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hearing jon say “when I die of old age” HURT :///
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MAG019 – Caso 0113005 – Confesión
Testimonio del Padre Edwin Burroughs sobre su supuesta posesión demoníaca.
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[MAG018] | x | [MAG020]
Listened to The Man Upstairs and Confession Iwhile at work.
The Man Upstairs was… mostly fine but an incredibly unpleasant one to listen to when your job involves sorting through the meat and poultry-related waste for a supermarket (:(). Confession I on the other hand was a nice change of pace but hearing ‘and then peeled off and ate most of their skin’ made me shudder in the middle of the warehouse floor lmao
MAG019, Confession
Case #0113005, Edwin Burroughs Release date: May 30, 2016 First listen: 15th October, definitely walking home. I remember exactly where I was on Kingston Road at the line, ‘I’m so sorry… It wants your faith.’
Heads up, the next few are going to be written while I’m on a course of antibiotics. Nothing major, infected tooth. But historically I have not had ‘a good time’ while on antibiotics. I don’t think it’s an allergy or anything but my mental faculties just kinda, drop off a bit. I feel rough, I’m more anxious, I loose time, I do things I won’t typically do. So the next few may be a bit more meandering than usual.
Ah religion… A favoured medium of the horror genre and one that has the potential to scare the absolute living shit out of me. Disclaimer, my relationship with religion and faith is a bit ropey at best. I don’t have any major personal religious trauma, and from a personal stand point I just kinda came to a realisation how much time out of my life the Church of England had taken up without me really agreeing to it. That is how the Church has wronged me. Now, how the Church and many other different world denominations have harmed others has me wanting to burn these institutions to the ground. But that is a long and bloody manifesto that I do not yet have the skills to articulate well. Rule of thumb; Faith? Cool, groovy, whatever helps you through the day. Religion? Keep that the heck away from me.
So, I typically regard Christianity the same way I would regard a Cassowary; with academic interest, at a significant distance, ideally through reinforced glass, looking at the pretty colours, and trying to be quiet as I laugh at the things on their heads so that they don’t hear me, hunt me down and disembowel me.
- Again, bless the folks responsible for the transcripts because I always thought it was ‘Burrows’, like my house master in secondary school, and not ‘Burroughs’.
- ‘Demonic possession’. I think at this point I was thinking, ah see NOW we’re gonna have some BuzzFeed Unsolved levels of wacky hijinks. And just like with MAG001, I am quickly disillusioned of that idea.
- ‘Statement of Father Edwin Burroughs’, ok, ok a clergy man. Ok…. The what service sorry? Prison?!
- ‘…in case I get violent.’ I mean, apart from what landed him in prison, has he had any past history of violence since incarceration? Have they had him come in contact with any other prisoners to even test that theory?
- ‘At least, assuming that you’re real. I hope you’re real.’ Oh buddy… The Spiral gotcha good huh?
- ‘We’ll get to the cannibalism, of course-’ Tyre screech … WHAT!?
- ‘…the Catholic Church is not against belief in the supernatural outside of the official doctrine.’ The magnitude to which the Christian Church cannot keep its’ business clean is at once hilarious and appalling… But I am going to point and laugh and throw rocks at Heinrich Kramer and the tyre fire his life in Innsbruck, Austria was that had him trying and failing to have a local woman killed for witchcraft because she called him out on his bullshit, he stalked her for a year, got kicked out of town by the local bishop, wrote the Malleus Maleficarum and pretty much single handedly kicked off the witch hunts that spread through Europe and would hop to America. Like an absolute raging ass hole. But with fear mongering managed to effectively flip the public opinion of ‘if you do believe in witches you’re a heretic and a lunatic’ to ‘if you don’t believe in witches you’re a heretic and a lunatic’. To be fair to them, the Church saw how dangerous this was but the fear of the people will do that… Oh fuck, fear will do that… shit.
- ‘...Relatively early in my vocation as a priest that I trained as an exorcist.’ Ah so they got you young, huh buddy? Like a recruitment officer at a high school.
- OK, I do not know enough about Catholicism to be drawing any kind of ideas, but he said he was a Jesuit. Looks like Oxford University has a private halls run by Jesuits, Campion Hall, opened 1896. I don’t know much about the Jesuits but I think I’ve often heard it in the same breath as ‘missionaries’ and… yeah, nope.
- ‘In my time I have performed just over one hundred exorcisms.’ Just what the hell is going on in Oxford in the mid 2000s that meant there was call for an exorcism every fortnight?
- ‘I’m sorry, It won’t let me say the words.’ Oh… Oh yikes. With all the themes of agency and choice in later seasons and the compulsion to do or no do dictated by something other than you own will… Yikes. Also, as someone who has mumbled their way through many a church service without really thinking it, it’s leaving a nasty taste in my mouth; the idea that I’ve had no really will to say those words but they got dragged from me and Father Burroughs wanting to say them but being prevented from getting them out.
- Bullingdon Road, according to Google Maps, is less than a mile from Hill Top Road. Oxford, what the fresh hell?
- Had a quick look at Bethany’s Saint Hugh’s college, seems to offer a wide variety of courses. Didn’t know if there was something significant there, but we never learn what she was studying do we.
- ‘…could no longer trust her senses, and had found herself doing much that she did not understand.’ looks at my opening paragraph Huh… umm, question, was she on any new medication?
- Bethany going to eat the rock, I mean, pica’s a thing. Has she also gone to a doctor?
- OK, ‘mentis’ in blue paint under wallpaper is screaming The Spiral at me. But I’m surprised Father Burroughs didn’t speak to any of her housemates about her condition or tired to get them to see if they could see the word on the wall.
- ‘Facial lacerations,’ good grief. Yikes.
- This nurse Anne Willett, Annie, what is her game? This is the second statement she’s been involved in, other one being MAG008 and directly connected to this one, but she is a bit too involved with these cases. This feels like she’s crossing some medical practises and ethics lines.
- HANG ON, WAIT, THE NAMES DON’T MATCH. MAG008, we’ve got Anna Kasuma. MAG019, we’ve got Anne Willett. Both are an ‘Annie’ known to Father Burroughs… What is going on here? 2 women? 1 woman and we’ve got a name hygiene hiccup? What in the fresh hell?
- Falling face first into a full-length mirror, that feels very Spiral.
- ‘Annie was convinced that an exorcism was the only way, and so finally, I agreed to do so.’ Who is this ‘Annie’ and why is she wielding this sort of influence? Oh fuck me running, is she an agent for The Web?
- ‘…usually a response either from the demon, or at least the victim,’… Sir… What would you be doing that would illicit a response from the victim? Are you inflicting painful stimuli by any chance?
- ‘Annie just stood in the corner, watching and clearly eager to help...’ Someone get this woman away from the situation before I do it myself. Get her out of here, revoke her nursing license. Why is she here?!
- Seizures are on the list of brain haemorrhage symptoms. I don’t know how hard or easy to miss it would be if someone came in and was being treated for head injuries. I kinda want to ask my sister and brother-in-law to be, both medics, but I don’t know how many times more they will buy my ‘for writing purposes’ excuse before they expect to see something for it.
- ‘Annie almost got suspended over the matter, but in the end was spared further disciplinary action, as she had been simply passing on the wishes of the patient.’ Was she though? Was she really? The more I think about it, the further I am falling down the ‘Annie, Agent of The Web’ rabbit hole.
- ‘…priests are certainly not immune to alcoholism.’ thinks about the last vicar my village church had who was a drinker and was suspected of violence against his family sucks teeth
- ‘… from unwittingly stealing holy wine to my later crimes.’ You start small, little infringements that may go unnoticed. Build strength.
- ‘Until I got a call from Annie,’ OK whoever she is, she needs to stop this shit. Right now. ‘After a lot of pestering,’ stop it! Yeah, nah, Annie is The Web aligned, I’ve decided. Father Burroughs may have just gone on his miserable way but calling him to Hill Top Road had a purpose, that was for something.
- OK, but yeah, Hill Top Road and MAG008 occurred after Bethany.
- FUCK, HOLD UP, IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN. MAG008 says that the encounter at Hill Top Road happened November 2006 but Father Burroughs said there was ‘a couple of years’ between Bethany’s death and his memory of Hill Top Road. And he was in Oxford 2005-2009. So even if Bethany happened 2005, which the text really does not support, there’s no way the dates match up… JONNY?! WHAT FRESH HELL IS GOING ON!? IS THIS JUST HELL TOP ROAD DOING ITS’ FUCKED UP THING TO REALITY?! JONNY?!
- ‘Something in his manner was a bit off-putting,’ bit rich but sure, go off. ‘…watching me like a hawk, as though I were about to vanish at any moment.’ Well, to be fair to Ivo, he’d had a rough week of it.
- Now, the It that Father Burroughs speaks of and Bethany mentions wanting his faith, I’m not sure what that could be exactly. Could be a number of The Entities; The Desolation, wanting to destroy all the potential that Father Burroughs’ faith contained. The Spiral, seeing someone with ‘religious pride’ and assuredness in themselves and wanting to break that apart from the inside. The Web, seeing him as a chess piece that can set other pieces toppling.
- ‘I am not for you. I am marked.’ So which got to him first? I reckon probably The Spiral via Bethany, even if Annie was the one to ensure it took.
- And the whiplash of the end of the statement, half of it missing. I do wonder, if it was incomplete, what exactly prompted the Archivist to start recording before the other half was found?
- ‘…he apparently murdered two first year university students following Sunday Mass, and then peeled off and ate most of their skin.’…. SCREAMING
MAG019 - Caso #0113005 - “Confessione”
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Dichiarazione di Padre Edwin Burroughs, riguardo la sua presunta possessione demoniaca. Dichiarazione originale rilasciata il 30 maggio 2011. Registrazione audio di Jonathan Sims, Capo Archivista dell’Istituto Magnus, Londra.
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