#vittery

Martin Blackwood, 12.03.2016, Boothby rd, Archway, London.  

Martin gives a statement on why he has been missing - “sick” - for several episodes. When investigating the case discussed in MAG 16, Martin went to Carlos Vittery’s flat. No one answered, and he ended up climbing through a window into the basement. Outside he saw a silver worm, which charged him, and he squashed it. The air smelled musty and full of dust, and his shadow looked like it was moving in the light. He was greeted in the building above by a woman in a headscarf who didn’t speak English, she gestured to a man - Yassir Kundi - and closed the door. Yassir owned the building and confirmed that Carlos lived in the flat and that his cat was living with a couple on another floor now.

Martin returned to work, but when heading home he decided to check the spider webs in the basement. When he returned, the spider webs were old, but when he turned he saw a woman standing with her back to him. She coughed into a green handkerchief, worms falling onto the floor from her mouth. She didn’t react to light, but when she heard him She had holes in her skin, and when she stepped forward and they spilled out in a wave. He tried to take a picture but dropped his phone as a worm leapt up at him. He fled and went home to Stockwell.

He awakens later to a knock at the door and was about to open it when he remembered the woman. He spotted and crushed a small worm and blocked every possible gap for the worms to get in. He spent 13 days in his flat unable to contact anyone and remembered learning about Jane Prentiss. He recalled that Jane claimed to be a practicing witch and had been infected by a dangerous unknown parasite. The knocking continued, but Jane never tried to break down the door.

The knocking eventually stopped. and he ran to work.

Notes: This is the first time we properly get to hear Martin on tape 😊 Jon offers Martin a room in the archives, and explains he had been getting texts from his phone - saying that he was ill or may gave some sort of parasite. They receive a text saying "Keep him, we have had our fun. He will want to see it when the Archivist's crimson fate arrives." - possibly a reference to the unknowing?

Entities: The corruption

Names mentioned:

Carlos Vittery (Mag 16)

Yassir Kundi (Owner of Carlos’ building)

Sanderson (Couple who now owns Major Tom)

Carlos Vittery, 09.04.2015,  Boothby rd, Archway, London

Carlos Vittery discusses his long-standing fear of spiders stemming from 1991 when, while visiting his grandparents, a spider nest burst and spilled baby spiders over him. In 2014 he moved from his residence when realising how many spiders were living in the backyard. 

He moved to a new place and go a cat to deal with spiders (Major Tom). He noted that the building may have had an infestation of small, silvery worms.  In early 2015, he saw a spider in the kitchen that made him more uneasy than usual. He left the cat to deal with it, but after an hour the cat ran out of the room when he was left in it, and after panicking for an hour he crushed it with a coffee mug. 

A week later he saw the same spider on his TV, and again he killed it (kicking it), threw out the TV and burning the stained shoe. A few weeks later, it was on the wall above his bed, and became certain that it was the same spider he crushed when he was 6 in the nest. He notes that he feels he’s guided by another hand again when he reaches out and crushes it. He planned to leave his flat ASAP leaving ownership of Major Tom with neighbours and seeking help for a “psychotic break”. 

His body is later found after his statement covered in web, having died of asphyxiation. Tim and Martin worked on this one.

Notes: References/foreshadowing to Jane Prentiss!

Entities: The Web, The Corruption

Names mentioned:

Carlos Vittery