THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES #19 - Confession (Part 1 of 2)

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  • MAG019 - Case #0113005 - Edwin Burroughs
    Statement regarding their claimed ‘demonic possession’.
    The Magnus Archives tells the tale of a Catholic priest in Oxford whose role as an exorcist appears to have to lead them down a troubling path to imprisonment. [Statement continues in MAG020 - Desecrated Host: • THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES #2... ]
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  • @debbiebishop86
    @debbiebishop86 4 года назад +2888

    Oh, you had me at "we'll get to the cannibalism, of course"

    • @debbiebishop86
      @debbiebishop86 4 года назад +91

      A DEMON PRIEST????? IS IT CHRISTMAS AGAIN ALREADY?

    • @fluffsnake
      @fluffsnake 3 года назад +15

      saving the best for last eh

    • @fiddlesticksmeow6269
      @fiddlesticksmeow6269 3 года назад +4

      @Lepitorus Very nearly! Give it 25 days or so.

    • @boogyman51
      @boogyman51 3 года назад +15

      Bruh when he said that I was like "The what???"

    • @St0nek
      @St0nek 2 года назад +11

      I was watching this one before school and had to wait till it ended, because they did not get to the cannibalism in this one

  • @tomdaly7088
    @tomdaly7088 3 года назад +1551

    Everybody gangsta till a character/theme reoccurs

  • @cawareyoudoin7379
    @cawareyoudoin7379 4 года назад +3139

    "When I die of old age" I haven't listened further, but just from the nature of his work and this statement (however ironic it may be), Jon, despite his sceptic assholery, is in fact an optimist.

    • @nateds7326
      @nateds7326 2 года назад +112

      This is hilarious, for multiple reasons

    • @cawareyoudoin7379
      @cawareyoudoin7379 2 года назад +30

      @@nateds7326 Hah, I guess it is.

    • @rhyelm
      @rhyelm Год назад +13

      This comment shouldn’t have been how I know Jon dies.

    • @cawareyoudoin7379
      @cawareyoudoin7379 Год назад +19

      @@rhyelm What?
      I mean... Everybody dies eventually? Mostly?

    • @St0nek
      @St0nek Год назад +2

      Oh Hey caw.

  • @jayschertzberg6680
    @jayschertzberg6680 4 года назад +1233

    A TREE WAS UPROOTED IN THE BACK GARDEN, I REPEAT, A TREE WAS UPROOTED IN THE BACK GARDEN

    • @maydayduckie1264
      @maydayduckie1264 3 года назад +128

      WASN’T THAT IN ANOTHER EPISODE
      WHERE THERE WAS A BOX UNDER THE TREE
      OH MY GOD

    • @alilweeb7684
      @alilweeb7684 3 года назад +36

      @@maydayduckie1264 OH SHIT

    • @cosmicmoth656
      @cosmicmoth656 3 года назад +44

      BY A BUILDER AS WELL AHABSHSHJSNDJS

    • @yawaluke3790
      @yawaluke3790 3 года назад +56

      @@cosmicmoth656 And the builder went to an exorcist!

    • @theless-than-goodhunter7019
      @theless-than-goodhunter7019 3 года назад +34

      *WEE WOO WEE WOO WEE WOO*

  • @fridaysantos738
    @fridaysantos738 4 года назад +2558

    Wait that's the same man from the construction and the priest that the nurse called to help him. How crazy

    • @sophienah4654
      @sophienah4654 4 года назад +522

      i love how some of the stories have overlapping characters. Like the guy who had a dream about the previous archivist was previously dating the same 'Graham' from episode 3.

    • @dawhandaonli5925
      @dawhandaonli5925 4 года назад +95

      Wait what! I didn't catch that but you're right! Holy crap!!!

    • @jeemsers
      @jeemsers 4 года назад +184

      @@dawhandaonli5925 I'm pretty sure it was "not-graham", since the events of that story take place after it's takeover. Even more interesting imo

    • @trucetruce335
      @trucetruce335 3 года назад +90

      Jamie Jablonka he said he had been broken up from him for a while. Maybe he dated pre-“Across the street”

    • @ccknight900
      @ccknight900 3 года назад +90

      @@jeemsers I was reading a thread in the dreamer episode about it and I think it's pre Graham because he had dated Graham for 6 years, which was too long for it to have been not graham

  • @KingOfGayBisciuts
    @KingOfGayBisciuts 3 года назад +1209

    Me: happily listening
    Jon: the builder had uprooted a tree in the back garden
    Me: 😳😳😳😳😳EXCUSE ME

    • @chasecollins3263
      @chasecollins3263 3 года назад +38

      You sir, have a massive brain.

    • @whats_this.madness
      @whats_this.madness 2 года назад +8

      hiveswap pfp

    • @molol44
      @molol44 Год назад +81

      Wait, that was the same priest?! Holy hell, these connections are subtle if you don't keep track of everything.

    • @stevbe1723
      @stevbe1723 Год назад +27

      @@molol44 that was the first time I caught one of them on my own, I'm ashamed to say

    • @shosplecolupis8794
      @shosplecolupis8794 9 месяцев назад +2

      RIGHT??????

  • @sela8391
    @sela8391 4 года назад +879

    "We'll get to the cannibalism of course" Welp that's how you start some small talk.

  • @nanahuatli2144
    @nanahuatli2144 4 года назад +876

    You know some really heavy shit is going to happen when you see it's a two-parter.

    • @venusthebenus
      @venusthebenus 3 года назад +22

      Also when a character/theme shows up again

  • @dallydaydream
    @dallydaydream 3 года назад +651

    "When I die of old age." Oh Jonathan, hope does spring eternal, doesn't it

    • @kctjdramapalace
      @kctjdramapalace 3 года назад +1

      Is each number a different story?

    • @dallydaydream
      @dallydaydream 3 года назад +17

      @@kctjdramapalace Yes, although as in this one, there is sometimes some overlap. There is also an overarching plot running through the series that will start to crop up soon.

    • @fitzroy426
      @fitzroy426 2 года назад +15

      fuck dude it sure did 😭😭😭

    • @Nizati
      @Nizati 2 года назад +28

      "when I die of old age" .... :'( oh archivist.

    • @polkarrty
      @polkarrty 2 года назад +2

      Hello dally!

  • @thelivingparadox6626
    @thelivingparadox6626 2 года назад +701

    "thank you for meeting me. i am thankful that i was able to get a meeting with you. we'll get to the cannibalism"
    respectfully what in the hell

  • @jaderush4141
    @jaderush4141 3 года назад +966

    I was so proud of myself for finally spotting a connection between two episodes, and then they go on and straight up say "yup, they're connected". Oh well.
    Also, the way he described heating up in that house reminded me of the episode with two burned men at the hospital.

    • @lel1160
      @lel1160 Год назад +64

      lmao this is legit me in everything i watch/listen to, i'm like "wOAH a connection !" and then they basically say "these two things are obviously connected, this wasn't a subtle hint" which is why i never try and predict whats going to happen, i assume i'll find out sooner or later 😅

    • @leonmayne797
      @leonmayne797 Год назад +18

      And the burning in Burned Out is also similar.

    • @AnotheraccountonYTlovesyouall
      @AnotheraccountonYTlovesyouall 6 месяцев назад +5

      I thought it was odd that both the nurses were called Annie when she was first mentioned (though brushed it off due to different last names) but I was already on high alert due to this. When he mentioned the builder I knew it was linked but what I find odd is how Annie called him John not Ivo though could be a stand in name e.g. “John Doe” also the statement listed in ep 8 to be the pastors statement says it is case 0218011 but this is case 0113005 so perhaps that is the case number of part 2 or another statement just about this encounter? Not sure

    • @lexus3934
      @lexus3934 5 месяцев назад +6

      I'm admittedly rather new to all of this, but I believe there is some connection between the burned men in the hospital and the mother from episode nine, with the whole pendant with a closed eye

  • @kelly-alec
    @kelly-alec 3 года назад +308

    15:22 "Possible Schizophrenia." ...WAIT A SECOND
    This is the same Priest from #8 Burned Out, OH SH-

    • @JustCallMeEmily
      @JustCallMeEmily Год назад +13

      I realized before I even started the episode, as soon as I read in the description that he was a catholic priest I was like "is this the same priest from burned out?" and the fact it mentioned exorcism and the dots just kind of connected themselves

    • @SunroseStudios
      @SunroseStudios 2 месяца назад +1

      we noticed once he reached the house under construction

  • @diesel_dawg
    @diesel_dawg 2 года назад +214

    Edwin: "We'll get to the cannibalism, of course..."
    Me: "Of course. Wait...what?"

  • @marymills3581
    @marymills3581 2 года назад +225

    "I am not for you. I am marked" dang!! that got me.
    Interesting that both the priest and builder felt that burning sensation. I wonder if it's a typical possession trademark or the demon in the house specifically

    • @leonmayne797
      @leonmayne797 Год назад +30

      Also the people in the hospital in First Aid were also burnt.

    • @ericdickert9795
      @ericdickert9795 7 месяцев назад +19

      Just something else to point out. The chant the guy in the hospital was saying mentioned the name of a sumerian demon that was said to be able to make fish boil alive in their river.

    • @Angel-ni2yn
      @Angel-ni2yn 6 месяцев назад +1

      this the comment i been looking for

    • @lucy233.
      @lucy233. Месяц назад +1

      "I'm so sorry. It wants your faith."
      That bit also got me

  • @anxiouscordyceps
    @anxiouscordyceps Год назад +99

    Ok, but the "and I see the builder had managed to uproot a tree?" is so hilarious to me for some reason. like I just imagine the priest being like ??? huh?

  • @crazyshaman409
    @crazyshaman409 4 года назад +416

    Thet is the priest from chapter 8 - "Burn out"😶

    • @zhyza
      @zhyza 3 года назад +49

      and wasn't there also a nurse named Annie? it's the same town, the same hospital

    • @thecynicalone7655
      @thecynicalone7655 3 года назад +32

      @@zhyza I think it's the same event from two different perspectives

    • @theguildhall3246
      @theguildhall3246 3 года назад +2

      @@thecynicalone7655 but nobody was moved into the house by then

    • @olivercetus6956
      @olivercetus6956 3 года назад +2

      The being cursed in Sumerian part reminded me of the First Aid episode honestly with the guy burning from the inside out as he kept on muttering the same incantation over and over again

    • @angellaslat2547
      @angellaslat2547 2 года назад +1

      This is also the priest who look after and close to the girl in "Alone"

  • @CrystalSkyDrops175
    @CrystalSkyDrops175 3 года назад +507

    When you hear how these episodes can connect to one another and from different perspectives is so satisfying and mind blowing.

    • @Erynwithawhy13
      @Erynwithawhy13 Год назад +9

      Going over the series once you've finished is such a mind bender, seeing all the connections. Even really subtle ones

    • @asoaringheart
      @asoaringheart Год назад +1

      @@Erynwithawhy13 RIGHT

  • @dionysees3255
    @dionysees3255 4 года назад +227

    As soon as he said 'Schizophrenia' i was like- 'OH'

  • @Amelthon
    @Amelthon 4 года назад +731

    so the whole idea is that this audio is jonathan reading out edwin's written statement, yet he's unable to say "lord" and "jesus" and specifically says he's not able to "say" it, not write it. i know previous cases were written directly by the person making the statement, but i wonder if this one was a transcript of a spoken statement, if there's some Sinister Shit going on with jonathan, or if it was just an oopsie
    loving the podcast

    • @TH-is8cf
      @TH-is8cf 4 года назад +276

      I usually think that jon adds theatrical flair to the recordings but it might be that he was heavily restricted and wasnt given a pen or keyboard in fear that he have a violent outburst

    • @late_prince8945
      @late_prince8945 4 года назад +249

      From what was said at the beginning I assuming that old archivist visited him at the prison and write down his statment

    • @koromoro6682
      @koromoro6682 4 года назад +101

      I figured that some are written statements and some are transcripts, but it’s not quite specified

    • @rogaltriggs4704
      @rogaltriggs4704 4 года назад +30

      Amelthon dude there is some real darkness in the man-im not going to spoil what up with the fella but you will love it

    • @fluffsnake
      @fluffsnake 3 года назад +15

      did he not say God at some point though?

  • @venusthebenus
    @venusthebenus 3 года назад +150

    My heart dropped when I realized that this was the other side of Burned Out. I was piecing it together but my brain didn’t fully process it until the tree fell. It gives me shivers all over my body man.

  • @tearez13
    @tearez13 3 года назад +142

    I lose focus for one second and when I get back I hear "blood pouring from her mouth" I love this show

  • @data6022
    @data6022 4 года назад +212

    I have faith in J.. In jjjjj
    yeah I have faith

    • @jeffcs3396
      @jeffcs3396 4 года назад +19

      This part was just sad.

  • @midnights2631
    @midnights2631 Год назад +85

    The fact it has two parts makes you know it's going to be good.
    THE BUILDER UPROOTING THE TREE!!! YES!! SO THE BUILDER HELPED THE PRIEST!

  • @RainWelsh
    @RainWelsh 3 года назад +96

    I love things like this, when you get a story from two different viewpoints where neither character has any idea what the other is up to.
    ... is what I was thinking up until “or by my successor”, at which point the sheer level of sass wiped my mind clean

  • @lhumyaki
    @lhumyaki 4 года назад +328

    I can't believe that it was only at the tree mention that I realized it was the house from the episode about, well the house in construction and the tree. I'm really bad at names. (though, ironically, at the start of the episode I wondered if the priest was the one from the tree episode)

    • @namaschu9418
      @namaschu9418 3 года назад +7

      Same man, you're not the only one

    • @lauraperic5596
      @lauraperic5596 2 года назад +2

      i think you're talking about burned out but i think that addresses are different

    • @yaboi7232
      @yaboi7232 2 года назад

      I realized as soon as he said hilltop road i just went HOLD UP!!!

    • @astrocake584
      @astrocake584 2 года назад +3

      @@lauraperic5596 it has to be the same house tho. Between the builder having a history of schizophrenia and knocking down the tree, plus it being hot. It’s totally the same house.

  • @MPythonGirl
    @MPythonGirl 3 года назад +77

    Here I am, listening to this at work. 3 minutes in an ad pops up. But I was *convinced* for like... 10 seconds that it was another "John is interrupted" moment. Or that some spirit hijacked the recorder.

  • @dice4592
    @dice4592 Год назад +38

    Proud of myself for hearing annie the nurse and immediately going "huh thats familiar" and then its connected

  • @sophiemcswag
    @sophiemcswag 3 года назад +56

    as soon as he mentioned he’s a priest that does exorcisms, i knew that it was connected to the builder man

  • @ambylotl
    @ambylotl 3 года назад +57

    An ashamed fallen-from-grace priest who regrets preforming an exorcism?
    *M O R T I S* intensifies

  • @rydertheashen1722
    @rydertheashen1722 2 года назад +43

    We're starting to get into the fun shiiiiit! I heard "Annie" and knew we were getting into diverging stories territory

  • @rilla5058
    @rilla5058 2 года назад +36

    "We'll get to the cannibalism" ah, this is going to be a fun one

  • @mintchew2757
    @mintchew2757 4 года назад +300

    Gotta have that skin. Cronch cronch am I right?

  • @sidney9796
    @sidney9796 4 года назад +97

    my first thought was this man became a dnd warlock lmao

    • @ateawithfreak8681
      @ateawithfreak8681 4 года назад +22

      yeah especially when his demon daddy said "I am not for you, I am marked", that was my first thought too!

    • @Nizati
      @Nizati 2 года назад +7

      You mean the priest or Jon? ;)

    • @cactusc9519
      @cactusc9519 Год назад +1

      @@Nizati lmao xD

  • @megalunalexi5601
    @megalunalexi5601 4 года назад +98

    IT'S THE PRIEST FROM THE OTHER EPISODE

  • @petraivan6778
    @petraivan6778 3 года назад +394

    ARCHIVIST
    Statement of Father Edwin Burroughs, regarding his claimed demonic possession. Original statement given May 30th, 2011. Audio recording by Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London.
    Statement begins.
    ARCHIVIST (STATEMENT)
    Thank you for coming. I know that this can’t have been easy to arrange, and I appreciate the opportunity to make my statement. The Prison Service probably didn’t make it easy for you. They’re understandably hesitant to give anyone extended access to me, in case I get violent, but I’m very glad they made an exception for you. At least, assuming that you’re real. I hope you’re real, but maybe it’s that hope that’s being used against me in a cruel joke. Or maybe the joke would be that I would let that doubt cost me my only chance to tell my story. Either way, I choose to make my statement, and if you’re not real, then hopefully, no harm done.
    We’ll get to the cannibalism, of course, but first I just want to provide some context. I don’t know how much you work with the Church in your Institute. You may be surprised that a man of the cloth such as myself, however far from grace I may have fallen, would enlist the aid of an organisation dedicated to studying the paranormal. Well, to be honest, it’s generally kept quiet, but the Catholic Church is not against belief in the supernatural outside of the official doctrine. Demons, ghosts, black magic… It’s generally up to the individual how much they believe in these things, and I believe that very much of what you research is real. Dangerous, but real. I’ve always seen the Devil’s work as a very tangible thing, and those priests who might speak of them as metaphor or symbol are, I fear, often placing themselves and their parishioners in a position of peril. Sorry, this is becoming a homily. It’s just been some time since I’ve had a chance to express myself like this; I almost don’t care if it is on one of Its phantasms.
    So it was only natural, I suppose, that it was relatively early in my vocation as a priest that I trained as an exorcist. It’s not something all that special really, every diocese should have a trained exorcist available, or failing that a bishop can do it, but nine times out of ten the duties of an exorcist are to recommend a good psychiatrist, doctor or substance abuse program, and bishops don’t usually have time for that.
    I was an exorcist for the Diocese of Oxford when this all happened. I trained as a Jesuit, so I was used to moving about a lot, but I was at Oxford from about 2005 right through to my arrest in 2009. There were two exorcists in the diocese, myself and an old Augustinian by the name of Father Harrogate. I would ask as a favour that you not follow up with him; he plays no part in what happened to me and would, I think, be upset by any reminder of my actions.
    In my time I have performed just over one hundred exorcisms, with varying degrees of success. It was relatively rare that it felt like much more than a blessing or a prayer. It still helped in most cases, but as one of the most common types of possession is not The Exorcist-style of speaking in a demonic tongue and floating off the bed, but rather that of an unnatural depression, it was often hard to be sure. It is difficult to say how many were devout believers who came to us with a very natural depression, and simply preferred to look to the Church than to counselling or medicine. Even those were helped to some degree, I believe, even if only as a placebo. On a few occasions, though I did encounter things that served to firm up my belief in the Devil and my faith in my Lo- my L- I’m sorry, It won’t let me say the words. It won’t let me pray either, but I hope I will not be judged too harshly for it on the final day.
    As I was saying, there were times when I felt things pushing back. I was once cursed at in Sumerian by a young man who was utterly illiterate, and had the names of my childhood pets thrown at me by an old Jamaican man. I will admit that there were times that I have been very afraid of what I was trying to remove, but I always had faith in Je- I always had faith. None of it prepared me for what happened on Bullingdon Road, though. That was something else entirely.
    I was doing some work at the Catholic chaplaincy in Saint Aldates, generally trying to help the spiritual well-being of the students who came to us, when Father Singh, one of the other priests working there, came to me. He said he had a student from Saint Hugh’s asking after an exorcism, and wanted to refer her to me. I told him of course, and he set up a meeting between us. The student’s name was Bethany O’Connor, and much of what she told me was under the seal of confession, something I will not break even now, so suffice it to say she believed that she was no longer in control of her own mind.
    Even as we talked, she spent much of her time looking around or staring into my eyes with what I can only describe as pointed suspicion. 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.
    I remember one moment very clearly, in our second meeting I believe. We were taking a walk around the botanical gardens, as she said it calmed her when talking of her problem. She reached into her bag, took out what appeared to be a small slab of stone, slate, I think, and started to lift it to her mouth as if to eat it. I asked her what she was doing, and she stopped, looked at the rock she held in her hand, and threw it away before bursting into tears. She told me that it felt like something was in her head, changing what she saw and felt and thought.
    I asked when this had started, and she told me it was after she had moved out of her college halls and into a house on Bullingdon Road with her friends. I suggested that perhaps it had something to do with the stresses of entering second year, but she insisted it was something to do with the house. Finally, after several discussions, I agreed to look over the house and perform a small blessing in case there was anything wrong with the place, spiritually speaking.
    It was a cold morning in December, near the end of Michaelmas term, when I visited 89 Bullingdon Road. It was an old house, though not so old as to be unusual in that part of Oxford, and had clearly once been a small family house, now partitioned by the lettings agency to house as many students as possible. Bethany told me that there were six of them living there at the time. I went around the house, looking for signs of anything amiss but found nothing that seemed out of the ordinary. Bethany kept asking me if I “felt any evil” in the house, and I tried to explain to her that priests unfortunately don’t have the power to simply sense the presence of evil.
    I didn’t realise how unfortunate that was, at least not until we got her room. It was on the first floor at the back of the house, and was a long, thin bedroom, easily the biggest. It was adorned in typical student fashion with movie posters and flat-pack bookshelves, but my attention was immediately taken by a large patch of wall where the wallpaper had been crudely hacked away to reveal the bare brickwork underneath. Written there, in faded blue paint, was a single word: Mentis.
    I’d been out of seminary for some years at this point, and had never been one for the Latin Mass, but I still knew the word for ‘mind’. My immediate assumption was that Bethany had painted it in some sort of mania, but looking closer, I saw that the paint was far too old to have been done since she moved in. It looked more as though it had been painted on the wall and then covered up with layers of wallpaper over the years, until finally being unearthed by stripping it away.
    What was slightly more concerning, was that watching Bethany pace around the room, following my gaze with some confusion, was that she didn’t seem able to see it. When I asked her what the word on the wall meant to her, she looked at me as though I was talking nonsense.
    I didn’t seem like there was much more to be gained there at that point, so I performed a short blessing over the place, took some photographs, and told Bethany that I would have to come back later once I’d looked into a few things. She seemed disappointed there wasn’t anything more immediate that I was doing, but didn’t try to argue. And so I left what would turn out to be my first visit to the house on Bullingdon Road, calling Father Singh to arrange a meeting the next day where we could discuss whether to attempt a full exorcism.

    • @petraivan6778
      @petraivan6778 3 года назад +119

      It was at that meeting that I got the call from the hospital. Bethany had been admitted with severe facial lacerations and was asking to see me immediately. I made my way to the John Radcliffe as soon as I was able and was surprised to see two police officers standing near her bed. I was met by Anne Willett, the nurse who Bethany had asked to call me. I knew Annie a bit already, as she’d attended the church where I ministered and I recognised her from the congregation. She explained to me that Bethany had apparently attempted to attack one of her housemates with a kitchen knife, and in the ensuing struggle ended up falling head first into a full-length mirror, cutting herself very badly.
      I was, to put it mildly, somewhat taken aback. This was such an escalation from what Bethany had described before, and I was starting to fear that if I didn’t manage to do something the poor girl would most likely end up locked away somewhere. Annie was convinced that an exorcism was the only way, and so finally, I agreed to do so. I had already got permission from the Bishop, but that was before Bethany’s hospitalisation, and I would have preferred to discuss it with him. Still, it was clear she was getting worse and I decided to take a risk and try it anyway.
      It was a stupid risk to take. I was cocky and complacent, full of spiritual pride and an eagerness to test my faith against whatever was inside of Bethany’s soul, not even considering that I might be risking it. Still, I have paid dearly for my hubris.
      We waited until the police had taken their statements and left, and then I set up and began the exorcism. It went… unusually. There was no resistance from Bethany, almost no reaction at all, and in many parts of the ceremony where in my experience there was usually a response either from the demon, or at least the victim, there was instead just… silence, as she stared at me with a look, almost seemed like pity. Annie just stood in the corner, watching and clearly eager to help, despite the fear I saw in her eyes. At last, Bethany locked eyes with me and slowly shook her head. “I’m so sorry,” she said, “It wants your faith.”
      Without warning she began to convulse. Thrashing in obvious pain. I tried to continue the ritual, but the doctors pushed passed me, desperately trying to help Bethany as blood began to pour from her mouth where she had bitten into her tongue. In the end they couldn’t save her. Brain haemorrhage, they said, probably from the blow to head when she hit the mirror and they just hadn’t spotted it.
      I was asked to leave in no uncertain terms, and the doctors made it very clear that I may not have been the one that hit her in the head, but they held me very much accountable for her death. I was also given a very thorough dressing down by my Bishop, who told me to take a step back and leave the exorcisms to Father Harrogate for some time. Annie almost got suspended over the matter, but in the end was spared further disciplinary action, as she had been simply passing on the wishes of the patient.
      And for a couple of years that was it. I felt a great deal of guilt over my involvement with Bethany’s death, and I started to drink more than I had before. I was never, I think, in danger of becoming an alcoholic, as most of the priests I worked with had done work with substance abusers - not to mention the fact that priests are certainly not immune to alcoholism - and would have picked up on the warning signs. But they did express concern over the occasional disappearance of bottles of sacramental wine. At the time, I was sure it wasn’t me. I preferred scotch, and the Muscatel wine they bought had never really been to my taste, but looking back, I can’t really be sure what I was drinking. I know it’s something of a jump from unwittingly stealing holy wine to my later crimes, but I’m trying my best to fit this into a relatively coherent narrative.
      Apart from that, the years passed uneventfully, and I was starting to feel like I’d put the whole affair behind me. Until I got a call from Annie. She said that a gentleman had been admitted to the John Radcliffe after having something of a scare in a house up on Hill Top Road. I explained to her that I wasn’t performing exorcisms at the moment, and said she should talk to Father Harrogate. She assured me it wouldn’t need a full exorcism, and if I did we could bring him in, but she didn’t know or trust Father Harrogate, but just wanted my opinion. Finally, after a lot of pestering, I agreed to pay a visit to the house.
      It was late when I got there, and starting to get very cold. The whole affair was starting to bring back some less than pleasant memories of my arrival at Bullingdon Road all those years ago. I was also a bit annoyed at Annie for not mentioning that the house was still under construction, not only making it unlikely to be the haunt of demons or spirits, but also meaning that the coat I had brought along would be somewhat inadequate against the chill in a house without windows.
      I knocked on the door and one of the builders opened it. I forget his name, I’m afraid, something Polish I think, or maybe Czech? He seemed confused at first as to why I was there, but I explained and it turned out he was the one that had been treated by Annie at the hospital. She had not mentioned the builder’s possible schizophrenia to me, but I began to fear that this may be a waste of time. Still, I had a look around and asked the builder questions about the place. He certainly did have an interesting story, but I was unsure of how much of it I believed.
      Eventually, I decided that I’d seen enough and that there didn’t seem to be any malicious presence here. The builder was looking at me in such a way as to make me hesitant to tell him that, so I decided I would at least give the place a quick prayer or blessing. I asked him to wait outside, though. Something in his manner was a bit off-putting and I felt uncomfortable with him watching me like a hawk, as though I were about to vanish at any moment.
      He headed into the back garden, and I was alone in the house. I moved into the hallway and began to pray, praying for protection and sprinkling holy water around from a flask I carry on me in these situations.
      As I spoke the words I felt something… alarming. I was starting to grow very hot, as though the room was heating up very rapidly. I looked around for the source of the heat, but the radiators hadn’t been installed yet and I couldn’t see anything else that might be warming the room. It continued, though, and soon I was sweating through my shirt. I began to cough, and I could smell smoke, even though I couldn’t see any or any fire, for that matter.
      I fell to one knee and choked back a scream as I felt my skin begin to crackle and burn. I began to pray again for protection, not for the place this time, but for me. As I did, I felt… something answer me. And yet, I cannot stress this enough: what answered was not G- God. It wasn’t Him. Something else answered my call for protection. I felt my lips move. They made no sound that I could hear, but I felt them form every syllable. “I am not for you. I am marked.”
      The heat slowed in its increase but it did not stop. My mouth continued to speak for me, when I heard the sound of a car engine outside and a great crash. Instantly, the feeling was gone, as though it were never there, and looking out, I saw the builder had managed to uproot a tree from the back garden. I sat there for a while catching my breath, and when he came back inside, I told him I had completed the prayers and excused myself quickly. It was the first time I had experienced -
      ARCHIVIST
      Statement ends.
      Unfortunately, this statement as it stands is incomplete, and stops at this point. It does not appear to be the actual end of the document, so I have hopes that the rest is simply misfiled somewhere else in the archives. If this is the case, I will record and add that part when it is found, either by myself or, given the scale of the Archive’s mismanagement, by my successor when I pass away from old age.
      With this in mind, all but the most preliminary of investigations into this statement are being put on hold until the rest is found. Most of the details do appear to be correct and match the statement given by Mr. Ivo Lensik in 2007. We did find Father Burroughs’ arrest record, though, and I am very curious to see how the events recounted here could have led to the incident in 2009, wherein he apparently murdered two first year university students following Sunday Mass, and then peeled off and ate most of their skin.
      End recording.

    • @bonniecornelius3836
      @bonniecornelius3836 3 года назад +11

      Petra Iván thank you

    • @petraivan6778
      @petraivan6778 3 года назад +5

      You are welcome! ;)

    • @fulgrs6591
      @fulgrs6591 3 года назад +5

      @@petraivan6778 thanks for the transcript!

    • @petraivan6778
      @petraivan6778 3 года назад +3

      @@fulgrs6591 you're welcome :)

  • @carmelwolf129
    @carmelwolf129 Год назад +26

    i am so proud of myself for getting the connection as soon as "a house on Hilltop Road" was mentioned, considering i don't note down anything. gosh this podcast makes you feel a myriad of feelings.

  • @Urmeema
    @Urmeema 3 года назад +34

    It is so brilliant how the Mangus archives link between other ones

  • @Quick-Silver206
    @Quick-Silver206 3 года назад +35

    I've never gotten an ad about religious organizations. Half way through this video I got an ad about Catholicism.

    • @fiddlesticksmeow6269
      @fiddlesticksmeow6269 3 года назад +6

      They advertise, these days? Wow. I sort of want to see these adverts now. It'd make a change from hospitals and fricking Simply Piano.

    • @Quick-Silver206
      @Quick-Silver206 3 года назад +4

      @@fiddlesticksmeow6269 Before RUclips annoyed me into Premium, it was nothing but presidential ads. Even though I never search anything about it lol.

    • @fiddlesticksmeow6269
      @fiddlesticksmeow6269 3 года назад +4

      @@Quick-Silver206 I'm British, so I got no presidential ads at all! Though everyone on social media was pestering me to vote. I can't blithering vote; I don't live there! Ha ha. Oh, and don't get me started on TikTok ads.

    • @Quick-Silver206
      @Quick-Silver206 3 года назад +2

      @@fiddlesticksmeow6269 Haha, my friend you are lucky to avoid the presidential pissing contest. Plus you can probably travel to Warhammer World quicker than I so, I further the notion that you are lucky.

    • @fiddlesticksmeow6269
      @fiddlesticksmeow6269 3 года назад +2

      @@Quick-Silver206 Oh, don't worry, I've heard all about it. It makes me wonder how either of them can be considered professionals - no offence. Most of the Americans I've met would make better presidents than either of the current candidates.
      Mate, I can WALK to Warhammer World. My housemate works there! Ha ha ha. Nice to see my city is known for something.

  • @Anna-zi7sx
    @Anna-zi7sx 4 года назад +87

    When the plottwist happened I was really shocked. Great storytelling

  • @babieofchat8667
    @babieofchat8667 3 года назад +38

    I got too excited when I realised this was linked in with the story about the half way house

  • @cosmiccambion
    @cosmiccambion 3 года назад +37

    this ended up in my asmr playlist somehow...... i dont remember putting it there

    • @fitzroy426
      @fitzroy426 2 года назад +9

      bestie that's just the fears dw

    • @BM-vz6kk
      @BM-vz6kk 2 года назад +12

      Statement of Orion Carroway, regarding their claim of a TMA video mysteriously appearing in their ASMR playlist, given 10 months ago. Recording by Hiraeth Leviosa, amateur archivist of the Home Bedroom Institute, exact location classified. Statement begins.

    • @fitzroy426
      @fitzroy426 2 года назад +4

      @@BM-vz6kk haha, the ironic thing is that i actually use tma to fall asleep lol (ik I'm not op but i thought it was funny :3)

    • @pitohui363
      @pitohui363 2 года назад

      the fact that I can hear this in Jonathan’s voice

    • @cactusc9519
      @cactusc9519 Год назад +1

      @@fitzroy426 similar at times, lol!

  • @L_Aster
    @L_Aster 3 года назад +21

    The second I heard 'possible schizophrenia' I visibly went :0

  • @calamity2383
    @calamity2383 2 года назад +14

    Lmao the spiral really went fuck you, desolation, this ones mine

  • @hamnahmashood9094
    @hamnahmashood9094 Год назад +7

    I REMEMBERED ANNIE YALL I REMEMBERED HER!!! this episode is my favourite by far, especially because of the connection. like it's right up in the face unlike the other ones

  • @Vabulous1
    @Vabulous1 2 года назад +25

    Wait, a nurse named Annie calling the church to check out something supernatural. Ringing any bells for other people too? 😨
    This podcast yall.
    Edit: Nevermind, they got to it!

  • @eb5016
    @eb5016 2 года назад +11

    oh my god the way my mouth opened when he mentioned “he uprooted a tree”

  • @mayormarshmallow
    @mayormarshmallow 4 года назад +60

    this honestly sounds like a team-up of Flesh, Spiral, and one other

    • @mothrey
      @mothrey 4 года назад +22

      i was thinking Desolation?

    • @mayormarshmallow
      @mayormarshmallow 4 года назад +9

      @@mothrey that makes sense

    • @unicornilluminati9019
      @unicornilluminati9019 4 года назад +25

      Desolation is the one in the house, but since he said he was "already marked" and "not for you", then the one from the start isn't it. But I agree that Distortion and Flesh fit really well

    • @alchemicpunk1509
      @alchemicpunk1509 4 года назад +8

      The Stranger or Distortion are better fits, I think

    • @pugjuice8462
      @pugjuice8462 4 года назад +9

      @@alchemicpunk1509 *Spiral. Distortion itself is of Spiral but the umbrella label is simply Spiral

  • @namaschu9418
    @namaschu9418 3 года назад +8

    "MoM saID itS MY turN On tHe BoDY"
    "Fuck off Kevin"

  • @human_collector0
    @human_collector0 4 года назад +99

    You used Bless instead of Bane.

    • @bardoftherunekeepers6601
      @bardoftherunekeepers6601 4 года назад +15

      Well, someone needs to cast greater remove curse and perhaps turn undead, heal, and banishing smite (get a Paladin).

  • @TobiasFangorIsntCis
    @TobiasFangorIsntCis 2 года назад +11

    This is like the fifth or sixth time I've listened to this, and I *just* got "I am not for you, I am marked" eeee

  • @dannymern6425
    @dannymern6425 4 года назад +41

    Talk about a call back

  • @JAPelicano1
    @JAPelicano1 11 месяцев назад +5

    *me, listening whilst embroidering beautiful flowers* "We'll get to the cannibalism, of course." *pokes self with needle*

  • @empanado8304
    @empanado8304 Год назад +4

    didnt expect this to be a spiral statement, but it makes sense

    • @empanado8304
      @empanado8304 Год назад +5

      "i am not for you. i am marked" AAAAAA HES MARKED BY THE SPIRAL SO THE DESOLATION CANT HAVE HIM THIS IS SO COOL TO LOOK BACK ON

  • @Floofzombr
    @Floofzombr 6 месяцев назад +3

    Nothing beats finally deciding to go to bed at 1:00 am listening to the Magnus archives

  • @lottie5598
    @lottie5598 3 года назад +11

    2:03 I hate how casually that was said

  • @chimedemon
    @chimedemon 4 года назад +24

    When I heard “confessions” I started thinking of the song “Badbadnotgood: confessions (part 1)”

    • @domrat1550
      @domrat1550 4 года назад +3

      I thought of 'Confessions in the pool' by Ash

  • @mackenziedillon295
    @mackenziedillon295 4 года назад +28

    I KNEW IT!! I knew it was the same house from before!

  • @JonathanYeets
    @JonathanYeets 3 года назад +24

    I was so curious as to what the priest was doing in the house.

  • @ethanngatai5576
    @ethanngatai5576 3 года назад +8

    ....I live close to a hilltop road...

  • @alabastergiant
    @alabastergiant 4 года назад +47

    Who could ever dislike this? It's an amazing piece of art!

    • @Nizati
      @Nizati 2 года назад +5

      They were possessed.

  • @birdy3671
    @birdy3671 3 года назад +12

    ooooh boy the priest's pov on the hill top road incident! catholic guilt is a hell of a drug, so I'm interested to find out what mix of that + genuine supernatural bullshit will lead to accidental(?) cannibalism, assuming we hear the rest of the statement in a future episode. I kind of love that while this provides a different perspective on what happened in Burned Out, it doesn't answer any questions, and instead just raises more! what was speaking to father burroughs? why did pulling up the bleeding tree make it voice/heat go away?

  • @purplethistle853
    @purplethistle853 11 месяцев назад +4

    Second-time listener here. I usually don't comment but the "I am marked" part gave me chills

  • @trinetra2011
    @trinetra2011 Год назад +7

    I don't see anyone else talking about this so I'm not sure if I misunderstood/forgot a particular detail about the story or if maybe other ppl just didn't pay attention to it. Here it goes:
    In the Burned Out episode, after the builder uprooted the tree, found the box, apple, spiders etc, didn't he say that the priest came outside to meet him? But in this episode the father is saying that it's the builder who came inside the house to check on him again.
    Did I misremember the details from the previous recording or is this a real detail that's been swapped, meaning someone or both of them is/are lying, kind of like the unreliable narrator from the caving episode?

    • @Angel-ni2yn
      @Angel-ni2yn 5 месяцев назад +1

      Well shit, idr, I think? Have to re-listen then, but also maybe neither are lying necessarily, but simply have memory retrieval failure, like distorted memory or misremebering details. Could be various reasons not fully processing what they've been thru, but they believe it's all true

  • @levchenkodarya
    @levchenkodarya Год назад +2

    "We'll get to the cannibalism, of course"
    AGAIN?!!

  • @leliel6767
    @leliel6767 3 года назад +6

    Oh Cool the Only Two Parter in the Series

  • @maydayduckie1264
    @maydayduckie1264 3 года назад +21

    So... can the priest not say/write Jesus or Lord and Johnathan is just saying what is written
    Is it a transcript of a spoken statement
    Or has Johnathan done some shit.

    • @humanname99
      @humanname99 3 года назад +16

      I assume they transcribed a spoken statement

  • @CupidDunk
    @CupidDunk 9 месяцев назад +4

    FAITH the unholy trinity fans when they hear the word exorcist: *M O R T I S*

  • @JonTheGeek
    @JonTheGeek 3 года назад +4

    This went from "huh, curious..."
    To OH SHIIIIIT

  • @ButterflyColors
    @ButterflyColors 2 года назад +3

    Man and I thought the priest got the long end of the stick and had an easy time in that house, I was very very wrong

  • @gergokun7154
    @gergokun7154 3 года назад +4

    Oh yeah, its all coming together.

  • @mashailfatima
    @mashailfatima 3 года назад +6

    AYYY OVERLAPPING STORIES IM SO EXCITED !!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @marias5685
    @marias5685 3 года назад +5

    HOLY SHIT THE BURNING IN THE HOUSE! THE TREE! HOLY SHIT!

  • @vvv9224
    @vvv9224 4 года назад +7

    Yo shit that's the same construction man and priest from #8 Burned Out

  • @benjaminjenkins2384
    @benjaminjenkins2384 2 года назад +10

    SPOILERS!!!!
    Does anyone who has finished this series or is even most of the way through it know what power this statement would fall under?

    • @chicky6471
      @chicky6471 2 года назад +10

      I think it starts with the spiral - the thing messing with his mind - but he gets attacked by the desolation at hilltop and then the spiral saves him by claiming him as already marked for itself, not the desolation

  • @islaridland
    @islaridland 3 года назад +12

    WAIT THIS IS ABOUT THE PRIEST FROM BURNT OUT ISN'T???

  • @Cinedragon
    @Cinedragon 3 года назад +6

    15:36
    Me:.... Wait a minute! Crossover, baby!

  • @Mekabear1991
    @Mekabear1991 Год назад +1

    Wait a minute...that's the builder from earlier! Omg and now we have both view points! Its all coming together nicely

  • @frogonthebikeheh
    @frogonthebikeheh Год назад +1

    Lightless flame at its peak

  • @user-de5se8ig6b
    @user-de5se8ig6b 5 месяцев назад +3

    THE BLOODY TREE!!!! AND THE HEATING STUFF

  • @Nizati
    @Nizati 2 года назад +12

    This is a re-listen so this questions are for those who know the full series: So.. does this vid count as Spiral as he's lost track of his own sanity... or more of the Other with the whole skinning thing? I think this sounds more Spiral for me

    • @chicky6471
      @chicky6471 2 года назад +7

      It feels more spiral, but he defo also gets attacked by the desolation and then saved or something by whatever other entity is possessing him

    • @asoaringheart
      @asoaringheart Год назад

      Spiral for sure, purely because of the 'Mentis' theme. The mania and Distortion of reality, of the senses... that's A-Reality-That-Cannot-Be-Trusted, no matter how much cannibalism may/may not/might/could be/could not be involved

  • @lycaonpictus372
    @lycaonpictus372 2 года назад +3

    I’m hearing some recurring words, like HILLTOP RD, builder, hot, smoke, fire, UPROOTED TREE OOOH BOY.

  • @mandijen92
    @mandijen92 10 месяцев назад +2

    When I heard "hilltop house" I literally stopped walking and now I'm like geeking out 🤣 love these stories!

  • @xxgirl101xx
    @xxgirl101xx 2 года назад +5

    Seriously though, the powers that be were like “fuck this guy in particular”

  • @catmaeda
    @catmaeda Год назад +1

    the second i heard hill top road i gasped

  • @wadejohnston4305
    @wadejohnston4305 Год назад +5

    For anyone wondering actually finding a reputable priest to do an exorcism..well you'll have an easier time finding a needle in a haystack

  • @Luna-de_azule
    @Luna-de_azule 2 года назад +3

    Hilltop road and Annie....

  • @mackenziedillon295
    @mackenziedillon295 4 года назад +9

    Oooh! A two parter.

  • @alicewhite1135
    @alicewhite1135 7 месяцев назад +1

    I'm sad that we didn’t get to the explanation for the cannibalism in this episode. 😞

  • @Koko_Chan
    @Koko_Chan Год назад +2

    i just starting listening to these on halloween, thanks to my partner introducing me to em. I love how they connect to one another some more subtle than others. So wish these had kept going after 200.

  • @kaichillik8624
    @kaichillik8624 9 месяцев назад +2

    when edwin wasnt allowed to say 'jesus' i thought jon just didnt know how to pronounce a word

  • @cartoonistanonymous
    @cartoonistanonymous 4 года назад +37

    5:15 in, is that a reference to John Dies at the End? Does Jon die at the end?

    • @cassun603
      @cassun603 4 года назад +5

      Although only seeing that movie once as though in a dream, I still think about it often.

    • @mayormarshmallow
      @mayormarshmallow 4 года назад +9

      Oh honey

    • @TheNitpickChick
      @TheNitpickChick 2 года назад +2

      Well… 👀

  • @ann-margretparke9525
    @ann-margretparke9525 3 года назад +7

    Hilltop Road, you haven't finished yet.

  • @insanelaughterchick2
    @insanelaughterchick2 4 месяца назад +2

    "We'll get to the cannibalism, of course--"
    Me: The CANNIBALISM?

  • @ladywonderland6307
    @ladywonderland6307 2 года назад +5

    I might be getting this wrong but the nurse was named Anna Kasuma in Burned Out, right? Now her name is Anne Willett. Which one is Annie?

    • @justaghost5007
      @justaghost5007 Год назад +2

      they’re actually the same person. willett is her maiden name according to the wiki

  • @rebeccat7088
    @rebeccat7088 Год назад +1

    I usually suck at names so i was so proud of myself that i immediately was suspicious when I first heard the Nurse's name. Although I didn't quite realize priest's role until he mentioned the building being under construction.

  • @cursedpufferfish3988
    @cursedpufferfish3988 11 месяцев назад +1

    the second he mentionned that there were no windows yet i knew it was the same house from burn out

  • @rangers94ism
    @rangers94ism Год назад +2

    I guarantee that there are actual Catholic Priests who have real stories that could make your heart stand still. They have seen some beyond insane things

  • @thestarprince
    @thestarprince Год назад +1

    The builder had uprooted a tree in the back garden
    Me: hehe- WAIT-

  • @Falcon-doing-doodles
    @Falcon-doing-doodles Год назад +4

    SPOILERS FOR TMA FROM SEASON 3 ONWARDS
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    I still can't quite figure out which entity this statement is. Meat consumption plays a decent part in it, and the flesh seems to like churches for some reason, but not trusting the senses is a hallmark of the spiral, and if it had been watching him for a while it would make sense that those "possessed" people he delt with would know things about him, though control and not being able to say things are signs of the Web.
    If I had to guess, it could be the web, but the spiral seems more likely. Not sure though

    • @Idran
      @Idran Год назад +3

      There's so many conflicting signs here, it's a joke in the fandom that all the entities took a look at this one guy and decided to put their quarreling aside to just utterly ruin his life :P
      But I think fundamentally it's the Spiral, with some Breekon and Hope help in The church? And the rest was just muddled perception to screw with him as much as possible. Especially since we know Michael was intrigued by The House On Hilltop Road.

  • @epsyblue7714
    @epsyblue7714 3 года назад +4

    Poor man. He can't call on the lord's name 😥