THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES #55 - Pest Control 

"I'm sad. End supplemental."

What I get from all these episodes is that if you meet something even slightly supernatural: just set it on fire

Aww, the ashes Martin gave Jon were real!

petition to send jon on a vacation

Me before this: "Cool, Jane Prentiss is dead, no more episodes about worms and bug infestations, I can breathe". This episode: "Hi". Me: "FU-"

Remember that Jane mentioned ants in her old... uhh... workplace :S even before she encountered the Hive, she was still "marked" or something...

"there must have been thousands" sir that is just a few handfuls of ants

Huh... Jane was so quick to disregard her landlord but he clearly knows more about what's going on than she did...

Hearing Jonathan Sims talking about getting a goodnight's sleep, and missing days like that really choked me up. 😢

This has to be the only fandom where giving someone cremated remains is romantic😂

I love how the landlord had nearly no hope that the Exterminator would work out, but called him anyway, just to maybe avoid setting himself on fire to solve the problem properly. That's as if Montauk had decided to call the plumber and electrician to fix his problems with the lightbulbs and the foul water, before he finally decided that serial killing was the answer.

The whole easily catching fire aspect sounds like Trevor's vampires.

I almost regret that the Jane Prentiss entity was incinerated, because she was such a great antagonist - a truly horrific abomination and a tragic figure at the same time.

hearing jon say that "oh yes" makes me think that maybe not!sasha learned that from him? if they NotThem people try to seem as normal as possible it could be that they'd mimic behaviours of whoever they were talking to

Pro tip: Nicknaming the characters, while it will help you remember them, is a terrible idea. Every time I hear Jon Amherst I'm like ' :O Jon Armrest?!' and I can't take statements with him in them seriously anymore.

my heart broke when jon said ''I even got a good noght's sleep. I miss those days.''

Considering we have so far met war (the piper) and death (cheating death) two out of four of the horsemen of the apocalypse I am starting to wonder if this hive faction might be related to pestilence and what this entire story is leading to is an apocalypse.

Jonathan's just falling apart. It's somewhat to be suspected considering his state before hand and what happened to provoke his current pattern of behaviour. (ie. Messing with police evidence and BREAKING INTO A DEAD STRANGER'S FLAT)

(spoilers for this episode) [Landlord lights himself-- and the rest of the building-- on fire] Hmm... yep! That sounds exactly like what I'd do knowing what was in the attic and that I might have been exposed to it. :)

Jon getting a good night sleep was the news I needed to hear this week. :(

*4 worms disliked this*

Worms: *dies* Ants: revenge!!!

K so Amhurst was flammable and the "wasp nest" looked spongy... According to Trevor's account, these are both features of vampires. If the hive is connected to Amhurst and presumably the mosquitos from Blood Bag, it's possible that vampires could also fit into this somewhere

I'm calling it now, the random appearance of the cobwebs in the tunnels came from one of these one person hives.

I feel bad for Jon he really needs someone to talk to other than these tape recorders

in this episode i learned that the worms r weak to fire, and then i remembered that someone gave Jon a lighter. Hmmmmm 🤔

Always great to hear about my wormy girl!

I think John Amherst was described (too large brown jacket) in another statement, aside from the nursing home, but I can't remember

lemme tell you it's fuckin WILD going through tma again after getting super into deep mechanisms lore during the season 5 hiatus

firstly, of course, i love this episode. but secondly, since i can't help myself, gUNPOWDER TIM??????

the whole time i was listening i was like “GUNPOWDER TIM 😍🥰🥺❤️🧡💛💚💙💜💕💞💓💗💖💘!!!!!”

The idea there are similar hives out there is terrifying. Poor Jon, he needs a vacation where it's safe.

It was nice to hear that Jon got a good night's sleep due to Halloween hoaxes, of all things.

I'm very glad that the ashes were real xD AND I noticed that Martin is appearing more and more in the investigations for the statements, I'm happy for that. Hope that Jon starts to sleep more, we need more Halloween weeks

As a Mechanisms fan, going back here realizing this is (Gunpowder) Tim is - certainly something /pos

I would become a flesh hive for Jon

WOO WOO love me some Jane Prentiss

Oh poor jon

Jon I love and support you

so for the landlord I’m either thinking vampire because of the way he caught fire, or someone related to the pair we saw at the nursing home.

Jon says they wouldn't have worked together, but the Prentiss and friends entomology show would've been a sensation, damnit.

A pest control professional of my acquaintance said not calling themselves exterminators had more to do with managing expectations. YOu're never going to permanently get rid of vermin--they always come back and they're always lurking--it's maintenance not a one time job.

18:17 Oh, that soft-soft "yes..." Never have I ever heard the word "throbbing" as frequently as in the last week following my discovery of this podcast. To be completely honest, I'm not sure I've ever heard it before at all.

I surely didn't need a more detailed description of the "wasps" nest😨😨 it's so disgusting, I love it.

Am i relistening to this just to hear tim ledsems's voice? Yes, yes i a

Oh jon

He seriously needs vacation

Lmao there was a pest control ad below this video.

i really love the bug-themed episodes, especially the fact that this one was about ants, because for the past three years i've been on-and-off surrounded by ants (i don't tend to leave anything out that would attract them, they're just there, even though i've moved several times). it was fun listening to this episode at 1:30 am as i see ants crawl on my computer screen and feel them crawling up my arms and legs

Based on all the interactions with Bugs and the Vampires, if you encounter a Monster? Set it on fire. Unless the monster is the fire. Then you're fucked.

Sounds like Pestilence... Horsemen insinuation?

GUNPOWDER TIM

GUNPOWDER TIM???

Did anybody else get an instant image of Jon’s face scrunching up in their head when the guy mentioned wasps nests

Ok spoilers for the next season or so In heinsight this guy got really lucky. He came face to face with extremely powerful avatars of the Corruption and the Desolation and lived to tell the tale.

See it’s all fun and games for Jordan until he goes with his best friend to fight the moon kaiser 300 years in the future ago

GUNPOWDER TIM!!

The more I listen the more I feel like Jon needs to be bolder in recruiting help. This guy went straight from "Agh, weird sick man grabbing me" to "guess I will light him on fire". They need people like this to take on the stuff they are combating. He should also definitely be trying to contact Gerard Kiay or however you spell his last name.

Okay. Only part of the way through the episode but I cant help but notice the description of the man who got mad at the pest control worker is described very similarly to the man who was “working” at the nursing home that was infected. Just me?

First time listener, so no spoilers please. Wondering if John Amherst is (kind of) a good guy. Burning the hive... maybe he was actually trying to contain or get rid of whatever was in the nursing home. 🤔

John Amherst (man woth ants) was taken to IVY Meadows nursing home, the same one from episode 36

gunpowder tim????????

Spoilers Of all the one off characters from earlier seasons, this boyo isn't one I'd have expected to show up come the final season. Fun times for viewers. Not even a bit for poor Jordan Kennedy.

My theory from this episode and what we know so far: The ants' case reminds me the mosquitoes' case. I mean, in both cases we had the creatures eating/drinking the sick fluid (remember how the mosquitoes would go crazy for the blood that was full of diseases?) So, that makes me thing that these two are related, and that person who was the owner of the ant house and was also in the nursing house is a follower or a part of an entity (like how Michael is part pf the spiral entity) that can make people and objects (the ant house seemed sick) sick. Does that mean that this man and prentiss were marked and were working for the same entity? Is the hive entity and the entity that brings sickness the same entity? I can't say yet, I need more data. The landlord, on the other hand, in prentiss's statement we thought he was just another victim of the supernatural, but what if he was also involved with the supernatural? He was disappointed when the witness came down prentiss's house like he knew already that the hive wasn't killed, even though even our witness didn't know that yet, he only heard the screaming. And then he used a tattoo on him to set the place on fire, making sure the hive would for sure be destroyed. That means that a) he wanted that hive destroyed that day immediately (remember how the pest control guy was the one given the job 'cause he could go right away?) and b) I don't believe he was a member of the fireless flame cult 'cause members of that cult can make people and objects burn by just chanting, they don't need a tattoo to use, and also the fire that the members of that cult bring doesn't harm them (from what we know so far at least), while the landlord of prentiss was found dead. So it's more like he sacrifised himself in order to destroy the hive right away before it could do anything else (like, I don't know, luring someone else again?). So either he was a supernatural fighter, one of the good guys, or he was a pawn of another entity that was against the hive entity. Now, of course, there's also always the chance of him being brought back from the dead from an entity to be used by it too, like with other cases of people being supposedly dead but being seen alive and kicking after their "deaths".

at 5:48 and wow this episode is going to be fun pretty sure i have a phobia of ants so this description? not fun

love that i found out about the mechanisms because now i get to hear my blorbo gunpowder tim talk for an extended period of time

Picking up snacks was... quite the mistake

How does that amount of any happen to a house? Hmmmm....... Someone pours sugar on every single surface. OR....????? Was it the meat apartment/ or another meat house!???????

*Sees description* And here I thought this was going to be about rats. Guess I'll just keep waiting in suspense.

Christ I fucking hate the corruption.

I'm glad Jon got a good night's rest, because oof.. he really needed it.

I put this on while i was in bed and fell asleep and ended up going all the way to 61, i wonder if when i listen to these while awake now ill remember bits and pieces

Huh, a nice coincidence. I'm listening to this right before Halloween, and Jon brings up it being Halloween week... it is just a coincidence... right?

Listening at work is great, but not commenting my ideas and theories each episode is killing me. Anyways, love the recurrence of so many early episode characters this season. Starting to get an idea for possible.....beings... at the top of the factions that are supposedly at war. I like Noun names so here are my theorized ones so far while I'm on break: -The Vast seems given by now -The Deep or the Trapped perhaps -The Lightless Flame seems too simple, perhaps The Scorched, The Brilliant, or Asag is actually the being for the fire -The Watcher for the archives and several spots where being watched was the theme -The Isolated/Lonely -The Web or The Fractal/Spiral perhaps, I'm not sure if this is one or two factions yet -The Other for all the uncanny valley and body snatcher types -The Visceral or the Flesh maybe, or Meat -The Shadow or The Darkness -The Hive or The Infected -Death itself maybe This is short of the 14 I was considering ten or twelve episodes back, but well see by the end of work if I don't have more ideas Man. Screw being a human being in this world, shit sucks. The man with the coffin seems the only real winner in this universe so far

listening to this again now that i work in pest control in certainly something

I got a fucking bed bug removal ad while searching this episode’s wiki. fml

"Laura Star" reminds me of a kids's show in my country of which the title translates to "Laura's star", haha

I'm inthrawled in this series I can't begin to explain how much I enjoy it thanks so much for these amazing tales much appreciated

As it seems with way more that I'd wish cases, I have some experience with ants and wasps infestation of my own. Both of them happened when I was staying at the summer camp 16 years ago. I think, I've already wrote about the wasps' one in the comments of Nursing Home case, but before our group was moved to the building with wasps' nest in the toilet, we were situated in another, much farther from the centre of the camp building. The were two floors - first one for girls and second one for boys. At our second day we noticed a cabinet (or nightstand, I'm not sure of the correct name). Me and two other girls decided to look inside and saw, what we later deduced, a stack of towels that were almost completely cowered with ants. We closed the cabinet and haven't opened it ever since. Didn't stop ants from going in *our* rooms, but at least it was just a couple of them per day, instead of the whole swarm that was there.

There goes my hero. Kill all of that shit with fire. (I know it technically wasn't him on the second story but still)

Anyone else get a Pest Control advertisement on this video? It's the eye 👁️

fell asleep in the middle but woke up agian next episode, I'm back!

aughh Jon KNOWS he's probably being paranoid and seeing danger where it doesn't exist but if he can't be 100% certain about something he assumes the worst,, ocd gang how are you

horror: Hundreds, thousands of ants and Jordan left to face them alone my brain, trying to cope: _a n t m a n_ Edit: This morning there was an ant on my sink. And trying to get through the door when my cat caught it. Oh no

Why is this the episode that came on while I’m trying to eat

Why are so many people yelling about a GUNPOWDER TIM???

TIM

TLDR; Dang! Gonna need the *big* boot.

there’s a wasp nest in my attic

Wasn't there also that old lady talking about the wasp nest in the attic? Was this her house?

well this definitely isnt helping with my crippling fear of ants

our baby needs help :(

Are the vampires and the insect hiveminds connected? First time listening.

Was his first case of the ants the meat apartment from that one episode??

why are the weird guys always wearing brown suits

I got an ad for pest control under this video

The ant situation makes me think that he met the ant version of the cockroach alien from MIB

wait why do i know the name "arthur nolan"

I always forget that the Corruption is even an Entity: and I especially forget it has the same result as all of the other Entities. I really need to pay more attention in my relistens lol

mmm i do Not like this one bit !