Imagine being tipped off about a house needing an exorcism, and after you ask the electrician to step outside you look out the window to see him uprooting a whole damn tree with his car.

@rhyelm

Жыл бұрын

Well how did you find that statement of Father Edwin?

@frogonthebikeheh

Жыл бұрын

@@rhyelm Gertrude tipped him off

@BackToBrazil

Жыл бұрын

LITTERALY WHY DID THE EXORCIST JUST IGNORE THAT

@frogonthebikeheh

Жыл бұрын

@@BackToBrazil Because he had his own stuff going on

@AnotheraccountonYT

10 ай бұрын

Yknow what...not my problem

everytime any of the people call an ambulance I freak out thinking about the large medical bill, forgetting that this is in europe rather than the usa

@Gleamiarts

4 жыл бұрын

yeah here (the uk, not sure about other countries in europe) it's free

@rileymichael2694

4 жыл бұрын

@@Gleamiarts that is...absolutely wild. ambulances can run you around $4,500 here and that's not even counting the stay in the hospital itself. that's why it's so common to call ubers or just drive yourself there even in the middle of a severe medical emergency, no one wants to pay such massive bills

@bookfanatic8329

4 жыл бұрын

@@rileymichael2694 Yeah, my mom got my Godfather to drive her to the hospital when she was having a heart attack instead of calling for an ambulance.

@GiubileiFernando

4 жыл бұрын

Those prices are the real horror stories.

@PrunelleLeroux

4 жыл бұрын

In France you almost pay nothing medical concretely, just some taxes. I keep forgetting about USA systems, what an hell. We have totally public health care and even medicine can be paid back if needed there :/ I can’t imagine having to worry to pay your dad healthcare for a cancer..

jon’s blatant sarcasm and unbelieving at the end of each recording is always the cherry on the cake

@Hello-ub8kt

4 жыл бұрын

And also lends so much weight to the ones where it’s absent

@lovesfairytail122

Жыл бұрын

(Spoilerish) Especially when you are listening again and he is roasting Gertrude on her organization skills 🙃🙃🙃

@OpenBiolabsGuy

11 ай бұрын

The narrator would make an excellent Technocrat. Maybe a member of the New World Order…

@spiderwolfnightfall9000

11 ай бұрын

oh

@leaelzebub811

Ай бұрын

"Ah. Head injury and latent schizophrenia." 😂 Like it's his favorite combination.

Even with just the text, it's obvious that this guy is in Europe because 1) He called for an ambulance instead of attempting to drive, and 2) The ambulance arrived quickly

@isaiahwilson4943

4 жыл бұрын

@Emily Barclay if anyone asks you for a cigarette, run. Run fast, run hard, run far.

@isaiahwilson4943

4 жыл бұрын

@Emily Barclay Hey, your flex is your flex. Do you.

@maryagrimm8412

3 жыл бұрын

dude in Europe the ambulances take forever

@credyladd2794

3 жыл бұрын

In Connecticut there’s an Ambulance at most of the schools.

@carlwhy

3 жыл бұрын

I mean even before that, he said "maths".

this section of tma really is just "[spends 20 minutes reading a ghost story submitted to the Council For Handling Ghosts] anyways all of that was stupid and boring and it was a FAKE ghost. not like the REAL ghosts im supposed to studying. im jonathan sims and i fucking HATE gertrude"

@kin-3877

2 жыл бұрын

"Also fuck Martin"

@River_StGrey

2 жыл бұрын

@@kin-3877 In fairness, season five is also "fuck Martin" but "uWu"

@aubarlowe

2 жыл бұрын

@@River_StGrey how could you

@Erynwithawhy13

2 жыл бұрын

OK but where's the lie tho 😂😂😂😂

@cheddarcheezit2647

2 жыл бұрын

@@River_StGrey *correction: "Fuck Martin", but also lowkey "Ayo Martin could fuck me" lmao

Sometimes I forget Jonathan is also the one who reads the statements cuz there’s so much difference in tone between his comments after and him while reading the statement

@malaizze

Жыл бұрын

: ) They gave us all the clues

@malaizze

Жыл бұрын

@Ranado_88 :) keep listening. You will Behold the full story in time.

@2002CasCas

4 ай бұрын

​@malaizze I think they meant the difference while reading the story and the commentary afterwards is quite different. I thought they were two person until Across the Street tbh

@FreyMayBeHere

Ай бұрын

​@malaizze AHHHH What do yalls mean? I can't take it😭😭😭

Why doesn’t Jonathan believe it lmao she was found!!! Next to a severed hand!!! On the same day!!! Jonathan could watch a murder happen before his eyes and not believe it happened cause he was the only witness

@skullptures142

3 жыл бұрын

I mean that's Jon for ya.... Forever the 'skeptic'

@sayomivan9085

3 жыл бұрын

No, it didn't happen. Everyone was confused bc drugs..

@whats_this.madness

3 жыл бұрын

Skeptic forever

@humanbean8699

3 жыл бұрын

@@sayomivan9085 Episode 19 and 20 beg to differ

@loxyloafcake5184

3 жыл бұрын

"The only witness to the killing was the archivist of a backwater 'institution', a word I hesitate to use as the majority of its records are dedicated to listing out ghost stories. It seems clear to me that this addled British man invented the killing as a grab for attention, likely encouraged by the malaise of his pointless career."

In Ep.3 we know that Graham had a "Grooved/Spiral" pattern on his table, with an empty square in the middle where something was supposed to be. The box has a simiral "Grooved/Spiral" pattern, was the box supposed to be there? How did it get here? I am very excited to find out, and this video made me sub. Gud job m8.

@leeladavie9820

4 жыл бұрын

nice

@hellen9353

4 жыл бұрын

I wonder if Graham was one of those kids.

@dannhoff6646

4 жыл бұрын

Honestly i thought so too

@baszko6152

3 жыл бұрын

Didnt even think about that good catch

@Ra_the_Sun_god

3 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing

So I just discovered this podcast thanks to Overly Sarcastic Productions. Just before listening to this episode, I made myself something to eat and ... let it burn in the oven. Listening to a few other episodes before, taking a burnt pizza out of the oven only to watch my screen and see the words "burned out" on it startled me quite a bit

@thesewinggeekmiri9029

2 жыл бұрын

dude me too!! lol, thanks to OSP now I'm nervously sweating through anxious heart-palpitations while I binge-listen this podcast

@boitata2617

2 жыл бұрын

I swear that I also heard about this podcast in OSP, but I can't remember which video, if anyone does, please tell me, I know it doesn't really matter, but I am trying to remember... I think it was one of the trope talk ones...

@boitata2617

2 жыл бұрын

Found it, it was on the "greatest fear" trope talk... looking back that should been obvious, hope I didn't bother anyone...

@pyrosianheir

2 жыл бұрын

Same, friend! Making a second listen through, because I guess I like making myself sad, hahaha

@newguy7209

2 жыл бұрын

Wut... I too learned about this podcast through osp around the same time but due to adhd, I never finished it. So today I just randomly decided to pick up where I left off which just happens to be this episode. When I started the episode, I got insanely hungry; like stomach growling, munching on any little thing hungry. Which was weird because I had a good bowl of soup and a whole mango like 3 hours ago. So guess what i decided to do... (In the oven) REHEAT LAST NIGHT'S PIZZA This is not right...

character: *calls ambulance* me: no the bill!! why aren't they worried about the bill!? narrator: "the ambulance arrived quickly..." me: oh right we're not in the US

19:50-20:04 Wait. Is that the missing piece of the table from episode 2 (or 3)? Edit: I love how people in the comments are more hung up over Ivo calling an ambulance. I guess the only thing scarier than these stories is the American economy.

@torymarr6328

2 жыл бұрын

It really is though...

@Demoxal

Жыл бұрын

also the "man" following the statement giver's father was the Distortion and I think he somehow figured out something about The Spiral? Made it make sense, so it was kind of pissed, I think

@OpenBiolabsGuy

11 ай бұрын

You see, we who have to deal with the soul-grinding banality, bureaucracy, and corruption of the mundane and every day (I hesitate to call it horror because it just isn’t the same as an immediate threat coming to kill you) look to tales of the weird and supernatural as an escape from the banal thriller we already live in that chips away at our souls and sanities inch by inch. We live in a society that requires us to have money to exist, let alone have dignity. A world where everything, even the value of a human life, at any stage, has a dollar value. We are Gears in the workings of a greater God Machine, if you will.

@johnnivek9653

6 ай бұрын

​@@OpenBiolabsGuywe do indeed live in a society.

4:02 Was the unassuming man in the tan coat by any chance carrying a deer skin briefcase?

@piratehalfdroid7370

4 жыл бұрын

*finger guns* nice sering you here

@Speckaboo

4 жыл бұрын

he’s just a fly salesman bro

@linkguist6861

3 жыл бұрын

Oh hoho

@watcherglowcloud

3 жыл бұрын

He just sells trained flies, leave him alone. He's a reputable breeder.

@jaxofspades9571

3 жыл бұрын

Don't look at him-

I like the idea that the tree was a red herring and our MC here was just suffering from panic-induced hallucinations while the Exorcism did the actual job. Granted, with the way the supernatural in this story is going, the exorcism could have been bullshit and the tree brutality did the job. Or BOTH were needed to clear the house fully.

@KemonoPriestessHazuki

4 жыл бұрын

You summarized the thoughts I had in this story's conclusion.

@Jallorn

2 жыл бұрын

My impulse was that the exorcism opened the door to the uprooting and/or created the impulse for the uprooting. The fact the priest paid it no mind suggests that it was important, and he knew that.

@Jallorn

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, so, I was wrong. No further spoilers here though.

@Skorak

Жыл бұрын

@@Jallorn episode 20 listener here, where can I go for further spoilers?

@Jallorn

Жыл бұрын

@@Skorak The rest of the episodes, of course. :P

God I love the absolute vitriol that drips from the narrators voice, his distant for the archivist that worked before hm and how he cast the darkest of shadows on the written down cases

His " work" was his obsession with fractals Uzumaki vibes on full engine

I like it how everyone can agree that hospital bills are more scarier than a bleeding tree, a burned remains of a man, and a weird box of unusual stuff.

Having finished TMA, I'm now going back to relisten with the benefit of hindsight, and uh "You'll know him when you see him. All the bones are in his hands." ...oh. Oh dear. Well that certainly explains the fractals.

@Deactivatedsorry

2 жыл бұрын

Oh no

Im loving all of them

@RustyQuill

6 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it!

Was listening to this and all our fire alarms went off at once even though there's nothing burning, am frighten

a man with bones in his hands, huh?

@benr7867

4 жыл бұрын

Bones? Where we're going we don't need bones.

@Izzy-iv8pr

4 жыл бұрын

Ben R This comment right here Mr Archivist

@RainWelsh

3 жыл бұрын

Just rewatching the series, and yeah, I’d completely forgotten that little detail. Fuckhands Mikey straight murdered a guy for liking maths. Tad rude.

@thatonepersonyouwontremember

2 жыл бұрын

@@RainWelsh He doesn't like nerds, why do you think he tried to kill Jon?

@llewelynshingler2173

Жыл бұрын

All his bones in his hands. Most normal Men have bones in their hands.

Re-listening for the i-don't-knowth time. Just.. just clicked that the statement writer's dad with schizophrenia... He was freaking out about a man, and said "You will know him by all the bones in his hands." ..... Friggen heck I didn't even realize they were introducing Michael this early. Man this one has alot of the fears. Maybe all of them?

@Houndnwolf

2 жыл бұрын

Good old fear soup~

@St0nek

Жыл бұрын

I remember reading about this statement on the wiki, and i think it was mentioned how this statement happend before the great twisting, thus before Michael becoming The Distortions human form, so it actually wasnt even him

@leonardhollsten8145

Жыл бұрын

@@St0nek Which makes we wonder how bad pre-Michael the Distortion actually was. Michael was at the very least a monster with the thin facade of a human (with some very human emotions). The Distortion would have had none of that.

@marylii04

Жыл бұрын

​@St0nek there are a lot of inconsistencies in Michael's timeline, so I guess it was meant to be The Distortion as 'Michael'

@hircenedaelen

Жыл бұрын

Given the house we're dealing with, it inherently is all fears

I'm not too sure what the meaning of Agnes'(?) supposed actions are here, I wonder if more will be explained later on. But from what I know Apples are symbolic for the soul in some cultures, apple trees are also well known for having been used to make coffins so there could be some meaning there, also the right hand is the hand used for blessings so maybe that's why it was cut due to the religious context here. The bleeding tree with the weird shape could always be a Dracaena or any other number of freaky looking plants that grow tall and have red sap. Of course this is just me trying to find an explanation but I'm sure its all wrong.

@yakamozgumusservi1924

4 жыл бұрын

It sounds like Agni which means "fire" in Sanskrit

@tearez13

3 жыл бұрын

I immediately thought of the apple from Genesis myself...

@Kefkaesque13

3 жыл бұрын

@@tearez13 Technically it wasn't an apple in Genesis, just the "furit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil". The popular apple depiction came later, and possibly originated as a Latin pun utilizing the similarity between their words for apple (mālum) and evil (malum).

@tearez13

3 жыл бұрын

​@@Kefkaesque13 *already knows this but draws the connection anyways due to the fact that it is still a common understanding of the story * (though I do suppose that this fun fact has been passed around so much that rusty quill probs knows this too, {but then again they may have still gone with an apple anyways for the whole forbidden fruit aesthetic it has going along with it}) (and now I am having flashbacks to this one children's bible I had that depicted the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil as an orange, for some reason) (sorry if this is weird and ramblely I got 4 hours of sleep last night {finals suck})

@manmoy4104

3 жыл бұрын

@@tearez13 ah yes, the Orange of Eden (hey at least it's more accurate than the fruit being just an apple and nothing else)

That bit about the hand at the end really made my skin crawl.

wow, this episode was a LOT. we've got: ghosts, schizophrenia, creepy children, house fires, catholic priests preforming exorcisms, bleeding trees(??), and apples full of spiders(????). i don't really know what to make of all this, other than that the hilltop road house seems to be a fucked up place. the talk about schizophrenia reminded me a bit of a game called night in the woods, where the main character is dealing with unspecified and mostly untreated mental illness AND is experiencing explicitly supernatural phenomena. the narrative treats both seriously and doesn't use one to explain the other, even though some of the characters try to. i'm pretty certain that here, as real as the story teller's father's condition was, the man with all his bones in his hands was equally real. that said, i like that the story teller talked about getting tested for early signs of schizophrenia as a common sense reaction to seeing spooky shit. it's like checking the co2 levels of a supposedly haunted house: practical and potentially life saving. the closing notes in this episode are pretty wild too. what do the discrepancies in agnes' age mean? what did killing the tree have to do with her death? why did she have what was clearly raymond fielding''s hand on a chain wrapped around her waist and why did tissue decay indicate that they'd died at the same time?? i'm glad the narrator mentioned that the priest made a statement about this incident, because i'm looking forward to some answers.

I love going back and relistening. This episode is a sort of smaller one, I guess you could say. Nothing crazy at first "look". But with the knowledge of the rest of the series/lore? Hoo BOY do we have a lot here.

@butasimpleidiotwizard

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair I'm on my first listen currently and I'm already connecting all sorts of dots only 7 minutes in, i have no idea if this is actually a thing or if it's a red herring but the fractals, the stories keep mentioning patterns drawing the people in and people becoming obsessed or entranced by patterns and one of the patterns specifically mentioned was a lichtenberg figure which according to Wikipedia "has fractal properties", this series is genius I'm so invested

The Flame, Spider, and Spiral all in an episode this early? Amazing!

@rhyelm

Жыл бұрын

This is making me mad because I'm not even at the parts where we learn about fears or whatever and I don't understand this

“Destroying this tree was the only choice” NO SIS LEAVE TF

I find it funny all the U.S viewers are shocked about the ambulance

@PanFriedFish

8 ай бұрын

fr they're 4000 dollars and then if I'm not mistaken depending on which State you live in there is an additional fee for every mile after a certain amount. (if my explanation was confusing just reply and I'll try to explain better, I'm homeschooled, so I'm shit at words, lol)

Was the tree Agnes? Or was Agnes the tree?

@GiubileiFernando

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@clayxros576

3 жыл бұрын

The tree, a phylactery. Or at least, it protected one.

This shouldn’t be spoilers but be advised I’ve listened to half of what’s out so far. Going back to listen to The older episodes is really in-lighting (pun intended). Johnny’s writing still amazes me he managed to get so manny small details in this one episode. even things that you don’t notice or even remember until you go back. Like the fractals!? God I hope we get a follow up on this family later.

@eanamae7471

4 жыл бұрын

Hi~ Haven't gone further than 10 episodes yet but I'm not that afraid of spoilers, what do you mean by the fractals?? What is the connection there?

@katrinemuller-eriksen667

4 жыл бұрын

MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD DO NOT READ IF U DO NOT LIKE SPOILERS. Yanamaay the theme of Fractals that is briefly mentioned with the MC’s dad becomes important later on. I didn’t realize that this was mentioned here because of all the other stuff in this episode. This is as good of an answer I can give you right now as going into detail would take way to long and also be hella spoliery

@juniper-moss

4 жыл бұрын

Same here, I'm completely caught up to MAG170 right now and I've been coming back here to earlier episodes. I didn't even realize just HOW early the strings start to connect to everything - it's amazing.

I like that the stories are connected, but at the same time, it feels like it's all just one long story about the same human-looking creatures or whatever, instead of a bunch of connected supernatural events.

(i'm like 4 years late to this but) does anyone else notice that a lot of these stories take place in november/winter? like i've noticed them mention it throughout most if not all of the episodes so far

SPOILERS FOR WAY LATER IN THE SEASON Waaaait wait wait did we just get our first mention of Michael? You can't tell me Lensik's dad wasn't slashed open by an avatar of the sprial... the unidentified sharp object, the obssession with spirals and fractals, "all the bones in his hands"??? Relistening is SO. FREAKING.COOL. Gdi Jonny Sims...

"all the bones are in his hands" oh hi Micheal

Alright, I'm hooked on these. Great to listen to while I draw!! And they really satisfy my love for scary stories. :D

@deathofme1

3 жыл бұрын

I've been enjoying these while I play through Bloodborne

Wonder why the box seems a lot like the table from early on 👀

Wow, there was a lot to unpack in this episode, from fractal-obsessed relatives to apples with all the spiders surging from them.

@skullptures142

3 жыл бұрын

That and the fires :)

This is the first one where I'm like "What?" I wasn't expecting Agnes to just be living someplace else and the meaning of the missing hand is confusing.

@clayxros576

3 жыл бұрын

Likely a direct link to the tree somehow.

No one: The archivist: *shit posts coworkers*

Oh man, these are so amazing! I'm going through them one by one and just having so much fun, thank you for writing these!

i am more alarmed about the fact that he knew what the smell of burning human hair is

@wywrd_mtnt

Жыл бұрын

you've never caught one or two hairs in a hair dryer before? cause that's how burning hair smells like 😭 I find it more peculiar that someone wouldn't know tbh

I'm relistening to this and I totally forgot the Distortion showed up this early.

after finishing the series this episode has a different meaning

cw: spoilers for later seasons . . . . . . . Doing my first re-listen and the sheer amount of entities present in just this episode is absolutely ASTONISHING. We have the Desolation, the Web, THE MCFUCKING SPIRAL OF ALL THINGS! GOOD FUCKING LORD! You could even make a tie to the Stranger with the appearance of the box that fits into the table that keeps the Not!Them at bay! HOLY SHIT!

@hamburgerdog25

Жыл бұрын

You'd think every faction was just out to get him

I’m on a binge. Can’t Stop Listening

you've heard of crabapples, now get ready for spiderapples

First time listener here. Not only am I sure the wooden box is the table's (from Ep 3) missing piece, but that the creature that took over the guys life is related to Agnes in some way. I did not think of the box; got it from the comments.

@NoOneUsesThis

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the show and enjoy the ride.

"All the bones are in his hands" Does anyone think maybe the dad encountered the distortion or a similar entity? Maybe that just sounds silly i cant tell

@spaceshroom368

5 ай бұрын

Edited to fix a spelling error that messed up how this delivers

16:38 I tried to scream but my head was underwater

As the title said I immediately thought of and sang the line "We'll burn the monster out" from Alice in Wonderland and having finished the episode I find it fitting

I don't know for sure, but I think Agnes is a latin word for burn or fire. Or ignis, something like that.

@jasonschuler2256

3 жыл бұрын

Agnes is a Greek name, meaning “pure” or “holy”, according to Google.

@thecleitom9497

3 жыл бұрын

@@jasonschuler2256 oh, there goes my theory ,_,

@ImTheBear-my8vp

3 жыл бұрын

There's a hindu god named Agni. He's the god of fire I'm pretty sure.

@manmoy4104

3 жыл бұрын

@@thecleitom9497 the word 'agni' in Sanskrit means fire and is believed to be possible cognates with 'ignis' so you're not totally wrong

@llewelynshingler2173

Жыл бұрын

Agnus is Lamb. I'm sure the Romans had many Lamb/Fire based puns

I am puzzled by the fact that Jonathan seems to follow a pattern which dictates, upon the end of each statement, that he first dismiss the events as figments of imagination, then proceed to providing what I always find to be the most disturbing part of the episode: facts that could either be seen as proof that the statement was, in fact, truthful, or as a huge fucking coincidence. You’d think that Jonathan would be at least a little bit more flexible in trusting the statements after finding further information which corroborates them… I wonder whether this pattern has an explanation to be given later or whether it’s just an aspect of Jonathan’s personality, and underlining of just how deep his skepticism runs. Can’t wait to find out :) Edit *contains spoilers*: After listening to episode 39, I guess I got an answer-Jon’s skepticism is a way for him to deal with the fear, or possibly to deal with anything that might act as soon as it knows that Jon isn’t as skeptic as he seems (though I guess this defence mechanism hasn’t done him that much good… idk). I think it’s a very interesting concept, and it definitely makes me see Jon’s character in a different light. Idk if it made me love him more than before, because I already really loved him, but perhaps it did. Now I’ll go straight back to listen to episode 40, because the ending of 39 was… a harrowing experience, to say the least. Edit 2: I just reread this and I simply wanted to say-I find it so funny that I called him “Jonathan” in the original comment 💀 I haven’t heard him be referred to as “Jonathan” in what feels like forever, it was incredibly weird to read xD.

Did we ever get that follow-up of the priest’s account?

@alexceptionalex

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I believe it's episodes 19 and 20, if I'm not mistaken

I’ve just started listening to these and I love noticing little recurring themes- convenient ways of possibly putting aside the story altogether bc of some medical circumstance (like schizophrenia, drunk, concussed, drugged, etc...), or unassuming or seemingly normal people. I’m loving these so much

I'm now on my 8th listen, and am still not quite sure of what the tree has to do with Agnes.

Fractals? Like the Lichtenberg figure?

Sounds like spontaneous human combustion! Very spooky.

What I’m getting from this is that the apple thing and the disappearances were a spell or deal of immortality for Agnis or something and when he uprooted the tree it broke it. I kinda got the same vibes as when Wilfred died as soon as the war ended last episode 👀

So far there is a running theme of head injury or human mind tricks playing into the skepticism of the authenticity of each story.

pov; you are just starting TMA and keep getting fractals and the Lichtenburg figure mixed up.

@eyesgalore2971

Жыл бұрын

well, Lichtenberg figures are fractals, after all

@whentheskittlesfightback

Ай бұрын

yeah i did this like,, the whole time. took wayyyyyyyy too long to realize

SPOILERS "All the bones are in his hands" WELL WOULD U LOOK AT THAT HELLO SPIRAL DISTORTION

This one really creeped me out.

That nurse was the MVP

"an apple that shriveled and burst into spiders that spread out all over" Well... if that isn't the most ominous foreshadowing

I'm so glad that he speaks normally, unlike those sleep podcasts, which pause for 4 seconds EVERY WORD

@justmaxchaos

24 күн бұрын

True! I loved how the narrator can pronounce every word withput stuttering.

''I don’t know why, but at that moment I felt an intense, maddening anger at that tree. '' That's so funny for no reason

Okay, something that I really love is the system set up for something as I am not a first time listener, but trying to catch up to the point I left off! Spoilers ahead! I am starting to take my own notes and I noticed something odd as I was letting other episodes play out. My system for notes is the name of the episode, date, case number, entity, and the names mentioned. These are all important to me as I can set a chronological order of events. For the case number of this particular episode, as I wanted to test something out, and I don't quite recall if Tim mentioned in the future episode we finally meet him, is incorrect. It should be 0071303, but is marked 0071304, meaning it the date would be in April. Don't get me wrong. The attention to detail within this series is phenomenal. So so so many details and things to unpack! I adore it!

@SeaMonsterCeph

Жыл бұрын

OMG, you’re right. They’re dates! I’m only about halfway through the season, but there’s a few others where the month and day are swapped as well.

Relistening to the series and realizing that Lensiks father was killed by Michael

@eyesgalore2971

Жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure Michael didn't exist back then but it might have been the previous Distortion

2nd x around makes so much more sense lol

"Hilltop road" is such a funny name to me for some reason

I keep making the horrible choice of putting these episodes on while I fall asleep. I can't even go to the freaking bathroom anymore without checking my surroundings. 😭

SPOILER-WARNING (If you truly are new to this after so long, then let me welcome you and wish you wonderfully frughtening stay! Just in case I'll try to keep a Spoiler-free wording) My knowledge of the world here is... sporadic, I know greater thruths and reveals already but only ever bits of the inbetween so I am in a way still quite new, just not as confused or surpised. As such, I am aware of the "powers" and slightly perplexed which of them were all at play here and what their roles were. "Fire" seemed to be Agnes' ally; whatever had prolonger her life also affected the hand which had scorch-marks, so did Fielding's spectre and the tree that was in some way connected to her longevity, furthermore she apparently burned down the house without being damaged herself. The Tree itself bleed, slightly unusual given how fire scorches and cauterises, perhaps "War" or "Flesh" were involved? The latter would fit extended life-spans and maintained youth. If the Tree itself wasn't the "anchor" for whatever magic she used, then it must have been that box. Despite having been buried, I somehow doubt the "Deep" had something to do with it. In the same vein, I doubt that Mr. Lensik's sudden rage at the tree had anything to do with "War". Much more interesting is the fact it has the same pattern as and obviously belonged to the Table which we know had been linked/"blessed" by the "Spiral". But in doing so, the table had also been linked with the "Unknown" due to the entity it bound. And the sudden decay of the apple, a clear symbolic representation of Agnes' magic having been broken so now her time was catching up with her just as it did with the fruit. Though I'm not sure if it's just symbolism or if the "Hive" has something to do with it. And those spiders that crawled out... who was pulling the strings here really?

@cactusc9519

9 ай бұрын

a bit late, but like how you've written down all the events here and your thoughts in this comment! and also, it's always very much fun seeing people's alternate names for certain entities, and i like the words you've used with this! hope you've been having a fun listen and also a good day!

They feed the boys to the tree!!!!!!!

the thing about fractals reminded me of uzumaki and shuichis father and how he was so obsessed with spirals and ended up killing himself

when youre listening to this story on mid-november and it’s a heavy storm outside 😹 getting into those vibes right now..

@PanFriedFish

8 ай бұрын

omg that's literally me rn

Loving this series! Thanks for such great, creepy stories!

I've only just found these today but I'm loving it!!

I’d love to hear the story about how The Headless Horseman’s Tree got there. It’s probably interesting. Plus it comes with Christopher Walken and Miranda Richardson.

anyone else relistening to this after 194 to remember the lore

So I was about to eat an apple I dont think i want it anymore XD

@hermajestythewhat2533

Жыл бұрын

Ah, wait till episode 34. You'll never want an apple again :)

@llewelynshingler2173

Жыл бұрын

​@@hermajestythewhat2533Until then, I'll cut them before eating.

SPOILERS - SORT OF: Now that I've finished season 2 and am relistening to this episode Im a little shocked and sort of devastated since I do miss Jon's sassiness and dismissive attitude after the statements, his following recordings are... borderline insane.

The detail about the tree and the spiders reminds me of the MR James story The Ash Tree

The way my heart clenched when he said he called an ambulance. I had to pause it for a moment to remember that this is in the UK not here in the USA, I was so shocked. Honestly, the casual ambulance call shocked me more than the spider apple, or anything else here

@elizavetaom1156

3 жыл бұрын

Is it THAT expensive in the US??

@iamliterallyderanged5461

3 жыл бұрын

@@elizavetaom1156 Yeah man, it starts at a base cost of around $300 dollars if you have good insurance, going all the way up to a maximum of $7,000 (although full disclosure, that 7k upper limit is pretty rare, it's usually around 3k), with each mile you travel adding something close to $10 onto that. And that's just the price of being IN the ambulance, any treatments or drugs you recieve while in there also have their own prices. Most medications will be a couple hundred dollars. A simple saline drip is from $100-$500 depending on where in the country you are, so you can imagine what actual medicine costs. One trip in an ambulance can wipe out your life savings in like ten minutes. Although hitting the 7k mark on base cost alone is rare, if you recieve any kind of treatment, or have to travel a distance, it gets really easy to eventually hit the 7k mark. The national average income per YEAR is only about four times that. Meaning the average American would take an entire year of saving every penny they make to pay for four trips to the hospital.

@elizavetaom1156

3 жыл бұрын

Lorraine Davis OMG! That’s a monstrous amount of money O_O I’m so sorry for all the US citizens. In my country the ambulance is free of cost, but there is a big chance that you won’t even make it while waiting. The average time of ambulance arrival is nearly an hour :D

@pipedream2556

3 жыл бұрын

@@iamliterallyderanged5461 so you have to make the choice between potentially not getting medical treatment in time or winding up massively in debt?? Jesus...

@iamliterallyderanged5461

3 жыл бұрын

@@pipedream2556 Yeah, it's a pretty messed up system. I had to take an ambulance when I was two years old, and I remember being five years old and my parents were still paying on it. Most Americans are pretty upset that it's set up like this

Guys we get it ambulances are expensive in the US lol

Listening to it at 3am just hits different

I have to ask, was the unassuming man in the tan coat holding a deer-skin suitcase? He very well might've been a fly salesman you know. Probably there from King City

i swear to god that hallucination figure ivo's father saw was michael

MINOR SPOILER I was going to say that this guy might be one of the smartest and most effective people to ever come into contact with the powers. The way he just immediately got sick of the bullshit he was in and decided to start destroying things seemed like a really lucky saving grace. But now that we know the grand significance of that house and how many different powers interacted with it, i wonder if The Slaughter had some hand in his sudden decision to attack that very important tree

Wait a second. Doesn't health insurance cover the ambulance? It did when my husband needed an ambulance here in Michigan, USA. And it was about $700 for a two-mile trip, covered 100% by his health insurance from work. We didn't want to take any chances because a year prior, I drove him to the hospital. He was having a heart attack and insisted no ambulance. He had a seizure on the way there and arrived at the emergency room with no pulse. The ER staff saved him, praise God. So the second time he needed to go to the ER, we took no chances and I remembered distinctly, the ambulance was covered. Please -- check with your health insurance now if the ambulance rates are astronomical in your area, as other Americans have commented. Your life is worth more than the money. And if you don't have insurance and you end up with a big bill, get on a payment plan and pay it down monthly, which I'm also familiar with, since insurance doesn't cover everything. Wishing you blessings and safety and informed decisions. : )

@poly9345

2 жыл бұрын

I believe most of the incidents happen in Europe, where you don't have to pay for healthcare due to the NHS

@llewelynshingler2173

Жыл бұрын

See, these take place in civilised lands, not the USA.

Ooh Micheal so murdered that guy.

*Me hearing Hilltop Road*: THAT'S WHERE I HEARD IT FROM 0o0

That damn tree, what is it's secret!!

Is it normal to get scury after listening to this?

The tree is bleeding what the Hell!?!? 👀

I love watching this and one of the ads just absolutely glitching out and sounding like satan

all fun and games until its set wherE I LIVE

Are any of these actually explained? Or do they just get left as complete, LSD style mysteries?

@humanbean8699

3 жыл бұрын

episode 19 and 20, are connected to this one, they probably answer some questions lef from the episode. Most of the statements are connected. Sometimes its obvious sometimes its not

@AdelardRen

3 жыл бұрын

@@humanbean8699 Thank you. I'm beginning to realize some of them are connected, and will be at least partially explained later.

@NoOneUsesThis

2 жыл бұрын

This episode in particular is going to be mentioned *many* more times.

Desolation

@katrinemuller-eriksen667

4 жыл бұрын

Mayor Marshmallow im still unsure as to how all of this Connects but there are at least 3 strings tied to this place. I’m interested to see what happens to the hill top road ground/dispute

@hhylobates4098

4 жыл бұрын

Stranger and Spiral too. Wiki says Desolation is allied with Stanger and an enemy to Spiral (Lensik was influenced to tear down the tree). I don't know what this all means yet but it's intriguing to watch things get set up

@mayormarshmallow

4 жыл бұрын

@@hhylobates4098 it's like watching 14 overpowered eldritch cats with grudges play chess Some are cheating One is taking a nap Another is up on the fridge watching and waiting for the right moment to just jump on the board and scatter the pieces Another is just eating the pawns Three are engaged in a complex grudge match that consists of seeing how much they can fuck with the other before getting bit And one is just sitting there screaming for the hell of it

@TheNitpickChick

3 жыл бұрын

As far as I’m aware, Hilltop Road is connected with The Desolation, The Spiral, and The Web. I don’t remember the Stranger ever showing up there, but I could be forgetting something? Agnes brought The Desolation, Raymond was part of The Web, and between the priest from eps 19 & 20 who hallucinated things, and the cleaning lady from much later in the series who mentioned time distortions and such there, we can definitely see signs of The Spiral at work. :)

My guess as someone who has just started the series would be that the apple under the tree somehow guaranteed Agnes a long life or something

Okay, this is dumb, but why do I continuously think the narrator's name is Johhny Sins?