Sorry for not posting yesterday. I needed some time to process what I have read. The last two typed transcripts weren’t typical statements, per se, and it was a lot to go through. Transcripts 039 and 040 seem to be live recordings of an attack on the Magnus Institute by Jane Prentiss, or as Martin would say the thing that may have once been Jane Prentiss.

It’s not something we thing about often, but the idea of “solid walls” is mostly an illusion. Wall are filled with holes and cavities and we forget that, for some reason. I feel like it’s also easy to think in terms of good and evil, but having read Jane Prentiss’s statement, it sounds like she was just another victim going through her life when she had a brush with darkness. I am glad to know that whatever she became no longer exists.

Thankfully it sounds like Martin and Jonathan’s preparations were sufficient, though the entire event led to the grizzly discovery of the body of Gertrude Robinson. I am once again reminded of what an unreliable narrator Jonathan is. He has said in the past that Gretchen died and seemed to even have an exact date for her death, but no mention that her body was missing. Maybe that has more to do with Director Bouchard.

I am not sure what is going on with Sasha, but I have my suspicions. Supposedly her tape was accidentally erased, but there was at least part of it in the transcript so why would she lie? I keep thinking about that vase with the hypnotic pattern on it and the hands coming out of it, and Sasha trapped in the vault with a table with a hypnotic pattern and a square hole in the middle. Whoever typed up the transcript referred to Sasha after the incident as Not!Sasha which makes me think we’ll hear more about that soon.

Still the biggest reveal was the room full of tapes in which Gertrude was found. I feel so desperately that I want to hear those tapes. Jonathan seemed to think that the statements that were true were the ones he was required to record because they resisted modern technology. How many more cases did Gretchen find during her own tenure as head of the archive?

I keep thinking of Jonathan talking to the other member of the archive, each feeling compelled to be there. I have also felt that same compulsion, to read and understand these statements. I’ll admit that my skepticism is on shaky ground these days. The more I read, the more I feel like I see it. What “it” is, I do not know, but I need to keep going. I am also starting to develop an idea of who made these transcripts, but we’ll se if my theory is correct.