RoseMultiverse
    @RoseMultiverse Před 4 lety +84

    Interesting how the entities seem to teleport people into a different dimension or at least some of them do 👀

    • @TheNitpickChick
      @TheNitpickChick Před 3 lety +12

      It is interesting! My guess is it depends on how much power or influence the entity has over either the location or the statement giver.
      *****SPOILERS FOR THOSE NOT CAUGHT UP*****
      I’m just theorizing, but there are spoilers!
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      The Dark and the Lonely seem to do it the most, probably because it can get dark, or a person can be lonely just about anywhere. The Vast does it a lot as well.
      Then there’s more specific examples like the corridors of The Distortion, or the Flesh making that one abattoir infinitely bigger than expected. They have power in those specific places, so that makes sense.
      Then there’s fears like the Corruption or the Hunt that work best by making their victims feel the horrible reality of the situation, and thus don’t need to alter perceptions or reality in order to be effective.
      I find the way the Fears work, in general, to be fascinating and I love theorizing about their impacts on the world. (Before... y’know... what happened in ep 160, of course. lol) 😊

  • @Alsarnia
    @Alsarnia Před 6 měsíci +9

    So, I've been keeping notes and determined a couple of...factions? That keep popping up. The meat/worm people, the eyes/beholder people, and the fire/heat people. Previously, I thought the shadow themes were part of the meat people, because of ep 10 with the serial killer dad, but now I'm thinking there's a different shadow faction, related to this church, which was also mentioned in episode 10. Plus, we now know that Jane Prentiss is a major person in the meat faction and we heard the name Mr. Pitch here from Natalie.
    I feel like a detective. What is this podcast doing to me???

    • @owenr-m4619
      @owenr-m4619 Před 5 měsíci +3

      I don't know how far you're into the series but keep those notes up! You're doing good detective work!

  • @leojacobson1274
    @leojacobson1274 Před 3 lety +67

    This might be a stretch, but in the clown episode, the creepy clown had eyes painted as being closed. Maybe the same painted eyes?

  • @a_jae_doe
    @a_jae_doe Před 9 měsíci +5

    I gave up note taking on episode 9 so thanks for all the red string notes and character recalls in the comments!

  • @crimsonowls9834
    @crimsonowls9834 Před rokem +8

    As a Norwegian it took me a good while to realize “Nieallesund” was supposed to be “Ny Ålesund” which is on Svalbard… i figured it was supposed to be Latin or something until the end

  • @ghouletteren
    @ghouletteren Před 2 lety +47

    ah yes, the mysterious place of Ny-Ålesund, a place where 130 people live at most because of the cold and where literally nothing happens ever, apart from the occasional polar bear sighting

  • @epiphanierosenstern5635
    @epiphanierosenstern5635 Před 2 lety +9

    "You worshipped them as we speak"
    Nat'
    Deary. What did you make to eat? You scare me

    • @lyx8039
      @lyx8039 Před rokem +6

      Bit scared because the priest religious episode said the thing WANTED faith

  • @emilybarclay8831
    @emilybarclay8831 Před rokem +18

    For anyone listening for the first time and noticing the eye motif (this podcast LOVES eyes) without spiking anything, the closed eye and the open eye are different symbols for different groups :)

  • @lucasmcginnies8916
    @lucasmcginnies8916 Před 10 měsíci +5

    First time listener! Noticing colours making appearances often "enjoy blue skies", "hither green descenters", the red calliope, might have missed a few bit likewise might be looking for patterns where none exist XD

  • @LittleBitch-bi3fx
    @LittleBitch-bi3fx Před 4 lety +59

    Ok mark is sooo in love witg cathy it’s cute

  • @thething2723
    @thething2723 Před 3 lety +39

    I think the cemetery and chapel sounds a lot like the one from the episode where a girls fiance died and she got lost and ended up there. I think it could be a coincidence, but a boarded up chapel with a surrounding cemetery?

  • @marly_goblin_boig4295
    @marly_goblin_boig4295 Před 2 lety +15

    I have a suspicion that what ever natalie had served weren't exactly "vegetarian" (I'm thinking their some kind of bugs) persay and now I'm concerned that its gonna have consequences

  • @humblehive6502
    @humblehive6502 Před 3 lety +41

    I’m not stupid i won’t go in......................but?

  • @-haclong2366
    @-haclong2366 Před 2 lety +11

    21:40 When I hear the word "torch" my first thought is a mobile telephone, only afterwards do I think of actual standalone torches.

  • @wolfordragondemon
    @wolfordragondemon Před 3 lety +45

    Anyone else notice that the light bulbs blew out like in ep 9?

  • @cooperdavis9663
    @cooperdavis9663 Před 10 měsíci +4

    "there just wasn't enough for it to be a crime" um, didn't Natalie take all of Kathy's stuff too?

  • @thatoneperson2731
    @thatoneperson2731 Před 3 lety +26

    1:55 My name is Harper, and hearing Jonathan say my name makes me so happy

  • @NightOfTheRevolution
    @NightOfTheRevolution Před 4 lety +98

    Is the church and graveyard from Alone?

    • @sgtpepper91
      @sgtpepper91 Před 3 lety +8

      yes

    • @sgtpepper91
      @sgtpepper91 Před 3 lety +8

      no

    • @beltaya276
      @beltaya276 Před 3 lety +9

      ooooooh maybe that would be really interesting. It also matches up with the scenery changing when it goes dark

    • @melissaharris3389
      @melissaharris3389 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Spoiler:
      The Dark and The Lonely are very closely related.

  • @nightowl8477
    @nightowl8477 Před rokem +5

    What if the records are already in the right order? The ways in which the stories relate. Maybe that's why the last archivist died...

  • @lisdumatin8008
    @lisdumatin8008 Před 2 lety +14

    I crochet to these episodes lol

  • @gingergamer8204
    @gingergamer8204 Před 3 lety +13

    eyes come up a lot, and i'm not sure if they're all connected, but I feel that this specific story is related to "a father's love", what with the whole darkness thing

  • @levchenkodarya
    @levchenkodarya Před rokem +5

    I'm thankful for the comments that tell about recurring people and places, because I'm *really* bad with names and stuff, but goodness gracious me, every time I see something like "nobody mentions" or "don't see anyone talk about" and etc. and then them mentioning some very tiny detail, like, bloody hell, guys, are you learning this statements by heart or what?

    • @cactusc9519
      @cactusc9519 Před 10 měsíci +2

      : )
      but yea, the comments section, or at least these particular comment sections are a cool place! i sooo much agree!

  • @molol44
    @molol44 Před rokem +4

    That village in Norway reminds me of Barrow, Alaska. In the middle of winter, the sun doesnt come out for a month! That is a long night.

  • @Mothman1992
    @Mothman1992 Před 9 měsíci +2

    Finished the series around this time last year. I'm listening through again now that I know where it's going

  • @f_mva
    @f_mva Před 3 lety +42

    was cathy eating a bowl of worms

    • @mechengr1731
      @mechengr1731 Před 2 lety +11

      I was really scared what she was actually eating. I think we all know it wasnt overcooked spinach.
      Sometimes, it's best to live in ignorance.

  • @the_next_da_vinci1056
    @the_next_da_vinci1056 Před 3 lety +33

    Im going absolutly crazy trying to figure out the plot as i go but theres just not enough info and so many things r connect. Ive been taking notes but i still miss so many things lmao

    • @ann-margretparke9525
      @ann-margretparke9525 Před 3 lety +5

      It isn't such a secret in the end. But finding the forshaddowing is fun.

    • @saurabhsharma6939
      @saurabhsharma6939 Před 3 lety +2

      I keep reading comments thats why...if I miss something

  • @mae_er3
    @mae_er3 Před 2 lety +8

    natalie just went around unscrewing the lightbulbs slightly? lmao

  • @jackleneoakes3707
    @jackleneoakes3707 Před rokem +6

    I'm brand new but if they did disappear investigating this case, then why this case vs all the other ones? I can't wait to find out why in the coming episodes 😊

  • @signumriver1909
    @signumriver1909 Před 2 lety +12

    First time listener here - Slowly I begin the get confused by all the names, characters and locations :D
    I should have taken notes from the first episode on :D

    • @Sxcheschka
      @Sxcheschka Před 2 lety +4

      But that's the kind of fun not doing it. Adds to the insanity.

  • @ghulehvoodoo
    @ghulehvoodoo Před 2 lety +9

    an old abandoned chapel in a graveyard, you say ? sounds rather *lonely* , if you ask me.
    please tell me someone else made that little connection ?

  • @albuseisenhorn3385
    @albuseisenhorn3385 Před rokem +5

    The comments below about theories and putting the pieces together brings me much joy having been there years earlier

  • @SyaShim
    @SyaShim Před 2 lety +14

    Reading comments it’s so interesting, how narrator way of phrasing influences commenters writing. Ads a lot to paranormal investigation atmosphere:D
    Or it just me

  • @aliviabowler5423
    @aliviabowler5423 Před 3 lety +20

    All the story’s are connected

  • @madisonlane5169
    @madisonlane5169 Před 3 lety +8

    fell asleep half way through and woke up with my airpods still in on ep 29

    • @fayrouza7415
      @fayrouza7415 Před 3 lety +5

      Sometimes I replay some old episodes so that I can sleep. It helps me a lot.

    • @madisonlane5169
      @madisonlane5169 Před 3 lety +6

      @@fayrouza7415 honestly that’s smart his voice is so calming even if it’s a creepy ep if I listen at night I start to fall asleep lol

    • @fayrouza7415
      @fayrouza7415 Před 3 lety +3

      @@madisonlane5169 totally, his voice and full accent, too.

    • @madisonlane5169
      @madisonlane5169 Před 3 lety +2

      @@fayrouza7415 yes exactly!

  • @maydayduckie1264
    @maydayduckie1264 Před 3 lety +14

    “It can’t have been actually supernatural like ghosts and stuff”
    My Supernatural (the TV show) obsessed @$$: Bet.

  • @Mekabear1991
    @Mekabear1991 Před rokem +2

    The fact my first thoughts when she found a new church was that of the cult, i tell you im trying so hard to connect these dots and just hoping im wrong so i can find some new puzzle piece

  • @lucindagomez7878
    @lucindagomez7878 Před rokem +7

    "Some boring book on the history of the bonnet or something" Dude that sounds rad af what's with this guy?

    • @cactusc9519
      @cactusc9519 Před 10 měsíci +1

      yea, that does sound cool - and rad af!

  • @senorsapo1810
    @senorsapo1810 Před 2 lety +5

    Leathery fingers? Isn’t that how the spirals hands are described feeling like? Or maybe it’s just zombies. Because graveyards.

  • @anromeow
    @anromeow Před 3 lety +7

    is this not the same chapel that Naomi saw when she got lost on the cemetery?? because I could swear it's the same one!

  • @hawkgirl9984
    @hawkgirl9984 Před rokem +4

    Anyone else kinda dance around to the audio of the lights turning on? Whenever that happens in the intro I stop what I'm doing and point around as the lights turn on one by one (or at least I assume that's the sound of lights turning on)

    • @emilyk38
      @emilyk38 Před rokem +1

      That's what that is! I had recognized it as familiar and never quite placed it as those like, industrial lights you get in large buildings.

    • @hawkgirl9984
      @hawkgirl9984 Před rokem +1

      @@emilyk38 my grade school gym had those big industrial ceiling lights so I know that echoing metallic sound anywhere. I imagine it's supposed to be the sound of the lights coming on in the archives. I always picture the lights coming on row by row, illuminating countless shelves of documents.

  • @PedroKing19
    @PedroKing19 Před 7 měsíci +3

    21:32 the moment he said "flash" all the lights around me in the street came on. maybe its real

  • @pigeondoesthings
    @pigeondoesthings Před 4 lety +68

    Yikes a cult

    • @tomboi941
      @tomboi941 Před 3 lety +6

      thats gotta be yikes from me dawg

  • @embrace7052
    @embrace7052 Před 2 lety +7

    i think Gerard Kaey may not be the evil he could be the one observing the evil ones or something? why i dont know

    • @TheNitpickChick
      @TheNitpickChick Před 2 lety +2

      👀

    • @embrace7052
      @embrace7052 Před 2 lety +2

      @@TheNitpickChick well i guess my theory (or some part of it atleast) is correct

  • @thatscatterbrain
    @thatscatterbrain Před 2 lety +5

    Listening to these at 3AM was not a good idea.

  • @hapmon8114
    @hapmon8114 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Fun-fact: Ny-Ålesund is actually a real settlement on the island of Svalbard which of course is Norwegian:)

  • @michamocha
    @michamocha Před 3 lety +9

    Could the church possibly be related to that one story about the lady ending up at a church while trying to run from the thick fog? I believe it was after her boyfriend's death and meeting his family for the first time. That church was also by a cemetery.

  • @frikinpancake
    @frikinpancake Před 10 měsíci +1

    Me, Ekaterina, hearing about Katherine who got into danger because 'running would be too rude': Is this about me?
    I did exactly the same thing in several quest rooms with actors. Do you know what a wild feeling it is to willingly go closer to the killer?

  • @mayormarshmallow
    @mayormarshmallow Před 4 lety +34

    Dark

  • @FingerLickinEvilToTheBone
    @FingerLickinEvilToTheBone Před 5 měsíci +3

    I like how all the evils of the world hate gertrude so much they were all partying hard the day she died

  • @chimedemon
    @chimedemon Před 4 lety +7

    Well, I know know I won’t be able to know what to do if there’s a cult that’s trying to fuck me over... especially if it’s a real supernatural cult...

  • @brendancarney1388
    @brendancarney1388 Před 3 měsíci +5

    Closed eye, open eye, two factions?

  • @saurabhsharma6939
    @saurabhsharma6939 Před 3 lety +5

    hmmm again the cemetry from "Alone", the cult here in question seems to be Lukas family as always
    Given they are patreons of the Magnus insititute they themselves gonna keep tab on these stories maybe ? and the very reason they havent been found and exorcised ?

  • @ghostathan
    @ghostathan Před rokem +7

    new listener
    what di she feed her what did she feed her what did she feed her whats did she feed her

  • @emmah1161
    @emmah1161 Před 21 dnem

    An episode of magnus archive for my specific fear!!! Weird roommates!!