THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES #24 - Strange Music 

I loved the slight emphasis on Calliope right after resuming

The slight pause after he said it too. Like he was looking towards the door and glaring.

I can see him not even bothering to look at the door and just simmering in his state staring ahead waiting to continue his recording

Silently simmering in his chair lol like -___-

And then he still pauses a moment in consideration after saying calliope again.

and the stress + slicht pause on "calliope" when he starts reading again lmao

that's kind of a weird thing to say on this episode in particular, considering jon said that this statement was Real, and even had the calliope from the statement in the institute

Kwasi Chan that’s when you burn that entire place down!!! NOPE NOPE NOPE

RoseMultiverse they tried to destroy the spooky thing in mags 125 and 16 and that didn’t work

I was a lot happier before imagining that thanks :)

_ Mel _ the eye has marked you and you will never be able to stop imaging now

Insert that one scene from Madagascar where Marty sings the circus song

Me too! What a scare!

That happened to me too! You think they didi it on purpose?

There was a storm outside my window and thunder rumbled right after that was read

Your name-

@@noomre9105 oof

Prophetic

Kallie-OH-pee mori

​@@Pythosinhell kallie-owp mori

I like how most people who notice those details are homestucks

beacon and home or something right?

Home stuck was a long running, for lack of a better word, webcomic, that turned the internet upside down for a few years.

hehe homestucks unite

@@bonniecornelius3836 KARKALICIOUS

Ooo Interesting

Ghost spider just wanted revenge

I think it’s both. Some like invoking new fear in ppl and some prefer already fearful ppl.

Hrm.... There are other episodes where the person has a crippling fear of whatever the spook of the day is. But you're right, most of these people are more drawn to the fear in question instead of instantly repelled from it. But during event-of-the-day, they sure as hell Become scared, and that's when their fate seems to be sealed.

I wonder if they weren't afraid, would they have survive.

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@@TheNitpickChick That eyes... hunt my dreams

@@NerveUnderscore everytime a person from the future appears, I see those eyes.

@@lordtoademort8124 Oh, gods...

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Tax fraud

ARSON

It's obvious that he just [REDACTED]

I mean, it was pretty obvious he- [Martin opens the door]

Chewed with his mouth open.

God knows maybe you ARE the old man and this thing describes the future? 🌝✨

same however it wasn't the exact same spelling as my name and is about 3 letters off..

god everytime I heard the name "Toby" or "Tobias" I almost screamed

Hiya Nick

As an American, that always makes me laugh.

Ayyyy fellow agender person!!!

Me (half American) to my American friends as though I’m not also American. 😂

I studied classic literature and it always boggles my mind how the way we are taught to read and pronounce ancient greek and latin may be vastly incorrect after all.

@@chiarag2756 I mean yah, because we have no idea how the hell they pronounced words. We're guessing their language was kinda sing songy, like the Cyprian and Cretan dialect. But that's about it.

@@fays.p.5663 we have some guesses based off written jokes about how the language worked, for example some roman scholar questioned the need for a c when k made the same sound so we know they sounded the same

@@lordtoademort8124 also from poetry that we can tell from some obvious examples is meant to rhyme

Depends on what you count as "ancient greek" because even early Byzantine Empire is technically considered "Ancient Greece" (yes i am THAT kind of asshole when it comes to definitions). We know how ancient greeks from the Archaic and Classical Eras, hell maybe even the Myceneans (we only did mycenean state official and god names in uni), pronounced words. There used to be a distinction between makra, vrahea and dichrona vowels, at least until the Koini Elliniki removed it (like it did with every other ancient greek dialect, aka the Ionian,Attican,Dorian,Aeolian and Arcadocyprian) during the Hellenistic Era in order for the natives in the Diadochi Kingdoms to learn greek easier. (Also, we speak almost the same language today so we know exactly how they spoke after the Koini Elliniki at least because we still pronounce words like this to this day. Some writers did tend to copy other older writers though so expect to see idk fucking Homer's or Thoukydidis' language in a 5th century Byzantine text, we actually did that today in uni.)

Цирк другого. В принципе даже звучит

Nah, I think he was just really struggling to pronounce the word "другого" xd

How the fuck did I just remember his name was Nicolai

Боже, так необычно увидеть ещё русскоговорящих тут)

Not just that, he became a pretty rad grandpa from the sound of it. The ultimate class of human being.

Probably one of the only existing Avatars who managed to escape their respective fear

@@crowbird0540 i have actually no idea what the lot of you are on about, and don't want to

@@bleddynwolf8463 This is going to be very funny once we know what they know.

Oh just wait until you learn WHY he retired.

i like it. it changes up the scene a bit more.

Also cute character moments

that may very well be true honestly 👀 I have no idea though...

Yes. It insinuated that most statements record digitally and are thus false. Only the ones we hear on the tapes are true encounters.

weirdly enough i read the quotation just as the video said it lmao

Top 10 foreshadowings

Oh you poor naive soul

@@nateds7326 How is my personal opinion naive?

@@mimkyodar did you finish the series

@@nateds7326 Yes. And I don't see what that has to do with me liking Sasha as a character

He believes in the supernatural. He wouldn't work there if he didn't... he just thinks a lot of the cases are false.

I like the idea that Jon reads Hundreds of cases we never see, and that the only ones we hear are the real ones.

@@Whysoshort Oh, you'll love episode 100. I think it's titled "Guess You Had To Be There" a wonderful episode.

@@Whysoshort 90% sure that's canonically mentioned to be the case at some point? (Or rather, he reads through fake ones, but only the real one's resist any method of re-cataloguing/digitizing except via tape recorder.)

No, that's right. "Für die Stille" seemed like such an out-of-place phrase for that particular story, but with the context of this recording...

I thought the same

Yeah prob

For me it may had more to do with the silence of the dead, like so they don't speak their secrets or haunt the living something like that.

Another theory was Hava Nagila. But I think the best one is Kalinka.

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I’m a first time listener and honestly I’m so excited to go back after ive caught up and realise how much ive missed >:O theres so much mystery rn

Same here! So much foreshadowing, so many connections right at the start! Jonny Sims is a madman

You're making me jealous that I still have so much more to get through :(

What do u mean by audio cues?? Can u try to explain without spoiling🥺

@@alessiapalma8823 STATIC is the main thing, listen to the static.

But then again he did something bad she didn't want to mention and she sounded hurt about it so I don't think it's smth like a crime, but rather cheating or anything that affects HER

@@ot7biasedmashups We don't know if he did anything really. In the same way we don't know why she has a bad relationship with her parents. Maybe it's not them but her? To me, he's an innocent victim. He was there to support her through difficult times & had the horrible bad luck of dealing with a trunk full of dolls & a red organ.

Yea so far unless he did cheat or was already a hsitty partner I feel bad for him (still didn't deserve what happened)

Yeah I agree, cause this huge switch didn’t happen until after he heard the Calliope, and if he did cheat on her at the end that could of also been a side effect of his deteriorating mental state… And ended up cheating to find some kind of comfort for his ongoing insanity. Still not good of course and I could be wrong too. But either way it clearly points towards his actions and attitude afterwards being because of the calliope.

exactly what i was thinking !

@@cleliea8770 also was i the only one who originally thought they were called beacon and hope? i'd look at the comments of other videos and the transcripts and see that people spelt it breekon, and same with leitner, i thought it was spelt lightner XD

@@hexedsandwich8261 it's obviously spelled bacon and hope

He did it on purpose so definitely emo

i died

Given this is in 2004? He's def emo lol

In my mind is Kalinka. A Russian song that starts dragging the notes and then it speeds up with every strophe.

"The carnival" from homestuck is a spooky circusy tune that speeds up

I, a Homestuck, had no idea anyone pronounced it that way. Cal-eye- oh-pe just sounds the most name like to me

@@alphalonewolfgirl12 I mean...Just about every name in Homestuck has at least two pronunciations.

@@JonathanYeets oh no doubt, I've just never heard that pronunciation before.

omfg sameisisnso

Also the dolls

That would make a wonderful premise for a Stranger story, but almost wholesome.

thought i was gonna read a statement myself with the way this was worded

I have a new nightmare..

I like it.

RIGHT? ALSO WITH THE TEETH, 'CAUSE THEY SAID THAT JOSH DIDN' T HAVE A JAW WHEN THEY FOUND HIM. AND UN THE EPISODE THAT YOU MENTION THERE WAS ALSO A BAG FULL OF TEETH

OMG WAIT THATS ACTUALLY REALLY INTERESTING :O

I think he got affected by her playing, which made him moody, snappy and weird and led to their break up. She never specifies what it was that he did, which makes me think it was something...unusual maybe? Anyway, I think he's been wearing a target on his back ever since he heard her play, and that was messing with him.

your snake?

I love how u just cuddle next to ur snake while listening to these

Aww... What's their name ?

aww i love sneks

Happy late birthday

So... you're eight?

@@Makujah_ ..... "original statement given January 17th, 2005" 2005 - 4 = 2001 2020 - 2001 = ? ? ≠ 8

@@cawareyoudoin7379 Ah, I thought you meant "record" as in when the podcast was initially published (2016 for this episode, says on their site).

@@Makujah_ Understandable. Still, a little bit funny.

In 1940x Belarus was the part of the USSR, so yeah, that was very unpleasant thing to hear...hope they changed it in the future :"/

It was a soviet Russia

​@@moonmint_teano it was soviet republic Belarus. Separate from soviet russia

I feel it's more of people getting invested in the characters rather than the developing story.

…the furby organ?

Ooooh that's awesome! I love the furby organ!

Yeah, that checks out.

it nearly killed me but then "Minsk, Russia" finished me off

Ehi giorgio anche tu qui da tik tok? Sei troppo recente

@@alessiapalma8823 Ahah so di essere arrivato tardi alla festa. In realtà mi è capitato di vedere diverse animazioni di canzoni di Will Wood e mi sono incuriosito. Primo ascolto anche per te?

@@giorgiosoverchia3879 sì e non sto facendo assolutamente nulla nelle mie giornate per ascoltare questo podcast, sto letteralmente facendo binge listening ahahah dovrei limitare questa dipendenza

@@alessiapalma8823 come ti capisco, anche io ci passavo le ore. Ora mi sono imposto di non sentirne più di due al giorno, altrimenti agli esami gli racconto di jane prentice e dei suoi vermi hahah

@@giorgiosoverchia3879 ahahahhaha fai bene, è solo che all’inizio gli episodi erano a sè stanti, invece ora piú vai avanti e più tutto si collega e non vedi l’ora di scoprire cosa ci sta dietro

Hah, I was about to say the same thing! This is a rather nasty detail, but luckily this has been fixed on the fan wiki.

A carousel, you say?

"Minsk, Russia" And I paused to howl in pain

Oh,GOD, yes

You are not alone, I had to pause the video 2 times because the imagery in my head started to go wild

@@roxasxiii4454 the only thing that really creeped me out so far was the fucking bag of teeth

That's not exactly an idea lol. At the beggining of episode 1 Jon outright says that they're all statements

Yeah even I was thinking that throughout the video. Someone could've thrown those doll heads in the dumpster.

I think the dolls in ep 5 were supposed to be beat up, mass produced plastic baby doll heads and these ones were hand made, with wooden heads/articulated jaws

Good insight

Well, for now, I suppose you can think of it how you want.

It’s kinda up to your own interpretation. That’s what makes it fun! After listening to the finale, I’ve definitely formed a few theories. 😉

ooh that's a cool interpretation!

@@broblerone413 Thanks!

11:30 - Faster Faster

Don't worry, you'll hear it a lot over the next 3 seasons (ominous)

@@matthewalizzi9821 It's not enough! I've finished the show and now I just come here to listen to creepy caliope music 😭

I mean we don't really know how the ancient Greeks pronounced it, it could be on or the other pronunciation, it could be both as in different people pronounced it differently also, it could be a completely unknown one

😂 perfect

How did they know the calliope and dolls were even there?

She's fine. she'll be in season 5 and it'll be like nothing bad happened at all

New Orleans is where they pronounce it cali-ope its a housing project there. My husband and I argued about it he said so you think that the people who live there don't know how to pronounce it. I said no they dont

@@missmimitia228 Interesting. Thanks! I didn’t know that.

Yeah, Jonah was said to be the founder. Im pretty sure in the episode it was stated that the Institute was founded shorty after receiving the letter

The institute was canonically founded in 1818 and was originally located in Edinburgh.

Ну это типа времена СССР

I didn’t even know what it is

My life is a fucking mess But I don’t care honestly I thought it was either a horn based instrument or a food

Emily Barclay are those both Ls

Emily Barclay according to Wikipedia it’s either pronounce like the Greek muse which is ca lie app pee or it’s pronounced cal ee ohp

Jon is using the more common pronunciation I think