MAG027 – Caso 0032408 – Cerrojo Resistente
Testimonio de Paul McKenzie, sobre los frecuentes allanamientos nocturnos en su casa.
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MAG027 – Caso 0032408 – Cerrojo Resistente
Testimonio de Paul McKenzie, sobre los frecuentes allanamientos nocturnos en su casa.
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More TMA thoughts. I went through a lot of episodes at work today, lol
A Distortion
- Sasha thinking that Jane Prentiss can’t be that dangerous because otherwise Martin wouldve gotten himself killed is soooo. I love him ljshsgs
- Sasha being worried about telling the Institute about seeing the strange guy because she thought Jonathan wouldnt believe her. Martin going back to the basement because he was worried about not getting enough information for Jonathan. Hmmmm I’m having THOUGHTS.
- “It would be Martin” leave him aloneeeee dhhdhs
- Jane Prentiss and her victims are FASCINATING but I’m glad this is audio only lol. Also I’m fascinated by Micheal I hope he doesnt get killed.
- Also also. Hints towards Jonathan being in danger. I wonder if thats the same thing as Gertrude’s death?
A sturdy lock
- No strong opinions on this one except that I feel bad for the old guy :(
Skintight
- NOT looking forward to this on on title alone
- Oop another live recording! Another person complaining the old recorders lol
- Get her ass Jonathan
- “Her ‘what the ghost’ podcast 🙄” dhhdhs
- Jonathan upsetting her by implying he thinks she’s lying and they’ll do a cursory look into it… only to reveal that there was in fact creepy video evidence of something supernatural happening. Jonathan PLEASE.
- I have no idea if I’m meant to remember sarah baldwin but i DONT and im annoyed about it
Cheating Death
- oh yay a fable. Is this guy going to wind up being the soldier?
- Nailed it
- I feel more bad for the old guy who became the New Death than i do the statement giver actually
- Also i hope this guy turns up again. Would be intriguing.
Killing Floor
- fascinated by the name of this one
- You know. You can say ‘i’m not a killer’ all you want but you sure sound like you want to kill somebody.
- I deeply hate this episode. It was bad while I was sorting through the waste (for meat and dairy 😭) and it’s bad now that I’m sat eating lunch. I ended up using the transcript to skip tiny amounts of the descriptions of the animals, i cannot deal with that much animal death.
- Okay i realise it was a mercy kill but. My guy you are very much a killer i think.
- “Hmm. More meat. Interesting.” Spoken like someone who doesnt handle meat for a living :(
MAG027, A Sturdy Lock
Case #0032408, Paul MacKenzie Release date: July 6, 2016 First listen: Somewhere between the 20th October and the 5th November. I think it was the walk home.
Well, I’m writing this in a state of physical and mental exhaustion, I may still be bleeding and the my scolded hand has about stopped stinging. LET’S GO!
The Spiral would be so proud…
- Speaking of which, this is our second ever statement attributed to The Spiral and it comes hot on the heels of the first. We see two major features of The Spiral back to back; distortions in glass and mirrors, and doors. Doors that are there that ought not to be, doors that don’t behave as they should.
- ‘…repeated nocturnal intrusions into his home.’ I’m going to sound like a broken record but, once again, this encounter is within the home and damages the psychological and physical safety offered to one by one’s home. I mean, OK, a lot of people spend the vast majority of their time at home. Or at work. So a lot of these statements are going to either occur in a situation where someone has to be there, doing the thing because ‘survival under capitalism’ or in a place where there ought to be peace and sanctuary that gets invaded. Odds are it will be one of the two, kid, you didn’t discover anything groundbreaking. It’s just when you started listening to this show the first time round, you’d only just gotten out of a bad living situation and you were still in a bad working situation that was about to get a whole lot worse. Chill.
- ‘It’s strange to live alone.’ Is living alone currently and has been for maybe 9months now Heck, I forgot about that. I was lucky, eeeeerm, enough to not be living alone during lock down, though in hindsight, I would have been significantly better off if I had been and by this stage of 2020 I was living somewhere else with a lovely family who were friendly but also knew they were taking on a lodger that vaguely resembled a cat in need of rehabilitation. So they were very, very good about including me but also reading when I needed my space. But I worked through lock down, I work in animal husbandry and we needed to look after our charges. Thankfully spring and summer meant we could distance easily and still meet up for meals and be safe. But there’s a hell of a lot of work to do on a site that typically has a work force of +150 people plus volunteers going down to 7. But I don’t think any of us came through lock down unchanged. I think I’ve become sharper, not in the cruel way, I just seem to have more edge to me then I used to. I think the extended period of being alone meant that I wasn’t performing for folks as much as I had been in my life before. And when I didn’t need to hide the teeth, I realised I had them.
- We see it again, an Entity swooping in during a time of loss and grief. As well as the grief and the stress of ‘her condition’ towards the end, the fact that this man has lost the love of his life and his world has irrevocably changed for the first time in 40 years could certainly be a source of fear and uncertainty, along with everything else.
- Noises in the house at night is something, thankfully, that doesn’t bother me. Partly, because there’s a part of me that’s already made peace with death and at least I’d be going under my own duvet, but also I can be a very heavy sleep if the mood takes me. I went to boarding school through secondary, I learnt to sleep through a lot. I also was doing way to much and routinely pulled all nighters so when I did get to sleep, I was typically out like a light.
- Part of me wants to look up statistics of home invasions and burglaries in the UK and look at the age demographics for the victims, but I also don’t know where Mr MacKenzie lives. Also, I can get behind blissful ignorance as a concept.
- The fact that he’s not shying away from the use of the word ‘paranoid’ is telling me that there is a part of him that thinks what he’s experiencing could be illogical, and I’m trying to word this carefully because I know paranoia is something very real that people struggle with. It’s a discussion of mental health that I am not qualified to weigh in on, but part of me wonders that is Mr MacKenzie had not been experiencing such an elevated state of nervousness, if he would have attracted the attention of The Spiral at all.
- ‘I could feel their presence waiting on the landing.’ Can I just get a reading from the room; do other people get this? Does anyone else sometimes become aware of someone’s presence that they are unable to see or hear? I had a quick search to see if there was a word of any scientific or evolutionary reasoning to the phenomena, but all I could find was things that would serve me more at a séance than a study lab. I’m too tired to do a proper research dive so I’m going to chalk it up to residual animal instincts and awareness and wait for someone to correct me.
- Mr MacKenzie has been living in the same house for 40 years. I never moved house as a kid, I lived my life in one old converted barn. Every step on the stairs creaked but I learnt which ones really screamed, I knew how to get the sliding door to cooperate, I knew how to get the boiler to stop grumbling. It’s amazing what little foibles a place can have and how you learn to read them.
- The speed that this encounter takes place feeds into the dread of the situation. The slow walk across the landing, the slow turning of the door handle. It brings to mind the word ‘stalking’.
- I wonder if there was any significance to the battle over the door knob lasting twenty minutes?
- The blood on the hands after being on the door handle for the night. Mr MacKenzie describes feeling his hands ‘grow wet’. There’s no sudden pain of a cut and door handle itself was clean. Now the presence of blood on the hands may just be a supernatural thing, a sinister marvel to add to the dread, I once saw a case of a bird that was so terribly bruised, she was bleeding through her skin. I shudder to think what sort of pressure would be needed to recreate that on a human hand, if the presence of blood was in anyway had a mundane cause.
- The police have been mentioned in a few statements now, either in the immediate aftermath or in prolonged investigations but I think this may be the most involved we’ve seen them with an occurrence. In every instance we’ve encountered them, I can say I’ve been… overly impressed by their performance.
- Now 2003, maybe there aren’t the smartphones or the cameras that would have made gathering evidence of the second night’s visitation easier, but you’d think the dispatcher might have heard the ‘rattling and banging’ of the door down the line.
- I don’t think I’ll live to see retirement honestly, I think my generation and everyone after us will be lucky to, but I think I can understand the fear of being sent into a retirement home against your wishes. The loss of freedom and autonomy. The loss of privacy. Not being able to live life on your schedule and just… waiting. I think Mr MacKenzie is also experiencing fear of what his place is within his son’s life now too, as he says later, Marcus has his own life to lead. I think he himself is adrift as it might have been that he has been effectively living his life for his wife, especially is her ‘condition’ made her a dependant the later stages of her life.
- ‘…for the last month I have lain awake almost every night.’ The Spiral has got to love sleep deprivation, just one big feedback loop. Genius and also torturous.
- So he does try for footage evidence, but the devices don’t pick up anything. Anything except a face, ‘leering’. We know the Distortion has a strange appearance, too long and too many, but I think 2003 is too early for it to have taken Michael. Maybe this was the face of the Distortion before it took Michael’s?
- I can not tell you how quickly my stomach dropped at the line ‘maybe I should get a dog.’
- ‘I am not entirely made of stone’… Jon cares so much it is debilitating at times but he’s in a position that means he is having to ruthlessly suppress that to seem competent and professional. Jon wants so desperately to help people, but he wasn’t built to be a hero.
- Mr MacKenzie died of a stroke two months after the statement was given. Going by the date of the statement, this started July 2003 and could have been going til October, possibly November 2003. If we say 5 months at the outside. 5 months of acute sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation increases blood pressure, and high blood pressure is considered to be the leading risk factor for strokes. So… yeah, he died of fear.
- We met one of the previous generation of Institute staff member, Sarah Carpenter. I’m fairly certain she’ll be mentioned later in regards to Gertrude’s past missions, but I can’t remember anything key at this point.
- Marcus speaks of ‘already giving his statement’ and if memory serves, it’s another of The Spiral.
- The bedroom door never had a lock… So The Spiral cultivated an environment where Mr MacKenzie was his own jailer, cultivated an environment suitable for inducing long periods of sustained fear.
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Dichiarazione di Paul McKenzie, riguardo ripetute intrusioni notturne all’interno della sua abitazione. Dichiarazione originale rilasciata il 24 agosto 2003. Registrazione audio di Jonathan Sims, Capo Archivista dell’Istituto Magnus, Londra.
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