Tell me why the first thing that popped into my head was Martin just,,, dropping a bunch of worms on the floor

I imagine Martin waddling in like a five year old who’s been playing outside all way coming in to show his mom a handful of bugs or mud or something by wordlessly dropping them onto Jon’s lap/desk.

I know I should be concerned about the overarching, connected story, but I can't stop thinking about how adorable it is that John decided "if I'm going to organize these, I'm damn well going to read and record every single one, for organizational purposes" *_and yet,_* he has no dicserable reason to be reading with such emotion. He shouldn't really have any good reason to abruptly cut himself off and get mad when people interrupt him, as if he was embarrassed or nervous he could get found practically acting out whole monologues. Tl;dr, John likes narrating things, a guilty pleasure of his, if you will.

the sky: Yummy meal :) the guys mom: Traumatized

Martin's probably just showing his extensive vape collection to Jon. He's never seen a vape before, hence"WHAT ARE THESE THINGS?"

I can't help but laugh when Martin interrupts John. The pure, unadulterated rage and confusion in his voice just gets me. I think I've replayed it 7 times now.

Tell me I’m not the only one who thought about that photo of the blue sky that gave everyone vertigo in episode 3...

"the sky ate my son" honestly this is kinda creepy but its always been far funnier than creepy to me

I don't think I'll ever look at the "do you like the colour of the sky?" tumblr post the same way again.

first time watcher over here. if you recall back in ep4 (pageturner), the mysterious book that the episode delt with had an illustration of an empty sky that the statement giver said he "fell into it." i cant help but think it's related

the squelching sound at the end of this episode combined with the fact that the next one is is called colony makes me think that we will have a very creepy crawly episode up next

That last scene concerned me. I hope Martin didn't just throw up on the counter.

MARTIN??? ARE YOU OK???

I KNEW SOMETHING HAD HAPPENED TO MARTIN I COMMENTED ABOUT IT ON THE LAST VIDEO I KNEW IT

y'know you download oNE EPISODE TO LISTEN TO ON YOUR WALK AND ITS GOT A DAMN CLIFFHANGER anyways, ran home early, so next ep here I go

What was that??? I cant say how much i love all these stories and the fact that our narattor has his own timeline

Listening to this whilst walking along the bypass, at dusk, _completely alone_ was a terrible idea. Maybe it's just cause I have anxiety, but God it really felt like the sky had eyes and was watching me rush tf home.

This episode absolutely stands out to me, a lot of the time, horror that is conveyed with words alone are very, excessively descriptive to create a gruesome picture in your mind, but this episode’s main big spook is vague, and leaves much to the imagination. The idea of the sky “eating” someone is terrifying to picture. And what that means for Robert, is even more awful to think about.

"I have been falling FOR THIRTY FUCKING MINUTES"

I Swear to fucking God, at that last bit I could feel my spine freeze like a fucking icicle. I felt for a split second pure, undiluted fear, until Martin popped in. That was the most scared this series has made me yet. I love you guys so, so much.

I was already pretty shaken by this story, but Martin got me really worried. I instantly thought of the worms and i hope he's ok

im listening to these alone in my bedroom, and the ending made me look over my shoulder

"he got really into skydiving" NOOOOOOO

"Can the sky eat people" made me giggle way to hard

First time listener here, just wanna say how grateful I am for everyone not spoiling anything. This is a really cool series and it’s great to see other people passionate about sharing it 😊

Im so terrible with names so whenever characters pop up more than once I can’t remember where they came from. I don’t remember who Simon and Harriet are!!!!

Ooooh let me tell you when I say this scared me I mean this literally made my eyes tEAR UP from terror. Idk, this series had always been phenomenal, but something about the nature of this episode chilled me to the bone, just picturing the image of the endless sky, and I'm not even afraid of heights or anything like that. But as soon as he said the sky ate him, my eyes started to water up and my stomache dropped. DEFINITELY my favorite episode so far holy heck.

Clipping through the whole skybox

ok so I’ve been using these as sleep aids just to wind down with no lights on and get into sleepy mode and there’s never been a problem! I’ve always found the stories more compelling then scary, but this last bit literally had me shooting upwards in bed wtffff 😭 Also listening to these on Spotify without people piecing the plot together for me in the comments is hard but keeps things very interesting and spoiler free! Best way to listen to these tbh

Tfw you glitch out of map and enter blue hell

WHAT DID MARTIN DO IM-

The Vast. Endless, nauseating, isolating, mind num... Martin! My boy!

Honestly, it's weird but I'm starting to find Jon's sarcastic skepticism kind of adorable Also, I was listening to this episode in class during zoom and my hand went to my mouth upon hearing the ending

me, with my phobia of vast, open spaces (kinda like a reverse claustrophobia): fun!

I feel so terrible for Robert and his mother, she saw her son vanished before her eyes. Martin interrupting made me feel better.

I don't like how this ended. Martin having been on sick leave for several days and then just bursting in dropping something with a sick squelching sound. Tsk tsk tsk noppppee

Martin reminds me of that Squirm episode with that stomach ache

I'm really glad I'm going through these 3 years later, because I'd be UPSET about that cliffhanger with Martin. Knew something was gonna be up with him, just didn't know what. XD ON TO 22!

OH MY GOD!!!! The ending was SO beautiful!!! I LOVE IT!!! I almost DIED!!!! Keep doing what you're doing because it is finaminal!

martin was just excited to show jon his mud pie

I really love this epidoe. Something about vast blue sky being a fearful thing is really interesting. But is it implied Fairchilds were scheming to acquire Robert Kelly or killed him off? As far as I know he is not mentioned again, but curious because I recall Fairchilds do not necessarily have familiar connection with each other. Jon really sprinkled bits of plot far before 'the episode'

Liminal space, but ✨the sky✨

Tf Moira Kelly is the exact name of my freshman English teacher, it's not even a common name!

this is the first episode that has filled me with a horrific dread. the imagery of the sky is used perfectly and the vagueness of the “the sky ate him” line honestly just made me curl into a ball

GODDAMMIT MARTIN THIS IS WHAT SICK DAYS ARE FOR

spoiler alert for new listiners VAST EPISODE VAST EPISODEEEE

Looking at the comments, I see two sentiments: Martin interrupting John's recording his abrupt and hilarious, and the endless sky is reminiscent of Ex Altiorum. But can we just appreciate how fucking terrifying this statement is? Like yes this show is creepy, and it's good at being creepy, but for some reason this episode stands out to me the most out of the 100 or so I've listened to so far. It doesn't really play at a standard fear like arachnophobia, claustrophobia, or trypophobia like a lot of episodes in this season does, but instead it plays at a different sort of horror? It's not really a fear of the unknown. It's almost like it plays at the terrifying feeling of absolute helplessness. Robert couldn't do shit while falling. There was no ground to hit. Parachutes didn't work. he was just surrounded by sky, and that alone terrifies me, but the image of the fuckin *sky eating* the dude is almost worse for me. Just the idea of the sky somehow warping in a way to just take a guy and send him to that space of endless falling for eternity, that image that my mind can just barely imagine although not actually describe, freaks me the fuck out. I love this episode.

Loved the imagery in this one - a lot of fun. Edit: ah! Martin's back! That's disturbingly exciting!

we may not have heard martin talk before, but regardless-- if anything happened to him (or jon) i will jump out of a window edit 2023: oh.

Me: *has a fear of heights* Me: *looks at the title* Also me: "aw hell nah"

OOOOOH listening back to this for the second time..... now hearing he's going to jump with 'Simon' and I'm like NOOOOOOOOOOOOOo

This episode reminds me of that quote from the secret history: “the sky a deep deep painful blue.”

the ending. THE ENDING. _T H E E N D I N G_

Lol this episode reminded me of my niche childhood fear of falling into the sky (when upside down, especially)

I'm a new listener and I just have to comment on this but MY GOD I love how each statement John reads it's delivered in different speech patterns and expressions like he's the very person who wrote the statement or as if he's shifted into a completely different character except for his voice! It's so cool :D

okay, out of all the stuff in this series so far, freefalling endlessly through the sky terrifies me the most

Man non of the episodes creeped me out like this one. The last part of before martin walked in i have chills going down my spine.

JUMPSCARE!! I LITERALLY YANKED MY HEADPHONES OFF AT THAT ENDING!! I SWEAR MY HEART IS STILL POUNDING! THE EPISODES ARE GETTING GOOD OMG IM SCARED

First time listener. I think this is my favorite statement so far. I wanna be sent to The Sky Prison.

I have always considered myself to be a hard-to-scare type of person, as most horror evokes genuine fascination in me rather than fear, and this podcast was amazing at fascinating me, but this one, this is special. I have never experienced goosebumps as intense in my life when Jon said “The sky ate him”, and that’s saying something.

I believe I have figured out one of the spooky ambiences he uses. Bees. Or at least the bus of multiple bees. This realisation happened while I was on a walk and passed a wattle tree FULL of bees

I love how hes so nice to tim who works so hard and "rly out did himself" and then theres martin

I think it's absolutely brilliant that the Magnus Archives has a little something for everyone. Imagine seeing the sky for the first time as an ominous predator, now try imagining how this must've been for a person with an actual fear of the sky, and how this must've felt like something straight out of their nightmares. On to the next episode.

Vast

first time listening to the magnus archives. gotta admit, i’m very invested! i really hope that nothing too terrible happens,,,

That cliffhanger omg O.O

I had my volume up high when the end happened and I jumped so high I actually squeaked and it's hard to make me make noise when I'm scared because I have anxiety so I'm used to it lmao

Are we not gonna talk about the fact that this statement is about R Kelly?

well... what are these things

The sky: why is her son looking like a snack...

BGM: (swells) My excitement: 📈📈📈

Well, time to add "Falling/Sky" into the list of recurring motifs. It now makes me wonder if those books by, Leitner(?) are informational text on various eldritch classifications. We had a sky book, and maybe 2 bone/gore books? I can't remember exactly, but I think the bone books were in different languages and one made blood, so maybe it's more specific than "classification". Something that entered my mind as a possibility... (because of Gerard destroying "sky-book" ; Gerard stopping "fire-man" ; Loving-Father sacrificing Hand-Eye people ; The Demon claiming the Priest as "marked" implying ownership) What if some of these forces are opposed? Maybe some are... Not benevolent, but better to have around, maybe because they keep worse things at bay. Something to consider... [23:B:10:08-14=10] "Freefall "

probably not a good idea to be listening to this on my walk during a cloudless day

holy shit, the statement itself only left me vaguely unsettled but the ending???? I'm straight-up terrified to continue listening 😱

i feel like the sky that swallowed him might be a beast of some sort that merely mirrored the color of the sky it hid in, and preys on sky divers

Loving the heck out of these episodes! Had originally feared they would slowly loose their originality, but so far it seems I was mistaken^^

Thanksss youtube.

Aww geez, how did I miss the skydiving boss’ name until my third listen?

I'm enjoying this podcast thus far (first time listening), but why are the episodes so quiet? every time I have time to listen to an episode there's some loud thing going on in the background and I can hardly hear anything unless I turn my device's volume up as far as it goes

Harriet Fairchild you say, I like that the Fairchilds and Lukas' will show up in the background, I love how dratailed and intertwined the Magnus Archives are, everythings so detailed

Okay, before I scream about the ending I want to talk about this statement. At first I thought that wasn't that bad of a fate - to die falling up the sky, like, it's much better than being crushed under hundreds of meters of earth or burning alive etc. But the fact that Robert worked in a company that didn't exist and there were little evidence of Robert himself existing.... that really intrigued me. Was he even alive/existing that whole time? Was that even Robert that came to his mother? If he wasn't then why was he so scared? Was he claimed by smth at the beginning and was that the last cry for help?... I'M SO CONFUSED AND WHAT ABOUT SIMON?!!!

“enjoy sky blue”

That’s by far the scariest episode for everyone who is scared by heights...!

"the sky ATE him" gave me chills and made me cry ngl

2022 and its still a classic

I didn't know the Magnus Archives would cover my fear of falling into the sky hh

Robert accidentally entered the noclip command and fell through the terrain

MARTIN MARTIN ARE YOU OK JOHN JOHN ARE YOU OK

I'm not sure what made me think of this, but when the sky stole the son, i thought of it in the sense of... the sky wanting him for itself. he's spent so long skydiving, it finally decided to keep him for good.

…I like this one because of how it shows that not everything that is terrifying is dark and shadowy. It feels like a sister episode to lost john’s cave. Apparently the fear of falling into the sky is called casadastraphobia. I learned this from the video of the actors in NOPE going over fan theories. Daniel was like “who’s afraid of that tho?” Keke: “yeah like when did that happen that would make a person afraid of that?” Steven, disregarding how impossible it is and imagining what it would be like: “that would be terrible tho”

When she said the sky was gone I just imagine the guy falling into an empty Minecraft sky like when your world doesn't load

the amount of emotion in jon's voice?????? he sounds motherly like i could hear the pain pls- i know he's clutching his heart acting these out lol

martin!!!!!

Okay I’ve been enjoying this so far as a horror anthology with some thread creeping in the background. Now I am officially in WTF?! GOTTA KNOW territory.

I'm sorry all I could think about was when you fall into the void in Minecraft. Which, admittedly, did always scare me.

ok just convinced this is a prentiss thing with the wormy sounds im just putting my assumption here before i go to the next episode

BRUH WHAT HAS HAPPENNED TO MARTIN OMG IS HE OKAY??

He just clipped through the ground and got stuck in the skybox

This episode reminds me of the shooting star meme lmao

I literally remember herrit but I'm not good at remembering names so is there a Simon?!