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* NeverMessWithGranny: Angela is a friendly old lady whom even Lee recognises as someone very nasty and who offers to kill someone for him. When he gets angry with her [[spoiler:and lunges at her, he loses a hand and ''can't remember how it happened'']].
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* NeverMessWithGranny: Angela is a friendly old lady whom even Lee recognises as someone very nasty and who offers to kill someone for him. When he gets angry with her [[spoiler:and lunges at her, he loses a hand and ''can't remember how it happened'']].somehow ends with him ''chewing off'' his own hand]].
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* BaldWomen: Because of generally sexist attitudes regarding women working on ships, Carlita mentions having shaved her head to fit in better.
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* HearingVoices: At one point Laura hears Aleana ask her in a low, grating voice how lost she was. Laura snaps that they aren't lost at are, but when she looks at Aleana, she sees that her sister has a confused look on her face.
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* HearingVoices: At one point Laura hears Aleana ask her in a low, grating voice how lost she was. Laura snaps that they aren't lost at are, all, but when she looks at Aleana, she sees that her sister has a confused look on her face.
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* MisplacedWildlife: Several American listeners have pointed out that you're not going to find elk in Virginia; the closest thing would be white tailed deer.
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* MisplacedWildlife: Several American listeners have pointed out that you're not going to find elk in Virginia; the closest thing would be white tailed deer. So this is either an error in writing, or [[spoiler: The Hunt might have warped reality to bait Lawrence and Arden with a deer ''that should not be there.'']]
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* ItIsDehumanizing: Sasha is confident enough in Michael's inhumanity that she instantly feels wrong using he/him pronouns and firmly switches over to using "it".
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* NotSoStoic: Jon's voice is shaky while reporting he's reading a statement of Jane Prentiss herself; he makes it through actually reading the statement with his usual decorum, but in the post-statement follow-up, he loses his nerve once again.
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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Jon is annoyed with Martin, whose search for Angela led him to some interesting conversations about jigsaw puzzles. Jon thinks this information is useless, despite jigsaw puzzles being a prominent feature of Angela's portion of the story.
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* TongueTrauma: Implied. The box Lee received before giving his statement contained a tongue.
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* TongueTrauma: Implied. The box Lee received before giving his statement contained a tongue.tongue, and Jon, rather than stating it outright, makes a quip implying he lost his tongue as scheduled shortly after giving his statement, during his physical altercation with the Institute workers.
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* YearInsideHourOutside: Downplayed. Robert feels as if he's trapped in the featureless blue void for certainly many hours, perhaps even days, as he finds himself getting hungry. When he finally sees earth again, he learns that only fifteen minutes have passed since he jumped. Downplayed because fifteen minutes is still exponentially longer than it actually takes to reach the ground after jumping out of a plane, so Robert's colleague Harriet on the ground is well aware that something very strange has happened.
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* DirtyCoward: The MadnessMantra below is not one you'd want to hear from your loving sister.
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The first episode in which Jonathan takes a statement directly rather than reading one from the archive; we hear the story from Naomi firsthand.
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* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Creator/GeoffreyChaucer is brought up here in a similar manner to Wilfred Owen above, though here it's far more vague if he actually wrote ''The Bone Turner's Tale''. The incomplete nature of the collection is mentioned, and a character muses that Chaucer's begging for forgiveness at the end of the book for writing it may not be as sarcastic as it is usually interpreted to be; however the story is not written in Middle English and the quality is mentioned as being poor. Unlike Owen [[spoiler:and Robert Smirke and Edmund Halley]] it's never answered one way or another if Chaucer or some unknown third party was responsible for this particular ArtifactOfDoom.
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* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Creator/GeoffreyChaucer is brought up here in a similar manner to Wilfred Owen above, though here it's far more vague if he actually wrote ''The Bone Turner's Tale''. The incomplete nature of the collection ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales'' is mentioned, and a character muses that Chaucer's begging for forgiveness at the end of the book for writing it may not be as sarcastic as it is usually interpreted to be; however the story is not written in Middle English and the quality of the writing is mentioned as being poor. Unlike Owen [[spoiler:and Robert Smirke and Edmund Halley]] it's never answered one way or another if Chaucer or some unknown third party was responsible for this particular ArtifactOfDoom.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Jason eventually committed suicide by [[ManOnFire dousing himself in petrol and lit himself on fire.]] His son Ethan was placed in foster care.]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Jason eventually committed suicide by [[ManOnFire dousing himself in petrol and lit himself on fire.]] His son Ethan was placed in foster care.]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Jason's angry accusations towards the staff of the Magnus Archives for not taking action just so they can watch Jason eventually committed suicide by [[ManOnFire dousing himself in petrol and lit himself on fire.]] His his son Ethan was placed in foster care.succumb to their fate. At first this can be brushed off as misplaced anger, but later we learn more about the nature of the Beholding, and his accusations aren't far off the mark.]]
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: As before, Jon is entirely willing to dismiss the account as unreliable... up until the magic words 'Jurgen Leitner' are mentioned, at which point he admits to believing every word.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Creator/GeoffreyChaucer is brought up here in a similar manner to Wilfred Owen above, though here it's far more vague if he actually wrote ''The Bone Turner's Tale''. The incomplete nature of the collection is mentioned, and a character muses that Chaucer's begging for forgiveness at the end of the book for writing it may not be as sarcastic as it is usually interpreted to be; however the story is not written in Middle English and the quality is mentioned as being poor. Unlike Owen [[spoiler:and Robert Smirke and Edmund Halley]] it's never answered one way or another if Chaucer or some unknown third party was responsible for this particular ArtifactOfDoom.
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** When Jared Hopworth proper returns to the library (or at least, [[NotQuiteHuman something]] that has Jared's voice), Sebastian describes him as looking longer, and standing at an odd angle, as if his legs were stiff, and having sharp, pointed fingers. When Sebastian punches Jared, [[spoiler:he feels Jared's ribcage shut tight around his hand, as if it were trying to bite him.]]
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** When Jared Hopworth proper returns to the library (or at least, [[NotQuiteHuman something]] that has Jared's voice), Sebastian describes him as looking longer, and standing at an odd angle, as if his legs were stiff, and having sharp, pointed fingers. When Sebastian punches Jared, [[spoiler:he feels Jared's ribcage shut tight around his hand, as if it were trying to bite him.]]him, and when Jared flees Sebastian notices that Jared had... added some limbs]]
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Sebastian initially gives chase when [[spoiler: Jared steals the book]] but then he remembers the book isn't actually his problem or his responsibility. It doesn't even really belong to the library where he works. So he just lets it go and focuses on calling the police and making sure he keeps his own job, which he does. [[spoiler: Unfortunately it is implied that this didn't stop Jared from tracking down and twisting him to death anyway years later.]]
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Sebastian initially gives chase when [[spoiler: Jared steals the book]] but then he remembers the book isn't actually his problem or his responsibility. It doesn't even really belong to the library where he works. Noticing that Jared had 'added some limbs' helped him come to the conclusion. So he just lets it go and focuses on calling the police and making sure he keeps his own job, which he does. [[spoiler: Unfortunately it is implied that this didn't stop Jared from tracking down and twisting him to death anyway years later.]]
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* TooDumbToLive: Averted with Nathan, who decides that if the creepy stranger really wants a cigarette he can darn well come out of the dark alley to get it, but played straight with the six probable victims.
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* TooDumbToLive: Averted with Nathan, who decides that if the creepy stranger really wants a cigarette he can darn well come out of the dark alley to get it, but played straight with the it. The six probable victims. people who disappeared around that area probably weren't so quick on their feet.
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* TheNondescript: Joshua has tried to recall details about John's appearance over the years, but can only vaguely recall a short man with brownish hair
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* TheNondescript: Joshua has tried to recall details about John's appearance over the years, but can only vaguely recall a short man with brownish hairhair.
* WhamLine: Jonathan manages to follow up the story with a twist ending of which Joshua was unaware: [[spoiler:when Joshua was living in the flat in which he looked after the casket for nearly two years, he was the only tenant in the building.]]
* WhamLine: Jonathan manages to follow up the story with a twist ending of which Joshua was unaware: [[spoiler:when Joshua was living in the flat in which he looked after the casket for nearly two years, he was the only tenant in the building.]]
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* PerceptionFilter: The creature in this episode has the ability to make everyone (except Amy) see it as its victim. Curiously, although it makes itself look human, it doesn't look like its victim, but everyone who sees it thinks that's what its victim has always looked like. Specifically, Graham has short dark hair, whereas Not-Graham has blonde curly hair, is shorter, and has a completely different face, but aside from Amy, nobody notices any difference: a police officer compares Not-Graham to Graham's passport and notices nothing amiss, while John reports that most photos they were able to find of Graham match Amy's description of Not-Graham.
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* PerceptionFilter: The creature in this episode has the ability to make everyone (except Amy) see it as its victim. Curiously, although it makes itself look human, it doesn't look like its victim, but everyone who sees it thinks that's what its victim has always looked like. Specifically, Graham has short dark hair, whereas Not-Graham has blonde curly hair, is shorter, and has a completely different face, but aside from Amy, nobody notices any difference: a police officer compares Not-Graham to Graham's passport and notices nothing amiss, while John Jonathan reports that most photos they were able to find of Graham match Amy's description of Not-Graham.
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* PerceptionFilter: The creature in this episode has the ability to make everyone (except Amy) see it as its victim. Curiously, although it makes itself look human, it doesn't look like its victim, but everyone who sees it thinks that's what its victim has always looked like. Specifically, Graham has short dark hair, whereas Not-Graham has blonde curly hair, is shorter, and has a completely different face, but aside from Amy, nobody notices any difference.
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* DeadlyBook: The Bone Turner's Tale. As the name might suggest, [[spoiler:it's a work of fiction that's presented as a story from the point of view of a pilgrim in ''Literature/CanterburyTales'', but without any sign that it was ever written in Middle English. Reading it gave Jared the ability to manipulate bone and flesh to the point where he was able to attach extra limbs.]] [[spoiler:Naturally, it's from Leitner's library.]]
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* DeadlyBook: The Bone Turner's Tale. As the name might suggest, [[spoiler:it's a work of fiction that's presented as a story from the point of view of a pilgrim in ''Literature/CanterburyTales'', ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales'', but without any sign that it was ever written in Middle English. Reading it gave Jared the ability to manipulate bone and flesh to the point where he was able to attach extra limbs.]] [[spoiler:Naturally, it's from Leitner's library.]]
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* PublicDomainCharacter: In the titular book, [[spoiler:the Bone Turner turns out to be one of the pilgrims in Geoffery Chaucer's ''Literature/CanterburyTales''. And the Bone Turner does... ''something'' to the Miller.]]
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* PublicDomainCharacter: In the titular book, [[spoiler:the Bone Turner turns out to be one of the pilgrims in Geoffery Chaucer's ''Literature/CanterburyTales''.''Literature/TheCanterburyTales''. And the Bone Turner does... ''something'' to the Miller.]]
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* BeeAfraid: There is a wasp's hive in Jane's attic. Or at least, something like a wasp's hive.
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* ScaryStingingSwarm: There is a wasp's hive in Jane's attic. Or at least, something like a wasp's hive.
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* {{Infodump}}: After testing his recorder, Jonathan starts the episode by describing his goals: to digitize the Institute's atrociously-organized archives. He also introduces his assistants (Sasha, Tim and Martin); as well as describing his animosity for his predecessor, Gertrude Robinson.
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* {{Infodump}}: After testing his recorder, Jonathan Jon starts the episode by describing his goals: to digitize the Institute's atrociously-organized archives. He also introduces his assistants (Sasha, Tim and Martin); as well as describing his animosity for his predecessor, Gertrude Robinson.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Jonathan casually dismisses Martin's concerns surrounding [[spoiler: Carlos' death, despite the fact that Carlos was found with unidentified organic matter blocking his throat and his corpse wrapped in spider's silk.]]
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Jonathan Jon casually dismisses Martin's concerns surrounding [[spoiler: Carlos' death, despite the fact that Carlos was found with unidentified organic matter blocking his throat and his corpse wrapped in spider's silk.]]
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: Jonathan's follow-up at the end of the episode is interrupted by [[spoiler:Martin]] bursting in, with Jonathan crying out "What are those things?!"
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: Jonathan's Jon's follow-up at the end of the episode is interrupted by [[spoiler:Martin]] bursting in, with Jonathan Jon crying out "What are those things?!"
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* EvilPhone: Martin dropped his phone in the basement while running away. Two weeks ago. But [[spoiler: "Martin" has been texting Jonathan saying he has a stomach bug and can't come in.]] At the end of the episode [[spoiler: Jane texts them using his phone again, saying "we've had our fun" and the Archives can keep Martin.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: After spending the entire season dismissing basically every statement he's recorded and ragging on Martin, Jonathan not only does not immediately poke holes in his story, but offers to let Martin sleep in the Archives and says he will ask Elias to look into some extra security. This is because he takes [[spoiler: Jane Prentiss]] ''very seriously''.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: After spending the entire season dismissing basically every statement he's recorded and ragging on Martin, Jonathan not only does not immediately poke holes in his story, but offers to let Martin sleep in the Archives and says he will ask Elias to look into some extra security. This is because he takes [[spoiler: Jane Prentiss]] ''very seriously''.
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* EvilPhone: Martin dropped his phone in the basement while running away. Two weeks ago. But [[spoiler: "Martin" has been texting Jonathan Jon saying he has a stomach bug and can't come in.]] At the end of the episode [[spoiler: Jane texts them using his phone again, saying "we've had our fun" and the Archives can keep Martin.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: After spending the entire season dismissing basically every statement he's recorded and ragging on Martin,Jonathan Jon not only does not immediately poke holes in his story, but offers to let Martin sleep in the Archives and says he will ask Elias to look into some extra security. This is because he takes [[spoiler: Jane Prentiss]] ''very seriously''.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: After spending the entire season dismissing basically every statement he's recorded and ragging on Martin,
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* CircusOfFear: The "Another Circus," discussed in the follow-up by Jonathan, to which he believes the calliope has some sort of connection.
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* HumanoidAbomination: A man that is all too tall was seen in the video recordings that Jonathan watched of the investigation, although the figure wasn't present at the time of recording.
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* TheRival: Melanie sees herself as something of the sort to the Magnus Institute, squabbling with Jonathan at the beginning of the episode over the latter's practices.
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* HeroicBSOD: Jonathan suffers one when recording his comments at the end of Jane Prentiss's statement. By this time Prentiss has already put two of his assistants through traumatic danger and appears to be indirectly and slowly attacking the Institute, so his distress is hardly surprising.
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* HeroicBSOD: Jonathan Jon suffers one when recording his comments at the end of Jane Prentiss's statement. By this time Prentiss has already put two of his assistants through traumatic danger and appears to be indirectly and slowly attacking the Institute, so his distress is hardly surprising.
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* VillainEpisode: We hear first hand from resident BigBad [[spoiler:Jane Prentiss, on [[MushroomSamba what life being slowly]] [[WormThatWalks taken over by a horde of flesh eating]] [[NightmareFuel demonic worms]] is like. Even [[AgentScully Jonathan]] [[TheStoic Sims]] is extremely disturbed.]]
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* VillainEpisode: We hear first hand from resident BigBad [[spoiler:Jane Prentiss, on [[MushroomSamba what life being slowly]] [[WormThatWalks taken over by a horde of flesh eating]] [[NightmareFuel demonic worms]] is like. Even [[AgentScully Jonathan]] Jon]] [[TheStoic Sims]] is extremely disturbed.]]
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* MrSmith: The students' names are all placeholder names for missing persons in various countries, ex. John Doe. While the subject didn't pick up on this at the time, Jonathan notices it in his post-statement follow up.
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* SomebodyNamedNobody: Each of the students has the Unidentifiable Person placeholder name for the culture they're supposed to have come from: Erika Mustermann, Jan Novak, Piotr and Pavel Petrov, John Doe, Fulan al-Fulani and Juan Pérez. Jonathan is a little dissappointed that Dr. Elliott did not pick up on this.
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* SomebodyNamedNobody: Each of the students has the Unidentifiable Person placeholder name for the culture they're supposed to have come from: Erika Mustermann, Jan Novak, Piotr and Pavel Petrov, John Doe, Fulan al-Fulani and Juan Pérez. Jonathan Jon is a little dissappointed that Dr. Elliott did not pick up on this.
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* HeroicBSOD: Both Jason and Jonathan have entered one: Jason was terrified of losing Ethan and didn't understand why he had gone through so much hell just for breaking a bottle, while Jonathan is starting to get overwhelmed by the sheer volume of unexplainable events he finds himself in the middle of.
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* HeroicBSOD: Both Jason and Jonathan Jon have entered one: Jason was terrified of losing Ethan and didn't understand why he had gone through so much hell just for breaking a bottle, while Jonathan Jon is starting to get overwhelmed by the sheer volume of unexplainable events he finds himself in the middle of.
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* RunOrDie: [[spoiler: Jonathan yells at Sasha to run at the episode when Jane Prentiss launches her attack on the Institute.]]
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* ApocalypticLog: Rather than the usual format for this series, this is instead a haphazard jumble of recordings hastily made while dealing with The Infestation, primarily by Jonathan and Sasha. Sasha's tape dissappeared in the aftermath of the incident.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Martin calls out Jonathan on the fact that after everything he's seen, he still insists on disregarding obviously supernatural phenomenon, and insisting on more rational explanations even if they don't make sense. Jonathan admits he's right, and that this is a coping mechanism for all the horror he's been exposed to.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Martin calls out Jonathan on the fact that after everything he's seen, he still insists on disregarding obviously supernatural phenomenon, and insisting on more rational explanations even if they don't make sense. Jonathan admits he's right, and that this is a coping mechanism for all the horror he's been exposed to.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Martin calls outJonathan Jon on the fact that after everything he's seen, he still insists on disregarding obviously supernatural phenomenon, and insisting on more rational explanations even if they don't make sense. Jonathan Jon admits he's right, and that this is a coping mechanism for all the horror he's been exposed to.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Jonathan is especially unnerved to learn that [[spoiler:despite all the sinister supernatural forces he'd learned of in just the last year with all their terrifying, torturous ways to kill people, Gertrude Robinson was killed by ''an ordinary handgun''.]]
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: While he was definitely panicked and at a disadvantage, Lawrence deliberately pretends to be helpless and no kind of threat, in the hope that the hunter will get sloppy and make mistakes. When the hunter gets close enough, Lawrence unleashes his RAF training to throw him to the ground, and shoot him several times before he can get back up.
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: While he was definitely panicked panicked, exhausted and at a disadvantage, Lawrence deliberately pretends to be helpless and no kind of threat, in the hope that the hunter will get sloppy and make mistakes. When It pays off; when the hunter gets close enough, enough and makes a very telegraphed move to strike, Lawrence unleashes his RAF training to throw him to the ground, and shoot him several times before he can get back up.
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* MisplacedWildlife: Several listeners have pointed out that you're not going to find elk in Virginia; the closest thing would be white tailed deer.
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* BaldWomen: Because of generally sexist attitudes regarding women working on ships, Carlita mentions having shaved her head to fit in better.
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* PetTheDog: In contrast to his rather prickly demeanor towards his other colleagues (especially Martin), Jon is perfectly friendly and respectful towards Sasha.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Carlos is found dead, covered in webs.]]
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Carlos is found dead, covered in webs. He had choked to death on a "foreign biological object", heavily implied to be spiders.]]
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: A minor one, but Elias' voice is noticeably deeper in this episode than it is in later episodes.
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[[folder:1: Angler Fish]]
[-Case #0122204. Statement of Nathan Watts, regarding an encounter on Old Fishmarket Close, Edinburgh. Original statement given 22nd April 2012.-]
* AlluringAnglerfish: Something uses a lure in the form of a man asking for a cigarette in an attempt to ensnare Nathan.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: The figure in the alleyway asks for a cigarette without moving its lips, and its feet never touched the ground. As if it were hanging in midair. When Nathan tries to record it, they fold up like a piece of paper and are pulled away as if on a string... or a lure.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: After taking a tumble on a steep road, Nathan decides to have a cigarette to calm his nerves.
* {{Infodump}}: After testing his recorder, Jonathan starts the episode by describing his goals: to digitize the Institute's atrociously-organized archives. He also introduces his assistants (Sasha, Tim and Martin); as well as describing his animosity for his predecessor, Gertrude Robinson.
* TooDumbToLive: Averted with Nathan, who decides that if the creepy stranger really wants a cigarette he can darn well come out of the dark alley to get it, but played straight with the six probable victims.
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[[folder:2: Do Not Open]]
[-Case #9982211. Statement of Joshua Gellespie, regarding his time in the possession of an apparently empty wooden casket. Original statement given 22nd November 1998.-]
* BeardnessProtectionProgram: Joshua hopes the beard he has grown in the months since meeting "John" will prevent the latter from finding or recognising him. It doesn't.
* CoffinContraband: Joshua finds himself looking after a strange coffin containing… something.
* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: Over time, Joshua sort of gets used to the creepy coffin in his living room that makes noises and compels him to try and open it while sleepwalking. It's still immensely creepy, and he's more than happy when John and the movers arrive to get rid of it.
* DontTouchItYouIdiot: The coffin in "Do Not Open" has those three words scratched on its lid. Thankfully, the protagonist ''isn't'' TooDumbToLive and was smart enough not to do so. Though it's not for lack of trying on the part of the coffin.
* FreestateAmsterdam: The statement begins with Joshua and his friends (all recent graduates) going on holiday to Amsterdam, for exactly the reasons you'd expect (though he also takes time to [[IReadItForTheArticles admire the architecture]]).
* NothingIsScarier: Joshua does ''not'' want to know what's in the box, so he doesn't look when the delivery men and John come back for it, meaning the listener never learns either. [[spoiler: Except that it does ''something'' to John, or John does something to it, that results in horrible screams and John vanishing.]]
* SchmuckBait: Averted, as Joshua is smart enough not to open the package from [[AmbiguouslyEvil Breekon And Hope.]] John seems surprised and impressed that he's still alive, which suggests this has happened before and other people were not so smart.
* {{Sleepwalking}}: Whatever is in the casket makes Joshua start doing this--he refuses to open it while he's awake, but he keeps waking up with the key in hand, headed for the lock. Luckily, cold wakes him up, so he's able to stop it by keeping the key in a block of ice.
* SpotOfTea: How Joshua tries to calm himself down when the casket starts to disturb him.
* TheNondescript: Joshua has tried to recall details about John's appearance over the years, but can only vaguely recall a short man with brownish hair
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[[folder:3: Across the Street]]
[-Case #0070107. Statement of Amy Patel, regarding the alleged disappearance of her acquaintance Graham Folger. Original statement given 1st July 2007.-]
* ChangelingTale: The creature in this episode [[KillAndReplace replaces its victim,]] and [[RealityWarper makes everyone believe that it's the person it replaced.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: Whatever happened to Graham.
* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: While this is the case with a lot of early episodes, this is a particular example. What at first listen sounds like just another Statement Of The Week is actually the first appearance of [[spoiler: Not!Them, the primary antagonist of season two and a major presence for the rest of the podcast.]]
* ParanoiaFuel: Applies to Graham at first, and Amy by the end of the episode.
* PerceptionFilter: The creature in this episode has the ability to make everyone (except Amy) see it as its victim. Curiously, although it makes itself look human, it doesn't look like its victim, but everyone who sees it thinks that's what its victim has always looked like. Specifically, Graham has short dark hair, whereas Not-Graham has blonde curly hair, is shorter, and has a completely different face, but aside from Amy, nobody notices any difference.
* WindowWatcher: Amy confesses that this is her hobby. She does not enjoy being on the receiving end of it from [[spoiler:Not-Graham.]]
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[[folder:4: Page Turner]]
[-Case #0132806. Statement of Dominic Swain, regarding a book briefly in his possession in the winter of 2012. Original statement given 28th June 2013.-]
* DeadlyBook: Ex Altiora. It's filled with images of tall mountains that induce a sense of vertigo in all who view them, and appears to have the ability to read minds, as [[spoiler:it displayed a Lichtenberg figure identical to that which covered the body of Dominic's childhood friend after he got struck by lightning.]] [[spoiler:This is the first Leitner tome encountered in the series.]]
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Gerard Kaey disposed of ''Ex Altiora'' by burning it in Dominic's trash can.]]
* SpookyPainting: One of the woodcuts in the book ''Ex Altiora'', of a starry sky, is strangely compelling. Dominic spends nearly an hour looking at it without realising it.
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[[folder:5: Thrown Away]]
[-Case #0092302. Statement of Keiran Woodward, regarding items recovered from the refuse of 93 Lancaster Road, Walthamstowe. Original statement given 23rd February 2009.-]
* CreepyDoll: Disembodied doll heads are the first items to be found in the trash bags.
* ExhaustedEyeBags: As Alan loses sleep, Keiran notices the bags under Alan's eyes getting deeper, and sees him [[MustHaveCaffeine drink multiple energy drinks]] to get through his shift.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Unusually, all the teeth were identical, but in various states of decay.
* MysteriousNote: Late one night Keiran receives a text from Alan that says "FOUND HIM." Alan doesn't respond to any of Keiran's texts, [[spoiler:and Keiran never sees or hears from him again.]]
* SleepDeprivation: Alan becomes obsessed with discovering whoever is leaving the trash bags at number 93, so he begins watching the house at night. The lack of sleep takes its toll, until eventually he falls asleep at work, causes an accident, and is fired.
* StressVomit: Keiran's coworker David vomits after the teeth spill out of the trash bag.
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[[folder:6: Squirm]]
[-Case #0140912. Statement of Timothy Hodge, regarding his sexual encounter with Harriet Lee and her subsequent death. Original statement given 9th December 2014.-]
* DeathBySex: Immediately after Harriet and Timothy have sex, she dies.
* KillItWithFire: Timothy's response to seeing what happened to Harriet is to set his flat on fire. Given the circumstances, it was more than reasonable.
* NauseaFuel: When Timothy returns to the room, [[spoiler:he finds that all that is left of Harriet is a warped mass of flesh covered in black liquid, and the walls and bed covered in a layer of writhing worms.]]
* TheWormThatWalks: Our first introduction to [[ArcVillain Jane Prentiss]], via one of her victims.
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[[folder:7: The Piper]]
[-Case #9220611. Statement of Staff Sgt. Clarence Berry, regarding his time serving with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_Owen Wilfred Owen]] in the Great War. Original statement given 6th November 1922.-]
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Wilfred claims to have met "The War" on the battlefield, which he describes as a man-sized being with three faces and multiple hands holding various weapons, wearing an olive green wool coat with burned and scarred skin visible beneath.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Wilfred Owen, best known for his poem [[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est Dulce et Decorum Est]], made a deal with the manifestation of War in order to survive, only to die upon the eve of the armistice.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Wilfred describes The War as having three faces, one of which did not open its mouth, for when it did, blood and soil would come gushing out.
* MagicalFlutist: The War plays scrimshawed pipes of bone with one of its three faces
* TheProblemWithFightingDeath: Wilfred learns this lesson the hard way.
* ShellShockedVeteran: The doctor who treats Wilfred says that Wilfred has the worst case of shell-shock he's ever seen.
* ShownTheirWork: Pretty much all of the information regarding Wilfred Owen is accurate, down to him being found in a shell hole after several days.
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[[folder:8: Burned Out]]
[-Case #0071304. Statement of Ivo Lensik, regarding his experiences during the construction of a house on Hill Top Road, Oxford. Original statement given 13th March 2007.-]
* BloodyHorror: When Ivo hits the tree with the crowbar, it bleeds.
* CallForward: This statement contains details of several factions, characters, and plots that wouldn't become clear until a hundred or so statements later, including [[spoiler:Raymond Fielding of the Web, Agnes Montague of the Desolation, and Michael and Father Burroughs of the Spiral]], all converging on Hilltop Road.
* EvilIsBurningHot: While working at the house one night, Ivo realizes he's alone, and then feels heat radiating from his bones that increases until he feels like he's cooking inside.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: Ivo describes the walls of his father's study as being covered with drawings of fractals.
* SpiderSwarm: When Ivo takes the apple out of the box, it immediately shrivels and splits open, and hundreds of spiders come pouring out.
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[[folder:9: A Father's Love]]
[- Case #0020312. Statement of Julia Montauk, regarding the actions and motivations of her father, the serial killer Robert Montauk. Original statement given 3rd December 2002.-]
* CallBack: To Episode 7, wherein the name of the body that was found with Wilfred Owen is the same name as the defrocked minister who founded the Peoples' Church of the Divine Host - Maxwell Rayner.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Julia tells that her father, although a serial killer (who committed his murders during her childhood), always seemed to love her, and she believes his love was genuine. And unlike everyone else, she doesn't think her mother was one of his victims.
* KillerCop: Robert Montauk was a policeman and a serial killer.
* NothingIsScarier: The streetlights in Julia's neighborhood go out in succession, moving toward her house. Then there's a knock at the door, and then another, and another, with each one sounding less like a human, and more like wet meat slapping against the door.
* ThePowerOfLove: It's implied that Robert did what he did in order to protect Julia, though how or why or what from isn't clear.
* ReligionOfEvil: Whatever the hell Robert Montauk is a part of, it's nothing good.
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[[folder:10: Vampire Killer]]
[-Case #0100710. Statement of Trevor Herbert, regarding his life as a self-proclaimed vampire hunter. Original statement given 10th July 2010.-]
* AccidentalMurder: Self-proclaimed vampire-hunter Trevor Herbert admits to having killed two people he's not sure were vampires and one who he since realised definitely wasn't, but he adds the latter was a violent criminal, so he doesn't lose much sleep over it.
* ExtremelyDustyHome: The house of Sylvia [=McDonald=], who Trevor claims was the first vampire he killed, is covered in dust and mould except for a narrow strip along the floor where she walks, as if she has lived there for years but done absolutely nothing except walk through the place.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They cannot speak due to their throats not having room for anything but their tubular tongues, and instead communicate via hypnosis. They can also go out in sunlight.
* ShoutOut: Possibly; a vampire hunter named [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse Trevor]] features in an episode called Vampire Killer.
* UnreliableNarrator: Trevor's sanity is called into question throughout the episode, due to being an alcoholic tramp.
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[[folder:11: Dreamer]]
[-Case #0151403. Statement of Antonio Blake, regarding his recent dreams about [[spoiler:Gertrude Robinson, previous head archivist of the Magnus Institute]]. Original statement given 14th March 2015.-]
* AllJustADream: This episode reveals that the Magnus Institute rejects statements that can be attributed to dreams or hallucinations because they cannot be corroborated.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Antonio's statement, addressed directly to Gertrude, tells of the strange dreams he has had of various people's futures, including hers. [[spoiler:Specifically, of their deaths.]]
* NeverFoundTheBody: A variant: "Antonio Blake" gave his statement under a pseudonym, making following up on it impossible for the Institute.
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[[folder:12: First Aid]]
[-Case #01201102. Statement of Lesere Saraki, regarding a recent night shift at St. Thomas Hospital, London. Original statement given 11th February 2012.-]
* LesserOfTwoEvils: When Lesere realizes Gerard is going to [[spoiler:kill the unnamed man whose chanting is seemingly causing the strangeness in her statement]], she hesitates but ultimately allows him to pass. Gerard even says, "Yes, for you, better beholding than the lightless flame." [[spoiler: Since her only symptoms of Beholding influence is a vague sense of being watched at random times, it definitely seems she made the right choice.]]
* ManOnFire: Two patients are brought into the hospital completely covered in burns, but with their clothes somehow unharmed.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: The body of the man stabbed by [[spoiler:Gerard Keay]] instantly cremates itself.
* NominalHero: Although Gerard Kaey does save Lesere from being trapped in the abandoned hospital, his motivations are incredibly obscure at best. And given how many different opposing factions there are, it's difficult to say what side he's really on...
* PowerTattoo: One of the strange burned patients has tattoos of [[EyeMotifs eyes]] on various parts of his body. Those are the only unburned bits of skin below his neck.
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[[folder:13: Alone]]
[-Case #0161301. Statement of Naomi Herne, regarding the events following the funeral of her fiancé, Evan Lukas. Statement recorded direct from subject, 13th January 2016.-]
* MysteriousMist: Naomi gets lost in thick fog that, given the high winds, simply shouldn't be there. [[FromBadToWorse Her day doesn't get any less weird.]]
* OrWasItADream: Naomi isn't sure her experience wasn't merely in her imagination…except for a carved fragment of stone that she retrieved.
* TheFourLoves: Seemingly what saved Ms. Herne from her impending death.
* YouAreNotAlone: Just as Naomi feels hopelessly lost, she seems to hear [[spoiler:the voice of her dead fiancé Evan]] pointing her way.
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[[folder:14: Piecemeal]]
[-Case #0112905. Statement of Lee Rentoul, on the murder of his associate, Paul Noriega. Original statement given 29th May 2011.-]
* AssholeVictim: Lee is a violent criminal and all-around unpleasant person. His victim wasn't exactly a saint, either.
* BodyHorror: Imagine your body being pulled apart, bit by bit, and mailed to you in cardboard boxes. This happened to the VictimOfTheWeek: when his landlord went to clear his flat, they didn't find him... only 206 boxes scattered about.
* DramaticDeadpan: Lee is taken aback when Angela, a perfectly ordinary and harmless-looking old lady, talks calmly and matter-of-factly about having someone killed.
* EvilOldFolks: Angela seems like a harmless little old lady at first, but Lee, himself a hardened, violent criminal, recognises in her eyes the look of someone extremely nasty.
* HealingFactor: The body parts [[spoiler:Lee]] loses don't come back, but the wounds they leave behind heal instantly.
* LondonGangster: Lee seeks revenge on a fellow criminal who double-crossed him.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Angela is a friendly old lady whom even Lee recognises as someone very nasty and who offers to kill someone for him. When he gets angry with her [[spoiler:and lunges at her, he loses a hand and ''can't remember how it happened'']].
* SympatheticMagic: Angela can arrange someone's death as long as she has an object taken from the victim – not a gift, it has to have been ''taken''.
* TongueTrauma: Implied. The box Lee received before giving his statement contained a tongue.
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[[folder:15: Lost John's Cave]]
[-Case #0149011. Statement of Laura Popham, regarding her experience exploring the Three Counties System of caves with her sister, Aleana Sanderson. Original statement given 9th November 2014.-]
* {{Claustrophobia}}: Laura tries to make her way through a tunnel that gets tighter and tighter until she can no longer go forward. [[spoiler:When she tries to go back, she finds a solid wall of rock behind her.]]
* HearingVoices: At one point Laura hears Aleana ask her in a low, grating voice how lost she was. Laura snaps that they aren't lost at are, but when she looks at Aleana, she sees that her sister has a confused look on her face.
* MadnessMantra: From the addendum:
--> [[spoiler:"Take her, not me. Take her, not me. Take her, not me. Take her, not me. Take her, not me. Take her, not me.]]
* UnreliableNarrator: That something traumatic and terrifying befell Laura and her sister in the caves is not in dispute but her account is contradicted by that of her rescuers at almost every turn.
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[[folder:16: Arachnophobia]]
[-Case #0150409. Statement of Carlos Vittery, regarding his arachnophobia and its manifestations. Original statement given 9th April 2015.-]
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Jonathan casually dismisses Martin's concerns surrounding [[spoiler: Carlos' death, despite the fact that Carlos was found with unidentified organic matter blocking his throat and his corpse wrapped in spider's silk.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Carlos is found dead, covered in webs.]]
* IrrationalHatred: Carlos already hates spiders to begin with, even opening his statement as such, but the spider in this story inspires an intense rage beyond his usual distaste. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for Carlos, the spider hates him right back.]]
* KungShui: Carlos kicks and smashes his television to kill the spider sitting on the screen.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: "I. Hate. Spiders."
* SpidersAreScary: Carlos is plagued by one particular spider. Even though it's not particularly big, there's something horrible about it. He eventually realises that [[spoiler:it's somehow the same spider that started his arachnophobia when he was a child]].
* SpiderSwarm: Carlos' encounter with this as a child is the origin of his fear of spiders.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: Carlos' spider defense cat, [[PunnyName Major Tom]], outright refuses to go near the spider that's stalking Carlos. Over time he just straight up leaves the house, and eventually Carlos gives him over to a neighboring family.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Carlos is terrified of spiders, though his phobia is unusual – he has no problem with pictures or videos of spiders or even spider horror films, but seeing an actual spider, or knowing it's there, absolutely terrifies him.
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[[folder:17: The Bone Turner's Tale]]
[-Case #9991006. Statement of Sebastian Adekoya, regarding a new acquisition at Chiswick Library. Original statement given 10th June 1999.-]
* AssholeVictim: Sebastian's childhood friend Jared is now a hoodlum who alternates between engaging in petty crime and stopping into the library to bully Sebastian. The Bone Turner's Tale takes control of him almost instantly and then slowly [[spoiler: transforms him into a [[HumanoidAbomination Humanoid Abomination.]]]]
* BloodyHorror: All the books on the cart near ''The Bone Turner's Tale'' start bleeding. [[GenreSavvy Sebastian was sort of expecting something like that]].
* BodyHorror:
** When Jared's mother returns to the library, Sebastian notices that her arm is strangely twisted in its sling.
** In the Bone Turner's story, he yanks out one of the Miller's ribs to make a flute, killing him.
** When Jared Hopworth proper returns to the library (or at least, [[NotQuiteHuman something]] that has Jared's voice), Sebastian describes him as looking longer, and standing at an odd angle, as if his legs were stiff, and having sharp, pointed fingers. When Sebastian punches Jared, [[spoiler:he feels Jared's ribcage shut tight around his hand, as if it were trying to bite him.]]
* DeadlyBook: The Bone Turner's Tale. As the name might suggest, [[spoiler:it's a work of fiction that's presented as a story from the point of view of a pilgrim in ''Literature/CanterburyTales'', but without any sign that it was ever written in Middle English. Reading it gave Jared the ability to manipulate bone and flesh to the point where he was able to attach extra limbs.]] [[spoiler:Naturally, it's from Leitner's library.]]
* GenreSavvy: A reader of horror novels, Sebastian knows better than to directly touch the pages of the mysterious book that showed up out of nowhere and had a peculiar effect on the last guy who laid hands on it, as well as the guy's mother.
* HumanResources: The Boneturner makes a flute out of the Miller's rib.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Sebastian initially gives chase when [[spoiler: Jared steals the book]] but then he remembers the book isn't actually his problem or his responsibility. It doesn't even really belong to the library where he works. So he just lets it go and focuses on calling the police and making sure he keeps his own job, which he does. [[spoiler: Unfortunately it is implied that this didn't stop Jared from tracking down and twisting him to death anyway years later.]]
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Jared give himself a few modifications.
* PublicDomainCharacter: In the titular book, [[spoiler:the Bone Turner turns out to be one of the pilgrims in Geoffery Chaucer's ''Literature/CanterburyTales''. And the Bone Turner does... ''something'' to the Miller.]]
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[[folder:18: The Man Upstairs]]
[-Case #0081212. Statement of Christof Rudenko, regarding his interactions with a first floor resident of Welbeck House, Wandsworth. Original statement given 12th December 2008.-]
* CeilingBanger: Cristof hears the man upstairs banging on the walls and floor upstairs for an hour on multiple occasions. However, he's always reluctant to confront him over it.
* LonersAreFreaks: Christof says that while he came to recognize his other neighbors by passing them in the hall, other than the day he moved in, he never saw the man who lived above him.
* NauseaFuel: The descriptions of the state of the upstairs apartment. [[spoiler:Rotting meat stapled to the walls, the floor, to every available surface.]]
* SignatureScent: Christof describes his upstairs neighbor as having a smell halfway between "pavement after rain on a hot day" and "chicken that's starting to turn."
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[[folder:19: Confession (I)]]
[-Case #0113005. Statement of Father Edwin Burroughs, regarding his claimed demonic possession. Original statement given 30th May 2011.-]
* CallBack: This is the same priest Ivo Lensik got in contact with back in episode 8, and he gives his own side on some of the events from that case.
* EvilIsBurningHot: As with Ivo in "Burned Out," Father Burroughs also feels intense heat with no apparent source when he visits the house on Hill Top Road.
* GaggingOnYourWords: PlayedForHorror. Father Burroughs is physically unable to profess his faith, speak Jesus's name, and just barely chokes out speaking of God. He mentions he can no longer pray as well.
* HollywoodExorcism: Averted. Catholic exorcism and the problems that prompt it are presented as being much less dramatic and horrific than the Hollywood version. Most of the time.
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[[folder:20: Desecrated Host (II)]]
[-Case #0113005-B. Continuation of the statement of Father Edwin Burroughs, regarding his claimed demonic possession.-]
* ForDoomTheBellTolls: When the altar server in the weird mass opens his mouth, instead of words he makes the sound of a tolling bell. When Father Burroughs tries to speak there, the same thing happens. Later, when his former fellow priests visit him in prison, it's all he can hear when they speak to him.
* GeniusBonus: When you look up the gospel reading, Mark 9:14-19, it is about Jesus healing a demon-possessed boy who cannot speak or control his movements due to the possession...
* TwistedEucharist: Father Borroughs takes part in a creepy, hallucinatory mass that ends with him taking communion. He notes that the texture of the wafer is wrong, only to realize that he's [[ImAHumanitarian eating human flesh.]]
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[[folder:21: Freefall]]
[-Case #0022010. Statement of Moira Kelly, regarding the disappearance of her son Robert. Original statement given 20th October 2002.-]
* {{Cliffhanger}}: Jonathan's follow-up at the end of the episode is interrupted by [[spoiler:Martin]] bursting in, with Jonathan crying out "What are those things?!"
* IFellForHours: Robert Kelly had ''something'' happen to him on a skydive that caused him to fall for what seemed like hours through an endless, cloudless and sunless blue sky.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Moira Kelly cannot bear to think about what she saw happen to her son Robert, let alone find the words to describe it. The least inadequate description she can manage is [[spoiler:"the sky ate him"]].
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[[folder:22: Colony]]
[-Case #0161203. Statement of Martin Blackwood, archival assistant at the Magnus Institute, London, regarding a close encounter with [[spoiler:something he believes to have once been Jane Prentiss]]. Statement recorded direct from subject, 12th March 2016.-]
* GenreSavvy: Martin, following up an earlier statement, is looking around a CreepyBasement and hears a noise, and remarks that he's read enough of the archive's statements to know that following the noise is always a bad idea. He then [[DefiedTrope defies the trope]] and investigates it anyway, because [[HonorBeforeReason it's his job]].
* EvilPhone: Martin dropped his phone in the basement while running away. Two weeks ago. But [[spoiler: "Martin" has been texting Jonathan saying he has a stomach bug and can't come in.]] At the end of the episode [[spoiler: Jane texts them using his phone again, saying "we've had our fun" and the Archives can keep Martin.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: After spending the entire season dismissing basically every statement he's recorded and ragging on Martin, Jonathan not only does not immediately poke holes in his story, but offers to let Martin sleep in the Archives and says he will ask Elias to look into some extra security. This is because he takes [[spoiler: Jane Prentiss]] ''very seriously''.
* RoyalWe: The way [[spoiler: Jane Prentiss]] talks (well, texts), probably because [[spoiler: the thing that was once Jane is essentially an ambulatory bipedal worms' nest.]]
* TheVoiceless: Martin notes that the entity he encountered did not speak aloud because given what it was made of, there was no more room for a windpipe.
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[[folder:23: Schwartzwald]]
[-Case #8163103. Statement of Albrecht von Closen, regarding a discovered tomb near his estate in the Black Forest. Original statement given 21st March 1816.-]
* EyelessFace: The second time Albrecht encounters him, he realizes that the stranger's eye sockets are empty.
* SnowedIn: Albrecht is obliged by heavy snow (hardly surprising in the Black Forest in the early 19th century) to extend a visit to his nephew.
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[[folder:24: Strange Music]]
[-Case #0051701. Statement of Leanne Denikin, regarding an antique calliope organ she possessed briefly in August 2004. Original statement given 17th January 2005.-]
* CircusOfFear: The "Another Circus," discussed in the follow-up by Jonathan, to which he believes the calliope has some sort of connection.
* CreepyDoll: Leanne finds many in the attic of her grandfather's house, all but one with their lower jaws removed. Another is later discovered in the shape of her ex-boyfriend. [[spoiler:Said ex is found dead the next day, his lower jaw torn off.]]
* MagicMusic: Comes from a calliope with purportedly-supernatural properties.
* OminousPipeOrgan: Leanne finds one in her grandfather's loft, unusually a calliope rather than a church-style organ.
* SeinfeldianConversation: A ''very'' rare example of comic relief concerning the pronunciation of "calliope."
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[[folder:25: Growing Dark]]
[-Case #0151904. Statement of Mark Bilham, regarding events culminating in his visit to Hither Green Chapel. Original statement given 19th April 2015.-]
* BiggerOnTheInside: Hither Green Dissenters' Chapel.
* ElectromagneticGhosts: Originally believed to be the cause of the lights constantly going out in the narrator's girlfriend's flat. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out not to be supernatural, merely bizarre - his girlfriend's strange flatmate keeps unscrewing all the bulbs just enough to break the connections.]]
* EvilIsNotWellLit: A recurring theme. First, the lights keep going out in Kathy and Natalie's house. Then Mark discovers, after Kathy flees the house and he goes back, that Natalie has used everything to hand to board up the window and keep all light out. Later, when the narrator Mark is driving to the chapel he believes is at the centre of the weirdness, the street lamps and his car headlights seem strangely dim. When he enters the chapel it's pitch dark except for the light of torch, and seems to become BiggerOnTheInside when the torch goes out and revert when he lights another. The cult seems to worship darkness, or at least an entity associated with it called "Mr. Pitch".
* OminousLatinChanting: Although it's not in Latin: what the voices are saying is [[spoiler:[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ny-Ålesund Ny-Ålesund]]]].
* TheScully: Mark openly states he doesn't believe in the supernatural.
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[[folder:26: A Distortion]]
[-Case #0160204. Statement of Sasha James, assistant archivist at the Magnus Institute, London, regarding a series of paranormal sightings. Statement recorded direct from subject, 2nd April 2016.-]
* CallBack: To Episode 6, with [[spoiler:the infested corpse being that of Timothy Hodge]].
* CrypticConversation: Sasha and "Michael," full stop.
* GlamourFailure: While "Michael" looks human, the glamour fails if you look at it through warped glass (at which point it looks humanoid but stretched-out and boneless), and it definitely doesn't ''feel'' human.
* MysteriousStranger: "Michael's" true motivations are very indeterminate: although it protects Sasha by [[spoiler:removing a worm from burrowing into her shoulder]], it doesn't call itself an ally; and it states outright that it doesn't care if the Institute's employees died, although it wants to be "friends". The only thing determined about its allegiances is that it stands opposed to the Flesh Hive, calling it "always rash."
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: When Sasha asks what it is, "Michael" says it actually can't explain itself.
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[[folder:27: A Sturdy Lock]]
[-Case #0032408. Statement of Paul [=McKenzie=], regarding repeated nocturnal intrusions into his home. Original statement given 24th August 2003.-]
* BloodyHorror: The narrator struggles to keep a door closed as something on the other side tries to open it. When it finally gives up and he takes his hand away, it's covered in blood, though he has no injuries and the door handle is clean.
* LivingShadow: Paul sets up a camera to record whatever is tormenting him at night. [[spoiler:He sees nothing in the footage, except for a brief moment from one night when the shadows seem to form a leering face.]]
* PoliceAreUseless: Paul calls the police after something tries to open his bedroom door. Because there's no sign of a break-in and he's an old man living alone, they assume nothing happened and he's just going senile.
* SequelHook: Jon remarks at the end that Paul's son claims to have already made a statement to the institute when asked for a follow-up, and that it's probably lying around in the archive somewhere waiting to be found.
* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: In this case, it's things that rattle your doorknob in the night.
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[[folder:28: Skintight]]
[-Case #0161704. Statement of Melanie King, regarding events at the abandoned Cambridge Military Hospital during filming in January 2015. Statement recorded direct from subject, 17th April 2016.-]
* AbandonedHospital: This episode takes place in a RealLife one, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Military_Hospital Cambridge Military Hospital]], where a team of ghost-hunters go to investigate an alleged haunting (whose rumours are indeed old and well documented in RealLife) but find...something else.
* BodyHorror: Sarah Baldwin peeling back the skin of her arm and stapling it back into place.
* CallBack: To Episode 1, with the reappearance of Sarah Baldwin.
* HumanoidAbomination: A man that is all too tall was seen in the video recordings that Jonathan watched of the investigation, although the figure wasn't present at the time of recording.
* OccultDetective: Melanie King
* ParanormalInvestigation: Ghost Hunt UK
* TheRival: Melanie sees herself as something of the sort to the Magnus Institute, squabbling with Jonathan at the beginning of the episode over the latter's practices.
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[[folder:29: Cheating Death]]
[-Case #9720406. Statement of Nathaniel Thorp, regarding his own mortality. Original statement given 4th June 1972.-]
* ChessWithDeath: According to Nathaniel, Death offers a choice of games, including chess. It's impossible to win if you choose a game of skill. You're better off playing Roulette or another purely luck-based game instead. If you win [[ExactWords you will not die]], but BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor. [[spoiler:There are actually multiple Deaths, each of whom was once a mortal who, upon winning a game against a previous Death, was doomed to take over from them. Oh, and it's not just a folk tale - that narrator was one of them.]]
* ExactWords: Nathaniel starts off by telling a story of a soldier who challenged Death to a game in an attempt to save his life. He fails to notice that Death said [[spoiler:"if you win you shall not die" - it ''didn't'' say "you will live".]]
* {{Immortality}}: [[spoiler:Nathaniel]] if his word is to be believed, is over 200 years old.
* MortalityPhobia: The soldier in the folk story told by Nathaniel had a dread of death that went beyond ordinary fear, which is why he took care to position himself at the rear during battles, and why he desperately challenged Death to a game. [[spoiler:It turns out it wasn't just a folk story.]]
* TheProblemWithFightingDeath
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler:Nathaniel becomes immortal after beating Death at a game to escape dying - which dooms him to become a new Death until he can pass on the role to someone who beats him in turn. Even then he doesn't fully escape the curse - he cannot die, age, eat, drink or sleep, and constantly craves something unknown.]]
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[[folder:30: Killing Floor]]
[-Case #0130111. Statement of David Laylow, regarding his time working at an industrial abattoir near Dalston. Original statement given 1st November 2013.-]
* AlienGeometries: The layout of the abattoir follows very few laws of physics or mathematics.
* CreepyCleanliness: One of the first signs that something strange is going on in "Killing Floor" is when the narrator notices that the slaughterhouse is far cleaner than it should be.
* EndlessCorridor: The hallways are far longer than they should be, and twist and turn weirdly in ways that make no sense.
* SelfHarm: David finds one of the his colleagues at the slaughterhouse shooting himself with a bolt gun in various parts of his body.
* SickeningSlaughterhouse: The setting for this episode.
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[[folder:31: First Hunt]]
[-Case #0100912. Statement of Lawrence Mortimer, regarding his hunting trip to Blue Ridge, Virginia. Original statement given 9th December 2010.-]
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: While he was definitely panicked and at a disadvantage, Lawrence deliberately pretends to be helpless and no kind of threat, in the hope that the hunter will get sloppy and make mistakes. When the hunter gets close enough, Lawrence unleashes his RAF training to throw him to the ground, and shoot him several times before he can get back up.
* GunNut: Lawrence is keen on guns and shooting but is limited in pursuing his interest by the UK's restrictive gun laws. When he visits America to hunt with his internet-friend Arden Neally he is excited by Arden's gun collection.
* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: A very literal example this.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: The mysterious hunter in "First Hunt".
* ManlyMenCanHunt: This is very much the attitude of Lawrence's American friend Arden Neally in "First Hunt".
* MisplacedWildlife: Several listeners have pointed out that you're not going to find elk in Virginia; the closest thing would be white tailed deer.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Lawrence finds one in the United States. He looks like a normal human. A very sharp, drooling human capable of tracking and running through a forest with ease and [[spoiler:surviving two rifles' worth of gunshot wounds]].
* SlasherSmile: The strange hunter's smile seems to have "far too many teeth to it".
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[[folder:32: Hive]]
[-Case #0142302. Statement of Jane Prentiss, regarding a wasp's nest in her attic. Original statement given 23rd February 2014.-]
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Jane Prentiss becomes host of a sentient colony of demonic worms slowly enough to record her experience in the Magnus Archive]]
* ArcWords: Jane repeatedly says "There is a wasp nest in my attic" and "I itch" throughout her deposition, sometimes the placement is not quite fitting, bordering on MadnessMantra.
* BeeAfraid: There is a wasp's hive in Jane's attic. Or at least, something like a wasp's hive.
* HeroicBSOD: Jonathan suffers one when recording his comments at the end of Jane Prentiss's statement. By this time Prentiss has already put two of his assistants through traumatic danger and appears to be indirectly and slowly attacking the Institute, so his distress is hardly surprising.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Jane has always wanted this. Part of the way the [[spoiler: Flesh Hive converts her into its main host rather than just a breeding ground]] is by telling her every single component of it loves her. How much she likes this goes back and forth over the course of her statement.
* MadOracle: This appears to have been a side effect of [[spoiler:the infestation of Jane Prentiss.]] Jane's statement is a mad, rambling, stream-of-consciousness rant that includes premonitions about the future of Gertrude and the Institute.
* NothingIsScarier: Invoked. The Flesh Hive hates the Archives because the job of the Archives is to learn about and understand things--and if people understand the Flesh Hive, they won't be as scared of it.
* VillainEpisode: We hear first hand from resident BigBad [[spoiler:Jane Prentiss, on [[MushroomSamba what life being slowly]] [[WormThatWalks taken over by a horde of flesh eating]] [[NightmareFuel demonic worms]] is like. Even [[AgentScully Jonathan]] [[TheStoic Sims]] is extremely disturbed.]]
* WordSaladHorror: The VictimOfTheWeek has very obviously lost much of her mind at the time of the statement.
* TheWormThatWalks: The Flesh Hive.
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[[folder:33: Boatswain's Call]]
[-Case #0110201. Statement of Carlita Sloane, regarding her work on a container ship travelling from Southampton to Porto do Itaqui. Original statement given 9th December 2010.-]
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Compared to his later AffablyEvil demeanor, Peter Lukas is much curter and less polite in this episode.
* GoodOldWays: Inverted by the ship ''Tundra'' - the mate's eponymous whistle and the old-fashioned wooden lifeboat with oars belie (or perhaps portend) the evil that is aboard.
* HellIsThatNoise: The eponymous whistle.
* ItsQuietTooQuiet: The crew of the ship strenuously avoid talking to each other, until after one of them disappears, seemingly having been chosen to be thrown overboard.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The recording begins with Tim discussing various continuity errors in prior statements supposedly reported by students listening to the statements.
* NothingIsScarier: Carlita wonders with dread what she will find inside the container she examines on the ship. It turns out to be completely empty. This does not reassure her.
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[[folder:34: Anatomy Class]]
[-Case #0161207. Statement of Dr. Lionel Elliott, regarding a series of events that took place during his class Introduction to Human Anatomy and Physiology, at Kings College, London. Statement recorded direct from subject, 12th July 2016.-]
* [[CreepyChild Creepy University Students]]
* BeatStillMyHeart: The unusual anatomy students attempt to figure out how a human heart is supposed to beat while in the dissection lab. It gets bloody.
* BloodyHorror: The student's attempts to mimic a heart beating ends up coating the room in blood. Creepily, when the professor returns after composing himself, the blood is gone, except for a tiny amount in one of the tiles.
* DrivenToSuicide: The next professor who gets stuck with these particular students ends up killing himself. He leaves a note that says his body may ''not'' be used for science, and especially not for teaching.
* MrSmith: The students' names are all placeholder names for missing persons in various countries, ex. John Doe. While the subject didn't pick up on this at the time, Jonathan notices it in his post-statement follow up.
* TheNondescript: The students all look so normal that Dr. Elliott, despite having taught them for most of a term, can't remember what they looked like. And they all wear similar clothes: blue jeans or denim skirt and a white shirt. It is hinted that this is a deliberate effort on their part to seem like normal people, or, rather, [[spoiler:like ''people'' at all]].
* SomebodyNamedNobody: Each of the students has the Unidentifiable Person placeholder name for the culture they're supposed to have come from: Erika Mustermann, Jan Novak, Piotr and Pavel Petrov, John Doe, Fulan al-Fulani and Juan Pérez. Jonathan is a little dissappointed that Dr. Elliott did not pick up on this.
* TransformationHorror: When Dr. Elliott shows the students skeletons, he keeps hearing awful cracking noises when he turns his back, but the skeletons are all intact when he looks. Finally he gets a glance at the right (or wrong) moment, and realizes the cracking noises are the ''students'' changing the shape of their bones to match.
* UncannyValley: How the mannerisms of the students come off.
* TheUnSmile: When Dr. Elliott visits the students at their residence, the one who greets him twists her mouth into something that might have meant to be a smile.
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[[folder:35: Old Passages]]
[-Case #0020406. Statement of Harold Silvana, regarding discoveries made during the renovation of the Reform Club, Pall Mall. Original statement given 4th June 2002.-]
* ArcNumber: [[spoiler:It's mentioned that there are 14 passages leading to the center chamber, which is a first hint about how to categorize the events happening in the series.]]
* EmoTeen: Gerard Keay shows up as a teenager, likely recovering a Leitner.
* SmokyGentlemensClub: The use of one by an occult society, and later renovation, are the subject of the episode.
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[[folder:36: Taken Ill]]
[-Case #0121911. Statement of Nicole Baxter, regarding visits culminating in the fire that consumed Ivy Meadows Care Home in Woodley, Greater Manchester. Original statement given November 19th, 2012.-]
* BleakAbyssRetirementHome: Averted initially, but once John Amherst takes over, Ivy Meadows Care Home becomes filthy and run down.
* DefinitelyJustACold: Nicole reports feeling a tingling in her hand periodically after transporting a diseased body and repeatedly scrubbing whenever it resurfaces. Said hand has later been amputated in what she terms a "workplace-related accident", implying that the disease continued plaguing her until she took drastic measures.
* FliesEqualsEvil: Nicole's partner Josh is unnerved when a fly lands on John Amherst's face and crawls over his eye, and he doesn't react. In a subsequent visit, [[spoiler:Nicole encounters Alenka, a nurse at Ivy Meadows. She's covered in a rash, and when she screams, a swarm of flies come out of her mouth.]]
* OutDamnedSpot: Nicole's hand briefly touches the body, albeit with leather gloves on, and afterward compulsively scrubs at her hands over and over. She even concludes her statement with "I need to go wash my hands."
* ThePlague: The subject of the episode, though its exact nature is unknown. [[spoiler:It's heavily implied to be related somehow to the Flesh Hive.]]
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[[folder:37: Burnt Offering]]
[-Case #0090608. Statement of Jason North, regarding the discovery of an alleged ritual site found near Loch Glass in Scotland. Original statement given August 6th, 2009.-]
* EvilIsBurningHot: When Jason enters a mysterious clearing, he suddenly feels extremely hot. He tries to take a drink of water, only to find that it's boiling. He then notices scorch marks and the bodies of burned animals on the ground.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Jason eventually committed suicide by [[ManOnFire dousing himself in petrol and lit himself on fire.]] His son Ethan was placed in foster care.]]
* HeroicBSOD: Both Jason and Jonathan have entered one: Jason was terrified of losing Ethan and didn't understand why he had gone through so much hell just for breaking a bottle, while Jonathan is starting to get overwhelmed by the sheer volume of unexplainable events he finds himself in the middle of.
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[[folder:38: Lost and Found]]
[-Case #0120606. Statement of Andre Ramao, regarding a series of misplaced objects lost over the course of three months. Original statement given June 6th 2012.-]
* ArtifactOfDoom: After Andre acquires the vase, it starts messing with his life. [[spoiler: Judging by the hand that emerges from it near the end of the statement, it's something like a SummoningArtifact as well.]]
* AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage: Late one night, Andre awakens to see everything that had gone missing over the last few months [[spoiler: come tumbling out of the vase, one by one (even things that seemed to be [[BiggerOnTheInside too big to fit inside it.)]] These are followed by a hand with long fingers creeping above the brim of the vase.]]
* CassandraTruth: Andre's husband David refuses to believe Andre when [[ItWasHereISwear Andre tells him about the things that have gone missing]], to the point where Andre begins to wonder if David is intentionally {{gaslighting}} him.
* ClingyMacGuffin: Although the vase is a valuable antique, Andre is unable to sell it. Something always happens to derail the sale before it can be completed. What's more, the person he bought it from forgets that he ever sold it, and he refuses to take it back, claiming that he can't remember ever having it to begin with.
* RunOrDie: [[spoiler: Jonathan yells at Sasha to run at the episode when Jane Prentiss launches her attack on the Institute.]]
* {{Unperson}}: After his missing items return, [[spoiler: Andre discovers that his husband has disappeared, and that according to his housing association, Andre had always lived alone. When Tim investigates, he finds a copy of Andre's marriage certificate, but the half of it that should contain David's information is blank.]]
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[[folder:39: Infestation]]
[-Case #0160729-A. [[spoiler:Original recording of Jane Prentiss' attack upon the Magnus Institute, London, 29th July 2016]].-]
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: The Institute itself comes under attack.
* ApocalypticLog: Rather than the usual format for this series, this is instead a haphazard jumble of recordings hastily made while dealing with The Infestation, primarily by Jonathan and Sasha. Sasha's tape dissappeared in the aftermath of the incident.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Martin calls out Jonathan on the fact that after everything he's seen, he still insists on disregarding obviously supernatural phenomenon, and insisting on more rational explanations even if they don't make sense. Jonathan admits he's right, and that this is a coping mechanism for all the horror he's been exposed to.
* BadassNormal: [[spoiler: Sasha]].
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler: Sasha is killed and replaced by whatever is in the fractal-patterned table from MAG 3.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: Whatever is left of [[spoiler:Jane Prentiss]] is far from human.
* PrecisionFStrike: After nearly 40 episodes of [[TheStoic stoically]] documenting a terrifying range of paranormal occurences, our narrator finally curses when entering the archive, [[spoiler:running head first into [[HumanoidAbomination Jane Prentiss]]]].
* WhamEpisode: Oh boy! [[spoiler: The Archive is invaded by a horde of flesh eating worms in the shape of [[BigBad Jane Prentiss]], several case files were destroyed (hinted to contain critical information pertaining to the wider mystery arc), and Sasha is likely dead and [[GrandTheftMe replaced]] by [[HumanoidAbomination something else]]]].
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[[folder: 40: Human Remains]]
[-Case #0160729-B. Statement of [[spoiler:Elias Bouchard, Timothy Stoker, Sasha James and Martin Blackwood,]] regarding [[spoiler:the infestation of the Magnus Institute by the entity formerly known as Jane Prentiss.]]-]
* DoubleMeaningTitle: Referring to the survival of [[spoiler: Team Magnus]] after the events of the previous episode [[spoiler:and the discovery of the remains of Gertrude Robinson in the catacombs under the archive.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Jonathan is especially unnerved to learn that [[spoiler:despite all the sinister supernatural forces he'd learned of in just the last year with all their terrifying, torturous ways to kill people, Gertrude Robinson was killed by ''an ordinary handgun''.]]
* VerbalTic: When Jon talks to [[spoiler:the... ''thing'' posing as Sasha]], [[spoiler:they]] begin every response with "Yes", even when the sentences become awkwardly structured:
-->'''Jon:'''You used to work [in the artifact storage room], didn't you?\\
'''[[spoiler:Not!Sasha]]:''' Yes. For three months. It was dreadful, I used to think that it was the most dangerous place in the institute.\\
'''Jon:''' Not anymore...\\
'''[[spoiler:Not!Sasha]]:''' Yes. Not anymore.
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[-Case #0122204. Statement of Nathan Watts, regarding an encounter on Old Fishmarket Close, Edinburgh. Original statement given 22nd April 2012.-]
* AlluringAnglerfish: Something uses a lure in the form of a man asking for a cigarette in an attempt to ensnare Nathan.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: The figure in the alleyway asks for a cigarette without moving its lips, and its feet never touched the ground. As if it were hanging in midair. When Nathan tries to record it, they fold up like a piece of paper and are pulled away as if on a string... or a lure.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: After taking a tumble on a steep road, Nathan decides to have a cigarette to calm his nerves.
* {{Infodump}}: After testing his recorder, Jonathan starts the episode by describing his goals: to digitize the Institute's atrociously-organized archives. He also introduces his assistants (Sasha, Tim and Martin); as well as describing his animosity for his predecessor, Gertrude Robinson.
* TooDumbToLive: Averted with Nathan, who decides that if the creepy stranger really wants a cigarette he can darn well come out of the dark alley to get it, but played straight with the six probable victims.
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[[folder:2: Do Not Open]]
[-Case #9982211. Statement of Joshua Gellespie, regarding his time in the possession of an apparently empty wooden casket. Original statement given 22nd November 1998.-]
* BeardnessProtectionProgram: Joshua hopes the beard he has grown in the months since meeting "John" will prevent the latter from finding or recognising him. It doesn't.
* CoffinContraband: Joshua finds himself looking after a strange coffin containing… something.
* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: Over time, Joshua sort of gets used to the creepy coffin in his living room that makes noises and compels him to try and open it while sleepwalking. It's still immensely creepy, and he's more than happy when John and the movers arrive to get rid of it.
* DontTouchItYouIdiot: The coffin in "Do Not Open" has those three words scratched on its lid. Thankfully, the protagonist ''isn't'' TooDumbToLive and was smart enough not to do so. Though it's not for lack of trying on the part of the coffin.
* FreestateAmsterdam: The statement begins with Joshua and his friends (all recent graduates) going on holiday to Amsterdam, for exactly the reasons you'd expect (though he also takes time to [[IReadItForTheArticles admire the architecture]]).
* NothingIsScarier: Joshua does ''not'' want to know what's in the box, so he doesn't look when the delivery men and John come back for it, meaning the listener never learns either. [[spoiler: Except that it does ''something'' to John, or John does something to it, that results in horrible screams and John vanishing.]]
* SchmuckBait: Averted, as Joshua is smart enough not to open the package from [[AmbiguouslyEvil Breekon And Hope.]] John seems surprised and impressed that he's still alive, which suggests this has happened before and other people were not so smart.
* {{Sleepwalking}}: Whatever is in the casket makes Joshua start doing this--he refuses to open it while he's awake, but he keeps waking up with the key in hand, headed for the lock. Luckily, cold wakes him up, so he's able to stop it by keeping the key in a block of ice.
* SpotOfTea: How Joshua tries to calm himself down when the casket starts to disturb him.
* TheNondescript: Joshua has tried to recall details about John's appearance over the years, but can only vaguely recall a short man with brownish hair
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[[folder:3: Across the Street]]
[-Case #0070107. Statement of Amy Patel, regarding the alleged disappearance of her acquaintance Graham Folger. Original statement given 1st July 2007.-]
* ChangelingTale: The creature in this episode [[KillAndReplace replaces its victim,]] and [[RealityWarper makes everyone believe that it's the person it replaced.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: Whatever happened to Graham.
* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: While this is the case with a lot of early episodes, this is a particular example. What at first listen sounds like just another Statement Of The Week is actually the first appearance of [[spoiler: Not!Them, the primary antagonist of season two and a major presence for the rest of the podcast.]]
* ParanoiaFuel: Applies to Graham at first, and Amy by the end of the episode.
* PerceptionFilter: The creature in this episode has the ability to make everyone (except Amy) see it as its victim. Curiously, although it makes itself look human, it doesn't look like its victim, but everyone who sees it thinks that's what its victim has always looked like. Specifically, Graham has short dark hair, whereas Not-Graham has blonde curly hair, is shorter, and has a completely different face, but aside from Amy, nobody notices any difference.
* WindowWatcher: Amy confesses that this is her hobby. She does not enjoy being on the receiving end of it from [[spoiler:Not-Graham.]]
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[[folder:4: Page Turner]]
[-Case #0132806. Statement of Dominic Swain, regarding a book briefly in his possession in the winter of 2012. Original statement given 28th June 2013.-]
* DeadlyBook: Ex Altiora. It's filled with images of tall mountains that induce a sense of vertigo in all who view them, and appears to have the ability to read minds, as [[spoiler:it displayed a Lichtenberg figure identical to that which covered the body of Dominic's childhood friend after he got struck by lightning.]] [[spoiler:This is the first Leitner tome encountered in the series.]]
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Gerard Kaey disposed of ''Ex Altiora'' by burning it in Dominic's trash can.]]
* SpookyPainting: One of the woodcuts in the book ''Ex Altiora'', of a starry sky, is strangely compelling. Dominic spends nearly an hour looking at it without realising it.
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[[folder:5: Thrown Away]]
[-Case #0092302. Statement of Keiran Woodward, regarding items recovered from the refuse of 93 Lancaster Road, Walthamstowe. Original statement given 23rd February 2009.-]
* CreepyDoll: Disembodied doll heads are the first items to be found in the trash bags.
* ExhaustedEyeBags: As Alan loses sleep, Keiran notices the bags under Alan's eyes getting deeper, and sees him [[MustHaveCaffeine drink multiple energy drinks]] to get through his shift.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Unusually, all the teeth were identical, but in various states of decay.
* MysteriousNote: Late one night Keiran receives a text from Alan that says "FOUND HIM." Alan doesn't respond to any of Keiran's texts, [[spoiler:and Keiran never sees or hears from him again.]]
* SleepDeprivation: Alan becomes obsessed with discovering whoever is leaving the trash bags at number 93, so he begins watching the house at night. The lack of sleep takes its toll, until eventually he falls asleep at work, causes an accident, and is fired.
* StressVomit: Keiran's coworker David vomits after the teeth spill out of the trash bag.
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[[folder:6: Squirm]]
[-Case #0140912. Statement of Timothy Hodge, regarding his sexual encounter with Harriet Lee and her subsequent death. Original statement given 9th December 2014.-]
* DeathBySex: Immediately after Harriet and Timothy have sex, she dies.
* KillItWithFire: Timothy's response to seeing what happened to Harriet is to set his flat on fire. Given the circumstances, it was more than reasonable.
* NauseaFuel: When Timothy returns to the room, [[spoiler:he finds that all that is left of Harriet is a warped mass of flesh covered in black liquid, and the walls and bed covered in a layer of writhing worms.]]
* TheWormThatWalks: Our first introduction to [[ArcVillain Jane Prentiss]], via one of her victims.
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[[folder:7: The Piper]]
[-Case #9220611. Statement of Staff Sgt. Clarence Berry, regarding his time serving with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_Owen Wilfred Owen]] in the Great War. Original statement given 6th November 1922.-]
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Wilfred claims to have met "The War" on the battlefield, which he describes as a man-sized being with three faces and multiple hands holding various weapons, wearing an olive green wool coat with burned and scarred skin visible beneath.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Wilfred Owen, best known for his poem [[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est Dulce et Decorum Est]], made a deal with the manifestation of War in order to survive, only to die upon the eve of the armistice.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Wilfred describes The War as having three faces, one of which did not open its mouth, for when it did, blood and soil would come gushing out.
* MagicalFlutist: The War plays scrimshawed pipes of bone with one of its three faces
* TheProblemWithFightingDeath: Wilfred learns this lesson the hard way.
* ShellShockedVeteran: The doctor who treats Wilfred says that Wilfred has the worst case of shell-shock he's ever seen.
* ShownTheirWork: Pretty much all of the information regarding Wilfred Owen is accurate, down to him being found in a shell hole after several days.
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[[folder:8: Burned Out]]
[-Case #0071304. Statement of Ivo Lensik, regarding his experiences during the construction of a house on Hill Top Road, Oxford. Original statement given 13th March 2007.-]
* BloodyHorror: When Ivo hits the tree with the crowbar, it bleeds.
* CallForward: This statement contains details of several factions, characters, and plots that wouldn't become clear until a hundred or so statements later, including [[spoiler:Raymond Fielding of the Web, Agnes Montague of the Desolation, and Michael and Father Burroughs of the Spiral]], all converging on Hilltop Road.
* EvilIsBurningHot: While working at the house one night, Ivo realizes he's alone, and then feels heat radiating from his bones that increases until he feels like he's cooking inside.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: Ivo describes the walls of his father's study as being covered with drawings of fractals.
* SpiderSwarm: When Ivo takes the apple out of the box, it immediately shrivels and splits open, and hundreds of spiders come pouring out.
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[[folder:9: A Father's Love]]
[- Case #0020312. Statement of Julia Montauk, regarding the actions and motivations of her father, the serial killer Robert Montauk. Original statement given 3rd December 2002.-]
* CallBack: To Episode 7, wherein the name of the body that was found with Wilfred Owen is the same name as the defrocked minister who founded the Peoples' Church of the Divine Host - Maxwell Rayner.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Julia tells that her father, although a serial killer (who committed his murders during her childhood), always seemed to love her, and she believes his love was genuine. And unlike everyone else, she doesn't think her mother was one of his victims.
* KillerCop: Robert Montauk was a policeman and a serial killer.
* NothingIsScarier: The streetlights in Julia's neighborhood go out in succession, moving toward her house. Then there's a knock at the door, and then another, and another, with each one sounding less like a human, and more like wet meat slapping against the door.
* ThePowerOfLove: It's implied that Robert did what he did in order to protect Julia, though how or why or what from isn't clear.
* ReligionOfEvil: Whatever the hell Robert Montauk is a part of, it's nothing good.
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[[folder:10: Vampire Killer]]
[-Case #0100710. Statement of Trevor Herbert, regarding his life as a self-proclaimed vampire hunter. Original statement given 10th July 2010.-]
* AccidentalMurder: Self-proclaimed vampire-hunter Trevor Herbert admits to having killed two people he's not sure were vampires and one who he since realised definitely wasn't, but he adds the latter was a violent criminal, so he doesn't lose much sleep over it.
* ExtremelyDustyHome: The house of Sylvia [=McDonald=], who Trevor claims was the first vampire he killed, is covered in dust and mould except for a narrow strip along the floor where she walks, as if she has lived there for years but done absolutely nothing except walk through the place.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They cannot speak due to their throats not having room for anything but their tubular tongues, and instead communicate via hypnosis. They can also go out in sunlight.
* ShoutOut: Possibly; a vampire hunter named [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse Trevor]] features in an episode called Vampire Killer.
* UnreliableNarrator: Trevor's sanity is called into question throughout the episode, due to being an alcoholic tramp.
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[[folder:11: Dreamer]]
[-Case #0151403. Statement of Antonio Blake, regarding his recent dreams about [[spoiler:Gertrude Robinson, previous head archivist of the Magnus Institute]]. Original statement given 14th March 2015.-]
* AllJustADream: This episode reveals that the Magnus Institute rejects statements that can be attributed to dreams or hallucinations because they cannot be corroborated.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Antonio's statement, addressed directly to Gertrude, tells of the strange dreams he has had of various people's futures, including hers. [[spoiler:Specifically, of their deaths.]]
* NeverFoundTheBody: A variant: "Antonio Blake" gave his statement under a pseudonym, making following up on it impossible for the Institute.
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[[folder:12: First Aid]]
[-Case #01201102. Statement of Lesere Saraki, regarding a recent night shift at St. Thomas Hospital, London. Original statement given 11th February 2012.-]
* LesserOfTwoEvils: When Lesere realizes Gerard is going to [[spoiler:kill the unnamed man whose chanting is seemingly causing the strangeness in her statement]], she hesitates but ultimately allows him to pass. Gerard even says, "Yes, for you, better beholding than the lightless flame." [[spoiler: Since her only symptoms of Beholding influence is a vague sense of being watched at random times, it definitely seems she made the right choice.]]
* ManOnFire: Two patients are brought into the hospital completely covered in burns, but with their clothes somehow unharmed.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: The body of the man stabbed by [[spoiler:Gerard Keay]] instantly cremates itself.
* NominalHero: Although Gerard Kaey does save Lesere from being trapped in the abandoned hospital, his motivations are incredibly obscure at best. And given how many different opposing factions there are, it's difficult to say what side he's really on...
* PowerTattoo: One of the strange burned patients has tattoos of [[EyeMotifs eyes]] on various parts of his body. Those are the only unburned bits of skin below his neck.
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[[folder:13: Alone]]
[-Case #0161301. Statement of Naomi Herne, regarding the events following the funeral of her fiancé, Evan Lukas. Statement recorded direct from subject, 13th January 2016.-]
* MysteriousMist: Naomi gets lost in thick fog that, given the high winds, simply shouldn't be there. [[FromBadToWorse Her day doesn't get any less weird.]]
* OrWasItADream: Naomi isn't sure her experience wasn't merely in her imagination…except for a carved fragment of stone that she retrieved.
* TheFourLoves: Seemingly what saved Ms. Herne from her impending death.
* YouAreNotAlone: Just as Naomi feels hopelessly lost, she seems to hear [[spoiler:the voice of her dead fiancé Evan]] pointing her way.
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[[folder:14: Piecemeal]]
[-Case #0112905. Statement of Lee Rentoul, on the murder of his associate, Paul Noriega. Original statement given 29th May 2011.-]
* AssholeVictim: Lee is a violent criminal and all-around unpleasant person. His victim wasn't exactly a saint, either.
* BodyHorror: Imagine your body being pulled apart, bit by bit, and mailed to you in cardboard boxes. This happened to the VictimOfTheWeek: when his landlord went to clear his flat, they didn't find him... only 206 boxes scattered about.
* DramaticDeadpan: Lee is taken aback when Angela, a perfectly ordinary and harmless-looking old lady, talks calmly and matter-of-factly about having someone killed.
* EvilOldFolks: Angela seems like a harmless little old lady at first, but Lee, himself a hardened, violent criminal, recognises in her eyes the look of someone extremely nasty.
* HealingFactor: The body parts [[spoiler:Lee]] loses don't come back, but the wounds they leave behind heal instantly.
* LondonGangster: Lee seeks revenge on a fellow criminal who double-crossed him.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Angela is a friendly old lady whom even Lee recognises as someone very nasty and who offers to kill someone for him. When he gets angry with her [[spoiler:and lunges at her, he loses a hand and ''can't remember how it happened'']].
* SympatheticMagic: Angela can arrange someone's death as long as she has an object taken from the victim – not a gift, it has to have been ''taken''.
* TongueTrauma: Implied. The box Lee received before giving his statement contained a tongue.
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[[folder:15: Lost John's Cave]]
[-Case #0149011. Statement of Laura Popham, regarding her experience exploring the Three Counties System of caves with her sister, Aleana Sanderson. Original statement given 9th November 2014.-]
* {{Claustrophobia}}: Laura tries to make her way through a tunnel that gets tighter and tighter until she can no longer go forward. [[spoiler:When she tries to go back, she finds a solid wall of rock behind her.]]
* HearingVoices: At one point Laura hears Aleana ask her in a low, grating voice how lost she was. Laura snaps that they aren't lost at are, but when she looks at Aleana, she sees that her sister has a confused look on her face.
* MadnessMantra: From the addendum:
--> [[spoiler:"Take her, not me. Take her, not me. Take her, not me. Take her, not me. Take her, not me. Take her, not me.]]
* UnreliableNarrator: That something traumatic and terrifying befell Laura and her sister in the caves is not in dispute but her account is contradicted by that of her rescuers at almost every turn.
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[[folder:16: Arachnophobia]]
[-Case #0150409. Statement of Carlos Vittery, regarding his arachnophobia and its manifestations. Original statement given 9th April 2015.-]
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Jonathan casually dismisses Martin's concerns surrounding [[spoiler: Carlos' death, despite the fact that Carlos was found with unidentified organic matter blocking his throat and his corpse wrapped in spider's silk.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Carlos is found dead, covered in webs.]]
* IrrationalHatred: Carlos already hates spiders to begin with, even opening his statement as such, but the spider in this story inspires an intense rage beyond his usual distaste. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for Carlos, the spider hates him right back.]]
* KungShui: Carlos kicks and smashes his television to kill the spider sitting on the screen.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: "I. Hate. Spiders."
* SpidersAreScary: Carlos is plagued by one particular spider. Even though it's not particularly big, there's something horrible about it. He eventually realises that [[spoiler:it's somehow the same spider that started his arachnophobia when he was a child]].
* SpiderSwarm: Carlos' encounter with this as a child is the origin of his fear of spiders.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: Carlos' spider defense cat, [[PunnyName Major Tom]], outright refuses to go near the spider that's stalking Carlos. Over time he just straight up leaves the house, and eventually Carlos gives him over to a neighboring family.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Carlos is terrified of spiders, though his phobia is unusual – he has no problem with pictures or videos of spiders or even spider horror films, but seeing an actual spider, or knowing it's there, absolutely terrifies him.
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[[folder:17: The Bone Turner's Tale]]
[-Case #9991006. Statement of Sebastian Adekoya, regarding a new acquisition at Chiswick Library. Original statement given 10th June 1999.-]
* AssholeVictim: Sebastian's childhood friend Jared is now a hoodlum who alternates between engaging in petty crime and stopping into the library to bully Sebastian. The Bone Turner's Tale takes control of him almost instantly and then slowly [[spoiler: transforms him into a [[HumanoidAbomination Humanoid Abomination.]]]]
* BloodyHorror: All the books on the cart near ''The Bone Turner's Tale'' start bleeding. [[GenreSavvy Sebastian was sort of expecting something like that]].
* BodyHorror:
** When Jared's mother returns to the library, Sebastian notices that her arm is strangely twisted in its sling.
** In the Bone Turner's story, he yanks out one of the Miller's ribs to make a flute, killing him.
** When Jared Hopworth proper returns to the library (or at least, [[NotQuiteHuman something]] that has Jared's voice), Sebastian describes him as looking longer, and standing at an odd angle, as if his legs were stiff, and having sharp, pointed fingers. When Sebastian punches Jared, [[spoiler:he feels Jared's ribcage shut tight around his hand, as if it were trying to bite him.]]
* DeadlyBook: The Bone Turner's Tale. As the name might suggest, [[spoiler:it's a work of fiction that's presented as a story from the point of view of a pilgrim in ''Literature/CanterburyTales'', but without any sign that it was ever written in Middle English. Reading it gave Jared the ability to manipulate bone and flesh to the point where he was able to attach extra limbs.]] [[spoiler:Naturally, it's from Leitner's library.]]
* GenreSavvy: A reader of horror novels, Sebastian knows better than to directly touch the pages of the mysterious book that showed up out of nowhere and had a peculiar effect on the last guy who laid hands on it, as well as the guy's mother.
* HumanResources: The Boneturner makes a flute out of the Miller's rib.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Sebastian initially gives chase when [[spoiler: Jared steals the book]] but then he remembers the book isn't actually his problem or his responsibility. It doesn't even really belong to the library where he works. So he just lets it go and focuses on calling the police and making sure he keeps his own job, which he does. [[spoiler: Unfortunately it is implied that this didn't stop Jared from tracking down and twisting him to death anyway years later.]]
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Jared give himself a few modifications.
* PublicDomainCharacter: In the titular book, [[spoiler:the Bone Turner turns out to be one of the pilgrims in Geoffery Chaucer's ''Literature/CanterburyTales''. And the Bone Turner does... ''something'' to the Miller.]]
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[[folder:18: The Man Upstairs]]
[-Case #0081212. Statement of Christof Rudenko, regarding his interactions with a first floor resident of Welbeck House, Wandsworth. Original statement given 12th December 2008.-]
* CeilingBanger: Cristof hears the man upstairs banging on the walls and floor upstairs for an hour on multiple occasions. However, he's always reluctant to confront him over it.
* LonersAreFreaks: Christof says that while he came to recognize his other neighbors by passing them in the hall, other than the day he moved in, he never saw the man who lived above him.
* NauseaFuel: The descriptions of the state of the upstairs apartment. [[spoiler:Rotting meat stapled to the walls, the floor, to every available surface.]]
* SignatureScent: Christof describes his upstairs neighbor as having a smell halfway between "pavement after rain on a hot day" and "chicken that's starting to turn."
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[[folder:19: Confession (I)]]
[-Case #0113005. Statement of Father Edwin Burroughs, regarding his claimed demonic possession. Original statement given 30th May 2011.-]
* CallBack: This is the same priest Ivo Lensik got in contact with back in episode 8, and he gives his own side on some of the events from that case.
* EvilIsBurningHot: As with Ivo in "Burned Out," Father Burroughs also feels intense heat with no apparent source when he visits the house on Hill Top Road.
* GaggingOnYourWords: PlayedForHorror. Father Burroughs is physically unable to profess his faith, speak Jesus's name, and just barely chokes out speaking of God. He mentions he can no longer pray as well.
* HollywoodExorcism: Averted. Catholic exorcism and the problems that prompt it are presented as being much less dramatic and horrific than the Hollywood version. Most of the time.
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[[folder:20: Desecrated Host (II)]]
[-Case #0113005-B. Continuation of the statement of Father Edwin Burroughs, regarding his claimed demonic possession.-]
* ForDoomTheBellTolls: When the altar server in the weird mass opens his mouth, instead of words he makes the sound of a tolling bell. When Father Burroughs tries to speak there, the same thing happens. Later, when his former fellow priests visit him in prison, it's all he can hear when they speak to him.
* GeniusBonus: When you look up the gospel reading, Mark 9:14-19, it is about Jesus healing a demon-possessed boy who cannot speak or control his movements due to the possession...
* TwistedEucharist: Father Borroughs takes part in a creepy, hallucinatory mass that ends with him taking communion. He notes that the texture of the wafer is wrong, only to realize that he's [[ImAHumanitarian eating human flesh.]]
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[[folder:21: Freefall]]
[-Case #0022010. Statement of Moira Kelly, regarding the disappearance of her son Robert. Original statement given 20th October 2002.-]
* {{Cliffhanger}}: Jonathan's follow-up at the end of the episode is interrupted by [[spoiler:Martin]] bursting in, with Jonathan crying out "What are those things?!"
* IFellForHours: Robert Kelly had ''something'' happen to him on a skydive that caused him to fall for what seemed like hours through an endless, cloudless and sunless blue sky.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Moira Kelly cannot bear to think about what she saw happen to her son Robert, let alone find the words to describe it. The least inadequate description she can manage is [[spoiler:"the sky ate him"]].
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[[folder:22: Colony]]
[-Case #0161203. Statement of Martin Blackwood, archival assistant at the Magnus Institute, London, regarding a close encounter with [[spoiler:something he believes to have once been Jane Prentiss]]. Statement recorded direct from subject, 12th March 2016.-]
* GenreSavvy: Martin, following up an earlier statement, is looking around a CreepyBasement and hears a noise, and remarks that he's read enough of the archive's statements to know that following the noise is always a bad idea. He then [[DefiedTrope defies the trope]] and investigates it anyway, because [[HonorBeforeReason it's his job]].
* EvilPhone: Martin dropped his phone in the basement while running away. Two weeks ago. But [[spoiler: "Martin" has been texting Jonathan saying he has a stomach bug and can't come in.]] At the end of the episode [[spoiler: Jane texts them using his phone again, saying "we've had our fun" and the Archives can keep Martin.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: After spending the entire season dismissing basically every statement he's recorded and ragging on Martin, Jonathan not only does not immediately poke holes in his story, but offers to let Martin sleep in the Archives and says he will ask Elias to look into some extra security. This is because he takes [[spoiler: Jane Prentiss]] ''very seriously''.
* RoyalWe: The way [[spoiler: Jane Prentiss]] talks (well, texts), probably because [[spoiler: the thing that was once Jane is essentially an ambulatory bipedal worms' nest.]]
* TheVoiceless: Martin notes that the entity he encountered did not speak aloud because given what it was made of, there was no more room for a windpipe.
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[[folder:23: Schwartzwald]]
[-Case #8163103. Statement of Albrecht von Closen, regarding a discovered tomb near his estate in the Black Forest. Original statement given 21st March 1816.-]
* EyelessFace: The second time Albrecht encounters him, he realizes that the stranger's eye sockets are empty.
* SnowedIn: Albrecht is obliged by heavy snow (hardly surprising in the Black Forest in the early 19th century) to extend a visit to his nephew.
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[[folder:24: Strange Music]]
[-Case #0051701. Statement of Leanne Denikin, regarding an antique calliope organ she possessed briefly in August 2004. Original statement given 17th January 2005.-]
* CircusOfFear: The "Another Circus," discussed in the follow-up by Jonathan, to which he believes the calliope has some sort of connection.
* CreepyDoll: Leanne finds many in the attic of her grandfather's house, all but one with their lower jaws removed. Another is later discovered in the shape of her ex-boyfriend. [[spoiler:Said ex is found dead the next day, his lower jaw torn off.]]
* MagicMusic: Comes from a calliope with purportedly-supernatural properties.
* OminousPipeOrgan: Leanne finds one in her grandfather's loft, unusually a calliope rather than a church-style organ.
* SeinfeldianConversation: A ''very'' rare example of comic relief concerning the pronunciation of "calliope."
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[[folder:25: Growing Dark]]
[-Case #0151904. Statement of Mark Bilham, regarding events culminating in his visit to Hither Green Chapel. Original statement given 19th April 2015.-]
* BiggerOnTheInside: Hither Green Dissenters' Chapel.
* ElectromagneticGhosts: Originally believed to be the cause of the lights constantly going out in the narrator's girlfriend's flat. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out not to be supernatural, merely bizarre - his girlfriend's strange flatmate keeps unscrewing all the bulbs just enough to break the connections.]]
* EvilIsNotWellLit: A recurring theme. First, the lights keep going out in Kathy and Natalie's house. Then Mark discovers, after Kathy flees the house and he goes back, that Natalie has used everything to hand to board up the window and keep all light out. Later, when the narrator Mark is driving to the chapel he believes is at the centre of the weirdness, the street lamps and his car headlights seem strangely dim. When he enters the chapel it's pitch dark except for the light of torch, and seems to become BiggerOnTheInside when the torch goes out and revert when he lights another. The cult seems to worship darkness, or at least an entity associated with it called "Mr. Pitch".
* OminousLatinChanting: Although it's not in Latin: what the voices are saying is [[spoiler:[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ny-Ålesund Ny-Ålesund]]]].
* TheScully: Mark openly states he doesn't believe in the supernatural.
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[[folder:26: A Distortion]]
[-Case #0160204. Statement of Sasha James, assistant archivist at the Magnus Institute, London, regarding a series of paranormal sightings. Statement recorded direct from subject, 2nd April 2016.-]
* CallBack: To Episode 6, with [[spoiler:the infested corpse being that of Timothy Hodge]].
* CrypticConversation: Sasha and "Michael," full stop.
* GlamourFailure: While "Michael" looks human, the glamour fails if you look at it through warped glass (at which point it looks humanoid but stretched-out and boneless), and it definitely doesn't ''feel'' human.
* MysteriousStranger: "Michael's" true motivations are very indeterminate: although it protects Sasha by [[spoiler:removing a worm from burrowing into her shoulder]], it doesn't call itself an ally; and it states outright that it doesn't care if the Institute's employees died, although it wants to be "friends". The only thing determined about its allegiances is that it stands opposed to the Flesh Hive, calling it "always rash."
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: When Sasha asks what it is, "Michael" says it actually can't explain itself.
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[[folder:27: A Sturdy Lock]]
[-Case #0032408. Statement of Paul [=McKenzie=], regarding repeated nocturnal intrusions into his home. Original statement given 24th August 2003.-]
* BloodyHorror: The narrator struggles to keep a door closed as something on the other side tries to open it. When it finally gives up and he takes his hand away, it's covered in blood, though he has no injuries and the door handle is clean.
* LivingShadow: Paul sets up a camera to record whatever is tormenting him at night. [[spoiler:He sees nothing in the footage, except for a brief moment from one night when the shadows seem to form a leering face.]]
* PoliceAreUseless: Paul calls the police after something tries to open his bedroom door. Because there's no sign of a break-in and he's an old man living alone, they assume nothing happened and he's just going senile.
* SequelHook: Jon remarks at the end that Paul's son claims to have already made a statement to the institute when asked for a follow-up, and that it's probably lying around in the archive somewhere waiting to be found.
* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: In this case, it's things that rattle your doorknob in the night.
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[[folder:28: Skintight]]
[-Case #0161704. Statement of Melanie King, regarding events at the abandoned Cambridge Military Hospital during filming in January 2015. Statement recorded direct from subject, 17th April 2016.-]
* AbandonedHospital: This episode takes place in a RealLife one, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Military_Hospital Cambridge Military Hospital]], where a team of ghost-hunters go to investigate an alleged haunting (whose rumours are indeed old and well documented in RealLife) but find...something else.
* BodyHorror: Sarah Baldwin peeling back the skin of her arm and stapling it back into place.
* CallBack: To Episode 1, with the reappearance of Sarah Baldwin.
* HumanoidAbomination: A man that is all too tall was seen in the video recordings that Jonathan watched of the investigation, although the figure wasn't present at the time of recording.
* OccultDetective: Melanie King
* ParanormalInvestigation: Ghost Hunt UK
* TheRival: Melanie sees herself as something of the sort to the Magnus Institute, squabbling with Jonathan at the beginning of the episode over the latter's practices.
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[[folder:29: Cheating Death]]
[-Case #9720406. Statement of Nathaniel Thorp, regarding his own mortality. Original statement given 4th June 1972.-]
* ChessWithDeath: According to Nathaniel, Death offers a choice of games, including chess. It's impossible to win if you choose a game of skill. You're better off playing Roulette or another purely luck-based game instead. If you win [[ExactWords you will not die]], but BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor. [[spoiler:There are actually multiple Deaths, each of whom was once a mortal who, upon winning a game against a previous Death, was doomed to take over from them. Oh, and it's not just a folk tale - that narrator was one of them.]]
* ExactWords: Nathaniel starts off by telling a story of a soldier who challenged Death to a game in an attempt to save his life. He fails to notice that Death said [[spoiler:"if you win you shall not die" - it ''didn't'' say "you will live".]]
* {{Immortality}}: [[spoiler:Nathaniel]] if his word is to be believed, is over 200 years old.
* MortalityPhobia: The soldier in the folk story told by Nathaniel had a dread of death that went beyond ordinary fear, which is why he took care to position himself at the rear during battles, and why he desperately challenged Death to a game. [[spoiler:It turns out it wasn't just a folk story.]]
* TheProblemWithFightingDeath
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler:Nathaniel becomes immortal after beating Death at a game to escape dying - which dooms him to become a new Death until he can pass on the role to someone who beats him in turn. Even then he doesn't fully escape the curse - he cannot die, age, eat, drink or sleep, and constantly craves something unknown.]]
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[[folder:30: Killing Floor]]
[-Case #0130111. Statement of David Laylow, regarding his time working at an industrial abattoir near Dalston. Original statement given 1st November 2013.-]
* AlienGeometries: The layout of the abattoir follows very few laws of physics or mathematics.
* CreepyCleanliness: One of the first signs that something strange is going on in "Killing Floor" is when the narrator notices that the slaughterhouse is far cleaner than it should be.
* EndlessCorridor: The hallways are far longer than they should be, and twist and turn weirdly in ways that make no sense.
* SelfHarm: David finds one of the his colleagues at the slaughterhouse shooting himself with a bolt gun in various parts of his body.
* SickeningSlaughterhouse: The setting for this episode.
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[[folder:31: First Hunt]]
[-Case #0100912. Statement of Lawrence Mortimer, regarding his hunting trip to Blue Ridge, Virginia. Original statement given 9th December 2010.-]
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: While he was definitely panicked and at a disadvantage, Lawrence deliberately pretends to be helpless and no kind of threat, in the hope that the hunter will get sloppy and make mistakes. When the hunter gets close enough, Lawrence unleashes his RAF training to throw him to the ground, and shoot him several times before he can get back up.
* GunNut: Lawrence is keen on guns and shooting but is limited in pursuing his interest by the UK's restrictive gun laws. When he visits America to hunt with his internet-friend Arden Neally he is excited by Arden's gun collection.
* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: A very literal example this.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: The mysterious hunter in "First Hunt".
* ManlyMenCanHunt: This is very much the attitude of Lawrence's American friend Arden Neally in "First Hunt".
* MisplacedWildlife: Several listeners have pointed out that you're not going to find elk in Virginia; the closest thing would be white tailed deer.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Lawrence finds one in the United States. He looks like a normal human. A very sharp, drooling human capable of tracking and running through a forest with ease and [[spoiler:surviving two rifles' worth of gunshot wounds]].
* SlasherSmile: The strange hunter's smile seems to have "far too many teeth to it".
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[[folder:32: Hive]]
[-Case #0142302. Statement of Jane Prentiss, regarding a wasp's nest in her attic. Original statement given 23rd February 2014.-]
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Jane Prentiss becomes host of a sentient colony of demonic worms slowly enough to record her experience in the Magnus Archive]]
* ArcWords: Jane repeatedly says "There is a wasp nest in my attic" and "I itch" throughout her deposition, sometimes the placement is not quite fitting, bordering on MadnessMantra.
* BeeAfraid: There is a wasp's hive in Jane's attic. Or at least, something like a wasp's hive.
* HeroicBSOD: Jonathan suffers one when recording his comments at the end of Jane Prentiss's statement. By this time Prentiss has already put two of his assistants through traumatic danger and appears to be indirectly and slowly attacking the Institute, so his distress is hardly surprising.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Jane has always wanted this. Part of the way the [[spoiler: Flesh Hive converts her into its main host rather than just a breeding ground]] is by telling her every single component of it loves her. How much she likes this goes back and forth over the course of her statement.
* MadOracle: This appears to have been a side effect of [[spoiler:the infestation of Jane Prentiss.]] Jane's statement is a mad, rambling, stream-of-consciousness rant that includes premonitions about the future of Gertrude and the Institute.
* NothingIsScarier: Invoked. The Flesh Hive hates the Archives because the job of the Archives is to learn about and understand things--and if people understand the Flesh Hive, they won't be as scared of it.
* VillainEpisode: We hear first hand from resident BigBad [[spoiler:Jane Prentiss, on [[MushroomSamba what life being slowly]] [[WormThatWalks taken over by a horde of flesh eating]] [[NightmareFuel demonic worms]] is like. Even [[AgentScully Jonathan]] [[TheStoic Sims]] is extremely disturbed.]]
* WordSaladHorror: The VictimOfTheWeek has very obviously lost much of her mind at the time of the statement.
* TheWormThatWalks: The Flesh Hive.
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[[folder:33: Boatswain's Call]]
[-Case #0110201. Statement of Carlita Sloane, regarding her work on a container ship travelling from Southampton to Porto do Itaqui. Original statement given 9th December 2010.-]
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Compared to his later AffablyEvil demeanor, Peter Lukas is much curter and less polite in this episode.
* GoodOldWays: Inverted by the ship ''Tundra'' - the mate's eponymous whistle and the old-fashioned wooden lifeboat with oars belie (or perhaps portend) the evil that is aboard.
* HellIsThatNoise: The eponymous whistle.
* ItsQuietTooQuiet: The crew of the ship strenuously avoid talking to each other, until after one of them disappears, seemingly having been chosen to be thrown overboard.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The recording begins with Tim discussing various continuity errors in prior statements supposedly reported by students listening to the statements.
* NothingIsScarier: Carlita wonders with dread what she will find inside the container she examines on the ship. It turns out to be completely empty. This does not reassure her.
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[[folder:34: Anatomy Class]]
[-Case #0161207. Statement of Dr. Lionel Elliott, regarding a series of events that took place during his class Introduction to Human Anatomy and Physiology, at Kings College, London. Statement recorded direct from subject, 12th July 2016.-]
* [[CreepyChild Creepy University Students]]
* BeatStillMyHeart: The unusual anatomy students attempt to figure out how a human heart is supposed to beat while in the dissection lab. It gets bloody.
* BloodyHorror: The student's attempts to mimic a heart beating ends up coating the room in blood. Creepily, when the professor returns after composing himself, the blood is gone, except for a tiny amount in one of the tiles.
* DrivenToSuicide: The next professor who gets stuck with these particular students ends up killing himself. He leaves a note that says his body may ''not'' be used for science, and especially not for teaching.
* MrSmith: The students' names are all placeholder names for missing persons in various countries, ex. John Doe. While the subject didn't pick up on this at the time, Jonathan notices it in his post-statement follow up.
* TheNondescript: The students all look so normal that Dr. Elliott, despite having taught them for most of a term, can't remember what they looked like. And they all wear similar clothes: blue jeans or denim skirt and a white shirt. It is hinted that this is a deliberate effort on their part to seem like normal people, or, rather, [[spoiler:like ''people'' at all]].
* SomebodyNamedNobody: Each of the students has the Unidentifiable Person placeholder name for the culture they're supposed to have come from: Erika Mustermann, Jan Novak, Piotr and Pavel Petrov, John Doe, Fulan al-Fulani and Juan Pérez. Jonathan is a little dissappointed that Dr. Elliott did not pick up on this.
* TransformationHorror: When Dr. Elliott shows the students skeletons, he keeps hearing awful cracking noises when he turns his back, but the skeletons are all intact when he looks. Finally he gets a glance at the right (or wrong) moment, and realizes the cracking noises are the ''students'' changing the shape of their bones to match.
* UncannyValley: How the mannerisms of the students come off.
* TheUnSmile: When Dr. Elliott visits the students at their residence, the one who greets him twists her mouth into something that might have meant to be a smile.
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[[folder:35: Old Passages]]
[-Case #0020406. Statement of Harold Silvana, regarding discoveries made during the renovation of the Reform Club, Pall Mall. Original statement given 4th June 2002.-]
* ArcNumber: [[spoiler:It's mentioned that there are 14 passages leading to the center chamber, which is a first hint about how to categorize the events happening in the series.]]
* EmoTeen: Gerard Keay shows up as a teenager, likely recovering a Leitner.
* SmokyGentlemensClub: The use of one by an occult society, and later renovation, are the subject of the episode.
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[[folder:36: Taken Ill]]
[-Case #0121911. Statement of Nicole Baxter, regarding visits culminating in the fire that consumed Ivy Meadows Care Home in Woodley, Greater Manchester. Original statement given November 19th, 2012.-]
* BleakAbyssRetirementHome: Averted initially, but once John Amherst takes over, Ivy Meadows Care Home becomes filthy and run down.
* DefinitelyJustACold: Nicole reports feeling a tingling in her hand periodically after transporting a diseased body and repeatedly scrubbing whenever it resurfaces. Said hand has later been amputated in what she terms a "workplace-related accident", implying that the disease continued plaguing her until she took drastic measures.
* FliesEqualsEvil: Nicole's partner Josh is unnerved when a fly lands on John Amherst's face and crawls over his eye, and he doesn't react. In a subsequent visit, [[spoiler:Nicole encounters Alenka, a nurse at Ivy Meadows. She's covered in a rash, and when she screams, a swarm of flies come out of her mouth.]]
* OutDamnedSpot: Nicole's hand briefly touches the body, albeit with leather gloves on, and afterward compulsively scrubs at her hands over and over. She even concludes her statement with "I need to go wash my hands."
* ThePlague: The subject of the episode, though its exact nature is unknown. [[spoiler:It's heavily implied to be related somehow to the Flesh Hive.]]
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[[folder:37: Burnt Offering]]
[-Case #0090608. Statement of Jason North, regarding the discovery of an alleged ritual site found near Loch Glass in Scotland. Original statement given August 6th, 2009.-]
* EvilIsBurningHot: When Jason enters a mysterious clearing, he suddenly feels extremely hot. He tries to take a drink of water, only to find that it's boiling. He then notices scorch marks and the bodies of burned animals on the ground.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Jason eventually committed suicide by [[ManOnFire dousing himself in petrol and lit himself on fire.]] His son Ethan was placed in foster care.]]
* HeroicBSOD: Both Jason and Jonathan have entered one: Jason was terrified of losing Ethan and didn't understand why he had gone through so much hell just for breaking a bottle, while Jonathan is starting to get overwhelmed by the sheer volume of unexplainable events he finds himself in the middle of.
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[[folder:38: Lost and Found]]
[-Case #0120606. Statement of Andre Ramao, regarding a series of misplaced objects lost over the course of three months. Original statement given June 6th 2012.-]
* ArtifactOfDoom: After Andre acquires the vase, it starts messing with his life. [[spoiler: Judging by the hand that emerges from it near the end of the statement, it's something like a SummoningArtifact as well.]]
* AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage: Late one night, Andre awakens to see everything that had gone missing over the last few months [[spoiler: come tumbling out of the vase, one by one (even things that seemed to be [[BiggerOnTheInside too big to fit inside it.)]] These are followed by a hand with long fingers creeping above the brim of the vase.]]
* CassandraTruth: Andre's husband David refuses to believe Andre when [[ItWasHereISwear Andre tells him about the things that have gone missing]], to the point where Andre begins to wonder if David is intentionally {{gaslighting}} him.
* ClingyMacGuffin: Although the vase is a valuable antique, Andre is unable to sell it. Something always happens to derail the sale before it can be completed. What's more, the person he bought it from forgets that he ever sold it, and he refuses to take it back, claiming that he can't remember ever having it to begin with.
* RunOrDie: [[spoiler: Jonathan yells at Sasha to run at the episode when Jane Prentiss launches her attack on the Institute.]]
* {{Unperson}}: After his missing items return, [[spoiler: Andre discovers that his husband has disappeared, and that according to his housing association, Andre had always lived alone. When Tim investigates, he finds a copy of Andre's marriage certificate, but the half of it that should contain David's information is blank.]]
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[[folder:39: Infestation]]
[-Case #0160729-A. [[spoiler:Original recording of Jane Prentiss' attack upon the Magnus Institute, London, 29th July 2016]].-]
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: The Institute itself comes under attack.
* ApocalypticLog: Rather than the usual format for this series, this is instead a haphazard jumble of recordings hastily made while dealing with The Infestation, primarily by Jonathan and Sasha. Sasha's tape dissappeared in the aftermath of the incident.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Martin calls out Jonathan on the fact that after everything he's seen, he still insists on disregarding obviously supernatural phenomenon, and insisting on more rational explanations even if they don't make sense. Jonathan admits he's right, and that this is a coping mechanism for all the horror he's been exposed to.
* BadassNormal: [[spoiler: Sasha]].
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler: Sasha is killed and replaced by whatever is in the fractal-patterned table from MAG 3.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: Whatever is left of [[spoiler:Jane Prentiss]] is far from human.
* PrecisionFStrike: After nearly 40 episodes of [[TheStoic stoically]] documenting a terrifying range of paranormal occurences, our narrator finally curses when entering the archive, [[spoiler:running head first into [[HumanoidAbomination Jane Prentiss]]]].
* WhamEpisode: Oh boy! [[spoiler: The Archive is invaded by a horde of flesh eating worms in the shape of [[BigBad Jane Prentiss]], several case files were destroyed (hinted to contain critical information pertaining to the wider mystery arc), and Sasha is likely dead and [[GrandTheftMe replaced]] by [[HumanoidAbomination something else]]]].
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[[folder: 40: Human Remains]]
[-Case #0160729-B. Statement of [[spoiler:Elias Bouchard, Timothy Stoker, Sasha James and Martin Blackwood,]] regarding [[spoiler:the infestation of the Magnus Institute by the entity formerly known as Jane Prentiss.]]-]
* DoubleMeaningTitle: Referring to the survival of [[spoiler: Team Magnus]] after the events of the previous episode [[spoiler:and the discovery of the remains of Gertrude Robinson in the catacombs under the archive.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Jonathan is especially unnerved to learn that [[spoiler:despite all the sinister supernatural forces he'd learned of in just the last year with all their terrifying, torturous ways to kill people, Gertrude Robinson was killed by ''an ordinary handgun''.]]
* VerbalTic: When Jon talks to [[spoiler:the... ''thing'' posing as Sasha]], [[spoiler:they]] begin every response with "Yes", even when the sentences become awkwardly structured:
-->'''Jon:'''You used to work [in the artifact storage room], didn't you?\\
'''[[spoiler:Not!Sasha]]:''' Yes. For three months. It was dreadful, I used to think that it was the most dangerous place in the institute.\\
'''Jon:''' Not anymore...\\
'''[[spoiler:Not!Sasha]]:''' Yes. Not anymore.
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