#ivo lensik

[historicallyaccuratecheese]

I’m now halfway through The Magnus Archives’ 1st season, so I thought it would be cool to just post my thoughts on each episode so far :). (Spoilers, I like all of them, and this podcast is going to be all I care about for a while.) Also NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!

Link to Masterpost (contains all of these thought posts)

- Episode 1, Anglerfish 🚬

Statement of Nathan Watts, regarding an encounter on Old Fishmarket Close, Edinburgh.

Really strong start, not the scariest episode so far but definitely unnerving, and it gives a good first impression and layer of intrigue. While the story is simple in comparison to the later ones, it was still enjoyable, and I was just appreciating the atmosphere and framing device of the episode as well.

- Episode 2, Do Not Open ⚰️

Statement of Joshua Gillespie, regarding his time in the possession of an apparently empty wooden casket.

This is still one of my favorites. The whole time I was on edge, and this was the first episode that really kept me up at night. I went from wanting to know what was inside the coffin desperately, to wanting to stay away from it as much as possible. Joshua’s insuring dread and creative solution to his problems was fantastic, and it ends with some intriguing plot threads being set up.

- Episode 3, Across The Street 📓

Statement of Amy Patel, regarding the alleged disappearance of her acquaintance Graham Folger.

I think I share a common sentiment when I say that Amy stalking Graham was almost as creepy as the actual horror lmao. Overall I don’t have that much to say about this one, but it was very enjoyable, and I feel really bad for Graham in retrospect :(.

- Episode 4, Pageturner 📕

Statement of Dominic Swain, regarding a book briefly in his possession in the winter of 2012.

I…feel like I should hold off on talking about this one for now. While it was definitely well written and creepy, it just seems to be so full of setup for future plot lines that I almost don’t feel like I can form a concise opinion on it until I really get what’s going on. Honestly, my only complaint with this episode is that maybe it’s setting up TOO much in one go, but I still had a good time with it overall.

- Episode 5, Thrown Away 🗑️

Statement of Kieran Woodward, regarding items recovered from the refuse of 93 Lancaster Road, Walthamstowe.

This one actually did a pretty good job at getting me to think about waste disposal workers lmao, I never really thought about them like that before. This one was just really creepy, but also kind of fun in a weird twisted way. It did a great job keeping me on edge as well.

- Episode 6, Squirm 🪱

Statement of Timothy Hodge, regarding his sexual encounter with Harriet Lee and her subsequent death.

I am simultaneously horrified, and unfortunately aroused by what happened here.

- Episode 7, The Piper 🔫

Statement of Staff Sgt. Clarence Berry, regarding his time serving with Wilfred Owen in the Great War.

Having an episode set nearly 100 years ago is a really fun idea, and it’s executed perfectly here. It was interesting how it also featured a real person, and I liked how the paranormal activity felt more metaphorical here, it really did feel like it was showcasing the horror of war.

- Episode 8, Burned Out 🌳

Statement of Ivo Lensik, regarding his experiences during the construction of a house on Hill Top Road, Oxford.

I found this one to be very nerve-wracking, since not only was the whole scenario with the tree just, like…three creepy things happening at once, but the fact that the statement was given by someone with schizophrenia did a good job making me question it’s validity, even though I’m certain it’s true after listening to a later statement. I also hope that I get to see how the history of the house is unveiled in the future.

- Episode 9, A Father’s Love 💡

Statement of Julia Montauk, regarding the actions and motivations of her father, the serial killer Robert Montauk.

This one made me feel really sad :(. I really felt Julia’s despair in this one (Jonathan Sims does such great voice acting for every statement btw, both the character and the actual person), and I was even more saddened by the implications of why Robert did what he did. If my assumptions are correct, then…SCREW THE MOTHER! It was also the first one that got me thinking about where exactly all of the paranormal stuff comes from, and later episodes only add to my theory that it’s all due to demons/cults/higher powers.

- Episode 10, Vampire Killer 🧛‍♂️

Statement of Trevor Herbert, regarding his life as a self-proclaimed vampire hunter.

Much like Episode 8, this one did a really good job at making me question the validity of the statement, although I became more sure of its truth a bit earlier. I also just love how nonchalant Trevor comes off as, compared to all of the other traumatized horror victims. (Also, I’m guessing that the name Trevor and the episode title are meant to be a Castlevania reference?) While vampires aren’t the most creative thing for an episode, at least in comparison to everything else, the beast-like execution here more than made up for it in my opinion.

- Episode 11, Dreamer 💭

Statement of Antonio Blake, regarding his recent dreams about Gertrude Robinson, previous Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute.

Yeah…Gertrude Robinson did not die a normal death. My guess is that she was caught by ✨the horrors✨, but I’ll wait and see. This was another very tense episode, with the prophetic dream world being really, REALLY creepy. I do hope we get to see more of “Antonio” in the future, as I think he could be quite important. (I also hope he gets punched for DUMPING GRAHAM IN HIS TIME OF NEED-)

- Episode 12, First Aid 🏥

Statement of Lesere Saraki, regarding a recent night-shift at St. Thomas Hospital, London.

OMG GERARD KEAY HI HI HI HI HOW ARE YOU!!! Yeah I audibly gasped when he showed up again, it was such a cool moment. Anyways, hospitals already creep me the fuck out so this was pretty effective. Definitely some great setup here, and it helped to make a bit more sense of Pageturner, now that I have a better idea of what Gerard’s whole deal is. It also added some good fuel to the whole cult idea, and my god this poor nurse. Having to deal with all of this in a single night sounds like hell.

- Episode 13, Alone 🌫️

Statement of Naomi Herne, regarding the events following the funeral of her fiancé, Evan Lukas. Statement taken direct from subject.

Having a new voice in this episode was really cool, and Katie Davison did an excellent job as Naomi! It was also cool to see how Jon interacts with other people, he was…nicer than expected. This episode honestly felt like it was calling me out, as I am also someone who’s confident in my independence, but if I was in Naomi’s place I would also probably be scared shitless. I really hope she’ll get a happy ending :(. Also, The Lukas family is quite intriguing, especially since we now know they have a connection to The Institute…

- Episode 14, Piecemeal 👆

Statement of Lee Rentoul, regarding the murder of his associate Paul Noriega.

Firstly, this is probably my favorite of Jon’s vocal deliveries. His performance of Lee Rentoul just feels perfect. (Once again, this applies to both the writer and the character, I’m genuinely convinced the latter is an ex-theatre kid.) Outside of that, THIS ONE CREEPED ME OUT. The body horror was very effective, with the only thing holding it back being the fact that Lee isn’t the most likable protagonist in the podcast, but if this happened to someone else I’d be even more upset. Still though, it was a very creative concept, and the whole vibe and execution of the episode made it great.

- Episode 15, Lost Johns’ Cave 🕯️

Statement of Laura Popham, regarding her experience exploring the Three Counties System of caves with her sister Alena Sanderson.

What the fuck. What the fuck. What the fuck. What the fuck. What the fuck. What the fuck. What the fuck. What the fuck. What the fuck. What the fuck. What the fuck. What the fuck. What the fuck. What the fuck. What the fuck. What the fuck. What the fu-

- Episode 16, Arachnophobia 🕷️

Statement of Carlos Vittery, regarding his arachnophobia and its manifestations.

The way they tackled the concept in the title was really well done. Arachnophobia is seen as an irrational fear by a lot of people, so having it portrayed as an effect of childhood trauma was a good call. And as someone who is not arachnophobic, this episode got me close to feeling that way. What ever force was making Carlos relive his trauma is a sick fuck. Also the cat was a real one, glad he survived the whole situation. (Also THE WORMS, HOLY SHIT IT’S THE SEX WORMS!!!)

- Episode 17, The Boneturner’s Tale 🦴

Statement of Sebastian Adekoya, regarding a new acquisition at Chiswick Library.

This episode really compelled me to get out the rubber bands connecting images lmao. I really liked all of the connections to past statements here, like the presence of another book from the library of Jurgen Leitner, to the mention of Micheal Crew. The body horror here was once again very creepy, (outside of the flat rat, that was morbidly funny), but my favorite part of the episode was the introduction of Elias, which was a humorous, but also very intriguing scene. Also, the themes of books containing power was great as well. Great stuff all around.

- Episode 18, The Man Upstairs 🥩

Statement of Christof Rudenko, regarding his interactions with a first floor resident of Welbeck House, Wandsworth.

…ew. Ok in all seriousness, this is probably my least favorite episode so far. Still very far from bad, but after all of the extremely interesting themes and plot threads, having an episode where the idea was just “What if a guy had a house covered in meat? Wouldn’t that be fucked up?”, felt just a little bit underwhelming. Which like, the fact that my least favorite episode’s biggest problem is that I find it slightly pales in comparison to previous ones is just a testament to how much I’ve been enjoying the podcast. Still though, there were definitely a few things I really liked. The reveal of the room was creepy (especially considering the meat that seemed…alive…), and as someone who has had to deal with upstairs neighbors making noise for hours during construction, this episode definitely scared me.

- Episode 19, Confession, and Episode 20, Desecrated Host ✝️

Statement of Father Edwin Burroughs, regarding his claimed demonic possession.

This, alongside Lost Johns’ Cave, was one (or I guess, two…) of those episodes that seriously fucked me up. While I am not religious, I have always had fears of how religion can negatively affect me and the people around me, despite the good that it seems to do for so many people. So seeing Edwin be charged for every “sin” he committed by a higher power that wishes to steal its faith, and then not get judged by it, but by the people around him for his one true sin, was absolutely haunting, and I hope he turns out ok in the end. Outside of the horror, the episodes were fantastic. Listening to the events of Episode 8 from Edwin’s perspective, and seeing how Ivo’s actions saved him, was really cool, and solidifies in my mind that Ivo’s experience was real. The connections to demonic magic and Latin script thickened, and it was overall just a great mid-season finale. In conclusion, I hope that Martin feels better soon, and if he isn’t actually sick and is being plagued by ✨the horrors✨, well then I hope he survives :).

Thank you for reading my silly little thoughts if you’ve made it this far, it really means a lot to me :). I’ll probably update this every time I finish half of a season, so hopefully my thoughts on episodes 21-40 will be here in the Reblogs soon. :)

[themagnustournament]

Round One Part Two - Match 17

Today we have the first appearance of both the House on Hill Top Road and Agnes Montague up against the Sweariest Statement Giver Ever. #ReleaseTheSwearCut

MAG 008 - Burned Out | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Ivo Lensik regarding his experiences during the construction of a house on Hill Top Road.

MAG 014 - Piecemeal | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Lee Rentoul, on the murder of his associate Paul Noriega.

[avatar-of-the-bitch]

When the crane wives wrote The Garden they were addressing it to Ivo Lensik

[meimeikyu]

ok but can we talk about ivo lensiks dad was DEFINITELY getting stalked by michael/the distortion like. i completely forgot about this till im relistening again

[jaeheewillalwaysbemyfav]

So I'm writing my term paper about The Magnus Archives and have been relistening to season 1 as a way to try to organize my thoughts and Fuck I Miss This Podcast

also i hate how it ended even more bc a running theme throughout the podcast UNTIL THE VERY END is how inescapable the Entities are. We see all sorts of attempts to avoid or thwart them and sometimes they do work for a while, but I think we forget that even absolute icons like Joshua Gillespie or that guy who left the Spiral because he was going to be late for dinner still were impacted enough by their experience to come to the Magnus Institute in the first place

And that by coming there Guess What They're Lowkey Marked By

I don't care what the Magnus Protocol or any part of canon will say/says, the Entities should not be banishable. Not without some kind of massive psychological shift in all life on Earth that eliminates fear.

Do you know how many of the S1 statements talk about watching? Nearly all of them involve it, of course because that's the easiest way to show gruesome spooky things + justify why there's someone alive to tell the tale, but in the context of TMA, I think it's extremely important that it's brought up in nearly every statement

There's always a point where the statement givers comments about their watching: they stay in a Situation longer because some part of them wants to see, they feel they can do nothing else so they watch, they return to the location of the Situation after it has initially passed, there's always a point where they could have left it alone but they don't because they feel like they can't.

The avatars might have petty squabbles between themselves about their "respective" patrons. But the Entities themselves seem very content to give a sizeable portion of those they've marked, at least partially, to the Eye.

[aukiq]

I really hope Anna Willet / Anya Villette has some sort of appearance in the magnus protocol. she’s the only character(s) we know for sure to be linked to the whole dimension stuff, and the fact that we see two alternate-universe versions of the same person in TMA is such an overlooked detail. Anna Willet was the nurse at the John Radcliffe that warned Ivo Lensik about Hill Top Road and called in Father Edwin Burroughs, while Anya Villette was the house cleaner from another dimension who entered the TMA world via her dimension’s Hill Top Road (where, by the way, the tree in the backyard is still standing, meaning if she came from TMagP that would mean Agnes is still alive in that universe but i digress). there’s no direct confirmation they’re the same person, but they have almost identical names and are both very related to Hill Top Road. It’s such a weird little connection and it may not actually happen but i’d love to see her at least referenced or something like that?

Also side note we never find out what happened to Annabelle Cane i hope she comes back

[thatpodcastkid]

Magnus Archives Relisten 8, MAG 8 Burned Out, Spoiler-Free Version

Mag 8 analysis! I have listened to this episode twice and am okay mentally.

Haha Burned Out. Get it like- Burned Out like- get it it's like- get it- because. Burned out

Facts: Statement of Ivo Lensik regarding his experiences during construction at 105 Hilltop Road. Statement given March 13, 2007.

Statement Notes: This is a classic haunted house. Not a superstructure or cursed land or living space, but a house possessed by what once lived within it. Raymond Fielding lived in this house, and then he died in it, and he is going to make this everybody else's problem. He has unfinished business, he has a message he is trying to send. But like any spirit, you won't understand until it's too late.

Character Notes: I found Ivo to be a really compelling character. He had a positive demeanor, an interesting backstory, and a very strong approach to dealing with the supernatural. Overall a cool guy and awesome character I would have liked to hear more from.

Agnes' death is such a visceral image. It's a brief paragraph at the end of the statement. It's one of Jon's "And yet..." moments, intended to leave you with just a little bit of fear when you unplug the headphones. But that connection to the tree, to her childhood home. It's a simple section of text, but so vivid and full of imagery and meaning. Especially because we had only been exposed to her as a young child, and she left us as an improbably young but grown woman who we will never fully know or understand.

When the statement ended, the only thought going through my head was, "Mean Jon! Mean mean Jon!" He was foul with this one. First he goes on a tangent about schizophrenia and head trauma being second only to drug use as a means of seeing ghosts, then he immediately roasts Gertrude's filing system again.

He loves to go off about Martin and Tim being incompetent compared to Sasha, but who found a history of the house's ownership? Who interviewed Anna Kasuma? Who found Agnes' death report? Ya bois.

[jordankennedy]

i still sometimes wonder if the distortion was ever an actual person before michael or if the spiral just made up a guy and set him after ivo lensik’s dad

[avatarofthebeholding]

hello there, idk if this is the right place but here goes most fanart of michael depicts it with having hands special because they just have really really long digits, or no knuckles in their hands at all (spiraling fingers). and then there is a certain genre of michael-fingers i absolutely adore, that being relatively normal digits, normal size, normal length. just like. a metric frick-ton of them. up to sixty per finger, (sometimes bending in both directions). i can't quite remember if there's a description of them in the podcast in that detail. opinions?

hmmm okay so the first time we hear a description of what is presumably the Distortion it's in Ivo Lensik's statement, when he recounts his father talking about a being with "all the bones...in his hands."

Sasha's description of her encounter with "Michael" lines up with/expands upon the description given in Lensik's statement - "It looked too tall, the limbs and body were very thin and almost wavy, like they didn’t have any structure or bones in them. I, I couldn’t make out a face, but it was the hands that were the most bizarre. They seemed to be stretched and inflated by the distorted light, until they were almost the size of the rest of the torso. The fingers were long and stiff, and seemed to end in sharp points."

Then there's Helen Richardson's description: "Its body was thin and limp, and when it moved, it shifted, like I was watching it through rippling water. Its hands were swollen, and bits of them jutted out at annoying angles. It was, it was moving towards me fast, and as I looked I saw that all the pictures on the wall now showed this thing – although each distorted it differently, like a selection of funhouse mirrors – but all of them, all of them showed the hands as bulbous and sharp."

So I think all of the interpretations you mentioned could be correct as far as the number and size of fingers goes. It doesn't strictly seem to matter how many fingers the Distortion has, or what size they are. What matters is the visual of something both swollen and sharp, like a broken limb with splinters of bone almost breaching the surface of the skin around the fracture.

[lycanlovingvampyre]

MAG 118 Relisten

Activity on my first listen: cutting apples. Again...

Ah, I remember very well when I listened to this episode the first time. Texted my sister twice right there at the start about Martin being sassy! ("Statement ends, I guess" and "Sorry, Elias. I can’t hear you. There’s – a door in the way.")

Trying to get the episodes of the burned statements by memory. Ivo Lensik is MAG 8 Burned Out, Harold Silvana is MAG 35 Old Passages. Dylan Anderson... MAG 103 Cruelty Free?

ELIAS: "Martin, I do not have time for this." MARTIN: "Then maybe you should make time." This is exactly what this is though. Stalling.

JON: "There’s no such thing as just cobwebs." Everybody sighs, but he is right. Usually in horror cobwebs are just a way to say "Hey, nobody's really been here in a long time, Oooohooo". In TMA though, it's never just that.

Benjamin Hatendi. MAG 86? Definitely the blanket episode though. God, what's it called... Tucked In?

MARTIN: "Oh, so that’s it, isn’t it. Martin’s just acting out. I mean, Daisy’s a “rabid dog,” and Melanie’s a potential killer, Tim’s a – a rogue element, but Martin, oh Martin’s just acting out. He’ll have a cry, and a lie down, and feel much better." Ah yes. He's not being taken seriously and wholly underestimated.

Albrecht von Closen is easy, MAG 23 Schwarzwald.

ELIAS: [TAKES A DEEP BREATH.] "Did Jon put you up to this?" I mean, kind of. In MAG 103 Jon asked Daisy if they could somehow get Elias arrested. Martin was the one, who found a way to actually get to the evidence.

ELIAS: "Please get to the point, Martin." MARTIN: "Maybe there isn’t one. Alright? Maybe –" ELIAS: "Maybe you’re just wasting my time." MARTIN: "Yeah. Yeah, maybe." Haha, exactly that. But Elias knew this already.

JON: "Oh god… Oh god, they’re not waxworks." Haha, classic 2005 House of Wax.

I don't quite understand why Jon suddenly wants to see what's going on in the auditorium though. Is Snoop God sniffing out potential fear if they look at the entire horror of it?

TIM: "Holy –" JON: "Yes. I suppose it is." Ok this... was not a joke on Jon's part I think... I mean, Tim also said that dancing performance Grimaldi and his brother was beautiful. And even if Jon's trying to do his best to keep his humanity, he is still aligned with a terrifying Eldritch entity. He also finds the Mortal Garden beautiful, if I remember correctly (tbh, I also thought that was pretty rad...)

JON: "And I guess you don’t need skin to sing." (shaky breath) "To join the choir." ... Is everyone thinking what I'm thinking... Was Danny in the choir?

MARTIN: "Not even close. Because, I – (composes himself) I’ve been thinking. It’s not like you got this all-seeing thing recently. You’ve had it the whole time. I remember the way you looked at Sasha after the attack. You knew it wasn’t her. And I reckon you knew Prentiss was lurking under the Institute, too, and you did nothing. Why?" On my first listen I thought, okay, when it's being addressed in the show, there's no way these are plotholes...

MARTIN: "Well, I hope you’ve got something better than that pathetic dig at my feelings for Jon." ELIAS: "It’s baffling, really. Such loyalty to someone who really treats you very badly." MARTIN: "Oh, is that supposed to be, what, a revelation?" ELIAS: "You know, I really should have gone for that. Found something that would finally manage to shatter that precious image you have of him. But, as you say I am very busy at the moment. So I suppose I’ll have to go with what I had prepared." Nah, Elias is also rooting for them. And he doesn't need to poke any further, he's got Peter on the job for that. And the bit about "who really treats you very badly"? Yes, Jon did. Past tense. Jon really did a 180 on that front by the end of S2. Still, it's a good way for further manipulation. Sowing seeds of doubt, that Jon still doesn't like him.

ELIAS: "The thing is, though, Martin. If you ever do want to know exactly what your father looked like… All you have to do is look in a mirror. The resemblance is quite uncanny. The face of the man she hates, who destroyed her life, watching over her." This is something I have asked myself, like, how often something like this actually happens in rl. I'm guessing it's a huge taboo. Losing your partner and getting reminded of them everytime you see your child(ren). Doesn't have to be hate, like in this instance. Grief will also do. Or turn it around. Everytime the child sees a photograph of themself, they are reminded of the parent because of their resemblance. There's something similar explored in The Babadook (2014). The father died in a car accident while driving his wife in labor to the hospital. And she resents the child. Blames him for the death of her husband. It's great (I mean, not in rl), I love it when bad relationships get explored in fiction. And especially parent-children structures make it so difficult, because the child is completely dependent on the parent. That just adds another layer to it.

Alex does such a good job at that terrified crying...

I think this was one of the strongest scenes in all TMA. Writing- and acting-wise.

JON: "I knew none of us might be coming back, and I’m not going to let anyone get killed for nothing!" TIM: "Well, except for those people in there." JON: "They’re already dead!" TIM: "Not all of them." Ah yes, TMA and the trolley problem.

JON: (sudden yell, followed by immediate realization of need to whisper) "I am not losing you as well!" T_T

That warped "Aaahh" from the Archives crew. The music picking up. It is absolutely clear what's happening there. Like being hit by a Weirdness Bubble.

In these last moments Jon seems to still have some remaining clarity. While the others are already confused, he still knows who Daisy is for example. And he seems to still have some sense of self ("Daisy, it's me"). So yeah, Elias preparation to See has worked quite well, Jon did have it a bit easier. I mean, this is all or nothing.

@a-mag-a-day

[a-mag-a-day]

MAG 59 - apple cutting

So about the episode title: I know a recluse is someone who lives a solitary life, but there is also a genus of spiders out there which is called recluse (for example, the brown recluse, probably the most famous one of those).

"I’d do things without actually deciding to do them. Like it was just muscle memory moving me, or a string gently guiding me." - <.<

"It was never bad or dangerous stuff, just… things I wouldn’t normally have done, like brushing my teeth." - Good guy Web.

"It felt like if you picked a line, any line, you could follow it through to the center, to some deep truth, if only your eye could keep track of the strands that had caught it." - This kind of sounds like the way Jon later describes the Web in S5, when he tries to See its plan.

This is actually only the second time the table itself makes an appearance in a statement. The box without the table was in MAG 8, but all the other times were within the Archives, it being delivered and talked about, OG!Sasha in Artefact Storage, Not!Sasha and Jon in Artefact Storage.

"Agnes came to the house two months before my birthday, in the middle of winter. Ray had never mentioned her, never held one of his little meetings to introduce her. She was just suddenly in the house one day, and no one really thought to question it." - Haha, just like Dawn suddenly being dropped as Buffy's younger teenage sister. There's most likely a lore reason for that in TMA as well, especially in a stronghold of the Web.

"Then, without warning, I wasn’t waiting anymore. I had turned around, put down my suitcase, and started walking back toward Raymond Fielding’s house. I didn’t want to go back." - Oh god, something like this happened to me once. It was some kind of sleepwalking. I could see everything I did through my eyes, just like normal, but had no control over my body. I stood up, out of bed and my room and down the stairs in complete darkness. I didn't want to, everything in me was like "oh no pls, I don't want to go downstairs". When I reached the end of the stairs I finally regained control and fled back into my room.

"Their bodies seemed warped and bloated in a way I didn’t recognize. But that’s only because at that point in my life, I had never before seen a spider egg sac." - Ha, like in Steven King's The Mist.

"Inside was an apple, green and fresh and still wet with morning dew. I knew I was going to eat it" - So that's how the Web fills people with spiders? Ivo Lensik in MAG 8 also found such an apple in that box and out came spiders.

"All at once, my cheek erupted in pain. It was like someone had pressed a hot branding iron into my face, and I could swear that I heard the flesh sizzle as I let out a scream and fell to my knees." - Thanks Agnes. Is this the first time we hear about the Desolation directly defeating the Web?

"I had willed it myself, and whatever power had been gripping me, tugging me into its web" - <.<

"But now they’re building there. They’re breaking ground that should be left burned and empty. And I’ve started to dream again." - God, I love this…

"Between Ronald Sinclair, Ivo Lensik, and Father Burroughs, it appears there’s still much to learn about Hill Top Road." - Well, there indeed is!

"Supplemental. Everyone’s avoiding me." - He sounds so sad :(

"They share furtive glances when they think I’m not looking. I don’t like it. I feel like they’re planning something." Oh boy, they ARE planning SOMETHING^^

Oh man that sleep walking experience sounds terrifying I hope you're okay 😳

Also hfjdjsmjdk I'm so happy I'm not the only one who noticed the web taking a break from its nefarious plans to force kids to... Brush their teeth. Somehow that's so funny to me.

Perhaps teeth are important to the web when it sends the spider filled victims out to the world to do its bidding when they need to seem friendly...

[themagnustournament]

Redemption Round 2 - Match 50

The Show Must Go On must go on! It's coming in with 146 votes from Round Two and a total of 283 votes so far! Burned Out earned 204 votes in Round One.

MAG 116 - The Show Must Go On | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Abraham Janssen regarding an incident in the Court Theatre of Buda.

MAG 008 - Burned Out | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Ivo Lensik regarding his experiences during the construction of a house on Hill Top Road.

[nonbinarylocalcryptid]

MAG8 - Burned Out

I don't Know where to start with this one. Construction guy has beef with spooky tree. Statement of Jonny Sims, regarding worldbuilding within his horror podcast. Hm, both seem like good ways to aproach it.

It has a lot of stuff going on ngl

Quotesssssss:

"There was a knock at the door, and the feeling abruptly vanished. I was cold again, lying on the bare floor. I struggled to my feet as the knock came again. My hand shook as I opened it. By now I didn’t know what to expect. Would it be Raymond again? Agnes? Or some other thing to announce the end of my sanity.

What I did not expect was a Catholic priest." - Ivo Lensik, March a3th 2007

The statement it's creepy and mysterious and then, pum, Catholic priest. Why is it so funny?

"As I stood there in the cold, my eyes fell on the tree. That creepy, damn tree." - Ivo "I had beef with a tree" Lensik

"Ah, head trauma and latent schizophrenia – the ghost’s best friends. Aside from excessive indulgence in psychoactive drugs, it seems to me that there is simply no better way to make contact with the spirit world." - Jon Sims, April 8th 2016

Joooon, why are you so mean? xD

"There doesn’t seem to be any print evidence of what happened to the house; no news stories or similar regarding the fire. But one resident did provide a photograph of the house in flames." - Also Jon

this bit is so, so funny, like, that resident really said "yeah we didn't call the firefighters but hey, I took a photo :D"

Small review:

God bless worldbuilding

Spoiler Stuff, go to General Overview if you don't want to read it:

Well, Ivo Lensik's father wasn't schizophrenic, he just happen to know Michael a bit too well I guess

General overview:

Vibe: wut

Horror: spooky, but not too much, I may be wrong

Audio: nice

Humour: Jon being, someone throwing hands with a tree

Score: 10/10

[raspberrybluejeans]

As I re-listen to TMA I've been making my own little timeline as I go just for fun. Newest little thing I noticed is that Ivo Lensik from MAG 8: Burned Out and Jack Barnabas from MAG 67: Burning Desire gave their statements only a few days apart. They both had major events happen to them on November 23rd 2006, and they both ended up giving their statements about it in March 2007. Ivo on the 13th and Jack on the 18th. If they had just gone with slightly different days they might have met and noticed that their stories were connected. They were so close 😳

[st0nek]

Naprawdę sory że tak długo mi zeszło ale pomiędzy brakiem czasu a brakiem motywacji nie znajdzie się dużo produktywności.

Anyways 8 odcinek wyszedł.

[tmisaccidentreportbook]

MAG008, Burned Out

Case #0071304, Ivo Lensik Release date: April 9, 2016 First listen: 14th October. Out on the morning feed, I remember walking through the matrix

Wonderful title this one, considering my mental state at the time. All of our mental states really. As I’ve said, this podcast came to me in a period of my life where I was white knuckling it. And it was going to get harder. I’d made it through the lock down so far, and I my opinion I was relatively unscathed. But I think others could tell differently, others that knew me, others that reached out. And one of those out reached hands was a gentle suggestion of ‘hey, do you wanna give this podcast a go?’ I was dangerously close to burn out myself. Wouldn’t crash for another month or so, but the wick was getting low.

- But bloody Hill Top Road. In so many ways, where it began. Where it crawled into this world and took root. One hell of a cursed piece of real estate.

- I have no qualms with how Ivo is written, but I do have a question of sorts. Ivo works in construction, plumbing and electrics, and has been brought in on a job as ‘the guy they had doing the wiring had been called for jury duty and they’d lost him for a couple of weeks, so they asked me to step in.’… Now, I want to preface this with the assumption that ‘they had doing the wiring’ indicates that the job has been started and Ivo was coming in to carry on…. Is that allowed?!

– I only ask because I am currently living in a house of dust sheet and bare plaster, I would not have known this a year ago, but you learn thing during home renovating. I don’t now if there is different criteria on new builds, but once the electrician contracted to work on my place, only he could finish it. Only he could sign off the work being complete. Which came as an embuggerance when he’d told me that the job should take 2 weeks and I naively thought that meant he’d be done in 2 weeks, when in reality it was 2 weeks worth of work spread out over about 3 months as his gaffer pulled him from job to job. But once he started, we couldn’t have anyone else touch it. Maybe it’s a different thing with a new build and there may be teams working on a site. I’ll have to ask my Dad.

- The tree. The treeeee…. What does it mean?! Annabelle! What does it meeeeean? This is more than likely me over reaching, and for an atheist, I seem to find a heck of a lot of religious parallels and imagery in stuff, but I had a wee baby theory on the tree. Tree – apple tree? Or at the very least, apple in the box under the tree – apple, typically considered the stand in for the ‘Forbidden Fruit’ of Eden – the MacGuffin in the first manipulation? - The Web? It’s a reach. Yeah, don’t get me started on religious, more accurately Christian, imagery and parallels I keep seeing. I’ve got a who theory on Daisy and Jon being inverted Adam and Eve figures. I’ll get there one day.

- Raymond Fielding. You old recluse. Tan coat, unassuming. It becomes a bit more concrete in a later statement, but do you know what a brown recluse spider looks like? Tan. Unassuming. Interestingly, has fewer pairs of eyes than the average spider species, 3 pairs rather than 4.

- The phantom smell of burning is a fascinating one in this case, because it could so easily get bundled off as a mental symptom, such as the olfactory hallucinations one might have while suffering a stroke. Even though we know in hindsight that The Desolation has just as much as a grip on the site as The Web, because the statement giver is so on the look out for any signs of mental health decline, it is misattributed.

- Fractals. Ah yes, hello Michael. The Distortion. I think it’s our first mention of The Throat Of Delusion Incarnate.

- And then comes the fall at work and I want to go on the record that since my fall I have gone and logged it with the correct people at work and it has been recorded and the whole office now knows of my shame. They were saying I need to be monitored. I did not knock myself out though, I did not require assistance to the same extent as Ivo. Does lone working still suck? Yes. Do I perhaps have a think piece percolating at the back of my brain about the archival staff and self neglect that maybe holding up a little bit of a mirror to my own issues? Yeah, maybe. I’m working on myself, I’ll get there. Got certain folks doing their damnedest to make sure of that.

- Again, as Annie tells the history of the place, getting a lot of religious alarm bells. Raymond Fielding, a ‘devout churchgoer’, the halfway house on operating on ‘behalf of the local diocese’. The fact that the archival team couldn’t exactly pin down which denomination that diocese was exactly making it all the more suspect. Did Raymond allow the residents to get into trouble on purpose? Did he not provide support and care so the transient youth would cause trouble, manipulating their behaviour to alienate themselves from the local community, so no one cared or looked too close when they started to disappear? Believing they’d ‘moved on’? Seeing it as a blessed relief as things quieted down and not asking questions? And I don’t really want to think too hard about how seemingly unregulated homes like this one could become a hot bed of abuse, even without the influence of an Avatar running it.

- Relistening to the introduction of Agnes threw me. ‘Mousy brown pigtails’? I beg your pardon, what? She’s a redhead, we know this. Don’t we? I admit, I joined the fandom long after the fan art had formed a homogeneous look for the core cast. I still love the variety I see in the fan art, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a piece with Agnes that doesn’t have her as a redhead.

- Agnes did scare me when she was first introduced, this child appearing like Damian out of ‘The Omen’. Surviving in that house alongside Raymond even as the other youths vanished one by one. I think I felt like she was holding him captive, and indeed she was, only in hindsight I want to thank her for it. But then out living Raymond and becoming a shut in that stares out of windows. That gets blamed for pets disappearing. That doesn’t have anyone come to her aid when the house goes up in flames because a boy goes missing and there’s no evidence. Was this another machination of The Web? Was it somehow feeding on the small pets and Henry White, only to then turn the rumours of the Avatar of The Desolation that had a hold on it some how.

- The charred remains of Raymond Feilding, missing a hand, that presumably is the one found tied round waist of one Agnes Montague some 30 years later. Has to be a hand though doesn’t it. Can’t be a puppet master without a hand.

- There are a few Entities that lend themselves to religion and cults and I think for all their grappling, The Web and The Desolation are two of those that go the hardest. The Dark is definitely in there too. I think The Desolation seeks to preach its’ own doctrine, and The Web seeks to manipulate the fervour already there.

- Letting a Catholic priest onto an active build site. Has Father Burroughs reported to the site manager? Has he signed in? Has he been issued with appropriate PPE? I’ve been on too many construction sites over the last few months for this to slide. Is he wearing a hard hat?

- Also, Annie, this feels a little ‘breaching of patient confidentiality’ and ‘medical ethics’.

- ‘Blood flowing from the wounded tree’. Anyone else seen Tim Burton’s ‘Sleepy Hollow’?

- The wooden box under the tree, described as carved with patterns. Like those of the table in MAG003?

- A single green apple, you’re not diminishing my whole ‘Eden Apple’ crack theory here...

- Did up rooting the tree… do something? I mean, it clearly was a trigger of some sort, the heat stops and Agnes seems to have perished at the same moment, but what precisely is happening here? What horcrux, lich’s phylactery nonsense is going on here? Was the tree a stopper in the bottle neck and now something is loose? Just checked and, yup, Hill Top Road is a real street. Street view doesn’t want to let me see No. 105 though.

- ‘Father Burroughs made his own statement.’ If memory serves, that one’s a doozy.

- ‘Two families have lived in the house since this statement was originally made but no further manifestations have been reported on Hill Top Road.’… Imagine being in that house October 18, 2018, when the world snapped. Which was the 4th Anniversary 2 days ago. Cursed times.