THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES #69 - Thought for the Day
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- MAG0069 - Case #0101811 - Darren Harlow
Statement regarding a failed psychology experiment.
The Magnus Archives tells the tale of a worker at the University of Surrey who observes the web of madness that comes from an experiment into ESP.
Starring: The Archivist - Jonathan Sims; Martin Blackwood - Alexander J Newall
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Poor Jon’s “I know.” wounded me. You can tell It hurt him much more coming from Martin than anyone else.
Ow
stop ill cry :C
anabelle cain pulling the strings to get her first statement at #69. life has its small pleasures
Ths is canon now. You cannot dissuade me from this.
Omfgg
SHE IS A WOMAN OF CULTURE
ehehe pulling the "strings"
Jon: spooky spider psychology horror movie experiment
Me: he he 69
Now you have 69 likes. Your welcome 😂
hehe nice 👌🏼
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Rule 34 ;)
I was about to comment something about episode 420 than I remembered there are only like 200 something episodes
I was pleasantly surprised to see a large amount of comments, then i realized.
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@@asterphy 69 babieee
I like the detail where John says "spiders..." and then takes a deep breath as if bracing himself to continue. It's the little details like this that make it so believable.
And while John doesnt realize it, the way he says "I know I shouldn't but I'm going to anyway" is mirrored in lots of other testimonies he's read. This fascination effect that the supernatural has on people is a major theme in the Magnus Archives.
The whole fandom is just so enchanting. Even as a fan you're in a way drown to the unnatural. It's so interesting
Martin is so sweet, I wish he wasn't bullied by his coworkers so often :(
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To be fair I think all of them like Martin a lot.
Even in the beginning where John complained about im constantly, he instantly believed him about the worm story and let him stay in the archieve and Martin was the first John started to trust again while in his paranoia. (ignoring non-Sasha and the mind trick she can play)
So it is... friendly bullying I guess?
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Martin is the Samwise to Jon's Frodo.
@@germanerd6148 it is NOT friendly bullying. Especially the way jon treats martin in the early seasons. Jon had very bad issues he needed help with. Having no access to help, Martin was his emotional punching bag. It wasn't friendly. At all.
They've come a long way since then, of course. But i think it's still important to know that jon was a complete asshole, close enough to a workplace bully, before changing.
@@germanerd6148 JUSTA ABIT O BANTER
Oh neat, Martin's in this episode!
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the voice actor for martin directs the episode
@@nialls.9939 Doublely nice.
@@bookfanatic8329lmaoo
-looks at comments
-looks back at title
oh come on
LMAO the exact same thing happened to me
I *knew* people were gonna do it. I still sighed deeply lmao
I'm young of heart😂😂😂
Martin has to be one of my favorite characters. If only because he looks after his coworkers and always seems to have people's best interests at heart. Idk he's just so
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I would leave a like but you have 420 likes on episode 69. So I can’t.
@@zinganeatsr4011 why did I see this after liking??? 😭
me knowing this episode is coming up: god i hope there's at least one comment that just says "nice"
me looking at the disproportionate number of comments: nice
Even in the video tags though XD
I have seen the word "nice" so many times it doesn't look like a word anymore
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u got 69 likes, u know what that means
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169 likes
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the conversation at the start with Martin and Jon just, OW you didn'y have to hurt me RQ yet you did with that "he's not wrong you know" and the soft quiet "I know" you just had to get me with thaat aaaaa
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jon and martin are both just so awkward and perfect together.
And how jon kind of had to collect himself before starting... Ouch
Comments on the episode number aside, the exhaustion when Jon was stating the case broke me
ikr and the way he shifted from the exhausted voice to his regular one
i like how the writers of this podcast have a HUGE thing for insects and arachnids
You've probably figured it out at this point. But as to not spoil it for newcomers, I'll say this. There are alot of reoccurring themes in these stories for very specific reasons..
I'm guessing it has to do with that war situation.
Yep! It's called fear :)
And meat and rot
@@jessmess7170 infestation
not enough money for chicken nuggets...
you're gonna need like,,,multiple lines of annotation to explain this comment to anyone 20 years ago. we've come to far
I have no idea how that comment is related to the episode
@@sknfmsmr this is episode 69 (ya know haha funny sex number), and “not enough money for chicken nuggets” is a reference to a vine that goes:
person a- “hey how much money do you have?”
person b- “oh like 69¢”
person a- “you know what that means!”
person b- “i don’t have enough money for chicken nugget”
@@faxonii ah, now I see. Thanks
Memes are a language by themselves at this point. Try explaining this to your parents
I absolutely love how when Martin leaves and Jon begins the statement, he sounds so dejected and guilty, like he just had a fight with his husband and is immediately regretting it, causing him to have to restart the intro. That's pretty
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"I joked about how her 'dark experiments' were summoning an army of spiders."
"I had no idea."
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STOP RIGHT THERE, VILLAIN!
IT IS I, "FREDDY FORESHADOWING"!
I’ve been binging this series and have rapidly become obsessed. The writing is chilling and incredible, the voice acting is fucking *unreal* with how good it is, and the overarching story is so intriguing! It’s not like some series that just keep adding on nonsense with no thought. It’s so obvious that the people behind TMA put a lot of time, effort, blood, sweat, and tears into making cohesive, internally consistent, and fantastic story.
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Gotta say, reading "blood sweat and tears" really hits differently after listening to TMA
I dunno if it's actually connected but when he said "I don't know how tall she had been before but now she loomed over me by almost a full foot" my mind immediately went back to the way Not!Sasha looked taller to Jon for a moment in the tunnels... I mean she also said the Weird Fractal TableTM looked like webs to her, and the tunnels had lots of cobwebs too I think..... This was a nice one
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the fact that the video itself is tagged "nice" is so fucking funny to me for no reason
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i was looking for one like this. nice
didn't even notice what episode i was on.
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IDK why I imagine Jon eating boxed Chinese food with chopsticks gesturing why he isn't talking much with Tim even though Martin brings him some tea as well.
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Wasn't Tom the name of the driver in Daisy´s statement? Is NotSasha hanging out with creepy delivery men?
oh my god??? great catch holy fuck
@@spinnyamphibian7028 mate i just saw this y o
Yeah and he was also the owner of the stuffed animal shop
@@azulBjort_1406 I dont know if its the same guy as the driver guy, but i am 100% positive its Taxidermy Tom.
@@mimkyodar Actually it’s the reverse! :)
Hearing Jon say 69 and realizing Martin is in this episode made me giggle an inappropriate amount
“Oh, anything nice?” they knew what they were doing when writing this 😂 *nice*
i love how Jon can't bring himself to ask anyone for help. I think he feels guilty after his talk with Tim and probably he just doesn't't want anybody else to get hurt. I hope my baby will be able to share his burden with other people in the future.
supplemental: Martin is such a sweetheart, love them.
As a psych student interested in going into research, particularly research on the psychological perspectives of death, fear, dreams, and unexplained phenomena, this episode is RIGHT up my alley! And I'm very glad for the perfect episode number. nice
commenting before listening just to say: ep #69 and almost 4200 views nice
1 year later coming up on 42,000
So last night I dreamed that I was listening to the podcast while simultaneously experiencing the events described in the statement. There, I was trying to sleep but a giant immaterial hand held my whole body and was squeezing me painfully. I also felt something pressing into my legs like a giant finger. I woke up with a huge back cramp caused by crocheting all day, and my cats we curled up to my legs. So thanks for priming my brain into making a dumb cramp become a horror story.
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Adding my comment for it to be a proper number
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Also Martin is such a good boy and I love him very much ;-;
Jon starting the statement and then stopping to push his emotions aside and get in character?? nice
I love the directing in this season. The amount of information you're able to convey through direction and line delivery alone is amazing. This has quickly become my favorite audiodrama!
I hope Jon gets himself some help :(
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i was gonna like but the comment's at 69 likes and i'm not gonna ruin that
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also I don't usually comment but I've seen a trend with the insect (and arachnid) people along with the fiery (lightless flame) people. It almost seems as though they may be on opposing sides from what happened in ep. #67.
So far, at least to me, the insect and arachnid people seem separate. The arachnid people stories usually involve mind control directed from the arachnid person to others. The insect people, on the other hand, are often brainwashed themselves, but seem unable to mind control anyone who doesn't already have insects living inside.
omg the way he starts the statement and then consciously shifts to his statement voice @.@
also it's interesting that the spiders seem to be targeting arachnophobes.
Many of these horrors seem to target either people who are already very afraid of them or very into them e.g. (sky)diving or caving
Either getting a reaction is important for them somehow e.g. "gods delivered their power from belief and horrors from fear" oooor its just that you don't run into a cave horror unless you're caving
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Martin is doing his best to try and help Jonathan and Jon's just pushing him away!
Gods, i’ve got arachnophobia myself so the recurring spiders are NOT fun to me
Same 😭
Wgqgavavahqbaba Jon sounds so sad when he said "statement of-" for the first time I think I just died a little-
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The increasing number of spiders in my room sine the start of the podcast:
Me: *chuckles* im in danger
god im so glad everyone here had the same idea... it's almost... Nice
Alright who gave you the right to murder me with just the 1st minute of the episode??? I'm so sad for them...
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69 is now definitely a more cursed number than 13... It's a spell.
The sheer numbers of memers it summoned, like hundreds of demons from hell, all reciting the same chant in unison
Finally. This episode kept distracting me all day, because every time my gaze fell upon it in the playlist, my brain inevitably went "nice".
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As a psychology student from Brazil, this episode was really interesting and I'll probably think about it for a long time in my classes.
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At first I thought “oh wow something important must have happened” then I saw the episode number
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first time watcher: It seems like whatever the spiders are they specifically target large amounts of Arachnophobia. The Arachnophobia in episode 16 was one person with especially intense arachnophobia and accidently summoned them, here we see a large number of Arachnophobes summoning the spiders. Jon has mild Arachnophobia, and I worry it'll get worse.
it didn’t sound like a proper experiment?
shouldn’t there have been multiple people projected on? also, there should be a control group to see how people react to no projection. l remember them mentioning control during the episode but l couldn’t hear parts due to people talking near me. anyways, annabel reacting differently than fear wouldn’t be the only thing that would get in the way of publishing satisfactory results.
the "control" part of the experiment was apparently being told that there were people there when there weren't and just being there, with no stimulus for the projectors
Maybe it was a proper experiment. Just... that's not what was being experimented on....
You’re correct, but the control they mentioned was the times they told Annabell there were people projecting when there were not. It is able to be duplicated though, which is a tenant of a good psych experiment, so feel free to try it with two receivers. Hopefully you won’t end up with multiple cobweb brained people lol.
I'm glad someone mentioned this, I know it's a supernatural horror story but no self-respecting researcher would test something this elaborate on only one person. It's kinda necessary for the plot but it bugs me.
@@Tristan-M-1 I'm listening for the second time now, and my theory is that the cause of this is Annabelle Cane and her mind control powers? The very fact that it was the experiment about spiders, conducted in this very specific (and incorrect) way? The statement-giver also mentions that mentions of its "out of a horror movie" premise and details seemed like a sore spot for the researchers, but they were still going through with it, and they got the funding, and overall - everything just inexplicably fell in place that this "experiment" happened the way it happened. I think it's safe to blame Annabelle.
the difference between Jon's tired, worn out voice when starting the recording, and him actually reading this statement was delightfully jarring.
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the way jon's voice shifted from exhausted defeat to his normat statement-reading voice shocked me. he really needs a break
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Wait. Tom. The tom with the coffin? That's why it was so familar!!
Jon's really hitting that degree of depresso espresso that I typically sip on myself, poor boi
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GUYS TOM! the boyfriend of not!sasha is tom, same as the breekon and hope guy from the ep "hard shoulder" OMG
Also, both Daisy and Jon describe their Tom as generic, because Daisy can't remember his face, and Jon says he looks like a stock photo.
:D
Thanka tma, I think you might've just worsened my fear of spiders with this episode. Goes to show how incredibly well written this is.
Also, how could I ever forget,
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Jon sounds so defeated :(
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Wish more people listen to this, also
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My theory from this episode and what we know so far:
I feel like the name Annabelle Cane is somewhat familiar with me, like it was referred to, either full or partially, in another episode. Or it could be just because Annabelle reminds you of the horror movie in our world, so who knows. I don't have the patience to go through 68 transcripts to search for the name.. :3
So, another episode for the spiders entity. From what we heard, I believe that the professor who started this experiment wasn't aware that they were working for a supernatural entity, and since the spider entity has trained very good the skill of thought manipulation, it's more possible that the professor was a pawn of the entity, made to believe that this experiment was her idea while, in reality, she was helping on "turning" a human girl, Annabelle, into a part of that spider entity, like Michael is part of the spiral entity or Amherst (is that written right?) of the disease entity or Prentiss of the hive entity. And Annabelle is alot like Prentiss. She, too, has been "lured" by the spiders' song as Prentiss said she was by the hive's, and she too had slowly fallen into becoming a part of the spider entity. I don't know why the students who were part of the experiment were doing that circle thing or acting the way they were, though I think it was maybe a ritual, orchestrated by the spider entity, to (obviously) do something that would be (again, obviously) not very good. The witness interrupted the ritual, so Annabelle, who was now a part of the entity thus it was more like the entity using her body as a host to be in this world, tried to make him kill himself in order for him to not make any further problems for the ritual. I don't know how Mark was able to break free from the spider's manipulation, so I presume it was the same way that witness on another episode was able to break free before he ate that apple filled with spiders; with the "help" of another supernatural entity. And I'm saying "help", because whoever or whatever helped Mark wasn't from their own good will but because their plans were for them to interrupt the spiders' ritual, just like Agnes interrupted the spiders' rituals again and again in the Hilltop house all those years ago. And since spiders are at war with the lightless flame entity, there's a good chance that one of them was the one who helped Mark.
All of the participants of the experiment, one by one, started vanishing. That is most likely because they were so deep in the trap/web of the spider entity that, even after some time, the spider still had a hold on them. So, like the kids in the Hilltop house, sooner or later they would go back to the spiders or Annabelle and the spider entity would do to them what it does to all its victims.
Mark I believe is not yet safe. I think the spider is trying to get him again, what he says to Martin resembles a bit what Annabelle said she was experiencing and dreaming before she was owned by the spider entity. So either Mark will become like Annabelle, if left on his own, or he'll become like the dead victims of the spiders. But, when Martin mentioned that what Mark described the spiders is biologically non-possible, does that mean that the not-people are indeed a manifestation of the spider entity? I mean, last episode John says about how there are more and more spider webs in the tunnels and Not!Sasha appearing for a second alot more taller than she actually is, and in this episode we also have the mention of Annabelle being alot taller than she likely was normally, and I remember in an episode, in my comment I wrote the possibility of the not-people and the spiders being part of the same entity, so does this episode make it more likely? Well, for me personally, it does raises the chances of that being true.
As for John, as I stated in the previous episode, I think he knows, or at least he feels it. When he said about "the worst that can happen if he tells them", I think that's what he's scared of; of one of them (or more) being indeed something supernatural and making a move against him after he tells them. Also, the urge of John to learn, to find out, even though he himself says how dangerous it is and how he doesn't want to go there 'cause he's scared and that he should leave the tunnels alone reminds me of all the times the witnesses said about "knowing they shouldn't do it, but they still did". Something supernatural is pushing John to the tunnels.
The way Jon tries to start at 2:08 then has to kinda shake himself out of his funk and put on his Archivist Voice... :( He's so sad
It's 12:05 AM. Prime time to listen to this content. Also...
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I did not realize why everyone was saying “nice”.
I am a fool.
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Ok if you get it, explain me
@@astheusual It's because it's the 69th episode and 69 is the sexual innuendo number, so it's some sort of reference/meme about that.
@@-S.L. with time I started to get it but still don't really understand it but thanks
@@astheusual yeah I don't really get it either tbh :D
I love spiders and to be fair, their scuttling is what I love the most about them. I gotta say though, I understand why people fear them.
Just gotta say
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this sotry for some reason is the one that has disturbed me the most.... the idea of somebody sweet being turnedinto such a horrific creature so slowly disturbs me so much.. shows that nobody is safe i suppose
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Not Jon’s voice getting quite after fighting with Martin, the way he read the beginning of the statement then back tracked broke me :’0(
read that as not!jon and thought i somehow missed something 😭
When Jon said "more spiders..." I wonder if he organized the statements by similarities
I don't think so. There's just been recurring themes, and spiders are one of them, so "more spiders" seems like a reasonable response ngl
The first half of this statement scared me more than the second, because i absolutely don't mind spiders and mind control. But psychological experiments having weird effects... oh boy.
Also i really like this Darren Harlow. The things he says at the beginning are really interesting. "Even when you're really looking for horror, it's impossible to actually believe it."
"We create the world, in a lot of ways. I suppose it shouldn't be surprising that, when we're not being careful, we can change it."
Also "i can't not know"... if you know you know
I genuinely love martin - he's one of my favourites as he's just so
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[halfway through] oh my god she's being possessed by a spider
First time viewer here, no spoilers please!
One thing i've noticed is that a lot of the things related to spiders have a hypnotic effect
- the spiderweb table traps people tracing its patterns
- annabel cain controlled a whole bunch of people
- that guy in the basement who nearly died but was saved by agnes's kiss (i forgot what episode)
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**N I C E**
When that low drone gets going you know things are about to get spooky.
Also, I noticed a spider on my wall while listening to this episode.
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Very nice episode
Episode 69. Nice.
It's all about Spiders. NOT NICE!
This is the most comments I've seen on an episode.
the begining statment begins was so sad, poor jon
Let Martin love you!
I love the voice acting in this show SO DAMN MUCH.
Honeslty, choosing to induce fear sounds about right. As someone who did a study on the relationship between anxiety and sexual arousal, I can tell you it is waaayyy easier to make someone anxious than to make them feel anything else
nice doesn't feel like a word anymore
New listener
But i still have to say it
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Man, I love Martin.
Bro became one of my favorite characters. Second is Jon, third is Tim.
Runner up is definitely Sasha (No, NOT Not!Sasha,) and Basira
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I've been trying to binge-listen while sick in bed, but Jon's voice is just so calming that I keep falling asleep 😩😩
I've been binging this for about 2 weeks and this is my first time commenting...
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Jon: I can't not know...
Me: 👀
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Oh great, now we've got a tall spider woman and her cult to consider whenever something goes bump in the night.
This ep: Horrible psychology experiment with horrifying spider lady
Everyone in the comments: *n i c e*
Im not a native and i had to search why everyone was commenting nice
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It's so Nice to hear Martin in this episode
It was clear that the spiders had some level of mind control but I just now realised its because of their silk, their strings!
Spiders can puppet people because of the strings!
I am pretty sure that was literally how the kid saved by a kiss described brushing teeth in recluse but I'm a bit dense
Spoiler.
The "I can't NOT know..." at the end was some good foreshadowing.
I can identify with Darren (I'm only about 7 minutes in) but he seems like somebody who'd be fun to talk to and come up with crazy theories with
I don't know... I suddenly feel this overwhelming compulsion to...
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I am glad that I listened to this episode now after having to get rid of a bigger spider yesterday rather than before
Might be a stretch but I really want 420 comments on this video so
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