THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES #24 - Strange Music

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  • Опубликовано: 29 май 2017
  • MAG0024 - Case #0051701 - Leanne Denikin
    Statement regarding an antique calliope organ they possessed briefly in 2004.
    The Magnus Archives tells the tale of an inherited house and how the carnival contents of its attic may have led to the breakdown of a relationship.
    Starring: The Archivist - Jonathan Sims
    Writer: Jonathan Sims
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  • @izzyliberty8720
    @izzyliberty8720 4 года назад +3647

    There's nothing that sounds more condescending than a voice with a poignant British accent saying "Americans."

    • @a.b.7469
      @a.b.7469 4 года назад +107

      Who are these Americans who say "CALLY-ope"? ;-)

    • @wolight
      @wolight 4 года назад +119

      @@a.b.7469 Me, until I took a class on mythology in college and my professor beat the proper pronunciation into us

    • @ElForrest-Okey
      @ElForrest-Okey 4 года назад +6

      69th like

    • @Rolan7196
      @Rolan7196 4 года назад +30

      @@a.b.7469 My stepmom said it that way until I, smartass that I was, showed her the pronunciation of the Greek goddess name. At which point I think she stopped mentioning the word around me :P In her case she was selling Calliope flowers for a fundraiser.
      What I had never heard until was that other British pronunciation the woman used here! Still better than CALLY-ope to my ear, but I've slowly learned that pronunciation is a matter of opinion

    • @minzoon8254
      @minzoon8254 4 года назад +25

      @@a.b.7469 Yo I'm from Russia and we pronounce it "ka-li-O-pa"

  • @ilovebooks49
    @ilovebooks49 4 года назад +2628

    the passive aggressive "statement resumes" kills me

    • @ansmith2588
      @ansmith2588 4 года назад +195

      I loved the slight emphasis on Calliope right after resuming

    • @Queen_King_
      @Queen_King_ 3 года назад +106

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

    • @Angel-ni2yn
      @Angel-ni2yn 4 месяца назад +3

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

    • @Angel-ni2yn
      @Angel-ni2yn 4 месяца назад +2

      Silently simmering in his chair lol like -___-

  • @f_mva
    @f_mva 3 года назад +1719

    i can SEE the glare jon gives sasha during that pause after "statement resumes"

    • @Jallorn
      @Jallorn 2 года назад +74

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

    • @arcadebot4735
      @arcadebot4735 Год назад +37

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

  • @kwasichan722
    @kwasichan722 4 года назад +1945

    Imagine being in your house and suddenly loud circus music starts erupting from the attic of the dead guy

    • @RoseMultiverse
      @RoseMultiverse 4 года назад +18

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

    • @kwasichan722
      @kwasichan722 4 года назад +13

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

    • @_mel_9953
      @_mel_9953 3 года назад +14

      I was a lot happier before imagining that thanks :)

    • @kwasichan722
      @kwasichan722 3 года назад +5

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

    • @kaylanizavala9178
      @kaylanizavala9178 2 года назад +6

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

  • @evelynmaybe4372
    @evelynmaybe4372 2 года назад +440

    jon, every time, after pouring his heart and soul into voice acting a statement: yeah so anyways this is stupid and definitely never happened

    • @tobimisa
      @tobimisa 27 дней назад +4

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

  • @alljammedup6781
    @alljammedup6781 4 года назад +2271

    I nearly jUMPED OUT OF MY SKIN when Sasha just popped in with "I thought it was pronounced kallie-OH-pee."

  • @user-sb4ej1yo5h
    @user-sb4ej1yo5h 3 года назад +935

    "it read: "be still, for there is strange music"
    *Ad with terrible music kicks in*

    • @ann-margretparke9525
      @ann-margretparke9525 3 года назад +19

      Me too! What a scare!

    • @KingOfGayBisciuts
      @KingOfGayBisciuts 3 года назад +4

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

    • @bryneffinger1888
      @bryneffinger1888 2 года назад +3

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

  • @erinbathie-moore8478
    @erinbathie-moore8478 3 года назад +655

    "He had- never mind"
    He had what? Cheated? Murdered someone? What had he done?!

  • @bluepotato1371
    @bluepotato1371 3 года назад +957

    I find it so interesting that his voice changes when he's reading, like he's embodying the person who gave the statement.

  • @nanahuatli2144
    @nanahuatli2144 4 года назад +967

    A wild Sasha appears! And then has a pedantry contest with Jonathan! And then Jon is a passive-aggressive butt. Ah, whenever this series isn't giving me night terrors it's giving me life.

  • @mintchew2757
    @mintchew2757 4 года назад +936

    The two strongmen must be the delivery men!

    • @ananzaza738
      @ananzaza738 4 года назад +121

      I like how most people who notice those details are homestucks

    • @tomboi941
      @tomboi941 3 года назад +41

      beacon and home or something right?

    • @Hello-ub8kt
      @Hello-ub8kt 3 года назад +14

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

    • @bonniecornelius3836
      @bonniecornelius3836 3 года назад +4

      hehe homestucks unite

    • @bribri9320
      @bribri9320 3 года назад +5

      @@bonniecornelius3836
      KARKALICIOUS

  • @NikolaiHewitt
    @NikolaiHewitt 4 года назад +494

    Do you know how CREEPED OUT I was when my name came up in this? I've had this podcast on for hours and it was kinda jarring to suddenly be "His birth name was Nikolai, but everyone called him Nick". Me too old man, the fuck

    • @felixsegg9124
      @felixsegg9124 Год назад +30

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

    • @JustCallMeEmily
      @JustCallMeEmily Год назад +6

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

    • @Yourfather1984
      @Yourfather1984 2 месяца назад +1

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

    • @Tony-ny9fp
      @Tony-ny9fp Месяц назад

      Hiya Nick

  • @achnav3762
    @achnav3762 3 года назад +635

    I red peuple say things like "if you got a fear, their is an episode of Magnus Archive for you" or "what would happen to you based on your fears if you were in a episode of Magnus Archives" but, most of to time, the people attacted in this statements didn't fear the thing that attacked them. Today she began by saying she didn't fear clown nor dolls, the "freefall" guy loved being in the sky, the "lost johns' cave" girl loved being underground. Outside of the spider guy, I can't think of anyone who was scared before the events happened. Like if whatever is doing all this didn't choose their victims because their weak and fear them, but to make more people fear them.
    Maybe they take their force from people fearing them or something, making it unproductive to "eat" people who fear them already.

    • @karenlinares7541
      @karenlinares7541 3 года назад +23

      Ooo
      Interesting

    • @mechengr1731
      @mechengr1731 2 года назад +80

      Ghost spider just wanted revenge

    • @Catglittercrafts
      @Catglittercrafts 2 года назад +57

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

    • @Nizati
      @Nizati 2 года назад +48

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

    • @midnights2631
      @midnights2631 Год назад +9

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

  • @v3pic
    @v3pic 3 года назад +287

    When he said calliope at 9:55, I like to imagine the pause after was looking at the door, waiting for another pronunciation correction.

    • @DJSilly9
      @DJSilly9 Год назад +18

      SAME OH MY GOD, I FEEL LIKE HE WAS GLARING STRAIGHT INTO THE DOOR AT THAT PART HAHA

  • @mimkyodar
    @mimkyodar 4 года назад +723

    You know, Martin is cute and must be protected and all, but i do love Sasha.

    • @KateCantDraw
      @KateCantDraw 2 года назад +25

      Top 10 foreshadowings

    • @nateds7326
      @nateds7326 2 года назад +7

      Oh you poor naive soul

    • @mimkyodar
      @mimkyodar 2 года назад +3

      @@nateds7326 How is my personal opinion naive?

    • @nateds7326
      @nateds7326 2 года назад +1

      @@mimkyodar did you finish the series

    • @mimkyodar
      @mimkyodar 2 года назад +3

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

  • @emthatyourefuse2494
    @emthatyourefuse2494 3 года назад +628

    I cannot get over the fact that Nikolai Denikin, the organist for the goddamn Circus of the Other, who Gertrude later specifically mentions as making them particularly dangerous, just... *retired*. He bought a house in Boodle and locked the evil calliope in the attic and *retired*. What the even hell.

    • @reynadelikat6410
      @reynadelikat6410 2 года назад +177

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

    • @crowbird0540
      @crowbird0540 2 года назад +109

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

    • @bleddynwolf8463
      @bleddynwolf8463 Год назад +50

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

    • @lentlemenproductions770
      @lentlemenproductions770 Год назад +51

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

    • @KenKen3593
      @KenKen3593 Год назад +27

      Oh just wait until you learn WHY he retired.

  • @b-blythe6763
    @b-blythe6763 4 года назад +663

    You know, this one doesn't bother me as much as the others. Yes, dolls and clowns are creepy but they don't elicit the visceral terror that all the other monsters so far have. Plus, though it's awful that Josh got so horrifically murdered and that the supernatural shit probably played a part in ending their relationship, it's oddly comforting that he was targetted rather than the granddaughter? Every bad thing so far has seemed to happen indiscriminately to people in the wrong place at the wrong time, with the occasional foolish person provoking it. But in this the clown seems to have targetted the ex who broke the granddaughter's heart, even though she or her grandpa would have presumably been more convenient targets. Still not good, but it's nice to see something other than outright maliciousness from these entities.
    Then again, Leanne could have been lying about not playing the organ again or even not realized she'd done it, like the sister in Lost Johns' Cave, which would totally change this reading of it.

    • @fluffsnake
      @fluffsnake 3 года назад +92

      can only assume whoever played the tune was also.. immune to it

    • @Hi-ul2gc
      @Hi-ul2gc 2 года назад +42

      I sorta saw the clown *as* the grandpa

    • @bananaboatcharlie
      @bananaboatcharlie 2 года назад +69

      I think playing it in front of him is what doomed him, which is why he had such a visceral reaction to the music. She said in the last few days of their relationship he kept hearing the music, so I think she accidentally cursed him 😬

    • @epiphanierosenstern5635
      @epiphanierosenstern5635 2 года назад +35

      The ghost of the grandpa just went "He broke my granddaughter heart? I'm gonna revenge her >:c"

    • @juliankohler5086
      @juliankohler5086 Год назад +2

      Clowns aren't creepy. I think I feel that fear but it's of drag queens instead. I'm glad I'll probably never see one face to face

  • @user-es9sk5qt8q
    @user-es9sk5qt8q 4 года назад +365

    "Цирк до гроба" - "Circus to the grave"?
    Nicolai was a rather funny guy lol

    • @pianiykeks6423
      @pianiykeks6423 4 года назад +41

      Цирк другого. В принципе даже звучит

    • @jaderush4141
      @jaderush4141 3 года назад +37

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

    • @emerz3530
      @emerz3530 2 года назад +2

      How the fuck did I just remember his name was Nicolai

  • @xFlyingWithTheWind
    @xFlyingWithTheWind 4 года назад +597

    Jon: Casually challenges/invokes the Stranger by getting an actual calliope for his hard core I-don't-believe-in-the-supernatural voice acting sessions. Normal victims-of-the-week get killed for that kind of bull...

    • @trucetruce335
      @trucetruce335 4 года назад +90

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

    • @Whysoshort
      @Whysoshort Год назад +33

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

    • @biancamlf288
      @biancamlf288 Год назад +13

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

    • @valkyrie-randgris
      @valkyrie-randgris Год назад +17

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

  • @fays.p.5663
    @fays.p.5663 4 года назад +461

    For what it's worth, Greek here and I can confirm Sasha is closer to what Καλλιόπη sounds like. Though I can't vouch for how ancient Greeks pronounced it.

    • @chiarag2756
      @chiarag2756 3 года назад +39

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

    • @fays.p.5663
      @fays.p.5663 3 года назад +25

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

    • @lordtoademort8124
      @lordtoademort8124 2 года назад +17

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

    • @Idran
      @Idran Год назад +7

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

    • @torcaace
      @torcaace Год назад +12

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

  • @Pr1nc3_R3my
    @Pr1nc3_R3my 3 года назад +76

    [disdain] ~...A m e r i c a n s...~ [/disdain]

    • @mechengr1731
      @mechengr1731 2 года назад +5

      As an American, that always makes me laugh.

    • @deadkingpoet7480
      @deadkingpoet7480 2 года назад +5

      Ayyyy fellow agender person!!!

    • @mackreid
      @mackreid 3 месяца назад

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

  • @late_prince8945
    @late_prince8945 4 года назад +387

    why they keep opening these doors?! It's killing me

    • @mxxnlight111
      @mxxnlight111 3 года назад +38

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

    • @karenlinares7541
      @karenlinares7541 3 года назад +21

      Also cute character moments

  • @waitingwarrior4203
    @waitingwarrior4203 4 года назад +295

    15:04 "I just tuned everything out again." is a masterful double entendre for this episode.

    • @baddabingbaddaboom2731
      @baddabingbaddaboom2731 4 года назад +16

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

  • @levchenkodarya
    @levchenkodarya Год назад +58

    I'm actually quite impressed by the amount of languages that are used in this podcast. Yes, the pronunciation is sometimes...horrendous, but the effort! The mere fact that they did use other languages, even if they could easily avoid it is worth the applause. It definitely makes the events feel more spread out rather than strictly located in English-speaking countries only.

  • @Jojo-su2vm
    @Jojo-su2vm 3 года назад +219

    I don’t know if anyone has pointed that out yet, but in the last episode, if I understood correctly, the coin said „Für die Stille“ which would translate to “for the silence”. That seems quite similar to the “be still, for there is strange music”.
    I’m not entirely sure if that’s actually what the coin said because I tend to mishear things

    • @bluebird9870
      @bluebird9870 3 года назад +27

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

    • @lilaboxx
      @lilaboxx 3 года назад +2

      I thought the same

    • @karenlinares7541
      @karenlinares7541 3 года назад +2

      Yeah prob

    • @TramNguyen-yb3rh
      @TramNguyen-yb3rh 2 года назад +12

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

  • @ur_local_uncanny_artist
    @ur_local_uncanny_artist 3 года назад +105

    R.i.p Jon, poor dude can't do a recording without getting interrupted 🙏😭

  • @Whysoshort
    @Whysoshort Год назад +39

    I like the idea that Jon reads Hundreds of cases every week, but the only one we hear on the podcast are the ones that are real

    • @JustCallMeEmily
      @JustCallMeEmily Год назад +4

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

    • @melissaharris3389
      @melissaharris3389 3 месяца назад +5

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

  • @Iquey
    @Iquey 4 года назад +156

    16:18 "its black woolen hair even did that flicky thing."
    Was this just a cowlick or was Josh emocore from the early 2000's?

  • @thatbleak1860
    @thatbleak1860 4 года назад +134

    "Circus of the other" maybe it's a refrence to "The others" from that episode of the lady that stared at the guy's window from across the street. Idk

  • @moaday9952
    @moaday9952 11 месяцев назад +14

    Theory about the tune! It was a Russian folk song called the Dancing Bear. I used to play it in my school orchestra and the concept is you start out slow, then you get faster and faster until you have to cop out till there’s only one musician left.

    • @Badficwriter
      @Badficwriter 3 месяца назад +1

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

  • @tieflingteeth9033
    @tieflingteeth9033 4 года назад +320

    jon really called me out, a homestuck, on how i pronounce calliope

    • @alphalonewolfgirl12
      @alphalonewolfgirl12 4 года назад +30

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

    • @JonathanYeets
      @JonathanYeets 3 года назад +18

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

    • @alphalonewolfgirl12
      @alphalonewolfgirl12 3 года назад +5

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

    • @thistleywistley681
      @thistleywistley681 3 года назад +1

      omfg sameisisnso

    • @St0nek
      @St0nek 2 года назад

      Also the dolls

  • @hexedsandwich8261
    @hexedsandwich8261 4 года назад +239

    wonder if breekon and hope co. were the group that took it :0

    • @cleliea8770
      @cleliea8770 4 года назад +19

      exactly what i was thinking !

    • @hexedsandwich8261
      @hexedsandwich8261 4 года назад +32

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

    • @senormooples2354
      @senormooples2354 2 года назад +2

      @@hexedsandwich8261 it's obviously spelled bacon and hope

  • @gamzee3610
    @gamzee3610 4 года назад +140

    I love listening back on old episodes because 1) I catch all the forshadowing and audio cues that Mean Things
    2) I get to look at all the cool theories people make and go "hmhnhnhm ... maybe you're right....maybe you're not"

    • @beltaya276
      @beltaya276 3 года назад +19

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

    • @theprideling
      @theprideling 3 года назад +7

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

    • @jellyrolls2765
      @jellyrolls2765 3 года назад +7

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

    • @alessiapalma8823
      @alessiapalma8823 3 года назад +3

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

    • @jellyrolls2765
      @jellyrolls2765 3 года назад +10

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

  • @lovingiseasy-4342
    @lovingiseasy-4342 Год назад +67

    Does anyone else desperately want to hear “faster, faster, faster” ? It sounds amazing 😭😭
    I wonder if they had any specific song in mind 🤔

    •  10 месяцев назад +20

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

    • @AchlysMaru
      @AchlysMaru 4 месяца назад +1

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

  • @dreamer3725
    @dreamer3725 4 года назад +81

    That doll was just being an older brother and took care of the guy who broke the girl's heart!

  • @Falcon-doing-doodles
    @Falcon-doing-doodles Год назад +60

    I can hear Jon thinking about how he pronounced Calliope after Sasha mentioned it, and that's incredibly funny

  • @Catglittercrafts
    @Catglittercrafts 2 года назад +120

    People are quick to say that Josh was acting like a jerk and deserved it, but he didn’t start acting like a jerk in the story until after she played. I think the music made him that way and he was an innocent victim

    • @ot7biasedmashups
      @ot7biasedmashups Год назад +15

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

    •  10 месяцев назад +7

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

    • @AnotheraccountonYTlovesyouall
      @AnotheraccountonYTlovesyouall 7 месяцев назад +1

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

    • @konkeydongblaster
      @konkeydongblaster 6 месяцев назад +5

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

  • @amaliant9488
    @amaliant9488 3 года назад +332

    Opening line: "Let me be clear I am not scared of clowns-"
    Me: pauses in terror
    Am I ready to be terrified of clowns again?

    • @Catglittercrafts
      @Catglittercrafts 2 года назад +7

      I just got over my fear of clowns this year. This isn’t gonna break me

  • @ameliaschwarz1595
    @ameliaschwarz1595 3 года назад +95

    In my home, there's a collection of dolls that belonged to my mother who passed away when I was 5 years old. The majority of them are multiple decades old at least and a lot of variety between them. There's a doll with a sleeve under its dress so you can puppet the body and limbs. There's a clown doll that's pretty plush with red, rope hair. There's a china doll of a little girl wearing a small stray hat. There's a jester doll with white ceramic limbs and head, and a stuffed body. There's a china baby doll with a music doll in its back. Plenty other dolls too.
    They're not in a box tho, they're on a shelf on the wall positioned just across the basement door. Anyone who enters the basement, immediately makes eye contact with all the dolls. I make a note to greet them, just in case they're in a bad mood.

    • @biancamlf288
      @biancamlf288 Год назад +8

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

  • @lostspaceghost6041
    @lostspaceghost6041 3 года назад +45

    I sWeAr when he said "be still, for there is strange music" a super loud ad played and i nearly died

  • @soulflowerstuff
    @soulflowerstuff 3 года назад +76

    8:57 Sashaaa my gaaal! Still one of my favorite season 1 moments to go back on, I’m on season 2 right now and it’s nice to hear season 1 Sasha sounding normal again. I’m in for a ride

  • @Timfishoh2759
    @Timfishoh2759 6 месяцев назад +9

    Like most Americans, mispronouncing words is a matter of civic pride for me. So I'm infuriated to learn that I've actually been pronouncing "calliope" correctly all these years.

  • @vaydasmith4839
    @vaydasmith4839 10 месяцев назад +7

    the slightly longer pause after jon says calliope once sasha leaves in genius. the sass is astronomical

  • @trucetruce335
    @trucetruce335 4 года назад +71

    Do you think the dolls were her grandpa "protecting" her? I mean, Josh deserved what he got, who tf cheats (or does something similarly awful) to their SO after their grandpa died?? Maybe not EXACTLY what he got but vengeful spirits aren't known for restraint.

    • @jaderush4141
      @jaderush4141 3 года назад +37

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

  • @manamisenda2422
    @manamisenda2422 3 года назад +54

    The first thing I thought when she said about the dolls was the dolls heads on that thrown away episode don't have idea if there's anything related...
    Aaaaaaaa I just started now and there's so many episodes to go I'm excited and afraid at the same time wtffff

    • @anavera3158
      @anavera3158 2 года назад +12

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

    • @Misty_Grey744
      @Misty_Grey744 Месяц назад

      OMG WAIT THATS ACTUALLY REALLY INTERESTING :O

  • @LPwatcher
    @LPwatcher Год назад +13

    Man, I got chills when it was revealed that the Institute had the fucking Calliope. How must it feel to realize that sitting in a room down the hall is a cursed item that fucking murders people, just sitting out in the open, uncontained. Great episode!

    • @melissaharris3389
      @melissaharris3389 3 месяца назад +4

      It is in Artifact Storage, which is where they keep all the cursed items the institute has.

  • @gtickno2946
    @gtickno2946 4 года назад +39

    Right after the calliope showed up in the story my snake hit a different video triggering an ad that played music (like loud string music) and I thought it was the calliope starting to play itself and it freaked me out

  • @vantannie9291
    @vantannie9291 Год назад +25

    To anyone who might be having a hard time with the names! Going into the MAG Wiki and finding the Characters/Episode list has been very very helpful for me! Any time I feel like a name reoccurs, I just do a quick command/ctrl F and can find previous instances of names :) the short description of the character's role in each episode also helps jog my memory quite a bit! Hope this helped

    • @iamaunicorn1232
      @iamaunicorn1232 9 месяцев назад +2

      Bless you kind stranger. I am bad with names when I can see faces, but i'm nearly completely blind when it just comes to audio/print.

    • @vantannie9291
      @vantannie9291 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@iamaunicorn1232 glad i could help!

  • @MmMm-yd4rn
    @MmMm-yd4rn 3 года назад +40

    I wanted to be scared, I really did, but no mater what every time I tried to picture the calliope my mind keep wandering to the Furby organ.
    Now I don't know if that makes the story more or less nighmarish.

    • @fuzzy5792
      @fuzzy5792 7 месяцев назад

      …the furby organ?

  • @kilarthmac
    @kilarthmac Год назад +13

    9:53 I'd like to imagine that the pause at the end of "calliope" was Jon looking over to the doorway to see if Sasha would interrupt again 😂

  • @Makujah_
    @Makujah_ 4 года назад +146

    The narrator's pronunciation of "цирк другого" is killing me probably worse than american pronunсiations do so to an english man :D

    • @eyesgalore2971
      @eyesgalore2971 Год назад +12

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

  • @kaayya.k
    @kaayya.k Год назад +14

    While listening, I was convinced for some reason that the clown would open his eyes and there would be real human eyes in the sockets. Like real human eyes and wooden eye lids.

    • @Badficwriter
      @Badficwriter 3 месяца назад +1

      I have a new nightmare..

  • @cawareyoudoin7379
    @cawareyoudoin7379 4 года назад +105

    The original was recorded on my 4th birthday.

    • @noomre9105
      @noomre9105 4 года назад

      Happy late birthday

    • @Makujah_
      @Makujah_ 4 года назад +1

      So... you're eight?

    • @cawareyoudoin7379
      @cawareyoudoin7379 4 года назад +9

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

    • @Makujah_
      @Makujah_ 4 года назад +15

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

    • @cawareyoudoin7379
      @cawareyoudoin7379 4 года назад +15

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

  • @jaderush4141
    @jaderush4141 3 года назад +45

    20:53
    "Minsk, Russia"
    Why you gotta do this to me, guys :'c
    It is still not really correct, as Belarus was a part of the Russian Empire, and then the USSR, but not just Russia. And I absolutely hope it stays that way.
    Welp, another mention of Belarus (kinda sorta) in fandoms, which is pretty cool anyway.

    • @brokenmir5164
      @brokenmir5164 10 месяцев назад +4

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

  • @erinbathie-moore8478
    @erinbathie-moore8478 3 года назад +30

    The distant calliope music we hear at the end was beautiful

  • @KateCantDraw
    @KateCantDraw 2 года назад +15

    Why is no one talking about the fact that there was foreshadowing of Tim being familiar with the Circus?

    • @Sxcheschka
      @Sxcheschka 2 года назад +1

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

  • @hamburgerdog25
    @hamburgerdog25 Год назад +5

    I come from the future. I'll say this: hours worth of podcast listening from now, recall this episode. You'll know when.

  • @giorgiosoverchia3879
    @giorgiosoverchia3879 3 года назад +65

    first listening here, i think its strange noone brought up in the comment the fact that hearing the strange music before dying is a theme already brought up in the war episode. Are the calliope pipes the same of the piper?

    • @alessiapalma8823
      @alessiapalma8823 3 года назад

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

    • @giorgiosoverchia3879
      @giorgiosoverchia3879 3 года назад +2

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

    • @alessiapalma8823
      @alessiapalma8823 3 года назад +2

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

    • @giorgiosoverchia3879
      @giorgiosoverchia3879 3 года назад

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

    • @alessiapalma8823
      @alessiapalma8823 3 года назад

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

  • @TIGGYQUE
    @TIGGYQUE Год назад +9

    9:57 there was such a huge pause after "the Calliope" that I imagine Jon glitched about the most proper pronunciation... English IS ridiculous, in Russian it's a straightforward "Каллиопа"

  • @stellar3566
    @stellar3566 3 года назад +29

    "Minsk, Russia"
    My post-soviet ass: *Agressive "!!!!!!!!"*

    • @schirry5144
      @schirry5144 Месяц назад

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

  • @kingofthefrogz
    @kingofthefrogz 3 года назад +15

    “Be still for there is strange music”*ad plays with music*

  • @nikolai2010
    @nikolai2010 Год назад +5

    it hits different when its 4am and youve been working on your essay for hours only to hear your name randomly from a tab youve unconsciously been listening to 💀

  • @vkgamimg8493
    @vkgamimg8493 9 месяцев назад +2

    Anyone else thought it was neat that you could briefly hear the music everyone and then in the video

  • @consistencyiskey_
    @consistencyiskey_ 9 месяцев назад +4

    Oh my gosh, wow! The references here.
    The reason I even got into Magnus Archives was because of an audio clip of a Russian doll that I saw on a reel here in RUclips. And it just fascinated me so much, I typed out some of the words on Google to look for its origin. Now here I am! I'm so excited to here the rest of the story! 😊

  • @huntercharleston5812
    @huntercharleston5812 2 года назад +14

    My thoughts during the episode:
    CORALINE! HOW DARE YOU DISOBEY YOUR MOTHER
    🎵round and around like a horse on a carousel🎵
    *incoherent sobbing*
    'SCUSE US

  • @SengokuTheGouda
    @SengokuTheGouda Год назад +4

    I’m just getting into this series but am immensely hooked. Jonathan Simms is a fantastic writer. I’ve loved every episode thus far, but this one had such a classic horror story vibe to it. Especially the ending.

  • @zgblanche1815
    @zgblanche1815 3 года назад +48

    Sasha is right, in Greek it's pronounced kallie-OH-pee. Many thoughts from Jonny Sims and his claims of Greek mythology smh

    • @senormooples2354
      @senormooples2354 2 года назад +5

      Well tbh in his defense we have no idea how the ancient Greeks pronounced it

    • @zgblanche1815
      @zgblanche1815 2 года назад +1

      @@senormooples2354 I can tell you how the modern ones do! It’s kallie-OH-pee

  • @icedmilk848
    @icedmilk848 3 года назад +23

    The only things in this world that I am scared of are clowns and dolls. So, of course, this episode involves both.

    • @roxasxiii4454
      @roxasxiii4454 3 года назад +1

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

    • @senormooples2354
      @senormooples2354 2 года назад

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

  • @Ares_Complex
    @Ares_Complex Год назад +9

    as someone who speaks russian, it is quite funny to hear english speakers trying to speak russian.

  • @plutoandpolaris
    @plutoandpolaris Год назад +4

    As an American I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone pronounce it “calli-ope”, but then again I don’t think I’ve ever discussed calliope organs with anyone in real life conversation so hey, what do I know
    I’d always pronounced it like Jon does in this episode, though

  • @mia.h64
    @mia.h64 3 года назад +16

    This reminded me of ep 5 thrown away...the part where they find the teeth. The dolls didn't have mouths right? This might be far fetched but maybe there's a connection

    • @thirun779
      @thirun779 3 года назад

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

    • @fuzzy5792
      @fuzzy5792 7 месяцев назад +1

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

    • @melissaharris3389
      @melissaharris3389 3 месяца назад

      Good insight

  • @OpenBiolabsGuy
    @OpenBiolabsGuy 9 месяцев назад +3

    That interruption! Am I right! Man, it reinforces the idea that these are reports being read by an archivist and not stories unfolding as they happen.

  • @blueswan3117
    @blueswan3117 9 месяцев назад +2

    I'm in my first re-listen and I did not remember being this scared and unsettled by this statement. One of my new favourites from season one. Also, Sasha my beloved💕

  • @alexandraluster284
    @alexandraluster284 3 года назад +52

    Random question i just had: Are we meant to be hearing these in real time, as he is recording these, or are we meant to be the new archivists looking over these old recordings?

    • @mechengr1731
      @mechengr1731 2 года назад +11

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

    • @TheNitpickChick
      @TheNitpickChick 2 года назад +18

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

    • @broblerone413
      @broblerone413 Год назад +3

      ooh that's a cool interpretation!

    • @alexandraluster284
      @alexandraluster284 Год назад +2

      @@broblerone413 Thanks!

  • @sammieegoldwand
    @sammieegoldwand 2 года назад +12

    "Let me be clear I am *NOT* scared of clowns" OOOOH I KNOW IT'S GONNA BE GOOD WITH A STARTER LIKE THAT
    "I definitely put the lid on" OHOHO IT'S GETTIN SPICEY
    " *Americans* " PFFT-
    You can just hear him staring at Sasha
    "It looked just like Josh" OOOH IT'S GETTING SIPCEYYYYYYY
    HOOOOOL UP-

  • @tybronx2446
    @tybronx2446 2 года назад +8

    I love the calliope music, I really wish there was a cover or a full version somewhere

    • @tybronx2446
      @tybronx2446 2 года назад

      11:30 - Faster Faster

    • @matthewalizzi9821
      @matthewalizzi9821 2 года назад +1

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

    • @tybronx2446
      @tybronx2446 2 года назад

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

  • @musicaltheatrerat8156
    @musicaltheatrerat8156 2 года назад +6

    i am DEFINITELY using 8:57 as a Shorts audio for cosplay reasons

  • @Tomato-hz2ko
    @Tomato-hz2ko 28 дней назад +2

    As someone not scared of neither clowns nor dolls nor strange music, this was great

  • @Anon26535
    @Anon26535 2 года назад +3

    Faster and Faster is actually the theme from Carnival Night Zone. It shades into the domain of the 16th Dread Power known as The Barrel.

  • @elvingearmasterirma7241
    @elvingearmasterirma7241 2 года назад +9

    Pro tip: If a basement or attack has a god damn chain padlock on the door? Maaaybe leave it. Its most likely there for a reason!

  • @who7879
    @who7879 Год назад +10

    Minsk is a Belarus capital, not russian city. Sure, Belarus was part of USSR but it's not russian city

  • @thesorcererwiththepointyhat
    @thesorcererwiththepointyhat 2 года назад +20

    me, a greek , doing my best hermione granger impression : the muse is pronounced kuh-lee-o-pee not kuh-lai-o-pee in modern greek so someone needs to tell that pretentious lil archivist that sasha is the one who's correct 💅🏻

    • @senormooples2354
      @senormooples2354 2 года назад +8

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

  • @cupcaketv5673
    @cupcaketv5673 Год назад +2

    What I remember right now is that there were dolls's heads in the trash in that one earlier episode, and the last episode contained the phrase "Für die Stille" (for the silence/silent one). And, well, in the war episode there was war personified who played a tune like a pied piper.

    • @Badficwriter
      @Badficwriter 3 месяца назад +1

      A piper plays a woodwind instrument. A fife, flute, recorder, etc, they can easily march with in a band. A pipe organ like a calliope uses giant pipes. They are very difficult to move, even more than fullsize pianos. Hence why the thieves took the calliope apart.

  • @elishaart4486
    @elishaart4486 Год назад +5

    21:06 my mother tongue is russian and I can confirm that the accent is on point 👌🏾

  • @dinobox8002
    @dinobox8002 4 года назад +102

    I used to think it was pronounced "cally-ope" before I'd heard it said and I'm american, lol

  • @TheDeLowl
    @TheDeLowl Год назад +3

    5:06 "-And where does Leanna Denikin go? That's right, she goes in the square hole!"

  • @julisantillan6379
    @julisantillan6379 2 года назад +4

    This was by far the most scary episode for me till now. My clown doll was watching me from the wall all the while 💀

  • @kilarthmac
    @kilarthmac Год назад +5

    9:20 - *Jon:* I _have_ also heard it said as "cally-ope"
    --- *Sasha:* Seriously? By who?
    --- *Jon:* _Americans_

  • @kryingkory1925
    @kryingkory1925 2 месяца назад +2

    I can just imagine him rolling his eyes after that first “calliope” when he resumes the statement lmao

  • @levchenkodarya
    @levchenkodarya Год назад +3

    I haven't heard the statement yet, I've just read the description, but I can't stop laughing, because omg, Denikin, sweetheart, I was just having a lecture about you 7 hours ago XD

  • @cml3250
    @cml3250 Год назад +8

    First listener here. I think the person who stole those items might have done it for a good reason? I mean maybe they knew what it was and wanted to destroy it. Also you all remember the trash bag with doll's heads?? 👀

    • @Badficwriter
      @Badficwriter 3 месяца назад

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

  • @randigillespie9365
    @randigillespie9365 3 года назад +9

    I don't know why but the calliope discussion feels like it may have been a homestuck reference.

  • @sparkleciit6086
    @sparkleciit6086 3 года назад +10

    I felt personally attacked by the calliope conversation as a Brit who pronounced it cali-oap my entire life ;(

  • @dazai9184
    @dazai9184 9 месяцев назад +1

    the way i didn't really hear whose statement it was in this episode and this whole time i thought it was a story about two guys- when jon said 'she' and the end i was like 'wait tf u mean by she??'

  • @ayraamin8846
    @ayraamin8846 3 года назад +9

    i love sashas energy omigosh

  • @scuzmunkie
    @scuzmunkie Год назад +3

    “I’m not scared of clowns”
    well, I am…. oh dear 🤣

  • @KingOfGayBisciuts
    @KingOfGayBisciuts 3 года назад +7

    As an american who pronounces it "call-I-ohpee" bc of who its named for, i cannot tell you how frustrating it is to hear "Callie-ope"

  • @jojotimez
    @jojotimez 3 года назад +9

    I really like how both of them get the pronunciation of calliope wrong 😂 It's more similar to sasha's tho

  • @VincentGrimmly
    @VincentGrimmly 3 месяца назад +5

    as an American, I have never heard ANYONE pronounce it as CALLY-ope

    • @sirengacha8717
      @sirengacha8717 4 дня назад

      I have!
      It’s a very popular pronunciation in the south, there’s even a street in New Orleans called calliope street (pronounced cally-ope by locals)

  • @bluemrpony
    @bluemrpony 4 года назад +54

    20:54 Minsk is in Belarus but hey close enough ;d

    • @th3TwistedLight
      @th3TwistedLight 4 года назад +8

      At that time both Belarus and Russia were part of Soviet Union, so close enough for sure XD

    • @bluemrpony
      @bluemrpony 4 года назад +8

      @Skye maybe to foreigners, people living in the USSR countries still identified themselves as Ukrainian, Belarusian and so on.
      You will never find someone from a post USSR country referring to themselves as russian, maybe soviet

    • @Tanaka_Kenshin
      @Tanaka_Kenshin 4 года назад +2

      @@bluemrpony well, "never" is a little bit of an overstatement... Especially since Russian Federation is a Post-Soviet country as well.

    • @bluemrpony
      @bluemrpony 4 года назад +4

      @@Tanaka_Kenshin I'm talking from my experience, I have never seen someone from a post soviet country ( not Russia) call themselves russian.
      Perhaps my usage of the word never was a bit over the top but I still think that is extremely rare

    • @Makujah_
      @Makujah_ 4 года назад

      @@bluemrpony this makes me wonder what would people from, for example, 18th century say on this topic... just another question I will never have a strong answer to.