THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES observations

hi.
im insane.
im only in season 1, but i've seen too many connections to not start writing things down. so im gonna put them here!

this is a forever wip until i finish the series

johnatan sims: head archivist, protagonist

elias: head of the institute

gertrude robinson: previous head archivist (passed away)

RESEARCHERS

tim:

sasha:

martin: stupid 

they do supplementary investigation. kinda like the doctors in house md.

SEASON ONE

EP 1- ANGLERFISH

nathan watts in april 22, 2012. guy sees a stranger in an alleyway asking for a cig, doesnt say anything else, guy notices its weird as hell, takes phone out 2 flashbang it and it disappears. missing person files begin 2 surface in campus, all people who were on the same party.

EP 2- DO NOT OPEN

Joshua Gillespie, regarding his time in possession of an

apparently empty wooden casket. Original statement given November 22nd

1998.

guy gets trusted to guard something for a stranger, John, for some grand. never spends the money till one year later, already having moved back home. a week later 2 red-faced delivery man give him the thing he was supposed 2 hold on to, which was! a coffin! 2 meters long.  had a note written: do not open. did not smell like anything. placing stuff on top of it made it produce scratching sounds, and in the rain, it moaned, almost like singing. 

gave the guy bad dreams, and made him eventually start sleepwalking, mostly almost getting near the padlock (scayr)

eventually john came to grab it back, leaving ina van with “Breekon and Hope deliveries” (idk if its important but eatever) and left. nothing more happened

joshua was apparently the only one living in the whole damn building? also the delivery thing was a real company, operated till 2009.

EP 3- ACROSS THE STREET

Statement of Amy Patel, regarding the alleged disappearance of her

acquaintance Graham Folger. Original statement given July 1st 2007.

graham and amy were classmates. not rlly friends, he was kinda weird but whatever. they found out they were neighbors (see imnagien below)

amy hits her head hard style, graham takes her 2 the hospital, just a concussion, takes her 2 his home, hes GAY and he has a table with a spiral pattern. she leaves, keeps watching him from her window like daily (apparently no malice there) uhhhhhhh in april 7th at night something like a pipe-looking arm ? starts going through the window? his window, specifically, at least 4 of them, and they were gray.  when it was inside, his lights went out, and the window was slammed shut.

amy just stood there 4 a sec b4 calling the police cause What The Fuck???????? and 10 min later they arrived, and opening the window was   Something, dressed like graham but 100% not him. he lets the police in, everything checsk out, real graham is nevre to be found.  evil g is now the one staring at her through the window. she mioves out.

EP 4- PAGE TURNER

Statement of Dominic Swain, regarding a book briefly in his possession in the winter of 2012. Original statement given June 28th 2013.

dominic visits a library, gets a book dats just $4 pounds ? even if its cased in leather? its old, and it has no title, but in the spine, it reads Ex Altiora - meaning "from higher" or "out of the heights" . it was entirely in latin, and had some black and white art of mountain or cliff or one just haivng an empty night sky

he goes 2 the theater 2 see his situationsihp perform and is convinced somethings wrong with the stage lights, cause of a faint smell of ozone, but nothjing bad happened otherwise. the empty night sky art makes him feel funny.

looking at more info online, theres a few ppl trying 2 buy the book and stuff but the best info he gets is a seller recognizing the name Jurgen Leitner, who was a rich weirdo who liked buying wgatever suited his fancy, and dropped from public view in 1995, uhhh also mary kaey owned Pinhole Books, which was apparently something he was intertwined with? which was located in morden

going 2 his own theater thing now, he smells the ozone again, even tho he does all the stuff right, so when it finishes he goes out 2 clear his head. keeps walking 4 so long hes a street away from morden when hes counscious again, standin g in front of the Pinhole Books thing. ringing the bell prompts a older woman to open the door, bald and full of tattoos in scripts swain doesnt recognize, with heavy metal on the bg. epik. this was! mary kaey! pulling out the book, her eyes light up and she invites him 2 her humble abode, not rlly but u get my point       she says its been a long time since she found a Leitner, although "her Gerald" kept an eye out

anyways they go 2 her Tiny Study theres an EYE!!!! with patterns, very realistic and below it there was text: “Grant us the sight that we may not know. Grant us the scent that we may not catch. Grant us the sound that we may not call.” apparently this gerald guy was the one who painted it. anyway

she had her own copy of the book, and she showed him a funny trick (putting it in the shadows made animal bones fall outta the book) and now his own book was kinda weirder? the empty night sky thing had a pattern, whjich made him feel funny again - and he left, bruising everything as he fell down the stairs and called a taxi 2 his home. the ozone smell was as there as ever.

the pattern was a kool one u get from being struck by lightning (Lichtenberg), which reminded domi about his friend who got hit by one cause of him lol, named Michael Crew. 

he reached his home and after a while of being in a panic attack gerard knocks on his door? yeah that guy. weird righty. he offers 2 buy the book for 5k pounds. eh accepts, and Big G leaves 2 get teh money, and while hes gone swain searches their names on the internet, 2 find an article from 2008 about mary kaey's murder. it was the same woman, but with hair and no tattoos. when gerard came bakc with the money the first thing he did to the book was burn it then the ozone smell stopped and things were ok!