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itsmemateinnit · 10 months

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Whitechapel series 3 press pack

Whitechapel – Real life cases highlighted by Buchan in the series

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Ratcliffe Highway Murders The Ratcliffe Highway murders were two vicious attacks that resulted in multiple fatalities, and occurred over twelve days in the year 1811, in homes half a mile apart near Wapping in London.

The first attack took place on 7th December 1811 at a home behind a linen draper’s shop on Ratcliffe Highway (now called The Highway). The victims were Timothy Marr (a 24 year old linen draper and hosier), his wife Celia, their 3-month-old son Timothy and James Gowen, their shop boy. Margaret Jewell, a servant of the Marrs, had been sent to purchase oysters, and subsequently escaped. The murder caused the government to offer a reward of 500 guineas for the apprehension of the perpetrator.

Twelve days later on the 19th December, the second attack happened at The Kings Arms in New Gravel Lane (now Garnet street). The victims were John Williamson, 56 year old publican who had been at the Kings Arms for 15 years, his 60 year old wife Elizabeth and Bridget Anna Harrington in her late 50's, a servant. Williamson's 14-year-old granddaughter, Catherine (Kitty) Stillwell, slept through the incident and was thus not discovered. John Turner, a lodger and journeyman, discovered the murders and escaped out of an upper window, using a knotted sheet to climb down to the street below.

A principal suspect in the murders, John Williams (also known as Murphy), was a lodger at the nearby Pear Tree public house in Old Wapping. He was a 27-year-old Scottish or Irish seaman. He had nursed a grievance against Marr from when they were shipmates, but the subsequent murders at the Kings Arms remain unexplained. Williams was arrested, but committed suicide by hanging himself in prison; he was buried with a stake through his heart at the junction of Commercial Road and Cannon Street Road.

Charles Manson, 1969, Sharon Tate On the night of August 8, Manson directed Charles Watson to take Susan Atkins, Linda Kasabian, and Patricia Krenwinkel to "that house where Melcher used to live" and "totally destroy everyone in [it], as gruesome as you can." He told the women to do as Watson would instruct them. The current occupants of the house, all of whom were strangers to the Manson followers, were movie actress Sharon Tate, wife of famed director Roman Polanski and eight and a half months pregnant; her friend and former lover, hairstylist Jay Sebring; Polanski's friend and aspiring screenwriter Wojciech Frykowski, and Frykowski’s lover Abigail Folger, heiress to the Folger coffee fortune. Tate's husband, Polanski, was in London working on a film project; Tate had been visiting with him and had returned to the United States only three weeks earlier.

Richard Farley Richard Farley is an American convicted mass murderer. A former employee of Electromagnetic Systems Labs (ESL) in Sunnyvale, California, he stalked co-worker Laura Black for four years beginning in 1984. Black obtained a temporary restraining order against him on February 2, 1988, with a court date set for February 17, 1988 to make the order permanent. On February 16, 1988, Farley shot and killed seven people at ESL and wounded four others, including Black. He was convicted of seven counts of first degree murder, and is currently sitting on death row at San Quentin.

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The Thames Torso mystersties of 1887-1889 The Whitehall Mystery is an unsolved murder from London in 1888. The dismembered remains of a woman were found at three different sites in central London, including the future site of Scotland Yard. Newspapers suggested a tie to Jack the Ripper's killings of prostitutes that were occurring simultaneously, but the Metropolitan Police said there was no connection.

Mary Ann Cotton Born Mary Ann Robson in October 1832 in Low Moorsley, County Durham, she died 24 March 1873. She was an English woman convicted of murdering her husband and children and is believed to have murdered up to 21 people, mainly by arsenic poisoning.

Mary Wilson Killed four lovers with phosphorus and claimed they took it in‘sexual stimulation pills’s

Mary Wilson (c. 1893 - 1963) also known as the Merry widow of Windy Nook, was a serial killer and the last woman to be sentenced to death in Durham, in 1958. However the sentence was not carried out as it was commuted to a prison sentence.

An exhumation of the bodies of her last two husbands revealed high levels of phosphorus. Her defense claimed the substance was contained in their medication. Wilson was convicted of murdering two of her four husbands with beetle poison in 1956 and 1957. The remains of her earlier two husbands were exhumed at a later date and pointed to the same cause of death.

Dr Crippen Dr. Crippen, was an American homeopathic physician hanged in Pentonville Prison, London, on 23 November 1910, for the murder of his wife, Cora Henrietta Crippen. A theory, which was first propounded by Edward Marshall Hall, was that Crippen was using hyoscine on his wife as a depressant or an aphrodisiac but accidentally gave her an overdose and then panicked when she died.

The Lonely heart Killers Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, who met after Beck placed a lonely-hearts ad, became known as "The Lonely Hearts Killers" after their arrest and trial for serial murder in 1949. Between 1947 and 1949 they are believed to have killed as many as twenty women.

The Black Eyed Borgia and her Playboy lover Mary Frances Creighton and Everett Appelgate, both convicted and executed for the murder of Ada Creighton (Appelgate’s wife) from arsenic poisoning.

H.H.Holmes (May 16, 1861[1] – May 7, 1896), better known under the alias of Dr. Henry Howard Holmes, was one of the first documented American serial killers in the modern sense of the term. In Chicago at the time of the 1893 World's Fair, Holmes opened a hotel which he had designed and built for himself specifically with murder in mind, and which was the location of many of his murders. While he confessed to 27 murders, of which nine were confirmed, his actual body count could be as high as 250. He took an unknown number of his victims from the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, which was less than 2 miles away from his "World's Fair" hotel.

Marquis de Sade An episode in Marseille, in 1772, involved the non-lethal poisoning of prostitutes with the supposed aphrodisiac Spanish fly and sodomy with his manservant Latour. That year the two men were sentenced to death in absentia for sodomy and said poisoning.

Thomas Huskey, 1999 Knoxville, Tennessee Accused killer of 4 women in Tennessee. Nicknamed the "Zoo Man", Huskey worked at the Knoxville Zoo and allegedly took his victims here. He talked of ‘Kyle’, a separate, darker personality that was responsible for a series of murders.

Arthur Ford, 1954 Arthur Ford became infatuated with a woman called Betty Grant who worked in his office on Euston Road. He bought a coconut nice for both Betty and a friend that he had laced with cantharidin; both died after eating it.

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Bogeyman A bogeyman is an amorphous imaginary being used by adults to frighten children into compliant behaviour. The monster has no specific appearance, and conceptions about it can vary drastically from household to household within the same community; in many cases, he has no set appearance in the mind of an adult or child, but is simply a non-specific embodiment of terror. Parents may tell their children that if they misbehave, the bogeyman will get them. Bogeymen may target a specific mischief — for instance, a bogeyman that punishes children who suck their thumbs — or general misbehavior, depending on what purpose needs serving. In some cases, the bogeyman is a nickname for the devil.

Zodiac Killer Masked serial killer in California in 1960s/1970s who said that ‘hunting humans was the most exciting of all sports’

The Phantom US, 1940s. Killed on full moons, wore a white mask and attacked eight by the light of the moon. Of whom the sheriff said “no one sees him, no one hears him in time.”

Robert Williams The case of the man who killed a girl in Hyde Park in 1928. The man claimed that the film ‘London After Midnight’ sent him insane, and that he saw Lon Chaney in the park, forcing him to murder the girl with a razor.

Scared to death In 1840, Sir Robert Warboys had heard of a tale of a parlour maid who had seen the spectral presence and had been driven insane. He wanted to disprove the haunting, and armed with a shotgun, went to spend the night in the attic room. The house was woken at midnight when a shot rang out. They found Warboys dead from fright.

Then in 1878, Lord Lyttleton stayed the night. He loaded his gun with silver sixpennies said to ward off evil. For him it worked and he survived to tell the tale.

Couple on a spree together – Caril Ann Fugate and Charles Starkweather. Nebraska, 1957. Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate. They killed 11 in all. Including her parents and two year old sister. She was only 14 at the time. Nobody knows how many she killed. She said she was held hostage by Starkweather. He said she was a willing participant. He was executed in 1959. She was paroled in 1976. And to this day she has never spoken of the murders, so no one knows how involved she really was.

Tsuyama Massacre The Tsuyama massacre was a spree killing that occurred on 21 May 1938 in the rural village of Kaio close to Tsuyama city in Okayama, Japan. Mutsuo Toi, a 21-year-old man, killed 30 people, including his grandmother, with a shotgun, Japanese sword, and axe, and seriously injured three others before killing himself with the shotgun.

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checkoutmybookshelf · 1 year

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THIS BOOK YOU GUYS

This book is a bit different from my typical on this blog, but it's very, very true to my Shakespearean roots. That said, even if it wasn't close to my academic roots, I've given this book to more people than any other book that comes to mind, and I'm not the type to just gift books to people. Laura Bates's story of teaching Shakespeare in priosn is never not poignant, observant, and quietly joyful about the acts of teaching and learning. Her relationship with Larry Newman is also fascinating, and the difference than one person's belief in another can make on a life is astounding. Let's talk Shakespeare Saved My Life.

If you want to hear Dr. Bates discuss her book, she gave an awesome interview for the Folger Shakespeare Library's podcast, Shakespeare Unlimited called Shakespeare in Solitary, and I strongly recommend giving it a listen!

This book is a memoir, and it focuses on teaching Shakespeare in supermax prisons. If nothing else, this book highlights how flexible Shakespeare can be, because it was exactly as relevant to the gentleman in Bates's prison classes as it is to the dead poet's society, but for significantly different reasons.

Intertwined with Bates's story is that of Larry Newman, who is serving a life sentence. The student-teacher dynamics in a prison setting are fascinating to read about, as is Bates's exploration of Newman's history and the fact that he took to Shakespeare like a duck to water.

I wouldn't dream of putting spoilers for this book here, so all I can say is that this book is 100% recommended. It's a compelling, entertaining, and thought-provoking read and if I could have required this book when I was teaching, I would have.

#laura bates #shakespeare saved my life #ten years in solitary with the bard #teaching in prison #shakespeare in prison #shakespeare #shakespeare books #memoirs

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andsjuliet · 2 years

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sleepover ask: can you recommend some audiobooks? I’d really like to listen to some but I can never get into them! so if you know some good ones, i’d love to hear!

yes of course! i LOVE audiobooks, and usually put one on when i'm at work. i tend to read a lot of different genres so i'll recommend a variety!

if we were villains (mystery/thriller) - not only my favorite book, but my favorite audiobook! robert petkoff is the narrator and oh my gosh, he's fantastic! i get chills every time i listen to it

little women (classic) - my personal favorite is the audible one with laura dern as the narrator. she's my favorite marmee in general but i just LOVE the way that she reads this story, it feels like home

the atlas six (fantasy) - this one has a full cast and i adore full cast audiobooks, i think those are the best kind. the full cast is really great, however, i don't love the voice actor for tristan but that is for sure a personal preference. but i really enjoyed this audiobook

folgers shakespeare classics (classic) - it does not matter which one you pick, if you listen to one of the folgers shakespeare audiobooks you're listening to a masterclass. all of them are amazing. i also think these are great if you want to get into shakespeare since listening really brings the story to life!

these violent delights (historical fantasy) - firstly, this series by chloe gong is amazing and i recommend it to everyone. secondly, i really loved the audiobook narrated by cindy kay, so i highly recommend it! cindy kay also narrates the audiobook for the sequel, our violent ends

the night circus (historical fantasy) - another really fantastic audiobook, and although i've read the book multiple times, i think the audiobook helped me really imagine all the magic of the circus and the story as a whole

written in the stars/hang the moon (contemporary romance) - i just really enjoyed these ones! i haven't listened to the audiobook for count your lucky stars, but i'm sure it's great as well!

cover story (mystery/thriller) - firstly this book is just WILD so i highly recommend it, but this audiobook had me on the edge of my seat at work because it was super captivating!

beach read/people we meet on vacation (contemporary romance) - if you're not reading emily henry you've gotta be reading emily henry. anyway, i really love both of these audiobooks and will probably listen to the book lovers audiobook at some point soon!

i'm sure that i've got more, but these are the ones i could think of off the top of my head/after a quick look at what audiobooks i've listened to so far this year!

#post: ask #ask: answered #books: audiobook recs

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realtvfilms · 8 months

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James Shanklin, Publish or Perish Movie from RealTVfilms on Vimeo.

James Shanklin was born and raised in Baltimore Maryland. During his undergraduate time he would spend his summers working as a member of the Ocean City Beach Patrol as a lifeguard on the beach. The first professional theatre job was in David Hare's MAP OF THE WORLD at Center Stage in Baltimore, MD. Along with other roles at Washington, DC's Folger Theatre where he performed with Stacy Keach in RICHARD III, Arena Stage where he was directed by the legendary theatre director Liviu Ciulei. From there he went on to do several plays with The New York Shakespeare Festival and The Public Theatre. From there he went on to the prestigious Yale School of Drama where he did a multitude of productions including John Guare's LANDSCAPE OF THE BODY with Laura Linney. Upon graduating from Yale he went on to do more plays with the Public Theatre and the NYSF including the world premiere of Thulani Davis's EVERYBODY LOVES RUBY with Viola Davis. James never stopped his passion for doing theatre even after his film and television work began to increase. After doing multiple roles in NYC produced television shows and films, he moved to Los Angeles in 2004 where he has had the pleasure of working with actors such as Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Eddie Murphy, Alfre Woodard among others and directors such as David Fincher, Barry Sonnenfeld, JJ Abrams, Tyler Perry and many others. James has always been a passionate advocate for animals and at one point had five dogs. More recently he has three extraordinary creatures he shares with actress Eileen Wesson.

Graduate of the Yale School of Drama where he received an MFA. Summer's during undergraduate years, served 3 years as an ocean lifeguard with the Ocean City Beach Patrol in Ocean City, Maryland. "Three of the best years of my life. I learned discipline and responsibility, two things that have served me well in life.". In 2010, 2011 & 2012 was in 3 films nominated for Oscars, The Social Network, Moneyball and Argo. The third, Argo won the Oscar for Best Film in 2013. Unfortunately, the scenes in which he performed the character Mike Touzani (a retiring CIA agent) did not make the final cut of the film. Though shared no scenes, worked on two films in which Philip Seymour Hoffman starred. In 2013 was cast as Aaron Hatch a one-episode guest star in season 3 of the AMC series Hell On Wheels. That one episode turned into 3 seasons on the top-rated AMC series. Is passionate about animals and animal rights. As of 2017 has 4 dogs. 2014 performed in the West Coast premiere of Bethany at The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, CA. 2015 performed in the West Coast premier of The Twenty-Seventh Man at The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, CA. 2018 played Stan in the Mark Taper Forum production of Sweat. 2018 Beginning rehearsals for Anna Karenina at The Denver Center. Mr. Shanklin lives in Los Angeles.

SYNOPSIS - Facing impossible deadlines and an adversarial relationship with his boss, a professor obsessed with getting tenure accidentally kills a student. The cover up causes his life to spiral out of control in this award winning dark comedy.

WEBSITE publishorperish.movie/ @publishorperish_movie WATCH MOVIE youtube.com/watch?v=a8ww86mXkqs

#publishorperishmovie #jamesshanklin #altaglobalmedia

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mxwhore · 3 months

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Who’s Laura folger?

OC :)

#this comic is a sequel of one i havent finished HAHAHAHA #stuff happens #tessa answers!#stick around for her story!

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teapotart · 2 years

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you have such good eyes

#original story #chemistry and life #ulcd #pages #watercolour #samples samples #folger #nathan #emy #gentle yearning (c) Laura #it was very fun to draw :D #i really hope that what i'm doing with this samples isn't gonna go waste

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eddysocs · 9 months

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Introducing: Laura Folger

Fandom: New Amsterdam

Face Claim: JoAnna Garcia Swisher

Full Name: Laura Lynn Folger

Age: 30

Myers Briggs Type: ESTJ

Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw

Love Interest: Elizabeth Wilder

Occupation: ASL Teacher

Collections: Board Games

Style/Clothing: Laura has a very cottagecore style. Floral print dresses or tops with puffy sleeves draw her in. She’s a city girl, really, but that doesn’t mean she can’t bring a little bit of country living into her life.

Signature Quote: "Every day I take a moment to listen to the world around me, simply because I can."

Plot Summary: Single mom of a deaf, four year old daughter, Laura Folger takes it upon herself to learn ASL so she can communicate with her child, and by the time Emma's learning to speak, Laura has her certification to teach ASL in schools. Then, after taking her daughter to her routine, annual physical, it’s discovered that Emma has cancer. Laura turns to New Amsterdam for her care, where she meets Elizabeth Wilder, and she’s the perfect person to help Laura and Emma through this.

Forever Tag: @arrthurpendragon, @baubeautyandthegeek, @foxesandmagic, @carmens-garden, @fawera, @themaradaniels, @that-demigirl, @iloveocs, @bossyladies, @b1rvt4, @getawaycardotmp3, @misshiraethsworld, @kmc1989

#oc: laura folger #fc: joanna garcia swisher #fd: new amsterdam

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webtable · 3 years

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💬 - graham, oliver, naomi, aaaand laura popham

(here is the post)

graham - can and will insult animals in the most affectionate voice you ever thought possible. especially birds and their dumb little walks. oliver hates it, but that just kind of convinced him to do it more

oliver - dogs HATE him. he carries the feeling of death wherever he goes and they will not let it go. growled at and distrusted wherever he goes by any dog around, but will still try to push his luck and give them pets when he can because they're dogs and they're cute and he thinks the way that they walk is funny

naomi - she was a theater tech when she was still in school, and she did love it!!! but it also nearly broke her because she doesn't communicate well on the best of days, and she was mostly in it to control the lights and stuff anyway

laura - irrational fear of horses. she's never seen one in real life, never interacted with one, but like... horses. it's bad to the point her husband is genuinely worried about her sometimes

#some of these are short im sorry </3 #but thank you sm for asking #graham folger #oliver banks #naomi herne #laura popham #mag003 (blog)#asked and answered

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zaphmann · 2 years

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ieatmypizzawithaforkandknife · 3 years

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MAG 019 - Confession (part 1)

Summary: Jonathan reads the first half of the statement of Father Edwin Burroughs, regarding “his claimed demonic possession.”

Our first two-parter! Not that I realized that when I listened to the episode the first time, despite it being right there in the title, because I have the observational skills of a blind muskrat...but I’m excited because I know there will be more multi-parters in the future. I like the episodic format right now, but I know that as Things Begin To Happen, I’ll appreciate the increased breadth and depth of longer stories.

89 Bullingdon Rd is the third street address featured in the series so far, the other two being 93 Lancaster Rd in episode 5 and 105 Hill Top Rd in episode 8. Unlike the first two, however, this one actually exists - kind of. According to google maps, the house numbers on Lancaster Rd in Walthamstow run from about 1 to 85, and the numbers on Hill Top Rd in Cowley run from about 1 to 75. But 89 is right in the middle of the range of house numbers on Bullingdon Rd in Cowley, and while google maps says there’s an 89A but not an 89...it’s close enough. On one hand it’s super cool that these locations are relatively real (the towns are real, the streets are real, it’s just the exact buildings that aren’t). On the other hand 89A is a little too close to 89, and I wish Jonny had picked a number completely outside the range of addresses like he did with the first two, just to avoid crazy fans descending on real people’s houses.

It is definitely worth noting the proximity of 89 Bullingdon Rd to 105 Hill Top Rd. They’re only about half a mile (or about a kilometer, since this is in the UK after all) away from each other as the crow flies. And for both of them, the location itself seems to be tied to the paranormal happenings of the episode(s) they’re featured in. In episode 8, Ivo Lensik feels that unnatural burning start when he’s alone inside 105 Hill Top Rd, which stops as soon as Father Burroughs arrives. In this episode, Father Burroughs feels that same unnatural burning start when he’s alone inside 105 Hill Top Rd, and it only stops when Ivo uproots the tree. And in this episode, Bethany claims her problems are being caused by the Bullingdon Rd house itself, though she doesn’t explain what made her think that. But it’s very concerning that she can’t seem to see the only creepy thing about the house that we’re aware of: the old Latin word written in faded blue paint on the exposed wall.

The word “mentis” is Latin alright, but Father Burroughs translates it as “mind” which...isn’t quite right. “Mentis” doesn’t strictly mean “mind”, it means “of the mind”. The endings of Latin nouns change based on how they’re used in a sentence, so if you’re talking about the word “mind” as the subject of a sentence (or as the word in general) it is “mens”. “Mentis” is specifically the possessive form of the word. I don’t know whether this was deliberate or accidental on Jonny’s part, since if you look it up the dictionary entry shows “mens, mentis”. (It’s standard practice to include both the “subject” form and the “possessive” form in the dictionary since they’re different.) It makes me wonder if this word was part of a phrase and if there were other words hidden under the wallpaper. (Also, small shout-out to anyone reading this who is also a Latin geek, and I hope I explained it well enough that the non-Latin-geeks also understand that explanation.)

On the subject of language, this isn’t the first time Latin has appeared in connection with the paranormal. Ex Altiora, the Leitner found in episode 4, was written entirely in Latin (including the title), and the Lord’s Prayer was written in Latin on that long strip of singed paper found in the second trash bag in episode 5. It’s interesting that the same constellation of details from the trash bag incident are also in this episode: Latin, Christianity, and burning.

Latin isn’t even the only dead language to make an appearance this episode. When describing his experiences performing exorcisms at the beginning of the episode, Father Burroughs recounts: “I was once cursed at in Sumerian by a young man who was illiterate.” In episode 12, the phrase muttered by the hospitalized man that seemed to summon the “lightless flame” contained the word “Asag”, which is the name of a Sumerian demon that could boil fish alive in their rivers. Father Burroughs doesn’t appear in episode 12, but if he had been at that hospital, I think he would have pegged that guy as possessed and wanted to have an exorcism performed. So is there a connection between Sumerian and possession and burning? And how do all the different dead languages that have appeared so far (Latin, Sumerian, and Sanskrit) fit together?

I am also very interested in that nurse, Anna/Annie/Anne Kasuma/Willett. (Seriously, how many names does one person need?) For my purposes, I’m going to call her “Annie” because she seems to go by that. In this episode’s statement (made in 2011), Father Burroughs gives her surname as Willett, and in Jonathan’s wrap-up at the end of episode 8 (which he recorded in late 2015 or early 2016), Jonathan gives her surname as Kasuma. As an older, fairly conservative Catholic (she was a member of the congregation at Father Burroughs’ church, fully believed in demonic possession, etc.), it is highly unlikely that she changed her name for any reason other than marriage or divorce. Ivo Lensik described her as “Malaysian”, and Kasuma is an Indonesian name, whereas Willett is found overwhelmingly in predominantly white countries (the U.S., England, Australia, and Canada are at the top of the list of countries where the name is found). So it would make the most sense to me if Kasuma were her maiden name and Willett a married name. BUT when Jonathan mentions her in the wrap-up to episode 8, he calls her “Mrs. Kasuma”. Since everything else fits with the idea that Kasuma is her maiden name and Willett her married name, I’m thinking Jonathan just messed up the honorific, since he also referred to “Miss Popham” at the end of episode 15 when “Popham” was very clearly Laura’s married name. (This overly detailed surname analysis brought to you in part by my ongoing obsession with genealogy. If anyone reading this has anything resembling a passing interest in the subject, feel free to hit me up about it. I will gush.) All of that nitty-gritty was not without purpose: I think she’s important somehow. I could be reading too much into things, but why would Jonny give her a name change if it weren’t somehow important? Even I realized the nurse from episode 8 and the nurse from episode 19 were the same person on my first listen-through, when I missed or forgot 90% of the details in any given episode, so I don’t think he was trying to trip us up. And she has a direct connection to 105 Hill Top Rd: she grew up on that street, and had a lot of information on the property’s history dating back to before she was born, possibly indicating her family lived on that street even longer. But we haven’t met anyone else with either surname, so for now that’s where it stands: possibly a lead, muddled with a probable mistake.

I was so glad when Father Burroughs made the differentiation in this episode between perception and will: “Bethany told me that her will was still her own, but she could no longer trust her senses, and had found herself doing much that she did not understand.” She tried to eat a small slab of slate, and she apparently couldn’t perceive the word “Mentis” that was literally written on a wall. This might be the first time that the author of the statement calls attention to the recurring theme I’ve been calling “altered reality”. This “altered reality” is a heavy presence in the second part of this two-parter, but I’ll wait to talk about that in that episode’s post. Coupled with this “altered reality” is the “eating of something you really shouldn’t be eating”. In this episode, it’s Bethany trying to eat a slab of slate before being abruptly pulled back to reality by Father Burroughs, only then realizing what it was. Hinted at in this episode, and shown in more detail in the next one (minor spoiler, I guess?), is Father Burroughs eating human flesh and only realizing what it was when the police arrived. The only other time I remember these two themes working in tandem is in episode 3 when Graham Folger ate a notebook. No one stopped him or made him realize what he was doing, so we don’t know for sure that his reality was altered, but it makes the most sense to me that he, like Bethany and Father Burroughs, truly didn’t realize what he was doing. I’m not convinced that the events of this episode (and the next one) are actually related to the notebook incident in episode 3, but it’s an interesting parallel.

On a completely unrelated note, I’d like to talk a bit about Father Burroughs’ “possession” itself. First off, I get that Bethany saying “I’m so sorry...it wants your faith” was supposed to be an ominous line, but why is that the only thing she said throughout the entire attempted exorcism at the hospital? She couldn’t even say, “Hey, man, this isn’t working”? All she could do was look at him with pity and say that? I’d be OK with those being her only words if whatever was “possessing” her also affected her speech the way it did to Father Burroughs later...but she specifically established that she was free to speak and act as she wished, it was only at certain times that her perception of reality was altered. So I’m a little annoyed at her for not giving Father Burroughs (or us) any kind of useful warning or helpful information during the failed exorcism.

I was really confused by the apparent theft of the sacramental wine, too. What was the significance of that? Was it just an example of something weird Father Burroughs noticed that keyed him in to the fact that All Was Not Well, or was there something more to it? (This is only a semi-rhetorical question - if the answer to this was said outright or implied in this episode and it isn’t a post-S1 spoiler, please do fill me in. I sometimes miss stuff that’s super obvious to other people.)

I also find it interesting that he can say “God” towards the end of this episode. He stumbled over it, but by contrast he was completely unable to say “Lord” and “Jesus” at the very beginning. Not sure if this is significant, since there’s no real difference between the words “Lord” and “God” in my estimation. Jesus is specifically Christian, and while “Lord” tends to be associated with Christianity, it’s not exclusive. “God” is the most general of the three terms, yes, but in context he is very obviously referring to the Christian “God”, so his difficulty with getting certain words out isn’t based solely on their contextual meaning. Jonny could have written it without him getting out the word “God” at the end and I think most people listening would have understood that’s the word he was going for. It’s either some kind of clue, or Jonny just got sick of stuttering.

Father Burroughs’ call for protection is the point at which he knows something is Very, Very Wrong, as he feels his lips move even though he himself isn’t moving them. But, as with so many of these stories, Things Were Bad Long Before You Realized It. Bethany told him “it wants your faith” years before the Hill Top Rd incident. He himself admits that his pride led to his downfall, since he initiated an exorcism/blessing on Hill Top Rd when he wasn’t supposed to be doing them at all. But it wasn’t just his pride - it was something taking advantage of his pride. I think that, as much as any person can be, Father Burroughs was a victim of whatever possessed him. He made mistakes in his life - his sins, if you’re looking at it religiously, as he did - but he never wanted to be evil or commit crimes like cannibalism. Like the characters in so many of these stories, I don’t think he deserved what he got, and I mostly just feel bad for him.

His call for protection, he says, was answered by something that was not God, and when Jonathan reads the words that Father Burroughs’ lips were forming (“I am not for you. I am marked.”) we once again hear that creepy static or interference. And I still can’t decide if this is supposed to be some kind of clue or if it’s just to make things creepier. It feels like a clue, but I can’t figure out what exactly it’s supposed to mean. Most of the times I’ve noted it appearing (probably not a complete list - I’m working on it) it appears during a specific quoted phrase or instance of someone speaking: “Can I have a cigarette?” in episode 1. “Isn’t it funny, Amy, how you can live so near and never notice. I’ll need to return the visit someday” from not-Graham in episode 3. “Some hungers are too strong to be denied” from Angela in episode 14. Laura’s sister Elena asking her “how lost I was, in a low, grating voice” in episode 15. If the examples were limited to things like this, then I’d say that it occurs whenever some as-yet-undetermined otherworldly monster is given a human voice to speak through. But it also occurs the first time Ex Altiora is said in episode 4 and the first time The Boneturner’s Tale is said in episode 17, as well as two different moments during the recounting of the story inside TBT. So how is it connected to the Leitners? It didn’t occur when Jonathan read the title Key of Solomon in episode 4, which is implied to be a Leitner. And there’ve been a few other occurrences where something obviously supernatural is happening but that doesn’t involve speech or quoted words at all: When Laura describes the light changing from appearing like an approaching candle to sunlight (which it still wasn’t...) in episode 15, and when Jonathan reads the description of the bleeding books in episode 17 (”red dripped and pulsed from the cart”).

I don’t know what to make of the creepy static yet. But my specific concern with the most recent instance, when Father Burroughs “said” “I am not for you. I am marked” is: Who are the “I” and the “you” referring to? Is the “I” supposed to be Father Burroughs, or the thing “possessing” him? And who on earth is the “you”?

This post is part of a series where I write my thoughts about each episode and obsessively connect dots in an effort to figure out The Big Mysteries of the series. All posts in this series are tagged “is this liveblogging?” Comments and messages are welcome but I have only listened to season 1, so I ask that you not spoil me for anything beyond episode 40. In the words of Jonny Sims…thanks for listening!

#personal #liveblogging #is this liveblogging?#The Magnus Archives #guys this took me so long to write because I CANNOT BE SUCCINCT #nor can I leave anything out because IT'S ALL SO INTERESTING #I am so sorry

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Every Single Name in The Magnus Archives: Season 1

I just finished listening to season 1 of The Magnus Archives. As someone who is both terrible with names and also (probably) has some auditory issues, I decided to take note of every single name I heard from each episode. Some might be misspelled and possibly listed out of order. I also included some titles or phrases that I thought were important at the time I was taking notes.

Let this be a guide for people like me!

Angler Fish (EP 1) Nathan Watts, Michael Macauley, John Fellowes, Jessica McEvan, Sarah Baldwin, Daniel Rawlings, Ashley Dobson, Meghan Staw

Do Not Open (EP 2) Joshua Gillepie, John, Breekon & Hope Deliveries

Across the Street (EP 3) Amy Patel, Graham Folger & ‘Not-Graham’, Desmond & Samantha

Page Turner (EP 4) Dominic Swain, Katherine Mendes, Ex Altoria, Jurgen Leitner, MacGregor Mathers, Pinhole Books, Mary Keay, Gerard Keay, Michael Crew

Throw Away (EP 5) Kieran Woodward, David Atayah, Matthew Wilkinson, Alan Parfitt, Michal Parfitt

Squirm (EP 6 ) Timothy Hodge, Harriet Lee, Jane Prentiss

The Piper (EP 7) Clarence “Lucky” Barry, Owen, Willfred, Joseph Rayner

Burned Out (EP 8) Ivo Lensik, Raymond Fielding, Annie Suma, Agnes, Edwin Burroughs

A Father’s Love (EP 9) Julia Montauk, Robert Montauk, Det. Rayner, Christopher Lorne, Maxwell Rayner, People’s Church of the Divine Host

Vampire Killer (EP 10) Trevor Herbert, Nigel Herbert, Sylvia McDonald, Robert Arden, Alard Dupont

Dreamer (EP 11) Antonio Blake, Graham, Anahita, John Uzel, Getrude

First Aid (EP 12) Lesere Suraki, Kayleigh Brice, Gerard Keay

Alone (EP 13) Naomi Herne, David, Evan Lukas, Michael Getty

Piecemeal (EP 14) Lee Rentoul, Paul Noriega, Toby McMullen, Angela, Salesa, Hester

Lost Johns’ Cave (EP 15) Laura Popham, Alena Sanderson, Alistair Popham

Arachnophobia (EP 16) Carlos Vittery

The Boneturner’s Tale (EP 17) Sebastian Adekoya, Irvine Welsh, Ruth Weaver, Michael Crew, Jared Hopworth, Jurgen Leitner

The Man Upstairs (EP 18) Christof Rudenko, Toby Carlsile, Diane

Confession (EP 19, p1) Edwin Burroughs, Christopher Billham, James Mann, Father Harrogate, Father Singh, Bethany O’Conner, Mentis, Annie Kesuma, Ivo Lensik

Desecrated Host (EP 20, p2) Breekon & Hope Deliveries

Freefall (EP 21) Moire Kelly, Robert Kelly, Simon Fairchild, Harriet Fairchild, Joseph Puce

Colony (EP 22) Martin Blackwood, Carlos Vittery, Yassir Kundis, Jane Prentiss

Schwartzwald (EP 23) Albrecht von Closen, Jonah Magnus, Willhelm, Hendrik, Johann von Württenberg, Hilda/Helga, Tobias Kohler, Hans Winkler, Clara, Rudolf Ziegler, Elsa, Michael Keay, Mary Keay

Strange Music (EP 24) Leanne Denikin, Nikola Denikin, Josh, Irene Harlem, Gregory Petry, Gregor Orsinov

Growing Dark (EP 25) Mark Billham, Katherine Harper, Natalie Ennis, Mr. Pitch, Hither Green Dissenters, People’s Church of the Divine Host, Getrude Robinson(’s death)

A Distortion (EP 26) Sasha James, “Michael”, The Flesh Hive, Jane Prentiss, Timothy Hodge :(

A Sturdy Lock (EP 27) Paul MacKenzie, Marcus MacKenzie, Diane

Skintight (EP 28) Melanie King, Andy Caine, Peter Warhol, Antonia Farron, Georgie Barker, Sarah Baldwin, tall dude not touching the ground (see: ep 1)

Cheating Death (EP 29) Nathaniel Tharp, Fiona Law, Faro, Death (plural?), peeling flesh (see: ep 28)

Killing Floor (EP 30) David Laylow, Tom Hann

First Hunt (EP 31) Lawrence Mortimer, Arden Neeli, some werewolf dude probably

Hive (EP 32) Jane Prentiss, The Flesh Hive, Oliver, Getrude Robinson, Arthur Nolan

Boatswain Call (EP 33) Carlita Sloane, Peter Lukas, Tadeas Dahl, Sean Kelly, Kim Dwoug, Nathaniel Lukas, Lukas Family (see: ep 13)

Anatomy Class (EP 34) Lionel Elliot, Elena Ballard, Erika Mustermann, Juan Novak (haha it sounds like Joan of Arc), Diotr & Pavel Patrov, Jon Doe, Fulan Al-Fulani, Juan Pérez, Laura Gill, Risheeda Sidana

Old Passages (EP 35) Harold Silvana, Rachel Turkey, Alfred Bartlet, Jurgen Leitner, Gerard Keay, Robert Smirke, Breekon & Hope Deliveries

Taken Ill (EP 36) Nicole Baxter, George Baxter, William Gordon, Josh Gordon, Alenka Kozel, Bertrand Miller, Hannah Rumirez, John Amhurst, table from ep. 3

Burnt Offering (EP 37) Jason North, Ethan North, Lucy North, Getrude Robinson

Lost and Found (EP 38) Andre Romao, Mikade Salesa, Charlie Miller, David

Infestation (EP 39)

Human Remains (EP 40) Elias Bouchord, Jane Prentiss, Getrude, Tim Stoker, Not-Sasha, “Michael”, Martin Blackwood

Obviously I went back to some of the episodes where a character was only named later on, like the priest.

Let me know if I missed any, or if any names are misspelled :) No spoilers, thank you! I only just began listening to S2!

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