#i know there was a previous episode about a hospital (with Gerard Keay)

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I'm getting suspicious about nurse Annie tho

[sauvechouris]

Spooky scary podcst episodes 11 to 20

Episode 11: Dreamer

- “regarding his recent dreams about Gertrude Robinson” OSHIT !? NICE??? I didn’t even know I wanted an episode about her but thank you

- ...and she was still the archivist at the time. Awkward.

- “I ask you to read on” ? What, he came in and handed her a written report ?

- One of us ! One of us ! :D *cough* uh, sorry for your break-up.

- *patpats* we’ve all dreamed that our respective Daily Torture Place was a literal hellscape at some point, dude, it’s fine (his version is on a whole other level, tho)

- Something tells me he’s not going to like what he finds out about his manager… Aaaand yup, he’s dead. (Hanged tho D:)

- Eight YEARS, holy shit, how did he manage to improve his mental health in these conditions ? I didn’t want to kinkshame him about the “oh, dream pain, you know, the usual” and how he felt “invigorated” after the first dream, but I have questions.

- “until I saw my father in the dream” oh no, of all the ways to find out… ;;

- wait, his father was still alive ? He sees these BEFORE they happen ? it’s even worse D:

- okay, so people go to the Institute, write their statements, hand them to the staff and leave ? I know at least some of the other statement givers were interviewed...

- holy shit

- hOLY SHIT

- Who was she???? What did she DO????

- “she died in the line of duty”, you say. I don’t trust Elias.

- “I mean, I don’t believe in the predictive power of dreams, obviously” HOW IS THIS OBVIOUS ? YOU WORK AT THE BRITISH CRPS, FFS

- “I had Tim look into it, as I don’t trust the others not to have written it as a practical joke” Why, is Tim for some reason More Trustworthy than the others (Martin I could understand but he’s had no complaint about Sasha so far) ? Or is he just new ?

- “it’s almost certainly a joke” that’s not what your voice says, buddy. But yes, I certainly hope that you will hear about it in time if someone comes in ranting about your death.

Episode 12 : First Aid

- The shade they throw about how stupid people get when they’re partying :D

- That’s too many eyes, tattooed or not, I don’t care if they magically protect you from strange burns that pass through your clothes.

- Either we have another building site trying to roast people alive, either it is something demonic this time. I’ll be right eventually.

- yyyep, demon summoning.

- “I was freaked out, quite frankly” honestly, so am I, more by the sudden emptiness and silence than by the satanists in the room. Where have they all gone ? Why didn’t whatever made them all leave (hopefully that’s all it is, I’m trying to be optimistic since it’s a statement regarding “a nightshift” and not “the tragedy at x hospital”) affect our witness ? They weren’t the only one to treat the two men, and they were the only one noticing the quiet before those patients even arrived, so ??

(“they” because I have never heard that first name before, so I have no idea if it’s gendered, and there are male nurses…)

- The good news : the heatwave that is hot enough to boil drinks from a distance doesn’t seem to affect them either. The bad news : trapped behind burning hot doors. D:

- They’re putting some emphasis on Gerard Keay’s name… I don’t remember hearing it in the previous episodes, but maybe he will return / he is already known for this kind of thing by the staff of the Institute ?

- Knowledge of the occult grants you the power of instantly guessing security codes on doors, apparently. You could get rich like that.

- Stop being mean to Martin when his informations are correct ! I don’t see you speaking Polish or Latin ! I don’t even know him yet but the archivist has been criticizing him so much that I’m starting to feel defensive.

- So they had heard of Gerard Keay before ! He doesn’t specify why, though. Does it mean I should know ?

*ctrl+F the previous transcripts* Oh ! Gerard Keay of the bookshop of cursed books, from episode 4. Okay. Okay. Surely nothing alarming here.

...he did say he had a book on him, and the people who brought him to the hospital didn’t find it.

- The recording of everyone standing up and calmly leaving at the same time sounds creepy- hahaha ooooh my god there is something watching. Welp. I hope Ms. Saraki will be alright. :’)

Episode 13 : Alone

- Dialogue !!!! Are you for real !!!!

- And with another lady trashtalking the Institute. The nerve.

- “- I guess you have to believe me. - Something like that.” Yeah, the archivist isn’t impressed with her attitude either.

- “I’ve always just been happier alone, I just get lonely sometimes” I feel personally attacked

- Is this sudden sociability with her future fiancé meant to look suspicious, or just normal straightness

- “He said “My son is in there. He is dead.” And then he turned and walked away.” Jesus christ that’s cold, you will probably turn out to be some kind of abomination but at least have some fucking manners.

- Some or the people in that family are dead, aren’t they

- Bold of her to assume that getting into the locked chapel in the middle of the creepy cemetery is going to protect her, instead of, idk, letting the fog inside. It was probably locked for a reason. (I’m not seriously criticizing her, what else could she have done?)

- “The grave was open. And it was empty.” (…) “Every grave was open and they were all empty. Even here among the dead, I was alone.” 1) I am very much freaked out 2) are the graves empty because the people who should be in there are, ironically, at the funeral?

- nO DON’T GO IN THE CHAPEL, IF IT OPENED ON ITS OWN IT CAN’T BE FOR GOOD REASONS

- Kind of rude to basically tell her she’s crazy after hearing all this. I know she hasn’t been that nice either, but still.

Episode 14 : Piecemeal

- “If you go to the police with this, I will deny every word, (…) it will count for nothing in court.” (One minute later) “So yeah, I killed that asshole Noriega.” You’re… not really doing a great job of not shooting yourself in the foot here, bro.

...oh, except the original version wasn’t a recording, I suppose? The style makes it sound like he told them the whole thing and someone wrote it down, rather than writing the statement himself like the man in episode 11, but what do I know.

- If he had simply mentioned in passing that there were puzzles on the walls, it could have been nothing, but since they put some emphasis on it… those aren’t jigsaw puzzles, are they.

- “and if they want to throw away their last years putting together a damn picture then I’m sure not going to stop them, but it wasn’t going to kill Noriega, was it?” WELL

- ...the archivist sure is getting in character for this one, uh

- Missing an eye, some fingers, some teeth, probably part of his leg given the limping… yeah, I can see why “they never found the body” of the previous guy Angela took care of.

- Can you really “slice clean” through bone just by falling on your knife? On second thought, I don’t want to know, and it’s magic anyway.

- And the same thing is happening to him now. He’s taking losing a finger pretty well, all things considered.

- aouch

- When he said he needed to “not lose any more bits of me” in the beginning, I sort of just assumed he meant he was losing his mind. I was wrong. (...and I only looked up what the title meant just now. Should have seen it coming.)

- So is this happening to him because he killed Noriega before the curse could fully… “eat” him, I guess, and so it’s still “hungry”, or would it have happened to him regardless, because it’s the price you pay for making this kind of wish?

- “But as I reached for her, I… I don’t know. I don’t know what happened. I know that’s how I lost the hand. I know I chewed it off.” HAHAHA OKAY N O P E

- “I sent Martin to look into this Angela character, not that I want him to get chopped up, of course, but someone had to.” Yeah, real convincing.

- “though he informs me he had some very pleasant chats about jigsaw. Useless ass.” Mais arrête !!

- “All that remained in the house, he said, were hundreds and hundreds of small cardboard boxes.” Hundreds. And. Hundreds. All small. Thank you, I absolutely did want to consider the fact that after taking his fingers, toes, eyes, tongue, etc, it probably kept taking him apart from the inside out, bit by bit.

Episode 15 : Lost John’s Cave

- Cave diving ! =D

- I really like how she talks about caving and being underground. It’s a shame something is going to happen and ruin this (and her sister).

- I forgot that “a foot wide” was a legit unit of measurement and was horrified at the squeezes she described for a second. Even with the more or less correct dimensions, it’s not much better.

- Sibling : “If I got trapped underground, I’d want it to be with you.” Other sibling, internally “fuck no” Props for the realistic writing :p

- Alena you little shit =DD

- ...being intentionally annoying and pretending you never said anything mean is a bit too much, tho. u.u

- Oh, the dive back is where things go wrong. Okay. This is exactly what I’m here for, do your worst.

- I’d find it hard to believe that she could simply close her eyes and “will it all away” and have it actually work, except that since she knew her sister was there and she could hear her, not including Alena in her wish to escape could count as a sacrifice, intentional or not. :’)

- …? Why are there so many parts of her story that don’t match…?

- ...oh. Well. There was nothing implicit or unintentional about that sacrifice, then. Literally a case of “what you are in the dark” :’D

Episode 16 : Arachnophobia

- I almost skipped this one, based on the title, but it’s probably better to just listen to it than to imagine how they could make spiders scarier.

- They’re not waiting to crawl on you, even I know that ! Never happened to me, though, if it did happen to him I can understand why it’s what he fixates on.

- I’d almost be jealous of his ability to be totally fine with spiders in movies, pictures, etc, but having to move because there are spiders in the garden is a bigger problem.

- “And I could not stop thinking of when winter would come, and they would seek to find a way into the warmth of my home.” Me too, buddy, me too ! They love my room ! :’D

- “I had heard that [cats] have a habit of catching spiders and eating them – slowly and torturously.” Boy, if he knew about my brother’s girlfriend’s cat. Apparently that one does catch spiders, and them jumps in your lap to gift them to you, alive. (For what it’s worth, in 27 years of sharing a house w/ garden with five cats total, I’ve only seen one (1) instance of spider-eating, but it was indeed slow and torturous.)

- Uhh, we’d know if the small worms were, like, horror material worms, right ? Like the Squirm kind of worms ?

- what monstrosity did you lock your cat with?? If the cat dies i’m out

- ...well, what did you want the cat to do about it, if it was in the middle of the wall ? It’s not reliable to assume they will move, once one stayed for seven solid hours in the exact same spot on the wall, right next to the end of the bed where I’d put my head. Fun night.

- That’s a waste of a perfectly good mug, can’t you just use a vacuum like everyone but me can apparently do

- ...re-spawning malevolent spider who hates him, but isn’t doing anything except hanging there ? What’s the point of that…?

- DON’T KICK THE TV??? That was… significantly freakier than I expected just a minute ago.

- The cat knows what’s up. I still don’t understand, but it does.

- asdjjkhk I should not have said the thing about the one near my bed, now his ghost spider is in the same spot

- YIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKES, and it cursed him after that, Holic was right all along

- DO NOT DO THAT!!!??

- oh fuck off with your sarcasm, Jonathan Sims

- “foreign organic material” blocking… his… throat… of course, that would be the next step, oh my god. D:

- “But there is likely a perfectly natural explanation for the fact that his body was completely encased in web” YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME

Episode 17 : The Boneturner’s tale

- It’s been years since I was into DW and here I am, grinning like a loon, because they said “Chiswick” and Donna worked there. And a library!! =D

- “unthreatening” ? It sounds perfect.

- Cursed book ! Again ! Leitner or not Leitner ?

- Oh, hello, E-lie-as

- Miss Herne, that’s the statement-giver from episode 13 ? After checking, yes it’s her. Of course if someone were to complain it would be her, not only because they were both rude in that episode but because she is still alive to do so.

- Her fiancé’s creepy family is connected to the Institute, why am I not surprised (well, I am surprised that Elias bothers to consider she’s “connected” to them, with how they treated her at the funeral.)

- His voice when he says “Fine, fine, I’ll be more lovely”… xD

- Nnnno, I don’t think your bully’s mother has broken her arm. Or at least, that it was her who broke it.

- “She spun back and started to swear violently at me, told me I had no business with her son and that I, and my books, were to stay away from him.” It’s funny, this sounds like a very typical, almost cliché sentence, but for a different genre.

- But he held the book with his bare hands the first time, and nothing happened…?

- why are the books bleeding

- Aaaand it’s a Leitner. Much shock very surprise

- (There was something about bent bones in the first episode with a cursed book, wasn’t there?)

- The “sharp” fingers are the worst part of Jared’s whole… bone restructuration thing, for me, just the idea of sharpened bones pushing underneath the skin…

- “I told him that the library was closed, because at the moment I could think of nothing else to say.” (…) “That was when I did something a little rash, which is to say I punched him.” I like him.

- ...you have recommended this to Perelka, right?

- Does Elias’s “record and study, not interfere or contain” policy apply to the entire Institute, which would be kind of worrying if they know about so much dangerous stuff and don’t make a move to at least contain some of it, or only the Archives ? Either way, suspicious.

- ...oh, it got him. :( That’s, what, three out of the seven cases here ? Please stop dying ?

Episode 18 : The Man Upstairs

- I immediately pictured his neighbour with the hoodie like the reapers who create walls in T WEWY, idk why

- ……..that’s disgusting.

- “when I looked at that heaped pile of meat, It moved. I don’t know quite how to explain it, other than to tell you that it opened its eyes. It opened all its eyes.” HEY WHAT THE FUCK

- …well now it others me too, but no, I really don’t want to know where he was getting the meat.

Episode 19&20 : Confession

- A two-parts episode ! that’s new =D

- They came there ? They do home… statement-collecting, too ? Oh wait, prison. Says a lot about how well that possession went.

- “We’ll get to the cannibalism, of course” OH OKAY I SEE, IT’S THAT KIND OF POSSESSION

- Yes, yes, I’ve heard about the unofficial catholic exorcisms already. ...oh, they actually call them exorcists. Wow.

- It’s stopping him from talking about God but not from saying he has faith, or wants to pray, or any of the things of that sort he’s said so far ? Isn’t that a bit… I don’t know, praising yourself for cutting down one tree and missing the entire forest?

- What on earth is a “Michaelmas” term

- For now, the student falling head first into a mirror bothers me more than her possession.

- ...I retract the previous statement. Still not very impressed by the demon’s objectives (his faith? Really?), but if it can kill you of a brain haemorrhage on top of the standard stuff, who am I to argue if it deserves its place in a horror story.

- Oh hey, Hill Top Road again.

- ...wait, it’s the same case ? It’s the priest who came and did whatever inside the house while the statement-giver of that episode was uprooting the tree? =o Continuity! Neat!

- buuut he mentions “Annie” without specifying a last name, which would imply it’s the same Annie from earlier in this episode, so Anne Willett, except I’m almost certain that wasn’t the name of the Annie from episode 8? Indeed, after checking, Annie-from-episode-8 is Anna Kasuma…

- “Eventually I decided that I had seen enough and that there didn’t seem to be any malicious presence here” Well, considering you said yourself you couldn’t sense evil, I don’t know why you’d come to this conclusion despite the evidence, but I can tell you that you were 100% wrong.

- Offputting yourself >:(

- See, the house is trying to burn you too ! But no malicious presence here, of course, no sir ! ...except the one you brought here, holy shit

- “I will record and add that part when it is found, either by myself or, given the scale of the Archive’s mismanagement, by my successor when I pass away from old age.’ Have I mentioned today that I love his complaints about the Archive (also : if you live that long).

- he did what

- I thought the other priest was rude because he “almost smiled” after hearing about his problem, but no, of course not, it wasn’t him in the first place. :’D

- (So I guess I can’t trust anything he says after this, at least in terms of where he is and who or what is there. “The streets should have been full of drunken students (…) but they were almost deserted” ? No, dude, pretty sure there were students and they thought you were drunk too.)

- People dressed in black, yellowed skin, blank eyes, “and their mouths hung open, wide and smiling, like their jaws had locked in silent rictus” It’s called being dead. You’re doing mass for a church full of skeletons, or soon-to-be skeletons if it’s recent I guess.

- “the rich cloth curtain that covered the ornate metal box seemed stuck, so I pulled and pulled and eventually it came free” oh no. oh no. I remember the end of the first part, that was… not cloth.

- “I will not commit the further sin of ending my life” oh, so noble. For what ? A chance that one of your successors will be too optimistic or prideful for their own good, try to exorcise you, and suffer the same fate ? Because somebody will be that stupid eventually, and you nobly enduring this until then will just have made one more possession victim, and probably more depending of what they end up doing after catching it from you. Really, what good will that do ? If he believed that whatever is possessing him is stuck inside and thus imprisoned with him, I could see the point, but he never mentions that, and after what he’s done, suicide isn’t going to make a difference in whether or not he goes to hell.

- Someone might be reading/messing with the archives ? Also “I find it hard to credit the idea that Gertrude Robinson actually read any of these files” made me laugh but, well, it’s a possibility. I’m sure she was very busy with… whatever she was doing that led to episode 11.

- Okay, but if Bethany died in 2009, and after her death “that was it, for a couple of years”… and he was arrested in 2009 and it was the very day after the incident with the Hill Top Road house… why did they say the statement giver from that episode reported it in 2007…? did I misunderstand something…? I checked episode 19 again, it does say 2007 and 2009, but episode 20 presents it as if only a day has passed ?

- She… didn’t live in that house ? How did she get possessed then ? What was the deal with the house ?

- “He ate most of their skin” changed to “he partially ate one guy’s face”. I don’t know what to think anymore.

- Why deliver an actual yellow robe if the one he thought he wore was actually a butcher’s apron…? IS THAT THE NAME OF THE DELIVERY COMPANY FROM EPISODE 2 *checks* yes it is. What’s next, are you going to tell me his bible was a cursed Leitner bible ?