What is The Magnus Archive?
It’s a fiction podcast! A very good one, imo. It’s horror and (from what I’ve heard) isn’t set up to have the happiest of endings, so I do recommend it with caution. However, if either of those aren’t deal breakers I highly suggest giving it a try. The story follows Jonathan Sims, head archivist of the Magnus Institute, an organization that investigates and keeps records of supernatural occurrences. Each episode functions as a short story wherein Jonathan records a statement (via old fashioned recorder) that someone has made about their supernatural experience and the listener realizes very early on that all the statements we hear - the ones not digitized but taken down with the recorder - are the ones that really happened. So you get a great horror story each episode as well as (eventually) a long-term story about how many of these experiences actually fit together, the things beginning to stalk Jonathan, his relationships with other members of the archive, the mysteries surrounding his predecessor… it’s a damn good time :D
They’re all free too. You can listen on Rusty Quill’s website or (like me) use Spotify.