That's pretty much all of season 1

My fucking god XD That's exactly what he's doing.

I could only raise my eyebrow, like really after everything he's heard he is still skeptical

"the archivist", ey? 👀 nobody tell 'em

@May i can't tell you 😁

@May :)))) remember to come back and react -(with a spoiler tag)- once you've reached it ;)))

@@aubarlowe can't wait to find out :)

"Tragic loss of another human life etc. etc.:

He took the ' gotta burn the whole house down' meme serious

Well, he saw a creepy crawly. That's what you're supposed to do.

"Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

An as usual, it worked.

Wow me too but it too good to stop

Im drawing and listening to this right now and im scared to go to sleep TuT

Me, listening to these again to get all the references: holy shit this was set up so early on

wow we're doing the same things listening to it

As someone with very extreme diagnosed paranoia *I completely get the feeling*

I had the same reaction

After: oh... boy...

😂 I had the same reaction

@@albuseisenhorn3385 Hotel: Trivago

Absolutely same 😂

underrated

It’s sad how the bare minimum is seen as exceptional.

@@tettettettettet it really is. But it's still good to encourage three behavior.

Y'allMeansAll❤💛💙 also I finessed it and he kind of burned her alive...

@@tettettettettet true but she was kinda already dead

Y'allMeansAll❤💛💙 dead people don’t scream.

*evil laughter* but i can't disagree

So... the worms traveled trough his pp hole... dang, sad way to die... R.I.P homie

Im replying really late and i feel kinda stupid but who is Jane? I wasnt paying much attention to names

@x-zs6xk Worm lady. If you aren't certain what that means...you'll find out very soon. And I'm sorry.

@@x-zs6xk Jane Prentice, the woman that is The Hive. With bugs in her body. They controlled her. You gonna see

Well this is the thing woth being supernatural police - not all supernatural stories are true.

What police? They aren't police. They're a research INSTITUTE, it's there in the job description.

I mean, you could use the term loosely. They do look into investigations and more. I don’t know lol. It feels different to me because I’m also an SCP nerd, and unlike them, they have information of each monster. But all of these stories almost seem inconclusive, which makes it all the more haunting.

In his line of work, you really need to be a skeptic

​@@crimxeUnlike the SCP foundation, this world feels less "explored" like none of the institutions of power have taken notice of these events. In the SCP world, the governments are aware and highly fund containment measures.

I think the "protagonists" would be the ones telling the stories originally and while all of them survive long enough to tell their tale, we don't always know what happened to them afterwards, just like with this case.

Sometimes helps to look at the time between the event and when it's told. For example, this one is less than a month apart. Definitely does not make me feel safer. Dates are found on the wiki.

@@neroquin if anything it makes it worse because there's like a delay to their final fate. They survive long enough to make a statement but their eventual end is inevitable from the moment they came across the horror they're talking about. Hodge dying right away is one thing, Hodge escaping alive but infested, the audience KNOWING he won't survive but not knowing when it will happen... far scarier

Oh and with a pounding headache

it just gets better the longer i stare into my large window that leads to an alley and could easily fit a human (:

apeaches and cream I’m not feeling the fear™️ just yet but when I’m walking around in the dark I’m a bit more paranoid depending on the music lmao music is honestly what makes me the most unsettled 👀

Same

Livin' the dream

Reminds me of this one campy horror movie I saw on netflix where there's this curse where if you have sex with the person with the curse it transfers to you and you have to run from this THING which follows you everywhere and other people can't see it.

Are you talking about it follows

@@poprocks6576 Yeah, I'm pretty sure they are

Sexually transmitted infestation

time stamp?

@@crowsandghosts 2:34

Lmao that’s exactly what I thought on my re listen when I saw the title Like “oh! Is this The Worm Sex Statement(tm)???”

The fact that I read and comprehend this with my own eyes and brain strikes more existential rage and despair into me than anything I've heard on this show on this show.

@@trucetruce335 "on this show on this show" -Truce Truce, squirm

Government Spy fuck

@@trucetruce335 Shame. Shame on you.

@@trucetruce335 💖 🌌s q u i r m~🌌💖

We stan a gentleman

I mean, isn't it just common courtesy to get the drink someone wants?

Mine M unfortunately we are not used to the bare minimum 😔

@@MM-bw2lu the bar is on the ground but somehow people dig under it anyway and it is a Noteworthy Occurence when they step over it

@@mozarteanchaos the bar is the floor and the majority of people are the basement

That's almost fornication lol

Lol I thought you said tactical like it was a military designed strategy.

wow you would not be ready for Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni in that case lol

​@@andreah9587 why would you try to seed more horror like that?

@@quantumblauthor7300 I don’t understand your question? Also why are you here if you don’t even like horror?

"Such a tragic loss of life,ect, ect"

​@@zealotoftheorchard9853ectetera?

link the other stories from the series or real life?

@@late_prince8945 So far it doesn't seem as if there are any related characters in these past few stories. I've been taking notes of characters and what happened to them and there aren't any reoccurring ones but there will be in the future so

@@Jamie-el3qw they mentioned "cases we don't know about"--referring to how Jon hints that there's more about Jane Prentiss than we've heard and how he mentioned Leitner's books were "still around after what happened {whenever}", etc, etc.

"HARRIET BETTER NOT BE A BUG PIÑATA" THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SENTENCE ON THE INTERNET

This is so funny and so accurate

Edit 8 is so valid he’s very sweet and considerate

I haven’t watched the whole thing. The implications of “oh worm” is concerning though

“I’m glad Jon doesn’t put sound effects”

That would be amazing, or maybe something on shudder?

And let a Television company ruin it? No thank you. I'd prefer if greedy production companies didn't alter it for their needs.

@@bigdadbeefsticks what about A24?

I didn't realize people were calling it the "worm sex podcast" now

am i stupid or who is alex

​@@soyadoya4910he's the director and an editor, also the VA of Martin Blackwood

@@soyadoya4910pretty sure it's the director

@@fishing_cat4119 ohhhhh ty

the crew: what a wanker

Yeah, I'd have been like "Oh, you did this because bugs? We'll give it some time, then."

Thanks I hate it

@@manoumanou2859 yup, so did the guy who discovered them. And it's really horrible when you try and bring a tomato horned worm (a misnomer of a caterpillar species) into the house so you can teach your niece about metamorphosis into a moth only for it to erupt into dozens of wasp pupae the next day

Well…that’s basically what happened from my understanding of this.

@@someoneawesome8717 Condolences all around-I hope you and the niece are recovering from THAT.

@@cassidyho939 we're both ok now thanks for the concern

I thought she BROKE like an egg, the lack or details is so distubring 😭😭

Number two, Do Not Open, is my favourite so far

The teeth didn't make you uneasy?

@@KatanaDen I mean, they're just teeth.

@@Sleepy-yp4wx Yeah but it was just out of nowhere which added to the overall creepiness. By itself it's just a bag of teeth but in the setting and the way it was presented it was the first to make me go more than: "Ooo that's neat!"

@@KatanaDen idk, maybe I've just read too much SCP for something like a bag of teeth to be scary.

Yeah sounds like something out of 40k that Nurgle would come up with.

Body Horrifying

I asked her to tell me what was wrong, said something was clearly bothering her and I’d like to help. She got very quiet for a few moments and then nodded. She told me she’d been mugged the night before last, although the way she said the word “mugged” made it sound like she wasn’t sure. I just nodded and let her continue talking. She lived up in Archway, on a street named Elthorne Road, and had been walking home around midnight when she saw a woman lying face down on the pavement. This woman wore a long red dress and Harriet said she could see it shifting in the orange glow of the streetlamps, as though something was moving underneath it. Harriet was close to her house, which she shared with several other students, so she said she was maybe less careful than she should have been and had approached, calling out and asking if the woman needed help. There was no response but all movement stopped and the red dress went very still. Suddenly, far quicker than Harriet could have expected, the woman leapt to her feet and sprinted directly towards her, seizing her by the shoulders and pushing her back against a nearby wall. It happened so fast that Harriet said she had never really gotten a good look at the woman beyond her dress, a head of long, matted black hair and wide, staring eyes. The woman growled something at her, but Harriet couldn’t make it out. She tried to ask what the mugger wanted, but as she did she felt a sudden pain in her stomach, as though she’d been stabbed, which is exactly what she thought had happened. She told me that she had fallen to the ground and lost consciousness almost immediately. When she awoke, the woman in the red dress was gone. Harriet had expected to find herself lying in a pool of blood from her stomach wound, but could instead find no trace of any injury anywhere, except for some scraped knees where she had fallen to the floor. She had staggered home and tried to sleep it off. Since then, she said she’d been seeing that woman everywhere she went. She felt like she was being followed all the time and couldn’t stay in her own home, as whenever she did it was like this weight was dragging her down. Her skin became so itchy as to be nearly unbearable. Harriet had apparently tried to go to the police, but said as she approached the station she was overcome with such a powerful nausea that she threw up on the pavement. She had tried the hospital, but they just told her there was nothing obvious and to make an appointment with her doctor. She had been spending the last three days just wandering in cafés and bars and clubs, anywhere there were enough people that she felt safe. She just didn’t know what to do. By now point Harriet was crying and I felt like a complete asshole for having brought the issue up. I mumbled some apologies. I don’t know what I said; I was just trying to make her feel better. Not sure what I expected to happen but I certainly didn’t expect her to kiss me at that moment. I know, I know, she was vulnerable and I feel like an a… But I swear I wasn’t trying to take advantage. I asked her again and again if she was sure, but she just kept nodding and dragged me to the bedroom. I mean, we had sex. There’s not much more to say about that, really. The important thing is what happened afterwards. As we were lying there in bed, exhausted, I rested my head against her shoulder. I was about to say something or other, but before I could, I felt something move. It’s hard to describe exactly but it wasn’t her shoulder that moved, it was something inside it, under the skin. It squirmed ever so slightly against my cheek. I shot up in bed, but the only indication that she’d noticed anything amiss was that she reached over and absentmindedly scratched where I’d been lying. I started to relax, lie down again; maybe I’d just imagined it. But at that moment she doubled over and groaned in sudden pain. Her eyes went wide and she clutched her stomach tightly. I tried to see what was wrong, asked if I could help, but she just pushed me away. I had no idea what to do, so I ran out and towards the bathroom. My mind was going completely blank and I couldn’t remember whether I had any painkillers or indigestion medicine. Or should I be calling an ambulance? I wasn’t sure, and I ended up rooting through my medicine cabinet, looking for… I don’t know; anything that might have helped. I could still hear Harriet moaning in agony from the bedroom, and had just made up my mind to call for an ambulance, when I heard something that stopped me dead in my tracks. It’s hard to really describe the sound that came from the bedroom. The closest I could come would be to say it sounded like… an egg being dropped onto a stone floor; a sort of wet, cracking thump. Then silence. Harriet was no longer making any noise at all. I slowly, very slowly, walked back towards the bedroom. The door was open, but I hadn’t turned the light on, so there was little to be seen inside except darkness. I could have turned on the light in the hall, I suppose, but something inside made me think that I didn’t want a good look inside that room. I stopped at the threshold. The only illumination at all came from a thin sliver of light coming in through the gap in the curtains from a streetlamp outside. You’ll have to excuse me. What I saw is difficult to put down on paper, but it’s the only way to explain why I had to do it. Why setting my flat alight and standing naked in the winter streets until the fire brigade arrived was far better than spending another second in that place. And yes, I admit here I set the fire myself. Show it to the police for all I care, I just need someone to understand. The room was unrecognisable when I returned. There was a shape on the bed, where Harriet had laid, but it wasn’t her anymore. I could barely make out anything even remotely human in the pile of pitted and warped flesh that now remained. The bed itself was slick and shiny with a dark fluid that dripped off the hanging sheets and onto the floor. But what truly repulsed me, what made me flee as I did, was what moved and squirmed on all of it. They covered every surface: the floor, the bed, what used to be Harriet, even the ceiling. A thick, moving carpet of pale, writhing worms. The flat burned for a very long time. ARCHIVIST Statement ends. This story is concerning. Not because of Mr. Hodge’s experience, although I’m sure it was very upsetting. If it was true, of course. In fact, the police report that Sasha was able to acquire throws doubt on much of his story. While Mr. Hodges’ flat did indeed catch fire on November 20th of last year, there was apparently no evidence of arson, and no human remains found inside, despite the fact that the fire was brought under control long before any significant damage was done to the structure of the building. They did find some charred organic matter in the bedroom, but it was tested and apparently wasn’t human, though the report doesn’t list whether its source was ever determined. I will say it does link up with the reported disappearance one Harriet Lee, a student at Roehampton who was reported missing shortly after this statement was originally given. She seems to match the description given here. Still, that’s not really what concerns me either, though obviously it’s a tragic loss of life, etcetera, etcetera. No, what I find quite alarming is that if Mr. Hodge’s recollection of Harriet’s tale is correct and she was attacked by a woman in a red dress in Archway, then that matches the description and last known location of Jane Prentiss. I can’t find any evidence that my predecessor took follow-up action on this statement, so I’ve taken the step of reporting Mr. Hodge’s to the ECDC. We were unable to locate him to request a follow-up interview, and if he has had intercourse with one of Prentiss’ victims, then they’ll need to deal with him sooner rather than later. I just hope it’s not too late already. Recording ends.

i just started listening to this podcast and i always look for you in the comments, you're like the lyrics guy 😂😂😂 thank you!!

@@petraivan6778 "...but what truly repulsed me, what made me flee as I did, was what moved and squirmed on all of it. They covered every surface: the floor, the bed, what used to be Harriet, even the ceiling. A thick, moving carpet of pale, writhing worms. " "This story is concerning. " _YAH' THINK???_

Haha you are welcome :)

@@alicepersson9568 XD

Not that odd I would have thought that the guy liked to sleep naked and was woken up by the fire alarm and ran out of the house in a panic.

oh ew ew ew that was so gross

No, I would set you on fire ❤️‍🔥

Shirow - of course sakura

Ambient theatre kid bias

I'm gonna be honest it wasn't that bad? Its definitely not as bad as the Flesh That Hates and it's stories... god those are scary as fuck.

@@aphemorpha learning about the Flesh That Hates is a doozy when that contamination site described in the article is roughly in the area where you live, it made me irrationally paranoid for several days

Wait... they were unable to locate him for a follow up interview...

Oh…no

The Hive sends its regards :)

obviously Harriet is dead in this story. They couldn’t find Hodge after this interview so it’s presumed he is dead as well, likely meeting the same fate as Harriet.

worm time

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It's actually probably was larvae from how they are described later on.

if I lived in his world I too would kinda hope they weren't real 😭

Comment as vile as the Infestation itself

One can only hope!

Right? Who would? But anyway I'd bet he turned into a bug piñata (as someone beautifully put it in one of the comments) himself not long after.

don't get too atached

@@niyxraedon4924 *the pain*

Oml I have gerbils that when they dig in the sawdust it can sound like scratching and oh boy it has frightened me one too many times

This episode was intended for you

Same. I am definitely enjoying the series, so far, but a few of these episodes I simply don't find creepy or scary. Episode 21 I might skip relistening to, just because it feels kinda meh to me. I mean, it's weird, but not my kind of weird, if that makes sense. Across the Street is definitely my top favorite, so far. Not!Graham....

Eh, everyone has at least one that gets them.

i mean...it was gross for sure but I know it only gets worse, only from how people talk about this series.

great cool so glad i know this now :)

me eating my grilled cheese rn- p.s., love the giovanni pfp!

YES my god Not Graham is so fucking creeping, that episode is too good

That's exactly what I was thinking just now!

oh wait- HDFGHDSFGHDGH

Id say hes more of a “stereotypical highschool jock” if that makes sense