#e: web

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Mag 19 - Confession

Edwin Boroughs, 30.05.2011, Oxford. 

Edwin begins the first part of his statement regarding a supposed demonic possession. He was arrested in 2009 for the murder and partial-cannibalism of two students. 

He served as an exorcist for the Oxford diocese from 2005 to 2009, with Father Harrogate. He performed over a hundred exorcisms of “supernatural” events of varying credibility, when his colleague mentioned a student of his - Bethany O’Connor - who might need some guidance. 

Edwin agreed to help her, having been told that she was having a difficult time distinguishing fact and fiction, and arranged to meet her at her student dorm on 89 Bullingdon rd. The wallpaper in her room has been ripped off with the word “Mentis” written onto the bare brick, which she couldn’t see. He performed a short blessing and left, deciding to perform a full exorcism later, only to be called by the John Radcliffe hospital that Bethany had gotten in a fight with housemates and fallen into a mirror. He attempts to exorcise her, and she says “I’m sorry, it wants your faith”. She suffers from a hemorrhage and dies. 

He started to drink over the next few years, and was no longer allowed to perform exorcisms. In 2009, Annie - a nurse from the hospital - called and told him a builder had had a scare on hilltop road. Edwin investigated, finding Ivo Lensik. When he began to perform his blessing, he felt unbearably hot and feels his lips moving on their own, repeating “I am not for you, I am marked.”

The tree falls down in the yard and the heat stops. Edwin leaves.

Notes: The statement is incomplete but finishes in MAG 20. “Mentis” is mind in latin. Tim and Sasha work on this.

Entities: The spiral, the desolation, the web

Names mentioned:

Edwin Burroughs

Anna Kasuma (Nurse at John Radcliffe hospital)

Father Singh (colleague of Edwin)

Father Harrogate  (colleague of Edwin)

Ivo Lensik (submitted statement MAG 8)

James Mann (victim of Edwin)

Christopher Bilham (victim of Edwin)

Bethany O’Connor (victim of the spiral)

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Mag 16 - Arachnophobia

Carlos Vittery, 09.04.2015,  Boothby rd, Archway, London

Carlos Vittery discusses his long-standing fear of spiders stemming from 1991 when, while visiting his grandparents, a spider nest burst and spilled baby spiders over him. In 2014 he moved from his residence when realising how many spiders were living in the backyard. 

He moved to a new place and go a cat to deal with spiders (Major Tom). He noted that the building may have had an infestation of small, silvery worms.  In early 2015, he saw a spider in the kitchen that made him more uneasy than usual. He left the cat to deal with it, but after an hour the cat ran out of the room when he was left in it, and after panicking for an hour he crushed it with a coffee mug. 

A week later he saw the same spider on his TV, and again he killed it (kicking it), threw out the TV and burning the stained shoe. A few weeks later, it was on the wall above his bed, and became certain that it was the same spider he crushed when he was 6 in the nest. He notes that he feels he’s guided by another hand again when he reaches out and crushes it. He planned to leave his flat ASAP leaving ownership of Major Tom with neighbours and seeking help for a “psychotic break”. 

His body is later found after his statement covered in web, having died of asphyxiation. Tim and Martin worked on this one.

Notes: References/foreshadowing to Jane Prentiss!

Entities: The Web, The Corruption

Names mentioned:

Carlos Vittery

Major Tom