THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES #69 - Thought for the Day 

anabelle cain pulling the strings to get her first statement at #69. life has its small pleasures

Poor Jon’s “I know.” wounded me. You can tell It hurt him much more coming from Martin than anyone else.

Jon: spooky spider psychology horror movie experiment Me: he he 69

I was pleasantly surprised to see a large amount of comments, then i realized. Nice.

Martin is so sweet, I wish he wasn't bullied by his coworkers so often :( Also: nice

I like the detail where John says "spiders..." and then takes a deep breath as if bracing himself to continue. It's the little details like this that make it so believable. And while John doesnt realize it, the way he says "I know I shouldn't but I'm going to anyway" is mirrored in lots of other testimonies he's read. This fascination effect that the supernatural has on people is a major theme in the Magnus Archives.

-looks at comments -looks back at title oh come on

not enough money for chicken nuggets...

Comments on the episode number aside, the exhaustion when Jon was stating the case broke me

Martin has to be one of my favorite characters. If only because he looks after his coworkers and always seems to have people's best interests at heart. Idk he's just so Nice

Oh neat, Martin's in this episode! Nice.

me knowing this episode is coming up: god i hope there's at least one comment that just says "nice" me looking at the disproportionate number of comments: nice

the conversation at the start with Martin and Jon just, OW you didn'y have to hurt me RQ yet you did with that "he's not wrong you know" and the soft quiet "I know" you just had to get me with thaat aaaaa also nice.

I’ve been binging this series and have rapidly become obsessed. The writing is chilling and incredible, the voice acting is fucking *unreal* with how good it is, and the overarching story is so intriguing! It’s not like some series that just keep adding on nonsense with no thought. It’s so obvious that the people behind TMA put a lot of time, effort, blood, sweat, and tears into making cohesive, internally consistent, and fantastic story. Also, nice.

"I joked about how her 'dark experiments' were summoning an army of spiders." "I had no idea." 👀

i like how the writers of this podcast have a HUGE thing for insects and arachnids

I dunno if it's actually connected but when he said "I don't know how tall she had been before but now she loomed over me by almost a full foot" my mind immediately went back to the way Not!Sasha looked taller to Jon for a moment in the tunnels... I mean she also said the Weird Fractal TableTM looked like webs to her, and the tunnels had lots of cobwebs too I think..... This was a nice one Yeah. Nice.

the fact that the video itself is tagged "nice" is so fucking funny to me for no reason

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I absolutely love how when Martin leaves and Jon begins the statement, he sounds so dejected and guilty, like he just had a fight with his husband and is immediately regretting it, causing him to have to restart the intro. That's pretty Nice.

I have seen the word "nice" so many times it doesn't look like a word anymore nice.

didn't even notice what episode i was on. nice.

Wasn't Tom the name of the driver in Daisy´s statement? Is NotSasha hanging out with creepy delivery men?

IDK why I imagine Jon eating boxed Chinese food with chopsticks gesturing why he isn't talking much with Tim even though Martin brings him some tea as well. Nice.

“Oh, anything nice?” they knew what they were doing when writing this 😂 *nice*

As a psych student interested in going into research, particularly research on the psychological perspectives of death, fear, dreams, and unexplained phenomena, this episode is RIGHT up my alley! And I'm very glad for the perfect episode number. nice

I hope Jon gets himself some help :(

So last night I dreamed that I was listening to the podcast while simultaneously experiencing the events described in the statement. There, I was trying to sleep but a giant immaterial hand held my whole body and was squeezing me painfully. I also felt something pressing into my legs like a giant finger. I woke up with a huge back cramp caused by crocheting all day, and my cats we curled up to my legs. So thanks for priming my brain into making a dumb cramp become a horror story. Also, nice.

I love the directing in this season. The amount of information you're able to convey through direction and line delivery alone is amazing. This has quickly become my favorite audiodrama!

Adding my comment for it to be a proper number Nice. Also Martin is such a good boy and I love him very much ;-;

commenting before listening just to say: ep #69 and almost 4200 views nice

Jon starting the statement and then stopping to push his emotions aside and get in character?? nice

i love how Jon can't bring himself to ask anyone for help. I think he feels guilty after his talk with Tim and probably he just doesn't't want anybody else to get hurt. I hope my baby will be able to share his burden with other people in the future. supplemental: Martin is such a sweetheart, love them.

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Nice . also I don't usually comment but I've seen a trend with the insect (and arachnid) people along with the fiery (lightless flame) people. It almost seems as though they may be on opposing sides from what happened in ep. #67.

The increasing number of spiders in my room sine the start of the podcast: Me: *chuckles* im in danger

omg the way he starts the statement and then consciously shifts to his statement voice @.@ also it's interesting that the spiders seem to be targeting arachnophobes.

Gods, i’ve got arachnophobia myself so the recurring spiders are NOT fun to me

Wgqgavavahqbaba Jon sounds so sad when he said "statement of-" for the first time I think I just died a little- - Nice

Martin is doing his best to try and help Jonathan and Jon's just pushing him away!

Alright who gave you the right to murder me with just the 1st minute of the episode??? I'm so sad for them... Edit : Nice

Hearing Jon say 69 and realizing Martin is in this episode made me giggle an inappropriate amount

As a psychology student from Brazil, this episode was really interesting and I'll probably think about it for a long time in my classes. Also... Nice.

Finally. This episode kept distracting me all day, because every time my gaze fell upon it in the playlist, my brain inevitably went "nice". Also, nice.

god im so glad everyone here had the same idea... it's almost... Nice

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it didn’t sound like a proper experiment? shouldn’t there have been multiple people projected on? also, there should be a control group to see how people react to no projection. l remember them mentioning control during the episode but l couldn’t hear parts due to people talking near me. anyways, annabel reacting differently than fear wouldn’t be the only thing that would get in the way of publishing satisfactory results.

At first I thought “oh wow something important must have happened” then I saw the episode number Nice

69 is now definitely a more cursed number than 13... It's a spell. The sheer numbers of memers it summoned, like hundreds of demons from hell, all reciting the same chant in unison

Jon's really hitting that degree of depresso espresso that I typically sip on myself, poor boi Also, nice.

first time watcher: It seems like whatever the spiders are they specifically target large amounts of Arachnophobia. The Arachnophobia in episode 16 was one person with especially intense arachnophobia and accidently summoned them, here we see a large number of Arachnophobes summoning the spiders. Jon has mild Arachnophobia, and I worry it'll get worse.

Jon sounds so defeated :( Also Nice

GUYS TOM! the boyfriend of not!sasha is tom, same as the breekon and hope guy from the ep "hard shoulder" OMG Also, both Daisy and Jon describe their Tom as generic, because Daisy can't remember his face, and Jon says he looks like a stock photo. :D

the way jon's voice shifted from exhausted defeat to his normat statement-reading voice shocked me. he really needs a break also, nice

the difference between Jon's tired, worn out voice when starting the recording, and him actually reading this statement was delightfully jarring.

Wish more people listen to this, also Nice.

Thanka tma, I think you might've just worsened my fear of spiders with this episode. Goes to show how incredibly well written this is. Also, how could I ever forget, nice.

It's 12:05 AM. Prime time to listen to this content. Also... Nice.

Wait. Tom. The tom with the coffin? That's why it was so familar!!

I did not realize why everyone was saying “nice”. I am a fool. ...nice.

Just gotta say Nice

The way Jon tries to start at 2:08 then has to kinda shake himself out of his funk and put on his Archivist Voice... :( He's so sad

My theory from this episode and what we know so far: I feel like the name Annabelle Cane is somewhat familiar with me, like it was referred to, either full or partially, in another episode. Or it could be just because Annabelle reminds you of the horror movie in our world, so who knows. I don't have the patience to go through 68 transcripts to search for the name.. :3 So, another episode for the spiders entity. From what we heard, I believe that the professor who started this experiment wasn't aware that they were working for a supernatural entity, and since the spider entity has trained very good the skill of thought manipulation, it's more possible that the professor was a pawn of the entity, made to believe that this experiment was her idea while, in reality, she was helping on "turning" a human girl, Annabelle, into a part of that spider entity, like Michael is part of the spiral entity or Amherst (is that written right?) of the disease entity or Prentiss of the hive entity. And Annabelle is alot like Prentiss. She, too, has been "lured" by the spiders' song as Prentiss said she was by the hive's, and she too had slowly fallen into becoming a part of the spider entity. I don't know why the students who were part of the experiment were doing that circle thing or acting the way they were, though I think it was maybe a ritual, orchestrated by the spider entity, to (obviously) do something that would be (again, obviously) not very good. The witness interrupted the ritual, so Annabelle, who was now a part of the entity thus it was more like the entity using her body as a host to be in this world, tried to make him kill himself in order for him to not make any further problems for the ritual. I don't know how Mark was able to break free from the spider's manipulation, so I presume it was the same way that witness on another episode was able to break free before he ate that apple filled with spiders; with the "help" of another supernatural entity. And I'm saying "help", because whoever or whatever helped Mark wasn't from their own good will but because their plans were for them to interrupt the spiders' ritual, just like Agnes interrupted the spiders' rituals again and again in the Hilltop house all those years ago. And since spiders are at war with the lightless flame entity, there's a good chance that one of them was the one who helped Mark. All of the participants of the experiment, one by one, started vanishing. That is most likely because they were so deep in the trap/web of the spider entity that, even after some time, the spider still had a hold on them. So, like the kids in the Hilltop house, sooner or later they would go back to the spiders or Annabelle and the spider entity would do to them what it does to all its victims. Mark I believe is not yet safe. I think the spider is trying to get him again, what he says to Martin resembles a bit what Annabelle said she was experiencing and dreaming before she was owned by the spider entity. So either Mark will become like Annabelle, if left on his own, or he'll become like the dead victims of the spiders. But, when Martin mentioned that what Mark described the spiders is biologically non-possible, does that mean that the not-people are indeed a manifestation of the spider entity? I mean, last episode John says about how there are more and more spider webs in the tunnels and Not!Sasha appearing for a second alot more taller than she actually is, and in this episode we also have the mention of Annabelle being alot taller than she likely was normally, and I remember in an episode, in my comment I wrote the possibility of the not-people and the spiders being part of the same entity, so does this episode make it more likely? Well, for me personally, it does raises the chances of that being true. As for John, as I stated in the previous episode, I think he knows, or at least he feels it. When he said about "the worst that can happen if he tells them", I think that's what he's scared of; of one of them (or more) being indeed something supernatural and making a move against him after he tells them. Also, the urge of John to learn, to find out, even though he himself says how dangerous it is and how he doesn't want to go there 'cause he's scared and that he should leave the tunnels alone reminds me of all the times the witnesses said about "knowing they shouldn't do it, but they still did". Something supernatural is pushing John to the tunnels.

I love spiders and to be fair, their scuttling is what I love the most about them. I gotta say though, I understand why people fear them.

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[halfway through] oh my god she's being possessed by a spider

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When Jon said "more spiders..." I wonder if he organized the statements by similarities

Not Jon’s voice getting quite after fighting with Martin, the way he read the beginning of the statement then back tracked broke me :’0(

this sotry for some reason is the one that has disturbed me the most.... the idea of somebody sweet being turnedinto such a horrific creature so slowly disturbs me so much.. shows that nobody is safe i suppose also nice

Episode 69. Nice. It's all about Spiders. NOT NICE!

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I genuinely love martin - he's one of my favourites as he's just so nice

First time viewer here, no spoilers please! One thing i've noticed is that a lot of the things related to spiders have a hypnotic effect - the spiderweb table traps people tracing its patterns - annabel cain controlled a whole bunch of people - that guy in the basement who nearly died but was saved by agnes's kiss (i forgot what episode) also, nice

The first half of this statement scared me more than the second, because i absolutely don't mind spiders and mind control. But psychological experiments having weird effects... oh boy. Also i really like this Darren Harlow. The things he says at the beginning are really interesting. "Even when you're really looking for horror, it's impossible to actually believe it." "We create the world, in a lot of ways. I suppose it shouldn't be surprising that, when we're not being careful, we can change it." Also "i can't not know"... if you know you know

This is the most comments I've seen on an episode.

When that low drone gets going you know things are about to get spooky. Also, I noticed a spider on my wall while listening to this episode.

This ep: Horrible psychology experiment with horrifying spider lady Everyone in the comments: *n i c e*

Very nice episode

Oh great, now we've got a tall spider woman and her cult to consider whenever something goes bump in the night.

Jon: I can't not know... Me: 👀 Also nice

Honeslty, choosing to induce fear sounds about right. As someone who did a study on the relationship between anxiety and sexual arousal, I can tell you it is waaayyy easier to make someone anxious than to make them feel anything else

I love the voice acting in this show SO DAMN MUCH.

Nice. ',:3

the begining statment begins was so sad, poor jon

I've been trying to binge-listen while sick in bed, but Jon's voice is just so calming that I keep falling asleep 😩😩

Im not a native and i had to search why everyone was commenting nice nice.

I've been binging this for about 2 weeks and this is my first time commenting... Nice

Let Martin love you!

nice doesn't feel like a word anymore

Might be a stretch but I really want 420 comments on this video so Nice

Spoiler. The "I can't NOT know..." at the end was some good foreshadowing.

Man, I love Martin. Bro became one of my favorite characters. Second is Jon, third is Tim. Runner up is definitely Sasha (No, NOT Not!Sasha,) and Basira

It's so Nice to hear Martin in this episode

New listener But i still have to say it Nice

noticed factions so far: micheal (whatever he is), spiders, fire, death, things eating people that really shouldn't be eating people (the sky, shadows, humans), endlessness (endless sky, endless hallways, endless space, endless sea) plus companies or people that seem to be tied together: the antique seller (micheal solaso), the lukas family, a town in northern norway, gerard keay, micheal crew, jared hopworth, simon fairchild, agnes fielding (dead), and now annabell kane. please feel free to add! i'll edit them in :)))

It was clear that the spiders had some level of mind control but I just now realised its because of their silk, their strings! Spiders can puppet people because of the strings! I am pretty sure that was literally how the kid saved by a kiss described brushing teeth in recluse but I'm a bit dense

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I am glad that I listened to this episode now after having to get rid of a bigger spider yesterday rather than before