THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES #38 - Lost and Found 

It kinda makes me sad that this guy's whole story was about things being forgotten and lost, only for his case to be forgotten in the sudden insect attack.

So when this guy loses stuff it's the demon vase's fault, but when I do I'm forgetful and negligent

I love that despite the fact he was running for his life, Jon still took the time to end the recording. That's dedication right there.

homophobic vase is such a classic honestly

Honestly when they started describing hands reaching out of the vase I thought it was gonna be that they had a kid and that he forgot, like everyone else forgot

The thing with the marriage of the guy in this story was so sad

You'd think Jon would be a bit more careful about killing spiders. Especially after what happened to the guy with arachnophobia.

The urgency of run but the ability to hit the "stop" button on the recording device is peak Jon.

God I love the homophobic vase memes. Has nothing to do with the plot, really, but we all remember it. And Joshua Gillespie.

i knew it was coming but that whispered little "sasha, run" made my stomach drop

18:28 Jon’s “Sasha run. *RUN* “ is actually the scariest part of the episode

"Do you see anything?" "No, I...don't think so, I..." My _immediate_ first thought was, "Jonathan, do _not_ put your hand in there!"

Mikhail selesa was the buyer noreiga met alone with in the episode called "piecemeal" before he was killed

That “RUN” at the end was fairly alarming, but the panicked tone felt genuine!! Good job to Jonathan for that!! I love this series so much : )))

love this episode. homophobic old vase, why not? went to sleep listening to this one (since after over 170 episodes this is now, unfortunately, my comfort media) and the "RUN" woke me up lmao

You shouldnt've killed the spider Jon. Maybe if you didn't kill spiders, you wouldn't have such an infestation, hmm?

This is kind of what it's like to have memory problems. Sometimes you really do feel like you're losing your mind.

OHMYGODS! "Sasha, run. ...RUN!" MY HEART DROPPED!!!!

Hmmm, the third mention of fractals here....

My stomach dropped when the spider was mentioned and then the plaster being dented, what an ending one of the most concerning for sure so far

‘Compared to some of the ghost stories you hear in this place, I'm sure a pair of misplaced shoes must seem;’ My AirPods in a much louder robotic tone: *battery low* I jumped and fell out of my chair-

I love the ongoing story, but i'm always a little bummed when Jon gets cut off at the end, since I know he loves to leave the juiciest details for last.

Aw, and I was enjoying the fact that I got to hear Jonathan's kinda laugh for the first time.

This one makes me especially terrified, as a person who keeps forgetting things and sometimes gets lost in time

Man, The Spiral is always a little too real with all the gaslighting you end up going through. Feels like the everyday bad relationship

That soft 'sasha, run' had me super spooked that I had to halt what I was doing out of worry.

new listener here so no spoilers pls but I was 100% sure that the reason Laura Popham had so many "errors" in her statement in Lost Johns' Cave wasn't just because of trauma & guilt but smth else was involved as well and here we have it: i think this ep and ep15 are the only ones so far to describe a thin pale hand. probably that same creature (or same *kind* of creature) stole laura's permit to explore the cave (since there was no record of a permit given to her), stole the map (hence her sister's confusion when she says she followed the map exactly) and gave her the candles. it most likely took her sister as well, the same way it took the husband here. maybe even gave her the camera, though that's a little less likely since it would've kinda exposed the creature? either the map or the permit were somehow cursed and stole stuff then disappeared as well, or Laura had an object, like the vase, that i don't remember or wasn't mentioned in the episode. just a theory ig but i've been dying to understand what happened in that episode since I was so confused with it.

the watching the vase thing reminds me a lot of graham's table, especially because his notebook said "keep watching"

I swear this series is going to give me a heart attack someday

Oh the SECOND he started talking about the pen, ALL my ADHD brain signals were going the FUCK off, this one's gonna me fucking *terrifying.*

17:32 "I see you"

I remember thinking not 3 episodes ago about people who say "If you have a fear, then there's a Magnus Archives episode for you" or something like that. And I thought that I didn't have any real fears outside of complex trauma-related ones. But then... this episode. The moment I read the premise in the description I knew this was mine. Because I misplace things so often. Sometimes I find them again, sometimes I don't, but it's often that when I need things they aren't where I remember leaving them or I don't remember where I put them at all. There are times where I have these big spikes of anxiety whenever I reach for my phone or bus pass or whatever other important item, thinking it will have vanished because I'm so forgetful and disorganized. And God, never in a million years would it have occured to me that this is a fear that could be spun into a nightmarish manifestation of my personal hell packaged neatly a 15 minute story, tied up with a bow. Losing my things, living with a fear that people around me are gaslighting me, (Trauma induced fears are fun,) then losing my spouse, and everyone swearing none of these things or people ever existed? Both personally heart-wrenching and terror-inducing. It's gonna take me a little while to fall asleep tonight. On a semi-related note I mentioned how this neat package of a story is tied up with a bow. Can we talk about that bow for a second? The ending?? The overarching mystery??? Jon's shout made me jump so hard and due to the fact I had the podcast pulled up on RU-vid on the TV it woke up my aunt in the next room, who promptly told me to go to sleep. I'm so fucking excited and scared to see where this goes next aaaaaaaahhhhh

A part of me gets the impression that that spider deliberately drew Jon's attention to that wall, to warn him about the imminent danger.

Goddamn, the WAY he said that!!! The whispered, fearful "Sasha, run", the transition to the panicked "RUN", so so so very good, I'm in AWE

let me just say, having my earphones all the way up since I was vacuuming while listening but stopped during that last bit.. that "RUN" really got me

The mind-screw ones are probably tied with the buried/suffocated themed stories for most horrifying to me. So, this one was fun.

I was gonna make a joke.... forget about it

I had a pot like this once. It allowed me to draw two cards from my deck.

He lost his husband :’0

I love the little chuckle that Jonathan gives after the shelf collapses and Sasha walks in. He's always so playful with her

"Sasha run...RUN!....I'll just be a moment, have to stop the recorder. Wouldnt be proper to leave it."

“Sorry about your pen” What…? So the pen that they gave him, the one he was writing with, disappeared while he was using it? Then how did he write that last sentence?

The Magnus Institute feels like what would happen if the Foundation had only a single site and a fraction of the budget.

Excuse me as I sit here staring at my phone with a horrified look

that ending scared me lol

This is actually the plot of a horror story I read a while back; though the lady in that tale was going increasingly insane because sometimes when she said something like "you should wash your mouth out with soap" the person she said it to would wind up dead the next morning in a way related to what she had said. At one point she got in a fight with her wife and said "I wish you would just disappear". think you can figure out what happened next...

That ending.

That "run" at the end, at full volume, scared the crap out of me man. But I love it It kind of sucks that only just now I'm learning about the Magnus Archives, and what a gem it is. But it's beautiful, really. The voice acting, the story, the carefully placed details and references; all of this is truly a masterpiece. Props to you Rusty Quill. Also, another thing, I've been keeping up with the story but I cannot for the life of me remember who Gerard is and why he's important? Was he the fellow from the episode with the Vampire, the vampire hunter?

God this is the first one that made me genuinely terrified

O.O Soooo... either the Archive unwittingly ended up connected to that same nexus of darkness that Jurgen Leitner wanted a whole dug to... Or the worms managed to dig their way in... *shudder* seriously, what the hell did Gertrude piss off, that it's STILL gunning for them?

My inner conscious: _its. Not. Going anywhere. It is almost three a-fucking-m. The podcast will still exist tomorrow. Go. To. Bed._ Also, me: b-but its getting good... Concious: go to bed or your dreams will be many-legged _(and then I have to consider if its worth it or not.)_

That vase really said steal ya mans

Ohhh, so this was the homophobic vase you guys on tumblr were talking about Iconic episode

Any episode with Selesa and a cursed object is an amazing one. Not that I don’t love a good Leitner or a monster or a cursed location, but there’s something about these evil things that captures my imagination. As well as a dude who sells them! It’s like when you deep dive Control lore and find out there’s a black market trade for altered materials.

I'm sorry only one person laughed!? I laughed at the joke! "That joke's so old only an antique dealer would be able to sell it"

I'm about 2:10 into this episode, desperately searching for my Energizer AAA batteries which have vanished without a trace. Also, I found in its place a bag of generic pepperoni snack sticks that I haven't seen in months. What is happening, you guys???

After learning that squirming sounds are pasta, I can't stop imaging angry spaghetti instead of worms...

Omg they really arent lying when they say tmi has an episode for every fear, I hate losing things, whenever I cant find something I get very iritated and I start looking for it like crazy, fearing I will never find it. Crazy they have an episode about something like this

One thing I just picked up on is how Salesa forgot having the vase, which means at some point this guy is going to forget about his husband alltogether.

I’m here on my first run-through I was literally just thinking about how Sasha is my favourite character and that I want to draw here AND THEN JON GOES “Sasha run, RUN!” LIKE ISTFG IF SMTH HAPPENS TO HER I WILL CRY

omg I swear John's screams are the scariest thing in this podcast

"...things I don't even remember losing..." CHILLS

WTF IS GOING ON?! Hearing Jon shout "RUN" was very disconcerting and seeing as we can't see what is happening... I'm getting a little worried...

Ok ok ok so when it hit the quiet "sasha run" my stomach dropped, and then when it hit the "RUN!!!" My heart just exploded. I actually had to put my headphones down and run to the kitchen to splash some water on my face because I started hyperventilating. But it's sad because when I came back to listen to it again it had lost the power. Welp, guess I'll have to keep listening on! What a shame.

Bro i felt chills when Jon said "RUN!" i usually see this guy as the type to never yell.

Rewatching Tma is remembering johns loud "RUN!" At the end of this ep and trying to time when to turn down your volume that way it doesn't startle you

Nobody:- The Magnus archive (at the end of this episode):- JUMPSCARE!!!!

This one is so conceptually horrifying and sad.

Holy... that "RUN" gave me chills. Bad chills

and oh no :( my favorite person who posted the transcripts is gone... last episode too... where art thou?? 😭

MMMMMM THAT "Sasha run. RUN" at the end got me sIMPING I jumped at the yelling holy shit that was good acting!!!

What! No! No! You can’t end like that! You have given me chills. Why did you end the recording that could have been the proof you needed to validate your experience!

Yeahhh I have something similar happen to me. I call it the Elizabeth Dimension (Elizabeth is my first name.) It seems I have this uncanny ability to lose things as soon as I put them down, like they’ve been swallowed by a void. I’m mostly joking when I gripe to myself “Ah, lost to the Elizabeth Dimension.” Mostly joking.

And it is to this that we do owe a thank you to The Web

“Military tunic” 5:27 😳 did he sell this to the first guy in pageturner?!

"It's only ever gotten a laugh once" Hey, I laughed so now it's twice

Oh, the Salacia guy is the one the victim was meeting at the docks in Piecemeal!

ok WHAT there is so much to unpack here -- for me the vase reminds me of the fractals that the schizophrenic father was obsessed with (and was it mentioned more times? i dont remember). wtf happened at the end. is this to do with that cursed table?? what is ha p p e n i n g

Oh my god Jon yelling RUN at the end scared the Dickens out of me. I jumped so bad my coworkers are giving me weird looks

It makes me so uncomfortable hearing Jonathan screaming run at the end, his calm is completely gone

Didn't the protagonist of Pageturner buy a WW1 tunic to use as a jacket in an antique store?

I have severe memory loss issues so the ones concerning forgetting things or being forgotten or not knowing who you are really get to me

WORMWIFE WORMWIFE WORMWIFE WORMWIFE WORMWIFE

The "Run!" fucking TERRIFIED me.

Holy moly , when he screamed “RUN !!!!!!” at the end I flinched . The acting was so flipping good !

With each episode I dread the sound of the worms more.

5:53 this is a fractal, the type of pattern the guy in burned out was studying before dying

The phone was right next to my ear at the end there. RIP my eardrum. 😂

So is the vase inside the vase now? Fears are weird

That run at the end scared me so good

First time listener with vague knowledge of the fandom and references rhere in, I i listened ALL way through before i realized this is the homophobic vase 😂

15:14 Jon/Andre: fingers coming out of the pot. Me: ooh~ a wild vase girl appeared Andre used flee It seemed effective, but not for long.

does anyone know what other statement the antiques dealer was mentioned in?

Holy cow, the run at the end of this made my heart stop

I hope they're all ok. The run at the end really startled me. It was so well done. Sounded so genuine, so much panic. I love it.

The end gave me major chills I feel like I need to be sick

THE WAY FREEZE WHEN HE SAID: "Sasha run. RUN!" OH MY GODDDD. THE FEAR HE HAD ON HIS VOICE.

I AN LISTENING TO THIS AT 3AM WHYWHYWHYWHY WHY AM I LIKE THIS

❤️ I got goosebumps at the end! Made my girl stand on end! “Sasha run, RUN!” I shivered.

Damn. The ones themed around madness and memory are especially effective for me