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Episode twenty five, Growing Dark. Edmond Halley is still alive and he's trying to extinguish the sun
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Episode twenty five, Growing Dark. Edmond Halley is still alive and he's trying to extinguish the sun
okay sure name the girl in your vampire story cathy. love it
happy ten year anniversary
Cults are weird, and kinda fascinating. At least in my opinion.
Case #75559132
Statement of General B, Head Tumblrina of the generalb account, regarding the numerous connections they can remember at this given moment regarding the Cult of the Lightless Flame, John Amherst,the Church of the Divine Host, and the Bug Hosts. Statement given direct, 31st March, 2026.
Statement begins.
Hmm. I went back and I reread the transcript for MAG 35 for the purpose of catching up on John Amherst, and apparently the man of the duo at the end could be Trevor Herbert? Originally I thought the fire part meant it had connections to the Cult of the Lightless Flame, but I guess I’m wrong in that part.hmm. Thought. I’m going to go reread the transcript for MAG 59.
Hmm. A connection, but again it’s not the one I was expecting. An orphan girl by the name of Agnes, whose kiss saves the subject by giving the sensation of a hot branding iron? That could very well be the same Agnes. I wouldn’t expect a show like this to make the mistake of using an important name for an unrelated character. I was initially trying to figure out who the girl wit the scar on her face might be. Could be that there is nothing. Given that MAG 59 happened on Hilltop road tho….im gonna reread MAG 8
Wow
Hmm. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.
I also reread MAG 19. There’s a lot here. I imagine to the mega fans I must have sounded so foolish not recognizing that the halfway home Ronald Sinclair was in in MAG 59, was the very house mentioned and visited to in MAG 8 and 19. It’s all been the same fucking house. And I’ve somehow missed it as well.
Let’s recap then. As of right now, there have been three supernatural forces that existedbi the house on Hilltop Road, one of them majorly unimportant.
One: the Spiders. There is some supernatural forces related to spiders, I’m certain of it. It had Raymond Fielding in its grasp, and used him to hunt and kill others for nourishment.
Two: the Lightless Flame. I haven’t done a full dive into that yet but clearly it was brought by Agnes, who then used it to purge the spiders and somehow claim Raymond away and into its own.
Three: the Demon. Obviously something claimed Father Burroughs and fought the Lightless Flame to hold onto him. However, there is no greater connection to Hilltop road other than that I believe. Nothing in the second half suggests anything anyways.
So what does this all mean?
Back in MAG 59, we hear that Agnes felt a pain from presumably when Ivo Lensik pulled out the tree. The box underneath the tree held an apple that turned into spiders that got away. At the same time, Burroughs was getting. Pressured by the Lightless flame. But when the tree was fully uprooted, the supernatural fight suddenly stopped.
My best guess? Somehow the spiders weren’t defeated but merely contained by Agnes and the Lightless Flame. So whatever ritual the cult did that killed Agnes was likely in response to that freeing of the Spiders. Given how the man Diego Malina was holding a container full of spiders, they somehow had a way to take care of it.
Arthur Nolan. He was the landlord from MAG 55. That connects the Cult to Prentiss, and therefore a Host. Not a demon host, a bug host.
Also the house of the Ants was listed to none other than John Amherst! I cant help but think of how every time Amherst is mentioned… it’s with flies……Amherst is a Host. It must be.
The final piece of the puzzle, Diego Malina. I thought he might have been from MAG 37 “Burnt Off”, but there isn’t much connection between that and the Lightless Flame other than similar effects of intense scorching heat without any fire.
So what is Diego Malina from? There’s no other statements with his name written in the summaries. I’m not going to google him, nor am I going to re read every single transcript. Actually I’m going to reread MAG 5 but only because of a hunch that something might come up.
Okay nothing came up but it was creepy. I can’t wait for when I give new reviews for the first 30 statements. I’m close to MAG 100 after all.
But still, no clue on where Diego is. Nor do I know who the short Asian woman is. NOR do I know who the scar face kid that’s hanging out with Trevor Herbert is. I know so much and so little!!! Is the Lightless Flame good or bad! Did they have anything to do with Gertrudes’ death or the strange circle in BAG 37! Wait. Gertrude died the same time as a moment in a statement. Gimme a sec.
Nope. Reread MAG 25, then MAG 9 but only ended up down a different rabbit hole. I wonder if there isn’t a connection Sim could fimd between the Church of the Divine Host and the West Hackney Church because they were enemies. That’s my theory at least; it sounded like the shadow monsters of MAG 63 were what broke down the door in MAG 9. But I could be wrong.
That’s enough theories for tonight. All I’ve done is connect some loose ends into a slightly longer and bigger loose end. A drifting piece of string if you will. A space noodle.
Statement ends.
Okay, okay. So I've just finished MAG 25 and I officially have a theory about TMA: Fear God.
Ik it sounds weird, just hear me out here. So basically in MAG 25 Natalie says to Kathy "You're worshipping as we speak." Only a sentence or two after Kathy is referred to as scared
The cult, the People’s Church of the Divine Host, is worshipping (and probably feeding a fear god, or at least something that feeds on fear.)
I also think this was the same entity that went for Martin in his statement, due to the whole "electronics being faulty" similarities. That's why Jane Prentiss (or whatever may inhabit Jane Prentiss) said that they'd "had their fun." It's already fed on Martin's fear while he was trapped in his apartment. It doesn't want him anymore. (Why so many worms are involved escapes me but it did draw fear from Martin, so it worked in any case.)
But!! This theory leaves one thing out, all the fucking eyes everywhere. I've been taking TMA notes and if you were to look in my notes app, you'd see all the eye imagery is driving me up the wall lately because I can't figure it out.
What are the eyes?? Why are they there?? What do they want?? What do they even do?? Why are they literally everywhere yet seem to have little direct involvement with any of the supernatural happenings?? Seriously, they haven't done anything directly and yet are consistently at the scene of the crime, what is up with that??
So, three theories here! Ranked in order of least likely to most likely.
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1) The Eyes and The Fear Feeder Thing are two entities that have no correlation to eachother.
This one is seriously unlikely. The People’s Church of the Divine Host (which we've established worship The Fear Feeder Thing) have a lot of eye imagery. Like, everywhere. Just really wouldn't make sense unless it's a red herring, which I doubt.
2) The Eyes and The Fear Feeder Thing are the same entity.
I don't like this one solely because of the lack of eye imagery in Martin's statement. That seems to have been Fear Feeder acting alone, which isn't possible if they're one in the same.
3) The Eyes and Fear Feeder are two different entities working together for some reason.
As I said, this is the one I believe in the most. The People’s Church of the Divine Host is obviously their weird entity collab. The Eyes are helping Fear Feeder gather the fear they need. Again, The Eyes and their very ambigious intentions and goals frustrate me, so I can't give you an explanation for what would be in it for them.
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That being said, please no spoilers!! I'd really love to go into this as blind as possible.
TMA What We Know -[25]- Growing Dark
pre-statement:
[none]
--STATEMENT--
-statement's by Mark Bilham., thanks to My Excel Sheet My Beloved, I'm able to point out that we saw the surname 'Bilham' before-- one of the college students eaten by the priest was Christopher Bilham
-guy's girlfriend's roommate found a new church, most certainly a cult, she's not going out in daylight anymore
-and girl's unscrewing all the lightbulbs
-she's staying up all night singing creepy songs in unknown languages
-tries to pitch the idea of Mr Pitch to her roommate
-Natalie's room is empty except for the world's best homemade blackout curtain
-small paper in Natalie's room, says "Hither Green Dissenters" and has a symbol of a closed eye
-statement giver goes to Hither Green Dissenter's Chappell/cemetery, his flashlight dies, and 'dozens of voices' started singing in an unknown language. they keep saying Ny-Ålesund <- I cannot believe google understood my piss poor spelling and managed to pull up something that made sense. Im gonna hope that what I copy+pasted there is the right thing
-bunch of fingers try to grab him, uses his phone flashlight to turn off the Spooky Darkness Cult
-Natalie's still a missing person
post-statement:
-Sasha confirmed Natalie was reported missing
-statement giver and his girlfriend didn't give a followup
-Jon remembers the closed eye symbol from the People's Church of the Divine Host
-Tim's familiar with the town Ny-Ålesund; "most northerly human settlement on Earth" ... "That far north… during the winter… nights can last for a very long time"
-Martin found a police report from a month later when the police were called to investigate the chappell again. locals hear screams, police didn't find anything
^Jon thinks this could be significant because the date on the report was May 15, 2015, which is the day Gertrude Robinson died.
Gonna be honest I don’t have many thoughts on 21 and 22 cuz I wanted to get to SCHWARTZWALD BABEYYYYYYYY!!!!!! LETS GOOOOOOO!! Sorry I’ve been thinking abt Albrecht and Jonah a lot lately
24 SASHA DEBUT!!! SASHA I MISSED YOU :(((((
Skipping 25 to talk abt 26 bc Michael. It’s Michael time