I love how the landlord had nearly no hope that the Exterminator would work out, but called him anyway, just to maybe avoid setting himself on fire to solve the problem properly. That's as if Montauk had decided to call the plumber and electrician to fix his problems with the lightbulbs and the foul water, before he finally decided that serial killing was the answer.
@@mintsmooth860 (SPOILERS FOR THE REST OF THE SERIES BELOW) seems to be how he activates his Desolation powers, and he must have decided there was no chance anything less than that would get rid of the Corruption in there. unsure if he's made of candle wax like some (all? still unsure) of the others but i'm sure he survived doing it
@@-theblackbumblebee-8067 Sure but it's the ashes of the thing that hunted and nearly killed him, while he was paranoid it might still be alive. After Martin has every reason to be just as traumatised. It's super the thought that counts.
@prideling yeah i know that, i just find it ironic that ASHES would be martin's first gift to Jon. Its not an item that is usually associated with romance and this comment highlighted the intent. Nowhere but whithin this universe would that be considered sweet.
You DO know that, the vamps in TMA are unable to actually speak since, they don't actually have any lungs. OR seem to possess any semblance of sentience since, animals that can mimic the behaviours of normal humans, are exactly what these creatures really are. Right?
I almost regret that the Jane Prentiss entity was incinerated, because she was such a great antagonist - a truly horrific abomination and a tragic figure at the same time.
hearing jon say that "oh yes" makes me think that maybe not!sasha learned that from him? if they NotThem people try to seem as normal as possible it could be that they'd mimic behaviours of whoever they were talking to
@@fluffsnake seems as though she didn’t imo. At the end of 40, Jon mentions Michael, and she’s like “oh yea, we really don’t know much about him, do we?” Not!Sasha knows exactly what’s going on, but she doesn’t know how much the archives staff knows so she’s testing the waters
Pro tip: Nicknaming the characters, while it will help you remember them, is a terrible idea. Every time I hear Jon Amherst I'm like ' :O Jon Armrest?!' and I can't take statements with him in them seriously anymore.
Considering we have so far met war (the piper) and death (cheating death) two out of four of the horsemen of the apocalypse I am starting to wonder if this hive faction might be related to pestilence and what this entire story is leading to is an apocalypse.
Spoiler if you haven’t finished yet Well an apocalypse is coming but not the boring four horsemen biblical one, we’ve got 13 entities babey!!! A veritable stable of horsemen!
Jonathan's just falling apart. It's somewhat to be suspected considering his state before hand and what happened to provoke his current pattern of behaviour. (ie. Messing with police evidence and BREAKING INTO A DEAD STRANGER'S FLAT)
(spoilers for this episode) [Landlord lights himself-- and the rest of the building-- on fire] Hmm... yep! That sounds exactly like what I'd do knowing what was in the attic and that I might have been exposed to it. :)
(spoilers) I like the implication that the landlord heard about how the exterminator injured the man who owned the ant-filled house and thought he could deal with the wasp's nest too.
K so Amhurst was flammable and the "wasp nest" looked spongy... According to Trevor's account, these are both features of vampires. If the hive is connected to Amhurst and presumably the mosquitos from Blood Bag, it's possible that vampires could also fit into this somewhere
At time of writing this I've only listened up to this episode. I don't think that is the case. The spiders have a clear distain for the worms, and can easily exist outside of a host. Worms always need a host nearby, and the fact we don't get randos getting infected by the worms just wandering implies they die quickly without a hive nearby to shelter them. The only other spiders we have met also simply killed their target without infecting them. I feel it has something to do with those spider-human husks mentioned by the policewoman's partner some episodes ago, though considering that individual made it out ok implies the spider things are more occupied ironically doing a spider's job. Controlling the pest population.
I made the mistake of going through some of the wiki (not a ton, intentionally avoided the spoiler stuff that is well marked), and I've got just enough of a grasp to guess at who was involved before checking the entry for each episode.
Was he? I thought john amhearst was tall and grifter’s bone man was short, although they both wore baggy suits. Maybe they arr the same kind of entity?
I'm very glad that the ashes were real xD AND I noticed that Martin is appearing more and more in the investigations for the statements, I'm happy for that. Hope that Jon starts to sleep more, we need more Halloween weeks
Holy shit, it is him!!! I didn’t even realize!!! 😃 Another Mechanism in the Archives! So that’s now Jonny, Ashes, and Gunpowder Tim, and then The Toy Soldier is in later episodes! 😁
TheNitpickChick I had no idea either until I saw the spreadsheet lmao (don’t tell anyone but I cannot for the life of me tell that it’s him even though I know, he lowkey just sounds like another generic British white man in this... and I’m usually pretty good at distinguishing voices............)
Sam Lueke Honestly, same. lol When I really listen, I can hear some recognizable parts to his voice here and there, but overall he sounds pretty different here than when singing or whatnot. 😄
Nama schu Jonathan Sims (the voice actor, not the character) is also in a band called The Mechanisms. They tell fantastic sci-fi stories through awesome music. The band plays the role of narrator as a crew of immortal space pirates, and each member has a character that they play. Jonathan Sims plays Jonny d’Ville, the First Mate. (the closest the crew has to a captain lol) The voice actor who voices Basira plays the Quartermaster, Ashes O’Reilly. And the statement giver of this episode plays the crew’s Gunner, Gunpowder Tim. 😊 (The Toy Soldier is another crew member. It’s voice actress turns up in later episodes as a recurring character. 😁) It’s just really cool to spot these crossover cameos from familiar voices! 😊
I'd wager that fire cult has to do with it. Man moved his lips when he spoke, he isn't a vampire. That scar and whatever enchantment had to do with it is likely to have much more to do with the fire.
A pest control professional of my acquaintance said not calling themselves exterminators had more to do with managing expectations. YOu're never going to permanently get rid of vermin--they always come back and they're always lurking--it's maintenance not a one time job.
18:17 Oh, that soft-soft "yes..." Never have I ever heard the word "throbbing" as frequently as in the last week following my discovery of this podcast. To be completely honest, I'm not sure I've ever heard it before at all.
Based on all the interactions with Bugs and the Vampires, if you encounter a Monster? Set it on fire. Unless the monster is the fire. Then you're fucked.
i really love the bug-themed episodes, especially the fact that this one was about ants, because for the past three years i've been on-and-off surrounded by ants (i don't tend to leave anything out that would attract them, they're just there, even though i've moved several times). it was fun listening to this episode at 1:30 am as i see ants crawl on my computer screen and feel them crawling up my arms and legs
This reminds of an incident that happened to me when I was little. My childhood home has a porch with a backyard and we'd get ants covering the entire ground some days in the summer. One time I got trapped in a chair on the porch for an hour because ants swarmed all over the concrete and I didn't want to step on them since I was barefoot. I waited until my mom cleared a path with the hose for me to get back to the house. A few days later, when I was playing in the grass outside, I must have disturbed a nest or something because ants suddenly started climbing me. I still remember the feeling of little legs moving over every inch of skin. I was covered from my toes to my neck. For whatever reason no ants went on my face. I remember feeling a mixture of delight and fear and I yelled for my mom. She came running out of the house to find me standing still in the middle of the backyard absolutely covered in ants. Looking back, I'm pretty sure she was panicking internally but she was pretty calm when dealing with it. She turned on the hose and we spent at least 20 minutes gently rinsing off all the ants so that they wouldn't become aggressive and bite me. I don't know how but during both incidents I got bit a grand total of zero times. Nothing like that has ever happened again. I also never developed a fear of ants. To this day I still think ants are super cool
I put this on while i was in bed and fell asleep and ended up going all the way to 61, i wonder if when i listen to these while awake now ill remember bits and pieces
The more I listen the more I feel like Jon needs to be bolder in recruiting help. This guy went straight from "Agh, weird sick man grabbing me" to "guess I will light him on fire". They need people like this to take on the stuff they are combating. He should also definitely be trying to contact Gerard Kiay or however you spell his last name.
I kind of feel the exterminator's ability to handle bad situations is why Disease Control snapped him up. Disease Control might have its own monster squad for specific situations.
Ok spoilers for the next season or so In heinsight this guy got really lucky. He came face to face with extremely powerful avatars of the Corruption and the Desolation and lived to tell the tale.
First time listener, so no spoilers please. Wondering if John Amherst is (kind of) a good guy. Burning the hive... maybe he was actually trying to contain or get rid of whatever was in the nursing home. 🤔
John Amherst didn’t burn the wasp nest. That was Arthur Nolan. John was the ant guy, and the guy from the Ivy Meadows Nursing Home. And at the nursing home, it’s heavily implied that the mysterious old man and the woman who saved the statement giver were the ones to start the fire there. :)
Corruption: ants, worms, all over, man has a fever, bad smells Slaughter: dude tried to kill him, his suit is like that one Slaughter band Desolation: death by flame, very flammable dudes
My theory from this episode and what we know so far: The ants' case reminds me the mosquitoes' case. I mean, in both cases we had the creatures eating/drinking the sick fluid (remember how the mosquitoes would go crazy for the blood that was full of diseases?) So, that makes me thing that these two are related, and that person who was the owner of the ant house and was also in the nursing house is a follower or a part of an entity (like how Michael is part pf the spiral entity) that can make people and objects (the ant house seemed sick) sick. Does that mean that this man and prentiss were marked and were working for the same entity? Is the hive entity and the entity that brings sickness the same entity? I can't say yet, I need more data. The landlord, on the other hand, in prentiss's statement we thought he was just another victim of the supernatural, but what if he was also involved with the supernatural? He was disappointed when the witness came down prentiss's house like he knew already that the hive wasn't killed, even though even our witness didn't know that yet, he only heard the screaming. And then he used a tattoo on him to set the place on fire, making sure the hive would for sure be destroyed. That means that a) he wanted that hive destroyed that day immediately (remember how the pest control guy was the one given the job 'cause he could go right away?) and b) I don't believe he was a member of the fireless flame cult 'cause members of that cult can make people and objects burn by just chanting, they don't need a tattoo to use, and also the fire that the members of that cult bring doesn't harm them (from what we know so far at least), while the landlord of prentiss was found dead. So it's more like he sacrifised himself in order to destroy the hive right away before it could do anything else (like, I don't know, luring someone else again?). So either he was a supernatural fighter, one of the good guys, or he was a pawn of another entity that was against the hive entity. Now, of course, there's also always the chance of him being brought back from the dead from an entity to be used by it too, like with other cases of people being supposedly dead but being seen alive and kicking after their "deaths".
Okay. Only part of the way through the episode but I cant help but notice the description of the man who got mad at the pest control worker is described very similarly to the man who was “working” at the nursing home that was infected. Just me?
First time listener. The angler fish from the first episode chose victims who were smokers. I think it asked for a smoke to lure people in, and it uses smoke to cover up weird smells coming from it's taxidermied victims. I think the weird woman who was hired for the supernatural show was also a victim of the angler fish. Her skin slipped off at one point, because she was taxidermied too and she smoked a lot.
Spoilers Of all the one off characters from earlier seasons, this boyo isn't one I'd have expected to show up come the final season. Fun times for viewers. Not even a bit for poor Jordan Kennedy.
aughh Jon KNOWS he's probably being paranoid and seeing danger where it doesn't exist but if he can't be 100% certain about something he assumes the worst,, ocd gang how are you
Story time! I have recenlty (like as of two weeks ago) gotten into the mechanisms because of the magnus archives. I was trying to look into Tim Ledsam (Gunpowder Tim) and his current work (I really like Gunpowder Tim) and I just learned that he voiced Jordan Kenedy in this episode! Which is cool!
Once lived in a house with ants that were attracted to water so they ended up any where there was water. So the bathrooms and kitchen sinks. Since they didn't come in for food the usual ant poison didn't work. Anything the exterminators did got rid of them for about a month or two before coming back. At one point they ended up in the water dispenser. The house was old and had settled a bit so there were all sorts of cracks and spaces they could get into although I think they preferred the outlets we didn't regularly use.
How does that amount of any happen to a house? Hmmmm....... Someone pours sugar on every single surface. OR....????? Was it the meat apartment/ or another meat house!???????
As it seems with way more that I'd wish cases, I have some experience with ants and wasps infestation of my own. Both of them happened when I was staying at the summer camp 16 years ago. I think, I've already wrote about the wasps' one in the comments of Nursing Home case, but before our group was moved to the building with wasps' nest in the toilet, we were situated in another, much farther from the centre of the camp building. The were two floors - first one for girls and second one for boys. At our second day we noticed a cabinet (or nightstand, I'm not sure of the correct name). Me and two other girls decided to look inside and saw, what we later deduced, a stack of towels that were almost completely cowered with ants. We closed the cabinet and haven't opened it ever since. Didn't stop ants from going in *our* rooms, but at least it was just a couple of them per day, instead of the whole swarm that was there.
Listening at work is great, but not commenting my ideas and theories each episode is killing me. Anyways, love the recurrence of so many early episode characters this season. Starting to get an idea for possible.....beings... at the top of the factions that are supposedly at war. I like Noun names so here are my theorized ones so far while I'm on break: -The Vast seems given by now -The Deep or the Trapped perhaps -The Lightless Flame seems too simple, perhaps The Scorched, The Brilliant, or Asag is actually the being for the fire -The Watcher for the archives and several spots where being watched was the theme -The Isolated/Lonely -The Web or The Fractal/Spiral perhaps, I'm not sure if this is one or two factions yet -The Other for all the uncanny valley and body snatcher types -The Visceral or the Flesh maybe, or Meat -The Shadow or The Darkness -The Hive or The Infected -Death itself maybe This is short of the 14 I was considering ten or twelve episodes back, but well see by the end of work if I don't have more ideas Man. Screw being a human being in this world, shit sucks. The man with the coffin seems the only real winner in this universe so far
"Lauras Stern, Lauras Stern, Lauras Stern hat dich so gern... Hell und klar, hell und klar, Lauras Stern ist immer da..." Also thanks, the name reminded me of something too but i couldn't remember this was it^^
horror: Hundreds, thousands of ants and Jordan left to face them alone my brain, trying to cope: _a n t m a n_ Edit: This morning there was an ant on my sink. And trying to get through the door when my cat caught it. Oh no
I always forget that the Corruption is even an Entity: and I especially forget it has the same result as all of the other Entities. I really need to pay more attention in my relistens lol
The lady who gave a statement about the wasp nest was Jane Prentiss, before she was a flesh hive. This was indeed her old apartment building. It was mentioned in the follow up on her statement, that the building burned down. :)
I’m starting to think that the “vampires” Trevor mentioned might be the adult form of the bugs and the maggots are just at the larval stage? That might explain why he showed up to the senior care home, though, there’s still a lot of loose with that theory. I was under the impression that Prentiss had been the one to replace Sasha but I’m starting to doubt that now. It seems like the cremation is consistent with Prentiss’s body unless it’s a very convincing fake.
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What I get from all these episodes is that if you meet something even slightly supernatural: just set it on fire
And yourself, just in case.
Unless it’s the Lightless Flame. Then you’re screwed
If it’s the lightless flame, stab it
What if sky starts eating people
@@sumitrana2420 SET THE SKY ON FIRE!
"I'm sad. End supplemental."
Me talking to myself and then adding a side note
I miss my wife, Tails. I miss her a lot. I'll be back. - End supplemental
APOLLO
@@shrimpypup APOLLO‼️
@@PedroKing19This is the most random ass reference to be put in a horror podcast series and I love it 😂😂
Remember that Jane mentioned ants in her old... uhh... workplace :S even before she encountered the Hive, she was still "marked" or something...
I love how the landlord had nearly no hope that the Exterminator would work out, but called him anyway, just to maybe avoid setting himself on fire to solve the problem properly.
That's as if Montauk had decided to call the plumber and electrician to fix his problems with the lightbulbs and the foul water, before he finally decided that serial killing was the answer.
I don't understand why he had to set himself on fire honestly
@@mintsmooth860 (SPOILERS FOR THE REST OF THE SERIES BELOW)
seems to be how he activates his Desolation powers, and he must have decided there was no chance anything less than that would get rid of the Corruption in there. unsure if he's made of candle wax like some (all? still unsure) of the others but i'm sure he survived doing it
Me before this: "Cool, Jane Prentiss is dead, no more episodes about worms and bug infestations, I can breathe".
This episode: "Hi".
Me: "FU-"
So incredibly true
Nurgle is just too generous to leave us hanging like that.
Aww, the ashes Martin gave Jon were real!
... at least he thinks they are. 👀
This sounds like he gave him a really sweet, romantic gift but its just ashes. Honestly find it kind of funny.
@@-theblackbumblebee-8067 Sure but it's the ashes of the thing that hunted and nearly killed him, while he was paranoid it might still be alive. After Martin has every reason to be just as traumatised. It's super the thought that counts.
@prideling yeah i know that, i just find it ironic that ASHES would be martin's first gift to Jon. Its not an item that is usually associated with romance and this comment highlighted the intent. Nowhere but whithin this universe would that be considered sweet.
@@-theblackbumblebee-8067 Don't worry! See? I'm giving you what's left of her corpse!....es!
Huh... Jane was so quick to disregard her landlord but he clearly knows more about what's going on than she did...
Hearing Jonathan Sims talking about getting a goodnight's sleep, and missing days like that really choked me up. 😢
The whole easily catching fire aspect sounds like Trevor's vampires.
I was already thinking the flesh hives were like the larvae of parasitic wasps and the vampires or shapeshifters were a mature state
OH F*CK UR RIGHT maybe they are like insects for this Entity?
Wait... Did he ever say the landlord explicitly spoke about something....?
Holy shirt you may be onto something
My thoughts exactly, though now I'm wondering why the landlord has burnt himself. Are vampires that against wasps&worms&ants?
You DO know that, the vamps in TMA are unable to actually speak since, they don't actually have any lungs. OR seem to possess any semblance of sentience since, animals that can mimic the behaviours of normal humans, are exactly what these creatures really are. Right?
petition to send jon on a vacation
Lepitorus with his luck, he’d probably run into more unfriendly paranormals
@@coreacartoonist lol he just goes to Spooky Island from the Scooby Do movie.
To New Zealand
preferably to New Zealand since apparently that's where everyone that's been affected by the paranormal decides to go
@@000Krim Specifically a therapist's office in New zealand.
I almost regret that the Jane Prentiss entity was incinerated, because she was such a great antagonist - a truly horrific abomination and a tragic figure at the same time.
Amherst is so much less fun than Worm Wife
@@mimkyodar Did you say "armrest"? *wink wink*
"there must have been thousands" sir that is just a few handfuls of ants
"Thoudands of ants" is just like, a small infestation. There are always more ants than you think.
you count ants in the millions bro
To be fair, a few handful of ants would be quite a lot once they decompress, no?
@@agnieszkasalach4395 well definetly not enough to cover walls and ceiling and flor and all the furniture
Right, but I don't want my hands to be full of ants. I want ants away from me. Away.
This has to be the only fandom where giving someone cremated remains is romantic😂
Heaven Officials Blessing would beg to differ
Martin is the sweetest ever but yeah, I can't deal lol
Everyone shipping Jon and Martin and I'm sitting here like, "They seem like they're nice but...."
@@maggiem6209 I mean, it is canon
@@fevre_dream8542 didn't they literally confirm jon is ace?
hearing jon say that "oh yes" makes me think that maybe not!sasha learned that from him? if they NotThem people try to seem as normal as possible it could be that they'd mimic behaviours of whoever they were talking to
that's a good point actually. It's almost like "normal" talk but it's too robotic
Reminds me of the anatomy class video
Seems strange that they seem to have the memories of the people they... replace
@@fluffsnake seems as though she didn’t imo. At the end of 40, Jon mentions Michael, and she’s like “oh yea, we really don’t know much about him, do we?” Not!Sasha knows exactly what’s going on, but she doesn’t know how much the archives staff knows so she’s testing the waters
my heart broke when jon said ''I even got a good noght's sleep. I miss those days.''
Pro tip: Nicknaming the characters, while it will help you remember them, is a terrible idea. Every time I hear Jon Amherst I'm like ' :O Jon Armrest?!' and I can't take statements with him in them seriously anymore.
Each time I hear Jared "Limby man" Hopworth mentioned I am reminded of that clip in tma memes that sends me wheezing on the floor each time i watch it
So yeah, that second statement about him was entertaining
or micheal "manlet"Crew
He hasn't appeared again but Tony Carlile for me is "SUPER MEATBOY!!!" So when he shows back up again that will be funny
does this mean i have to stop calling micheal distortion fuckhands mcmike ? :(
Considering we have so far met war (the piper) and death (cheating death) two out of four of the horsemen of the apocalypse I am starting to wonder if this hive faction might be related to pestilence and what this entire story is leading to is an apocalypse.
Spoiler if you haven’t finished yet
Well an apocalypse is coming but not the boring four horsemen biblical one, we’ve got 13 entities babey!!! A veritable stable of horsemen!
👀
@@emilybarclay8831 uhh it’s FIFTEEN
ABOUT THAT
Incredibly funny comment when youve heard the whole show lol
Jonathan's just falling apart. It's somewhat to be suspected considering his state before hand and what happened to provoke his current pattern of behaviour. (ie. Messing with police evidence and BREAKING INTO A DEAD STRANGER'S FLAT)
Jon getting a good night sleep was the news I needed to hear this week. :(
the use of the word spiral is so funny to me but yes I agree
Jon isn’t spiraling, he’s more beholding in my opinion :)
@@malaizzeshush….people still don’t know until they know what they know, you know?
(spoilers for this episode)
[Landlord lights himself-- and the rest of the building-- on fire]
Hmm... yep! That sounds exactly like what I'd do knowing what was in the attic and that I might have been exposed to it. :)
I just figured he was a part of the desolation group. Isn't fire like, their whole deal?
(spoilers)
I like the implication that the landlord heard about how the exterminator injured the man who owned the ant-filled house and thought he could deal with the wasp's nest too.
@@samtigerlilly1003 he had a stylised flame scar that burst into flames so yeah its deffo the desolation
K so Amhurst was flammable and the "wasp nest" looked spongy... According to Trevor's account, these are both features of vampires. If the hive is connected to Amhurst and presumably the mosquitos from Blood Bag, it's possible that vampires could also fit into this somewhere
The vampires are just a bunch of mosquitoes in a trenchcoat, I'm calling it now
@@kaayya.kmy bet is on leeches
I'm calling it now, the random appearance of the cobwebs in the tunnels came from one of these one person hives.
At time of writing this I've only listened up to this episode. I don't think that is the case. The spiders have a clear distain for the worms, and can easily exist outside of a host. Worms always need a host nearby, and the fact we don't get randos getting infected by the worms just wandering implies they die quickly without a hive nearby to shelter them. The only other spiders we have met also simply killed their target without infecting them. I feel it has something to do with those spider-human husks mentioned by the policewoman's partner some episodes ago, though considering that individual made it out ok implies the spider things are more occupied ironically doing a spider's job. Controlling the pest population.
Worms: *dies*
Ants: revenge!!!
Always great to hear about my wormy girl!
WORM WIFE
lemme tell you it's fuckin WILD going through tma again after getting super into deep mechanisms lore during the season 5 hiatus
I made the mistake of going through some of the wiki (not a ton, intentionally avoided the spoiler stuff that is well marked), and I've got just enough of a grasp to guess at who was involved before checking the entry for each episode.
me rn
The idea there are similar hives out there is terrifying.
Poor Jon, he needs a vacation where it's safe.
It's been a year.. so this isn't fully spoilers..
Well.......
He does get a vacation....... not by choice though.
I think John Amherst was described (too large brown jacket) in another statement, aside from the nursing home, but I can't remember
Its in the grafters bone episode
@@giuliomi1540 Thanks !!
Was he? I thought john amhearst was tall and grifter’s bone man was short, although they both wore baggy suits. Maybe they arr the same kind of entity?
They’re not the same entity, but they both share the need for a good tailor. :)
@@giuliomi1540 nah it was a different fella.
I'm very glad that the ashes were real xD AND I noticed that Martin is appearing more and more in the investigations for the statements, I'm happy for that. Hope that Jon starts to sleep more, we need more Halloween weeks
I feel bad for Jon he really needs someone to talk to other than these tape recorders
WOO WOO love me some Jane Prentiss
I love every part of this fandom. Except that part.
the whole time i was listening i was like “GUNPOWDER TIM 😍🥰🥺❤️🧡💛💚💙💜💕💞💓💗💖💘!!!!!”
Jon I love and support you
jon: hmmmm dunno man pretty sus
in this episode i learned that the worms r weak to fire, and then i remembered that someone gave Jon a lighter. Hmmmmm 🤔
firstly, of course, i love this episode.
but secondly, since i can't help myself, gUNPOWDER TIM??????
Holy shit, it is him!!! I didn’t even realize!!! 😃
Another Mechanism in the Archives!
So that’s now Jonny, Ashes, and Gunpowder Tim, and then The Toy Soldier is in later episodes! 😁
TheNitpickChick I had no idea either until I saw the spreadsheet lmao (don’t tell anyone but I cannot for the life of me tell that it’s him even though I know, he lowkey just sounds like another generic British white man in this... and I’m usually pretty good at distinguishing voices............)
Sam Lueke Honestly, same. lol
When I really listen, I can hear some recognizable parts to his voice here and there, but overall he sounds pretty different here than when singing or whatnot. 😄
Wha- .. who?
Nama schu Jonathan Sims (the voice actor, not the character) is also in a band called The Mechanisms. They tell fantastic sci-fi stories through awesome music.
The band plays the role of narrator as a crew of immortal space pirates, and each member has a character that they play.
Jonathan Sims plays Jonny d’Ville, the First Mate. (the closest the crew has to a captain lol)
The voice actor who voices Basira plays the Quartermaster, Ashes O’Reilly.
And the statement giver of this episode plays the crew’s Gunner, Gunpowder Tim. 😊
(The Toy Soldier is another crew member. It’s voice actress turns up in later episodes as a recurring character. 😁)
It’s just really cool to spot these crossover cameos from familiar voices! 😊
As a Mechanisms fan, going back here realizing this is (Gunpowder) Tim is - certainly something /pos
so for the landlord I’m either thinking vampire because of the way he caught fire, or someone related to the pair we saw at the nursing home.
I'd wager that fire cult has to do with it. Man moved his lips when he spoke, he isn't a vampire. That scar and whatever enchantment had to do with it is likely to have much more to do with the fire.
Jon says they wouldn't have worked together, but the Prentiss and friends entomology show would've been a sensation, damnit.
The corrupt tend to find themselves in… toxic relationships
It was nice to hear that Jon got a good night's sleep due to Halloween hoaxes, of all things.
A pest control professional of my acquaintance said not calling themselves exterminators had more to do with managing expectations. YOu're never going to permanently get rid of vermin--they always come back and they're always lurking--it's maintenance not a one time job.
18:17 Oh, that soft-soft "yes..."
Never have I ever heard the word "throbbing" as frequently as in the last week following my discovery of this podcast. To be completely honest, I'm not sure I've ever heard it before at all.
Based on all the interactions with Bugs and the Vampires, if you encounter a Monster? Set it on fire.
Unless the monster is the fire. Then you're fucked.
*4 worms disliked this*
And 1 ant
An army of ants and worms is coming to dislike this entire podcast.
And one wasp
I would become a flesh hive for Jon
Mood
Taking simping to the next level
Jon would never want you to
I'm not sure he'd appreciate that though
Say Probably not
love that i found out about the mechanisms because now i get to hear my blorbo gunpowder tim talk for an extended period of time
I surely didn't need a more detailed description of the "wasps" nest😨😨 it's so disgusting, I love it.
i really love the bug-themed episodes, especially the fact that this one was about ants, because for the past three years i've been on-and-off surrounded by ants (i don't tend to leave anything out that would attract them, they're just there, even though i've moved several times). it was fun listening to this episode at 1:30 am as i see ants crawl on my computer screen and feel them crawling up my arms and legs
How is any of this fun ?! This sounds so unsettling lmao
@@CamilleChauTempsDesCerises ig bc horror doesn't scare me, i'm sure this would be terrifying if it did
@broblerone413 It doesn't really scare me either, but I hate the feeling of bugs on my skin ah ah
This reminds of an incident that happened to me when I was little. My childhood home has a porch with a backyard and we'd get ants covering the entire ground some days in the summer. One time I got trapped in a chair on the porch for an hour because ants swarmed all over the concrete and I didn't want to step on them since I was barefoot. I waited until my mom cleared a path with the hose for me to get back to the house. A few days later, when I was playing in the grass outside, I must have disturbed a nest or something because ants suddenly started climbing me. I still remember the feeling of little legs moving over every inch of skin. I was covered from my toes to my neck. For whatever reason no ants went on my face. I remember feeling a mixture of delight and fear and I yelled for my mom. She came running out of the house to find me standing still in the middle of the backyard absolutely covered in ants. Looking back, I'm pretty sure she was panicking internally but she was pretty calm when dealing with it. She turned on the hose and we spent at least 20 minutes gently rinsing off all the ants so that they wouldn't become aggressive and bite me. I don't know how but during both incidents I got bit a grand total of zero times. Nothing like that has ever happened again. I also never developed a fear of ants. To this day I still think ants are super cool
Did anybody else get an instant image of Jon’s face scrunching up in their head when the guy mentioned wasps nests
Oh poor jon
I put this on while i was in bed and fell asleep and ended up going all the way to 61, i wonder if when i listen to these while awake now ill remember bits and pieces
did you remember bits and pieces from when you were asleep?
The more I listen the more I feel like Jon needs to be bolder in recruiting help. This guy went straight from "Agh, weird sick man grabbing me" to "guess I will light him on fire". They need people like this to take on the stuff they are combating. He should also definitely be trying to contact Gerard Kiay or however you spell his last name.
I kind of feel the exterminator's ability to handle bad situations is why Disease Control snapped him up. Disease Control might have its own monster squad for specific situations.
Am i relistening to this just to hear tim ledsems's voice? Yes, yes i a
Ok spoilers for the next season or so
In heinsight this guy got really lucky. He came face to face with extremely powerful avatars of the Corruption and the Desolation and lived to tell the tale.
Might wanna put a spoiler warning on that one, bud
He had the power of I Have A Plot Relevant Statement To Give Jon And Therefore Cannot Die Before I Give It
Well, wait for season 5.
First time listener, so no spoilers please.
Wondering if John Amherst is (kind of) a good guy. Burning the hive... maybe he was actually trying to contain or get rid of whatever was in the nursing home. 🤔
John Amherst didn’t burn the wasp nest. That was Arthur Nolan. John was the ant guy, and the guy from the Ivy Meadows Nursing Home.
And at the nursing home, it’s heavily implied that the mysterious old man and the woman who saved the statement giver were the ones to start the fire there. :)
Oh jon
See it’s all fun and games for Jordan until he goes with his best friend to fight the moon kaiser 300 years in the future ago
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Wasn't it 2000? Or 200?
Or 1000
Sounds like Pestilence... Horsemen insinuation?
Corruption: ants, worms, all over, man has a fever, bad smells
Slaughter: dude tried to kill him, his suit is like that one Slaughter band
Desolation: death by flame, very flammable dudes
My theory from this episode and what we know so far:
The ants' case reminds me the mosquitoes' case. I mean, in both cases we had the creatures eating/drinking the sick fluid (remember how the mosquitoes would go crazy for the blood that was full of diseases?) So, that makes me thing that these two are related, and that person who was the owner of the ant house and was also in the nursing house is a follower or a part of an entity (like how Michael is part pf the spiral entity) that can make people and objects (the ant house seemed sick) sick. Does that mean that this man and prentiss were marked and were working for the same entity? Is the hive entity and the entity that brings sickness the same entity? I can't say yet, I need more data.
The landlord, on the other hand, in prentiss's statement we thought he was just another victim of the supernatural, but what if he was also involved with the supernatural? He was disappointed when the witness came down prentiss's house like he knew already that the hive wasn't killed, even though even our witness didn't know that yet, he only heard the screaming. And then he used a tattoo on him to set the place on fire, making sure the hive would for sure be destroyed. That means that a) he wanted that hive destroyed that day immediately (remember how the pest control guy was the one given the job 'cause he could go right away?) and b) I don't believe he was a member of the fireless flame cult 'cause members of that cult can make people and objects burn by just chanting, they don't need a tattoo to use, and also the fire that the members of that cult bring doesn't harm them (from what we know so far at least), while the landlord of prentiss was found dead. So it's more like he sacrifised himself in order to destroy the hive right away before it could do anything else (like, I don't know, luring someone else again?). So either he was a supernatural fighter, one of the good guys, or he was a pawn of another entity that was against the hive entity. Now, of course, there's also always the chance of him being brought back from the dead from an entity to be used by it too, like with other cases of people being supposedly dead but being seen alive and kicking after their "deaths".
The "Azog" guy burned himself summoning the boiling heat thing, so the fire people aren't always immune.
@@Badficwriter hmm I see, I had forgotten about that at the time I wrote my comment, thanks for the info
Okay. Only part of the way through the episode but I cant help but notice the description of the man who got mad at the pest control worker is described very similarly to the man who was “working” at the nursing home that was infected. Just me?
AAAAAAA I WAS RIGHT
Lmao there was a pest control ad below this video.
I always get weird ads and videos in my recommended when I watch these
On my re-listening of the series, it strikes me that the paranormal really seems attracted to people who smoke.
First time listener. The angler fish from the first episode chose victims who were smokers. I think it asked for a smoke to lure people in, and it uses smoke to cover up weird smells coming from it's taxidermied victims. I think the weird woman who was hired for the supernatural show was also a victim of the angler fish. Her skin slipped off at one point, because she was taxidermied too and she smoked a lot.
Spoilers
Of all the one off characters from earlier seasons, this boyo isn't one I'd have expected to show up come the final season. Fun times for viewers. Not even a bit for poor Jordan Kennedy.
He seriously needs vacation
and therapy
Yes, lots of it
I'm inthrawled in this series I can't begin to explain how much I enjoy it thanks so much for these amazing tales much appreciated
Huh, a nice coincidence. I'm listening to this right before Halloween, and Jon brings up it being Halloween week... it is just a coincidence... right?
John Amherst (man woth ants) was taken to IVY Meadows nursing home, the same one from episode 36
GUNPOWDER TIM!!
Listening to this while laying on a lawn, the increasing number of ants around me is… concerning
at 5:48 and wow this episode is going
to be fun
pretty sure i have a phobia of ants so
this description? not fun
rip
GUNPOWDER TIM
aughh Jon KNOWS he's probably being paranoid and seeing danger where it doesn't exist but if he can't be 100% certain about something he assumes the worst,, ocd gang how are you
Story time! I have recenlty (like as of two weeks ago) gotten into the mechanisms because of the magnus archives. I was trying to look into Tim Ledsam (Gunpowder Tim) and his current work (I really like Gunpowder Tim) and I just learned that he voiced Jordan Kenedy in this episode! Which is cool!
Once lived in a house with ants that were attracted to water so they ended up any where there was water. So the bathrooms and kitchen sinks. Since they didn't come in for food the usual ant poison didn't work. Anything the exterminators did got rid of them for about a month or two before coming back. At one point they ended up in the water dispenser. The house was old and had settled a bit so there were all sorts of cracks and spaces they could get into although I think they preferred the outlets we didn't regularly use.
I'm glad Jon got a good night's rest, because oof.. he really needed it.
listening to this again now that i work in pest control in certainly something
*Sees description*
And here I thought this was going to be about rats.
Guess I'll just keep waiting in suspense.
fell asleep in the middle but woke up agian next episode, I'm back!
How does that amount of any happen to a house? Hmmmm....... Someone pours sugar on every single surface. OR....????? Was it the meat apartment/ or another meat house!???????
As it seems with way more that I'd wish cases, I have some experience with ants and wasps infestation of my own. Both of them happened when I was staying at the summer camp 16 years ago.
I think, I've already wrote about the wasps' one in the comments of Nursing Home case, but before our group was moved to the building with wasps' nest in the toilet, we were situated in another, much farther from the centre of the camp building. The were two floors - first one for girls and second one for boys.
At our second day we noticed a cabinet (or nightstand, I'm not sure of the correct name). Me and two other girls decided to look inside and saw, what we later deduced, a stack of towels that were almost completely cowered with ants. We closed the cabinet and haven't opened it ever since. Didn't stop ants from going in *our* rooms, but at least it was just a couple of them per day, instead of the whole swarm that was there.
Anyone else get a Pest Control advertisement on this video?
It's the eye 👁️
GUNPOWDER TIM???
Picking up snacks was... quite the mistake
Listening at work is great, but not commenting my ideas and theories each episode is killing me.
Anyways, love the recurrence of so many early episode characters this season. Starting to get an idea for possible.....beings... at the top of the factions that are supposedly at war. I like Noun names so here are my theorized ones so far while I'm on break:
-The Vast seems given by now
-The Deep or the Trapped perhaps
-The Lightless Flame seems too simple, perhaps The Scorched, The Brilliant, or Asag is actually the being for the fire
-The Watcher for the archives and several spots where being watched was the theme
-The Isolated/Lonely
-The Web or The Fractal/Spiral perhaps, I'm not sure if this is one or two factions yet
-The Other for all the uncanny valley and body snatcher types
-The Visceral or the Flesh maybe, or Meat
-The Shadow or The Darkness
-The Hive or The Infected
-Death itself maybe
This is short of the 14 I was considering ten or twelve episodes back, but well see by the end of work if I don't have more ideas
Man. Screw being a human being in this world, shit sucks. The man with the coffin seems the only real winner in this universe so far
"Laura Star" reminds me of a kids's show in my country of which the title translates to "Laura's star", haha
"Lauras Stern, Lauras Stern, Lauras Stern hat dich so gern... Hell und klar, hell und klar, Lauras Stern ist immer da..."
Also thanks, the name reminded me of something too but i couldn't remember this was it^^
@@lilalino Haha yw :D
Well that was absolutely horrifying and very depressing moving right along
horror: Hundreds, thousands of ants and Jordan left to face them alone
my brain, trying to cope: _a n t m a n_
Edit: This morning there was an ant on my sink. And trying to get through the door when my cat caught it. Oh no
There goes my hero. Kill all of that shit with fire. (I know it technically wasn't him on the second story but still)
I always forget that the Corruption is even an Entity: and I especially forget it has the same result as all of the other Entities. I really need to pay more attention in my relistens lol
and hide your spoilers
I got a fucking bed bug removal ad while searching this episode’s wiki. fml
listening to this episode i got a bunch of mosquito bites. hopefully the mosqitos dont posses me or whatever
gunpowder tim????????
YUP! 😃
Christ I fucking hate the corruption.
But the Corruption loves you. Purely. All-encompassingly. Please join it.
Spoilers asshat
Wasn't there also that old lady talking about the wasp nest in the attic? Was this her house?
The lady who gave a statement about the wasp nest was Jane Prentiss, before she was a flesh hive.
This was indeed her old apartment building. It was mentioned in the follow up on her statement, that the building burned down. :)
Was his first case of the ants the meat apartment from that one episode??
well this definitely isnt helping with my crippling fear of ants
Why is this the episode that came on while I’m trying to eat
Why are so many people yelling about a GUNPOWDER TIM???
It's because GUNPOWDER TIM from the band "the mechanisms" was played by the same person that did Jordan Kennedy in this statement
@@laahrobin I see, thank you!
I’m starting to think that the “vampires” Trevor mentioned might be the adult form of the bugs and the maggots are just at the larval stage? That might explain why he showed up to the senior care home, though, there’s still a lot of loose with that theory.
I was under the impression that Prentiss had been the one to replace Sasha but I’m starting to doubt that now. It seems like the cremation is consistent with Prentiss’s body unless it’s a very convincing fake.
The supplemental in this episode is SO MUCH WORSE now that I've finished the series. I'll just be over here crying.